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  • Wisdom and the Renewal of Catholic Theology

    Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb

    Edited by Thomas P. Harmon, Roger W. Nutt ...
    For more than fifty years, Fr. Matthew L. Lamb has been one of the major figures in American Catholic theology through his writing, teaching, and involvement in scholarly societies. Over a decade ago, Fr. Lamb moved from the Department of Theology at Boston College to develop the graduate programs in theology at Ave Maria University in response to what he identified as the widespread decline in ... Read more

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    Bullets Don't Argue [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Perley Gates 3

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Chris Stinson, Carolyn Kashner, Eric Messner, Chris Davenport, Steven Carpenter, Matthew Bassett, Nick DePinto, Richard Rohan, Todd Scofield, Drew Kopas, Andy Clemence, Eva Wilhelm, Danny Gavigan, Matthew McGee, Chris Genebach, Jonathan Watkins, Scott Bruffey, Scott McCormick, Bradley Smith, Matthew Pauli, Andrew Quilpa, Michael John Casey, Ken Jackson, Jonathan Feuer, Henry Kramer, Andy Brownstein, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Karen Novak ...
    Series series Perley Gates

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    A new kind of hero in the Old West tradition, Perley Gates is as honest and good as his heavenly name. But don't make him mad. Because when Perley Gates gets mad, people get hurt.Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many ... Read more

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  • Unmeltable Ethnics

    Politics and Culture in American Life

    by Michael Novak ...
    This new, enlarged edition of an influential book originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnicsextends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others? ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays

    by Michael Novak ...
    Written by noted Catholic philosopher Michael Novak, the selections in The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays highlight the arc of his intellectual career. Collectively demonstrating the fundamental unity of Novak's work, the sixteen essays in this book span a broad range of political, economic, and social topics.The selections offer clarity of thinking for the sake of concrete ends. For ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Open Church

    by Michael Novak ...
    Michael Novak's eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session of Vatican II in 1964 vividly inter weaves pageantry, politics, and theology. An unusually well-informed lay intellectual, who had earned a theological degree just before the Council, Novak applauded the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul VI-"to throw open the windows of the church." In this report, he coined the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Experience of Nothingness

    by Michael Novak ...
    In The Experience of Nothingness, Michael Novak has two objectives. First, he shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies. Second, he details the various experiences that lead to the nothingness point of view. Most discussions of these matters have been so implicated in the European experience that the term nihilism has a ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Choosing Presidents

    Symbols of Political Leadership

    by Michael Novak ...
    In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of American realities. This work is a guide to the complexities of electoral politics and a lasting contribution to our understanding of the presidency.The author is Michael Novak. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Guns of Lattimer

    by Michael Novak ...
    On September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike. The marchers Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, most of whom could not yet speak English were themselves armed only with an American flag and a timid, budding ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • No One Sees God

    The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers

    by Michael Novak ...
    Surveying the contemporary religious landscape, the division between atheist and believer seems stark. However, having long struggled to understand the purpose of life and the meaning of suffering, Michael Novak finds the reality of spiritual life far different from the rhetorical war presented by bestselling atheists and the defenders of the faith who oppose them.In No One Sees God, Novak ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Writing from Left to Right

    My Journey from Liberal to Conservative

    by Michael Novak ...
    “In heavy seas, to stay on course it is indispensable to lean hard left at times, then hard right. The important thing is to have the courage to follow your intellect. Wherever the evidence leads. To the left or to the right.” –Michael NovakEngagingly, writing as if to old friends and foes, Michael Novak shows how Providence (not deliberate choice) placed him in the middle of many crucial events ... Read more

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  • Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions

    Freedom with Justice

    by Michael Novak ...
    Increasingly, the religious leaders of the world are addressing problems of political economy, expressing concern about the poor. But will their efforts actually help the poor? Or harm them? Much depends, Michael Novak asserts, upon what kind of institutions are constructed, that is, upon realism and practicality.His thesis may be simply stated: Although the Catholic Church during the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Behind Ghetto Walls

    Black Families in a Federal Slum

    by Michael Novak ...
    This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character of the family life there shares much with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other investigators in other ... Read more

    $76.99 USD