Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: laymen, unsettled, primer, short
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 1985-09
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 089870037X
ISBN-13: 9780898700374

Hans Urs von Balthasar Von Balthasar addresses the critical issues facing today’s Catholic layman in a clear and readable manner. Speaking plainly on those ideas and questions which have unsettled many of the Catholic faithful, he brings much needed clarity into the contemporary confusion.

Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
Keywords: israel, loving, problem, unsettled
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-10-21
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1416912614
ISBN-13: 9781416912613

Israel.The word itself can mean "arguing with God," and talking about Israel can start endless arguments about politics, history, morality, and prejudice. Unsettled, Marc Aronson’s most deeply personal book to date, explores the history of Israel, from the beginning of the Zionist movement to the birth of Israel as a state in 1948 to the intense conf???licts over Israel, the Palestinians, and the Jewish settlements of today. Along the way Aronson intersperses stories from his own family’s long experiences in Israel while asking and answering such questions as: Can a religious state

Author: Richard S. Grossman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: world, princeton, economic, history, western, industrialized, account, evolution, banking, unsettled
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-06-27
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0691139059
ISBN-13: 9780691139050

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major elements that have contributed to banking evolution: crises, bailouts, mergers, and regulations. He explores whe

Author: Ian S. Lustick
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: wilder, gaza, bank, house, series, culture, history, politics, west, israel, lands, disputed, states, britain, ireland, algeria, france, unsettled
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1995-03
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0801480884
ISBN-13: 9780801480881

"In a major study that moves between path-breaking theorizing and analysis that is relevant to today’s headlines, the author examines the process by which states expand and contract. . . . He develops a useful model of state expansion and contraction, focusing on how the issue of incorporating outlying territories is dealt with in the political arena. . . . While written before the recent Israeli-PLO agreement, this book has been made more, not less, timely by events that could only be guessed at when the author was writing this stimulating, often difficult, but ultimately very rewarding