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A Still and Quiet Conscience

The Archbishop Who Challenged a Pope, a President, and a Church

By: John A. McCoy

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A Still and Quiet Conscience

The Archbishop Who Challenged a Pope, a President, and a Church

By: John A. McCoy

Through the life of a courageous bishop, an absorbing look at the inner workings of the American Catholic Church, how we got here, and how it could be different. Pope Francis has spoken of his desire for pastoral bishops-shepherds who have the smell of the sheep. The story of Raymond G. Hunthausen, archbishop of Seattle from 1975-1991, is about a bishop who epitomized this style-and the price he paid. The quintessential Vatican II bishop, Hunthausen embraced the spirit of renewal, reaching out to the laity, women, and those on the margins. A courageous witness for peace, he earned national attention when he became the first American bishop to urge tax resistance as a protest against preparations for nuclear war. In doing so, he ran against the Cold War policies of the Reagan Administration. But he also came into conflict with Pope John Paul II's desire to reshape the American episcopacy. This fascinating biography not only recounts a critical turning point for the American Catholic church; it rekindles the vision of a more inclusive, prophetic, and compassionate church as 'people of God'"--Publisher's description

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Orbis Books

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1608335453

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9781608335459

A Portrait of America

The Demographic Perspective

By: John Iceland

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A Portrait of America

The Demographic Perspective

By: John Iceland

Portrait of America describes our nation’s changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, including America's historical demographic growth; the American family today; gender inequality; economic well-being; immigration and diversity; racial and ethnic inequality; internal migration and residential segregation; and health and mortality. The discussion of these topics is informed by several sources, including an examination of household survey data, and by syntheses of existing published material, both quantitative and qualitative. Iceland discusses the current issues and controversies around these themes, highlighting their role in everyday debates taking place in Congress, the media, and in American living rooms. Each chapter includes historical background, as well as a discussion of how patterns and trends in the United States compare to those in peer countries.

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293

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University of California Press

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0520278194

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9780520278196

A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

The Man on the Firing Line

By: John Cullen Gruesser

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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

The Man on the Firing Line

By: John Cullen Gruesser

Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du Bois remarked, "spoke primarily to the Negro race," using his own Nashville-based publishing company to produce four of his novels. Griggs pastored Baptist churches in three Southern states and played a leading role in the influential but understudied National Baptist Convention. Until recently, little was known about the personal and professional life of this religious and community leader. Thus, critics could only contextualize his literary texts to a limited degree and were forced to speculate about how he published them. This literary biography, the first written about the author, draws extensively on primary sources and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, local and national, African American and white. A very different Sutton Griggs emerges from these materials—a dynamic figure who devoted himself to literature for a longer period and to a more profound extent than has ever been previously imagined but also someone who frequently found himself embroiled in controversy because of what he said in his writings and the means he used to publish them. The book challenges currently held notions about the audience for, and the content, production, and dissemination of politically engaged US black fiction, altering the perception of the African American literature and print culture of the period.

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273

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Oxford University Press

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019266980X

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9780192669803

A Prince in a Republic

The Life of Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX of Yogyakarta

By: John Monfries

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A Prince in a Republic

The Life of Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX of Yogyakarta

By: John Monfries

Hamengku Buwono IX, the late Sultan of Yogyakarta Special Province, is revered by Indonesians as one of the great founders of the modern Indonesian state. He leaves a positive but in some ways ambiguous legacy in political terms. His most conspicuous achievement was the survival of hereditary Yogyakartan kingship, and he provided rare stability and continuity in Indonesia’s highly fractured modern history. Under the New Order, Hamengku Buwono also helped to launch the Indonesian economy on a much stronger growth path. Although remembered as the epitome of “political decency”, he faded from power and influence as Vice President in the 1970s, and the repressive and anti-democratic features of Suharto’s New Order seemed to contradict much of what Hamengku Buwono originally stood for. This biography seeks to explain his political standpoint, motivations, and achievements, and set his career in the context of his times.

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420

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9814519383

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9789814519380

Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Maryland 3rd Infantry Regiment Potomac Home Brigade

By: John C. Rigdon

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Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Maryland 3rd Infantry Regiment Potomac Home Brigade

By: John C. Rigdon

Includes historical sketch of the regiment and an alphabetical listing of soldiers.

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224

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Lulu.com

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1387713175

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9781387713172

At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

By: John O'Brien

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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

By: John O'Brien

John O’Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to understand both himself and the father from whom he’d become estranged. At once a poignant memoir and a tribute to America's most misunderstood region, At Home in the Heart of Appalachia describes a lush land of voluptuous summers, woodsmoke winters, and breathtaking autumns and springs. John O'Brien sees through the myths about Appalachia to its people and the mountain culture that has sustained them. And he takes to task naïve missionaries and rapacious industrialists who are the real source of much of the region's woe as well as its lingering hillbilly stereotypes. Finally, and profoundly, he comes to terms with the atavistic demons that haunt the relations between Appalachian fathers and sons.

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322

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Anchor

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0385721390

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9780385721394

Global Business Regulation

By: John Braithwaite,Peter Drahos

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Global Business Regulation

By: John Braithwaite,Peter Drahos

This book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played by global institutions such as the WTO, IMF and the World Bank, as well as various NGOs and significant individuals. The authors argue that effective and decent global regulation depends on the determination of individuals to engage with powerful agendas and decision-making bodies that would otherwise be dominated by concentrated economic interests.

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724

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Cambridge University Press

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0521784999

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9780521784993

A Civil War

Army vs. Navy Tag - A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry

By: John Feinstein

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A Civil War

Army vs. Navy Tag - A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry

By: John Feinstein

Feinstein follows the Army and Navy football teams through the 1994 season, culminating with an account of the dramatic December face-off, and brings to life one of the oldest and most heated rivalries in American sport.

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493

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Little, Brown

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0316378046

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9780316378048

Complications in Anesthesia

By: John L. Atlee

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Complications in Anesthesia

By: John L. Atlee

Practical text focuses on complications in the practice of anesthesia. Divided into sections similar to the thought processes involved in decision-making. Thumb indexing and cross-references are also included. All chapters have a case synopsis, problem analysis, and discussion of management and prevention.

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1030

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1416022155

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9781416022152

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

By: John Britt

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The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

By: John Britt

With recipes for mixing, testing, applying, and firing hundreds of high-fire glazes, this fully illustrated reference will help all ceramists gain a better understanding of glazes and the factors that make them work."--Book Jacket.

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188

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1600592163

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9781600592164

West Virginia: A History

By: John Alexander Williams

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West Virginia: A History

By: John Alexander Williams

John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state. In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events—the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest and Buffalo Creek disasters, and more. Williams uses these pivotal events as introductions to the larger issues of statehood, Civil War, unionism, and industrialization. Along the way, Williams conveys a true feel for the lives of common West Virginians, the personalities of the state's memorable characters, and the powerful influence of the land itself on its own history.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393243834

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9780393243833

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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

A Prince in a Republic

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Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Maryland 3rd Infantry Regiment Potomac Home Brigade

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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

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Global Business Regulation

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Complications in Anesthesia

Complications in Anesthesia

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

West Virginia: A History

West Virginia: A History

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