wyszukanych pozycji: 38
Toward a New Catholic Church: The Promise of Reform
ISBN: 9780618313372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Elaborating on the "Call for Vatican III" that he issued in his bestselling book "Constantine's Sword, " James Carroll now proposes a clear agenda for reform to help concerned Catholics understand the most essential issues facing their Church.
Elaborating on the "Call for Vatican III" that he issued in his bestselling book "Constantine's Sword, " James Carroll now proposes a clear agenda for...
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64,06 zł |
Practicing Catholic
ISBN: 9780547336268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A clear-eyed and personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by National Book Award winner James Carroll James Carroll turns to the notion of practice both as a way to learn and a means of improvement as a lens for this thoughtful and frank look at what it means to be Catholic. He acknowledges the slow and steady transformation of the Church from its darker, medieval roots to a more pluralist and inclusive institution, charting along the way stories of powerful Catholic leaders (Pope John XXIII, Thomas Merton, John F. Kennedy)... A clear-eyed and personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by National Book Award winner James Carrol... |
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81,15 zł |
The City Below
ISBN: 9780395825228 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and Terry Doyle, as they strive to move beyond the strictures of their working-class Charlestown neighborhood to" the city below." Though one brother is drawn to the worlds of politics and real estate and the other to the underworld of organized crime, their fates remain inextricably linked as each struggles to break free of the blood tie holding him captive to the past. As in his previous best-selling novels Mortal Friends and Family Trade, James...
In this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and ...
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81,15 zł |
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews--A History
ISBN: 9780618219087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San... A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and f... |
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93,98 zł |
Secret Father
ISBN: 9780618485352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Secret Father is a suspenseful drama of family and politics set in Cold War Berlin. Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked responses echo tragically across borders and generations when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a father and son recount the tense events of nearly thirty years before. In 1961, just before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a rally. Unknown to them, their parents have unfinished business reaching back to World War II which will pull the teens into the...
Secret Father is a suspenseful drama of family and politics set in Cold War Berlin. Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked resp...
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85,43 zł |
Devine P.I.: Dirty Money
ISBN: 9781449054359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the downturn of the construction industry, James Carroll has been looking for new ways to earn a living. He has tried a few different projects, but, having been involved in the construction for 30 years, he was finding it hard to adjust. That was until he came across some notes he had written some years before, when he had wanted to write but did not have the time. He had been accused, at the time, of stealing a jacket from a trader on Portabello Road and had successfully conducted his own investigation and proved his innocence. Being involved in construction he was unable to get time...
Since the downturn of the construction industry, James Carroll has been looking for new ways to earn a living. He has tried a few different projects, ...
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53,35 zł |
Prince of Peace
ISBN: 9780395926192 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as a Korean War hero, Michael Maguire struggles with God and country in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor, "so rich and vital it leaves you breathless" (Chicago Tribune).
Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as...
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85,43 zł |
A Pen on the Moon
ISBN: 9781838753641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,17 zł |
The Whole Tooth: More Humorous (and Sometimes Touching) Tales from a Globe-Trotting Dentist's Storied Life
ISBN: 9780996791717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr. Carroll James has heard this uncomplimentary comment all too often, and while not taking it personally, he does note the unique and often quirky personalities of the patients he treats. The Whole Tooth, the second book in the series, continues relating some of the more bizarre episodes during Dr. James's thirty years of practice--including a lovable yet scatterbrained employee who can't master the phone's hold button, a house call to treat a bedridden patient that proves comical in the most inappropriate sense, and even a campout with Boy Scouts that harkens thoughts... Dr. Carroll James has heard this uncomplimentary comment all too often, and while not taking it personally, he does note the unique and often quirk... |
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59,62 zł |
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
ISBN: 9780618872015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the National Book Award-winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast--often hidden--impact on America.
This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has... From the National Book Award-winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pen...
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93,98 zł |
I Swear to Tell the Tooth: Humorous (and Sometimes Touching) Tales from a Globe-Trotting Dentist's Storied Life
ISBN: 9780996791748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Quirky patients, one-of-a-kind employees, and farm animals set the stage for this humorous, tender, and sometimes irreverent saga of Dr. Carroll James's dental practice. Headphone-clad patients bop in the dental chair while Dr. James tries to work on the moving target; a long-timer happily drops her pants to show off her latest surgical scar; and a lost cell phone drops out of a patient's boxer shorts. You just can't make this stuff up. Working from his rural home office, Dr. James juggles family, patients, staff, and occasional livestock as he struggles to maintain his... Quirky patients, one-of-a-kind employees, and farm animals set the stage for this humorous, tender, and sometimes irreverent saga of Dr. Carroll Ja... |
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59,62 zł |
And Nothing but the Tooth: Still More Humorous (and Sometimes Touching) Tales from a Globe-Trotting Dentist's Storied Life
ISBN: 9780996791779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Whether attending decidedly awkward dinner parties or hayseed weddings complete with karaoke and inebriated attendants, or risking life and limb to aid the impoverished in Belize and Peru (with near-drastic results of misspoken Spanish), there’s a story for everyone in this third installment of Dr. Carroll James’s series of rollicking and touching memoirs. And Nothing but the Tooth offers up a continuation of bizarre episodes during Dr. James’s forty-plus years of dental practice—including perhaps the worst hires in employment history. On the... Whether attending decidedly awkward dinner parties or hayseed weddings complete with karaoke and inebriated attendants, or risking life and limb to... |
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59,62 zł |
The Bishop's Quinquennial Report
ISBN: 9780813225265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertility. Several studies are devoted to marriage and the annulment process; the acquiring and disposal of church property, including...
CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are...
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284,19 zł |
Above the Arctic Circle
ISBN: 9781594330322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,91 zł |
From Skeigh and Back . . . . . . . . with Love
ISBN: 9781504941952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. You know when you have been to see somewhere interesting, beautiful, and exciting or all three? Or just very old and quite boring, but you had to go because it was a school trip? While you were there, did you ever catch sight of a bluish-colored ghost? Let's get something straight here. Usually it would have been a well-known place because if it wasn't, they wouldn't have been there, and generally the being in question would have appeared to be enjoying itself and laughing like mad. If this hasn't happened to you, I don't want you to feel bad about it because the situation that I have...
You know when you have been to see somewhere interesting, beautiful, and exciting or all three? Or just very old and quite boring, but you had to go b...
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92,76 zł |
Sister Spring
ISBN: 9781682772843 / Miękka / 2024 / 16 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,24 zł |
From Skeigh and Back . . . . . . . . with Love
ISBN: 9781504941945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. You know when you have been to see somewhere interesting, beautiful, and exciting or all three? Or just very old and quite boring, but you had to go because it was a school trip? While you were there, did you ever catch sight of a bluish-colored ghost? Let's get something straight here. Usually it would have been a well-known place because if it wasn't, they wouldn't have been there, and generally the being in question would have appeared to be enjoying itself and laughing like mad. If this hasn't happened to you, I don't want you to feel bad about it because the situation that I have...
You know when you have been to see somewhere interesting, beautiful, and exciting or all three? Or just very old and quite boring, but you had to go b...
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155,16 zł |
The Camgirl's Assistant
ISBN: 9781695229280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,62 zł |
Searching for Identity, Truth and Meaning: An Exploration through Poetry and Prose
ISBN: 9780595480401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Searching for identity, truth and meaning? Have you already started on your journey? Inside you will find both prose and poetry exploring themes of abandonment, emotional pain, meaning, authenticity, commitment and identity. The last five chapters are expressed exclusively in prose. It is there that you will see how these themes tie in with moral and spiritual development, mysticism, self-realization and natural science. As the search for meaning is traced, prose is interspersed with poetry, and gives order and context to the poems, while the poems illustrate and give emphasis to the... Searching for identity, truth and meaning? Have you already started on your journey? Inside you will find both prose and poetry exploring themes of... |
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51,07 zł |
Once Upon a Time: Mr. Greenan's Flying Stories
ISBN: 9781440105524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Once Upon A Time is a collection of flying stories. They come from a man who loved and lived to fly, whose experiences and friendships formed the inspiration of this collection. It travels through basic flight training in the Deep South to flying F-86 Sabre Jets in Asia. The reader can travel back to a heroic age of pilots and aircraft.
Once Upon A Time is a collection of flying stories. They come from a man who loved and lived to fly, whose experiences and friendships formed the insp...
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68,17 zł |