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Discover how to assist parishioners in their prayer and spiritual life. Learn how individual spiritual growth can flow back into the congregation's growth as a community. Explore new ideas and practical approaches to using Christian education, worship, retreats, devotional guides, …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Our memories are our most reliable sources of information about ourselves, our friends and lovers, our jobs. Or are they? We know we may occasionally forget someone's birthday, miss appointments, or lose track of details. But what about the times …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Focusing on five increasingly interrelated spheres of professional activity-politics, law, engineering, medicine, and science-the contributors to Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility cast new light on familiar ethical quandaries and direct attention to new areas of concern, particularly the institutional setting …
View book details for A Comparative Study of the Origins of Ethical Thought
Hellenism and Hebraism
Sheed & Ward
The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in …
View book details for The Power of Good Deeds
Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Power of Good Deeds allows us to see behind the media image of upper-class women and to observe how these women use their social power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people, but also to benefit themselves and their …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
With a land mass one and half times larger than the United Kingdom, a population of more than thirty million, and an economy that would rank sixth among world nations, the history of the state of California demands a closer …
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America in the 1850s
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again …
View book details for Vladimir Putin and the New World Order
Looking East, Looking West?
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
J. L. Black's latest work is a rich and carefully crafted attempt to expose the textures of Russia's perceptions of itself and its place in the world. Based almost entirely on Russian sources, J. L. Black found himself returning to …
View book details for Rethinking Social Movements
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The …
View book details for Going Out With a Bang
A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology
Dundurn
Do not go gentle into that good night, wrote Dylan Thomas, and Canadas notorious Ladies Killing Circle has taken his advice to heart. In Going Out With a Bang, the dangerous dames have brought together an explosive mix of authors …
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A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology
Dundurn
Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime writers along …
View book details for Cut to the Quick
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Dundurn
In the sequel to Cut Off his Tale, Hollis Grant is back, but this time shes in Toronto, hoping for a quiet summer of study. Hollis is a painter, and she hopes to spend some time taking a course in …
View book details for Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Sheed & Ward
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative …
View book details for Why Kids Make You Fat
...and How to Get Your Body Back
HarperCollins
It's no secret that most of us get flabbier the older we get, and it's no surprise that the biggest spike in weight happens in the early stages of parenthood. Mark Macdonald knows the struggle himself, having gained thirty-five pounds …
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A Hollis Grant Mystery
Dundurn
The starters gun explodes, and Hollis Grant excitedly begins her very first marathon race, only to stumble almost immediately over a body lying in the road, the body of the Reverend Paul Robertson, her soon-to-be ex-husband. When the crush of …
HarperCollins
IS THIS YOUR CHILD? These are the major symptoms of potentially unrecognized allergies. Does your child suffer from any of the following? Allergic Nose Rub Eye Circles Red Ears Red Cheeks Eye Wrinkles Aggression Lack of Alertness Mottled Tongue In …
View book details for Fail Nation
A Visual Romp Through the World of Epic Fails
HarperCollins
From the underbelly of the nuts behind hit websites failblog.org and icanhascheezburger.com comes FAIL Nation, your silent guide and handler to the not-even-close-to-perfect nation of FAIL, chock-full of irrelevant tips and useless suggestions about why to shop, who to eat, …
View book details for The Anti-Inflammation Zone
Reversing the Silent Epidemic That's Destroying Our Health
HarperCollins
Combat silent inflammation --the most serious healththreat you never heard ofHeart disease is the #1 killer of Americans.Cancer is the #1 fear of Americans.Dementia is the #1 concern of Americans.What do these devastating illnesses have in common? All three have …
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Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling
HarperCollins
Slaphappy is reporter Thomas Hackett's penetrating look at the world of professional wrestling, for those who love the spectacle and for the sport's skeptics and the uninitiated. Through interviews with wrestlers, promoters, and fans, Hackett explores the full range of …
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One Patient, One Doctor, One Year
HarperCollins
A gripping, illuminating book . . . Dr. Stein is drawn, in an almost Sherlock Holmesian way, toward trying to fathom and analyze addicts behavior. . . . hauntingly and successfully, Stein lets readers make a doctors experiences their own. …
Severn House Publishers
Coroner Sir John investigates a returning crusader forced to live as an outlaw in this engaging instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. Exeter, 1195. Renovations at a school in Smythen Street are disrupted by …
Severn House Publishers
Coroner Sir John chases down a serial killer with a taste for Biblical justice in this suspenseful instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. 1195. County coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to inspect …
View book details for A Positive View of LGBTQ
Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts. Focusing on how LGTBQ-identified individuals can cultivate a …
View book details for Vindicating the Founders
Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
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This controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.
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Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from public view, Operation Condor was a military network created in the 1970s to eliminate political …
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