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    Meeting the Enemy

    Kevin J. O'Brien

    The catastrophic effects of climate change are overwhelming. What can we do? Who is responsible? In the tradition of Walter Wink, O'Brien reminds us that Christians have the power to…

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    An Ethics of Biodiversity: Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life

    Kevin J. O'Brien

    Bringing scientific data into conversation with theological tradition, this book shows that biodiversity is a point of intersection between faith and ethics, social justice and environmentalism, science and politics, global…

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    The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists

    Kevin J. O'Brien

    Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, the author argues that we should respond to climate change first…

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    The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists

    Kevin J. O'Brien

    Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, the author argues that we should respond to climate change first…

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    The Proximate Aim of Education: A Study of the Proper and Immediate End of Education

    Kevin J O'Brien

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    Quest of the May’s Rose: New Edition

    Kevin J O'Brien

    On the planet Talamh, in the year 1310 of the second Common Era a young woman, who just lost her father, started a long and dangerous journey of her life…

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    Reform without Liberalization: China’s National People’s Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change

    Kevin J. O'Brien (Ohio State University)

    Since its founding in 1954, the National People’s Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress…

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    Reform without Liberalization: China’s National People’s Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change

    Kevin J. O'Brien (Ohio State University)

    Since its founding in 1954, the National People’s Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress…

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    My Macaroni Whales

    Kevin J O'Brien (Pacific Lutheran University USA)

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    Quest of the May’s Rose

    Kevin J O'Brien (Pacific Lutheran University USA)

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    Quest of the May’s Rose

    Kevin J O'Brien (Pacific Lutheran University USA)

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    The Rogue Effect: Political Shock and Awe Provided by Reagan and Trump Utter Disbelief and Anger Experienced by the Left, Liberal Media and Political Elites

    Kevin J O'Brien (Pacific Lutheran University USA)

    There is no denying that many were shocked, both positively and negatively, in witnessing Donald Trump become the next President of the United States in his election in 2016. However…

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    Grassroots Elections in China

    This book assesses the implementation and impact of these elections, both in terms of democratizing the polity and spurring other changes in state-society relations. The chapters in this book have…

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    Grassroots Elections in China

    This book assesses the implementation and impact of these elections, both in terms of democratizing the polity and spurring other changes in state-society relations. The chapters in this book have…

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    An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics

    Kathryn D. Blanchard,Kevin J. O'Brien

    Examines seven contemporary environmental challenges through the lens of classical Christian virtues. Authors Kathryn Blanchard and Kevin O'Brien use these classical Christian virtues to seek a golden mean between extreme…

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    An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics

    Kathryn D. Blanchard,Kevin J. O'Brien

    Examines seven contemporary environmental challenges through the lens of classical Christian virtues. Authors Kathryn Blanchard and Kevin O'Brien use these classical Christian virtues to seek a golden mean between extreme…

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    Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Wrestling with Wicked Problems

    Whitney A. Bauman,Kevin J. O'Brien

    This book offers a multidisciplinary (theology, philosophy, and sociology) environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption.

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    Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Wrestling with Wicked Problems

    Whitney A. Bauman,Kevin J. O'Brien

    This book offers a multidisciplinary (theology, philosophy, and sociology) environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption.

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    Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology

    How do religion and the natural world interact with one another? This title introduces students to the field of religion and ecology, exploring various questions about how the religious world…

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    Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology

    How do religion and the natural world interact with one another? This title introduces students to the field of religion and ecology, exploring various questions about how the religious world…

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    Grounding Religion

    The third edition of Grounding Religion includes revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental…

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    Grounding Religion

    The third edition of Grounding Religion includes revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental…

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    Rightful Resistance in Rural China

    Kevin J. O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley),Lianjiang Li (Hong Kong Baptist University)

    Introduces the concept of rightful resistance and explains how it operates in rural China. Focusing on ways in which the powerless ‘work’ a political system, this book highlights how evidence…

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    Rightful Resistance in Rural China

    Kevin J. O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley),Lianjiang Li (Hong Kong Baptist University)

    Introduces the concept of rightful resistance and explains how it operates in rural China. Focusing on ways in which the powerless ‘work’ a political system, this book highlights how evidence…

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    Rural Politics in Contemporary China

    This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology…

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    Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice

    This book explores legal mobilization, culture, and institutions in contemporary China from a perspective informed by ‘law and society’ scholarship.

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    Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice

    This book explores legal mobilization, culture, and institutions in contemporary China from a perspective informed by ‘law and society’ scholarship.

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    Inherited Land

    Proceedings of a colloquium held at Florida International University in February 2009.

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    Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology

    Proceedings of a colloquium held at Florida International University in February 2009.

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    Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering: Calming the Storm

    Using the resources of theology and ethics to bring religion into the climate engineering debate, this book considers the moral questions raised by scientists, engineers, and philosophers while adding new…

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    Popular Protest in China

    Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are…

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    Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

    Louis J Puhl

    A new edition of the faithfully translated text of St. Ignatius’ The Spiritual Exercises by Louis Puhl, SJ, now with a new foreword by Kevin O'Brien, SJ.

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