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Appleseeds
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Filled with fun projects and fellowship, this study helps young women develop godly self-esteem, social skills that can be used to disciple others, and Christian characteristics such as honesty, integrity, and servanthood. |
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Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls' Lives
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From high-profile women's professional leagues to high-school-level champions, girl athletes are achieving record breakthroughs. Witness, for example, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Title IX civil rights legislation opening school athletic programs to girls and the first spectacular seasons of the WNBA. The female athlete is a new media darling especially beloved of today's teenage girls, who are... more...
From high-profile women's professional leagues to high-school-level champions, girl athletes are achieving record breakthroughs. Witness, for example, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Title IX civil rights legislation opening school athletic programs to girls and the first spectacular seasons of the WNBA. The female athlete is a new media darling especially beloved of today's teenage girls, who are almost as likely to have pictures of Rebecca Lobo, Mia Hamm, or Gabrielle Reece on their walls as p less...
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Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass
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One of the foremost sociologists of our time makes a fervent appeal for clearer thinking on race, poverty, crime, and the underclass. A much-praised and distinctive work of scholarship, Rethinking Social Policy offer provocative essays examining major books on such subjects as affirmative action, the safety net, the effects of heredity on learning and propensity to commit crime, and ghetto culture... more...
One of the foremost sociologists of our time makes a fervent appeal for clearer thinking on race, poverty, crime, and the underclass. A much-praised and distinctive work of scholarship, Rethinking Social Policy offer provocative essays examining major books on such subjects as affirmative action, the safety net, the effects of heredity on learning and propensity to commit crime, and ghetto culture. less...
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
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Block's last Scudder mystery, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, was called smoothly paced, deftly plotted, outstanding by the Chicago Tribune. Now Block is poised to break through with his hottest, freshest look at the Big Apple's dark side. A heroin wholesaler haggles with kidnappers over his wife's ransom, and she comes back in pieces. But Scudder is on the killers' trail in no time. |
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The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century
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The American women who worked for our country's independence in 1776 hoped the new republic would grant them unprecedented power and influence. But it was not until the next century that a hardy group of pathbreakers began the slow march on the road to autonomy, a road American women continue to travel today. When The Other Civil War was first published in 1984, it was hailed as a thought-provokin... more...
The American women who worked for our country's independence in 1776 hoped the new republic would grant them unprecedented power and influence. But it was not until the next century that a hardy group of pathbreakers began the slow march on the road to autonomy, a road American women continue to travel today. When The Other Civil War was first published in 1984, it was hailed as a thought-provoking narrative of women's lives, among the first books to bring together the new accomplishments of the less...
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The Ethics of Fetal Research
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The Ethics of Fetal Research distinguishes between the legal and ethical questions raised by experimentation on still-living human fetuses. Paul Ramsey first outlines the various types of fetal research now being done and grants their potential benefits. He then describes the development of proposed American guidelines up to the National Research Act, passed by Congress in 1974, and compares these... more...
The Ethics of Fetal Research distinguishes between the legal and ethical questions raised by experimentation on still-living human fetuses. Paul Ramsey first outlines the various types of fetal research now being done and grants their potential benefits. He then describes the development of proposed American guidelines up to the National Research Act, passed by Congress in 1974, and compares these guidelines with England's recent Peel Report. In considering the moral and ethical problems involve less...
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Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999
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When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, however, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to ever more belligerent countries and factions raises alarming new concerns about the threat of nuclear war.In Return to Armageddon, Ronald Powaski assesses the... more...
When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, however, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to ever more belligerent countries and factions raises alarming new concerns about the threat of nuclear war.In Return to Armageddon, Ronald Powaski assesses the dangers that beset us as we enter an increasingly unstable political world. With the Start I and II less...
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In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
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Packed with adventure from gold mining to running the unexplored Colorado River rapids, to surviving a mountain winter with nothing but ingenuity, resourcefulness, and perseverance, this story follows Tom Wade as he goes West as a boy and returns as a man. Revealing the rugged character demanded of mountain men by their environment and times, this book describes the challenges of the American West... more...
Packed with adventure from gold mining to running the unexplored Colorado River rapids, to surviving a mountain winter with nothing but ingenuity, resourcefulness, and perseverance, this story follows Tom Wade as he goes West as a boy and returns as a man. Revealing the rugged character demanded of mountain men by their environment and times, this book describes the challenges of the American West -- a part of our heritage that helped make our country great. less...
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