Serving a City

Serving a City
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Publisher : Collins Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1848891091
ISBN-13 : 9781848891098
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Serving a City by : Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil

A history of The English Market, Ireland's most famous food emporium. It has survived revolution, fire, famine, depression, and boom.

Serving a Movement

Serving a Movement
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780310520580
ISBN-13 : 0310520584
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Serving a Movement by : Timothy Keller

In Serving a Movement, best-selling author and pastor Timothy Keller looks at the nature of the church’s mission and its relationship to the work of individual Christians in the world. He examines what it means to be a “missional” church today and how churches can practically equip people for missional living. Churches need to intentionally cultivate an integrative ministry that connects people to God, to one another, to the needs of the city, and to the culture around us. Finally, he highlights the need for intentional movements of churches planting new churches that faithfully proclaim God’s truth and serve their communities. This new edition contains the third section of Center Church in an easy-to-read format with new reflections and additional essays from Timothy Keller and several other contributors.

Vigilance

Vigilance
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9780316383790
ISBN-13 : 0316383791
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Vigilance by : Ray Kelly

Two-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up about his remarkable life, taking us inside fifty years of law enforcement leadership, offering chilling stories of terrorist plots after 9/11, and sharing his candid insights into the challenges and controversies cops face today. The son of a milkman and a Macy's dressing room checker, Ray Kelly grew up on New York City's Upper West Side, a middle-class neighborhood where Irish and Puerto Rican kids played stickball and tussled in the streets. He entered the police academy and served as a marine in Vietnam, living and fighting by the values that would carry him through a half century of leadership-justice, decisiveness, integrity, courage, and loyalty. Kelly soared through the NYPD ranks in decades marked by poverty, drugs, civil unrest, and a murder rate that, at its peak, spiked to over two thousand per year. Kelly came to be known as a tough leader, a fixer who could go into a troubled precinct and clean it up. That reputation catapulted him into his first stint as commissioner, under Mayor David Dinkins, where Kelly oversaw the police response to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and spearheaded programs that would help usher in the city's historic drop in crime. Eight years later, in the chaotic wake of the 9/11 attacks, newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Kelly to be NYC's top cop once again. After a decade working with Interpol, serving as undersecretary of the Treasury for enforcement, overseeing U.S. Customs, and commanding an international police force in Haiti, Kelly understood that New York's security was synonymous with our national security. Believing that the city could not afford to rely solely on "the feds," he succeeded in transforming the NYPD from a traditional police department into a resource-rich counterterrorism-and-intelligence force. In this vital memoir, Kelly reveals the inside stories of his life in the hot seat of "the capital of the world"-from the terror plots that nearly brought a city to its knees to his dealings with politicians, including Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama as well as Mayors Rudolph Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Bill DeBlasio. He addresses criticisms and controversies like the so-called stop-question-and-frisk program and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and offers his insights into the challenges that have recently consumed our nation's police forces, even as the need for vigilance remains as acute as ever.

City Power

City Power
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780190246662
ISBN-13 : 0190246669
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis City Power by : Richard C. Schragger

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Richard Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so.

Making Sense of God

Making Sense of God
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780525954156
ISBN-13 : 0525954155
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Sense of God by : Timothy Keller

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

Serving a Nation

Serving a Nation
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:85205121
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Serving a Nation by : Cities Service Oil Company

The American Founding

The American Founding
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781441165145
ISBN-13 : 1441165142
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Founding by : Daniel N. Robinson

America's Founding Fathers shared similar beliefs on the nature of civic life and the character of those supposed to be able to self-govern. Although they studied the failed republics of the ancient world, they believed that classical ideals were still applicable to politics. This unique contribution to the literature on American Founding gathers leading thinkers who set out not to relate its history, but its intellectual underpinnings. They explore the Founding Fathers' assumptions about civic life, human nature, political institutions, private morality, aesthetics, education, and history. Chapters on natural law, the Judeo-Christian conception of human nature, the influence of Aristotle and Cicero, the symbolic role of architecture, and the importance of education help understand the foundations that led to the Declaration of Independence and a constitutional charter that aimed to be universal in its human aspirations. This authoritative work provides a conservative response to more liberal interpretations of America. It will enrich the debate on civic life and be a key resource to anyone interested in America's "experiment in ordered liberty."

Federal Register

Federal Register
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 680
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ISBN-10 : UCR:31210024906826
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Federal Register by :

Interpreting the City

Interpreting the City
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 517
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ISBN-10 : 9780471887508
ISBN-13 : 0471887501
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Interpreting the City by : Truman Asa Hartshorn

The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.