Product Description:  DARWIN DAY IN AMERICA How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science JOHN G. WEST Updated with a brand-new chapter for the paperback edition "A superb overview of what happens once we start seeing man as an overachieving worm...read more

Product Description: Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas outside its proper bounds...read more

Product Description: Conservatives such as George Will, James Q. Wilson, and Larry Arnhart have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinian biology, even urging conservatives to draw on Darwin’s theory for support. In this small but incisive book, political scientist John West argues that the quest for “Darwinian conservatism” is misguided and fundamentally flawed...read more

Product Description: Six talented writers and Tolkien scholars describe the role that J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has in the literary, political, and religious traditions of Western civilization. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: While government is increasingly turning to faith-based charities in an effort to make America's welfare system more effective, the religious community remains sharply divided over what kind of faith-based welfare programs are best and the extent to which government should even support faith-based initiatives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Today, such issues as abortion, capital punishment, sex education, racism, prayer in public schools, and family values keep religion and politics closely entwined in American public life. This encyclopedia is an A-to-Z listing of a broad range of topics related to religious issues and politics, ranging from the religious freedom sought by the Pilgrims in the 1620s to the rise of the religious right in the 1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Surveys the author's career (view table of contents)

Product Description: In recent years, controversies over abortion, school prayer, and religious cults have raised new questions about the delicate balance between church and state, between true believers and civic authority. John West shows that America's Founders had already anticipated and answered such questions by carefully defining religion's proper role in politics...read more

A collection of articles by 178 contributors on such topics as abortion, capital punishment, interest groups, the Iran-Contra Affair, line item veto, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and more

Product Description: This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its current meaning...read more

Disgusted by the apathy and incompetence of his San Francisco hospital's emergency room staff, Dr. Alan Kirk decides to establish a trauma center in the city