Changing your gender from female to male takes balls. And if you’re going to do it in front of 500 coworkers at one of the top ad agencies in the country, you better have a pretty big set!At a time when the term “transgender” didn’t really exist, and with support from family, friends, and a great therapist, Chris Edwards endured 28 surgeries to become the man he always knew he was meant to be. He used what he learned working in advertising along with his ever-present sense of humor...

Misha' s Uncle Sergei is rumored to be the strongest man in the Seven Kingdoms, and she has finally found him, aging but still powerful, performing in a backwater circus on the edge of a plague-ravaged and frozen world. Sergei lost everything as a boy when rampaging horsemen destroyed his village; he even lost contact with his younger sister. When Sergei agrees to travel with Misha to be reunited with his sister, he tells her the tale of how he became the strongest man in the Seven Kingdom...

If you have ever started a fitness plan and then lost your focus, this is the book for you.Author Chris Edwards is a specialist in personal development. As a teenager in the 1970s he decided to run in an annual Sydney fun run 50 consecutive times. Today, as one of the City2Surf Legends, with 42 runs in this event at the time of writing; he is still on track to reach his personal goal.This book also contains a link that will enable you to import Chris' training plan into you...

Taking up where Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great left off, 24 Reasons to Abandon Christianity reveals Christianity's cruelty, dishonesty, fear-mongering, hypocrisy, misogyny, homophobia, dogmatism, and authoritarianism, and all of the misery, destruction, and death caused by these things. 24 Reasons to Abandon Christianity also reveals the roots of these characteristics, and why Christianity leads to all of these evils. While the book treats serious topics,...

Amino is America's most controversial tech company.Sitting on an abandoned oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean, it builds the usual drones and robots, but also Helpers: an organic lifeform all too close to human. Many people want Amino's Helper Division to end, including some of the employees working there.But what do the Helpers want?When Ethelred and 19 other Helpers return to Amino to have their injuries healed, it starts a chain-reaction of events tha...

Nobody comes to visit anymore is a collection of short fiction from East Texas writer Chris Edwards. The stories range from sweet musings on aging ("The Firedancers") and parables on youthful indiscretions ("Reap n' Sow") to situations gone very wrong ("Not a Cull in the Herd"). This is the first book project from Edwards, an award-winning poet, journalist, essayist and songwriter.

Thought experiments do not require a laboratory and need no funding, yet they are responsible for several major intellectual revolutions throughout history. Given their importance, and the way that they immediately engage students, it is surprising that thought experiments are not used more frequently as teaching tools in the academic disciplines. Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education explains how thought experiments developed and shows how thought experiment...

What if the great discoveries of science came in the “wrong” order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of algebra, classical physics, and chemistry, but are perhaps much more important to our basic understanding of the universe. This flawed chronology led to a confusion that has prevented a cross-curricular understanding of the sciences. With the development of Artificial Intelligence, it will soon be possible to solve the philosophical and biological proble...

In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other major intellectual fields have a canon of works which practitioners can learn from and add to, but teaching does not. The Connecting the Dots in World History: A Teacher’s Literacy-Based Curricul...

In this book on new fiscal approaches, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities. Scholars will find the book useful as a reference tool explaining how rules-based fiscal policy is used to address debt fatigue and unsustainable spending gr...

Toronto, the near future: a city ruined by greed. Homeless citizens fill parks by the thousands, their spaces artificially heated in the winter months-their lives in the hands of a power company that has ceased all communication.Otis Colip is one of those homeless. He had a good life once: nice house, brilliant wife, a prominent job maintaining a fleet of corporate androids. As tempers in the park flare and scavengers big and small begin squeezing his community, he...

The American educational structure is a feudal system designed around an inefficient seat time model. This structure sets students against each other in competition, creates zip-code inequalities, and empowers an expensive and often damaging bureaucratic class of administrators. Due to shortages of teachers and staff, and to needless problems with curricula and testing, this system is about to fall. Historically, when feudal systems collapse, they create opportunities for new structures to...