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Causality in crisis?
In the past fifty years statisticians and methodologists in the social sciences have developed and refined a family of closely related statistical methods for the study of social phenomena. While the value of such methods of analysis is universally acknowledged, their use has never been wholly un...
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School sector and student outcomes
This empirical study compares different school sectors—public, private religious, and private nonreligious—on issues such as school organization, governance, curriculum, and pedagogy in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.
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Cardinal owen mccann
A new portrait of the Catholic church during apartheid, told through the life of Cardinal Owen McCann.Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives and Owen McCann’s personal archives in Cape Town, Alexandra Maclennan offers the first full biography of Cardinal Owen McCann (1907–1994), a pivotal yet o...
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Eriugena, berkeley, and the idealist tradition
In this volume, an international group of scholars investigate the meaning of idealism across the ages. Fourteen essays trace this concept from Plato, the Roman Stoics, Plotinus, and Augustine through to Berkeley and the age of Kant and Hegel. What is at stake, is the development of Western thoug...
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The prisoner's philosophy
A new Christian reading of the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius as a Menippean satire about humility and prayer.
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Friendship and the moral life
Friendship and the Moral Life is not simply a theoretical argument about how moral theology might be done if it took friendship more seriously. Rather, the book exhibits how without friendship, our lives are morally not worth living. The book begins with a consideration of why a new model of the ...
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Barrio boy
In his gripping autobiography, Galarza tells the story of his journey from a tiny village during the Mexican revolution to the barrio's of Sacramento, offering invaluable insight to the plight of immigrants in America.
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"prohibition is here to stay"
Edward S. Shumaker's life and work in Indiana sheds new light on the rise and fall of Prohibition and the interplay of religion and politics in American culture.
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Edmund burke
In his Enquiry—which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"—the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express certa...
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A general theory of authority
A General Theory of Authority was first printed in 1962 and is a classic treatment of authority and its relation to justice, life, truth, and order. In recent years, authority has been seen as an enemy of freedom, autonomy, and development. In this book, the renowned philosopher Yves R. Simon, hi...
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Notre dame vs. the klan
Tucker tells the story of a 1924 showdown between the KKK and students at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
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Elie wiesel
Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity is a call to both Christians and Jews to face the tragedy of the Holocaust and begin again.Robert McAfee Brown was a friend of Wiesel and wrote Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity to process his own thoughts, engage with Wiesel’s thinking, and inspire oth...
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Sounding the word of god
Between 800 and 900 a new convention entered musical practice: by the end of the century the recording of musical sound using newly-invented music scripts had become standard, the meanings of those scripts familiar to many. In the history of European music this was a momentous transformation, off...
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God's grace and human action
God's Grace and Human Action brings new scholarship and insights to Thomas Aquinas' teaching on merit.
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Caribbean women
An examination of how West Indian women have contributed to the creation of Anglophone Caribbean society and examines how Caribbean womanhood is defined and articulated
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Aquinas on matter and form and the elements
Joseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas’s De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: “Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances” and “The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.” The Princ...
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The ministry of law in the church today
Many members of the Catholic Church today—clergy as well as laity—find no useful purpose for the Church's legal structure, or canon law. They may view canon law as arbitrary, antiquated, or even a hindrance to the movement of the Spirit, especially within the context of developments following the...
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Catholicism and native americans in early north america
Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America explores the ways in which the church negotiate...
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Transitional justice and the rule of law in new democracies
This is the first focused study on the relationship between the use of national courts to pursue retrospective justice and the construction of viable democracies. Included in this interdisciplinary volume are fascinating, detailed essays on the experiences of eight countries: Argentina, Bolivia, ...
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Victorian reformations
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein studies the Protestant Reformation as it is represented and continually rewritten in 19th-century and Victorian fiction.
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La familia
In detailed historical analyses of Mexican immigration, economic class struggle, intermarriage, urbanization and industrialization, regional differences, and discrimination and prejudice, La Familia demonstrates how such social and economic factors have contributed to the contemporary diversity o...
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No religion without idolatry
No Religion without Idolatry offers an interpretation of Mendelssohn’s general philosophy and discusses for the first time his semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his commentaries.
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The business of conquest
The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demons...
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The new nihilism
In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values of the Western tradition—rather, it presents a critical opportunity to ask pertinent, timely questions about the meaning of self and the world.Nihilism is a problem that has trouble...
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Lay sanctity, medieval and modern
Inspired by Vatican II, which attributed a special apostolate to the laity and affirmed their calling to holiness, this volume of original essays focuses on the shifting points of intersection between changing historical definitions of laity and sanctity. Ann W. Astell and ten other scholars exam...
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Medieval irish lyrics
Well known for her translations of the poetry of classical Greece, ancient Egypt, and medieval Portugal, Barbara Hughes Fowler once again makes the poetry of another era accessible to a new generation. This anthology offers modern readers modern, new translations of the lyric poetry transcribed o...
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Ireland and postcolonial theory
This timely volume is a collection of essays by accomplished scholars who convincingly argue for the relevance of postcolonial theory in Ireland. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory fuses scholarship, politics, and culture, generating a forceful and radical critique of the legacy of colonialism in th...
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Politics and the pink tide
Politics and the Pink Tide reveals how economic policy choices and the reach of political parties in civil society informed the types of protest that leftist governments in Latin America confronted during the Pink Tide.
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Magnificent errors
Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope.In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of refe...
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Race in mind
Race in Mind presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America's most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars.
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Religion and state in the american jewish experience
For the first time, Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience makes available critical documents which have shaped debate over religion and state issues throughout the course of American Jewish history. Following a comprehensive historical introduction, Professors Sarna and Dalin prese...
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Three american poets
Describes the different sorts of poetry Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville wrote, their comparable reasons for writing, and the posthumous critical effects of their having done so.
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Narrative and the natural law
With Narrative and the Natural Law Pamela Hall brings Thomistic ethics into conversation with ongoing debates in contemporary moral philosophy, especially virtue theory and moral psychology, and with current trends in narrative theory and the philosophy of history. Pamela M. Hall’s study offers a...
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Colin powell
This biography of Colin Powell explores his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the highest echelons of American military and political power.
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Incarnate love
Incarnate Love is a major contribution to both Orthodox ethics and to Christian self-understanding. Completely revised with a new preface and two additional chapters, this work aims to articulate a social ethic that can make sense of the Orthodox experience in the United States, as well as challe...
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Moses the egyptian in the illustrated old english hexateuch (london, british library cotton ms claudius b.iv)
Broderick argues that the iconography of Moses in a famous eleventh-century manuscript has Hellenistic Egyptian origins.
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Rawlsian political analysis
Develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory.
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Making sense of your freedom
Written for general readers and students, this book provides an accessible and brief metaphysical defense of freedom.
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An essay in aid of a grammar of assent
This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Be...
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Apocalypse deferred
Scholars use Rene Girard's ideas on violence and mimetic theory to address apocalyptic events that have marked Japan's recent history, literature, and culture.
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Who are my people?
Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent that is often riddled with violence. The driving assumption behind the ...
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Searching for christ
Scholarly and popular interest in Dorothy Day has grown steadily during the past decade. Widely acclaimed as a pioneer of American social Catholicism, as well as for co-founding the Catholic Worker and the movement by the same name, Day's religious vision and lifework have played a dramatic role ...
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Anthology of beowulf criticism, the
Was the Beowulf-poet a Christian or was he a noble pagan whose outlook had been only slightly colored by exposure to Christian thinking? This is but one of the fascinating topics discussed in this anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece. The eighteen contribution to the anthology...
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Edward sorin
This sweeping book offers the definitive account of the life and labors of Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame. Born in the west of France in 1814, Sorin was ordained in 1838 and joined the newly founded Congregation of Holy Cross shortly thereafter. In 1841, Father Sorin, along...
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Character psychology and character education
A collection of essays about character and character education by some of the top scholars in the fields of ethical theory, moral development research, and education
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De gratia
The treatise De gratia was written in 474 by Faustus, bishop of Riez in southern Gaul, against the predestinarian doctrine of Lucidus, a Gallic priest. The present study reexamines that treatise. The need for such a reexamination becomes clear as one reads the many and varied, and often polemical...
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Culture of enlightening
Burson examines Yvon’s work in order to explore broader trends in the diverse ways eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human reason, religion, and society.
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Dante's commedia
A critical analysis by an international group of theologians and Dante scholars of the nexus between theology and poetry in Dante's work, especially in the Commedia.
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The long and the short of it
This book is a comprehensive account of versification that also argues for a renewed attention to formal aspects and traditions of verse.
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