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When Thomas Black went to medical school, he had altruistic visions of doing good for humanity--while providing a comfortable, stable life for his wife and children. What he didn't expect was that essentially he'd be working free of charge for the Internal Revenue Service for four months of every year with a tax rate of at least 37 percent.Year after year, he did his best to accept his fate, until he realized he didn't have to! He had a choice. He could find the freedom he desired for himself and his family. Black, the author of The Passive Income Physician, began investing in real estate and researched the US Tax code to create value on his investment strategy. Now, in the self-cure tradition of his first book, this ground-breaking business author plays matchmaker so that you'll finally understand why it is essential to embrace the legal benefits of the spring ritual that you love to hate-taxation.Black's method for achieving this goal was simple: create assets and cash flow to reduce his tax footprint. This created the freedom for him to choose when, where, and how he would work in medicine.In The Tax Cure: Change the Facts of Your Financial Life to Create True Wealth & Peace of Mind, Thomas Black and his associate, Mike Pine, a CPA--whose father dedicated long hours away from his family to pursue his medical career--provide you with all you need to experience the financial freedom you deserve.In Part 1: Depreciation Nation, you'll discover ways to lower your taxes and invest to create greater cash flow.In Part 2: Borrow, Retain, Retire, Black and Pine take you further into the journey of financial stability, security, and freedom through loans, preparation for audits, and essential tax planning.So, if you're fed up with working 100-hour weeks and being drained of your precious life force just to pay taxes, then The Tax Cure is just what you need to create a new way of living your life.

Join Thomas and his friends for a sticker adventure on the Island of Sodor!

Join Thomas as he travels around meeting his friends, both old and new!

Join Thomas and his friends for a festive adventure! In this beautifully-illustrated picture book, Thomas and Percy must work against the clock to clear the snow and deliver the presents for Christmas. Can they make it in time?

The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! This is a beautifully-illustrated story about Thomas the little blue Tank Engine, who worked really hard on The Fat Controller's railway. Every day he puffed around Sodor shunting trucks and pulling freight. But what he dreamed about was having his very own branch line...

Get ready to be amazed with Thomas as Sodor welcomes the World Technology Fair!

Join Thomas for an adventurous day at the zoo! Each page has a fun peep through so little engineers can follow along with Thomas and spot which animal is next. Thomas sees lions, penguins, kangaroos and more. With simple text and lovely illustrations, this book is the perfect gift for young Thomas fans.

Frontmatter -- Inhalt des ersten Bandes -- Inhalt des zweiten Bandes -- Inhalt des dritten Bandes -- Vorwort -- I. Sitzung. Sonntag den 28. April 1867 Vormitttags 10 Uhr -- II. Sitzung, den 28.April 1867,Nachmittags 5 Uhr -- III. Sitzung. Montag den 29. April, 10 Uhr Vormittags -- IV. Sitzung, am 29. April 1867,Nachmittags 4 1/2 Uhr -- Berichtigungen zu den Verhandlungen der Cholera -Conferenz in Weimar am 28. und 29. April 1867

It's all action and excitement in Thomas & Friends: The Runaway Engine Pop-Up!

Thomas is ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Thomas is excited to join Nia on safari in Kenya. But when he gets scared by the wild animals, Nia must teach him how useful they can be! Will Thomas be brave and make some new friends along the way?

Overcoming the Problem of Hidden Identity in Outreach to Restrictive NationsAre you concerned about unreached or unengaged peoples? You probably know that their countries do not welcome missionaries, and that followers of Jesus who serve there via traditional sending organizations do not publicize these organizational ties or their churchbased funding sources. But have you thought through the consequences of keeping that information hidden? Authentic Lives will help you do that-and more. And if those consequences trouble you, Authentic Lives suggests ways to minimize them in traditional organizations and also suggests other options for service altogether. The challenges these other options present are also discussed-going without a sending agency is not easy but is sometimes best nonetheless.

Go, Thomas, Go! is a book and a toy in one!

A brand-new Thomas sticker activity book with over 1001 stickers!

A new edition of the classic that helped launch the Centering Prayer movement. Centering Prayer is a precious part of the ancient spiritual traditions of the West. When Finding Grace at the Center was first published in 1978, people all over the world welcomed this practical guide to a simple and beautiful form of meditative prayer. Reflections and advice on Centering Prayer's possibilities - and its pitfalls - are presented with clarity and simplicity, with a vision of the deeper life of the soul that contemplative prayer can bring about. Now, with a new foreword by Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, PhD, another generation will discover the amazing difference Centering Prayer can make in their lives.

Most great men who change history for the better or the worst live a reasonable life span. We know how their lives turn out. There is little room for speculation about what they might have done.There are very few persons who make their mark early in their careers and then die. This leaves all of us speculating what the rest of their life might have been.General George Armstrong Custer was such a man. He was famous in his twenties. He was dead in his late thirties. What would the rest of his life been like if he had lived? Who would he have met? History continues whether anyone lives or dies. However, their living could have changed history.Who would Custer have met, and what could he have influenced? He would certainly have created changes in the military. However, before his death, he already was a national figure in the political arena. Would his career ended abruptly after the Little Big Horn battle unless he won it which he did not? Despite a poor performance, would he still be a national hero?Could he still have a great career?

Thomas Trawick Jr. went from being a city boy to a country boy when his family moved out of Philadelphia to Washington County, Pennsylvania.It was like moving to a new world: One day, he stood on the porch, and to his surprise, saw two hens and about ten chicks coming from under the house. He grabbed a broom and went out to the yard to chase them around.A series of illnesses left him behind in school, and so he dropped out, which was a mistake. His father, however, taught him the art of making white lightning liquor deep in the woods, which became his job for the next four years.After Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Roosevelt requested that all men twenty-one years of age join the army. When 1943 came around, he was inducted into the U.S. military.With a strong working knowledge of construction equipment, he began working for Pennsylvania. He worked for the state thirty-five years before retiring and starting his own construction company.Join the author as he shares his accomplishments, regrets, and his will to survive no matter what.

Frontmatter -- Einleitung -- I. -- II.

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Thomas Merton's deep roots in his own Cistercian tradition are on display in the two sets of conferences on the early days of the Order included in the present volume. The first surveys the relevant monastic background that led up to the foundation of the Abbey of Cîteaux in 1098 and goes on to consider the contributions of each of the first three abbots of the "New Monastery" that would become the epicenter of the most dynamic religious movement of the early twelfth century. The second set investigates the arc of medieval Cistercian history in the two centuries following the death of Saint Bernard, in which the Order moves from being ahead of its time, in its formative stages, to being representative of its time in its most powerful and influential phase, to becoming regressive with the rise of new religious currents that begin to flow in the thirteenth century. Merton stresses the need to respect the complexity of the actual lived reality of Cistercian life during this period, to "beware of easy generalizations" and instead consider the full range of factual data. The result is a richly nuanced picture of the development of early Cistercian life and thought that serves as a fitting concluding volume to the series of Merton's novitiate conferences providing a thorough "Initiation into the Monastic Tradition."