John O Malley: 14 books
Urethane Revolution
The Birth of Skate—San Diego 1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
One crazy year on the California coast--in 1975 a hippie skunkworks, bred in garages and shacks, launched the modern skater movement. Strap in for a wild ride replete with two car chases, two plane crashes, a massive truck bomb, Colombian narcos, the Mafia, senior White House staff, a gypsy fortuneteller,...
by John W. O’Malley
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Nato dalla rielaborazione della popolare serie di lezioni-audio “2000 anni di Storia Papale”, Storia dei papi di O’Malley ripercorre le vicende dei papi che si sono succeduti tra Pietro e l’attuale Benedetto VXI. Alcuni erano santi, altri peccatori, alcuni di grande statura, altri figure minori: la Chiesa insomma è fatta di uomini.
by John O'Malley
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
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Catholic History for Today's Church
How Our Past Illuminates Our Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
We can’t understand the issues swirling in today’s Catholic church without understanding the past. In Catholic History for Today’s Church acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, illuminates some of today’s most contentious issues—from celibacy to the role of the pope—through their...
A History of the Popes
From Peter to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last...
The Jesuits
A History from Ignatius to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
As Pope Francis continues to make his mark on the church, there is increased interest in his Jesuit background—what is the Society of Jesus, how is it different from other religious orders, and how has it shaped the world? In The Jesuits, acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, provides essential...
Vatican I
The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources—its spiritual and intellectual appeal, missionary achievements, wealth, diplomatic effectiveness, and stable hierarchy. But in the first half of the nineteenth century, the foundations upon which the church had rested for centuries were...
by John W. O'Malley, S. J.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. By virtually any assessment, it was the most important religious event of the twentieth...
Trent
What Happened at the Council
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Trent, the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order after the Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. This one-volume history, the first in modern times, explores the volatile issues that pushed several Holy Roman emperors, kings and queens of France, five popes, and all of Europe to the brink of disaster.
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
The Education-Drug Use Connection
How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alco
Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood
The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana,...
The Fellowship of Being
An Essay on the Concept of Person in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the fruit of a critical inquiry into the nature and scope of Marcel's philosophie achievement. As such, it is concerned less with affixing the appropriate label (personalist or existentialist) to Marcel's thought -and with it making it stick - than with discovering the precise impulse...
The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood
Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy,...