REVIEW
BOOKS
Allenby, Branden R. & Daniel Sarewitz. 2011.
The Techno-Human Condition.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cloth. 222 p.
$24.95.
Baehr, Ted. 2011. How
to Succeed in Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul).
Washington, DC: WND Books.
Paper. 564 p.
$15.95.
Bogus, Carl T. 2011. Buckley:
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism.
New York: Bloomsbury Press.
Cloth. 405 p.
$30.
Byrne, William F. 2011. Edmund
Burke for Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning and Politics.
DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois
University Press. Cloth. 227
p. $40.
Dourish, Paul & Genevieve Bell. 2011.
Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology
in Ubiquitous Computing.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cloth.
248 p. $32.
Gairdner, William D. 2009. The Book of Absolutes:
A Critique of Relativism and a Defence
of Universals.
Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University
Press. Paper. 398 p. $29.95.
Guerra, Marc D. 2010. Christians as Political Animals: Taking the
Measure of Modernity
and Modern Democracy. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Cloth. 216 p. $26.95.
Guthrie, Steven R. 2011. Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the
Art of Becoming Human.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. Paper. 222 p.
$24.99.
Inch, Morris A. 2010. The Enigma of Justice. Eugene,
OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Paper. 153 p. $18.
Jacoby, Susan. 2009. The Age of American
Unreason. Rev. ed. New
York: Vintage Books.
Paper.
357 p. $15.95.
Kupelian, David. 2010. How Evil Works:
Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces
That Are Transforming America.
New York: Simon & Schuster. Cloth.
289 p. $26.
Lawler, Peter Augustine. 2010.
Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as
Persons
and What That Means for Our Future.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Cloth.
278 p. $26.95.
Lichterman, Paul & C. Brady Potts, eds. 2009. The Civic Life of
American Religion.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Paper.
164 p. $19.95.
Mahoney, Daniel J. 2010. The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal
Order:
Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate
Friends.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Cloth. 208 p. $26.95.
Michnik, Adam. 2011. In Search of
Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe.
Berkeley, CA: University
of California
Press. Cloth. 224
p. $29.95.
Mitchell, Mark T. & Nathan Schlueter, eds. 2011. The Humane
Vision of Wendell Berry.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Cloth. 334 p.
$29.95.
Mizzoni, John. 2010. Ethics: The Basics. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell. Paper. 223 p. $29.95.
Roche, Mark William. 2010. Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press. Paper. 198 p. $20.
Schuman, Samuel. 2010. Seeing
the Light: Religious Colleges in Twenty-First Century America.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press. Cloth. 326
p. $50.
Smidt, Corwin E. et al. 2008. Pews,
Prayers and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility
in America. Washington,
DC: Georgetown University Press. Paper.
280 p. $26.95.
Taylor, F. Flagg IV, ed. 2011. The Great Lie:
Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology
and Totalitarianism.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Paper.
658 p. $30.
Toft, Monica Duffy, Daniel Philpott & Timothy S. Shah. 2011.
God’s Century: Resurgent Religion
and Global Politics.
New York: Norton. Cloth.
276 p. $25.95.
Woods, Robert H. Jr. & Paul D. Patton.
2010. Prophetically
Incorrect: A Christian Introduction
to Media Criticism.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
Paper. 182 p.
$19.99.
Woods, Thomas E. Jr., ed. 2010.
Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence
of Statism.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Cloth. 234 p.
$26.95.
Wuthnow, Robert. 2009. Boundless
Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches.
Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press. Cloth. 345
p. $26.95.
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