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This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy .
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• New paperback edition highlights Sharansky’s relationship with evangelicals • An established best seller now available to CBA audiences. • Built-in “pro Israel” community will embrace Sharansky and his shared ideals. • Special introduction for Christian audiences written by Sharansky. Sharansky, the famous Soviet dissident who spent a decade in gulags, has authored his vision for defeating terrorists worldwide: launching a flood of democratic initiatives, especially in totalitarian regimes. This book, which gained the attention of President Bush and his administration, outlines Sharansky’s strategies — based on personal experience — for making the world a safer place. Sharansky explains that the “public square test,” which states that an individual knows he is free if he can go to his city’s public square and say whatever he wants, is the bedrock Western right that can find traction in dictatorships. Christian audiences will appreciate Sharansky’s discussions of life in Israel, and his thesis here is critical to understanding and overcoming this generation’s enemies..
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Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award!Is the clock a slavemaster or a tool that serves you?Does the quantity of your responsibilities squeeze out the quality of your life?Are urgent things so pressing that you don't have "inner time" to sort out what's really important?How can you discern what God wants you to do?Charles Hummel's classic booklet Tyranny of the Urgent has sold over one million copies. Now for the first time he expands on the life-changing perspective that has transformed the lives of thousands struggling to keep from being swept away by the rush of life.Gathered in this book are proven principles taken straight from biblical teaching, from today's time-management experts and from Hummel's own life experience. You'll discover how to

• make the calendar your friend
• manage your life instead of your time
• get motivated
• stay open to God's guidance in small choices
• avoid being dragged down by past choices
• develop "inner time" for reflection and planning

and much more!If you have too much to do and not enough time to do it, this book is for you..
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Now thoroughly revised and expanded, this classic booklet by Charles E. Hummel offers ideas and illustrations for effective time management .
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Of Moneys and Dragons is an inspirational tale of hope. O'Donnell began her journey with traditional medical training and experiences She then found the courage to transcend an established belief system to open one of the first holistic health care clinics in the U.S. O'Donnell takes the reader along the pathway filled with both pain and joy, with a message of miraculous healing and the tragedy of needless death. O'Donnell hopes readers will find the ability to unlock their spirit to a healthier, happier and more fulfilled life..
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Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed. "He can read eyes."

In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it--through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence.

Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us? BACKCOVER: Praise for Between Two Worlds:

"...a torrent of vividly recalled memories [that] reads with the sort of artless verve that can come only from one who's been unshackled from a lifetime of repression."
—Vogue

"A remarkable, astonishing memoir...more can be learned about Iraq from this book than from all the newscasts."
—Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple

“A country unravels and a loving family dissolves in Zainab Salbi's riveting, beautifully observed memoir...This is the exquisite if often painful story of Salbi's own emergence from victim to global activist on behalf of women survivors of violence and war everywhere. I guarantee you won't be able to put it down.”
—Ellen Chesler, author of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

“A personal, intimate look at the soul-crushing impact of Hussein’s Iraq. . . . Salbi deploys a straightforward, easy prose that is powerful in its simplicity. . . . Now, with her chilling memoir, the lies end.”
—The Washington Post

“Salbi has direct personal knowledge of Hussein that is both insightful and disturbing.”
—Ms. magazine

“Engrossing. . . . a unique insider perspective . . . an evocative and haunting memoir that proves that one courageous woman can rise above her own painful past in order to make a difference in the lives of others.”
—Bookreporter.com

“A remarkable tale of emotional and mental resilience.”
—Bookpage

“. . . a steadfast visionary spirit prevails, rendered with remarkable literary skill and complex personalities.”
—Bust.
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The authors of The New Color Line return with another libertarian polemic, this time taking aim at a justice system that has lost sight of its most important goals. Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton warn of a "police state that is creeping up on us from many directions." There's the war on drugs, which makes it possible for federal agents to investigate people simply for carrying large amounts of cash. There's the crusade against white-collar crime, which has turned the plea bargain into an enemy of the truth. And there's outright misconduct, abetted by prosecutors more interested in compiling long lists of indictments than ensuring the fair treatment of all suspects. The Tyranny of Good Intentions is replete with examples of how government treads on freedom through ill-willed prosecution and faceless bureaucracy. The book's overpowering sense of disaffection sometimes leads to alarmist prose: "We the People have vanished. Our place has been taken by wise men and anointed elites." The authors are swift to suggest that America, barring "an intellectual rebirth," may yet go the way of "German Nazis and Soviet communists."

Yet The Tyranny of Good Intentions is nothing if not well intended; it is full of passion and always on the attack, whether the writers are taking on racial quotas, wetland regulations, or any number of policies they find objectionable. In a jacket blurb, libertarian icon Milton Friedman calls it "a devastating indictment of our current system of justice." Roberts and Stratton, although right-leaning in many of their political sympathies, will probably find plenty of fans on ACLU-left--and anybody who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power. If the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions, consider this book an atlas. --John J. Miller.
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