Böcker av Peter McDonough

"(This) courageous, ambitious book . . . captures the authentic drama of the Jesuits' confrontation with American modernity."--James T. Fisher, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Yale University. (Roman Catholicism)

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Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy...

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Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy...

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The population of Brazil increased tenfold, from 10 to over 100 million, between 1880 and 1980, nearly half of this increase occurring since the end of World War II. The Politics of Population in Brazil examines the attitudes toward population pla...

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Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they h...

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Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they h...

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Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDonough challenges the conventional notion of elites in authoritarian regimes as unideological pragmat...

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Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDonough challenges the conventional notion of elites in authoritarian regimes as unideological pragmat...

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This proceedings of the Fifth U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, held in Seattle, Washington, on August 12-14, 1999, presents new developments and emerging practices that will advance the state of knowledge of lifeline earthquake ...

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This report outlines the HITEC Technical Evaluation Plan for large seismic isolator and energy dissipation devices. The plan is designed to characterize the fundamental properties and performance characteristics of a wide range of devices produced...

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This report details the effects of the Nisqually, Washington Earthquake of February 28, 2001. Despite the magnitude of this 6.8 earthquake, only moderate damage was reported on older structures and minimal damage was reported on newer engineered b...

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Sponsored by the Gas and Liquid Fuels Committee of the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. Seismic Resilience of Natural Gas Systems: Improving Performance highlights seismic risk mitigation issues of interest to engineer...

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Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people. Drawing on national surveys taken in 1978, 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors explore ...

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A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II.The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful & often frustrating tension between...

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Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people. Drawing on national surveys taken in 1978, 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors explore ...

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Imagine if Yeshua bar Yosep, Jesus the son of Joseph the carpenter, came to your home one afternoon. Imagine, that after your initial surprise, you invited him in to sit at your kitchen table. And then imagine he began talking to you.Going back to...

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This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss work is the first devoted to Strauss thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views...

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This is the first book to be written about the history and development of Alfa Romeo's fabulous Tipo 33 prototype racers. Carlo Chiti's sports cars of the 1960s and 70s won the Manufacturers World Championships in 1975 and 1977, but few records we...

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