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The Practicing Congregation
Imagining a New Old Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
The conventional wisdom about mainline Protestantism maintains that it is a dying tradition, irrelevant to a postmodern society, unresponsive to change, and increasingly disconnected from its core faith tenets. In her provocative new book, historian and researcher Diana Butler Bass argues that there...
How Your Church Family Works
Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
Drawing on the work of Bowen, Friedman, and his own many years' counseling experience, Peter Steinke shows how to recognize and deal with the emotional roots of such issues as church conflict, leadership roles, congregational change, irresponsible behavior, and the effect of family of origin on current...
A Door Set Open
Grounding Change in Mission and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
We resist change less when we associate it with mission and fortify it with hope. So argues longtime congregational consultant Peter Steinke in his fourth book, A Door Set Open, as he explores the relationship between the challenges of change and our own responses to new ideas and experiences. Steinke...
The Emotional Intelligence of Jesus
Relational Smarts for Religious Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Faith leaders are surrounded by people, constantly navigating mazes of different personalities, emotional levels, and individual characteristics. Working with committees, individuals, and other leaders is critical to successfully moving an organization forward and representing a congregation with...
How the Jews Defeated Hitler
Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The Confessions discloses Augustine's views about the...
Homeric Stitchings
The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Building upon recent work on Homeric poetics, and utilizing linguistic and semiotic methods of...
A Research Guide to the Ancient World
Print and Electronic Sources
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the...
Renewing Parish Culture
Building for a Catholic Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
American Catholic parishes throughout the country have been shrinking since the 1960s. John J. Pideret, S.J., and Melanie Morey bring fifty years of experience in Catholic colleges and universities where they had extensive contact with young Catholics and New York City parishes. In this volume they...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness...
Health, Illness, and Society
An Introduction to Medical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This engaging text provides a sociological perspective on health, illness, and health care. Serving as an introduction to medical sociology for undergraduate and graduate students, it also presents a summary of the field for medical sociologists and for public health scholars and practitioners. A...
Unequal Health
How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. The third edition of this powerful book retains the accessible style and focus on inequality from previous editions while featuring significant...
Tall Tales and Short Shorts
Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
In basketball, just as in American culture, the 1970s were imperfect. But it was a vitally important time in the development of the nation and of the National Basketball Association. During this decade Americans suffered through the war in Vietnam and Nixon’s Watergate cover-up (not to mention disco...
Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches
Developing Champions in Sports and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Today, more than 68 million children and adolescents participate in sport programs in the United States. Yet despite the growth and popularity of highly-organized athletic competition, controversy still swirls around the role that adults, particularly coaches, play in the world of youth sports. Coaches...