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The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly מאת Susan Muaddi Darraj "This sweet, sorrowful book is rich with insight. The Inheritance of Exile tells an authentic story of Arab-American life--these characters are true, expressive, and moving. A fully engaging, satisfying collection indeed." --Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Origin, Crescent...

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Saint Louis מאת Jacques Le Goff Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (1214-1270) was the central figure of Christendom in the thirteenth century. He ruled when France was at the height of power; he commanded the largest army in Europe and controlled the wealthiest kingdom. Renowned for his patronage of the art...

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Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land (ND Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies) מאת Jonathan Riley-Smith The Templars and the Hospitallers were the two earliest and most famous of the major Military Orders of the Roman Catholic Church from the early twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century. In this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith attends to the Templars' and Hospitallers' primary role as religious or...

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Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin מאת Randall C. Zachman In his groundbreaking new study of the Swiss reformer, Randall C. Zachman reveals and analyzes John Calvin's understanding of image and word both comprehensively and chronologically, with attention to the way that each theme develops in Calvin's theology. For most scholars, John Calv...

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The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought מאת Yves R. Simon Yves Simon was one of the preeminent Thomistic philosophers and political theorists of the twentieth century. He saw it as a moral duty to understand human reality and to use philosophical analysis to examine contemporary politics when they embodied philosophical errors or vicious ideologies. In "Th...

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Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form מאת Gregory Heyworth Gregory Heyworth's "Desiring Bodies" considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and form in the first sentence of Ovid's protean Metamorphoses, Heyworth identifies these concepts as str...

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Aquinas's Ethics: Metaphysical Foundations, Moral Theory, and Theological Context מאת Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung The purpose of Aquinas' "Ethics" is to place Thomas Aquinas' moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/25-1274) readily accessible to students and interested general readers, including those encountering Aquinas for the first time. ...

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Windows into the Past: Life Histories and the Historian of South Asia (ND Critical Problems in History) מאת Judith M. Brown Judith M. Brown, one of the leading historians of South Asia, provides an original and thought-provoking strategy for conducting and presenting historical research in her latest book, "Windows into the Past". Brown looks at how varieties of 'life history' that focus on the lives of institutions and ...

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Spirits in the Grass מאת Bill Meissner "Meissner has the storyteller's gift for creative living characters, living speech, living emotions, living drama. He knows his small town baseball, but beyond that, he knows the human spirit." --Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried "In Spirits in the Grass, Mei...

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Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (History Lang and Cult Spanish Portuguese) מאת Heidi V. Scott Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. "Contested Territory" explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conq...

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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition מאת Alasdair MacIntyre "After Virtue is a striking work. It is clearly written and readable. The nonprofessional will find MacIntyre perspicuous and lively. He stands within the best modern traditions of writing on such matters." --New York Review of Books "MacIntyre's arguments deserve to be ...

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The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950 מאת James R. Lothian In The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950, James R. Lothian examines the engagement of interwar Catholic writers and artists both with modernity in general and with the political and economic upheavals of the times in England and continental Europe. ...

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Young Rain מאת Kevin Hart

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Values-Based Multinational Management: Achieving Enterprise Sustainability through a Human Rights Strategy מאת Lee A. Tavis In this timely book, Lee Tavis and Timothy Tavis contend that the values dimension of the actions of multinational firms is becoming increasingly important, given the worldwide integration of economies and peoples. The digital revolution has broadened the reach of globalization and created an inform...

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The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics (ND Thomistic Studies) מאת Benedict Ashley O.P. "This is an impressive, well-researched book, of great value. It offers the wider philosophical community a point of entrance, by a proponent of a certain type of Thomism, into a domain that all philosophers think they already understand. The result is the creation of a 'big picture' of human knowle...

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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment מאת James M. Smith The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they were operated by various orders of the Cathol...

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Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Revising a Classical Ideal (ND Christianity & Judaism Anitqui) מאת Paul R. Kolbet "Augustine and the Cure of Souls" situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions. Paul Kolbet uncovers a profound continuity in Augustine's thought, from his earliest pre-baptismal writings to his final acts as bishop, revealing a man deeply indebted t...

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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith מאת Stephen M Barr Explains modern physics to general readers without oversimplification. Using the insights of modern physics, this book reveals that modern scientific discoveries and religious faith are deeply consonant. It is aimed at anyone with an interest in science and religion....

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Ireland Now: Tales of Change from the Global Island מאת William Flanagan Ireland Now is an accessible guide to understanding how Ireland and the Irish people have changed during the past fifteen years. Largely as a result of the country's rapidly expanding economy, Ireland has been transformed from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries in the ...

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Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962 מאת Marvin R. O'Connell This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the French priests who came to the upper midwest territory during the first half of the nineteenth century. Over the nex...

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Barrio Boy מאת Ernesto Galarza Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to the barrio of Sacramento, California, bustling and thriving in the early decades of the twentieth century. Galarza's saga begins in Jalcocotán, a mountain vill...

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Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture מאת Lee Patterson This volume brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, 'The one persistent recognition that emerged from writing these otherwise quite disparate essays is that whatever the text...and whoever the people..., the ...

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God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh מאת Theodore M. Hesburgh I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated roles: college teacher, theologian, president of a great university, counselor to four popes and six presidents. Excuse the list, but once called ...

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The Transformation of American Catholicism: The Pittsburgh Laity and the Second Vatican Council, 1950-1972 מאת Timothy Kelly Most scholars and media analysts have suggested that Vatican II revolutionized American Catholicism, with the changes it mandated filtering down from the Council to the church hierarchy to the laity. Timothy Kelly's book challenges this assumption, based on his careful tracing of Catholic lay pr...

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American Lawyers and Their Communities: Ethics in the Legal Profession (Revisions : a Series of Books on Ethics, Vol 10) מאת Thomas L. Shaffer

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Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosphy of Port-Royal מאת John J. Conley S.J. In seventeenth-century France, southwest of Paris, the Port-Royal convent became the center of the Jansenist movement and of its adherents' resistance to church and throne. Three abbesses from the Arnauld family spearheaded this resistance: Mere Angelique Arnauld (1591-1661), Mere Agnes Arnauld (159...

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The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700 (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern) מאת Patricia Badir Patricia Badir's "The Maudlin Impression" investigates the figure of Mary Magdalene in post-medieval English religious writings and visual representations. Badir argues that the medieval Magdalene story was not discarded as part of Reformation iconoclasm, but was enthusiastically embraced by English...

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The Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of Motion מאת Calvin Bedient In The Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of Motion, Calvin Bedient delivers a brilliant exploration of modernism through the mutual illumination provided by Ireland's greatest poet and greatest painter. By examining the poems of the one and the paintings of the other, he recovers an often o...

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Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy מאת Alasdair C. MacIntyre

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Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History (ND Afro/Amer Intellectual Heritage) מאת Kenneth A. McClane "Ken McClane's latest collection proves that he is one of the finest essayists currently plying the trade. Graceful, incisive, humane, Ken's writing is both beautifully wrought and deeply informative about how we live life. All of us practicing essayists can only marvel in delight at his skill and e...

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Finding the Voice of the Church מאת George Dennis O'Brien Finding the Voice of the Church is written for a broad audience interested in the challenges facing the contemporary Catholic Church. These challenges are ones that should concern all Christians, not only Catholics. Noted scholar and commentator George Dennis O'Brien poses (and answer...

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The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective מאת Gregory Baum Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the most influential Muslim theologians in the world today. In this important book, Gregory Baum presents for the first time an introduction to several key aspects of Ramadan's theological enterprise. Baum examines Ramadan's work historically within an interfaith ...

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The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (Erasmus Institute Bo) מאת Robert E. Lerner The heresy of the Free Spirit is often considered to have been the most important continental European heresy of the fourteenth century. Many historians have described its membership as a league of anarchistic deviants who fomented sexual license and subversion of authority. Free Spirits are suppose...

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Opening the Qur'an: Introducing Islam's Holy Book מאת Walter H. Wagner Opening the Qur'an can be a bewildering experience to non-Muslim, English-speaking readers. Those who expect historical narratives, stories, or essays on morals are perplexed once they pass the beautiful first Surah, often shocked and then bogged down by Surah 2, and even offended by Surah 3's stric...

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The Book of Rules of Tyconius: Its Purpose and Inner Logic (ND Christianity & Judaism Anitqui) מאת Pamela Bright

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Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans: Diplomacy, Theology, and the Politics of Interwar Ecumenism מאת Bryn Geffert "Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans" is the first sustained study of inter-Orthodox relations, the special role of the Anglican Church, and the problems of Orthodox nationalism in the modern age. Despite many challenges, the interwar years were a time of intense creativity in the Russian Orthodox Church...

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Football Weekends at Notre Dame: Snapshots and Traditions מאת Bill Schmitt When people ask the question, "What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special?" members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an entire book to give the whole answer. This is that book. It tells the gameday story with over one hundred color photographs that bring the experience al...

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Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy מאת James W. Felt Throughout more than forty years of distinguished teaching and scholarship, James W. Felt has been respected for the clarity and economy of his prose and for his distinctive approach to philosophy. The seventeen essays collected in Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy reflect Felt's encount...

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The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation מאת Chaim Perelman "It is difficult to see how any rhetorician, rhetorical critic, logician interested in verbal logic, or student of either philosophical or popular argument can claim full competence without familiarity with this work. It challenges the orthodoxies of all and suggests fresh modes of inquiry to all." ...

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Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading THE NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE מאת Peter W. Travis Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale" is one of the most popular of "The Canterbury Tales". It is only 646 lines long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. There have been countless attempts to articulate the 'real' meaning of the tale, but it has confoun...

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God and the New Haven Railway: and Why Neither One Is Doing Very Well מאת George Dennis O'Brien In this disarmingly witty look at the disrepair of the divine, George Dennis O'Brien offers a guide for finding the sacred in the everyday. Christopher Lasch called the book, first published over twenty years ago, "an astute analysis of our spiritual malaise." "God and the New Haven Railway", with a...

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The Writings of Charles De Koninck: Volume Two מאת Charles De Koninck Volume 2 of "The Writings of Charles De Koninck" is part of the three-volume series presenting the first English edition of the collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906-1965). Ralph McInerny is the project editor and has prepared the excellent translations. The se...

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Hidden Holiness מאת Michael Plekon In Hidden Holiness, Michael Plekon challenges us to examine the concept of holiness. He argues that both Orthodox and Catholic churches understand saints to be individuals whose lives and deeds are unusual, extraordinary, or miraculous. Such a requirement for sainthood undermines, in his view...

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Dedication And Leadership: Philosophy מאת Douglas Hyde On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife a...

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Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941-1975 מאת Edward A. Malloy C.S.C. One of the most respected figures in Catholic higher education, the Reverend Edward A. Malloy has written a thoroughly engaging first installment of his three-volume memoir. This book covers the years from his birth in 1941 to 1975, when he received his doctorate in Christian ethics from Vanderbilt....

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Update on the Descent Ellen Hinsey

Update on the Descent מאת Ellen Hinsey Ellen Hinsey's new collection, Update on the Descent is a powerful meditation on violence, war and human division, drawing on personal and family experiences-including the murder of her grandmother-as well as research at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Dynamically and innovatively ...

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The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics מאת John Arthos This intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer's famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius or 'inner word', serves as an indispensable guide to and reference for hermeneutic theory. John Arthos here gives a full exposition and interpretation of the medieval doctrine of th...

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Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture מאת Richard Tillinghast Richard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider perspective, he writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its cultur...