University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
Of Labour and Liberty
Distributism in Victoria, 1891–1966
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
What will the future of work, social freedom, and employment look like? In an era of increased job insecurity and social dislocation, is it possible to reshape economics along democratic lines in a way that genuinely serves the interests of the community? Of Labour and Liberty arises from Race Mathews’s...
by David Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Readers expecting a traditional philosophical work will be surprised and delighted by David Walsh’s Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, his highly original reflection on the transcendental nature of the person. A specialist in political theory, Walsh breaks new ground in this volume,...
Peace through Commerce
Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact contains a foreword, introduction, and twenty-one chapters by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues set out by the United Nations Global Compact, launched in 2000. The...
Leadership
Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Today a growing number of business schools, law schools, and continuing education programs in executive development and management training offer leadership classes. Despite the curricular recognition of this area, there is a shortage of strong college-level texts. Leadership, second edition—a completely...
by Mark William Roche
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted, Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student, faculty member, and administrator, Roche deftly...
by Robert Schmuhl
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
This series of eight provocative essays examines why Americans have a penchant for going to extremes in their arts, popular culture, politics, social movements, and other aspects of life. Robert Schmuhl considers historical examples (the hunting of the buffalo in the West, Prohibition, business ventures...
by Jude Nutter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In "Return of the Heroes," Walt Whitman refers to the casualties of the American Civil War: "the dead to me mar not. . . . / they fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass. . . ." In her new poetry collection, Jude Nutter challenges Whitman's statement by exploring...
Hell
The Logic of Damnation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1992
Jerry L. Walls cogently argues that some traditional views of hell are still defensible and can be believed with intellectual and moral integrity. Focusing on the issues from the standpoint of philosophical theology, he explores the doctrine of hell in relation to both the divine nature and human...
Democracy in Latin America
Between Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America:...
Abducted in Iraq
A Priest in Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
How do we respond in the face of evil, especially to those who inflict grave evil upon us? Abducted in Iraq is Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna’s firsthand account of his abduction in 2006 by a militant group associated with al-Qaeda. As a young parish priest and visiting lecturer on philosophy at Babel...
Inheritance of Exile, The
Stories from South Philly
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In The Inheritance of Exile, Susan Muaddi Darraj expertly weaves a tapestry of the events and struggles in the lives of four Arab-American women. Hanan, Nadia, Reema, and Aliyah search for a meaningful sense of home, caught in the cultural gap that exists between the Middle East and the United States.
Daughters...
by Felicia Zamora
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Of Form & Gather marks the dazzling debut of Felicia Zamora, whose poems concern themselves with probing questions, not facile answers. Where does the self reside? What forms do we, as human beings, inhabit as we experience the world around us? Echoing the collection’s provocative title, final...
Being in the World
A Quotable Maritain Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The work of the lay Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) continues to provoke and inspire readers to engage in a Thomistic approach to many of the questions facing the world today. Maritain’s wide-ranging thought touched on many fields, including aesthetics, anthropology, educational...
Eucharist
Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1989
Eucharist is a detailed history of the Christian Eucharistic formularies. Bouyer gives a thorough analysis of the Jewish meal prayers, the berakoth, to which he traces the origins of the eucharistic rite, and ends with the recent addition of new eucharistic prayers to the Roman rite. He also includes...