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Book Dare to Hope

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  • Author : Melissa Spoelstra
  • Publisher : Abingdon Press
  • Release : 2019-03-05
  • ISBN : 1501879669
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Dare to Hope written by Melissa Spoelstra and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in such an unstable world, we tend to have a propensity to worry. Yet God offers us another choice. In the Book of Jeremiah, we find God calling out to His people with a message of hope—a message that intentional living is possible even in a world of uncertainty. In Dare to Hope, Melissa Spoelstra examines this hope-filled message to highlight six guidelines for intentional living that enable us to overcome fear, worry, and doubt as we surrender to God and put our hope in Him alone. This book inspires us to dare to hope, remembering that God is rich in mercy and love and has good plans for us.

Book Unsettled  Updated and Expanded Edition

Download or read book Unsettled Updated and Expanded Edition written by Steven E. Koonin and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. "Greenland’s ice loss is accelerating." "Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities." "Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. With the new edition of Unsettled, Steven Koonin draws on decades of experience—including as a top science advisor to the Obama administration—to clear away the fog and explain what science really says (and doesn't say). With a new introduction, this edition now features reflections on an additional three years of eye-opening data, alternatives to unrealistic “net zero” solutions, global energy inequalities, and the energy crisis arising from the war in Ukraine. When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that “the science is settled.” In reality, the climate is changing, but the why and how aren’t as clear as you’ve probably been led to believe. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths: Despite rising greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures decreased from 1940 to 1970 Models currently used to predict the future do not accurately describe the climate of the past, and modelers themselves strongly doubt their regional predictions There is no compelling evidence that hurricanes are becoming more frequent—or that predictions of rapid sea level rise have any validity Unsettled is a reality check buoyed by hope, offering the truth about climate science—what we know, what we don’t, and what it all means for our future.

Book Unsettled

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  • Author : Marc Aronson
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-10-21
  • ISBN : 1416912614
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Unsettled written by Marc Aronson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel.The word itself can mean "arguing with God," and talking about Israel can start endless arguments about politics, history, morality, and prejudice. Unsettled, Marc Aronson's most deeply personal book to date, explores the history of Israel, from the beginning of the Zionist movement to the birth of Israel as a state in 1948 to the intense conf'?licts over Israel, the Palestinians, and the Jewish settlements of today. Along the way Aronson intersperses stories from his own family's long experiences in Israel while asking and answering such questions as: Can a religious state also be a democratic one? Is Israel the victim or the aggressor? Do modern states have moral obligations? And perhaps the most troubling question of all: What kind of Israel should exist? Once again, Aronson has created history for young adults that is exciting, probing, clear, and most of all, fearless.

Book Unsettled

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  • Author : Ryan Hampton
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2021-10-05
  • ISBN : 125027317X
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Unsettled written by Ryan Hampton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking inside account of reckless capitalism and injustice in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case. In September 2019, Purdue Pharma—the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family—filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from 2,600 lawsuits for its role in fueling the U.S. overdose crisis. Author and activist Ryan Hampton served as co-chair of the official creditors committee that acted as a watchdog during the process, one of only four victims appointed among representatives of big insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacies. He entered the case believing that exposing the Sacklers and mobilizing against Purdue would be enough to right the scales of justice. But he soon learned that behind closed doors, justice had plenty of other competition—and it came with a hefty price tag. Unsettled is the inside story of Purdue’s excruciating Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the company’s eventual restructuring, and the Sackler family’s evasion of any true accountability. It’s also the untold story of how a group of determined ordinary people tried to see justice done against the odds—and in the face of brutal opposition from powerful institutions and even government representatives. Although America was envisioned as an equitable place, where the vulnerable are protected from the greed of the powerful, the corporate-bankruptcy process betrays those values. In its heart of hearts, this system is built to shield the ultra-wealthy, exploit loopholes for political power, promote gross wealth inequality, and allow companies such as Purdue Pharma to run amok. The real story of the Purdue bankruptcy wasn’t that the billion-dollar corporation was a villain, a serial federal offender. No matter what the media said, Purdue didn’t do this alone. They were aided and abetted by the very systems and institutions that were supposed to protect Americans. Even on-your-side elected officials worked against Purdue’s victims—maintaining the status quo at all costs. Americans deserve to know exactly who is responsible for failing to protect people over profits—and what a human life is worth to corporations, billionaires, and lawmakers. Unsettled is what happened behind closed doors—the story of a sick, broken system that destroyed millions of lives and let the Sacklers off almost scot-free.

Book Unsettled

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  • Author : Reem Faruqi
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0063044722
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Unsettled written by Reem Faruqi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year · Kid's Indie Next List · Featured in Today Show’s AAPI Heritage Month list · A Kirkus Children's Best Book of 2021 · A National Council of Teachers of English Notable Verse Novel · Jane Addams 2022 Children’s Book Award Finalist · 2021 Nerdy Award Winner · Muslim Bookstagram Award Winner for Best Middle School Book For fans of Other Words for Home and Front Desk, this powerful, charming immigration story follows a girl who moves from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, and must find her footing in a new world. Reem Faruqi is the ALA Notable author of award-winning Lailah's Lunchbox. "A lyrical coming of age story exploring family, immigration, and most of all belonging.” —Aisha Saeed, New York Times bestselling author of Amal Unbound “This empowering story will resonate with people who have struggled to both fit in and stay true to themselves.” —Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor author of The Night Diary “A gorgeously written story, filled with warmth and depth." —Hena Khan, author of Amina’s Voice When her family moves from Pakistan to Peachtree City, all Nurah wants is to blend in, yet she stands out for all the wrong reasons. Nurah’s accent, floral-print kurtas, and tea-colored skin make her feel excluded, until she meets Stahr at swimming tryouts. And in the water Nurah doesn’t want to blend in. She wants to win medals like her star athlete brother, Owais—who is going through struggles of his own in the U.S. Yet when sibling rivalry gets in the way, she makes a split-second decision of betrayal that changes their fates. Ultimately Nurah slowly gains confidence in the form of strong swimming arms, and also gains the courage to stand up to bullies, fight for what she believes in, and find her place.

Book The Academy

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fresh Hope     Cleveland

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  • Author : Nanci J. Gravill
  • Publisher : WestBow Press
  • Release : 2012-02-22
  • ISBN : 1449730108
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Fresh Hope Cleveland written by Nanci J. Gravill and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes in life its a good thing we dont know whats ahead. Through a series of events, Nanci Gravill lost everyone and everything in her life. It all started with breast cancer in late 2003. And as she began to recover from this Job-like experience, unable to return to her temporary teaching position, Nanci was forced to live off all of her investments and retirement money. Instead of giving into fear, she called countless community agencies and used her creativity to come up with other ways to stretch the money she had left. She also found healthy ways to deal with her emotions and cope with her circumstances. Above everything else, she put her trust in God. All the resources found in Fresh Hope Cleveland helped Nanci make it through five very difficult years. They can help anyone find the answers and hope that they need too. Its simple. Fresh Hope Cleveland provides wisdom at a time when its needed most. Waiting for answers and opportunities to arrive is part of life. But how will you wait? How will you cope? Inside the pages of Fresh Hope Cleveland youll find some inventive ways to manage those challenges along with money-saving tips, healthcare services, job and mortgage information, and much more. Find out too, about the most important resource you could ever possess: a relationship with God. Is Fresh Hope Cleveland just for Cleveland? No. Every resource in this comprehensive guide and workbook could be found too, in any citys own backyard. But more than anything, Fresh Hope Cleveland provides direction, encouragement, and power people everywhere need to not only survive, but thrive. Whether life is great today or feels overwhelming, still, come explore some fresh ideas. Just one new idea could make everything even better than it was before. Nanci J. Gravill Fresh Hope Cleveland ~ full of wisdom and power for your life today! ?A practical Guide to help you save money and feel your best ?Handbook of Resources available right in your own backyard ?Tried and true Strategies from the authors 5+ years of difficulties ?A Workbook with pages provided so you can record more information ?Learn More about a Relationship with God

Book Hosting States and Unsettled Guests

Download or read book Hosting States and Unsettled Guests written by Jennifer Riggan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wealthy countries build literal and figurative walls to keep migrants out, Ethiopia has welcomed refugees through policies that promote local integration. But do these policies enable refugees to consider their new country home? Focusing on the experiences of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests tracks the introduction, implementation, and evolution of policies that began in summer 2016, shortly before the New York Summit on Refugees prompted new national refugee legislation in Ethiopia. Using ethnographic interviews and participant observation with government officials, intragovernmental organizations, NGOs, and refugees in three camps in northern Ethiopia and Addis Ababa, Jennifer Riggan and Amanda Poole explore new efforts to halt treacherous, secondary migration to Europe. In particular, they explore the concept of refugee time-making, a theoretical model to better understand precarity, and a focus on education. An important read, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests makes key empirical and theoretical contributions in forced migration studies, East African studies, and anthropology. Riggan and Poole deftly shift the focus of refugee studies away from Europe to regions in the Global South, revealing emerging forms of migration management.

Book Unsettled Urban Space

Download or read book Unsettled Urban Space written by Tihomir Viderman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in constant tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban societies confront, undergo and overcome turbulence and difficulties in time and space. Contributions drawing on theoretical reflections and empirical accounts—from Argentina, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the UAE, the UK, the USA and Vietnam—give insights into plural occurrences of the unsettled, which might tie down or unleash transformative, liberatory and emancipatory potentials. This book is for students, professionals and researchers interested in the uncertainties, foundations, disturbances, inconsistencies, residuals and blind fields, which constitute the urban both as lived space and as social, cultural and political ideal.

Book Our Preposterous Use of Literature

Download or read book Our Preposterous Use of Literature written by Tracy Scott McMillin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He examines the ways in which Emerson's texts have been read in the United States, the myriad methods by which those texts have been pillaged, picked over, and repackaged - in a word, consumed - by biographers, political apologists, self-help proponents, entrepreneurs, and academicians alike.".

Book Unsettled

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  • Author : Melvin Konner
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2004-09-28
  • ISBN : 0142196320
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Unsettled written by Melvin Konner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far reaching, intellectually rich, and passionately written, Unsettled takes the whole history of Western civilization as its canvas and places onto it the Jewish people and faith. With historical insight and vivid storytelling, renowned anthropologist Melvin Konner charts how the Jews endured largely hostile (but at times accepting) cultures to shape the world around them and make their mark throughout history—from the pastoral tribes of the Bronze Age to enslavement in the Roman Empire, from the darkness of the Holocaust to the creation of Israel and the flourishing of Jews in America. With fresh interpretations of the antecedents of today's pressing conflicts, Unsettled is a work whose modern-day reverberations could not be more relevant or timely.

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : Arizona. Department of Public Instruction
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by Arizona. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unsettled Voices

Download or read book Unsettled Voices written by Tanja Dreher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates, ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics, and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values underpin emboldened white supremacy. What kind of everyday racially motivated speech is protected by such an interpretation of liberal ideology? How do everyday forms of social expression that vilify and intimidate find shelter through an inflation of the notion of freedom of speech? Furthermore, how do such forms refuse the idea that language can be a performative act from which harm can be derived? Racialized speech has conjured and shaped the subjectivities of multiple intersecting participants, reproducing new and problematic forms of precarity. These vulnerabilities have been experienced from the sound of rubber bullets in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to UK hate speech legislation, to the spontaneous performace of a First Nations war dance on the Australian Rules football pitch. This book identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West, and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.

Book Unsettled Waters

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  • Author : Eric P. Perramond
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 0520971124
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Unsettled Waters written by Eric P. Perramond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences.

Book A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen  Second Edition

Download or read book A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen Second Edition written by Hans Urs Von Balthasar and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar addresses the critical issues that have been unsettling the Catholic laity since the Second Vatican Council. In a clear and readable manner, he focuses on the core elements of the faith: the Word of God; the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; the sacraments; the structure of the Church; and Mary. Speaking plainly about the polarization within the Catholic Church, he also discusses the various ideological trends—such as liberalism, progressivism, and traditionalism—that have undermined the confidence and the unity of the faithful. "In this Primer, Balthasar addresses today's faithful laity who feel that [the] solidity of the Church is shifting beneath their feet. He speaks to those who fear that the Church has done what she ought not to do: that she is in fact relaxing her demands in order to win favor, not from God, but from man. Into this situation Balthasar re-proposes the'form' of Jesus Christ as revealed in his Church. This form is 'only the whole': the whole, concrete reality of Christ, conveyed within Catholic tradition. This form is 'spun from three strands' of Word, sacrament, and ecclesial authority. These three provide the Church with the ability to remain on course despite the winds blowing through history." — Angela Franks, Ph.D., From the Foreword

Book House documents

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1138 pages

Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wallace Stegner s Unsettled Country

Download or read book Wallace Stegner s Unsettled Country written by Mark Fiege and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: