Understanding The Times

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  Half The Sky

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  Introduction: The Girl Effect
  1. Emancipating 21st Century Slaves
  2. Prohibition And Prostitution
  3. Learning To Speak Up
  4. Rule By Rape
  5. The Shame Of Honor
  6. Maternal Mortality – One Woman A Minute
  7. Why Do Women Die In Childbirth
  8. Family Planning And The “God Gulf”
  9. Is Islam Misogynistic
  10. Investing In Education
  11. Microcredit: The Finanical Revolution
  12. The Axis Of Equality
  13. Grassroots Vs Treetops
  14. What You Can Do

  Appendix: Organizations Supporting Women
  Acknowledgments
  Notes
  Index

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  Starred Review. New York Times columnist Kristof and his wife, WuDunn, a former Times reporter, make a brilliantly argued case for investing in the health and autonomy of women worldwide. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century, they write, detailing the rampant gendercide in the developing world, particularly in India and Pakistan. Far from merely making moral appeals, the authors posit that it is impossible for countries to climb out of poverty if only a fraction of women (9% in Pakistan, for example) participate in the labor force. China’s meteoric rise was due to women’s economic empowerment: 80% of the factory workers in the Guangdong province are female; six of the 10 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese. The authors reveal local women to be the most effective change agents: The best role for Americans… isn’t holding the microphone at the front of the rally but writing the checks, an assertion they contradict in their unnecessary profiles of American volunteers finding compensations for the lack of shopping malls and Netflix movies in making a difference abroad. (Sept.)
  Copyright (C) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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  Halftime : Moving From Success To Significance (Anniversary)

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  Are you ready to move into the second half of your life?

  Bob Buford believes the second half of your life can be better than the first. Much better. But first, you need time to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life.

  In Halftime, Buford focuses on this important time of transition-the time when, as he says, a person moves beyond the first half of the game of life. It’s halftime, a time of revitalization and for catching a new vision for living the second half, the half where life can be lived at its most rewarding. As Buford explains, “My passion is to multiply all that God has given me, and in the process, give it back.”

  Features of this newly updated and expanded 20th Anniversary edition include a foreword by Jim Collins, the bestselling author of Good to Great; new questions for reflection or discussion at the end of each chapter; brand new “halftime” stories of men and women enjoying a second half of significance; specific halftime assignments to guide readers into their second-half mission; an essay by Bob on “The Wisdom of Peter Drucker”; a special update from the author on how the halftime movement is growing nationally, and links to outstanding resources.

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  Devotions On The Greek New Testament Volume Two

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  Devotions on the Greek New Testament, Volume Two contains an entirely new set of 52 devotions written by over 25 of today’s best biblical language scholars. Contributors include Christopher Beetham, Jeannine K. Brown, Peter H. Davids, David A. DeSilva, J. Scott Duvall, Nijay Gupta, Frederick J. Long, David W. Pao, Anthony C. Thiselton, Cindy Long Westfall, and many more. The main point of each devotion in Devotions on the Greek New Testament, Volume Two comes from a careful reading of the passage in the Greek New Testament, not from an English translation. The authors use a variety of exegetical approaches in their devotions – including grammatical, lexical, rhetorical, sociohistorical, and linguistic – and each devotion closes with a practical application or spiritual reflection. Devotions on the Greek New Testament, Volume Two contains a devotion on every book in the New Testament and can be used as a weekly devotional or as a supplemental resource throughout a semester or sequence of courses. These devotions will inspire you to keep reading and meditating on the Scriptures and find new treasures from the biblical text.

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  Power Of A Clear Conscience

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  Do you walk around always feeling guilty about your past? Or are you bogged down by a conscience that haunts or imprisons you?

  This is not how God intends for you to live. Your conscience was not created to hold you prisoner, but to guide you and point you to freedom from guilt and bad habits. It’s designed to tell you the truth so you are not held in bondage to lies or sin.

  Longtime pastor and bestselling author Erwin W. Lutzer shares what it means to live in the power of a clear conscience as you…
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  *discover how the truth that can hurt you can also heal you
  *come to understand why a clear conscience is a journey, not a destination

  You’ll find yourself encouraged by the truths that no failure is permanent and no life is beyond God’s power to bring about change!

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