Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: earth, outgrowing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393327256
ISBN-13: 9780393327250

How human demands are outstripping the earth’s capacities—and what we need to do about it. Ever since 9/11, many have considered al Queda to be the leading threat to global security, but falling water tables in countries that contain more than half the world’s people and rising temperatures worldwide pose a far more serious threat. Spreading water shortages and crop-withering heat waves are shrinking grain harvests in more and more countries, making it difficult for the world’s farmers to feed 70 million more people each year. The risk is that tightening food supplies co

Author: C. John Miller
Publisher: Zondervan
Keywords: church, ingrown, outgrowing
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1986-11-07
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0310284112
ISBN-13: 9780310284116

This is a book for pacesetters -- church leaders who desire to help their churches break free of the things that turn them in on themselves and keep them from being outward-looking and outward-moving communities of Jesus Christ. The ingrown church is a common phenomenon. It is the ’norm’ for contemporary evangelical and Protestant churches. But ingrownness is a pathology. It can destroy the vital spiritual health of a church. It must, therefore, be combated with the norms of Scripture. And that is why this book was written. Outgrowing the Ingrown Church is a masterful mix of biblic

Author: Mancur Olson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: capitalist, dictatorships, communist, outgrowing, prosperity, power
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2000-11
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0465051960
ISBN-13: 9780465051960

This final work by a world-renowned economist will take its place among the classics of political economy Why do some economies do better than others? How does society encourage the kind of market economy that generates continually increasing incomes? How do particular styles of government affect economic performance? World-renowned economist Mancur Olson tackles these questions and others in what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus. Olson contends that governments can play an essential role in the development of markets. Reliable enforcement of private contracts and protection of indi

Author: Mary Ramey
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Keywords: adult, codependency, outgrowing, choices, children
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1556124066
ISBN-13: 9781556124068

Adult Children, Adult Choices applies well-documented principles of psychology to help us understand how people can be codependent (and yet not sick), as well as how they can stop being adult children and grow into true adulthood. It combines insight with practical advice to help us finally outgrow the bonds of codependency.