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73 produkter
Behind Ghetto Walls
Black Families in a Federal Slum
Häftad, 2006
877 kr
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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 …
Washington's God
Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country
Häftad, 2007
346 kr
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In Washington's God Michael Novak-one of America's leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover George Washington's religious life. Finally the record is set straight on the most thoroughly misunderstood aspect of Washington's life. The Novaks focus on Washington's strong trust …
Tell ME Why
A Father Answers His Daughter's Questions about God
Häftad, 1999
306 kr
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Hailed as a new classic in faith exploration, this remarkable book offers a rare chance to eavesdrop on a conversation between a believing father and a skeptical daughter about God, faith, and morals. World-renowned theologian Michael Novak accepts a unique challenge when his twentysomething …
Concepts of Ethnicity
Av William Petersen, Michael Novak m. fl.
Häftad, 1980
315 kr
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The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available …
Free Society Reader
Principles for the New Millennium
Av Michael Novak, William Brailsford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1702 kr
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A Free Society Reader rises to the challenge of freedom in the twenty-first century, offering thoughts and insights with significant implications for citizens of today's brand new world. Our era's most prominent figures in the fields of Christianity and liberty speak about Pope John Paul II's …
Open Church
Häftad, 2001
764 kr
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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 …
Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Häftad, 1990
284 kr
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...a major work for our times. —Irving Kristol, The Public Interest
Will it Liberate ?
Questions About Liberation Theology
Häftad, 1991
259 kr
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Michael Novak's work is challenging. We often disagree sharply in out interpretations and assessments of liberation theology, but he raises important issues which call for clarification and response.
Capitalism and Socialism
A Theological Inquiry
Häftad, 1979
254 kr
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This book examines capitalism and socialism and how religion and theology are incorporated into their definitions.
Latin America
Dependency or Interdependence
Av Michael Novak, Michael P Jackson m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
161 kr
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This book discusses the future of Latin America's economic prospects.
Speaking to the Third World
Essays on Democracy and Development
Av Peter L. Berger, Michael Novak m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
161 kr
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Taking Glasnost Seriously
Toward an Open Soviet Union
Häftad, 1988
158 kr
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This book examines the Soviet Union and the gradual process of liberalization in its press and government.
This Hemisphere of Liberty
A Philosophy of the Americas
Häftad, 1992
174 kr
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As nations undergo radical transformation in every quarter of the world, we have a greater need than ever before to re-examine the sources of strength and weakness in our political, social and economic institutions. This book explores fundamental questions of wealth and poverty, of freedom and …
To Empower People
The Debate That is Changing America and the World
Av Peter L. Berger, Peter L Berger m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
311 kr
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Future of the Corporation
Häftad, 1996
146 kr
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This book reviews the long history of the corporation and examines the central role of business and economic growth in the strengthening of civil society and democracy.
Fire of Invention, the Fuel of Interest
On Intellectual Property
Häftad, 1996
133 kr
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This book discusses the moral and practical foundations of the corporation and corporate governance.
On Corporate Governance
The Corporation as it Ought to be - A Pfizer Lecture
Häftad, 1997
146 kr
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Two achievementsup the poor and animating civil societyare powerful moral claims for business corporations but schemes for corporate governance jeopardize these achievements.
On Cultivating Liberty
Reflections on Moral Ecology
Av Michael Novak, Brian C. Anderson
Inbunden, 1999
516 kr
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Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal …
Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions
Freedom with Justice
Häftad, 1988
750 kr
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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 …
Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays
Häftad, 2017
764 kr
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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, …
Behind Ghetto Walls
Black Families in a Federal Slum
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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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 …
Belief and Unbelief
A Philosophy of Self-knowledge
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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This is perhaps the most widely read of Michael Novak's books. Belief and Unbelief attempts to push intelligence and articulation as far as possible into the stuff of what so many philosophers set aside as subjectivity. It is an impassioned critique of the idea of an unbridgeable gap between the …
Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions
Freedom with Justice
Inbunden, 2017
2744 kr
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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 …
Choosing Presidents
Symbols of Political Leadership
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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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 …
Experience of Nothingness
Inbunden, 2017
2744 kr
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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 …
Guns of Lattimer
Inbunden, 2018
2888 kr
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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 …
History of Science and the New Humanism
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
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In this classic work, the foremost historian of science in our time, George Sarton, sums up his reflections on the role of science and of the humanities in our culture. Voicing his opposition to the old-fashioned humanists on the one hand, and to the 'uneducated' men of science and technicians on …
