University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
We Belong to the Land
The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, world-renowned Palestinian priest, Elias Chacour, narrates the gripping story of his life spent working to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village and his work as a...
Paisanos
The Irish and the Liberation of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune, and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the...
Rope and Faggot
A Biography of Judge Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
In 1926, Walter White, then assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of an especially horrific triple lynching in Aiken, South Carolina. Aiken was White's forty-first lynching investigation in eight years. He returned to New York drained...
Other Roots, The
Wandering Origins in Roots of Brazil and the Impasses of Modernity in Ibero-America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots,...
Because You Have To
A Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Joan Frank’s Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Frank’s aim is to form a coherent vision, one that may provide some communion...
Before the Dawn
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In this fascinating memoir of his early life, Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin, describes the development of the modern “Troubles’’ in the North of Ireland, his experiences during that period, including secret talks with the British government and imprisonment, his leadership role in...
Treatise on Law, The
(Summa Theologiae, I-II; qq. 90-97)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1993
In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s The Treatise on Law, R. J. Henle, S.J., a well-known authority on philosophy and jurisprudence, fluently and accurately presents the Latin and English translation of this important work. Henle provides the necessary background for an informed reading...
Transcendent Love
Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
In Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic, Leonard G. Friesen ranges widely across Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues in his times and how those same issues continue to be relevant...
by Henry Fairlie
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Sin, like death, is an unassailable fact of life. It is also one of the last great taboos for public debate. In this compelling book, the Henry Fairlie shows that it is possible and necessary to talk about sin in ways that enrich our societies and our personal lives. Fairlie relates these ancient...
Choice of the Jews under Vichy, The
Between Submission and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s...
Victorian Reformations
Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1904
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the denominational spectrum laid claim to popular genres—most importantly, the religious historical novel—to narrate the aftershocks...
by Pamela Bright
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Based on the acclaimed French volume Saint Augustin et la Bible, this translation with additional selections honors the beautifully wrought monument to the scholarly research of Anne-Marie la Bonnardière and her colleagues. Editor Pamela Bright offers the first English language edition of the highly...
by Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Since it was first published in 1991, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics has received praise from a wide range of commentators, both Catholic and Protestant. This second edition includes discussion of works that have appeared since the early 1990s, especially the first papal document to address...
New Rhetoric, The
A Treatise on Argumentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1973
The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since “argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced,” says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely, in particular, for their theory of...