John R Hartnett

The Barber's Conundrum and Other Stories: Observations on Life From the Cheap Seats

The Barber's Conundrum and Other Stories is more than just a collection of thirty-seven short literary humor pieces that will make you laugh. It provides a treasure trove of tips and invaluable advice to help you navigate safely through marriage and relationships, raising kids and to finally underst...

Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism

This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism. Through life-changing programs in a dozen states (Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mich...

Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives

Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have worked within and against the prison system ...

Starlight, Time and the New Physics

Despite increasingly compelling arguments for biblical creation, many still doubt the Bible's clear timescale because, they think, it is impossible for light to have reached Earth in only a few thousands years from stars that are millions of light years away. This misconception is often the ultimate...

Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life (Image of God Series)

Perform-a-text combines text and activity in one book. Clear, comprehensive and interesting presentation of the Catholic Faith based on seven key concepts: God, Creation, Christ, Church, Grace, Sacraments and Commandments. Stories from Scripture, lives of the saints and contemporary situations give ...

Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America

In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the 'cultural fictions' that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making. Drawing on...

Executing Democracy: Volume Two: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835-1843 (Rhetoric & Public Affairs)

This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan. In contr...

Dismantling the Big Bang

Why did Ptolemy's theory cause problems for the church?What is the big secret concerning the "Age" of the earth?Why do many scientists reject the use of design in explaining origins?The seemingly absurd idea that all matter, energy, space, and time once exploded from a point of extreme density has c...

Dismantling the Big Bang: God's Universe Rediscovered