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Una McCormack's The Undefeated is a thrilling space opera adventure featuring a no holds barred heroine on the front lines of an intergalactic war...
She was a warrior of words.
As a journalist she exposed corruption across the Interstellar Commonwealth, shifting public opinion and destroying careers in the process.
Long-since retired, she travels back to the planet of her childhood, partly through a sense of nostalgia, partly to avoid running...
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2019
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A dynamic collective biography that presents 44 of America's greatest Black movers and shakers, from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama, written by ESPN's TheUndefeated and illustrated with dazzling portraits by Rob Ball.
From visionaries to entrepreneurs, athletes to activists, the Fierce 44 are beacons of brilliance, perseverance, and excellence. Each short biography is accompanied by a compelling portrait
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A collection of the best essays and articles that have been published on Andscape (formerly The Undefeated)- curated by Steve Reiss, Andscape's Executive Editor of Culture and Enterprise, and featuring an introduction by Raina Kelley, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief. BlackTold: 33 Dynamic Essays from Andscape, is a collection of the most dynamic articles to have been published on the ESPN's Andscape.com, a multi-media platform that publishes content...
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For three perfect seasons (1954-1956), the Oklahoma Sooners won every football game they played - home or away - and over the course of five years they won 47 straight games. This awesome record was the product of a genius and masterful coach named Bud Wilkinson and the spirited young men he led. The Undefeated will detail all the thrilling action on the field during this record winning streak, but it will also reveal all the behind-the-scenes tumult...
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You hate politicians. Who doesn't in today's world? But, you have more in common with politicians than you may think: you both need a proven, foolproof marketing system to succeed in today's tumultuous marketplace. The stakes have always been high, but with so much economic disruption in the world, they're even higher now-and you can feel it.
What if the key to future success lies in a simple and secret marketing approach that presidents use to...
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Meet forty-four of America's most impressive heroes in this collective biography of African American figures authored by the team at ESPN's TheUndefeated.com. From visionaries to entrepreneurs, athletes to activists, the Fierce 44 are beacons of brilliance, perseverance, and excellence. Bringing household names like Serena Williams and Harriet Tubman together with lesser-known but highly deserving figures such as Robert Abbott and Dr. Charles Drew,...
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He was Gaetano Salvidienus Rufus, better known by most simply as The Sicilian. He had been raised by the Greek, Apollodorus, upon the Mediterranean island of Sicily after his father Quintus Salvidienus Rufus had been executed by Mark Antony as a traitor, even though his father had secretly been working for the young Roman prince, Octavian.
Octavian, who was the nephew, adopted son-and heir to the Great Julius Caesar.
Caesar had been assassinated...
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As bareknuckle fighting is poised to steal MMA's spotlight, its greatest modern-day champion tells his story of rising to the top in the brutal sport.
Steeped in the tradition of his Irish Traveller ancestry, Bartley Gorman also embraced its dangerous subculture: bareknuckle fighting. Though it gave birth to boxing as we know it today, the sport has remained underground-and illegal in most developed countries. But that didn't stop Gorman from rising...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 If we're willing to accept that we don't have an endowed purpose but rather an evolved function, we can begin from any one of the many desires that populate our daily lives and follow it back through all the desires that lie beneath it to find the answer we seek.
#2 The ultimate end toward which all living organisms aim their activities is survival and reproduction....
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Golf has come a long way from the Highlands of Scotland. It has grown to become a multi-billion dollar a year industry and has captivated the interest of people of all ages, all over the world. The concept of using common activities to teach valuable principles for living is not new. The many parables that Jesus Christ taught used images that were common to life. This isn't the first book written to draw analogies between the game of golf and the...
14) The undefeated: the Oklahoma Sooners and the greatest winning streak in college football history
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When the Oracle of Delphi told Alexander the Great that he was invincible, it was right.
The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's army in the victory over the Thebans and Athenians at the Battle of Chaeronea-all when he was still just a teenager. By the time of his death at age 32, he had amassed an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River and...
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"[Freeman is] an excellent storyteller. "-Sports IllustratedThe 1972 Miami Dolphins, under the expert leadership of legendary coach Don Shula, remain to this day the only team in the National Football League ever to enjoy a perfect season with no defeats and no ties. Now, 40 years after sports history was made, acclaimed sports writer Mike Freeman celebrates the Dolphins' singular achievement in Undefeated. A riveting story filled with heartbreaking...
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Don't let that dark, undefeated sin defeat you. Call it by its name, kill it, and take no prisoners!
The essence of a stagnant lifestyle is walking in undefeated sin. We as believers in Christ are to destroy sin and evict the enemy from our lives and the lives of our brothers and sisters along the way. So many believers call themselves soldiers of the light, and yet they have lived far too long on the battlefield. Putting on the armor of God daily...
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What if God is better than you think and hell isn't an eternal torture chamber?
Many Christians are unaware that Universal Reconciliation was the dominant view of the church for the first 500 years, with Annihilation and Eternal Torment as minority positions. Jesus Undefeated is an eye-opening examination of all three views of the afterlife and a God who is even more loving than we dare imagine.