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“gerald mccarthy”

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  • A Man of Substances

    The Misdeeds and Growing Pains of a Pot Pioneer

    by David Partridge, Gerald McCarthy ...
    When Gerry McCarthy hit the headlines in 1996, he was the man at the center of a five million dollar dope bust, the largest grow-op takedown in Canadian history. But when he hit the big city as a small-town teenager many years before, he was as green as grass. The story in between is a unique and winding journey through the vibrant, revolutionary years of the twentieth century.A Man of Substances ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Blueprint for Going Green

    How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation

    by Gerald P. McCarthy ...
    How one organization took on industrial pollution—and the lessons for our new centuryIn 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster—the poisoning of the James River by Allied Chemical—and turned it into a great environmental-protection legacy. The $8 million payment made by Allied would go on to fund the game-changing Virginia Environmental Endowment.Blueprint for Going Green ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Hitchhiking Home from Danang

    A Memoir of Vietnam, PTSD and Reclamation

    by Gerald A. McCarthy ...
    Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward, where he witnessed patient-attempted suicides. Medically discharged, he returned home to upstate New York and piecework in shoe factories. Written in two voices--one lucid, one dreamlike--his memoir delivers a jump ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Just Peace Ethic Primer

    Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence

    by Eli S. McCarthy, Gerald W. Schlabach, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Leo Guardado, Nancy M. Rourke, Dan Cosacchi, Alex Mikulich, Maria Stephan, Mel Duncan, John Ashworth0, Jose Henriquez Leiva1, Peggy Faw Gish2, Leo Lushumbo3, Teresia Wamuyu Wachira4, Jasmin Nario-Galace5 ...
    The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is unsustainable, the just peace approach turns our attention to rehumanization, participatory processes, nonviolent resistance, restorative justice, reconciliation, racial justice, and creative strategies of active nonviolence to build sustainable peace, ... Read more

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  • The Future Church

    How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church

    by John L. Allen Jr. ...
    One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed*—and what the changes will mean for all of us.*What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the United States and the rest of the world go bankrupt from years of scandal? In THE FUTURE CHURCH, John L. Allen ... Read more

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  • Strangers in Their Own Land

    Anger and Mourning on the American Right

    by Arlie Russell Hochschild ...
    The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump"A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book."—Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to S.. ... Read more

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  • The Long Gray Line

    The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

    by Rick Atkinson, Rick Atkinson ...
    The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson."A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston GlobeA classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the ... Read more

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  • Why We Fight

    The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

    by Christopher Blattman ...
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  • The Central Liberal Truth

    How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
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  • Burying White Privilege

    Resurrecting a Badass Christianity

    by Miguel A. De La Torre ...
    Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to read.Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La ... Read more

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