books about: dissents     books:     Dissents      The Snow Bride Debbie Macomber Mira, 2003 Cute This book was very cute. That is about the word for it. No serious plot and you can guess from the beginning what will happen. None the less cute and an enjoyable afternoon read!             Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (Turning Point Christian Worldview ... Gene Edward Veith Jr. Crossway Books, 1994 Good criticism of the Pstmodernism Great book from Evangelical perspective. This is a must read to understand and resist contemporary destructive pop culture. Society is heading in wrong direction. People have to read books like this one to see where and how postmodernism ruined and still ruining ...             The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics Milton Glaser, Mirko Ilic Rockport Publishers, 2006 Large size, full color, smart thinking in text, a gem of a book I bought this book for my son last year, and ended up reading it and going through it myself as I start to think more about collective intellligence, five minds, group IQ and such. Dissent and diversity are so important to all of us, that I am moved to suggest this ...             The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government (Public Affairs and Policy Administration) Rosemary O'Leary CQ Press, 2005 Administrative Discretion and Guerrilla Government Review by H. George Frederickson, Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas, published in PA TIMES, February, 2006, page 11 Sixty-five years ago Herman Finer and Carl Friedrich framed one of the classic debates in public administration-Finer arguing that ...             I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases Mark Tushnet Beacon Press, 2008 For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified ...             Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice Kevin A. Ring Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004 Judicial Insightful This book contains a compilation of rulings by conservative Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia, who was appointed to the bench in 1986. Includes his written opinions on religion, abortion, the ASA, gay rights, capital punishment, free speech, and ...             Christian Spirituality: Themes from the Tradition Lawrence S. Cunningham, Keith J. Egan Paulist Press, 1996 Buy it - now! I have read this book three times. Every time I wish to send a gift to a Catholic friend, this is what I send. Why? Because it is loaded with the best stuff the Catholic Church has to offer. That may be a drawback. It is unlikely that readers who aren't Catholic ...             Antiwar Soldier: How to Dissent Within the Ranks of the Military Jonathan W. Hutto Nation Books, 2008 A must have for anyone considering a job in the armed forces Be sure to read this book before talking with a recruiter! It may bring up things that they'll never mention!             Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent Ernest Freeberg Harvard University Press, 2008 A Great Story for Our Time This is a superb book about an extraordinary figure--labor organizer, Socialist Party leader, and five-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs--during an intensely controversial period of his life. At age 63 and in poor health, Debs was convicted under the new and ...             The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (A Theology of Lordship) John M. Frame P & R Publishing, 1989 knowing what we know, as revealed How do we know, that we know? Or better put, how do we begin to have any comprehension of the world that we know? For John Frame, a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, all knowledge, of ourselves, of the world around us and anything beyond, the starting point ...             The Reformers and Their Stepchildren (Dissent and Nonconformity) Leonard Verduin The Baptist Standard Bearer, 2001 Finding the Thread of Christianity in History Reverend Leonard Verduin devoted his life to serving the Lord. He died in Nov., 1999, at the age of 102, still working on his writing until the last couple of months of a rich, God-Fearing life. This is just one of the books he wrote in an effort to inform his ...             Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent Columbia University Press, 2005 A Very Important Book Theory's Empire is a very important addition to the doorstop-level anthologies dealing with what-in the humanities and soft social sciences-is broadly termed "theory." Subtitled "an anthology of dissent" its editors seek to challenge the conclusions and highlight the ...             Why Societies Need Dissent (Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures) Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University Press, 2005 Must-read for anyone who works in groups I really enjoyed this book. It was very readable and well written. I appreciated how the viewpoints and examples used were neutral and usable regardless of the reader's perspective on any issue. Some of the more interesting points were: (1) an explanation of the ...             Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Insiteful and funny This collection of essays provides a gutsy, incisive, and energetic critique of American consumer culture that surpasses and even ridicules the limp, flaccid, self-referential verbiage that academics try to pass off as a "radical", and "critical" examination of culture ...             Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian (Moral Traditions) Charles E. Curran Georgetown University Press, 2006 ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE REALITY AND THE SPIRIT OF OUR TIMES AS A PILGRIM CHURCH TRAVELING IN AMERICA TO THE KINGDOM The learned and respected and courageous Catholic priest the Reverend Father Charles Curran, ordained in Rome in 1958, one of the most respected writers, scholars and teachers of CAtholic moral theology, here collects his autobiographical thoughts, as this book is ...          products you might be interested in search for books administration, contemporary, nonconformity, politically, spirituality, stepchildren      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in American ...