Authors:Light Townsend Cummins, Justin Bank,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: history, campus, college, austin
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-11-04
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738578576
ISBN-13: 9780738578576

Austin College has a heritage that is unsurpassed in the history of Texas higher education. Named in memory of Stephen F. Austin, it received a charter from the State of Texas in 1849, making the school the oldest college or university in the state operating under its original name and charter. Sam Houston, Anson Jones, and Henderson Yoakum served on its original board of trustees. The college first held classes in Huntsville during the fall of 1850 and moved to Sherman in 1876. Today the school is a nationally ranked private liberal arts college committed to leadership, learning, and lasting

Authors:Justin Martyr, Michael Slusser, Justin,
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: church, fathers, selections, trypho, dialogue
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813213428
ISBN-13: 9780813213422

Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the Dialogue with Trypho, written by Justin Martyr (d. ca. 165), a convert to Christianity from traditional Greek religion. The Dialogue purports to be a two-day dialogue that took place in Asia Minor between Justin and Trypho, a Hellenized Jew. Justin argues extensively on the basis of lengthy Old Testament quotations that Christ is the Messiah and God incarnate, and that the Christian community is the new Israel. In the beginning of the work Justin recounts how he converted to Christiani

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, country, study, world, jamaica, sustained, growth, road
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 082135826X
ISBN-13: 9780821358269

The Road to Sustained Growth in Jamaica is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Jamaica’s economic history is a story of paradoxes and potential. It has an English-speaking and a reasonably well-educated labor force, is close to the world’s largest market, the United States, and has an abundance of natural beauty, which has spurred tourism. Many of its s

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, country, study, chile, protection, risk, management, social, household
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 2004-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0821359533
ISBN-13: 9780821359532

Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile takes a critical look at the country’s social protection "system" – broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions that lower the we

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, studies, strategy, integrated, poverty, alleviation, brazil, rural
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821352067
ISBN-13: 9780821352069

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, country, study, studies, review, republic, joining, development, policy, slovak
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2003-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821355104
ISBN-13: 9780821355107

The Slovak economy experienced in 2002 its best performance since it pulled out of the financial crisis of 1998. However, soon after recovery was under way and had begun to generate jobs, macroeconomic imbalance resurfaced, while more than 18 percent of the labor force remains unemployed. Accession to the EU provides a window of opportunity to tackle those remaining challenges. This study suggests an eleven-point agenda for immediate policy action and a longer-term overhaul of major spending programs in the areas of education, health, and social protection. The success of this strategy is p

Authors:Justin Yifu Lin, Justin Yifu Lin, Boris Pleskovic,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: development, economics, world, annual, conference, bank, sector, global, private
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0821371258
ISBN-13: 9780821371251

This book presents selected papers from the ABCDE Meetings, held May 17 -18, 2007 in Bled, Slovenia. Hosted by the World Bank and Government if Slovenia, more than 400 experts from countries around the world met to deliberate the theme: Private Sector and Development. This volume presents papers on financial inclusion, factors that matter the most for business climate, and the provision of public services by non- state actors.