Esther OGallaghers Lawrence Ashley Memories is a dedication to a man who wanted to make a difference in the lives of other people. I desire for us as a nation to turn and see the light and choose life instead of death.
This is the first book to capture the poignant stories of transnational African families and their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in mediating their experiences of migration and caring across distance. Transnational Families in Africa analyses the highs and lows of family separation as a result of migration in three contexts: migration within South Africa from rural to urban areas; migration from other African countries into South Africa; and middle-class South Africans emigrating to non-African countries. The book foregrounds the importance of kinship and support from extended family as well as both the responsibilities migratory family members feel and the experience of loss by those left behind. Across the diverse circumstances explored in the book are similarities in migrants’ strategies for keeping in touch, but also large differences in relation to access to ICTs and ease-of-use that highlight the digital divide and generational gaps. As elsewhere in the world, and in spite of the varied experiences in these kinship circles, the phenomenon that is the transnational family is showing no signs of receding. This book provides a groundbreaking contribution to global debates on migration from the Global South.
With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis's frustration is merely the beginning of a tortuous journey toward faith--one punctuated by personal losses retold with bluntness and intense immediacy. "Maybe God is a sadist," she writes, "a big baby who had a terrible upbringing. If, as Christians claim, God is love, then it's a kind of love I do not understand." She dares to believe anyway, although her questioning won't let up. She fiercely dismantles both the clichés she's heard in church and the endless philosophizing of her parents' generation. Esther Maria Magnis knows believing in God is anything but easy. Because he allows people to suffer. Because he's invisible. And silent. "I think we miss God," she writes, "I would never want to persuade anyone or put myself above atheists. I know there are good reasons not to believe. But sometimes I think most people are just sad that he's not there." With or Without Me is a book for everyone--believer or unbeliever, Christian or atheist--who refuses to surrender to the idea that, just because there can be beauty and truth, there must also be clear answers to the big questions in life.
A strand of research documents Chile’s copper dependence hence significant exposure to terms of trade shocks. Copper prices’ sharp decline and forecast uncertainty since the end of the commodity super-cycle has rekindled the debate on Chile’s adjustment capacity to external shocks. Following Malz (2014), this paper builds a time-varying measure of copper price uncertainty using options contracts. VAR analysis shows that the investment response to an uncertainty shock of average magnitude in the sample is strong and persistent: the cumulative fall in investment from trend at a one-year horizon ranges 2–5.8 percentage points; and it takes between 11⁄2 and 2 years for investment to return to its trend level. Empirical ranges depend on alternative definitions for investment, uncertainty, and options’ maturing time.
General Bishop Alton A. Smith; Esther and Robert H. Perara Sr.; and the pastor's wife, Lady D. (Doris BentonaEUR"Smith), our fortieth anniversary renewal wedding directress. This is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes (Psalms 118:23, 24). For this is the day the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it in all our days! O Haman's spirit lost again! Prayer changes things! Our pastor reminds us, "A blessing delayed is not a blessing denied!
This collection of stories includes some of Esther Pearlmans best ever. Stories from her creative world feature adventures as artist, book author and movie extra. In the section Esther & Marty, we encounter their clever banter, Esthers touching birthday toasts to Marty, and even a trip to a nudist colony! We follow Esther as she navigates her daily life from cleverly handling a possible theft at the health food market to getting chatty with a caller from an 800 number. We also get glimpses of her earlier years. Esthers escapades are infused with her love of life and natural charm. Be charmed and enjoy!
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