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Memoirs red and white
This book is Peter F. Dembowski’s memoir of his time as a Polish soldier, serving as a narrative of life before, during, and after World War II.
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The kingdom of man
Remi Brague argues that with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western society has rejected traditional theophilosphical ideas in favor of human authority and autonomy, ultimately causing the erasure of divinely ordered humanity.
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Templars and hospitallers as professed religious in the holy land
In this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith attends to the Templars’ and Hospitallers’ primary role as religious orders, not as military phenomena or economic powerhouses.
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The future of the disabled in liberal society
The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society questions developments in human genetic research from the perspective of persons with mental disabilities and their families. Hans S. Reinders argues that when we use terms such as “disease” and “defect” to describe conditions that genetic engineering...
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The uses of darkness
Laurie Brands Gagné believes the image of God as stern Father or Judge has done much damage over the centuries and has engendered a sense of shame and guilt, especially in women. She sees our own civilization as one that is cut off from the natural world and from the precious part of ourselves th...
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Opportunities for learning
Opportunities for Learning brings together the works of one of the most highly regarded past presidents of the American Sociological Association, focusing on uncovering and addressing educational inequities in elementary and secondary schools.Few sociologists of education can rival the depth and ...
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Friendship
Certain relationships are of profound importance for the moral life. Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tensions which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, the bond of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a more important topic in the life and ...
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Complicity and moral accountability
In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each k...
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Regret
“This book is a stimulating and, as far as I can see, original examination of regret . . . the overall argument of the book is that if regret is focused so much on remorse that it results in an over scrupulous and excessive examination of past mistakes then it can bring about no positive result; ...
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Discourses on strauss
Sorensen examines Strauss's political theory by turning to his distinction between revelation and reason, religion and philosophy. The author maintains that Strauss viewed these as two fundamentally different worldviews and as alternate ways of understanding the good life by way of a reading of S...
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Moral theology in an age of renewal
Fr. Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp., offers a comprehensive survey of developments in moral theology since the Second Vatican Council. In this useful new book he discusses the call of the Council for the renewal of moral theology and the role the Council itself played in this renewal. Odozor also explor...
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The genius to improve an invention
The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden’s phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and “perfect” them. Distinguished literary scholar Piero Boitani adopts Dryden’s notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and m...
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Capital punishment and roman catholic moral tradition, second edition
This book traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken to its present position as the world’s largest and most outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
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The bible in greek christian antiquity
A genuine renaissance is presently underway in the study of biblical interpretation and biblical culture in the early Christian age. The profundity and complexity of the early Christians' engagement with Holy Scripture, in theology, in ecclesial and liturgical life, in ethics, and in ascetic and ...
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Friendship and politics
This volume assembles essays by well-known scholars who address contemporary concerns about community in the context of philosophical ideas about friendship.
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Generals and admirals, criminals and crooks
U.S. flag officers are intended to be exemplary defenders of duty, honor, and country—but what can we learn by exposing the bad leaders lurking within these venerable ranks?There is an ugly strain of criminal and unethical leadership in the upper ranks of the American military. Despite the exempl...
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Catholic culture in early modern england
Marotti analyzes some of the rhetorical and imaginative means by which the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority defined themselves and their religious and political antagonists in early modern England.
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Beneath iërne’s banners
The Dublin stage of the Restoration and the eighteenth century has largely been dismissed as “West British” and its plays for the most part have been forgotten. Christopher J. Wheatley’s Beneath Iërne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century examines the works b...
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Pearl
The anonymous author of the poem Pearl is rated with Langland and Chaucer as one of the greatest Middle English poets. And, while a number of editions of this poem have been published, including E. V. Gordon's 1953 edition and Marie Borroff's 1977 verse translation, no edition until now has inclu...
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A common person and other stories
These prizewinning stories champion the everyday person who tries to do his or her best in demanding and even demeaning situations.The stories in A Common Person and Other Stories, R. M. Kinder’s third short-story collection and the winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, expose th...
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Experiencing dominion
Experiencing Dominion contributes to ongoing debates on hegemony, power, and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century. Each chapter foc...
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Walls
McClane's book of autobiographical essays deals with his personal experiences with death, race, relationships, and education.
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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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Inventing irish america
Like many American cities, Worcester, Massachusetts, is an enclave of cultural tradition and ethnic pride. Through the intensive analysis of this Irish American community at the turn of the twentieth century, Timothy Meagher reveals how an ethnic group can endure and yet change when its first Ame...
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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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Jesuit kaddish
Jesuit Kaddish is a long overdue study that examines Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Shoah and the development of a new understanding of the Catholic Church’s relation to Judaism that culminated with Vatican II’s landmark decree Nostra aetate.While much has been written about the Catho...
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Discourses addressed to mixed congregations
In Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, Cardinal Newman examines Catholicism from the inside, addressing popular prejudices with humor and irony.
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The peaceable kingdom
Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and teaching in shaping moral life, The Peaceable Kingdom stresses the narrative character of moral rationality and the ne...
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Do not forsake me, oh my darling
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling contains ten darkly funny short stories by Maura Stanton. Anything can happen in this swiftly narrated book, which provides glimpses of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II, a famous contemporary writer giving a haircut in a ba...
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Being in the world
Being in the World contains seven hundred and fifty of the most salient quotations found in the English translations of fifty-four works by Jacques Maritain organized into thematic chapters.
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Sartorial strategies
Sartorial Strategies establishes that writers of romances redirect the negative depictions of the courtly body found in clerical chronicles and penitential writings into positive images that convey virtue.
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Acquisition and exhibition of classical antiquities
Robin Rhodes' rich collection of essays with multiple perspectives on ethical questions surrounding the ownership of cultural property and the acquisition of antiquities.
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Masters of the sacred page
Starting with the premise that the history of a medieval subject cannot be properly written "without recourse to the materials it produced," Lesley Smith's Masters of the Sacred Page provides an illuminating study of theology in the Middle Ages. She focuses on the dramatic transformations of the ...
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Humanophone
The poetry in Humanophone, the third volume from award-winning poet Janet Holmes, celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their “mind’s ear.” Taking its title from a Geor...
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Garcilaso inca de la vega
Sixteenth-century historian Garcilaso Inca de la Vega had a unique view of the ancient Inca Empire and the Americas. A Peruvian mestizo who emigrated to Spain, he was the first writer to envision Latin America as a multiethnic continent, and he advanced a humanist interpretation of New World hist...
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The practice of human development and dignity
Although deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this...
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Unearthed
Sayre argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy produced no longer exceeds the biosphere's ability to dispose of it.
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The sword of the lord
The Sword of the Lord explores the development of the military chaplaincy across history and geography and shows the legacy of these devoted men.From the first to the twenty-first century, from Europe to North America, the military chaplaincy has existed in a recognizable form for more than 1,600...
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