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  • Acting for the Common Good

    Social Justice in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching

    by Michael J. McGrath ...
    The goods that we pursue in our lives are for us, first and foremost, goods that are particular and personal, and thus goods that are immediate to our attention. Not readily apparent to us are goods necessary for the flourishing of our lives but that can be attained by us only in consort with others and thus realized only through collective action. Such goods are common goods. The wider the good, ... Read more

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  • Answering the Call

    How God Transformed the Lives of Nineteen Catholic Deacons

    by Michael Cooper ...
    Answering the Call is the story of nineteen Catholic permanent deacons from the Diocese of Savannah (Georgia) whose lives underwent profound transformations as they embarked upon a journey of self-discovery which revealed to them both the awesome power of God and the holiness of everyday life. When these deacons, who come from vastly different spiritual, professional, and educational backgrounds, ... Read more

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  • Don Quixote

    by Cervantes Miguel de, Michael J. McGrath, Kathleen Sullivan, Michael Dominic Taylor, R. V. Young ...
    Series series Ignatius Critical Editions
    In the view of the great Russian novelist Dostoyevsky, Don Quixote was the “most perfect . . . of all the beautiful individuals in Christian literature”, adding that “he is beautiful only because he is ridiculous.” He then gets to the mystical and mysterious heart of the novel: “Wherever compassion toward ridiculed and ingenious beauty is presented, the reader’s sympathy is aroused. The mystery of ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Don Quixote and Catholicism

    Rereading Cervantine Spirituality

    by Michael J. McGrath ...
    Series Book 79 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel’s Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes’s hero ... Read more

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  • Sensor Technologies

    Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications

    by Michael J. McGrath, Cliodhna Ni Scanaill, Dawn Nafus ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications explores the key aspects of sensor technologies, covering wired, wireless, and discrete sensors for the specific application domains of healthcare, wellness and environmental sensing. It discusses the social, regulatory, and design considerations specific to these domains.The book provides an application-based approach using ... Read more

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  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (illustrated)

    by de Cervantes, Miguel ...
    Translated by Ormsby, John ...
    Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his ... Read more

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  • How Much is Enough?

    Money and the Good Life

    by Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky ...
    A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...
    Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

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  • The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization

    by Max Weber ...
    This bookis an introduction to Max Weber’s ambitious comparative study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order.In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical methods of sociology and, at the same time, presents a devastating critique of prevailing sociological theory and of its universalist, determinist ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Don Juan

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Lord Byron ...
    Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed that he had no ideas in his mind as to what would ... Read more

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  • The Unconscious Civilization

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    From the author of Voltaire's Bastards comes a philosophical examination of how corporatism has become so deeply ingrained into our society, how it's destroying democracy, and how we can fight against it.In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a ... Read more

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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ...
    Translated by Tom Lathrop ...
    A cornerstone of literary fiction, this classic book offers both timeless satire and captivating storytelling.Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.In a new translation that “comes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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