Making a Market for Acts of God

Making a Market for Acts of God
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780199664764
ISBN-13 : 0199664765
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Making a Market for Acts of God by : Paula Jarzabkowski

Reinsurance is a market that provides cover for the devastating consequences of unpredictable events such as Hurricane Katrina, or the Tohoku earthquake, underpinning society's capacity to rebuild after the unthinkable happens. This book fleshes out how this important and quirky financial market works.

To Serve God and Wal-Mart

To Serve God and Wal-Mart
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 391
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ISBN-10 : 9780674054295
ISBN-13 : 0674054296
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis To Serve God and Wal-Mart by : Bethany Moreton

This extraordinary biography of Wal-Mart's world shows how a Christian pro-business movement grew from the bottom up as well as the top down, bolstering an economic vision that sanctifies corporate globalization.

Acts of God

Acts of God
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Publisher : Algonquin Books
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781616203955
ISBN-13 : 1616203951
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Acts of God by : Ellen Gilchrist

National Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist presents readers with ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to survive, persevere, and triumph, even if it is only a triumph of the will. From the very young to the very old, in one way or another, they are fighters and believers, survivors.

Generous Justice

Generous Justice
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Publisher : Penguin Books
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781594486074
ISBN-13 : 1594486077
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Generous Justice by : Timothy Keller

Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.

Moods and Markets

Moods and Markets
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Publisher : FT Press
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9780132947213
ISBN-13 : 0132947218
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Moods and Markets by : Peter Atwater

"With foreword by Robert R. Prechter"--Cover. - "Minyanville"--Cover

The Value of Risk

The Value of Risk
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9780199689804
ISBN-13 : 0199689806
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Value of Risk by : Peter Borscheid

This book explains how today's insurance industry developed and highlights the role of the reinsurance industry in spreading risks globally. The book examines the development of insurance markets and of the reinsurance industry in particular, and the history of Swiss Re, one of the leading reinsurance companies in the world.

Money, Greed, and God

Money, Greed, and God
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9780061874567
ISBN-13 : 0061874566
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Money, Greed, and God by : Jay W. Richards

In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards and bestselling author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late and Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes, defends capitalism within the context of the Christian faith, revealing how entrepreneurial enterprise, based on hard work, honesty, and trust, actually fosters creativity and growth. In doing so, Money, Greed, and God exposes eight myths about capitalism, and demonstrates that a good Christian can be a good capitalist.

A Children's Bible: A Novel

A Children's Bible: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781324005049
ISBN-13 : 1324005041
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis A Children's Bible: A Novel by : Lydia Millet

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

The Dangerous Act of Worship

The Dangerous Act of Worship
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780830834143
ISBN-13 : 0830834141
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dangerous Act of Worship by : Mark Labberton

In this prophetic call to the contemporary church, pastor Mark Labberton redefines Christian worship in the language of justice. He calls us away from individualized worship and into worshiping communities that give expression to righteousness, justice and compassion.

Selling God

Selling God
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 329
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195098389
ISBN-13 : 0195098382
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Selling God by : Robert Laurence Moore

In a sweeping colourful history that spans over two centuries of American culture, Moore examines the role of religion in America as it appropriated (and was appropriated by) commercial culture. He reveals the centrality of religion, and the marketplace, in American popular culture.