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Future Shock

By: Alvin Toffler

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: 1971

Seller ID: 416

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations - even our patterns of friendship and love.
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Dark Refuge: A story of cults and their seductive appeal

By: Andy Demsky

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Pacific Press: 1995

Seller ID: 0816312419

ISBN: 0816312419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New with some shelf wear

Dark Refuge sxposes the destructive path that leads many people into a religious cult. Through this gripping story of the Omega House, you will see the tragedy of religion gone awry. Legalism enslaves Anita as she seaches for something to fill the indescribable void in her life. But from the depths of despair, Anita rises to find what her sould had been missing: a God who says Yes to life.
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Beyond the Rat Race

By: Arthur Gish

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Herald Press: 1973

Seller ID: 0836117247

ISBN: 0836117247

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The very words so many of us use to describe our work and our lives show a deep discontent. Why? And is there a way out? Art Gish says yes, there is - simplicity. Simplify your wants, your life style, your concerns and the way is open to a fuller, more rewarding life.
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Storm Warning

By: Billy Graham

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Word: 1992

Seller ID: 084990983X

ISBN: 084990983X

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Good

With the collapse of communism, the nuclear threat has diminished. But ominous shadows of deceptive evil loom on the horizon.
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Healing A Broken World: Globalization & God

By: Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Fortress Press: 2002

Seller ID: 413

ISBN: 0800632508

Binding: paperback

Condition: like new, no markings

A penetrating look at how globalization is actually hurting the poor. Uses Luther's concept of the "indwelling Christ" as an approach both to resist unjust structures and to help the needy in concrete ways.
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Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal

By: David France

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Broadway Books: 2004

Seller ID: 0767914309

ISBN: 0767914309

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Good

Our Fathers is history at its best - as intimate as a diary, as immediate and epic as a novel. When, in early 2002, a team of Boston Globe reports broke open the pedophilia scandal around Father John Geoghan - and then Paul Shanley, Joseph Birmingham and hundreds of other priests in Boston and across the country - the entire American Catholic Church spun into crisis. But by that time, the damage was already done. Perhaps 100,000 children had already fallen into traps laid by their priests.
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God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel and Ulster

By: Donald Harman Akenson

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1992

Seller ID: 080142755X

ISBN: 080142755X

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Good

In this original and unsettling book, the author brings to light critical similarities among three politically troubled nations.
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Electronic Christianity: Myth or Ministry

By: Donald N Oberdorfer

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Brekke: 1982

Seller ID: 571

ISBN: 0942072030

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The author wrestles with theories of communication and comes up with his own proposal for a Christian interpretation.
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The Radical Right

By: Edited by Daniel Bell

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Book: 1964

Seller ID: 409

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Who are the Radical Right and why do extreme rightest movements keep recurring in mid20th century America?
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The Community of the Future by The Drucker Foundation

By: Editor Frances Hesselbein

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Jossey Bass: 1998

Seller ID: 0787910066

ISBN: 0787910066

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Good

Leaders from around the world share their vision of what our communities will look like in the future.
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Inside Academe: Culture in Crisis

By: Editors of Change Magazine

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Change Magazine: 1972

Seller ID: 359

Binding: paperback

Condition: very good, no markings

Change Magazine was supported by grants from Esso Education & Ford Foundation. This book consists of 13 essays, including Inside academe, The real generation gap, Malice in wonderland, The business of 'Business as Usual,' The odds against women, A psychoanalytic view of learning, etc.
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The New Testament and Criticism

By: George Eldon Ladd

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Eerdmans: 1967

Seller ID: 0802816800

ISBN: 0802816800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair with some water spots on edge of pages

One unfortunate consequence of the bitter fundamentalist-modernist controversy which raged in the early twenties has been the strongly negative attitude toward biblical criticism assumed by some of the successors to the fundamentalists of the 1920s.
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The Religious Factor - A sociologist's inquiry

By: Gerhard Lenski

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Doubleday Book: 1961

Seller ID: 562

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A sociological study of religion's impact on politics, economics, and family life
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Christ and Culture

By: H Richard Niebuhr

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1956

Seller ID: 221

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A series of lectures which Professor Niebuhr gave at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in January 1949.
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Liberty in the Balance: Current Issues in Civil Liberties

By: H. Frank Way, Jr.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1964

Seller ID: 236

ISBN: 64-18402

Binding: paperback

Condition: good, some markings & underscoring

Deals with racial discrimination, censorship, dissent, church/state, the Supreme Court and the States, and the Ideal of Liberty.
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The Stress of Life

By: Hans Selye

Price: $2.50

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Paperbacks: 1956

Seller ID: 342

ISBN: 5610432

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Defined as the rate of all wear and tear caused by life, stress is a revolutionary new concept of mental and physical illness. This startling theory of disease has often been compared with the contributions of Pasteur, Ehrlich and Freud.
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The American High School Today: A First Report to Interested Citizens

By: James Conant

Price: $2.00

Publisher: McGray Hill Book Company: 1959

Seller ID: 240

ISBN: 598527

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair with lots of underlining

Chapters include the Characteristics of American Education, Comprehensive High School, Recommendation for Improving Public Secondary Education and High Schools with a Limited Degree of Comprehensiveness.
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The Bible Tells Me So: Uses and Abuses of Holy Scripture

By: Jim Hill and Rand Cheadle

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: 1996

Seller ID: 0385476957

ISBN: 0385476957

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Does the Bible justify slavery or its abolition? Support or oppose capital punishment? Prove the inferiority or superiority of one race or another? Depending on your point of view, the Bible does all these things and more.
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The Soul of Politics

By: Jim Wallis

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New Press: 1994

Seller ID: 1565842049

ISBN: 1565842049

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Good

The Soul of Politics responds to signs of cultural breakdown and political impasse with a resounding and highly moving call to reintegrate politics and spirituality. In a work of passionate conviction, the author shows why both liberal and conservative visions are inadequate to the challenge before us, and aruges for a new political morality combining social justice with peronal responsibility.
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The New Pilgrims: How 20th Century Christians can maintain a simple lifestyle

By: John McInnes

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Ronald Haynes Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 0880210117

ISBN: 0880210117

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

As members of the 20th century church, our objective should be a style of Christian life that demonstates the truth of the teaching and example of Jesus. We are called to be new pilgrims in our technological society.
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