The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis, ISBN 0299168840
Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations -- or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most interesting and renowned historians.
In a wide-ranging look at gift giving in early modern France, Natalie Zemon Davis reveals the ways that gift exchange is crucial to understanding alliance and conflict in family life, economic relations, politics, and religion. Moving from the king's bounty to the beggar's alms, her book explores the modes and meanings of gift giving in every corner of sixteenth-century French society. In doing so, it arrives at a new way of considering gifts -- what Davis calls "the gift register" -- as a permanent feature of social relations over time. Gift giving, with its own justifications and forms in different periods, can create amity or lead to quarrels and trouble. It mixes the voluntary and the obligatory, with interested bribery at one extreme and inspired gratuitousness at the other.
Examining gifts both ethnographically (through archives, letters, and other texts) and culturally (through literary, ethical, and religious sources), Davis shows how coercive features in family life and politics, rather than competition from the market, disrupted the gift system. This intriguing book suggests that examining the significance of gifts can not only help us to understand social relations in the past, but teach us to deal graciously with each other in the present.
Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Verse by Verse Study of 1 Corinthians 12-14 (Revised Ed) by Robert L. Thomas, ISBN 0825438292
(Revised Edition This thorough study of spiritual gifts will help Christians understand their God-given gifts and how they should use those gifts in the church.
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Abel and the Wolf
When the time comes to make his own way in the world, Abel's parents give him some parting gifts. He soon builds himself a house in a forest belonging to a wolf, who is angry and jealous of Abel. How Abel uses the gifts from his parents is a testament to kindness. Full color.
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Gifts: The Joy of Serving God by John Ortberg, ISBN 0310220777
As part of The Pursuing Spiritual Transformation series, Gifts guides you to the answers you desire, through personal study and small group interaction, to develop a hunger to be used by God.
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Sister Betty! God's Calling You Again!
Each story in this collection shares with readers an important message about the gifts of God and the strength found in black church traditions.
Sister Betty! God's Calling You Again!
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Insight Guide Bali by Scott Rutherford, ISBN 1585732885
Some travelers love nothing better than to bathe in the sun. Others revel in immersing themselves in history and culture. Then there are those who are born to shop. We all know the type. In fact, we might ourselves be the type. There are some people for whom shopping is not a necessity but a sport. Insight Shopping Guides are a play book for the avid shopper who wants to level the playing field when he or she competes against natives for the best goods and deals the city has to offer. This series...
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