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Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is: Rescuing a Forgotten Virtue

Well-known and respected authors present a chronologically organized introduction to child and adolescent development. Research oriented, the text brings together research and real children with interludes or vignettes. Provides a logical and straightforward organization emphasizing development in its social context written in an accessible, conversational tone. Stresses practical issues and features research focus boxes, chapter outlines, attractive design and illustration material, a glossary of key terms, and study questions.

By Michael Novak

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9781594038273 | Encounter Books, November 3, 2015, cover price $27.99

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9780471855613, titled "Study Guide to Accompany Child Development" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 1987, cover price $19.90 | also contains Study Guide to Accompany Child Development | About this edition: Well-known and respected authors present a chronologically organized introduction to child and adolescent development.

An American & Catholic Life: Essays Dedicated to Michael Novak

Product Description: On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, friends and colleagues of Michael Novak assembled at Ave Maria University for a conference honoring his life's work. The essays in this collection are the fruits of that event, and together they demonstrate the unity of Novak's career...read more

By Michael Novak (foreword by) and Elizabeth C. Shaw (editor)

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9781932589719 | Sapientia Pr, May 15, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, friends and colleagues of Michael Novak assembled at Ave Maria University for a conference honoring his life's work.

Tea Party Catholic: The Catholic Case for Liberty, Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing

By Samuel Gregg and Michael Novak (foreword by)

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9780824549817 | Crossroad Pub Co, October 4, 2013, cover price $24.95

Writing from Left to Right: My Journey from Liberal to Conservative

Product Description: âIn heavy seas, to stay on course it is indispensable to lean hard left at times, then hard right. The important thing is to have the courage to follow your intellect. Wherever the evidence leads. To the left or to the right.â âMichael NovakÂ Engagingly, writing as if to old friends and foes, Michael Novak shows how Providence (not deliberate choice) placed him in the middle of many crucial events of his time: a month in wartime Vietnam, the student riots of the 1960s, the Reagan revolution, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Bill Clinton's welfare reform, and the struggles for human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan...read more

By Michael Novak

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9780385347464 | Image Books, September 3, 2013, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: âIn heavy seas, to stay on course it is indispensable to lean hard left at times, then hard right.

Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation

By Michael Novak and William E. Simon, Jr.

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9781594035869 | Encounter Books, September 13, 2011, cover price $21.95

All Nature is a Sacramental Fire: Moments of Beauty, Sorrow, and Joy

By Michael Novak

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9781587310225 | St Augustine Pr Inc, August 2, 2011, cover price $17.00

Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies

Product Description: The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it...read more

By Michael Novak

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9781412808842 | 3 revised edition (Transaction Pub, March 31, 2009), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are.

Hayek, Practitioner of Social Justice

Product Description: Represents one of a series of seven lectures sponsored in 1999 by Liberty Fund and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek's birth.

By Michael Novak

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9780865976450 | Dvd edition (Liberty Fund, January 1, 2009), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Represents one of a series of seven lectures sponsored in 1999 by Liberty Fund and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek's birth.

No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers

By Michael Novak

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9780385526104 | Crown Pub, August 5, 2008, cover price $23.95

Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

Product Description: In Washington's God Michael Novak-one of America's leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover George Washington's religious life. Finally the record is set straight on the most thoroughly misunderstood aspect of Washington's life...read more

By Jana Novak and Michael Novak

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9780465051274 | Basic Books, February 12, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In Washington's God Michael Novak-one of America's leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover George Washington's religious life.

Belief and Unbelief: A Philosophy of Self-Knowledge

Product Description: 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 â and in its own way, represents a major thrust at positivist analysis...read more

By Michael Novak

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9781560007418 | 3 sub edition (Transaction Pub, August 1, 2006), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This is perhaps the most widely read of Michael Novak's books.

9780819151346 | Univ Pr of Amer, March 1, 1986, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: This is perhaps the most widely read of Michael Novak's books.

Washington's God

An examination of the religious views of George Washington argues that historians have mislabeled the first president as a deist, and offers evidence to suggest he was a deeply spiritual man.

By Jana Novak and Michael Novak

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9780465051267 | Basic Books, March 6, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An examination of the religious views of George Washington argues that historians have mislabeled the first president as a deist, and offers evidence to suggest he was a deeply spiritual man.

What Is the West?

By Kenneth Casler (trans), Philippe Nemo and Michael Novak (foreword by)

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9780820703756 | Duquesne Univ Pr, January 27, 2006, cover price $19.95

The Universal Hunger For Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable

Product Description: Starting with 9/11 and continuing with the struggle for peace in Iraq, the West has been forced to interact more fully with the civilization of Islam. In The Universal Hunger for Liberty, statesman and award-winning author Michael Novak sets forth a new model for facing this challenge-and for healing a still violently fractured world...read more

By Michael Novak

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9780465051311 | Basic Books, September 21, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Presents the theory that the Islamic religions have a basic belief in political, economic, and religious liberty, and that this belief can be a starting point for Islamic nations and the West to work toward peaceful coexistence.

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9780465051328 | Basic Books, January 2, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Starting with 9/11 and continuing with the struggle for peace in Iraq, the West has been forced to interact more fully with the civilization of Islam.

Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII And the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis

By Michael Novak (foreword by) and Ronald J. Rychlak

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9781890626600 | Spence Pub, September 30, 2005, cover price $29.95

Frederick Hart: Changing Tides

Product Description: A comprehensive look into the life and talent of a classical sculptor whose art - at once traditional in its adherence to the importance of the human figure, and radical in its sensuality and innovative use of materials - is represented in both his public commissions and private work...read more

By Frederick Hart (editor), Debra Mancoff, Michael Novak (editor) and Frederick Turner (editor)

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9781555952334 | Hudson Hills Pr, May 15, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive look into the life and talent of a classical sculptor whose art - at once traditional in its adherence to the importance of the human figure, and radical in its sensuality and innovative use of materials - is represented in both his public commissions and private work.

On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding

Product Description: The leaders of the American Revolution, unlike the leaders of the French revolution, did not set out to erase religion. Indeed, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of the British bombardment of Boston...read more

By Michael Novak

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9781893554344 | 1 edition (Encounter Books, August 1, 2001), cover price $23.95

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9781893554689 | Expanded edition (Encounter Books, June 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The leaders of the American Revolution, unlike the leaders of the French revolution, did not set out to erase religion.

The Open Church

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Novak

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9780765807724 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, October 1, 2001), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Michael Novak's eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session of Vatican II in 1964 vividly inter weaves pageantry, politics, and theology.

Three in One: Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976-2000

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By Michael Novak and Edward Wayne Younkins

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9780742511705 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 2001, cover price $112.00

The Surprising Pope: Understanding the Thought of John Paul II

Product Description: On the wave of Pope John Paul II's recent extraordinary journeys to places such as Cuba and Israel comes this new, accessible survey of his teachings from one of his closest associates. Father Maciej Zieba, a Pole who came back to Catholicism after studies in physics and activist efforts with Solidarnosc, was ordained as a Dominican priest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Novak (foreword by), Karolina Weening (trans) and Maciej Zieba

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9780739101452 | Lexington Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: On the wave of Pope John Paul II's recent extraordinary journeys to places such as Cuba and Israel comes this new, accessible survey of his teachings from one of his closest associates.

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9780739101469 | Lexington Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: On the wave of Pope John Paul II's recent extraordinary journeys to places such as Cuba and Israel comes this new, accessible survey of his teachings from one of his closest associates.

A Free Society Reader: Principles for the New Millennium

Product Description: A Free Society Reader rises to the challenge of freedom in the twenty-first century, offering thoughts and insights with significant implications for citizens of today's brand new world. Our era's most prominent figures in the fields of Christianity and liberty speak about Pope John Paul II's vision of a free society, conceptualize Christianity and political economy, debate issues of democracy and the free society, and question the role of culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philippe Beneton (contributor), William Brailsford (editor), Cornelius Heesters (editor) and Michael Novak (foreword by)

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9780739101445 | Lexington Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: A Free Society Reader rises to the challenge of freedom in the twenty-first century, offering thoughts and insights with significant implications for citizens of today's brand new world.

God's Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously : The 1999 Francis Boyer Lecture

By Michael Novak

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9780844771458 | Aei Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $9.95

Tell Me Why: A Father Answers His Daughter's Questions About God

A world-renowned Catholic theologian and his skeptical young daughter record their attempts to reach a shared understanding of God, faith, the Catholic Church, and morality, in a warm, lively, and down-to-earth exchange for readers of all creeds. Reprint.

By Jana Novak and Michael Novak

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9780671018856 | Pocket Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A Catholic theologian and his skeptical young daughter record their attempts to reach a shared understanding of God, faith, the Catholic Church, and morality

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9780671018863 | Reprint edition (Gallery Books, July 1, 1999), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Catholic theologian and his skeptical young daughter record their attempts to reach a shared understanding of God, faith, the Catholic Church, and morality

Morals and Markets: Seventh Annual Iea Hayek Memorial Lecture

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By Norman Barry, Robert Davidson, Michael Novak and Jonathan Sacks

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9780255364249 | Inst of Economic Affairs, May 1, 1999, cover price $17.95

On Cultivating Liberty: Reflections on Moral Ecology

Examines the family, welfore reform, free markets, self-government, and the founding of America in a defense of a free and virtuous society (view table of contents)

By Brian C. Anderson and Michael Novak

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9780847694051 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 1, 1999, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Examines the family, welfore reform, free markets, self-government, and the founding of America in a defense of a free and virtuous society

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