Buyer Beware

Author: Janet Parshall
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802481671
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
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

Author: Patricia Joan Saunders
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081357286X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from “less respectable” segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.

Buyer Beware

Author: Ola Zaccheus
Publisher: Ola Zaccheus
ISBN: 0995506701
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
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.

Buyer Beware

Author: Ramachandran Kumar
Publisher: Ramachandran Kumar
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
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.

Buyer Beware

Author: John Lutz
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 161232181X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
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.

Buyer Beware

Author: Maria Slade
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 0143770403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
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.

Buyer Beware

Author: Mark William
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456643568
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
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.

Buyer Beware

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description

Family Properties

Author: Beryl Satter
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429952601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
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

Caveat Emptor

Author: Ken Perenyi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163936305X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. Caveat Emptor reveals the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger. Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds. In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.