Como manejar su dinero: How to Manage Your Money

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Un estudio practico para ayudar al creyente a entender la actitud de Dios hacia el dinero. [A practical study with questions to help Christians understand God's attitude about money.]

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una perspectiva cristiana.......2007-05-22

Una muy buena perspectiva cristiana acerca de la administración financiera personal. temas como ganar, ahorrar, gastar, diezmas... Vale la pena leerlo. De todos modos, por considerarlo mas completo en tematicas y detallado en el tratamiento de los temas, que a mi parecer está mas completo:Como Llego a fin de mes?

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A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis-ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln," popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause-began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the "cause," and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed "an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities." The result was a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern states to the U.S. Congress in the late 1860s. Supplemented with a new historical foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning James M. McPherson, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I belongs in the library of anyone interested in the root causes, the personalities, and the events of America's greatest war.

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a necessary source for the study of 19th cebtury america.......2007-06-10

Ignore for the time being the fact that this is only the first volume of this work. Search for Vol. II will probably bring one to light certainly at a much higher price. Vol I is the most interesting of the two and offers great insight into the post war mind of Davis. If we want to understand the mind of this period we need to read this book along with the Buchanan expose of his presidency, Butler's Book by B. F. Butler who nominated Davis as Democratic presidential nominee, the Diary of Edmund Ruffin vol I, and many more, npne of which are neutral or even accurate in many ways but if we don't look at the reflections of the participants we are condemned to seeing history only through the eyes of later writers. Forget that McPherson introduces this book and that it is only volume one. It is a necessary and even fairly interesting read.

Essential to Understanding the Causes of the Civil War.......2006-09-13

Whether we agree with Jefferson Davis or not, knowledge of his point of view is essential to understanding the causes of the Civil War. The forward by McPherson helps to give balance and explanation.

Excellent history & treatise .......2004-12-29

This is a work that any one should read concerninig the details of the life and death of the Confederate nation.The principled beliefs those who founded the other American nation are presented.

Jefferson Davis' work is thorough and detailed concerning the his belief in the constitutional basis that secession was legal and that the desire to peacefully seperate was the absolute goal of the southern states. Bear in mind the 4 states of the upper South (AR, NC, TN and VA) did not leave the Union until Lincoln called for forced cohersion of the other southern states.

His work is also quite detailed in the military aspects of the War Between the States and his personal eyewitness of events are well written and easy to read and grasp. A great read!

Economical and easily available reprint of a classic.......2004-07-11

This is probably the most accessible reprint of Davis' book on the market today. It's well indexed and available at an economical price. My only complaint is that they got James McPherson, a confederacy-hating Marxist, to write the intro.

Constitutional Justification for Secession.......2004-01-11

In this extremely well-written book, not only does President Jefferson Davis give critical insights on the events leading up to and including the War for Southern Independence (rare and very important in and of itself, given that he was the president of the Confederacy), but he also shows that he was a Constitutional scholar unparalleled by today's crop of so-called "experts".

President Davis was a reluctant secessionist. In fact, he had been working on trying to come to a compromise until his state seceded, and he returned home. This book does a great deal to show the character of the former president of the Confederacy, with his perceptions of events leading up to the war itself. For instance, he did not envision himself to be the president of the Confederacy, believing that position should instead go to Albert Johnston. Instead, he had thought he would receive a commission as general.

While there is plenty of information for virtually anyone interested in that period (there is detailed information about battles, insights by the president on figures living at the time, etc.), what truly makes the book such a fascinating read is the constitutional analysis (particularly regarding the secession question, but also going into the grievances by the Confederate states as well) found therein.

If there is a negative to this book, it is the poorly-written introduction by leftist and Lincoln apologist McPhearson. I don't know why he was chosen to write the forward, but it is best ignored.

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Justice for Jefferson Davis.......2004-03-17

History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. This is especially true now with the current wave of politically correct motivated attacks on him. The Kennedy brothers seek to rectify this by placing him under a mock trial charged with treason against the United States government. Incidentally, Davis repeatly asked for this trial which the U.S. government refused based on recommendation of their legal counsel.
Most Davis critics know very little about him. An excellent biography introduces him to the reader. The Kennedy's present the questioning and motives of his federal accusers and offer a stalwart defense in his behalf. Decide for yourself if he was guilty or innocent of treason.
Also, included in addendum are informative documents relative to the period and subject.
When Jefferson Davis died in 1889 the South mourned. Thousands upon thousands of people of all races and walks of life attended his funeral and processions. The South still loved and respected their president.

The defense of states rights........2002-04-26

This book provides a defense of the southern cause. Slavery was a sympton of the civil war, but not it's direct cause. Although the book's intention is to defend Jefferson Davis and the CSA, it does provide some very thought provoking information concerning Abraham Lincoln, the origins of today's Republican party and an authorative central government. It is a worthwhile read for anyone looking to find the second edge to the sword. There is much more to America's bloodiest war, and most of it are skeleton's buried deep in the closet of Abraham Lincoln and the heroism associated with his deeds.

Political Statement.......2001-12-28

I found this book interesting. I'm an amateur historian with great interest on the Civil War and the leaders from both sides. I originally bought this book looking for more information on the Biographay and beliefs of Jefferson Davis. It does provide some insight into who he was but REMEMBER WHEN READING the authors' state that it is a defense of Jefferson Davis and what he stood for. Therefore this book definately has a slant toward defending and sugar coating who Jefferson Davis was.

The book is a defense of State Rights (and decentralized government) as opposed to a strong centralized government. Wether you support one idea or the other this book is definately worth reading to get a different point of view.

For historical reading on Jefferson Davis read his own writings and speeches from his life and service to the United States and then the Confederate States.

Well done Mr. J. and Mr. W. Kennedy.......2001-08-09

This book is: 1. A book that opens up bringing Jeff Davis to life telling us of his lifes joys and sorrows. His adventures and his sufferings. His victories and his defeats. 2. It vindicates Davis's character and faith shrugging off the lies told about him as well as John Edsmoe vindicates the Founding Fathers in "Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of our Founding Fathers" 3. It provides some solid Constitutional points Davis and his countrymen made about states rights and secession. Davis was definatly NOT a traitor. 4. It shows the reader that the issue of slavery was not as cut and dry as television and movies would have us believe. Not everyone who owned slaves was a cruel barbaric beast. And just because the Abolitionists were called abolitionists does not mean they were interested in the well being of black people. In fact they, like the Environmentalists and Anti-Smoking crowd today, were just using the issue as a vehicle to gain control wealth and power. A great book

A Message for Kevin Connelly.......2001-02-14

"Some of the statements seem particularly misguided, for example, the assertion the the Bill or Rights applies only to Federal actions, not state actions!" (I know what you are thinking, this is not my typo, it belongs to Mr. Connelly.) Mr. Connelly, I am writing to inform you "the the Bill or Rights" did originally apply to Federal actions only. It was not until the previous century and the latter part of the one before it did this change. The blame for this can be placed on an activist U.S. Supreme Court of the time.

Now that this is out of the way, I can say that this is an excellent book for anyone who is Pro-South. I myself found it very pleasing to read and I feel that others will to. It is full of interesting facts that you just can not find in other books. The Kennedy brothers have, as they have done before, written a great book.

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Is Jefferson Davis a Traitor? Or, Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?
Albert Jaylor Bledsoe
Manufacturer: Confederate Reprint Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NX0CUC

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280 pages. Reprint of the 1866 edition. The War of 1861-65 was waged so that a theory could triumph the Story-Webster theory of a consolidated nation made up of the people of the United States in an aggregate capacity. However, a triumphant theory is far from a proven fact. Another excellent work by Dr. Bledsoe, this book does a fine job of answering the question, Was secession a constitutional right previous to the War of 1861? and demonstrates how a false premise can never lead to a true conclusion, no matter how much effort or blood is spent to bring it to that end.

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Law of the land, (A Reflection book)
W. Jefferson Davis
Manufacturer: Carlton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007ECGVU

Must Negro-Americans wait another hundred years for freedom?: Against tokenism and gradualism

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Must Negro-Americans wait another hundred years for freedom?: Against tokenism and gradualism
Benjamin Jefferson Davis
Manufacturer: New Century Publishers
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Concerning the case of 'Mr. Stevens.' (Symposium: Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die): An article from: Issues in Law & Medicine

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Concerning the case of 'Mr. Stevens.' (Symposium: Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die): An article from: Issues in Law & Medicine
John Jefferson Davis
Manufacturer: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on September 22, 1991. The length of the article is 6408 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Concerning the case of 'Mr. Stevens.' (Symposium: Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die)
Author: John Jefferson Davis
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1991
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 7 Issue: n2 Page: 227-241

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Ben Davis,: Fighter for freedom
Claudia Jones
Manufacturer: National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Confederate bastille: Jefferson Davis and civil liberties (Frank L. Klement lectures)

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Confederate bastille: Jefferson Davis and civil liberties (Frank L. Klement lectures)
Mark E Neely
Manufacturer: Marquette University Press
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The doctrine of state rights
Jefferson Davis
Manufacturer: s.n
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ASIN: B00086546Q

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From Terre Haute to Harlem
Claudia Jones
Manufacturer: Ben Davis Freedom Committee
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, thirteen-year-old Nanchu watched Red Guards burst into her home and arrest her parents, whom they tortured and jailed. She was left to fend for herself and her younger brother on the streets of Shanghai, enduring poverty and near-starvation. As she grew older she herself became a Red Guard and was sent down to the largest work camp in China. There she faced primitive conditions, predatory officials, a viper's nest of party jealousies, and near-fatal injury before she finally won admittance to Madame Mao's university in Shanghai.

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Exposing the dangers of group think.......2004-01-01

It was a cold and rainy day and my wife and I were out of town attending a wedding. Checked out of the motel and too early for the wedding we drove around wasting time before we had to arrive at the church. Conversation had become stilted so I thought my wife would like to hear some of the stories from Red Sorrow. So, I told her about the teachers who were ridiculed and beaten by their young students. I told her about the school principal who after being beaten and spat upon by her students was so humiliated that when she escaped from the room where the students had imprisoned her she ran down to the railroad tracks, laid on them and awaited her death. I told her about Nanchus parents who were brought before the student body and tormented and humiliated. By that time, my wife had enough. She did not want to hear any more.

This book gives the reader insight to postwar China- the Great Leap Forward that resulted in the Great Famine where 40 million Chinese perished; the Cultural Revolution and the raise of the Red Guards and the ensuring struggle for power among the leadership of China. It is one thing to understand the ebb and flow of history, but is quite another thing to understand how this history affected real people. In Red Sorrow we see how a family, dedicated to the Revolution becomes sweep up in the currents of history as we follow Nanchu from the age of thirteen to age thirty-three. It is a riveting story, as the tormented becomes the tormentor. Her parents accused of being spies and traitors are beaten and humiliated, the children become objects of scorn and ridicule. Yet, this same child who suffered unimaginable pain, joins the Red Guards and becomes a tormentor herself. We can understand what a child must do to survive, but as she grows up and attends college she still plays the same game. As an adult, she will torment to insure her survival. I also understand that. But what is missing in this book is Nanchus introspection on this behavior. She passes over it too quickly as if she is embarrassed by it. It would have been a stronger book if she reflected more in depth what she was feeling and why she would participate in the degradation of another human being.

Why did these kids who lived decent and honest lives kick to death their High School teacher? The answer is not simple, but could not groupthink be a contribution cause? Decent people will do indecent things when they are in a group that thinks alike. As I read this book I could not shake the uneasy feeling that this madness is raising its head in America. No, we do not have Red Guards who beat and humiliate those who disagree with them; we have students, parents and interest groups who will sue and punish those who disagree with the politically correct thinking of the day. Bernard Goldberg in his book Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite tells of the effects of groupthink in the newsrooms of Americans great newspapers. Editors have to negotiate between the black, Hispanic, gay and feminists caucuses. The sex scandal in the Catholic Church is a case in point. The press describes it as a pedophilia problem. Pedophiles prey on little children of both sexes- these priest are preying on preadolescent and adolescent boys. It is not a pedophilia problem in the Catholic Church it is a homosexual problem. Yet, rarely is this reported lest the homosexual community be offended.

Back to the book- People were punished, their lives destroyed and even killed not for what they did, not even for what they said, but for what they thought or for what others may have believed they thought. This is dangerous and frightening. I cannot help but be worried as my sons and daughter, all products of the American Higher Education, had to be careful of what they said or they felt compelled to write papers which reflected the preferred thought and not their own; and were required to attend sensitivity training on how to not offend minorities, homosexuals and women. I told them to shut up, not argue and get the grade. Um. . . sounds like something I read in Red Sorrow.

Coming of Age in the Cultural Revolution.......2003-03-04

I still remember my confusion as I tried to understand the angry faces staring back at me from my Weekly Reader. I was a sixth grade student at the school for missionary children in Akita, Japan. The year was 1966. I was skeptical. I didn't believe that these new kids called the Red Guards were really doing anything new. The Cultural Revolution was just beginning. It wasn't called the Cultural Revolution then. It wasn't called anything. How could this be anything new? Of course, my thinking was influenced by my background. My parents were missionaries, and Communists don't like missionaries. The Communists took over in 1949, not in 1966. So when I saw these pictures of the Red Guards, I brushed it off as more of the same. In my mind, I had images of wild kids turning in their Christian parents to the authorities. I concluded that it was just another form of the repression of God-fearing people that had been a matter of fact in China since the Communist takeover.

I was wrong. The Cultural Revolution represented a major paradigm shift. It was not the persecution of religious people by the Communist party as I had assumed. It was the persecution of Communists by the Red Guards, instigated by Mao because of party rivalry between Mao and Liu Shaoqi. The first person to clear this up for me was Jung Chang in her book, "Wild Swans." That book was very helpful in guiding me to a better understanding of what really happened during those years. So what is unique about Red Sorrow?

I think the major advantage of this book, is that it directly addresses the human story behind the angry faces. Most poignant, and profoundly disturbing is the rapidity with which Nanchu became the very thing that had caused her so much pain. She describes in detail how she and her brother were constantly picked on and harassed, and spit on by children in the neighborhood because both of her parents were in detention. Then, when she is given a chance to join the Red Guards, her craving for acceptance is so profound that she joins the group of brutal young people who find their entertainment in bringing pain and suffering to the sick and elderly.

Then to the countryside. Nanchu's description of life in the countryside is the best I have read. Most personal accounts of the Cultural Revolution are written by people who, by some means or another, were able to leave China, and then write of their experiences after they have assimilated into their adopted Western culture. They are not translated from Chinese; they are written in English. Interestingly enough, many of these people have managed, somehow, to escape the worst of the "countryside" experience. Not Nanchu. Her description is rich and painful, mainly because she did not escape the experience. She lived in very Spartan (inhuman) conditions in the northernmost province in Manchuria, basically living the life of a convict who is sentenced to hard labor, even though the program was certainly not presented this way. Her story of life in the countryside seems endless, but finally comes to an end, and she is shipped back to her home in Shanghai.

What was life like on a University campus during the Cultural Revolution? Jan Wang, in Red China Blues gives us some very unique insight, but she is writing as a North American who is really guest of the revolution. Nanchu writes as a disillusioned young lady who is just back from the countryside. One of the most striking features of this book is Nanchu's description of life on a campus where studying is not "politically correct," if you can imagine that. The pure insanity of such an absurd notion is not really discussed philosophically, it is just presented very simply by a series of anecdotes about how Nanchu manages to study without being seen-sitting on the toilet for hours at a time, hiding under her mosquito net, etc.

It is here, at the University, where Nanchu experiences the "redemptive moment" where she stands up for a teacher who is being castigated by radical students for politely correcting a student during a recitation. When Nanchu is put on the spot before her classmates, she states calmly that the professor was just doing her job. It was a very unpopular thing to say, but was obviously the truth.

Coming of age is a testing experience for all young people, not just those caught in the terrible power struggle called the "Cultural Revolution." So I think that some of the "suffering" Nanchu relates is not really something I would put in that category. For example, she talks about her attraction to guys with whom she was not allowed to form a romantic relationship. But is that such a bad thing? If she had grown up in America, encouraged to be sexually active and practice "safe sex," would she really be a better person? Would she be more...moral? I'd have to think about that.

Thank-you, Nanchu. Thank-you for telling your story. Thank-you for being willing to go back and suffer the anguish again for us. And thank-you, most of all, for putting a very real human being behind those contorted faces that so puzzled me as a young sixth grade student.

Sad and moving account of China's cultural revolution.......2001-08-18

This book should be required reading for every thinking person. For those of us who came of age in the U.S. in the '60's and 70's, it is an eye-opening account of what was secretly being done to our peers half a world away. Nanchu's moving account of her family's experience during China's "cultural revolution" has lessons for us to learn about how lucky we really are. It should also help to open our eyes about what is still going on today behind the bamboo curtain.

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Red Sorrow A Memoir
Nanchu
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0XX2S

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