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  • The Babies Hospital of New York

    by Stephen E. Novak, PhD, Michael Weiner ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Babies Hospital, now known as Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, was founded in 1887 by Drs. Sarah and Julia McNutt in a brownstone on Fifty-Fifth Street and Lexington Avenue. The hospital is the first freestanding children's hospital in New York City and the fourth oldest in the United States. However, the hospital traces its roots to the establishment of the Vagelos College of Physicians ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing from Left to Right

    My Journey from Liberal to Conservative

    by Michael Novak ...
    “In heavy seas, to stay on course it is indispensable to lean hard left at times, then hard right. The important thing is to have the courage to follow your intellect. Wherever the evidence leads. To the left or to the right.” –Michael NovakEngagingly, writing as if to old friends and foes, Michael Novak shows how Providence (not deliberate choice) placed him in the middle of many crucial events ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is

    by Michael Novak, Paul Adams ...
    What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding government program. It endures because it venerates its champions and brands its ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Unmeltable Ethnics

    Politics and Culture in American Life

    by Michael Novak ...
    This new, enlarged edition of an influential book originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnicsextends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others? ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Guns of Lattimer

    by Michael Novak ...
    On September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike. The marchers Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, most of whom could not yet speak English were themselves armed only with an American flag and a timid, budding ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The History of Science and the New Humanism

    by Michael Novak ...
    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 the other, Sarton points out to the former that the humanities without scientific are essentially ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • No One Sees God

    The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers

    by Michael Novak ...
    Surveying the contemporary religious landscape, the division between atheist and believer seems stark. However, having long struggled to understand the purpose of life and the meaning of suffering, Michael Novak finds the reality of spiritual life far different from the rhetorical war presented by bestselling atheists and the defenders of the faith who oppose them.In No One Sees God, Novak ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays

    by Michael Novak ...
    Written by noted Catholic philosopher Michael Novak, the selections in The Myth of Romantic Love and Other Essays highlight the arc of his intellectual career. Collectively demonstrating the fundamental unity of Novak's work, the sixteen essays in this book span a broad range of political, economic, and social topics.The selections offer clarity of thinking for the sake of concrete ends. For ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Choosing Presidents

    Symbols of Political Leadership

    by Michael Novak ...
    In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of American realities. This work is a guide to the complexities of electoral politics and a lasting contribution to our understanding of the presidency.The author is Michael Novak. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Behind Ghetto Walls

    Black Families in a Federal Slum

    by Michael Novak ...
    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 with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other investigators in other ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Belief and Unbelief

    A Philosophy of Self-knowledge

    by Michael Novak ...
    This is perhaps the most widely read of Michael Novak's books. Belief and Unbelief attempts to push intelligence and articulation as far as possible into the stuff of what so many philosophers set aside as subjectivity. It is an impassioned critique of the idea of an unbridgeable gap between the emotive and the cognitive � and in its own way, represents a major thrust at positivist analysis ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions

    Freedom with Justice

    by Michael Novak ...
    Increasingly, the religious leaders of the world are addressing problems of political economy, expressing concern about the poor. But will their efforts actually help the poor? Or harm them? Much depends, Michael Novak asserts, upon what kind of institutions are constructed, that is, upon realism and practicality.His thesis may be simply stated: Although the Catholic Church during the nineteenth ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD