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The Myth of the American Dream

Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

By: D. L. Mayfield

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The Myth of the American Dream

Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

By: D. L. Mayfield

Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power—the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors.

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InterVarsity Press

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083084824X

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9780830848249

Assimilate or Go Home

Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

By: D. L. Mayfield

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Assimilate or Go Home

Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

By: D. L. Mayfield

From childhood, D.L. Mayfield longed to be a missionary, so she was thrilled when the opportunity arose to work with a group of Somali Bantu refugees in her hometown of Portland, OR. As the days, months, and years went by, her hopeful enthusiasm began to wear off, her faith became challenged, and the real work of learning to love and serve her neighbors grew harder, deeper, and more complex. She writes: “The more I failed to communicate the love of God to my refugee friends, the more I experienced it for myself. The more overwhelmed I felt as I became involved in the myriads of problems facing my friends who experience poverty in America, the less pressure I felt to attain success or wealth or prestige. And the more my world started to expand at the edges of my periphery, the more it became clear that life was more beautiful and more terrible than I had been told.” In this collection of stunning and surprising essays, Mayfield invites readers to reconsider their concepts of justice, love, and reimagine being a citizen of this world and the upside-down kingdom of God.

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HarperCollins

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0062388819

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9780062388810

Unruly Saint

Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times

By: D.L. Mayfield

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Unruly Saint

Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times

By: D.L. Mayfield

In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a lasting legacy of truth and justice. Day's newspaper, houses of hospitality, and ministry of paying attention to the inequality of her world would eventually become world famous, just as she--a high-energy activist with a cigarette in one hand and a coffee cup in the other--would become a figure of promise for the poor. The ways in which Day and her fellow workers both found the love of God in and expressed it for their neighbors during a time of great social, political, economic, and spiritual upheaval would become a model of activism for decades to come. In Unruly Saint, activist, writer, and neighbor D. L. Mayfield brings a personal lens to Day's story. In exploring the founding of the Catholic Worker movement and newspaper by revisiting the early years of Day's life, Mayfield turns her attention to what it means to be a good neighbor today. Through a combination of biography, observations on the current American landscape, and theological reflection, this is at once an achingly relevant account and an encouraging blueprint for people of faith in tumultuous times. It will resonate with today's activists, social justice warriors, and those seeking to live in the service of others.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506473601

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The Myth of the American Dream

Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

By: D. L. Mayfield

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The Annihilation of Allison Station

A Science Fiction Mystery

By: D.L. Mac McDonald

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The Annihilation of Allison Station

A Science Fiction Mystery

By: D.L. Mac McDonald

This work is dedicated to all United States veteranspast, present, and future. From the mind of retired Air Force veteran D. L. Mac McDonald comes a table of intrigue, deceit, death, and destruction. Fourteen years after the Brinari Conflict and just ten years after Sarasota Catastrophe that bought the former enemies together as lifelong friends, Don Wallace and TaKira are once again fighting against time to avoid a renewed conflict. A highly classified test facility built on asteroids GC954 has been all but completely destroyed. Without a single survivor, Don Wallace and his crew must find the answer to what happened by bringing life to the devastated stations core computer. However, the core isnt giving up its secrets without a fight, and they need to know what led to the destruction of the Allison Houstons synchronized hyperinduction terminal to squelch the tensions of renewed conflict and to keep it from happening again.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543483429

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The Handbook of Financing Growth

Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions

By: Kenneth H. Marks,Larry E. Robbins,Gonzalo Fernandez,John P. Funkhouser,D. L. Williams

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The Handbook of Financing Growth

Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions

By: Kenneth H. Marks,Larry E. Robbins,Gonzalo Fernandez,John P. Funkhouser,D. L. Williams

The Second Edition of The Handbook of Financing Growth has been designed to help leaders and advisors gain a solid understanding of the financing strategies, sources, and transactions that will allow them to excel in such an unpredictable environment. Written by an experienced group of practitioners who operate within this dynamic market—and fully updated to reflect new market realities—this reliable resource outlines the full spectrum of funding alternatives currently available to emerging growth and middle-market companies and presents the practical strategies and techniques you need to be aware of when considering the capitalization, growth, or sale of your, or your client's, company. New material found in this Second Edition includes detailed discussions of positioning a business for value creation before the transaction and how your financing strategy fits into the overall plan for growing and raising capital as well as creating an exit. Among various techniques, the authors address buyouts and recapitalizations as two alternatives to create shareholder liquidity and potentially finance future growth. A new chapter on M&A addresses the acquisition process and how to fund acquisitions and external growth initiatives, while additional case studies highlight bank financing alternatives and growth equity.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470390158

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The Undead

Headshot Quartet (Four Zombie Novellas)

By: John Sunseri,D. L. Snell,Ryan C. Thomas

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The Undead

Headshot Quartet (Four Zombie Novellas)

By: John Sunseri,D. L. Snell,Ryan C. Thomas

Four novellas present different versions of the classic zombie invasion: a mob hitman in Aruba must hide from zombies, his fellow mobsters, and creatures in the water; a man awakens in a zombie-swarmed alley with no memory of his past; three art students are terrified by the legacy of what lives beneath a New England cemetary; and a CIA agent discovers that zombies are being controlled by someone with a new bio-weapon up for bid on the black market.

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Permuted Press

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1934861006

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Unruly Saint

Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times

By: D.L. Mayfield

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Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times

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Plough Quarterly No. 16 - America's Prophet

By: Edwidge Danticat,Susannah Heschel,Eugene F. Rivers III,Gary Dorrien,Brandon M. Terry,D. L. Mayfield,Nathaniel Peters,Chris Gibson,Oscar Romero,Oddny Gumaer,Philip Britts

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Plough Quarterly No. 16 - America's Prophet

By: Edwidge Danticat,Susannah Heschel,Eugene F. Rivers III,Gary Dorrien,Brandon M. Terry,D. L. Mayfield,Nathaniel Peters,Chris Gibson,Oscar Romero,Oddny Gumaer,Philip Britts

What if Martin Luther King Jr., this name-branded, oft-sanitized preacher from Atlanta, is a prophet whose message America has yet to fully reckon with? Ten days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, "Where in America today do we hear a voice like the voice of the prophets of Israel? Martin Luther King is a sign that God has not forsaken the United States of America. God has sent him to us." What if Heschel's words about King are true? What if this name-branded, oft-sanitized, Super-Bowl-ad-commercialized, National-Mall-memorialized preacher from Atlanta . . . is a prophet whose message America has yet to fully reckon with? This issue of Plough Quarterly looks at King's unfinished struggle against the three evils of racism, materialism, and militarism. Perspectives from Edwidge Danticat, Gary Dorrien, Brandon M. Terry, D. L. Mayfield, Eugene Rivers, and Susannah Heschel explore the ways King's message of nonviolence, justice, and love of neighbor still matters today: to refugees and immigrants, soldiers and veterans, preachers and prisoners, black lives matter activists and the white working class. Also in this issue: original poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye; reviews of new books by James Forman Jr., Steve Krivák, Jim Forest, and Christopher de Hamel; and art by Yvan Lamothe, Roberson Joseph, Barry Moser, Benny Andrews, Zoe Cromwell, Julian Peters, Asuka Hishiki, Mark Smith, Mary Kang, Marc Chagall,John Partipilo, Yuri Kozyrev, Vinicius Barajas, Iain Stewart, Giovanni Bellini. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common cause with others.

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Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life

By: Eugene Vodolazkin,Karen Swallow Prior,Christian Wiman,D. L. Mayfield,John Thornton,Andrew Balio,Julian Peter,Denise Uwimana,Alfred Delp,Martin Luther,Michael St. Thomas,Sally Thomas

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Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life

By: Eugene Vodolazkin,Karen Swallow Prior,Christian Wiman,D. L. Mayfield,John Thornton,Andrew Balio,Julian Peter,Denise Uwimana,Alfred Delp,Martin Luther,Michael St. Thomas,Sally Thomas

What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society. "What's the point of school?" Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even two centuries after the Prussians invented compulsory education. The Prussian idea of what a school is for - to mold the populace to serve the state - seems unacceptable today. In vogue, instead, are slogans like "acquiring marketable skills" and "realizing your full potential." These ideas powerfully shape our culture. Ultimately, they boil down to pursuing one supreme value: individual success in a competitive world. Schools are a mirror of our society as a whole; what we want for schools makes plain what and whom we value in our common life. In the Christian tradition, the life of discipleship is also a school. In this educational community, under the instruction of our one Teacher, we learn not to seek empowerment, but to find strength in weakness; not to out-achieve others, but to serve them; not to pursue our passion, but to obey a call. Also in this issue: poetry by Christian Wiman; reviews of new books by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Francisco Cantú, Leif Enger, Carol Anderson, Stephanie Land, and Susan Wise Bauer; and art by Margaret McWethy, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Gérard David, Jackie Morris, Gustaf Tenggren, Sergey Dushkin, Anja Percival, Dmitry Samofalov, Christoph Wetzel, Sherrie York, Cathleen Rehfield, Paweł Kuczyński, and Jason Landsel. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common cause with others.

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Book's by D.L. Mayfield

The Myth of the American Dream

The Myth of the American Dream

Assimilate or Go Home

Assimilate or Go Home

Unruly Saint

Unruly Saint

The Myth of the American Dream

The Myth of the American Dream

The Annihilation of Allison Station

The Annihilation of Allison Station

The Handbook of Financing Growth

The Handbook of Financing Growth

The Undead

The Undead

Unruly Saint

Unruly Saint

Plough Quarterly No. 16 - America's Prophet

Plough Quarterly No. 16 - America's Prophet

Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life

Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life

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