Book Authors & Titles

Abbie E. Goldberg

• Pravin Thevathasan : Family Life Cycle

  • Abbie E. Goldberg, Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle (American Psychological Association, 2010).

Abigail Garner

• Colet C. Bostick : Children of Gay Parents

  • Abigail Garner, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (HarperPerennial, 2005).

  • Lisa Saffron, What About the Children? (Cassell, 1996).

Abigail Shrier

• Susan Waldstein : The Transgender Movement: Identity Confusion

  • Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Regnery Publishing, 2020).

  • Antonio Malo, Transcending Gender Ideology: A Philosophy of Sexual Difference (The Catholic University of America Press, 2020).

Adolf Portmann

• Rachel M. Coleman : In the Eye of the Beholder: A "New" Way to Study Animals

  • Adolf Portmann, Animal Forms and Patterns: A Study of the Appearance of Animals (Schocken Books, 1967).

Alasdaire MacIntyre

• Apolonio Latar III : I Am My Animal Body

  • Alasdaire MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (Open Court, 1999).

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

• Colleen Zarzecki : Working Deeply and Resting for Its Own Sake

  • Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less (Basic Books, 2016 ).

  • Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Grand Central Publishing, 2016).

Allan Carlson

• Michael Camacho : Fractured Generations

  • Allan Carlson, Fractured Generations: Crafting a Family Policy for Twenty-First-Century America (Transaction Publishers, 2005).

Allan C. Carlson

• Russell Sparkes : Recent Attempts at Family-Centered Economics

  • Allan C. Carlson, Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centred Economies— and Why They Disappeared (ISI Books, 2007).

Andrew J. Cherlin

• Daniel Meola : Marriage-Go-Round

  • Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (Vintage Books, 2010, 271 pages).

Andrew Root

• Lisa Lickona : Children of Divorce: An Overview of the Recent Literature

  • Susan Gregory Thomas, In Spite of Everything (Random House, 2011).

  • Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family Life (Vintage Books, 1996).

  • Judith and Blakeslee Wallerstein, Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce (Mariner Books, 1996).

  • Judith Wallerstein, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: The 25 Year Landmark Study (Hyperion, 2000).

  • Elizabeth Marquardt, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce (Three Rivers Press, 2005).

  • Andrew Root, The Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being (Baker Academic, 2010).

• Juliana Weber : An Ontological Wound

  • Andrew Root, The Children of Divorce (Baker Academic, 2010, 139pp.).

Ann Crittenden

• Stephen McGinley : Most Important Job in the World

  • Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued (Picador, 2010, 322 pages).

Anne Taylor Fleming

• Lesley Rice : Motherhood Deferred

  • Anne Taylor Fleming, Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey (Putnam Adult, 1994, 256 pages).

Anne-Marie Slaughter

• Margaret Harper McCarthy : Still Unfinished? Probing Anne-Marie Slaughter's Latest "Solution"

  • Anne-Marie Slaughter, Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family (Random House, 2015).

Anthony Esolen

• James Stanley : Destroying the Imagination of Your Child

  • Anthony Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010).

• Katrina Bieler : Inspiring the Imagination with Visions of the True, Good and Beautiful

  • Anthony Esolen, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2015 ).

• Eirik Steenhoff : The Tragedy of Unreality

  • Anthony Esolen, Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind (Ignatius Press, 2020).

Anthony G. Jay

• Mary Shivanandan : Why Are There Sex Hormones in the Water?

  • Anthony G. Jay, Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile (Tallahassee, FL: Pyramidine Publishing, 2017).

Anthony Krupp

• D. C. Schindler : The Unsurpassable Significance of the Child

  • Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood, 2nd ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).

  • Gareth B. Matthews, The Philosophy of Childhood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994).

  • Anthony Krupp, Reason's Children: Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009).

Antonio Malo

• Susan Waldstein : The Transgender Movement: Identity Confusion

  • Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Regnery Publishing, 2020).

  • Antonio Malo, Transcending Gender Ideology: A Philosophy of Sexual Difference (The Catholic University of America Press, 2020).

Atul Gawande

• Lesley Rice : Death and Dying in the Age of Autonomy

  • Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014).

Aziz and Eric Klinenberg Ansari

• Michael Moss : Swipe Right to Find Your Soul Mate

  • Aziz and Eric Klinenberg Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation (Penguin Books, reprinted ed. 2016).

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

• Lisa Lickona : Children of Divorce: An Overview of the Recent Literature

  • Susan Gregory Thomas, In Spite of Everything (Random House, 2011).

  • Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family Life (Vintage Books, 1996).

  • Judith and Blakeslee Wallerstein, Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce (Mariner Books, 1996).

  • Judith Wallerstein, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: The 25 Year Landmark Study (Hyperion, 2000).

  • Elizabeth Marquardt, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce (Three Rivers Press, 2005).

  • Andrew Root, The Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being (Baker Academic, 2010).

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

• Michael Roesch : Divorce Culture

  • Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family (Vintage Books, 1996, 224 pages).

Ben Sasse

• Melanie Danner : On Exiting Neverland: Ben Sasse's *The Vanishing American Adult*

  • Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-reliance (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017).

Bernard E. Rollin

• John Laracy : The Philosopher and the Beasts

  • Bernard E. Rollin, Putting the Horse Before Descartes: My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals (Temple University Press, 2011).

Bessel Van der Kolk

• Léonie Caldecott : Trauma and the Body

  • Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (North Atlantic Books, 1997).

  • Bessel Van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma (Penguin, 2014).

Bishop Robert Barron

• Louis Rouleau : Healing the Wounds of the Church

  • Bishop Robert Barron, Letter to A Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis (Word on Fire, 2019).

Bosman, Frank G.

• Matthew John Paul Tan : Playing for Eternity

  • Bosman, Frank G., Gaming and the Divine: A New Systematic Theology of Videogames (Routledge, 2019).

Brent Waters

• Kathleen Crane Vidmar : This Mortal Flesh

  • Brent Waters, This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics (Brazos Press, 2009, 208 pages).

Brian C. Robertson

• Kathleen Curran Sweeney : Pressure for Day-Care

  • Brian C. Robertson, Day-Care Deception (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003, 214 pages).

  • Family Policy Review, The Child-Care “Crisis” and Its Remedies (Washington, DC: Family Research Council, Fall 2003, 139 pages).

Brooke Lea Foster

• Matthew Newell : The Way They Were

  • Brooke Lea Foster, The Way They Were: Dealing with Your Parents' Divorce after a Lifetime of Marriage (Three Rivers Press, 2006, 320 pages).

Cal Newport

• Colleen Zarzecki : Working Deeply and Resting for Its Own Sake

  • Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less (Basic Books, 2016 ).

  • Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Grand Central Publishing, 2016).

Camille Pagila

• Margaret Harper McCarthy : Camille Paglia’s Sexual “Realism”

  • Camille Pagila, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism (Pantheon, 2017).

Cardinal Robert and Nicolas Diat Sarah

• Conor B. Dugan : Liberating Silence in the Dictatorship of Noise

  • Cardinal Robert and Nicolas Diat Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (Ignatius Press, 2017).

Carl and Rev. José Granados Anderson

• José Granados DCJM : Theology of the Body: More Than Just Sex Ed

  • Carl and Rev. José Granados Anderson, Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body (Image, reprint edition 2012).

Carlo Gnocchi

• Fabrizio Meroni P.I.M.E. : The Terrible Mystery of Innocent Suffering

  • Carlo Gnocchi, Pedagogia del Dolore Innocente (1956; currently not available in English translation).

Caroline Lorbach

• Paige S. Sanchez : Experiences of Donor Conception

  • Caroline Lorbach, Experiences of Donor Conception: Parents, Offspring and Donors through the Years (Kingsley, 2003, 192 pages).

Carter Griffin

• Kristin and Nathaniel Hurd : Filling Heaven with God’s Children: Priestly Celibacy and Paternity

  • Carter Griffin, Why Celibacy? Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2019).

Catherine S. and Cabrera Tamis-LeMonda

• Margaret Laracy : Fatherhood Matters

  • Catherine S. and Cabrera Tamis-LeMonda, Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2002)).

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

• Conor B. Dugan : Care of the Earth, Care of the Soul

  • Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Apostolic Farming: Healing the Earth (2nd ed.) (Madonna House Publications, 1991).

Charlie W. Starr

• Meredith Rice : C.S. Lewis and Myth

  • Charlie W. Starr, The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters (The Kent State University Press/Black Squirrel Books, 2018).

Christine Overall

• Mary Shivanandan : Why Have Children?

  • Christine Overall, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012, 272 pages).

Christopher A. Franks

• Rachel M. Coleman : Money, Poverty and Human Flourishing

  • Christopher A. Franks, He Became Poor: The Poverty of Christ and Aquinas’s Economic Teachings (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009).

Christopher Alexander

• Stratford Caldecott : The Tao of Architecture

  • Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (Oxford University Press, 1979).

Christopher C. Roberts

• Daniel Meola : Defending Marriage: An Overview of the Recent Literature Critiquing Same-Sex “Marriage”

  • John and Gallagher Corvino, Debating Same-Sex Marriage (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 224 pages).

  • Robert P. and Elshtain George, The Meaning of Marriage (Dallas, Texas: Spence Publishing Company, 2006, 253 pages).

  • Dale O’Leary, One Man One Woman: A Catholic’s Guide to Defending Marriage (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2007, 303 pages).

  • Christopher C. Roberts, The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage (New York: T&T Clark, 2007, 259 pages).

Christopher Dawson

• James Gaston : The Generative Role of Christianity in Western Culture

  • Christopher Dawson, The Crisis of Western Education (Catholic University Press, 2010).

Christopher Kaczor

• Erik van Versendaal : Awakening to Persons: the Ethics of Abortion

  • Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice (Routledge, 2011).

Christopher Lasch

• Julie E. Heldt : State of the Family

  • Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World: the Family Besieged (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.).

• Erik van Versendaal : We Are a Nation of Narcissists

  • Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations​ (W.W. Norton and Co., 2018, 1st ed. 1978).

Christopher O. and Cuddeback Blum

• Chris Hall : A New Textbook That Starts With Living Wholes

  • Christopher O. and Cuddeback Blum, Nature's Beautiful Order: An Introduction to the Study of Animals Taught by the Classical Naturalists (Memoria Press, 2014).

Christopher and Cacilda Jethá Ryan

• Colet C. Bostick : Putting the Flintstones on the Pill

  • Christopher and Cacilda Jethá Ryan, Sex at Dawn: Why We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships ( (Harper Collins, 2011).).

Claire Horn

• Julia Palmieri : The Abolition of Mother

  • Claire Horn, Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth (House of Anansi Press, 2023).

Clara Lejeune-Gaymard

• Melanie Danner : Life Is a Blessing

  • Clara Lejeune-Gaymard, Life Is a Blessing: A Biography of Jerome Lejeune (The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2010, 139 pages).

Claudio Risé

• Paolo Prosperi FSCB : The Necessary Wound

  • Claudio Risé, Il Padre: l’assente inaccettabile (San Paolo, 2007, 6th edition).

Constance Ahrons

• Catherine Sienkiewicz : The Good Divorce

  • Constance Ahrons, The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart (HarperCollins Publishers, 1994).

Craig G. Bartholomew

• Carla Galdo : The Meaning of Place

  • Craig G. Bartholomew, Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today (Baker Academic: September 1, 2011; 384 pages).

Craig Holdrege

• Lesley Rice : Losing Animals, Losing Ourselves

  • Craig Holdrege, The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole (The Nature Institute, 2003).

Crawford, Matthew B.

• Molly Black : In Defense of Driving

  • Crawford, Matthew B., Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road (Custom House, reprint ed., 2021).

Cynthia R. (ed) Daniels

• Blessed John Henry Newman : Lost Fathers

  • Cynthia R. (ed) Daniels, Lost Fathers: The Politics of Fatherlessness in America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, 208 pages).

D. Brent Laytham

• Michael Camacho : iPod, YouTube, WiiPlay

  • D. Brent Laytham, Pod, YouTube, Wii Play: Theological Engagements with Entertainment (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2012).

D.E. Wittkower (ed.)

• Juliana Weber : Facebook and Philosophy

  • D.E. Wittkower (ed.), Facebook and Philosophy (Open Court, 2010, 285 pages).

Dale O’Leary

• Daniel Meola : Defending Marriage: An Overview of the Recent Literature Critiquing Same-Sex “Marriage”

  • John and Gallagher Corvino, Debating Same-Sex Marriage (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 224 pages).

  • Robert P. and Elshtain George, The Meaning of Marriage (Dallas, Texas: Spence Publishing Company, 2006, 253 pages).

  • Dale O’Leary, One Man One Woman: A Catholic’s Guide to Defending Marriage (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2007, 303 pages).

  • Christopher C. Roberts, The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage (New York: T&T Clark, 2007, 259 pages).

Daniel J. and Bryson Siegel

• Margaret Laracy : Attachment Parenting: The First Step

  • Daniel J. and Hartzell Siegel, Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004).

  • Daniel J. and Bryson Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture your Child's Developing Mind (Bantam Books, 2012).

Daniel J. and Hartzell Siegel

• Margaret Laracy : Attachment Parenting: The First Step

  • Daniel J. and Hartzell Siegel, Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004).

  • Daniel J. and Bryson Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture your Child's Developing Mind (Bantam Books, 2012).

Daniel Moody

• Morgan Holliger : The New Disconnect Between Law and Reality

  • Daniel Moody, The Flesh Made Word: A New Reason to Be Against Abortion (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016).

Danielle Crittenden

• Micheala van Versendaal : Modern Woman

  • Danielle Crittenden, What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1999, 191 pages).

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