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Ancient pottery, cuisine, and society at the northern great lakes
This innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today’s archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology...
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The ancient flame
Winthrop Wetherbee's study of Dante's relationship to the classical Latin poets—Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius—is a genuine tour-de-force.
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Statecraft and stagecraft
In this second edition of Statecraft and Stagecraft Robert Schmuhl brings up to date his provocative exploration of the involvement of the media in our public life by including a new chapter on the Persian Gulf War.
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Against all england
This book examines poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history.
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The church as polis
Political theology is one of the most influential theological movements of the latter part of the twentieth century, and yet, as Arne Rasmusson argues here, the field suffers from deep inherent tensions in its attempt to mediate the Christian tradition and the modern emancipatory tradition. Rasmu...
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Beyond the ethical demand
This book contains excerpts, translated into English for the first time, from the numerous books and essays Løgstrup continued to write throughout his life after his landmark work, The Ethical Demand.
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Abducted in iraq
This riveting book documents Bishop Hanna's twenty-eight days in captivity in Iraq as he struggles through threats, torture, and doubt.
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Eternal pity
Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying demonstrates how people try to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious beliefs and sometimes desperate hope, teach people to respond to their own death and ...
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From beasts to souls
Raises the issues of species and gender in tandem, asking readers to consider more fully what happens to gender in medieval representations of nonhuman embodiment.
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Discussions and arguments on various subjects
A collection of articles by John Henry Cardinal Newman on the nature of scientific knowledge as a quasi-substitute for faith.
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Arabia felix from the time of the queen of sheba
Sheba, or Saba, is a region of high mountains and vast deserts situated in the southwest of the Arabian peninsula, in what is known today as Yemen. The mysteries and riches of Sheba and its people enticed the likes of Alexander the Great, the Emperor Augustus, and the kings of Ethiopia and Byzant...
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Transformations of la familia on the u.s.-mexico border
This is a coherent collection of papers dealing with the impact on Mexican and Mexican-origin families living in the transnational space of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The vatican israel accords
When The Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel was signed on December 30, 1993, it established diplomatic ties between the Vatican and Israel for the first time. Published during the tenth anniversary year of this historic document, The Vatican-Israel Accords brings t...
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Alasdair macintyre, charles taylor, and the demise of naturalism
Blakely argues that the resources for overcoming the divide between the empirical and the normative of society are available in the intellectual developments of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre.
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Origen and the emergence of divine simplicity before nicaea
This book establishes how the doctrine of divine simplicity was interwoven with the formation of a Christian Trinitarian understanding of God before Nicaea.For centuries, Christian theology affirmed God as simple (haplous) and Triune. But the doctrine of the simple Trinity has been challenged by ...
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Dante's "other works"
Prominent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante’s “other works.”Rather than speak of Dante’s “minor works,” according to a tradition of Dante scholarship going back at least to the eighte...
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Democracy in latin america
Democracy in Latin America explores both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America.
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Paisanos
Paisanos revisits the forgotten role of the Irish in the fight for South American independence, reanimating the ideals that built the New World and sowed the seeds of Ireland's revolutions to follow.
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Lessons from "walden"
Original and passionate, Lessons from Walden presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications in the works of Henry David Thoreau.Henry David Thoreau’s works are a backbone of American political philosophy, but how do his ideas translate into the tumultuous modern political landsc...
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One body
This book considers the nature of marriage and romantic love and the controversial questions in sexual ethics that arise within a Christian framework.
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American compass
American Compass, Bill Meissner’s fourth book of poetry, is a collection that steers the reader on a varied, memorable journey down the American highway. Like the four points of a compass, each of the book's four sections has a distinct direction. "First Corners" features poems about childhood an...
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Sir gawain and the green knight and the order of the garter
Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter.
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American catholic higher education
A reference volume containing the documents that reveal church officials’ and university presidents’ collaborative efforts to answer the question: What does it mean to be a Catholic university or college?
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Democratic quality in southern europe
Fueled by new data from the Varieties of Democracy project, Democratic Quality in Southern Europe takes a close look at the democratic trajectories of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain over the past fifty years.
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Young rain
Young Rain is a collection of poetry that examines and explores the radiance and spirituality of this mysterious world.
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Jacques and raïssa maritain
An accessible translation of the biography of noted French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raïssa
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Ireland's revolutionary diplomat
Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat offers new insight into Leopold Kearney's political impact and involvement in major events and conflicts of the twentieth century.
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The choice of the jews under vichy
In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s...
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Lyric, meaning, and audience in the oral tradition of northern europe
DuBois draws on sets of lyric songs from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland to explore the question of meaning in folklore, especially the role of traditional audiences in appraising and understanding nonnarrative songs.
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Decentralization and democracy in latin america
The nine essays in this collection represent the first book-length treatment of one of the major changes that have shaped Latin America since independence: decentralization of the state. Contributors argue that though the assignment of political, fiscal, and administrative duties to subnational g...
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On the universality of what is not
Branching out from his earlier works providing a history and a theory of apophatic thinking, William Franke's newest book pursues applications across a variety of communicative media, historical periods, geographical regions, and academic disciplines—moving from the literary humanities and cultur...
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Untangling twinning
Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The f...
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The sorrows of eros and other poems
Drawn from fifteen years of work, The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems presents a rich selection of the verse of Henry Weinfield. Many of the poems contained here appear for the first time. The sensuous lyricism of the English tradition and the classic austerity of philosophical discourse are brou...
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Schism
Schism is the first ethnographic and historical study of Seventh-day Adventism in China.Scholars have been slow to consider Chinese Protestantism from a denominational standpoint. In Schism, the first monograph that documents the life of the Chinese Adventist denomination from the mid-1970s to th...
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Yountsville
In Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town , Ronald Morris and collaborators examine the history and context of a rural Midwestern town, including family labor, working women, immigrants, and competing visions of the future. Combing perspectives from history, economics, and arch...
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The collapse of venezuela
The Collapse of Venezuela documents Venezuela’s economic implosion as politicians adopted strategies that severely harmed the economy in their struggle for power.Between 2012 and 2020, Venezuela suffered the largest economic contraction ever documented outside of wartime. This collapse was caused...
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The sword and the pen
Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets during the early 1500s and their contribution to culture.
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The history and culture of iran and central asia
This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic a...
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Beyond the barrio
This book analyzes the efforts of Latino voters and communities to influence electoral outcomes, specifically during the 2004 U.S. elections.
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Can a good christian be a good lawyer?
Law professors Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd asked some of their legal colleagues to respond to this provocative question: "Can a good Christian be a good lawyer?" Here are twenty-one highly personal narratives that answer the question of how each writer tries, sometimes but not always suc...
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Acts of recognition
Acts of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual and the social in medieval literature.
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The flight from authority
Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail.Stout traces the secularization of ...
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Avoiding governors
Fenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability of a national government to sustain a conditional cash transfer program.
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A theology of creation
This book provides the first sustained philosophical treatment of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ and articulates a theology of creation to recover our place within the cosmos.In the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis discerns beneath the imminent threat of ecological catastrophe an existential affl...
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Theology of horror
Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes.Horror films scare and entertain us, but there’s more to be found in their narratives than simple thrills. Within their shadows, an attentive viewer can glim...
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A short history of ethics
A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book “thirty years on” and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for ...
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Music, postcolonialism, and gender
A study of the construction of Irish national identity focusing on Irish music and the colonial relationship between Ireland and England
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Eternal consciousness
Dunne reminds readers that the road to eternity is through contemplation that allows us to meet God in our surroundings.
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Eastern orthodox and anglicans
Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans is a study of inter-Orthodox relations, the role of the Anglican Church, and the problems of Orthodox nationalism in modern age.
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The book and the body
One of the most exciting developments in recent literary studies bases interpretation on a new understanding of bodily aspects of text. Contributors Mary Carruthers, Michael Camille, Seth Lerer, and Carolyn Dinshaw bring various disciplinary perspectives to this intriguing subject.The method empl...
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