Margaret: 4917 books
To Vow Or Not To Vow
Knowing the Implications of the Vows We Make
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The topic of vows is not very well understood and there are not many books that speak to this topic. Questions arise about whether Christians need to make vows. Looking at Biblical examples, there are arguments both for and against making vows. The importance is rather in fulfilling the vows that...
Hungry for God
Hearing God's Voice in the Ordinary and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
In your heart you feel the longing—an emptiness that can’t be satisfied by food, or friendships, or entertainment, or success, or anything this world can offer. Only God can fill the void. More than you know, you hunger for God. In Hungry for God, critically acclaimed author Margaret Feinberg...
by Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and...
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret...
Reconfiguring the World
Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World,...
Humanising Healthcare
Patterns of Hope for a System Under Strain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess.
Healthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble. Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances...
by Margaret Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In this passionate saga set in present-day Australia, the passing of a wealthy patriarch leaves one young woman with a chance to change her life—if it doesn’t bring her world crashing down first…
After losing her parents in a tragic accident, young Charlotte was taken in by her grandfather,...
by Margaret Darst Margaret Darst Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Rotherham Murders
A Half-Century of Serious Crime 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, Margaret Drinkall's Rotherham Murders concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Most of her cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated...
Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
Learning to Be Old
Gender, Culture, and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives...
Dialogue on the Frontier
Catholic and Protestant Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A discussion of the expansion of Catholicism in the West
Dialogue on the Frontier is a remarkable departure from previous scholarship, which emphasized the negative aspects of the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the early American republic. Author Margaret C. DePalma argues...
Called to Serve
A History of Nuns in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Winner, Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) Distinguished Book Award
Winner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Catholic Press Association
For many
Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more
visible than priests, Catholic...
Trading Barriers
Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading Barriers, Margaret Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined...