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Defenders of the Unborn
The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from...
by John Salmon Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected...
All My Bones Shake
Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A thought-provoking reassessment of religious faith and progressive politics from an author whose “wonderful writing is both a surprise and a relief” (Naomi Klein).
In All My Bones Shake, author and political activist Robert Jensen sheds light on the spiritual unrest at the root of our nation’s...
Our Better Nature
Environment and the Making of San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends....
by Linda Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history...
by A. F. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The birth control insurance coverage debate involves many issues that have far reaching consequences This booklet, from the author of the best selling book "Religious Right: The Greatest Threat to Democracy," delves past the rhetoric and delivers a commentary on what is really at stake while debunking...
by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on...
A Heart for Freedom
The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The dramatic and fascinating story of Chai Ling, commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role in the student democracy movement, she was on the run in...
Witch Trials, Legends, and Lore of Maryland
Dark, Strange, and True Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Does a witch's ghost haunt a park in Annapolis? Why should Baltimore really be called Charm City? What weird stories and traditions regarding witches in the Chesapeake region are true and where did the others originate? What is the real history of witchcraft in early Maryland? How were accusations...
by Alden Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Some of the dates on the early grave markers have been worn away by time. Usually it is the date when the governor is born. Researchers from past and present use January 1 if the date is not known. I have also used this method. If a date on a grave conflicts with the history books, I will use the...
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component...
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Their Traditional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure...
Resident Aliens
Life in the Christian Colony (Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered tradition, will it truly be the Body of Christ and transform the world. Twenty-five years after its first publishing, Resident Aliens remains a prophetic vision of how the Church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity...
How (Not) to Be Secular
Reading Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007)...