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  • EXPLOSION ON THE POTOMAC
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    EXPLOSION ON THE POTOMAC
    KERRY WALTERS
    In 1844, the USS "Princeton" was the most technologically sophisticated warship in the world. Its captain, Robert Stockton, and President John Tyler were both zealous expansionists, and they hoped that it would be the forerunner in a formidable steam-powered fleet. On a Potomac cruise intended to impress power brokers, the ship's main gun--the Peacemaker--exploded as the vessel...

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  • SOUTHERN CRIMINOLOGY
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    SOUTHERN CRIMINOLOGY
    KERRY CARRINGTON / RUSSELL HOGG / JOHN SCOTT / MÁXIMO SOZZO / REECE WALTERS
    Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias. This book turns the origin stories of criminology, which simply assumed a global universality, on their head...

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  • OUTBREAK IN WASHINGTON, D. C.
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    OUTBREAK IN WASHINGTON, D. C.
    KERRY WALTERS
    An account of the mysterious epidemic among nineteenth-century hotel guests that " enthralled the country and nearly took the life of the-President-elect" ( The Washington Post).   The National was once the grandest hotel in the capital. In 1857, it twice hosted President-elect James Buchanan and his advisors, and on both occasions, most of the party was quickly stricken by an ...

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  • FAITH MATTERS
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    FAITH MATTERS
    KERRY WALTERS
    In a day in which Christians too often reduce faith to mere sentimentality and atheists decry it as superstitious nonsense, Fr. Kerry Walters offers a series of reflections intended to show that, indeed, faith matters. Drawn from his popular weekly newspaper column "Faith Matters," these short meditations explore Christian faith from the perspectives of doctrine, spirituality, ...

    $479.00

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  • BLESSED PEACEMAKERS
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    BLESSED PEACEMAKERS
    KERRY WALTERS / ROBIN JARRELL
    All of us yearn for a peaceable and just world, but some roll up their sleeves and set to work to make the dream real. Blessed Peacemakers celebrates 365 of them, one for each day of the year.Their stories are richly diverse. They share a commitment to peace and justice, but the various contexts in which they work make each of their stories uniquely instructive. The peacemakers...

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  • AWAKENING TO WHOLENESS
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    AWAKENING TO WHOLENESS
    KERRY WALTERS
    Dante's Divine Comedy is one of those classics more often cited than read. This is a shame because, in addition to being an artistic masterpiece, it's a roadmap for self-discovery and transformation. There's good reason why Dante chooses the Latin poet Virgil as his guide. The Comedy is all about poiesis: the creative emergence of one's true self, the transition from sleepwalki...

    $532.00

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  • SUFFRAGIST, PEACE CRANK, AND PREACHER
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    SUFFRAGIST, PEACE CRANK, AND PREACHER
    KERRY WALTERS
    No single person is more responsible for preparing the way for the ordination of women in the Church of England and the Episcopal Church than Maude Royden (1876-1956). But her contributions went beyond her pioneering advocacy of a woman's right to exercise priestly ministry. She was also a leader in the political suffrage movement, a social reformer, a pacifist, a spiritual dir...

    $674.00

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