The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ISBN 0684815001
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."
"The Cost of Discipleship" is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.
Leo Laporte's 2005 Technology Almanac
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Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 by Mary Ellen Curtin, ISBN 0813919843
In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African-American men and women whose labor made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the nation.
To coal companies and the state of Alabama, black prisoners provided, respectively, sources of cheap labor and state revenue. By 1883 a significant percentage of the workforce in the Birmingham coal industry was made up of convicts. But to the families and communities from which the prisoners came, the convict lease was a living symbol of the dashed hopes of Reconstruction.
Indeed, the lease -- the system under which the prisoners labored for the profit of the company and the state -- demonstrated Alabama's...
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Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Finance: 201 Decision-Making Tools for Business, Finance, and Accounting Students by Joel G. Siegel, ISBN 0070580316
Business and finance answers in a flash! Quick business and finance answers at your fingertips--that's what this unique book gives you! It has 201 major formulas with quick, clear explanations that you can grasp and put to use in seconds. Perfect for college and graduate students in business, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting, this comprehensive, portable quick reference lets you speedily review formulas in your current courses, and get ahead of the curve in coursework to come. It's such a handy source for fast, complete, and reliable problem-solving that many business people keep it on their desktops! Schaum's Quick Guide to Business Formulas gets you right to the formula you need, explains it simply, and demonstrates it step by step. You get instant answers on: vertical analysis; security valuation; cost-volume-profit relationships; sales mix analysis; regression statistics; profit margin; sampling formulas; beta and alpha; cost of capital; earnings per share...
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Mathematics of Interest Rates and Finance
This book presents the basic core of information needed to understand the impact of interest on the world of investments, real estate, corporate planning, insurance, and securities transactions. Needing only a working knowledge of basic algebra, arithmetic, and percents, readers can understand well those few underlying principles that play out in nearly every finance and interest problem. Using time line diagrams to analyze money and interest, this book contains a great deal of practical financial applications of interest theory. It relies on the use of calculator and computer technology instead of tables, covering simple interest, discount interest, compound interest, annuities, debt retirement methods, stocks and bonds, and depreciation and capital budgeting. For those employed in fields of investments, real estate, corporate planning, insurance, and securities, as well as those who wish to understand the impact of interest rates on their own personal finances.
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