Authors:C. Eugene Steuerle, Van Doorn Ooms, George Peterso
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: services, public, provision, vouchers
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2000-06-25
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815781539
ISBN-13: 9780815781530

For decades, the use of vouchers has been widely debated. But often lost in the heat of debate is the fact that vouchers are another tool in the government’s tool chest, a restricted subsidy that falls somewhere between the extremes of cash and direct government provision of services. This volume, which grew out of a conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and the Committee for Economic Development, offers a framework for the comparative analysis of specific policy issues related to vouchers. It contains 16 essays, which address the economics, politics and

Authors:C. Eugene Steuerle, Van Doorn Ooms, George Peterson,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: services, public, provision, vouchers
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0815781547
ISBN-13: 9780815781547

For decades, the use of vouchers has been widely debated. But often lost in the heat of debate is the fact that vouchers are another tool in the government’s tool chest, a restricted subsidy that falls somewhere between the extremes of cash and direct government provision of services. This volume, which grew out of a conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and the Committee for Economic Development, offers a framework for the comparative analysis of specific policy issues related to vouchers. It contains 16 essays, which address the economics, politics and

Author: Jan Doorn
Publisher: Ecoawareness Center
Keywords: mirror, mantis
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2006-12-23
List price: $12.98
ISBN-10: 0615137881
ISBN-13: 9780615137889

"An extraordinarily beautiful, original, thought-provoking, action inciting creation." Why was the physical world created in the first place and what is the purpose of humans in this cosmic act? Can Spirit be known separately from the physical universe? What then, is the role of environmental conservation? The book explores these fundamental and timely questions in a playful tale, integrating science, philosophy, history, and adventure. Sydney Madrid befriends a mysterious praying mantis who uses his dry wit and simple language to discuss existence, ethics and purpose. Sydney’s other fri

Authors:Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Lourens Minnema,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: currents, encounter, culture, religion, evil, coping
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2007-12-21
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 9042023376
ISBN-13: 9789042023376

The various Christian, Muslim, traditional (African), and secular (Western) ways of imagining and coping with evil collected in this volume have several things in common. The most crucial perhaps and certainly the most striking aspect is the problem of defining the nature or characteristics of evil as such. Some argue that evil has an essence that remains constant, whereas others say its interpretation depends on time and place. However much religious and secular interpretations of evil may have changed, the human search for sense and meaning never ends. Questions of whom to blame and whom to