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Next-Generation Leadership A Toolkit for Teens and Twenty- and Thirty-Year-Olds
ISBN: PB: 9781589662216, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
291 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Drawing on his five decades of leadership experience, William Byron outlines in this volume the theory, practice, and purpose of leadership. Intuition, humility, empathy, simplicity of lifestyle, and sound speaking and writing skills are all essentia...
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£20,00
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South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops
ISBN: PB: 9781589662087, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
151 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Bob Capek's mother is killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father moves the family from Virginia back to his hometown of Mauch Chunk, a small town in the middle of the eastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. From the moment Bob boa...
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£6,00
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Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
ISBN: PB: 9781589662049, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence", Andrew Gluck brings together distinguished scholars to address a fiercely debated topic: the intersection of religion and violence. Among the contributions is an anthropological analysis of the violence as...
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£22,00
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Medieval Philosophy Redefined
ISBN: HB: 9781589662162, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
450 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
With "Medieval Philosophy Redefined" John Deely provides an in-depth, original history of medieval philosophy, tracing a common thread that coherently unifies and defines what he calls "the Latin Age" – which reaches unbroken from the fifth-century w...
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£30,00
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Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story
ISBN: PB: 9781589662063, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
On the surface, Lucie Christine – the pseudonym given to a nineteenth-century Frenchwoman named Mathilde Boutle – was a very ordinary upper-middle-class woman, fulfilling her daily responsibilities to her husband and children. But underneath, Lucie C...
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£20,00
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Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow A Guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781589662209, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
During their ascendency and subsequent occupation of much of Europe, the Nazis plundered the documents and cultural treasures of Jewish organizations as well as other groups and individuals they deemed to be enemies of the Reich. When the Nazis were...
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£22,50
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Choice Converts to Judaism Share Their Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781589662094, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Choice", Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of forty-five converts to Judaism. These reflective narratives demonstrate that no two converts' experiences are alike, yet most share some common characteristics: a spiri...
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£19,00
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Greater Than a Mother's Love Kinship in the Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi
ISBN: PB: 9781589662131, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, September 2010
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although there are several studies dedicated to the lives of Francis and Clare of Assisi, Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzalez's "Greater Than a Mother's Love" is the first to investigate their spirituality in the context of family relationships. He delves into...
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£23,00
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Metaphysics of Media Toward an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality
ISBN: PB: 9781589662025, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, May 2010
275 pp., 23x15 cm
In "The Metaphysics of Media", award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported – and even to some extent created – different conceptions of reality. To do so, h...
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£22,00
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Idea of the Catholic University Proceedings from the 30th Annual Conference of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
ISBN: PB: 9781589662193, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2010
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For decades, those involved in Catholic higher education – including professors, administrators, theologians, philosophers, and students – have perennially taken on the challenge of defining and clarifying what exactly and uniquely characterizes thei...
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£15,00
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