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The Religion, Philosophy and Character of Juvenal

Anna Mechtilda Dolin

Anna Mechtilda Dolin, CSJ was a Latin instructor at Fontbonne College 1925-1942.

Her thesis on Juvenal was submitted to the University of Missouri in 1926 for the Master of Arts degree.
Memory and Technology: How We Use Information in the Brain and the World

Jason R. Finley

How is technology changing the way people remember? This book explores the interplay of memory stored in the brain (internal memory) and outside of the brain (external memory), providing a thorough interdisciplinary review of the current literature, including relevant theoretical frameworks from across a variety of disciplines in the sciences, arts, and humanities. It also presents the findings of a rich and novel empirical data set, based on a comprehensive survey on the shifting interplay of internal and external memory in the 21st century. Results reveal a growing symbiosis between the two forms of memory in our everyday lives. The book presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the interplay of internal and external memory, and their complementary strengths. It concludes with a guide to important dimensions, questions, and methods for future research.
And Still He Comes

Marcella Marie Holloway

This volume of poetry celebrates the living faith journey of sister Marcella Marie Holloway, CSJ. Her organization of this volume follows the life of Christ and the impact of that life on a Christian woman of the twentieth century.

Sister Marcella Marie Holloway, CSJ, was a professor of English at Fontbonne College from 1963-1988.
The Last of the Leprechauns

Marcella Marie Holloway

The Leprechauns prophesied Princess Cathy and Prince Michael of Ireland would marry. But Lady Grabitall schemes to have her daughter marry him and drives infant Cathy and her nurse, Nora, into hiding after Cathy's mother's death. Witzy, Leprechaun leader, plans to set things right and does. Cathy and Michael marry and as a reward the King gives the Royal Forest to the Leprechauns as a place to live.

Sister Marcella Marie Holloway, CSJ was a professor of English at Fontbonne College from 1963-1988.
The Little Juggler

Marcella Marie Holloway

Based on a medieval legend. Poor and hungry Barnaby is taken in by the monks and at the fair the Man with the Blue Garter befriends him. He's treated kindly at the monastery, except for three pompous monks who want to get rid of him.

Sister Marcella Marie Holloway, CSJ was professor of English at Fontbonne College from 1963-1988. Sister John Joseph Bezdek was professor of Music from 1930-1972.

The Little Juggler was first performed at Fontbonne College February 26-28 1965.
The Prosodic Theory of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Marcella Marie Holloway

Sister Marcella Marie Holloway, CSJ was a professor English at Fontbonne College from 1963-1988.

Her dissertation on Hopkins was published by the Catholic University of America Press in 1947.
Falling

Deanna Jent

This play examines how an 18-year-old boy with autism disrupts the equilibrium of a family's relationships.
Preparing to Teach, Committing to Learn: An Introduction to Educating Children Who Are Deaf/Hard of Hearing

Susan Lenihan, Jenna Voss, Ellie White, and Dan Salvucci

Preparing to Teach is an open-source eBook on deaf education for students and faculty in professional preparation programs, practitioners in deaf education, and families of children who are DHH. Although the focus is on deaf-education teachers who are providing services to students who are DHH, the text is useful to students and faculty in related fields including speech-language pathology, audiology, and special education. Because the text is introductory in nature it covers a broad range of topics and does not replace texts that go into more depth on a particular aspect of deaf education. The text includes references and additional recommended readings and resources for further study.

The text addresses the range of communication options used by students in deaf education with an emphasis on listening and spoken language approaches and strategies that have often been only minimally addressed in introductory texts. References and resources for further study of approaches that are primarily visual are included.
Where We Can Read the Wind: An Anthology of Work by Missouri Writers and Artists Who Have Disabilities

Tim Liddy

Tim Liddy, Associate Professor of Art at Fontbonne University, was the visual arts editor for this collection.
Farewell to Democracy? Lessons Past and Present

Jack Lawrence Luzkow
Monopoly Restored: How the Super-Rich Robbed Main Street

Jack Lawrence Luzkow

This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class--the super-rich--is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies. Their banks retain the right to speculate on risky derivatives, and their credit-card companies are not limited by usury laws that reduce interest rates. The super-rich have lowered (or escaped) inheritance taxes, shifted much of their income to lower taxed capital gains, practiced wage theft, fought minimum wage laws, outsourced jobs, and resorted to temps and contract labor to avoid unions and decent wages. They use tax havens where trillions of dollars remain untaxed, transfer profits of their intellectual and financial property to subsidiaries in low-tax regimes, and defend for-profit health insurance that is unaffordable and inequitable for millions.

This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be. In sum, the super-rich are unaffordable.
The Great Forgetting: The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State

Jack Lawrence Luzkow

Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal than we have been since the 1920s. Both countries will experience massive social upheavals if they don’t reduce social inequality, invest massively in education and infrastructure, commit themselves to securing jobs for all who want them, change tax structures that coddle the 1 percent, rein in the anarchy of big banks by reregulating (or nationalising) them, and liberate the captive state from the financial institutions of Wall Street and the City of London.

Social inequality is neither inevitable, nor the result of globalisation. It is the outcome of social and economic policies embraced by the 1 percent. This can be reversed by more social democracy, not less, by recovering the state for the 99 percent.
What's Left? Marxism, Utopianism, and the Revolt Against History

Jack Lawrence Luzkow

The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between the laws of socialist science and a utopian longing for socialism; between a science of history and a prophetic hope based on moral and ethical ideals. His writings examined history and argued for the necessity of communism to achieve the moral ideal of utopia.

Although Marx was the last great utopian, his work has been adapted in Russia and China to rationalize and justify totalitarian regimes, but it has also inspired Western utopian writers like Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Ernst Bloch. What's Left? Marxism, Utopianism and the Revolt against History, explores what remains of the Marxist and Utopian Left after the death of totalitarian utopianism and authoritarian state socialism and how Marxism still provides a powerful critique of present day globalization.
'Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees:' Jewish Teaching and Heresy in Early Christian Exegesis of Matt 16:6-12

Brian J. Matz

Papers presented at the 5th Novum Testamentum Patristicum Conference, held October 16-19, 2013, in Groningen, The Netherlands.

Includes "'Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees:' Jewish Teaching and Heresy in Early Christian Exegesis of Matt 16:6-12," presented by Brian J. Matz.
Gregory of Nazianzus

Brian J. Matz

An accessible and erudite introduction to the thought of fourth-century church father Gregory of Nazianzus. This work explores Gregory's homilies, especially those that reveal Gregory's affirmation of the full deity of the Holy Spirit, and shows the importance of Gregory's work for contemporary theology and spirituality. The book demonstrates a patristic approach to reading the Bible and promotes a vision for the Christian life that is theological, pastoral, and philosophical.
Introducing Protestant Social Ethics: Foundations in Scripture, History, and Practice

Brian J. Matz

Despite their rich tradition of social concern, Protestants have historically struggled to articulate why, whether, and how to challenge unethical social structures. This book introduces Protestants to the biblical and historical background of Christian social ethics, inviting them to understand the basis for social action and engage with the broader tradition. It embraces and explains long-standing Christian reflection on social ethics and shows how Scripture and Christian history connect to current social justice issues. Each chapter includes learning outcomes and chapter highlights.
Patristics and Catholic Social Thought: Hermeneutical Models for a Dialogue

Brian J. Matz

In Patristics and Catholic Social Thought: Hermeneutical Models for a Dialogue, Brian Matz argues that scholars and proponents of the modern Catholic social tradition can gain from the use of ancient texts for contemporary socioethical formation. Although it is impossible to expect a one-to-one correspondence between the social ideas of early church theologians, such as Augustine, and those of modern Catholic social thought, this book offers four hermeneutical models that will facilitate a fruitful dialogue between the two worlds. The result is a challenge to modern Christian ethicists to think more deeply about their work in light of the perspective of those who trod a similar path centuries ago. Matz first examines an "authorial intent" hermeneutical model, as articulated in the philosophies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey. The second is a "distanciation" model, relying on the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. The third is a "normativity of the future" model, so named by its proponents, Reimund Bieringer and Mary Elsbernd. The fourth is a "new intellectual history" model, which relies on contemporary literary-critical theories. In a series of case studies, Matz applies each model to two early Christian sermons on the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man and, in so doing, illustrates that each one draws out different social ideas. Although each model ultimately bears fruit for Catholic social thought today, Matz concludes that the "normativity of the future" model is the one best suited to a productive use of early Christian texts in contemporary Catholic social thought.
Augustine, the Carolingians, and Double Predestination

Brian J. Matz

The contributors to Grace for Grace focus on the debates on grace and free will inspired by Augustine's later teachings on grace ad the various reactions to it. Based on fresh study of a wealth of primary sources, this international team of scholars explores the intra-Church debates over grace and free will after Augustinje and Pelagius. In both popular and scholarly literature, the conflict has been traditionally referred to as the "Semi-Pelagian Controversy." For several decades, however, scholars have been distancing themselves from that simplistic and inaccurate portrayal. This book intends to solidify a disparate movement of scholarly thought and provide a secure basis for renewal study of the persons, texts, and events of a critical period in the reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages.

Brian J. Matz, is an editor of this volume. He is also author of the chapter titled: "Augustine, the Carolingians, and Double Predestination."
The Names of John Gergen: Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis

Benjamin Moore

Rescued from the dumpster of a boarded-up house, the yellowing scraps of a young migrant’s schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with the jumping-off point for this study of migration, memory, and identity. Centering on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century. These migrants were Banat Swabians from Torontál County in southern Hungary—they were Catholic, agrarian, and ethnically German.
Who was John Gergen?: Unraveling the Identity of an Early Twentieth-Century Immigrant

Benjamin Moore

Issue about John Gergen includes the article "Who was John Gergen?: Unraveling the Identity of an Early Twentieth-Century Immigrant" by Ben Moore.
Questions for when Something is Beginning [Commencement Address]

Heather Norton

The Questions

What is going on here?

Who is not here. Whose voice is not being represented?

Who am I in this and what do I bring?

To whom can I turn?
Argumentation: the Art of Civil Advocacy

Heather Norton and Larry Underberg

Argumentation: The Art of Civil Advocacy teaches students the principles of argumentation as a practical way to engage in interpersonal and public deliberation. Authors Larry Underberg and Heather Norton offer a unique approach for creating civil discourse by encouraging students to consider how they argue with others to enhance or diminish opportunities for future dialogue. A variety of everyday examples are provided in the text to demonstrate how well-reasoned argumentation can strengthen communities and create productive citizenship. Students gain a better understanding for the situations, environments, and relationships that form the context for an advocate, and how those factors can influence discourse.
Frank's Arms: Stories & Lessons from a Caregiver and Patient Advocate

Deborah L. Phelps

Frank's Arms follows a caregiver's journey through terminal illness into widowhood. Tragic, yet empowering and hopeful, the author's stories are interlaced with compassion, honor, dignity, and dedication. This thought-provoking memoir is filled with insights on advocacy and self-discovery.
Mad Men: Pedagogical Possibilities

Peggy Ridlen

Includes chapter: "Mad Men: Pedagogical Possibilities" by Librarian Peggy O'Neal Ridlen with Jamie Schmidt Wagman.
Adapting to the Evolving Information Landscape: A Case Study

Peggy Ridlen and Jane Theissen

Book chapter: "Adapting to the Evolving Information Landscape: A Case Study" by Librarians Peggy Ridlen and Jane Theissen.