Marc Barnes first cared about being Catholic, “not out of any profound love for the person of Christ, but out of a profound distaste for my other options.” After exploring the options of the secular world, Barnes came to the conclusion that even the secular world isn’t secular enough. In fact, it is hopelessly Christian. Through these essays Barnes exposes the hopelessly Catholic nature of our fallen world, and the joyous news that, even for the bad Catholic or the non-Catholic, there is n...

It is from the Bible that society obtains its most enduring and successful patterns for the tapestries formed by our social fabric. The institution of marriage is no exception. Given to us by God at the very beginning of His creation, marriage was to be the bedrock of all societies; and over the millennia since God first gave Adam and Eve life in the garden of Eden, this bedrock remains essential to His will for mankind. While this book will neither exhaust the topic of biblical marriage n...

Traditional philosophizing has generally depended upon reason as its primary access to truth. Subjective experiences such as feelings, the passions, and emotions have typically been viewed as secondary to reason, untrustworthy, or both. The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling revisits how the movement of existentialism, via the religious existentialists, has contributed to a rethinking of the role of subjective experience, in contrast to the rationalist and idealist tra...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashio...

Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy is the most comprehensive book of its kind, offering an updated examination of Canada's international role some 15 years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era in world politics. Tackling recent developments in Canadian foreign policy, the authors of this work spotlight Canadian idiosyncrasies within a global context that are defined by wrenching juxtapositions. The specialists who have contributed their expertise to this book prov...

Actes du colloque de Valence (15-18 mai 2002), organisé par la Société française d'étude du XVIe siècle et l'Association Renaissance-Humanisme-Réforme. Edité par Michel Bideaux et Marie-Madeleine Fragonard. Les universités du XVIe siècle ont elles été, comme l'ont donné à croire de grands écrivains du temps et l'historiographie ultérieure, des bastions de résistance aux nouveaux modes de pensée, de foi, de savoir apportés par l’Humanisme, la Renaissance, la Réforme et la Contre-Réforme ? L...

Anhalten verboten – Atmen erst wieder nach der letzten Seite!Als Kommissar Tom Fankhauser in Bern ins Tram Nr. 3 steigt, ahnt er nicht, dass sich an Bord eine Bombe befindet. Sie wird in die Luft fliegen, sobald die Bahn das nächste Mal anhält. Während Tom versucht, den Sprengsatz zu entschärfen und somit die Geiseln zu retten, unter denen sich auch seine Tochter befindet, wird ihm vom unbekannten Entführer seine eigentliche Aufgabe offenbart: Tom soll den einzigen Mordfall lösen, den er a...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are two significant neurological disorders, which represent the scope of this book. Both ASD and AD affect a significant number of the population and present in numerous ways. This volume covers the state-of-the-art topics that investigate these two significant neurological disorders from a theoretical perspective and focuses on the practical aspects. Materials are presented in a way that can be beneficial to advanced and layman r...

Have you experienced betrayal and now feel trapped, exhausted, or emotionally paralyzed by thoughts that won’t leave you alone?Betrayal shakes your world, making everything you once believed feel uncertain. Suddenly, the person you trusted most feels like a stranger. You're caught in cycles of anxiety, self-doubt, and questions that keep you awake at night:“Why did this happen?”“How can I ever trust again?”“Will this pain ever end?”

**GRAND ENTRETIENPierre-André Taguieff : "**La lâcheté et l'esprit grégaire expliquent l'affaissement de la pensée critique". Pierre-André Taguieff dresse un état des lieux de la vie intellectuelle française. Grand connaisseur de Nietzsche et de la French Theory, l’essayiste revient sur la notion de déconstruction et analyse la résurgence des questions liées à la « race ». Il critique avec force ce qu’il appelle « l’imposture décoloniale ».DOSSIER : ...

You’re not stuck. Your brain is just used to being that way.You keep hearing it: you can change. But when stress takes over, when habits sabotage your progress, or when you keep repeating thoughts that drain you — it doesn’t feel like change is even possible.The truth? Most people live their entire lives thinking their brain is static. Fixed. Wired a certain way from birth. That belief alone is the trap.Here’s the science-backed truth: your brain is plasti...