Authors: John Piper,  Noël Piper,
Publisher: Crossway
Keywords: permanence, parable, marriage, momentary
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2012-09-30
ISBN-10: 1433531119
ISBN-13: 9781433531118

The chasm between the biblical vision of marriage and the common human conception is—and has always been—gargantuan. Reflecting on over forty years of matrimony, John Piper exalts the biblical meaning of marriage over its emotion, exhorting couples to keep their covenant as a display of Christ’s covenant-keeping love for the church. He aims to lift the church’s low view of marriage to something infinitely greater, namely, a vision of Jesus’s unswerving allegiance to and affection for his bride. This Momentary Marriage unpacks the biblical vision, its unexpected co

Author: Anis Ahmad Dani
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: policy, social, livelihoods, assets
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0821369954
ISBN-13: 9780821369951

Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the salaried formal sector, the livelihoods and well-being of most poor people depends heavily on their asset base. This includes their ability to access and accumulate assets, obtain decent returns from these assets, and use their asset base to manage risks. 'Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy' discusses the diverse strategies adopted by people in different contexts to accumulate assets through migration, housing investments, natural resources management, and informal businesses. An asset-based social pol

Author: Read, Leonard E.
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: peaceful, anything
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1964
ISBN-10: 1610161467
ISBN-13: 9781610161466

CONTENTS1. A BREAK WITH PREVAILING FAITH 1Let anyone do anything, so long as his actions are peaceful; limit government to keeping the peace. The author's premise. Incorruptibility defined and its importance emphasized.2. THE AMERICAN SETTING:PAST AND PRESENT 10A review of our evolutionary past should help us to better cope with the devolutionary theories and practices of the present.3. STRIFE AS A WAY OF LIFESocialism rests on raw violence. Peaceful people rarely carry noncompliance far enough to discover this shocking fact about our "social gains."4. SOCIALISM IS NONCREATIVESocialism only gi

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: yearbook, statistics, insurance
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2007-10-10
ISBN-10: 926403465X
ISBN-13: 9789264034655

The insurance industry is a key component of the economy by virtue of the amount of premiums it collects, the scale of its investment and, more fundamentally, the essential social and economic role it plays in covering personal and business risks. This annual publication provides major official insurance statistics for all OECD countries. Data for Singapore, which has an observer status to the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee, are included in the online and CD-ROM editions of this publication. The reader will find information on the diverse activities of this industry and on inter

Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: government, truth, unvarnished, crime, organized
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2012-07-20
ISBN-10: 1610162552
ISBN-13: 9781610162555

Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history this book covers it all! Organized Crime collection of essays in the tradition of Austrian political economy a combination of applied economics and the study of governmental reality. Unlike mainstream economists who are content to spin mathematical model after mathematical model which explain little or nothing about the real world, DiLorenzo s focus has always been just the opposite to use e

Authors: Berin Szoka, Adam Marcus,
Publisher: TechFreedom
Keywords: internet, future, essays, decade, digital
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2010-12-11
ISBN-10: 1435767861
ISBN-13: 9781435767867

TABLE OF CONTENTS  Foreword  7 Berin Szoka 25 Years After .COM: Ten Questions  9 Berin Szoka Contributors  29 Part I: The Big Picture & New Frameworks CHAPTER 1: The Internet’s Impact on   Culture & Society: Good or Bad?  49 Why We Must Resist the Temptation of Web 2.0  51 Andrew Keen The Case for Internet Optimism, Part 1:   Saving the Net from Its Detractors  57 Adam Thierer CHAPTER 2: Is the Generative Internet at Risk?  89 Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It:   How to Meet the Security Threat 91