Michael Novak: 27 books
by Michael Novak
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1990
...a major work for our times. —Irving Kristol, The Public Interest
by Michael Novak
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this classic work, the foremost historian of science in our time, George Sarton, sums up his reflections on the role of science and of the humanities in our culture. Voicing his opposition to the old-fashioned humanists on the one hand, and to the 'uneducated' men of science and technicians on...
Joy of Sports, Revised
Endzones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1993
"...an exhilarating exercise full of uncanny insights..." —PublishersWeekly
Religion and the New Republic
Faith in the Founding of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. This collection of never before published essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents the most original and recent scholarship...
Behind Ghetto Walls
Black Families in a Federal Slum
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character of the family life there shares much...
Big Mouths: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
These outspoken men never met an opinion that they didnt like—or an opinion that they didnt feel like sharing with everyone else. In this case, they shared their opinions in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the original frenemies Gene Siskel...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?
The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's...
by Tikva Frymer-kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in JewishChristian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that have taken place in Christian...
Two Faiths, One Covenant?
Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Judaism and Christianity are religions bound together by their claims to the same biblical covenant initiated by God with Abraham and his descendants. Yet, despite the inseparable connection between the election of Israel and that of the church, between the "old" and the "new"...
by Michael J. Novak
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For nearly a century, the men and women of the Newport Beach Fire Department have served their Orange County community with dedication, professionalism, and grace. Starting with a primitive hose reel and a dozen volunteers in 1911, determined Newport Beach firefighters protected the always tourism-friendly...
by Michael S. Berger, David Blumenthal, Elliot Dorff
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2005
Marriage, Sex and Family in Judaism explores Jewish marriage from historical and contemporary perspectives, focusing on the religious and legal concepts of marriage, and the social impact of family in the Jewish community. The book does not advocate one perspective or another; instead, the essays...
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