Disgusted by the apathy and incompetence of his San Francisco hospital's emergency room staff, Dr. Alan Kirk decides to establish a trauma center in the city

Trauma

Literature & Fiction

West, John G.

Fried, John J.

United States

Henry Holt Co.

Macdonald & Co. Ltd.

In recent years, controversies over abortion, school prayer, and religious cults have raised new questions about the delicate balance between church and state, between true believers and civic authority. John West shows that America's Founders had already anticipated and answered such questions by carefully defining religion's proper role in politics. 
West sheds new light on how the Founders tried to solve this fundamental theological-political problem and shows to what extent their solution worked in practice in the early decades of the new nation. West contends that the Founders and their immediate successors encouraged religion to play a dynamic, positive role in politics. This was not surprising, he argues, because in that era both church and state supported civic authority through a shared moral vision. 
This can clearly be seen, West demonstrates, in Christian political activism from the election of 1800 to 1835--a period that witnessed evangelical challenges to Cherokee removal, the delivery of Sunday mail, dueling, and other practices evangelicals deemed inconsistent with the moral order. These reform-minded evangelicals, West argues, were the period's most politically active religious adherents and thus provided the most stringent test of the Founders' attempts to devise a solution to the theological-political problem. 
Illuminating these neglected episodes in the history of religion and politics, West adds enormously to our understanding of early American church-state conflict. As such, his book will be enlightening for anyone interested in the political role of religion in America's past, evangelical religion in contemporary politics, and the current "culture wars." 
This book is part of the American Political Thought series.

The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation

Religion & Spirituality

West, John G., Jr.

Religious Studies

Univ Pr of Kansas

Disgusted by the apathy and incompetence of his San Francisco hospital's emergency room staff, Dr. Alan Kirk decides to establish a trauma center in the city

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Paperjacks

The New Federalist Papers

This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its current meaning. Contributing authors to the book range from historians and political scientists to Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices. Some of the better-known contributors include former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, former Chief Justice Warren Burger, Congressman Philip Crane, lawyer Phillis Schlafly, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leonard Levy, former United States Senator Eugene McCarthy, and the venerable dean of United States historians, Henry Steele Commager. Most of the articles published in this volume appeared originally as part of the acclaimed New Federalist Papers newspaper series, which has been used by hundreds of newspapers across the country since 1984.The book is arranged into seventeen different sections, each of which focuses on a major constitutional principle or institution. Topic areas include federalism, the separation of powers, Congress, the bureaucracy, the Presidency, the Judiciary, foreign policy, civil rights, economics, constitutional reform, and the relationship between church and state. The sections of the book were designed to parallel the standard subjects covered in an introductory college course. Co-published with Public Research, Syndicated.

History

Mahoney, Dennis J.

Barlow, Jackson J.

Americas

University Press of America

This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its current meaning.

Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision is a legal critique of of the factual and legal flaws in Judge John E. Jones III's Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board (2005), a controversial district court decision about the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. Jointly authored by David K. DeWolf , John G. West, Casey Luskin, and Jonathan Witt.

Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision

Witt, Jonathan

DEWOLF, DAVID K.

Luskin, Casey

World

Discovery Institute Press

Based on six years of original research and extensive interviews with former Disney studio staff, The Disney Live-Action Productions explores the live-action films and television shows of Walt Disney. The book takes the reader "behind the scenes" on such classic productions as Davy Crockett, Mary Poppins, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, Treasure Island, Zorro, The Absent Minded Professor and many more. In addition, the book includes cast, credit and plot information for 38 live-action features and more than 70 television episodes.

The Disney Live-Action Productions

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Hawthorne & Peabody

Beyond Animation
In this definitive guide to Walt Disney's live-action output, Dr. John West explores an often overlooked but important chapter in Disney cinematic history: the live-action films and television shows released by the Disney studio during Walt's lifetime.
From blockbuster movies like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Mary Poppins, and Treasure Island to such lesser-known efforts as Savage Sam and Monkeys, Go Home!, West describes the production of each film in detail, with backstage stories and complete cast and crew information.
The small screen output of the Disney studio is given similar treatment: over 70 episodes of Zorro, Texas John Slaughter, Davy Crockett, and other TV series are described and catalogued, along with in-depth analyses of the shows themselves.
Plus, the book features over 80 photos, many of them never seen before, including candid shots of Walt Disney in his office.
In addition to his detailed coverage of Disney's live-action films and TV shows, West devotes several chapters to a fast-moving but comprehensive history of the Disney studio's live-action productions, from the producers, directors, writers, composers, and set directors involved to the meanings behind Walt's live-action films and the values he sought to impart on American culture.

Walt Disney and Live Action: The Disney Studio's Live-Action Features of the 1950s and 60s

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Theme Park Press

Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas outside its proper bounds. In this wide-ranging book of essays, contemporary writers probe Lewis's warnings about the dehumanizing impact of scientism on ethics, politics, faith, reason, and science itself. Issues explored include Lewis's views on bioethics, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, and what he called "scientocracy." Contributors include Michael Aeschliman, author of C.S. Lewis and the Restitution of Man; Victor Reppert, author of C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea; Jay Richards, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Indivisible; and C. John Collins, author of Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? Praise for The Magician's Twin: "This outstanding book will be of interest not just to C.S. Lewis readers but to anyone following the latest controversies surrounding intelligent design, reason and the mysterious history of human life."--Tom Bethell, Senior Editor, The American Spectator. "This collection of essays shrewdly corrects some misapprehensions of Lewis’s views on evolution, the character of reason, and the role of empirical science in adjudicating the answers to life’s most important questions. Its greatest service, nevertheless, is foregrounding for 21st Century readers the threats to freedom that unchecked scientism engenders… threats that Lewis so relentlessly and prophetically and bravely warned us about in his era."--Bruce L. Edwards, Ph.D., Professor of English, Bowling Green State University. "The book makes the case that C.S. Lewis, in contrast to many of his critics, had a detailed and consistent view of science and its impact on culture. Lewis was not anti-science; he was anti-scientism… the book is especially important for Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians. It points to the battle lines in the science, faith and society debate that in the end is a matter of life and death."—Michael H. Macdonald, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of European Studies, German and Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University and co-editor of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis: The Riddle of Joy.

The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Discovery Institute

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