Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies

Resilient Leadership: Navigating the Hidden Chemistry of Organizations
Infinity Publishing
November 2009

Author(s):
Bob Duggan
Jim Moyer

Grow your leadership skills! Duggan & Moyer’s Resilient Leadership combines strong theory and practical application in a single package. This is a truly fresh and innovative approach!

This is the story of Mike Sampson, who is introduced to a powerful new understanding of leadership by Jacob Wolfe, an Executive Coach whose Resilient Leadership model draws on the revolutionary insights of Bowen Systems Theory. The reader will discover the “hidden chemistry” of human systems and, by following Mike Sampson’s journey, will learn what it takes to be a truly outstanding leader—not only in one’s business, but in one’s family as well. 

Habits of a Priestly Heart

World Library Publications
November 2009

Author(s):
Eugene Hemrick

From one of today's most remarkable priests, who has devoted a great deal of his life to research and writings concerning the life of priests, comes this intuitive new book. Habits of a Priestly Heart is designed to help today’s priests better understand, accept, and live with the new and sometimes overwhelming challenges of the third millennium. Insights are given through Hemrick’s experiences with priests he has encountered throughout his own spiritual journey. These priests display a “priestly heart” that is alive and well while demonstrating habits that have brought them to a healthy and joy-filled life centered in Christ.

Topics include:
• Resisting the temptation that once a priest is ordained he is defined
• Growing in kindness and holding at bay anything that threatens it
• Keeping the contemplative edge sharp
• Embracing ongoing education and physical fitness
• Creating a new synergism of domestic and international priests, deacons, and the laity.

Hemrick’s practical wisdom will enrich the lives of all priests and help others to better understand this truly remarkable vocation.

Engaging Young People in Civic Life
Vanderbilt University Press
July 2009

Author(s):
James Youniss (editor)
Peter Levine

The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. Young Americans are responsive to effective outreach efforts, and this collection addresses how to best provide opportunities for enhancing civic learning and forming lasting civic identities.

The thirteen original essays are based on research in schools and in settings beyond the schoolyard where civic life is experienced. One focus is on programs for those schools in poor communities that tend to overlook civic education. Another chapter reports on how two city governments--Hampton, Virginia, and San Francisco-have invited youth to participate on boards and in agencies. A cluster of chapters focuses on the civic education programs in Canada and Western Europe, where, as in the United States, immigration and income inequality raise challenges to civic life.

Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls and Science Education
Temple University Press
December 2008

Author(s):
Sandra Hanson

Hanson examines the experiences of African American girls in science education using multiple methods of quantitative and qualitative research, including a web survey and vignette techniques. She understands the complex interaction between race and gender in the science domain and, using a multicultural and feminist framework of analysis, addresses the role of agency and resistance that encourages and sustains interest in science in African American families and communities.

Annual Editions: Race and Ethnic Relations
The McGraw-Hill Companies
February 2009

Author(s):
John A. Kromkowski

Catholic Social Thought: American Reflections in Light of the New Compendium
Lexington Books
November 2008

Author(s):
David Sullins (Editor)
Anthony J. Blasi (Editor)

The essays collected and edited by Paul Sullins and Anthony Blasi represent the range of Catholic thinking on social issues in the American Church today, with discussions centered on the text of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, which was published in the United States in March 2005.

Future Office
Taylor and Francis
December 2007

Author(s):
Christopher Grech (Editor)
David Walters (Editor)

Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies potential new trends in office design from an international perspective.

Six themes are addressed: IT and building infrastructure, new office/new community, organizational change, high performance building envelopes, interior environment, and value added sustainable design.

These forward-thinking essays have been contributed by practitioners and academics from a wide spectrum of interests to deliver an illuminating look into the unfolding possibilities and challenges ahead.

Voice of The Faithful: Loyal Catholics Striving for Change
Crossroad Publishing Company
September 2007

Author(s):
William V. D'Antonio
Rev. Anthony Pogorelc

The Clergy sex abuse scandal and cover-up was to the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. what Enron was to the financial world. Catholics felt pummeled by scandal and humiliated by the institutional corruption exposed to the public. In the face of failed leadership, a group of Catholics gathered in a church basement in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to share their experiences and search for ways to respond to the crisis. The Voice of the Faithful quickly became the most talked-about and influential new Catholic group in years.

Who were these active Catholics who found ways to make the news? Were they, as some feared, angry dissidents seeking to bring down a church and assume power for themselves? Or were they local Catholics striving to renew the church?

Voices of the Faithful presents original research on the history, religious beliefs, practices, and attitudes of this new religious group. Based on the empirical research, the authors show that VOTF members represent educated and energetic people of faith with deep roots in Catholic culture and tradition. The authors also introduce assessments of VOTF from respected historians and theologians. The remarkable findings presented in this volume make for challenging and inspiring reading for VOTF members and anyone interested in church reform.

American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
March 2007

Author(s):
William V. D'Antonio
James D.Davidson
Dean R. Hoge
Mary L. Gautier

The Catholic Church has had a tumultuous recent history, in the wake of the election of a new pope and sex abuse scandals, and the views of Catholic lay people have not stood untouched. What are the effects of these events upon Catholics' beliefs? How do beliefs of older and younger generations of Catholics differ? Using key Gallup surveys from 1987 to 2005, this book reveals a rift between Catholics born before and after Vatican II and suggests that the future will find more Catholics making decisions about their own faith and fewer who are fervently committed to church life. This discussion is vital to anyone concerned with American Catholicism and its future.