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This title is for pre-order and it will ship Fall 2024. All books ordered with this title will be held until this item is published and ready to ship.The Justice Reader: Classical Readings on the Cardinal Virtue of Justice is a timely and engaging collection of approximately 50 selected readings on justice. With excerpts taken from the great books of the ancient, medieval, and modern periods, this anthology will help students understand the great conversation surrounding justice.
(PRE-ORDER) The Justice Reader
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"A fine and thought provoking examination of the relationship between the mind, heart, and moral life of the human person." ~ John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New YorkA Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
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In refreshing challenge to the common presumption that knowing involves amassing information, this book offers an eight-step approach that begins with love and pledge and ends with communion and shalom.A Little Manual for Knowing
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For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
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One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends.Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
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In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman insightfully reveals the effects of television and media, which are training our habits, desires, and thoughts, and ultimately making us “decontextualized” robots. After alerting us to the dangerous effects of television, Postman offers suggestions for withstanding the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to show business, we must recognize the ways in which the media shapes our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape it to serve our highest goals.Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Ancient Rome by Richard J. Maybury discusses what happens when higher law principles and a free market economy are ignored.Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Today (Second Edition)
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Are You Liberal? Conservative? or Confused? by Richard J. Maybury discusses political labels: Liberal, conservative, left, right, democrat, republican, moderate, socialist, libertarian, communist -- what are their meanings and economic policies, what plans do their promoters have for your money, and what model do they follow?Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? (Second Edition)
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On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right, and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go?Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kenney, C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley
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One of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century—Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy.Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
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W. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present--and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our "personal density."Breaking Bread with the Dead
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W. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present--and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our "personal density."
Breaking Bread with the Dead (Hardcover)
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The radical pamphlet that helped incite the American Revolution Common Sense is the book that created the modern United States, as Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society. Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself and set up an independent republican government.Common Sense
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is the ardent pamphlet that ignited the American Revolution, a timeless call to challenge tyranny and embrace the enduring ideals of liberty and justice.Common Sense
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A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
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Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are “desiring agents,” full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
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