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  • SHAKESPEARE’S INFLUENCE ON KARL MARX
    CHRISTIAN A. SMITH
    This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx’s collected works and letters, which provides evidence that Shakespeare’s writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and the development of his work. Through a methodology of intertextual and interlingual close-reading, this study provides eviden...

    $1,200.00

  • EVERYDAY KNOWLEDGE AND UNCOMMON TRUTHS
    LINDA CHRISTIAN-SMITH
    Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy is a thirteen chapter volume which draws on the life experience and varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women’s home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, and activism. To provide diverse perspect...

    $1,160.00

  • BECOMING A WOMAN THROUGH ROMANCE
    LINDA K. CHRISTIAN-SMITH
    A woman is incomplete without a man, motherhood is a woman’s destiny, and a woman’s place is in the home. These conservative political themes are woven throughout teen romance fiction’s sagas of hearts and flowers. Using the theory and interpretive methods of feminism and cultural studies, Christian-Smith explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in constructin...

    $1,000.00

  • BUILDING CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
    CHRISTIAN SMITH / JOHN C. CAVADINI
    American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian. Major challenges are faced when trying to simultaneously build and sustain excellence in undergraduate teaching, strengthen faculty research and publishing, and deepen the ...

    $302.00

  • HOW TO GO FROM BEING A GOOD EVANGELICAL TO A COMMITTED CATHOLIC IN NINETY-FIVE DIFFICULT STEPS
    CHRISTIAN SMITH
    American evangelicalism has recently experienced a new openness to Roman Catholicism, and many evangelicals, both famous and ordinary, have joined the Catholic Church or are considering the possibility. This book helps evangelicals who are exploring Catholicism to sort out the kind of concerns that typically come up in discerning whether to enter into the full communion of the ...

    $461.00

  • TO FLOURISH OR DESTRUCT
    CHRISTIAN SMITH
    In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our ‘souls’ or ‘hearts.’” Building o...

    $681.47

  • AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM
    CHRISTIAN SMITH
    Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; 20 million Americans identify themselves with the evangelical movement. Given the modern pluralistic world we live in, why is evangelicalism so popular? Based on a national telephone survey and more than three hundred personal interviews with evangelicals and other churchgoing Protestants, this study ...

    $524.17

  • WHAT IS A PERSON?
    CHRISTIAN SMITH
    What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist’s quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and soc...

    $611.56

  • RESISTING REAGAN
    CHRISTIAN SMITH
    A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nic...

    $646.51