St. John Fisher University is proud to showcase the work of our faculty and staff in the Fisher Bookshelf, a gallery within our institutional repository, Fisher Digital Publications. The Bookshelf features books written and contributed to by current and former faculty and professionals at St. John Fisher University.
Users at SJF may check these books out at Lavery Library. Otherwise, please use your library's Interlibrary Loan program to request them from us.
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Inquire Within: Implementing Inquiry-Based Science Standards
Douglas Llewellyn
The author teaches a method of learning in science that is inquiry-based and that involves a process of asking questions, exploring, and making the connections that lead to understanding and discovery. -- Amazon Description
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The abolition of slavery in Brazil : the "liberation" of Africans through the emancipation of capital
David Baronov
The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor relations were characterized by new forms of extra-market coercion that were explicitly linked to racial categories. Post-slavery Brazilian society is a classic example of this pattern.
Working within the context of the origin of the wage labor category in classical political economy, Baronov begins by questioning the central role of wage-labor within capitalist production through an examination of key works by Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, as well as the historical conditions informing their analyses. The study then turns to the specific case of Brazil between 1850-1888, comparing the abolition of slavery in three Brazilian regions: the northeast sugar region, the Paraiba Valley, and Western Sao Paulo. Through this analysis, Baronov provides a critique of the dominant interpretation of abolition (as a transition from slave labor to wage labor) and suggests an alternative interpretation that places a greater emphasis on the role of non-wage labor forms and extra-market factors in the shaping of the post-slavery social order. -- Amazon Description
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Governing Middle-sized Cities: Studies in Mayoral Leadership
James R. Bowers and Wilber C. Rich
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Church as Counterculture
Robert W. Brimlow and Michael L. Budde
The question, "What does it mean to be 'the church'?" has always been among the most controversial and of vital concern to political, economic, and ecclesial leaders alike. How it is answered influences whether Christianity will be a force for legitimating or subverting existing secular relations of power, influence, and privilege. The Church as Counterculture enters the debates on Christian identity, purpose, and organization by calling for the churches to reclaim their roles as "communities of disciples"-distinct and distinctive groups formed by the priorities and practices of Jesus-to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations. The notion of the church as a countercultural community of disciples confounds many conventional divides within the Christian family (liberal and conservative, church and sect), while forcing redefinition of commonplace categories like religion and politics, sacred and secular. The contributors to this book-theologians, social theorists, philosophers, historians, Catholics and Protestants of various backgrounds-reflect this shifting of categories and divisions. The book provides thought-provoking Christian perspectives on war and genocide, racism and nationalism, the legitimacy of liberalism and capitalism, and more. "This book challenges both the mind and the conscience. It tests contemporary theology against the radical values of the Sermon on the Mount. And although it provides more questions than answers, those questions cut to the quick of what it means to be a Christian in today's world-challenging our complacencies, questioning our assumptions, and confronting us with the frightening possibility that we may, in fact, be so mesmerized by the idols of the marketplace, the media, and the state, that we simply no longer know what it means to honor God above all other things or what it means to truly love our neighbors as ourselves." - Robert Inchausti, author of Thomas Merton's American Prophecy -- Amazon Description
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Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela
Richard Hillman
This work looks at the process of democratisation in Venezuela, examining the conditions that support or inhibit the consolidation of democracy and explaining the significance of critical events. It shows how the patron/client system has failed to respond to mass aspirations sufficiently.
--Publisher description.