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  • TAKING THE FIGHT SOUTH
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    TAKING THE FIGHT SOUTH
    HOWARD BALL
    In this "entertaining and informative" memoir, a Jewish civil rights activist recounts living in Mississippi and fighting for racial equity (Howard Winant, co-author of  Racial Formation in the United States). In  Taking the Fight South, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when he and his Jewish family moved fro...

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  • SPLINTERS ARE CHILDREN OF WOOD
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    SPLINTERS ARE CHILDREN OF WOOD
    LEIA PENINA WILSON
    The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, pose an increasingly desperate question about what it means to be a girl, the ways girls are shaped by the world, as well as the role myth plays in this coming of age quest. Wilson, an afakasi Samoan poet, divides the book int...

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  • SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS, THE AUTHORITATIVE TEXT
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    SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS, THE AUTHORITATIVE TEXT
    DAVID POWER CONYNGHAM
    "Students of the Civil War, Catholic history, and women's history, among others, will welcome [ Soldiers of the Cross] . . . Brilliantly edited." —Randall M. Miller, co-editor of  Religion and the American Civil War   Shortly after the Civil War, an Irish Catholic journalist and war veteran named David Power Conyngham began compiling the stories of Catholic chaplains and nuns w...

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  • TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY
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    TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY
    ANDREW J. BACEVICH
    Andrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to war and America's role in the world. Twilight of the American Century is a collection of his selected essays written since 9/11. In these essays, Bacevich critically examines the U.S. response to the events of September 2001, as they have played ...

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  • FROM THE CAST-IRON SHORE
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    FROM THE CAST-IRON SHORE
    FRANCIS OAKLEY
    From the Cast-Iron Shore is part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to the leading liberal arts college it is today, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Oakley's own life frames this transf...

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  • DOWN ALONG THE PINEY
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    DOWN ALONG THE PINEY
    JOHN MORT
    Down Along the Piney is John Mort's fourth short-story collection and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. With settings in Florida, California, Mexico, Chicago, the Texas Panhandle, and, of course, the Ozarks themselves, these thirteen stories portray the unsung, amusing, brutal, forever hopeful lives of ordinary people. Mort chronicles the struggles of "flyo...

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  • SOLDIERS OF A DIFFERENT CLOTH
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    SOLDIERS OF A DIFFERENT CLOTH
    JOHN F. WUKOVITS
    "This riveting account of the heroic contributions of thirty-five chaplains and missionaries during World War II is nearly impossible to put down . . . inspiring." — The Boston Pilot   In  Soldiers of a Different Cloth,  New York Times-bestselling author and military historian John Wukovits tells the inspiring story of thirty-five chaplains and missionaries who, while garnering...

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  • CAN DIFFERENT CULTURES THINK THE SAME THOUGHTS?
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    CAN DIFFERENT CULTURES THINK THE SAME THOUGHTS?
    KENNETH DORTER
    "A welcome contribution to the burgeoning multicultural revolution in philosophy . . . persuasively shows that ethics cannot be innocent of metaphysics." —Bryan W. Van Norden, author of  Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy   Kenneth Dorter's  Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? is a study of fundamental issues in metaphysics and ethics across major philosop...

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  • THE COMING OF THE CELTS, AD 1860
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    THE COMING OF THE CELTS, AD 1860
    CAOIMHÍN DE BARRA
    "Finely researched and lucidly written . . . details the rise, ebb, and flow of the idea of a common Celtic identity linking Ireland and Wales." — The New York Review of Books   Who are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhín De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries ca...

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  • LATINOS IN NEW YORK
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    LATINOS IN NEW YORK
    SHERRIE BAVER
    Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third of the population spread over five boroughs. Puerto Ricans remain the largest su...

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  • BEYOND THE INQUISITION
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    BEYOND THE INQUISITION
    GIORGIO CARAVALE
    In Beyond the Inquisition, originally published in an Italian edition in 2007, Giorgio Caravale offers a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century Italian religious history and the religious crisis that swept across Europe during that period. Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi (1484–1553), Caravale rethinks the problems resulting from the diffusion of Pr...

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  • LAND!
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    LAND!
    JOHN CROWE RANSOM
    From a National Book Award winner, "an indictment of a system that values accumulation, shareholder profit . . . over . . . self-sufficiency, and solidarity." (Robert Neuwirth, author of  Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy)   John Crowe Ransom's  Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites the accomplished literary scholar's poetic sensibilities ...

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  • CONFLICTS OF DEVOTION
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    CONFLICTS OF DEVOTION
    DANIEL R. GIBBONS
    Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such questions called for a new approach to the communal religious rituals and verses that shaped and commemorated many of the brightest and darkest moments of English life. In England, new forms of religious writing emerged out of a deep...

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  • VERBS, BONES, AND BRAINS
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    VERBS, BONES, AND BRAINS
    "A benchmark collection of essays on the contemporary understanding of human nature. . . . [engaging] biology and anthropology to theology and philosophy." —Robin W. Lovin, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus, Southern Methodist University, author of  What Do We Do When No One is Listening: Leading the Church in a Polarized Society The last few decades have ...

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  • THE SPIRIT, THE AFFECTIONS, AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
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    THE SPIRIT, THE AFFECTIONS, AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
    The essays in this volume explore the role of emotions and affections in the Christian tradition, focusing also on the importance of pneumatology in Christianity. ...

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  • TRANSCENDENT LOVE
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    TRANSCENDENT LOVE
    LEONARD G. FRIESEN
    In Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic, Leonard G. Friesen ranges widely across Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues in his times and how those same issues continue to be relevant to today's ethical debates. Friesen contends that the Russian ethical voice, in...

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  • A FRAMEWORK FOR THE GOOD
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    A FRAMEWORK FOR THE GOOD
    KEVIN KINGHORN
    "A novel and clarifying treatment of foundational ethical issues with special attention to Christian ethics." ―Paul K. Moser, Loyola University Chicago This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure. In Part one, Kevin Kinghorn offers a formal analysis of the meaning of the term "good," the nature of goodnes...

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  • DESIRE, FAITH, AND THE DARKNESS OF GOD
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    DESIRE, FAITH, AND THE DARKNESS OF GOD
    In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of Christianity are equally strident. In response, Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner explores the uncertainty essential to Christian commitment; it sugge...

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  • UNDERDAYS
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    UNDERDAYS
    MARTIN OTT
    The award-winning poet "interrogates our wide broken world, from Afghanistan to Los Angeles, with the unity of a singular, relentless voice" (Dan O'Brien, author of From Scarsdale). We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed,...

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  • THE CHOICE OF THE JEWS UNDER VICHY
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    THE CHOICE OF THE JEWS UNDER VICHY
    ADAM RAYSKI / UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
    In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government's role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He documents the eff...

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  • WILD TRACK
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    WILD TRACK
    KEVIN HART
    The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart's poetry both in the United States and abroad. This volume performs a valuable service by bringing together the...

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  • THE HARP OF PROPHECY
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    THE HARP OF PROPHECY
    The Psalms generated more biblical commentary from early Christians than any other book of the Hebrew and Christian canon. While advances have been made in our understanding of the early Christian preoccupation with this book and the traditions employed to interpret it, no study on the Psalms traditions exists that can serve as a solid academic point of entry into the field. Th...

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  • BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO
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    BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO
    JOAN FRANK
    Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Joan Frank's Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Frank's aim is to form a coherent vision, one that may provide some communion about realities of the writer's vocation that have struck her as rarely revealed. Fra...

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  • THE INCURABLES
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    THE INCURABLES
    MARK BRAZAITIS
    In his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and fami...

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  • THE NEW ORLEANS SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY
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    THE NEW ORLEANS SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY
    EDWARD T. BRETT
    The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans, of teaching slaves and free people of color, caring for orphans and the elderly, a...

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  • SPIRITS IN THE GRASS
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    SPIRITS IN THE GRASS
    BILL MEISSNER
    When Bill Meissner's collection of short stories Hitting into the Wind was published in 1994, it was called "a quiet masterpiece of baseball writing" by the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, "Bill Meissner captures baseball with all its crystalline beauty—the remarkable reverberation of time and space and character." And The New Y...

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