Continuum imprint: 595 books
Building a Just and Secure World
Popular Front Women's Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Building a Just and Secure World highlights women's activism, often peripheral and one-dimensional in peace movement historiography which tends to dramatize men's antiwar and antinuclear activism in national organizations.Â
In Chicago, an urban center of anti-war and civil rights activism,...
by Dr. Judith M. Kubicki
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
The Dogmatic Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of Vatican II reiterates the church's traditional teaching on the manifold presence of Christ in his church, especially in liturgical celebrations: in the priest, the consecrated bread and wine, the sacraments, and when the gathered church prays...
Out of the Shadows
Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
'Lisbon and Portugal's best days are behind them' is a common theme put forward by writers who focus their attention on the golden era of Portuguese discoveries, the Empire and the role of Lisbon as a major Atlantic power. Neill Lochery's book demonstrates that Portugal is not suffering from such...
by Peter Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
The old rules of Left and Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade and the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The 'progressive' BBC gives a fair hearing to the Conservative Party. Socialist journalists turn and rend Ken Livingstone....
NATO and Terrorism
Organizational Expansion and Mission Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
NATO and Terrorism posits that the post 9/11 war on terrorism has had a profound effect on NATO's post Cold War structure and military missions. NATO and Terrorism focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations. The first was the expansion from sixteen...
The Great Deception
The Secret History of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Now published with a new preface explaining why The Great Deception is of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first published and to coincide with Great Britain's EU referendum in 2016, this book suggests that the United States of Europe and its edict of 'ever closer union' have been...
Newcomers' Lives
The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent...
Scared to Death
From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major...
Take the Plunge
Living Baptism and Confirmation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Timothy Radcliffe holds a unique position in the modern Catholic Church. As Master of the Dominican Order in Rome for nine years, he held one of the most senior and influential appointments the Catholic Church has on offer. But he is a member of an Order of Preachers and is thus truly apostolic. The...
Teresa of Avila
Doctor of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
In this strikingly original book, published to mark the fifth centenary of Teresa of Avila's birth, Dr Peter Tyler takes the writings of the sixteenth-century Spanish reformer and brings them into dialogue with some of the foremost thinkers who have shaped our contemporary notion of self. Starting...
Choose Life
Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The addresses that Rowan Williams has given in Canterbury Cathedral for Christmas and Easter are small masterpieces of this kind. They constitute part of Rowan Williams' essential legacy to Christian believers.
With a new introduction by Dr Williams, this is the first time these pieces have appeared in print. Perfect reading material for Lent or Advent.
The Unknown Pope
Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the Pursuit of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Best known for his efforts to end World War I, Benedict XV was the first contemporary pope to assume the role peacemaker, a role that has persisted in the papacy since. Although Benedict's 1917 Peace Note was rejected by officials, he went on to help establish Save the Children and to lead European...
Prayers of Great Traditions
A Daily Office
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Forms of daily prayer have been used throughout Christian history, and every Christian tradition encourages its adherents to practise regular personal prayer, calling it variously the Daily Office, the Divine Hours, Forms of Prayer, the Quiet Time or, more simply 'daily devotions'.
This book...
Antisemitism
The Oldest Hatred
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
'The Jewish people in its very being constitutes a living protest against a world of hatred, violence and war'
Emeritus Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks
The history of Jewish persecution is as old as the written word, though the epithet `antisemitism` was only conceived in the late nineteenth century...