Beyond Cheap Grace: A Call to Radical Discipleship, Incarnation, and Justice

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Paperback: 98 pages
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans (July 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080286323X
ISBN-13: 978-0802863232
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A summons to radical discipleship in our postmodern society. From the Back Cover Ronald J. Sider — president, Evangelicals for Social Action "Hardly anything is more urgent today than that the church heed the call to abandon cheap grace and embrace costly, biblical discipleship." Luis Cortés Jr. — president, Esperanza USA "Eldin Villafañe brings to the fore both his ministerial experience and his decades of reflection in a clear and concise manner, calling for the need to reform theological education." Dale T. Irvin — New York Theological Seminary "Long a leading theorist of urban ministry, contextual theological education, and Latino/a theological ethics, Eldin Villafañe is revealed in Beyond Cheap Grace to be above all a prophetic voice on behalf of the cruciform life, challenging various forms of cultural accommodation that distort and conceal the gospel in our era. Calling us to recover the radical meaning of discipleship, incarnation, and justice for spiritual renewal, this valuable work deserves a wide reading and even wider application." J. Alfred Smith Sr. — senior pastor, Allen Temple Baptist Church "Eldin Villafañe calls us from the comfortable pew away from a self-centered prosperity and name-it-and-claim-it gospel to a servant ministry that embraces the poor and marginalized with righteousness and justice." Loida L. Martell-Otero — Palmer Theological Seminary "Beyond Cheap Grace integrates theology and ethics through the lens of Christology and biblical scholarship to challenge traditional paradigms of theological education and method. Villafañe seeks to prod Christian leaders and educators to create a new model of discipleship that lives up to the principles of the reign of God — one that is welcoming to all, transformative, and above all incarnational. . . . I hope that this book encourages all theological institutions to invite as many diverse voices as possible to join the conversation." Beyond Cheap Grace: A Call to Radical Discipleship, Incarnation, and Justice

Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Atria Books (March 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743289579
ISBN-13: 978-0743289573
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Babies grow more rapidly in their first year than at any other time in their lives, so how you feed your newborn will be one of the most important decisions you make for your new baby. Making your own baby food is not only more economical than buying commercial brands, it also assures that your child consumes only the freshest, top-quality ingredients. British television personality and children's nutrition expert Annabel Karmel's essential collection of best-ever purees grants new parents their wish: one hundred quick and easy recipes that will make for a healthy and happy baby. From first tastes and weaning, right through to meals for older babies, all the recipes are suitable for children aged six months and older. And with all these fruit and vegetable favorites, and innovative fish, meat, and chicken purees, the dishes are so tasty you will want to eat them yourself! In addition to easy and delicious recipes, Top 100 Baby Purees also includes information on: Weaning your baby and transitioning to solid foods Food allergies Time-saving food preparation tips Freezing and reheating your homemade baby food Tricks on finding the hidden nutrition in everyday foods Featuring a preface by Dr. Michel Cohen, New York pediatrician and author of The New Basics: A-to-Z Baby & Child Care for the Modern Parent Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby

Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (January 9, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470491604
ISBN-13: 978-0470491607
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Diagnose and solve your PC problems with this easy-to-understand guideWritten by veteran For Dummies author Dan Gookin, this straightforward guide shows you how to diagnose and solve the most common hardware and software problems your PC may encounter. In addition, he presents advice for preventing PC problems in the first placeand clearly explains how to create a safe and secure PC environment.    Walks you through ways to diagnose the most common PC hardware, software, and operating system problemsOffers clear and easy-to-understand solutions for confidently handling these problemsShares valuable advice about maintaining your system to maximize its lifespanReviews an array of useful toolsCovers Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Internet Explorer 8Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you to confidently handle whatever PC problems you may encounter. From the Back Cover PC on strike? Let Dan Gookin show you how to fix your PC problems — and prevent new ones!Dan Gookin helps you get things back on track, and he shows you how different PC problems often have similar origins. He also guides you through proper maintenance steps that can head off future headaches. Discover what makes that magical machine tick and how to keep it happy!Maintain happy hardware — resolve start-up and shutdown issues and problems with peripherals while adding a little pep to your PCPower to the laptop — manage power and battery issues, keep it clean, and learn laptop travel safetyCure Internet insanity — make peace with Internet Explorer, explore other browsers, troubleshoot email problems, and protect your PCNetwork for success — solve problems with routers, modems, workgroups, and wireless issuesMore geeky stuff — repartition drives, schedule tasks, and venture inside the caseOpen the book and find:Solutions for Windows 7, Vista, and XPWhat some common error messages meanBuilt-in Windows tools that help solve problemsWhy your laptop needs a good warrantyURLs for useful video tutorialsTranslations of terms like NIC, DCHP, and FTPHow to back up files, programs, and your entire PCA guided tour of what's inside the consoleVisit the companion web site at www.dummies.com/go/troubleshootingandmaintainingyourpcaio2e for videos and other examples from the book.6 Books in 1HardwareSoftwareLaptopsInternetNetworkingMaintenance Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies

Amazing Wonders of Creation eBook: Joe Crews

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Paperback: 93 pages
Publisher: Group Publishing Inc (July 31, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764421050
ISBN-13: 978-0764421051
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God's Word is under increasing attack by skeptics, leaving millions to question their faith in God's creation. This brief but eye-opening study is just the resource you need to affirm your faith and help others discover the great mysteries of land and sea that support the biblical account of creation. A must-have in these controversial times! Amazing Wonders of Creation eBook: Joe Crews

This Beautiful Life: A Novel

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Harper (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062024388
ISBN-13: 978-0062024381
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“Schulman’s topical, unsettling new novel [is] set in Manhattan’s world of private-school privilege but chillingly relatable for parents anywhere…. Raising tough questions about child rearing, morality and the way the Internet both frees and imprisons, Schulman’s story resonates.” (People (3 ½ out of 4 stars) )“This Beautiful Life is as much a bracing novel as a timely cautionary tale…. Schulman has managed to capture this bizarre of-the-moment tragedy in a novel that remains deeply humane and sensitive…. This Beautiful Life is a powerful story of a good family in crisis.” (Mary McGarry Morris, Washington Post )“In the hands of a lesser writer, this might have been simply a book about a scandal; Helen Schulman, though, has a long enough view, and a large enough heart, to have found in that scandal’s outlines a mournful and affecting portrait of our brave new social world.” (Jonathan Dee, Author of The Privileges )“Helen Schulman’s trenchant social observations and precise, lucid writing are brought to bear on the timely story of a crisis in the life of the Bergamot family…. Schulman takes on a controversial topic with depth, evenhandedness, and warmth. Spare and focused, This Beautiful Life packs a wallop.” (Kate Christensen, author of The Epicure's Lament and The Great Man )“A rich, engrossing, and surprisingly nuanced novel exploring timeless questions of guilt and responsiblity.” (O, The Oprah Magazine )“A harrowing and moving account of just how much twenty-first-century technology has magnified the scope of the kind of imbecilities in which teenagers excel. It’s poignant about the fragility of even those homes that are seemingly invulnerably insulated by privilege and caring and vigilant parents.” (Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway )“A gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence. While the setting is thoroughly modern, the drama feels as ancient and inevitable as a Greek myth. I read this book with white-knuckled urgency, and finished it in tears. Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliant novelist.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Committed and Eat, Pray, Love )“This Beautiful Life isn’t just an intimate look at family breaking down under intense pressure; it’s also a sharp and unsparing indictment of a culture in search of scapegoats. In this timely and provocative novel, Helen Schulman maps out the contours of a contemporary American nightmare.” (Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Little Children )“Riveting. . . . As much as this book fiercely inhabits our shared online reality, it operates most powerfully on a deeper level, posing an enduring question about American values.” (Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review )“In another writer’s hands, it might come out as a cautionary tale, but Schulman is careful not to paint anyone as villain or victim.” (Hannah Gerson, New York Observer )“With psychological acuity and cinematic pacing, Helen Schulman takes a hypercontemporary nightmare…and parlays it into a wildly compelling novel about parenting, privilege, and the fragility of happiness…. This Beautiful Life is moving, disturbing, and grandly incisive.” (Jonathan Miles, author of Dear American Airlines )“Helen Schulman is one of the most gifted writers of her generation.” (Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Good Squad ) Product Description When the Bergamots move from a comfortable upstate college town to New York City, they’re not quite sure how they’ll adapt—or what to make of the strange new world of well-to-do Manhattan. Soon, though, Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large New York university, and Liz, who has traded in her academic career to oversee the lives of their children, is hectically ferrying young Coco around town.
Fifteen-year-old Jake is gratefully taken into the fold by a group of friends at Wildwood, an elite private school.
But the upper-class cocoon in which they have enveloped themselves is ripped apart when Jake wakes up one morning after an unchaperoned party and finds an email in his in-box from an eighth-grade admirer. Attached is a sexually explicit video she has made for him. Shocked, stunned, maybe a little proud, and scared—a jumble of adolescent emotion—he forwards the video to a friend, who then for-wards it to a friend. Within hours, it’s gone viral, all over the school, the city, the world.
The ensuing scandal threatens to shatter the Bergamots’ sense of security and identity, and, ultimately, their happiness. They are a good family faced with bad choices, and how they choose to react, individually and at one another’s behest, places everything they hold dear in jeopardy.
This Beautiful Life is a devastating exploration of the blurring boundaries of privacy and the fragility of self, a clear-eyed portrait of modern life that will have readers debating their assumptions about family, morality, and the sacrifices and choices we make in the name of love.
This Beautiful Life: A Novel

Beautiful Sins: The Divide

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The encounter with King Christian has turned out to be more than what Leigha had anticipated. Now, as a Princess, Leigha is going to discover more about herself than she imagined. Leigha discovers she holds more of a connection to King Christian than she was told. Olivia also makes some discoveries of her own. She finds out the real reason why her mother died and seeks vengeance. There is a powerful creature lurking in the Lost City, a creature that cannot be destroyed. It’s called the Crael, and it is Dr. Connally’s creation of the perfect warrior.

Things take a turn for the worst when Olivia’s battle with the Crael turns to confusion. With Leigha and Olivia’s strong similar features, the Crael does not understand which beauty is the enemy. Fearful of Olivia’s fate, Leigha’s powers awaken in her determination to save her sister. However, that opens the doorway to more complications. Somehow, Dr. Connally has discovered the missing link to the creation of his perfect warrior; Olivia’s blood.

Throughout Leigha and Olivia’s struggles, the girls will learn that they will have to divide in order to survive. But will they remain sisters or enemies while they continue this fascinating journey in the discovery of their true destinies?
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books (August 23, 1977)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0156364654
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With an keen eye for the dark side of human nature, an amazing ear for dialogue, and a necessary sense of irony, Flannery O'Conner exposes the underside of life in the rural south of the United States. One of the powers in her writing lies in her ability to make the vulnerability of one into that of many; another is her mastery of shifting "control" from character to character, making the outcome uncertain. Sexual and racial attitudes, poverty and riches, adolescence, old age, and being thirty-four which "wasn't any age at all" are only some of the issues touched on in this collection. When Ruby has to walk up the "steeple steps...[that]...reared up" as she climbed to her fourth floor apartment, we feel her pain as she "gripped the banister rail fiercely and heaved herself up another step..." Flannery O'Conner, a 1972 National Book Award winner, reminds us that none of the roles in our lives is stagnant and that wearing blinders takes away more than just a view. Through her stories we see that what we blind ourselves to is bound to appear again and again. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Holly Smith --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the american masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Ella Finds Love Again (Little Valley Series)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (September 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0736928065
ISBN-13: 978-0736928069
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Bestselling author Jerry Eicher concludes the Little Valley Series with one more glimpse into young Ella’s Amish world. She loves the widower Ivan Stutzman’s children and enjoys caring for them. Although she is genuinely devoted to Preacher Stutzman and keenly aware of his desire to propose, her feelings for him stop short of romantic love. Yet Ella yearns for marriage and wonders if what she and Ivan have is enough. When the handsome Englisha stops by and asks about converting to the Amish faith, Ella is intrigued and warily agrees to meet with him. Soon Ella realizes she’s torn between her devotion to Ivan and his children and her growing feelings for the Englisha. With dire consequences at stake, Ella must determine what the truth is, if her feelings are dependable, and how to stay faithful to the will of God. About This Series: The Little Valley Series follows Ella Yoder, a young independent Amish woman who has suffered the loss of her beloved fiancé. Relying on her faith and the support of her community, she picks up the pieces of her shattered life and learns to live, love, and dream again. Ella Finds Love Again (Little Valley Series)

The Old Man and the Wasteland

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Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (April 5, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1461076382
ISBN-13: 978-1461076384
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Forty years after the destruction of civilization... Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man’s most prized possession is Hemingway’s Classic ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’ With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a survivor of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of survival and endurance. One man must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway’s classic tale of man versus nature. Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American southwest. A book lover’s action flick. The Old Man and the Wasteland

PC Magazine Windows Vista Security Solutions

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Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Wiley (January 13, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764544748
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Dan DiNicolo provides a roadmap to protecting Vista against new and unexpected security threats that might arise to hijack your system. Follow these steps, abide by the Golden Rules of Windows security, and you’ll sleep better. See at a glance what’s critical for security: implementing logon security, strong passwords, and firewall configuration. Plus, explore additional layers of security, such as e-mail encryption and secure file deletion and update your system regularly to be sure you have all security patches and Service Packs installed. From the Back Cover When you want to defend Windows Vista,it's good to know a PC Magazine expertUnless a time machine just dropped you in the 21st century, you already know that protecting your computer is essential. Now, here's Vista—new enough that no one is sure exactly what security threats might arise to hijack your system. That's why the road map that Dan DiNicolo provides in this book is so valuable. Follow these steps, abide by the Golden Rules of Windows security, and you'll sleep better. We promise.See at a glance what's critical for securityFollow easy steps to implementing logon security, strong passwords, and firewall configurationEnsure that security holes are patched regularlyFind out how to protect your Vista system against viruses—for freeRecognize the difference between malware and viruses and install the right anti-spyware protectionImplement parental controls to protect your kids onlineExplore additional layers of security, such as e-mail encryption and secure file deletionFive Golden Rules of Windows securityImplement user accounts properly and protect them all with strong passwords.Install a firewall.Update your system regularly to be sure you have all security patches and Service Packs installed.Use up-to-date anti-virus software and scan regularly for viruses.Use up-to-date anti-spyware protection and scan regularly for spyware and related threats. PC Magazine Windows Vista Security Solutions

Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts: Troubleshooting PC Hardware Problems from Boot Failure to Poor Performance, Revised Edition

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Paperback: 118 pages
Publisher: Foner Books; Revised edition (August 25, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972380175
ISBN-13: 978-0972380171
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
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The updated edition of the classic visual manual for troubleshooting PC hardware problems. Morris Rosenthal creates a visual expert system for diagnosing component failure and identifying conflicts. The seventeen diagnostic flowcharts at the core of this book are intended for the intermediate to advanced hobbyist, or the beginning technician. Following a structured approach to troubleshooting hardware reduces the false diagnoses and parts wastage typical of the "swap 'till you drop" school of thought.

Flowcharts include: Power Supply Failure, Video Failure, Video Performance, Motherboard, CPU, RAM Failure, Motherboard, CPU, RAM Performance, IDE Drive Failure, Hard Drive Boot and Performance, CD or DVD Playback, CD or DVD Recording Problem, Modem Failure, Modem Performance, Sound Failure, Sound and Game Controller Performance, Network Failure, Peripheral Failure, SCSI Failure and Conflict Resolution.

Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts is used as a classroom text in colleges and technical schools and by the U.S. government for training forensic technicians. It's also a favorite reference with consumers and technicians all over the world. From the Author The revised edition, ISBN 0972380175, replaces the original edition for classroom use, technicians and do-it-yourself'ers. The troubleshooting procedures have been updated for newer technologies, without dropping the older technologies that still encompass the majority of PC repairs. Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts: Troubleshooting PC Hardware Problems from Boot Failure to Poor Performance, Revised Edition