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  • UNMELTABLE ETHNICS
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    UNMELTABLE ETHNICS
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    This new, enlarged edition of an influential book originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnicsextends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you di...

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  • THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND THE NEW HUMANISM
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    THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND THE NEW HUMANISM
    MICHAEL NOVAK / GEORGE SARTON
    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 the other, Sarton points out to the former that the humanities without scientific ...

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  • THE GUNS OF LATTIMER
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    THE GUNS OF LATTIMER
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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 could not yet speak English were themselves armed only with an American flag and...

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  • BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
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    BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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 emotive and the cognitive � and in its own way, represents a major thrust at positi...

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  • BEHIND GHETTO WALLS
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    BEHIND GHETTO WALLS
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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 with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other inv...

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  • THE MYTH OF ROMANTIC LOVE AND OTHER ESSAYS
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    THE MYTH OF ROMANTIC LOVE AND OTHER ESSAYS
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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, economic, and social topics.The selections offer clarity of thinking for the sake of conc...

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  • THE EXPERIENCE OF NOTHINGNESS
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    THE EXPERIENCE OF NOTHINGNESS
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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 of these matters have been so implicated in the European experience that the ter...

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  • CHOOSING PRESIDENTS
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    CHOOSING PRESIDENTS
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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 our understanding of the presidency.The author is Michael Novak. ...

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  • THE OPEN CHURCH
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    THE OPEN CHURCH
    MICHAEL NOVAK
    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 and his successor Paul VI-"to throw open the windows of the church." In this re...

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