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The outcome of a collaboration between teacher educators and development agencies, this book draws on a wide range of experience and perspectives from individuals and organizations working for justice in national and international contexts.
When KATHY DUGAN dies during a bank robbery, she wakes up at the Pearly Gates. There, GIDEON, an angel, asks her to reflect on her past life. Her childhood is a tale of poverty and abuse by her parents and a stint in juvenile hall. But when she lands in the home of a rich doctor and his wife, things take an abrupt U-turn. Despite Kathy’s part in an attempted robbery at her new home, the doctor and his wife refuse to press charges. Her life takes another turn, this time for the better. She’s reunited with her sister and helps with funding for research for cerebral palsy and, after joining the Army, is wounded. Kathy may have gotten off to a bad start to begin with, but she has tried to live a life to help others. Will the good deeds she’s enacted be enough to convince Gideon to open the gates for Kathy to begin her eternal life?
A refuge in good times and bad, there’s nothing the four very different Richardson sisters won’t do to sustain their family’s legacy—a historic bed-and-breakfast in Charleston, South Carolina. Now, as one sister celebrates new love, another’s heart is sorely tested . . . One night only—that's all Robin Richardson-Baptiste will give the husband she once adored. She thought nothing could shatter their storybook marriage—not illness or a life-saving operation that left her unable to have children. For her husband, Dr. Logan Baptiste, told her in a thousand unspoken ways their love was all he needed. But now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, his co-worker, Kamrie, claims Logan...
Death Penalty USA 2005 -2006 is the first of a series of books providing the history of 21st century capital-punishment cases in the United States. Based on public record this treatise reports in graphic detail the horrific capital crimes for which the death penalty was imposed in the United States between January 2005 and December 2006. Intended as a reference work for criminologists this highly-referenced book will appeal to anyone with an interest in how capital punishment is metered out in the United States.
Written by a London police officer with a background in counter-terrorism, this book convincingly demonstrates that Western governments must listen to its Muslim citizens' grievances in order to combat terrorism.
Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Doug Peters was one of the most prominent business economists in Canada between 1966 and 1992 in his role as chief economist of the Toronto Dominion Bank. He was an outspoken critic of the economic policies of the Progressive Conservative government during the last part of his career. Instead of retiring peacefully in 1992, he decided he wanted to help change economic policy in Canada, and ran for parliament in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he was the parliament member for Scarborough East and secretary of state for international financial institutions in the Liberal government. Doug Peters: Bay Street Economist on Parliament Hill is the life story of Doug Peters, written by his son, David Peters...