Product Description: In the past thirty years there has been a sea change in North American intellectual life regarding the role of religious commitments in academic endeavors. Driven partly by post-modernism and the fragmentation of knowledge and partly by the democratization of the academy in which different voices are celebrated, the appropriate role that religion should play is contested...read more

Product Description: Chronicling California's early history California has recently been blessed with a number of careful and colorful works by authors who do not hesitate at--and perhaps even enjoy--shattering the state's historic icons in order to present an honest view of the state's formative events and their causes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Gaylen J. Byker

Product Description: This book addresses a neglected area of Irish emigration to America, that from Ulster in the nineteenth century. Studies of nineteenth and twentieth century Irish emigration have centered on the south and the west of Ireland. Or, when emigration from the north of Ireland has been studied, it has typically been concerned with the eighteenth century...read more

Offers more than fifty selections of the journalist's best work drawn from his twenty-six yera career as chief correspondent to the British newspaper 'The Manchester Guardian'

Essays explore the Christian view of the nature of history and the role of religious faith in historical methods