books about: equality     books:     Equality      Just How Married Do You Want to Be?: Practicing Oneness in Marriage Jim Sumner, Sarah Sumner IVP Books, 2008 Refreshing and different book on marriage This book is incredibly honest and you can tell that Sarah and Jim aren't trying to write a book to look awesome to the world. It is deeply theological. Most marriage books are informed through psychology (which is great), however I find it incredibly refreshing to ...             Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality Michael Walzer Basic Books, 1984 Walzer makes equality make sense Spheres of Justice was assigned to me but, years later and the class notes long lost, it has become a loyal, dog-eared partner in my life. Walzer's framework provides a powerful tool for non-philosophers to understand, and then speak-up directly and intelligently for ...             The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman W. W. Norton, 2007 A Way Forward Krugman takes the reader on a succinct and readable journey through of US economic history beginning from about 1900 up to the present. His focus is how the average (or more precisely median) worker has fared. Krugman recounts the great economic inequality in the ...             What Paul Really Said About Women: The Apostle's Liberating Views on Equality in Marriage, Leadership, and ... John T. Bristow HarperOne, 1991 Incredible I cannot say enough about the insight this book contains to clarify some of those things that we sort of 'knew to some degree all along', but didn't have enough background to really be able to explain clearly from a biblical standpoint. This book is not some ...             Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships (9th Edition) Robert E. Alberti, Michael L. Emmons Impact Publishers, 2008 It helped It helped me get to know who I am and how to express my feelings while taking into consideration and respecting the other persons rights.             Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy) Robert H. Frank University of California Press, 2007 Working Harder for Average The dictum "context is everything" is certainly true when it comes to assessing the value of material goods. In Falling Behind, economist Robert H. Frank shows that what we consider "average" or "good enough" in a home or car is determined by context: what are ...             Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age Larry M. Bartels Princeton University Press, 2008 Judgement Day is Here. Vote with your Pocketbook. The facts stand for themselves outside the realm of Partisan politics. Idealists hate facts. Fanatics hate facts. I Love facts. Whose ideas work the best is what I want. Most Americans would Love to make more money and do better each and every year. Who can argue ...             Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2003 Price controls lead to shortages 1. The purpose of economic analysis is not the goals being sought but the incentives and constraints that are created in pursuit of those goals. What we need to know is the characteristics of the processes set in motion and the incentives and constraints inherent in ...             Rescuing Justice and Equality G. A. Cohen Harvard University Press, 2008 In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people?s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate ...             Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public ... Paul Farmer University of California Press, 2004 Health and survival as human rights Paul Farmer, perhaps the most famous 'Third World doctor' living today, has written an eloquent and moving plea for a reconsideration of modern approaches toward healthcare in the developing nations in this book, "Pathologies of Power". Based on his personal ...             The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy Lisa Duggan Beacon Press, 2004 A Critique of Neoliberalism and the Divided Resistance to It Lisa Duggan is intensely interested in American politics, and has found political life in the United States to have been "such a wild ride, offering moments of of dizzying hope along with long stretches of political depression." She is grateful for "many ideas about ...             Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Cambridge University Press, 2005 Wielding Occam's Razor Economists are turning their focus of inquiry to subjects that were once the exclusive preserve of their colleagues in other social sciences--history, sociology, and political science. The title of this book, "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy," appears to ...             Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry Evan Wolfson Simon & Schuster, 2005 Equal Rights, Right On! Jonathan Rauch and Andrew Sullivan have written pro-gay marriage books, but unlike Wolfson's book, they approach the issue from ancillary perspectives (for example, how it will tame the flames of promiscuity among gay men). Whether these ancillary arguments are ...             Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality Martha Nussbaum Basic Books, 2008 An excellent read.... One doesn't have to be religious to appreciate this book. Its simply an excellent reminder of the wisdom of the founding fathers and how they didn't want a state religion of any type, while also being about a country that has ebbed and flowed when it comes to religion ...             Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy InterVarsity Press, 2005 A Handbook For Equality I am SO thankful I bought this book. It has been so helpful for understanding further what Biblical Equality means and its practical applications. It covers the gamet of thought in reference to equality, as well as addressing the "other side of the fence" in a very ...          products you might be interested in search for books anthropology, assertiveness, complementarity, dictatorship, neoliberalism, relationships      toavi.com    web we recommend A Way Forward randomly chosen book: Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Volume 5: Community ...