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Book An Insider s View of Mormon Origins

Download or read book An Insider s View of Mormon Origins written by Grant H. Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quote: 'Why would God reveal to Joseph Smith a faulty [mistranslated] KJV text?' Chap 4: (Evangelical Protestantism in the Book of Mormon) concludes that numerous theological issues addressed in the Book of Mormon probably derived from Smith's Upstate New York religious environment than from the claimed ancient gold plates. Chap 5: (Moroni and the Golden Pot) examines a long list of parallels between a published story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Smith's account of the angel Moroni's visits. The chapter concludes, 'It would stretch credulity to believe that this [long list of parallels between Hoffmann's Golden Pot story and Smith's Moroni story] could be a coincidence, and I therefore think that a debt is owed to E.T.A. Hoffmann and the European traditions ... ' Chap.

Book DC PHOTO BOOK  An Insider s View of Washington  DC

Download or read book DC PHOTO BOOK An Insider s View of Washington DC written by Stephen R. Brown and published by Stephen R Brown Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DC Photo Book: An Insider’s View is a full-color photographic book featuring photographs of DC spanning three decades. The photographs are exclusive never-to-be duplicated images taken by renowned photographer Stephen R. Brown on assignment for national and international magazines. The book has been featured on the White House News Photographers Association Site, WTTG Fox Washington and is supported by an advertising campaign in the local newspapers and a daily news blogs. It is the most complete and up to date survey of the Memorial and neighborhoods in DC and is updated with every printing. This book was first published in 2009 and has to date sold 16,000 copies. You can order your copy using a credit card through our website or through our Amazon Author’s Page. For case quantities or questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected] or call at 202-667-1965.

Book The Insider s View

Download or read book The Insider s View written by Javid Chowdhury and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating memoir Javid Chowdhury shares his varied experiences over four decades in the IAS: the years in training when he imbibed the service’s ethos and values; his initiation into the rural universe as the District Development Officer and the District Magistrate; and further on, to his handling of the infamous Bank Securities and Jain Hawala scams as Director of Enforcement and Union Revenue Secretary. With a light pen, Chowdhury describes the changing social profile and attitudes of entrants to the higher civil services; the nepotism, in many garbs, that he encountered as Establishment Officer; and the stranger-than-fiction tortuous investigations of crimes. He also offers his nuanced reflections on the dubious legacy Gujarat acquired as a result of the communal carnage in 2002. Chowdhury further examines how policymaking within government came to be whittled away under the neo-liberal theology, with key scrutiny being left to external expert think tanks and ad hoc groups. As a consequence, he perceives that public accountability came to be inordinately diffused, resulting in the roller-coaster governance that we witness today. Sharp and insightful, replete with telling anecdotes and amusing sketches of icons, colleagues and ministers, The Insider’s View is a compelling portrait of the author, a self-confessed welfare socialist, besides being an X-ray of the innards of the bureaucracy.

Book Denial and Deception

Download or read book Denial and Deception written by Melissa Mahle and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former CIA operative sheds new light on intelligence failures in the runup to 9/11, offering a detailed personal narrative of the spy agency from the Reagan presidency through the year 2002, often criticizing big mistakes made along the way. Reprint.

Book The Insider

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Shamy
  • Publisher : Tyndale House
  • Release : 2014-02-27
  • ISBN : 161521433X
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book The Insider written by Mike Shamy and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelism is not just for the gifted few; it’s for all of us. In The Insider, Navigator authors Jim Petersen and Mike Shamy will give you the awareness and skills needed to share your faith and deepen your outreach to others.

Book The Rise of Mutual Funds

Download or read book The Rise of Mutual Funds written by Matthew P. Fink and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A terrific new book." --- Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch.com --

Book The Insiders Club

Download or read book The Insiders Club written by Echo Miller and published by Chu and Chother. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Social Misfits: An eccentric obsessed with the 80s, a tech-addicted genius, a mysterious mimic, and a scrappy loner. They live with autism. Can they live with each other? Before the weekend is over, they'll defy the rules, share secrets, and form an extraordinary alliance. It was only Orientation, but their lives will never be the same. Keegan Harris has one weekend to persuade three other autistic guys to move into his group home. Using an 80s movie as his guide for socialization, he's organized a series of adventures designed to form deep connections and create lifelong friends. But each stranger packed emotional baggage and arrived with agendas of their own. Unless Keegan can convince everyone to stick to the script, his blockbuster plan may turn companionship into chaos. When Monday morning rolls around, will they be best buddies or will Keegan's community close before it officially opens? The Insiders Club is a realistic YA novel that brings marginalized characters into the spotlight. If you like unconventional heroes, unlikely friendships, and bittersweet coming-of-age stories, then you'll love Echo Miller's uplifting read. The Insiders Club is the first novel in the Life on the Innside series. An "autism after high school" novel, appropriate for ages 16+

Book Inside Job

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  • Author : Mark A. Zupan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-10
  • ISBN : 1107153735
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Inside Job written by Mark A. Zupan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark A. Zupan examines why, how, where, and when government insiders subvert the public interest, undermining democracies as well as autocracies.

Book CPT CHANGES 2022

Download or read book CPT CHANGES 2022 written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Decisive Decade

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  • Author : Robert B McKersie
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 2013-08-05
  • ISBN : 0809332450
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book A Decisive Decade written by Robert B McKersie and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, Robert B. McKersie’s A Decisive Decade follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie’s participation as a white activist for black rights offers a unique, firsthand viewpoint on the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would forever change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. Described within are McKersie’s intimate observations on events as they developed during his participation in such historic occasions as the impassioned marches for open housing in Chicago; the campaign to end school segregation under Chicago Schools Superintendent Benjamin Willis; Operation Breadbasket’s push to develop economic opportunities for black citizens; and dialogs with corporations to provide more jobs for blacks in Chicago. In addition, McKersie provides up close and personal descriptions of the iconic Civil Rights leaders who spearheaded some of the most formative battles of Chicago’s Civil Rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Jesse Jackson, Timuel Black Jr. and W. Alvin Pitcher. The author illumines the tensions experienced by two major institutions in responding to the demands of the civil rights movement: the university and the church. Packed with historical detail and personal anecdotes of these history-making years, A Decisive Decade offers a never-before-seen perspective on one of our nation’s most tumultuous eras.

Book Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education

Download or read book Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education written by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying to meet that challenge while placing the developments in a larger international context. Distinguishing itself from other books in the same genre, this volume (1) brings in the diversity of insiders‘ reactions concerning globalization reform in education, while placing such actions in the larger international context, and (2) covers a wide span of education (elementary to higher education) and shows how the globalization reforms as a whole are affecting Japanese education. With a focus on insiders’ accounts, this book brings in information that is little known outside of Japan. It also links globalization processes in Japanese society, school education and higher education, accounting for similarities and differences across educational levels, providing insight into the multifaceted processes affecting the Japanese education system. Chapters include: From High School Abroad to College in Japan: The Difficulties of the Japanese Returnee Experience The University of Tokyo PEAK Program: Venues into the Challenges Faced by Japanese Universities Why Does Cultural Diversity Matter? Korean Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

Book Red Roulette

Download or read book Red Roulette written by Desmond Shum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ."--CNN​ A riveting insider's story of how the Party and big money work in China today, by a man who, with his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the zenith of power and wealth--and then fell out of favor. She was disappeared four years ago. News of this book led to a phone call from Whitney, proof that she's alive. As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China's male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China's Communist Party, the so-called red aristocracy, he vaulted into China's billionaire class. Soon they were developing the massive air cargo facility at Beijing International Airport, and they followed that feat with the creation of one of Beijing's premier hotels. They were dazzlingly successful, traveling in private jets, funding multi-million-dollar buildings and endowments, and purchasing expensive homes, vehicles, and art. But in 2017, their fates diverged irrevocably when Desmond, while residing overseas with his son, learned that his now ex-wife Whitney had vanished along with three coworkers. This is both Desmond's story and Whitney's, because she has not been able to tell it herself.

Book CPT Changes

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Medical Association
  • Publisher : American Medical Association Press
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 9781603598422
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book CPT Changes written by American Medical Association and published by American Medical Association Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the creator of the CPT(R) code set, CPT(R) Changes 2014: An Insider's View helps health care practitioners stay current on CPT changes. Organized in the same manner as the CPT codebook, this guide provides the official AMA rationales for every added, revised and deleted CPT code and guideline. This edition will provide explanation for changes in the following areas of the 2014 code set: Molecular Pathology, Digestive System, Cardiovascular System, Complex Chronic Care Coordination Services, Transitional Care Management Services and Appendix C. CPT Changes 2014: An Insider's View helps health care providers stay current on annual CPT updates. It includes information and rationale on: CPT code and guideline additionsCPT code and guideline deletionsCPT code and guideline revisions

Book The ITT Wars

Download or read book The ITT Wars written by Rand V. Araskog and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book After Disaster

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  • Author : Edward Minyard
  • Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 145750930X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book After Disaster written by Edward Minyard and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrorist attacks, hurricanes, pandemic, earthquakes, tornadoes, oil spills, floods and tsunami -- Ed Minyard has responded to them all. Over the past 10 years, Ed has been involved in almost every major crisis in and around North America -- and one long-range mission to Japan. This book describes his adventures and presents a view that most have never seen -- from inside the heart of chaos. Read of Ed's experiences with politicians, heroes, tragic victims and yes, the inevitable crooks that always seem to be there to exploit these events. Ed tells it like it was -- no holds barred. In the end, it's the lessons from these terrible events that matter. Ed expresses those lessons with stright-talk, peppered with a bit of (sometimes dark) humor. Above all else, this book will educate the reader in the subject of preparedness -- but only if you take the lessons to heart. That part is up to you."--Back cover.

Book The Insiders    Game

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth N. Saunders
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2024-03-26
  • ISBN : 0691215812
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Insiders Game written by Elizabeth N. Saunders and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most important virtues of a democracy is that its leaders are accountable to the public, which presumably makes democracies more cautious about using military force and, ultimately, more peaceful. Yet how, then, are some leaders able to continue or even escalate wars in the face of strong or rising popular opposition, as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon did in the later stages of the Vietnam War, and Barack Obama did in Afghanistan? In this book, Saunders argues that constraints on democratic leaders' decisions about war come not from the public but from elites, making war an "insiders' game." Saunders sees elites as a disparate group that can shape not only the decision about whether to enter a war but also how wars unfold. The insiders' game can sometimes result in elites effectively colluding with leaders in escalating a war with dim prospects; it can also occasionally lead to de-escalation or the end of a conflict. Saunders focuses first on the importance of elite influence (rather than public accountability) and on how the preferences of elites differ from those of the public. She homes in on three main groups of elites that shape almost every war-related decision democratic leaders make: legislators, military leaders, and high-level bureaucrats and advisers. She then goes on to look at how these dynamics have played out historically, looking at the cases of Lebanon, Afghanistan, Korea, and Vietnam, showing that leaders' political bargaining with elites is key to understanding the use of force in American foreign policy"--

Book The Fashion Insider s Guide to Paris

Download or read book The Fashion Insider s Guide to Paris written by Carole Sabas and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fashion Insider's Guide to Paris is a carefully curated compendium of the current hotspots, classic haunts and hidden gems of one of the world's greatest fashion destinations.