Product Description: National Catholic Reporter at Fifty tells the story of the award-winning Catholic paper the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) in the lead-up to NCR’s 50th anniversary in October 2014. Founded during the Second Vatican Council, NCR has been a powerful progressive voice in the Catholic Church and has broken a number of challenging stories—first covering the nationwide clerical pedophilia crisis, publishing the secret Papal Birth Control Commission report that recommended ending the ban on birth control (which Pope Paul VI overrode), and the scandal that African priests were seducing or raping nuns because they were AIDS-free on a continent that wasn’t...read more

Product Description: Hearts on Fire is the inspiring story of the Maryknoll Sisters, updated to mark the centenary of their founding in 1912. Through the voices of the Sisters themselves, Penny Lernoux draws a loving portrait of a community in constant transition and shows how in their process of growth and conversion they left an indelible mark on the church and the world...read more

Product Description: Personal stories from an all-star lineup-immortalized in beautiful, black Sharpie(r). When Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast across the nation...read more

Product Description: On June 25, 1914, a fire that started at the Korn Leather Factory on Boston Street in Salem, Massachusetts, quickly spread through the city, ""sweeping all before it."" By the time it was extinguished early the following morning, it had burned 253 acres, destroyed 1,376 buildings, and caused millions of dollars worth of damage...read more

Product Description: Written in three-line blank verse, this work explores Mary's role in Jesus' growth and formation as a mother raising and encouraging her unique son.

Product Description: It’s time. It’s time to build a personal relationship with the Lord and savior Jesus Christ. In All Call, author Arthur William Jones Jr. discusses the importance of entering into this relationship and how it can be achieved. Establishing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is one step on the path to spending an eternity in heaven...read more

Product Description: March and live with the Gothic tribes as they soar across Europe and struggle against their enemies. Join them in their battles, their joys and sorrows, the horrific wars against the Roman Empire and their search for a permanent homeland...read more

Product Description: Volume 4 of Channeling the Apocalypse / isbn; 9780615162041

M Scott Peck was hailed as 'a prophet to the 70s' when 'The Road Less Travelled' was published. His book spent in excess of 10 years on the 'New York Times' bestseller list - longer than achieved by any other living author. He died in 2005 from Parkinsons disease. This book presents the fascinating paradoxes associated with his life and work.

Product Description: A new edition of Branch Johnson's pioneering work, Hertfordshire Inns, first published in 1962-3 in two volumes. Mostly consisting of pubs predating 1900 it is arranged alphabetically by parish and gives former names and a brief history of each house.

Product Description: This book contains all Hertfordshire material of any importance which was published in The Gentleman's Magazine in the period from 1731 - 1800. It is a rich resource for research: history, news items of every kind, reports of robberies, court proceedings, executions, fires and, of course, the obituaries for which G...read more

A detailed portrait of the nineteenth-century American, now a candidate for canonization, describes his birth in Haiti, devout Catholic upbringing as the child of a plantation slave, flight to New York City, efforts to become educated and skilled, and lifetime devotion to helping former slaves and the Catholic church.

Presents an introduction to chaos theory. (view table of contents)

Product Description: What does the reality of Sept. 11 mean to us as Christians? Where does religious faith fit in? Has Sept. 11 jarred our faith, jolted us out of complacency, called on us to plumb our depths and required us to more clearly define our gifts and charisms? We seek succor and solace in prayer, sacred writings, quiet calm, beauty, and life beyond death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This very practical book is intended to show how composites are increasingly being used in real-world applications in areas where the primary material choice in the past would have been exclusively metals-based. A series of in-depth case studies examiines the design processes involved in putting together aircraft fuselages, Formua 1 cars, Transit van roofs, infrastructure systems for water treatment and storage and many other novel applications for FRCs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The theme of this book is modeling the real world using mathematics. The authors concentrate on the techniques used to set up mathematical models and describe many systems in full detail, covering both differential and difference equations in depth. Among the broad spectrum of topics studied in this book are: mechanics, genetics, thermal physics, economics and population studies. (view table of contents)

An insider's look at the 1996 presidential campaign includes in-depth interviews with the major candidates, voter profiles, discussions of important issues, and a study on the long-term fate of the Contract With America. Original.

Product Description: A biting attack on impersonal economic systems in the West particularly the U.S., contrasted with recent social teachings of religious leaders.

Product Description: This book provides an easy introduction to the theory of differentiable manifolds. The authors then show how the theory can be used to develop, simply but rigorously, the theory of Lanrangian mechanics directly from Newton's laws...read more

Product Description: 1985, hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, U.K., 246 pages. Fascinating study of the various organizations in the U.K. that were created and developed to protect the heritage of the land. Here is the story of the National Land Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and the policies and priorities for the future...read more