EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book What Pastor Russell Said

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Taze Russell
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2009-01-22
  • ISBN : 9781440479083
  • Pages : 802 pages

Download or read book What Pastor Russell Said written by Charles Taze Russell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of questions asked of Charles Taze Russell, and he provides answers that give insight into his religion.

Book Between Resistance and Martyrdom

Download or read book Between Resistance and Martyrdom written by Detlef Garbe and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatization the transfer of responsibility for public services from the public to the private sector currently evokes intense interest from policy makers. To its advocates, privatization conjures up visions of a lean, streamlined public sector reliant upon the private marketplace for the delivery of public services. To opponents, it conjures up visions of a beleaguered government bureaucracy ceding vital public services to unreliable entrepreneurs. At best, privatization can reduce the costs of government and introduce new possibilities for the better delivery of services. At worst, it may undermine equity, quality, and accountability. In Privatization and Its Alternatives distinguished scholars from several social science disciplines evaluate privatization efforts in the United States and abroad, and at different levels of government: federal, state, and local. They look primarily at three important policy areas education, housing, and law enforcement that sharply illustrate the dilemmas facing policy makers as the debate about privatization shifts from the delivery of hard services, such as refuse collection, to human services. Contributors have very different perspectives: some are enthusiastic about privatization, others are very skeptical indeed. None of these papers has been published elsewhere; the volume developed from a 1987 conference on privatization sponsored by the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Madison. A particular strength of this collection lies in its consideration of alternative forms of service delivery. The privatization of public housing, for instance, may involve subsidies to the poor (vouchers), tenant management (a hybrid form of privatization), or outright sale. How, and how well, have such policies worked? Examples from other countries may prove especially enlightening: the English sale of public housing to tenants is one of the largest asset sales in the entire privatization movement; Australia has experimented with public subsidies to private schools; and Japan has experimented with the privatization of law enforcement and corrections. These issues are the subject of lively public debate in the United States today and are discussed at length in this volume. Thus Privatization and Its Alternatives speaks not only to scholars of public policy but also to a wide range of practitioner who must decide whether or how to privatize."

Book The Other Victims

Download or read book The Other Victims written by Ina R. Friedman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and Blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

Book Hitler s Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Weikart
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-11-22
  • ISBN : 1621575519
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Hitler s Religion written by Richard Weikart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Book The Gospel  God  Man  and Truth

Download or read book The Gospel God Man and Truth written by David H. Yarn and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bible Examiner   Containing Various Prophetic Expositions

Download or read book The Bible Examiner Containing Various Prophetic Expositions written by George Storrs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Book Moroni and the Swastika

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Conley Nelson
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2015-03-02
  • ISBN : 0806149744
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Moroni and the Swastika written by David Conley Nelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika. A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism’s equivalent of the biblical admonition to “render unto Caesar,” a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict, ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons’ courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the twentieth century—and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth.

Book Jehovah s Witnesses and the Third Reich

Download or read book Jehovah s Witnesses and the Third Reich written by M. James Penton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using materials from Witness archives, the U.S. State Department, Nazi files, and other sources, M. James Penton demonstrates that while many ordinary German Witnesses were brave in their opposition to Nazism, their leaders were quite prepared to support the Hitler government. --from publisher description

Book Prolife Feminism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Naranjo-Huebl
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2006-01-20
  • ISBN : 1477173056
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Prolife Feminism written by Linda Naranjo-Huebl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We need a new way of seeing!" --Jennifer Ferguson, South African musician & Former MP, African National Congress Is abortion on "demand" a woman's right, or a wrong inflicted on women? Is it a mark of liberation, or a sign that women are not yet free? From Anglo-Irish writer Mary Wollstonecraft to Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, many eighteenth- through twenty-first-century feminists have opposed it as violence against fetal lives arising from violence against female lives. This more inclusive, surprisingly old-but-new vision of reproductive choice is called prolife feminism. This book's original edition in 1995 offered brilliant essays on abortion and related social justice issues by the likes of suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. A decade of activism and research since has made this second, greatly expanded second edition necessary. It not only documents the continuing evolution of prolife feminism worldwide, but more accurately represents the rich diversity of past and present women--and men--who have stood up for both mother and child. It thus is a vital, unique resource for peacemaking in the increasingly globalized abortion war.

Book Hitler s Holy Relics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sidney Kirkpatrick
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-05-26
  • ISBN : 1849832080
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book Hitler s Holy Relics written by Sidney Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasure they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. This is the true-life Indiana Jones story of a college professor turned Army sleuth who foils a Nazi plot to preserve these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. Author Sidney Kirkpatrick draws on recently discovered and previously unpublished documents, including interrogation and intelligence reports, diaries and correspondence, as well as on interviews with all remaining living participants involved with the case, to re-create this thrilling true-life story.

Book Annual Report  International Religious Freedom

Download or read book Annual Report International Religious Freedom written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apocalypse Delayed

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. James Penton
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802079732
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Apocalypse Delayed written by M. James Penton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. James Penton offers a comprehensive overview of a remarkable religious movement, from the Witnesses' inauspicious creation by a Pennsylvania preacher in the 1870s to its position as a religious sect with millions of followers world-wide. This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography.

Book The Origins of the Second World War 1933 1941

Download or read book The Origins of the Second World War 1933 1941 written by Ruth Henig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up-to-date historical research, this new edition of The Origins of the Second World War analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War. Experienced historian Ruth Henig considers: * the long-term factors that led to war * the effect of British appeasement policies * the significance of American isolation * the ambitions of Italy, Japan and Russia. The Origins of the Second World War brings one of the most controversial historical topics to life for a whole generation of students and scholars seeking to understand the reasoning and events behind this major event in world history.

Book Surviving the Angel of Death

Download or read book Surviving the Angel of Death written by Eva Kor and published by Tanglewood Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of Eva Mozes and her twin sister Miriam as they were interred at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, where Dr. Josef Mengele performed sadistic medical experiments on them until their release.

Book The Ravens Bridge  Collection

Download or read book The Ravens Bridge Collection written by Ana Daitán and published by ANA DAITÁN. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DARE YOU READ A DIFFERENT STORY? To read the first Spanish grip-lit and the most controversial? Guided by desperation and a mysterious diary from World War II, a mother will cross the line of good and evil. In a time where the fanaticism of the past is revived in the present. In a time where society is lost and “monsters” live in it. Travel with our special protagonist through the dark world of human trafficking, family sins, and the medical mafia. An agile and daring prose that warns us of the future. Social, historical, and contemporary novel. Combined with romance, mystery, adventure, thriller, and science fiction. A mixture of souls that gives rise to a story full of feelings and emotions, whose twists and turns show us that the complex can be really easy. Once you read the first page... YOU WILL BE ADDICTED. SYNOPSIS: A mother, prisoner of words, who would do anything to find her daughter... A journalist, prisoner of his heart, who would do anything for justice... A Tin God, prisoner of his revenge, who wishes he had done nothing... And a past that should never have been forgotten. When the strongest enemies are not men, but words... Can there be a winner? For the first time, the complete series in English and Spanish. A series whose Vol. I in paper format and in Spanish was tried to be censored for Europe by one of the largest companies in the world... Enjoy in this collection of a fantastic DISCUSSION GUIDE FOR READING CLUBS and a beautiful gift story. With Ana Daitán’s books, you get more than just books. You get “forbidden jewels that refuse to be silenced” and that... is INCALCULABLE. In addition, by purchasing this novel, you will get significant discounts on her consulting services.

Book Ethics After Auschwitz

Download or read book Ethics After Auschwitz written by Carole J. Lambert and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics after Auschwitz? Primo Levi's and Elie Wiesel's Response demonstrates how, after their horrific experiences in Auschwitz, both Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel could have deservedly expressed rage and bitterness for the rest of their lives. Housed in the same barracks in the depths of hell, a dark reality surpassing Dante's vivid images portrayed in The Inferno, they chose to speak, write, and work for a better world, never allowing the memory of those who did not survive to fade. Why and how did they make this choice? What influenced their values before Auschwitz and their moral decision making after it? What can others who have suffered less devastating traumas learn from them? «The quest is in the question», Wiesel often tells his students. This book is a quest for hope and goodness emerging from the Shoah's deepest «night».

Book Crisis of Conscience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Franz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9783931880088
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Crisis of Conscience written by Raymond Franz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: