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  • Selling Catholicism

    Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television

    by Christopher Owen Lynch ...
    When the popularity of Milton Berle's television show began to slip, Berle quipped, "At least I'm losing my ratings to God!" He was referring to the popularity of "Life Is Worth Living" and its host, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. The show aired from 1952 to 1957, and Sheen won an Emmy, beating competition that included Lucille Ball, Jimmy Durante, and Edward R. Murrow.What was the secret to Sheen's on ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Communities and Conservation

    Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management

    by Janis Alcorn, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, J Peter Brosius, Marcus Colchester, Walter Coward, Louise Fortmann, Augusto B. Gatmaytan, Emmy Hafild, Tania Li, Owen Lynch, Marshall Murphree, Rod Neumann, Peter Poole, Dianne Rocheleau, Richard Schroeder, Richard Chase Smith, Christopher Tarnowski, Roem Topatimasang, Anna Tsing, Ken Wilson ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Natural Connections

    Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation

    by Jonathan Otto, Charles Zerner, John Robinson, Richard Donovan, Marianne Lavelle, R. Villarreal, Nick Salafsky, Janice Alcorn, Frances Seymour, Chuck Kleyneyer, Mary Pearl, Richard Bodmer, Kent Elbow, Kenneth Sayre, Daniel Bromley, Don Tuzin, Mark Poffenberger, Scott McCreary, Michael Hill, AJ Press, Fabio Feldmann, Derek Statham, Michael Wells, Marshall W. Murphree, Simon Metcalfe, Kent H. Redford, Owen Lynch, Peter Little ...
    Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Benedict Option

    A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

    by Rod Dreher ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David BrooksIn this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.**From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo ... Read more

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  • The Disappearance of Childhood

    by Neil Postman ...
    From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent ... Read more

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  • How Christianity Changed the World

    by Alvin J. Schmidt ...
    Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility or resentment.How Christianity Changed the World is a topicallyarranged Christian history for Christians and non-Christians. Grounded in solid research and written ... Read more

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  • The Death of Adam

    Essays on Modern Thought

    by Marilynne Robinson ...
    In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly ... Read more

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  • A Heart on Fire

    Catholic Witness and the Next America

    by Charles J. Chaput ...
    "A genuinely Catholic life should feed the soul as well as the mind; should offer a vision of men and women made whole by the love of God, the knowledge of creation, and the reality of things unseen; should enable us to see the beauty of the world in the light of eternity; and should help us recapture the nobility of the human story and the dignity of the human person. This is the kind of witness ... Read more

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  • Practicing Catholic

    by James Carroll ...
    A personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by a National Book Award–winning, New York Times-bestselling author.James Carroll turns to the notion of practice—both as a way to learn and a means of improvement—as a lens for this thoughtful and frank look at what it means to be Catholic. He acknowledges the slow and steady transformation of the Church from ... Read more

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  • What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?

    by D. James Kennedy ...
    One powerful truth is undeniable: if Christ had never been born, nearly every facet of human life would be worse. Discover what the world would have been like without Jesus, and how some of the world’s greatest accomplishments exist only because he lived.We live in a cynical age in which only one prejudice is tolerated: anti-Christian bigotry. Yet despite the near constant and attacks against the ... Read more

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  • Strangers in a Strange Land

    Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World

    by Charles J. Chaput ...
    The clergyman critiques contemporary American life and offers Catholics—and Christians—guidance to living their faith vigorously, with confidence and hope.From the author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholic life and Christian community in the United States. America today is different in kind , not just ... Read more

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  • Papal Sin

    Structures of Deceit

    by Garry Wills ...
    Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017."The truth, we are told, will make us free. It is time to free Catholics, lay as well as clerical, from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin. Paler, subtler, less dramatic than the sins castigated by Orcagna or Dante, these are the quiet sins of intellectual betrayal."--from the ... Read more

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