Permanently paralyzed from the neck down and hospitalized, Ken Harrison struggles for control over his own body and future in this compelling drama about the duel between doctor and patient over who has the right to determine the latter's destiny

Product Description: Does the toleration of liberal democratic society mean that religious faiths are left substantively intact, so long as they respect the rights of others? Or do liberal principles presuppose a deeper transformation of religion? Does life in democratic society itself transform religion? In Making Religion Safe for Democracy, J...read more

Product Description: Are church structures divinely-willed, and consequently both permanent and irreversible? Can Christians modify the polity of their church like they do with that of civil society? What would be the role of the office of oversight in a Christian church democratically organized? What would its relationship with specialized authorities within the community be? Building on a remarkable number of specialist studies in exegesis, church history, political philosophy, canon law, and ecclesiology, this book convincingly fulfils three goals...read more

Product Description: Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern democratic power, which does not rest with a sovereign authority but operates as a diffuse social force...read more

Product Description: Revised habilitation--Universiteat Mannheim, 2006.

Setting out from Willowdale by handcar, three mysterious figures pass a number of odd characters and witness a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion set precariously on a bluff, in a macabre new tale by the late author of The Haunted Tea-Cosy. 20,000 first printing.

Permanently paralyzed from the neck down and hospitalized, Ken Harrison struggles for control over his own body and future in this compelling drama about the duel between doctor and patient over who has the right to determine the latter's destiny