Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States. Volume 2, American Catholics, American Cultur...

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of genius. In Between Silk and Cyanide, his critically acclaimed account of his time in SOE, Marks tells how he revolutionised the code-making techniques of the Allies, trained some of the most famous agents dropped into France including Violette Szabo and 'the White Rabbit', and why he wrote...

A leading silk at the Sydney Bar, Terry Riley, is murdered half-way through a personal injuries hearing. His junior counsel, Ben Kennedy, starts sleuthing. His investigation threatens to rock the legal system and topple the mighty. A fast-paced Australian legal thriller with comic touches.

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.

The Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration explores the long-term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Eurasian supply chains and Eurasia’s development trajectory. Through an in-depth examination of China’s original motivations for launching the New Silk Road, contextualized with the potential impacts on other players along the trade corridor, this book assesses how states that were largely left out of the pre-invasion may capitalize on the new o...

A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present.During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chinese famine refugees headed to Inner Mongolia, Cheng Tiejun arrived in 1959 as a middle school student. In 1966, when the PRC plunged into the Cultural Revolution, he joined the Red Guards just as Inner Mongolia’s ...

Die bewegende Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen GroßmutterEmma ließ sich mit 22 Jahren auf der Suche nach ihrer blinden Mutter freiwillig ins Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt und später nach Auschwitz deportieren und wäre ihrer Mutter auch auf dem Weg in die Gaskammer nicht von der Seite gewichen, hätten nicht die Nazis selbst sie aufgehalten.Der argentinische Autor Ariel Magnus will diese Frau, seine Oma, näher kennenlernen und beginnt, ihr Fragen zu ihrer Vergangenheit zu stell...

Wer ist Gott? - Was wir auf diese Frage antworten, ist wie ein Spiegel unserer eigenen Seele. John Mark Comer hält uns diesen Spiegel vor. Meisterhaft und wohlwollend, aber klar: Er führt uns zu der Stelle der Geschichte von Gott und den Menschen, wo sich Yahwe dieser Erde das erste Mal direkt vorstellt. Persönlich, mit Namen. Was sagt sein Name über ihn aus? Wie ist er denn nun wirklich? Dieser Gott, den wir lieben und hassen, anbeten und lästern, dem wir vertrauen und den wir fürchten, a...

Marsmanda: The Lost Iron City of the Silk RoadIn 2022, laser technology revealed what prejudice had hidden for a thousand years: a massive industrial city perched at 7,200 feet in the mountains of Uzbekistan. This is the story of Marsmanda, the iron-producing metropolis that medieval geographers described but scholars refused to believe could exist.For five centuries, this highland urban complex of 120 hectares housed thousands of workers who forged the wea...

When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual commitments. With no dominant denomination, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, adherents of Pacific Rim religious traditions, indigenous groups, spiritual environmentalists,...

Offering the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of what Christian nationalism in America is and isn’t, and how it became the political religion of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, the chapters in this book describe the way Christian nationalism has embedded itself in American politics.Understanding Christian Nationalism emphasizes that Christian nationalism’s sacralization of the United States must be seen against the backdrop of American civil religion, which sin...

Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place against the backdrop of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda and the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. What is the future of Catholicism in America?This volume considers the prosp...