Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Wave: a poetic journey
Award-winning poet Andrew Sofer, an associate professor in BC’s English Department, will read from his book WAVE, a poetic journey across three national landscapes linked by water, on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 305. Sponsors: English … Continue reading
The video gamer and the therapist
A new book by Graduate School of Social Work adjunct faculty member and licensed independent clinical social worker Mike Langlois challenges healthcare providers to rethink how they understand and work with patients who play video games. In Reset: Video Games … Continue reading
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Tagged Graduate School of Social Work, technology, teens, video games
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Political evil
The new book Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It by Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Director Alan Wolfe (featured in BC Bookmarks last month) has recently been reviewed by the New … Continue reading
Philosopher Maurice Blondel
A biography of French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel, authored by Boston College Professor of Philosophy Oliva Blanchette, has been honored with a first place 2011 Catholic Book Award in the category of biography by the Catholic Press Association (CPA) of … Continue reading
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Will There Be Faith?
These are enormously challenging times for faith on earth, according to Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Professor Thomas H. Groome, an internationally renowned authority on religious education and author of the new book Will There Be Faith? A … Continue reading
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Building a world-class university
How do you build a world-class research university from scratch? A new book The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities examines the recent experience of 11 universities in 9 countries on 4 continents that have grappled … Continue reading
Alan Wolfe faces his critics
The new book Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It by acclaimed Boston College political scientist Alan Wolfe is a provocative challenge to widely held beliefs about genocide, intervention and the use of force to combat evil … Continue reading
Do we really have free choice?
In his new book The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits (Yale University Press, October 2011), Boston College Law Professor Kent Greenfield shows that the so-called “choices” that confront us daily are often not choices at … Continue reading
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“Adulthood II”
Writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, who is a visiting scholar at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, was recently interviewed by the Boston Globe on her thoughts about post-retirement life, or what she dubs … Continue reading
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