Michael F Cowan

Leibhaftige Moderne: Korper in Kunst Und Massenmedien 1918 Bis 1933

Exercises in Chest X-Ray Diagnosis

Gathered and Sent: The Mission of Small Church Communities Today

Alternative Futures for Worship: General Introduction

People in Systems: A Model for Development in the Human-Service Professions and Education

Moving into Adulthood: Themes and Variations in Self-Directed Development for Effective Living

Roots for Radicals

Gathered and Sent: The Mission of Small Church Communities Today

In this visionary book, Bernard Lee and Michael Cowan reflect on the importance and influence of small Christian communities in the Church today--how they sustain their own members in faith and carry their mission to the larger society. They propose here a mode of doing theology within small Christi...

City of the West

A Life in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Bernard J. Lee, S.M.

In a long and creative academic career, Professor Bernard J. Lee has published and taught on the cutting edge of Catholic theology. He has been a beloved teacher, generous mentor and cherished colleague during his academic tenures at Maryville University, St. John's University (Collegeville), Loyola...

Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity

Cult of the Will is the first comprehensive study of modernity’s preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche’s “will to power” to the fantasy of a “triumph of the will” under Nazism, the will—its pathologies and potential cures—was a topic of urgent debates in European modernity. In this study, Mic...

The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers an entirely new vision of early film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities and hopes...

Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde - Advertising - Modernity (Film Culture in Transition)

Winner of the Willy Haas award for best book on German cinema, finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz award in the category of Moving Image, honourable mention in the best book award of the British Association of Film and Television Studies Scholars. By any account, Walter Ruttmann is a towering figure in...

The Art of Conversation Through Serious Illness: Lessons for Caregivers

Every day, thousands of people receive a diagnosis of serious, life-threatening illness, and their families and friends suddenly become caregivers. Despite the best of intentions it is not always easy to communicate well under these circumstances, or find deep empathy for something one has never bef...

Sentient Ash

A collection of poetry written over the course of several years, reflecting the changes and events that life crafts for each of us. Exploring the themes of love, depression, religion, betrayal, happiness, euphoria, and our darkest hours, these poems speak of things we all encounter, yet they leave r...