Buyer Beware

Have you ever thought why it is that so many Christians are reticent to enter into the ‘marketplace of ideas?’ Jesus commanded us to go into the world to deliver His message of truth, delivered in love. But He never said it would easy. In Buyer Beware, Janet Parshall takes the reader on a journey through the public square where ideas are ‘bought’ and ‘sold’ but where Truth is sometimes difficult to find. She examines some of the most controversial issues being debated in our culture today, by looking at them through the lens of Scripture. Using the prophet Jeremiah’s instructive letter to the exiles, held in Babylonian captivity, Parshall shows how a people, held captive in a sin-sick, fallen world, can live abundantly and triumphantly by loving God’s truth and by boldly declaring it in the public square. Buyer Beware is designed to encourage modern day saints as they enter the ‘marketplace’ by helping them discover the richness of God’s word and the poverty of the world’s message.

Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.

How to negotiate the minefield of buying a home in New Zealand today. Property prices going through the stratosphere, leaky buildings, P contamination, bullying body corporates - purchasing a house today can feel akin to entering a minefield. Written by a news journalist who has covered many of the horror stories, this book takes a no-holds-barred look at the challenges facing home buyers and offers savvy advice on how to navigate that minefield. It will appeal to all home buyers, from first-timers hoping for a small apartment to older people looking to downsize and everyone in between. With chapters on the search, mortgages and legal aspects, types of title, buying at auction, buying off plans, checks and warning signs, bodies corporate and the special problems to be found in Christchurch, there is plenty of information for everyone.

Procedures and practise relating to purchase of immoveable property in Tamilnadu, India. How to be vigilant while purchasing property. Women's right to property, whether patta is a title document and importance of Revenue record. Based on practical experience of the author.

The decision of who to date and marry can be daunting. The wrong choice can literally jeopardise your future. Many have made the wrong choices and are full of regrets, pain and sorrow. You don't have to make a wrong choice. In this book, the author gives several tips on how you can make this decision without having any regrets. In Buyer Beware, the author highlights the different platforms in which you can find considerable choices for a marriage partner. Some venues may be more conducive to finding the right partner than other places. The most important thing is to always involve God in the process. This is because pretenders abound everywhere and one must really be able to discern genuine people from the fake ones. It is helpful to understand that there is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God. It is in your best interest to receive the perfect will of God when it comes to marriage. If you consider yourself marriage material, then you must know that your real character and how you present yourself to others matter a lot. It is important to take good care of yourself because how you look will be the first thing others will see.

Kidnap proves only the prelude to a diabolically clever scheme of fraud and murder in this vivid tale of taut suspense. Private investigator Alo Nudger didn't have to think twice about accepting the $2,500 fee from Gordon Clark, whose seven-year-old daughter had been "kidnapped" by his ex-wife, Joan. After all, the pay was good, and the job seemed simple enough: bring young Melissa back from Florida to her frantic father. Nudger arrives at his destination to find only an empty house but soon locates Melissa in the safekeeping of a neighbor and reckons his job is done... or is it? For now Joan is missing, and the man she and Melissa had been living with is murdered. Nudger's new proposition from an equally distraught parent-Joan's father-is not so readily appealing as before. Fifty thousand dollars to locate a missing person is a tempting sum, indeed-assuming Alo Nudger can stay alive long enough to enjoy it. "One of the best and most unusual novels in the history of private eye fiction." -Cedar-Rapids Gazette. Lutz's bestselling novel SWF Seeks Same was released as the major motion picture, Single White Female starring Bridget Fonda. About the Series St. Louis private eye ALO NUDGER is perhaps the most Chaplinesque of fictional gumshoes. Where other P.I.s are hardcases living on cigarettes, booze, broads and danger, Alo survives (just) on antacid tablets (it was his nervous stomach that forced Alo to resign from the police force) and grocery coupons.

Discover the Hidden Triggers That Influence Your Every Purchase Ever walked out of a store with something you didn't intend to buy? "Buyer Beware: Secrets of Subconscious Sales Strategies" takes you on a compelling journey into the crafty world of psychological manipulation that lurks behind every sale. Drawing the curtain on the subconscious tactics that part you from your money, this book unveils the sales secrets that influence your every spending decision. Begin your adventure with an enlightening Introduction that peels back the layers of The Hidden Forces Behind Your Spending Habits. Voyage into the heart of The Psychology of Persuasion, learning how your own mind plays tricks on you. Discover the array of cognitive biases and emotional appeals that marketers exploit to make you say 'yes'. Dive deeper into The Language of Influence and become literate in the verbal subtleties designed to sway you subtly. The Illusion of Scarcity and Social Proof await to expose the clever tricks played to create a sense of urgency and belonging. You'll see through the charade and understand why you feel compelled to act quickly or follow the crowd. The chapter on The Art of Storytelling in Sales reveals why you're drawn to stories and characters in marketing, transforming products from wants into needs. Grapple with the omnipresent tactics in Price Anchoring and Perceived Value, visualizing the pull of bargains and deals, and recognize when a discount is not truly saving you money. Notice the sensory influences and subliminal messages in Seductive Visuals and Sensory Marketing around you that guide your purchasing hand. Conclude with powerful strategies in the Conclusion and Appendices that equip you with the tools to resist the ubiquitous sales tactics, reclaiming autonomy over your wallet. As you turn the final page of "Buyer Beware: Secrets of Subconscious Sales Strategies", you won't just read this book--you will experience an awakening. Empower yourself with knowledge and never fall prey to covert selling tactics again.

Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nation The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. In Satter's riveting account of a city in crisis, unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers—the author's father, Mark J. Satter. At the heart of the struggle stand the black migrants who, having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping, suddenly find themselves caught in a new kind of debt peonage. Satter shows the interlocking forces at work in their oppression: the discriminatory practices of the banking industry; the federal policies that created the country's shameful "dual housing market"; the economic anxieties that fueled white violence; and the tempting profits to be made by preying on the city's most vulnerable population. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America is a monumental work of history, this tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America. "Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North."—David Garrow, The Washington Post

Curious Ellie buys a snake egg from Ms. Fleek. Or at least she thought it was a snake egg. But the creature that hatches from it has hands, feet, and wings! Ellie isn't sure what Ms. Fleek sold her. But she knows she isn't returning to Rm. 201. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.