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Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism
''Satan's smoke has made its way into the temple of God through some crack.''Pope Paul VI, 1972 The words of Pope Paul echoed the feelings of many on the Catholic right, who believed that the mainstream Catholic Church had fallen into decline. In The Smoke of Satan, sociologist Michael W. Cuneo explores what these fundamentalists believed that ......
Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World: An Inkle and Yarico Reader
On March 13, 1711, an article appeared in The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violent death by Yarico, a beautiful Indian maiden. When he and Yarico become lovers, Inkle promises to clothe her in silks and transport her in carriages when he returns with her to ......
Amphibians are ecological equivalents of the canary in the coal mine. Because they have little physiological control over their body temperatures or evaporative water loss, frogs and toads, salamanders and newts, and the tropical wormlike caecilians are closely tied to their environments, and various stages of their biphasic life cycle are ......
The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of political parties, yet parties began to form shortly after its ratification. Today, American democracy would not work without them. In Political Parties and Constitutional Government, Sidney Milkis explores the uneasy relationship between the Constitution and the party system to advance a novel argument: ......
''This fresh look at Los Angeles is clearly framed as a study whose subject has national implications . . . Magnetic Los Angeles is the first authoritative study we have on how the professionalization of planning . . . affected practice, on how the idea of decentralization became a major force in shaping the environment, and on the intricate ......
''Allan Nadler has performed a great service by bringing the Mithnagdim more to light. The spiritual universe that he has unearthed with erudition, imagination, and care is now more accessible to students of Jewish history and of religion in general. ''Yehudah Mirsky, New Republic ''In many ways Nadler's work defines the model of a first-rate ......
Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century Americaof the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the ......
The vanished ways of colonial America's skilled craftsmen are vividly reconstructed in this superb book by Edwin Tunis. With incomparable wit and learning, and in over 450 meticulous drawings, the author describes the working methods and products, houses and shops, town and country trades, and individual and group enterprises by which the early ......
Weapons is the rich and exciting story of arms through the agesfrom the first tied stone thrown by prehistoric hunters to the super bombs of today. Illustrated with the unusually detailed and astonishingly realistic drawings of Edwin Tunis, it is a weapon-by-weapon account of human ingenuity in the invention and improvement of arms for ......
