This concise and comprehensive introduction to economics offers readers at all levels a more realistic approach to understanding the elements of resource and product markets, including the role of business decisions; technological change; product differentiation; uncertainty; and the optimal location of activities. With the book's easy-to-use software package for computations, even non-economists will become strongly motivated and can gain a proficiency in economic analysis as well as in p...

With contributions from Anglican scholars from across the worldwide Anglican Communion, this volume reimagines the Anglican Communion as a polycentric and multivocal community serving God's mission.The Anglican Communion faces many challenges and opportunities as its primary demographic continues to shift to the Global South, and its English and Western cultural and ecclesiological hegemony is increasingly called into question. As a global family of churches, the A...

When you think you don't have anything to lose, you'll risk it all not to lose what you have.Billie Jensen has anger issues. Growing up in prison among societies less than stellar citizens, fighting for his dignity and his very life has given Billie a lot to be angry about. He'd like to blame it on his past: An abusive stepfather, an absent mother, being sent to prison for escaping a living hell the only way he knew how. But Doctor Scott, the prison therapist, knows better. After t...

Unlikely Allies Uncover Deep Corruption: Autistic Inmate and Tormented Detective Seek Justice Amid Debauchery, Lies, and Government Cover-ups.Join us on a thrilling journey in Silent Mushrooms as we delve into the complex lives of two fascinating characters. Meet Tomas Peapers, a unique individual with Asperger's disorder, a form of autism, who has been convicted for a crime he claims he didn't commit. On the other side of the law is Texas Ranger Jackie Mo...

A non verbal neurodivergent protagonist seeks justice in an amoral society, in this detective psychological thriller.

Tsuki Waya/White Wolf, a Native American man, physically encounters his spiritual visions during a vision quest. The people and situations he encounters helps him define himself, helping him grow for the passions of life.

Everybody wants to leave a legacy - through their children, their work or the difference they make in others' lives. But what if you were prevented? What if no-one even remembered you? How far would you go to make your mark on the world?Some lives are simply unforgettable… On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and nappies, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep i...

Doing theology requires dissension and tenacity. Dissension is required when scriptural texts, and the colonial bodies and traditions (read: Babylon) that capitalize upon those, inhibit or prohibit “rising to life.” With “nerves” to dissent, the attentions of the first cluster of essays extend to scriptures and theologies, to borders and native peoples. The title for the first cluster — “talking back with nerves, against Babylon” — appeals to the spirit of feminist (to talk back against pa...

Have you ever felt the rapidly escalating horror of liking a years-old Instagram photo?Have you ever unintentionally let slip to someone something you could only know from stalking their social media?Have you ever told yourself to go to sleep, only to spend the next two hours scrolling through the life of your new partner's ex?After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start...

In the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South America and the Third World but in Canada, as well.Baum argues for a new ecumenism, permitt...

The Common Good, option for the poor, subsidiarity- concepts like these have become part of the currency of Catholic teaching, but what do they mean? What are their foundations in scripture and tradition which make them distinctively Catholic? This eBook examines key aspects of human social relations such as the family, the state and civil society, the world of work and justice. It explains in clear language how a conscience informed by divine revelation brings out the true human vocation ...

AN AMERICAN CLASSIC FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING MASTER OF LEGAL THRILLERSA man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars.So will its rightful owners.Patrick S. Lanigan died in a car crash in February 1992.He left behind a mourning wife, young daughter and bright future.Six weeks after his death, ninety million dollars disappeared from the law firm he'd worked at.It was then that his pa...