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...

A call to action championing equity and social justice in K–12 science curriculum

Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community...

The inspirational true story of a 16-year-old American farm girl who sailed to France to open a Catholic religious order in 1919.Mary Margaret Doyle spoke no French and knew nothing of the social, political, and religious challenges facing Europe between world wars. Her Irish American farm family in America at the same time coped with physical and financial hardship during the post-World War I farm crisis that led to the Great Depression. Their daughter, meanwhile,...

A World on Edge is the story of the aftermath of World War I, a transformative time when a new world seemed possible—told from the vantage of people, famous and ordinary, who lived through the turmoil.November 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new thin...

Treasure of the Bloodtide Sea - 3 Classic Pirate Adventure Tales is a masterful anthology that navigates the turbulent waters of pirate lore through an artful blend of adventure, mystery, and historical narrative. This collection assembles a variety of stylistic expressions from a blend of thrilling action sequences to introspective explorations of seafaring life, all under the banner of Golden Age piracy. Each story contributes to the vibrant tapestry of maritime legend, offering readers ...

Phù sinh chính là đời người, nhưng sách là câu chuyện đầy trí tưởng tượng về những yêu quái sống đan xen giữa nhân gian.Sau nghìn năm lang thang kiếm tìm tung tích mối tình oan gia, nếm đủ vị đắng ngọt đời người, một cô gái dừng chân mở quán bánh ngọt tên gọi Không Dừng, pha một thứ trà tên gọi Phù Sinh, đắng vô cùng tận, nhưng sau vị đắng lại là vị ngọt sâu xa, hệt như chuyện đời bởi đời người vốn dĩ là một hành trình đắng ngọt sóng đôi.Giữa ranh giới của thế giới loài ngư...

Cutlass Legends of the Open Sea - 4 Classic High Seas Pirate Stories is an enthralling anthology that captures the adventurous spirit and daring escapades of pirates navigating the tumultuous waves. This collection brings together a range of classic tales that each portray the high seas in vivid detail, blending swashbuckling action with elements of mystery and suspense. The stories collectively explore themes of freedom, betrayal, and survival, inviting readers into a world where the boun...

This e-book features the complete text found in the print edition of Dangerous Work, without the illustrations or the facsimile reproductions of Conan Doyle's notebook pages.In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first real outstanding adventure” of his life, taking a berth as ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged ...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...

In 1980 adult Jamie Ferguson returned to his hometown to collect an inheritance and is forced to relive the Polio scourge of the summer of 1946. He was nine-years-old and the nation was recovering from the trauma of World War II. His mother had died, the grandparents’ farm had been lost and his father, a navy veteran, dealt with his war wound pain with alcohol. Despite all the difficulties, nine-year-old Jamie was naively determined to earn money to buy back his grandparents’ farm. He coll...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning“A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood.By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in Please Don’t Touch the Body are thrillingly concerned with the devastation—and power—of being alive today.In the collection’s firs...