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The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
Laura Schlessinger , and Stewart Vogel Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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When it comes to the Ten Commandments, many theologians and spiritual leaders agree: the classic golden rules remain the best guiding principles available. Syndicated radio psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger utilizes these sacred Commandments to speak from her favorite pulpit of "do the right thing" therapy. Fans of Dr. Laura delight in her uncanny skill for zeroing in on the moral indiscretions and confusion at the core of most people's problems. With the Ten Commandments to back her up, Dr. Laura offers readers a day-to-day context for making healthy, loving, and morally correct choices. (So hopefully they can avoid the emotional pickles that her call-in guests frequently find themselves in.)The esteemed Rabbi Stewart Vogel is the cowriter. As a result, the narrative fluctuates between real-life moral struggles (often based on people who've called into Dr. Laura's show) and biblical quotations that lead into intelligent, brief sermons. Readers who hunger for a clearer understanding of how the Ten Commandments can be applied to modern life will certainly be satisfied. Topics include "You Can't Ship God by UPS," "Which Vows Hold Water," "Honor Your Parents ... or Else," "Teachers Are Not Pets," and "Holy and Unholy Sex." --Gail Hudson
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The Ten Commandments are the first direct communication between a people and God. Designed to elevate our lives above mere frantic, animal existence to the sublime levels humanity is capable or experiencing, they are the blueprint of God's expectations of us and His plan for a meaningful, just, loving, and holy life. Each commandment asserts a principle, and each principle is a moral focal point for real-life issues relating to God, family, sex, work, charity, property, speech, and thought. Written in collaboration with Rabbi Stewart Vogel, The Ten Commandments incorporates lively discussion of the Bible and the Judeo-Christian values derived from it. Filled with passion, emotion, and profound insights, it will move, enlighten, inspire, entertain, and educate you on the meaning each commandment has in our daily lives today:
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The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life.......2007-01-09
Good insight to the 10 Commandments (not 10 Suggestions).......2006-12-31
Good Book.......2006-02-07
A few questions for Dr Laura.......2005-11-30
The Ten Commandments : The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life .......2005-09-12
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The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Patricia Ewick , and Susan S. Silbey Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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An excellent, meticulously researched book........2000-03-06
"Before the law" is an attitude of awe and respect for the institution. Faith in that day in court, that statue of blind justice and the policeman is my friend. "Against the law" is an attitude of resistance to the institution. Law as a caprice of the powerful, and resistance the right way to deal with it. "With the law" is an attitude of game playing with the institution. I didn't make the rules, but me and my lawyer, we sure as hell will play the game. People shift and change among these modes depending on where they are in life, the particulars of the situation, and growing experience with the law.
The biggest contribution of this book is in highlighting the game playing aspect of dealing with law. I think game-playing gets short shrift from other law authors who may be stuck inside their very serious institution. Most other books reduce game-playing to simple economic theory and don't pay enough attention to the human side of gaming with the law. I mean, really. Just look at how big the sports section of the Sunday paper is versus the economic analysis section! Games are a big part of everyday life. Ewick & Silbey give game-playing the appropriate type of attention. Big bravo.
My only criticism is that the language of this book is mainly for an academic audience, and thus I give it only four stars-sorry. The writing could be de-academicized and made more powerful and popular. Overall it is an excellent, meticulously researched book
I got the book for its cover-the picture of chairs in newly shoveled parking space. Now that's a real hotbed of attitude in the informal/formal law divide. Thanks to the authors and worker-bees for all their work.
Common Place Of Law is anything but common.......1999-10-19
Using anecdotal material mixed with sociological theory, Ewing and Silbey have created an intelligent mix of the plebeian and the patrician.
A very, very important book for the study of law today........1998-11-11
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Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law (Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Vol. 1)
Kembrew McLeod Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0820451576 |
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Owning Culture demonstrates how intellectual property law has expanded to allow for private ownership of a remarkable array of things, from the patenting of human genes linked to breast cancer to the trademarking of the phrases "home style" and "freedom of ownership." This book examines diverse areas of contemporary life affected by intellectual property law, including sampling practices in hip-hop music, the appropriation of Third World indigenous knowledge about the medical uses of plants, the effects of seed patenting on farming, and the impact of copyright law on folk music-making. By placing under scruntiny the individualistic, Western conception of the "author" that grounds intellectual property law, Kembrew McLeod shows how borrowing practices have been-and continue to be-central to cultural production. Additionally, this book highlights how intellectual property law facilitates the privatization of culture and the transfer of power into the hands of wealthy individuals and corporations. Clearly written, thoughtful, and thought provoking, Owning Culture provides an innovative approach to the study of culture and law.
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Everyday Miracles by God's Design
David, A Jernigan Manufacturer: Xulon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1597814229 |
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Don't you wish your body and life came with an Operator's Manual? In his groundbreaking book, Everyday Miracles by God's Design, Dr. David Jernigan presents an amazing interweaving of the latest science and the universal truths from God's Word. This book is a bold step towards the Operator's Manual you always wanted!
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Law and Justice in Everyday Life: Featuring the Cool Justice Columns of Law Tribune Newspapers
Andy Thibault Manufacturer: TNT PUBLISHING ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0962600156 |
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Law And Justice In Everyday Life features tales about ordinary citizens as they encounter the justice system, with an introduction by the historian Howard Zinn.The 254-page book begins with an examination of the cover-up of a hit-and-run death in New London, Ct., followed by unsolved murders in Stamford and Darien in which police know the prime suspects. A prediction on the performance of Michael Skakel in the Martha Moxley murder trial highlights another chapter.
A chapter entitled "The Politics Of Justice" features columns from Law Tribune Newspapers that led the state Judicial Department to cancel its subscriptions to the Connecticut Law Tribune. These headlines include: Free The Oppressed, Exploited Judges, All Rise For Judge Bobby Knight and The Bench Protection Association.
Government misconduct in Boston, Washington, Oklahoma is examined throughout the book's 12 chapters. A chapter on Civil Rights And Freedom Of Speech recounts the heroic struggles of librarians, students, gay parents and whistleblowers as they aspire to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Honest and talented police officers and prosecutors tell their stories in chapters entitled On The Job, For The People and Cops And Perps.
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Andy isn't afraid of anything!.......2003-02-22
Very much worth reading.......2002-11-05
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The Complete Guide to the Kabbalah: How to Apply the Ancient Mysteries of the Kabbalah to Your Everyday Life
Will Parfitt Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Kabbalah is a practical system for understanding ourself and our relationship with the world.Customer Reviews:
Kabbalah.......2005-08-19
Best introduction for kabbalah and magick.......2003-09-22
So, especially if you belong to the group of people who plods thorugh dark tomes filled with what appears as unfathomable kabblistic references or such and want to start experiencing and DOING magick - this is a really good start.
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Crime and Everyday Life
Marcus K. Felson Manufacturer: Pine Forge Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Crime and Everyday Life show a most readable fashion how everyday life generates opportunities for crime to occur while also providing chances to prevent it. It demonstrates: why crimes goes up and down, how poverty and disorder relate to crime, and how to reduce crime in a realistic way. Felson emphasizes that crime is highly tangible and very much generated by the opportunity to carry it out; he also incorporates current research that shows how criminal opportunity leads people to commit crime. This book covers many practical, positive and inexpensive solutions on ways to reduce and control crime.
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changed my week.......2004-09-27
An introductory and straightforward survey.......2003-10-10
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Images and Everyday Life
Larry Law Manufacturer: Spectacular Times ProductGroup: Book Binding: Pamphlet ASIN: B000MQM1CC |
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The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
Laura C. Schlessinger; Rabbi Stewart Vogel Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O9OA4E |
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Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our Everyday Life, 2nd Edition
Dennis Sullivan , and Larry Tifft Manufacturer: Criminal Justice Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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This passionate, impeccably researched essay advocates a radical alternative to the punishment reflex of the criminal justice system -- a "needs-based" model of restorative justice. Instead of defining justice in relation to peoples' "rights" or "deserts," the needs-based model strives to respond to the NEEDS of all participants. Beyond the legal system, the authors would apply this distinctive restorative justice model to conflict resolution in families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods and other institutions.The second edition of this well received book (which is more than 50% longer) features a comprehensive survey of the international restorative justice literatuve and a wealth of real-world applications of needs-based restorative justice. The well-documented case studies range worldwide and include: family/community conferences; sentencing circles; victim-offender mediation programs; an "inclusion" elementary school; post-civil conflict "truth commissions" in two dozen nations; and indigenous reconciliation courts in Rwanda; among many others.
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Pigeon Showing
Douglas McClary Manufacturer: Blandford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0713713720 |
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Dove kill data showing harvest by types of hunting areas, southeastern states, season of 1961-1962: A cooperative project conducted by Game Departments ... of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Region 4
Parker B Smith Manufacturer: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Region 4 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007ED6Q4 |
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The Pigeons: Dedicated to all the flats, and showing the artifices, success and crimes of gaming, gamesters and gambling houses
Author of The Greeks Manufacturer: Printed for J.J. Stockdale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089O1RQ |
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Successful pigeon raising: A comprehensive guide showing how to make the industry profitable
Ferdinand Bowman Price Manufacturer: F.B. Price, Jr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008B3LCU |
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