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by the staff of P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library & Seminary Library

#BannedBooksWeek display highlights freedom to read

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We’re celebrating American Library Association’s Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2013) by inviting you to read books that have been deemed “pornographic,” “racist,” “obscene,” and even “un-American.”

The display shelves on the 1st floor of your Library are now home to 28 books wrapped in brown paper, with title and author information hidden. On each wrapper, you’ll find the various charges that have been leveled against that particular book (e.g., “graphic imagery” or “drug use”). What do they have in common? All of these books have been challenged or banned in US libraries or school systems in the past few years. As a point of contrast to these allegations, on the spines of the wrapped books, Library staff have written the praise each has received. You may be surprised to see how many of these controversial books or their authors have won Pulitzers, Nobels, or other prestigious awards, or have been #1 bestsellers!

The books are wrapped in paper to highlight the “dangerous” content some feel they contain, and these wrappers will stay on the books until they’re checked out. We encourage you to take a chance and check out something that will both entertain and challenge you as you come to your own conclusions.

Why celebrate banned books? Libraries serve to connect users to information–not to restrict users’ access to it. As Library professionals, we cannot deny users the right to receive the information they desire because a third party may find it morally objectionable. We uphold the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech, and the corollary right to freely receive information. Some people want to restrict your right to read whatever you want, but librarians are there to stand up for your to be informed and entertained.

You can learn more about Banned Books Week at http://www.bannedbooksweek.org, and by following the #BannedBooksWeek hashtag on Twitter. Check out how libraries around the world are taking a stand for your right to read by highlighting their controversial books.

“It’s Your Library!” promotes services and encourages a sense of ownership

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Beginning with a “Welcome Back” banner hung in front of the building, followed by handing out “6 Thing we can help you with TODAY” bookmarks and our newest library pens at New Student Orientation, and adding a subtle update to the library website (and library staff email signatures), the Milligan College Library launched its “It’s Your Library: …and so much more!” promotional campaign for the 2013-14 academic year.

“It’s Your Library!” is the brainchild of User Services Librarian, Jeff Harbin and Library Director, Gary Daught. “We will be hanging new banners throughout the year,” said Harbin. “We want to keep the consistent ‘It’s Your Library!’ branding, but highlight different library services we think our users find most valuable–things such as research assistance, study spaces, and MCSearch. The ‘and so much more!’ aspect stresses that the whole is greater than the sum of any one library service highlighted at the time. Plus there’s the relational aspect we value and are trying to promote. All library services at some level are delivered to our users by competent, helpful, and caring staff.”

“That’s right!” added Daught. “We wanted to create an attractive promotional vehicle to enhance the visibility of the library to Milligan students and faculty while also encouraging them to take a greater sense of ownership in the library. The library exists for our users. So we figured, instead of talking about ‘what the library can do for you’ we would talk about ‘what your library can do for you.’ It’s a small but important change. The services are the same, but the relationship with our users is strengthened.”

New Books and Media Received (August 2013)

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The following Books and DVDs (116 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during August 2013:

10 things employers want you to learn in college, revised : the skills you need to succeed / Bill Coplin. Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, 2012.

Agent Orange : history, science, and the politics of uncertainty / Edwin A. Martini. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.

Alfred Hitchcock’s America / by Murray Pomerance. Cambridge : Polity, 2013.

American empire : the rise of a global power, the democratic revolution at home, 1945-2000. New York : Penguin Books, 2013.

The archaeology of ancient Egypt : beyond pharaohs / Douglas J. Brewer. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

At liberty to die : the battle for death with dignity in America / Howard Ball. New York : New York University Press, c2012.

The aviator [videorecording] / Miramax Films ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; written by John Logan ; a Forward Pass/Appian Way/IMF production ; produced by Michael Mann … [et al.] ; a Martin Scorsese picture ; in association with Initial Entertainment Group ; a Warner Bros. Pictures and Miramax Films presentation. Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Pictures : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005.

Beneath the veil of the strange verses : reading scandalous texts / Jeremiah L. Alberg. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.

Between ruin and restoration : an environmental history of Israel / edited by Daniel E. Orenstein, Alon Tal, and Char Miller. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013].

Beyond Shangri-La : America and Tibet’s move into the twenty-first century / John Kenneth Knaus. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Biophysics : a physiological approach / Patrick F. Dillon. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Blame : its nature and norms / edited by D. Justin Coates and Neal A. Tognazzini. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Book production / Adrian Bullock ; with a foreword by John Peacock. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Borders : a very short introduction / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Borges, between history and eternity / Hernán Díaz. London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

Bridging two peoples : Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843-1909 / Allan Sherwin. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2012.

Can journalism survive? : an inside look at American newsrooms / David M. Ryfe. Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2012.

Classical Arabic literature : a library of Arabic literature anthology / selected and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder. New York : New York University Press, c2013.

Coding freedom : the ethics and aesthetics of hacking / E. Gabriella Coleman. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.

College : what it was, is, and should be / Andrew Delbanco. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013, c2012.

Comics versus art / Bart Beaty. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2012.

Compassion fatigue and burnout in nursing : enhancing professional quality of life / Vidette Todaro- Franceschi. New York : Springer Pub., c2013.

The complete Monty Python’s flying circus [videorecording]. [U.S.] : A & E : Distributed by New Video, [2005].

A comprehensive course in number theory / Alan Baker. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Creating the witness : documenting genocide on film, video, and the Internet / Leshu Torchin. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Cronkite / Douglas Brinkley. New York : Harper Perennial, 2013.

De-westernizing film studies / edited by Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Defiant requiem / Partisan Pictures ; the Defiant Requiem Foundation ; PBS ; producers, Peter Schnall & Doug Shultz ; director/writer, Doug Shultz. [United States] : PBS Distribution, [2013].

Demystifying China : new understandings of Chinese history / edited by Naomi Standen. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013].

Developmental psychology : revisiting the classic studies / [edited by] Alan M. Slater & Paul C. Quinn. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.

Digital memory and the archive / Wolfgang Ernst ; edited and with an introduction by Jussi Parikka. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.

DNA for archaeologists / Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith and Ann Horsburgh. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2012.

Everyday reading : poetry and popular culture in modern America / Mike Chasar. New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

The evolution of primate societies / edited by John C. Mitani, Josep Call, Peter M. Kappeler, Ryne A. Palombit, and Joan B. Silk. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012].

Exit strategies and state building / edited by Richard Caplan. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Fathers in cultural context / edited by David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, Michael E. Lamb. New York ; London : Psychology Press, 2013.

First films of the Holocaust : Soviet cinema and the genocide of the Jews, 1938-1946 / Jeremy Hicks. Pittsburgh. Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012.

Fragile states : violence and the failure of intervention / Lothar Brock, Hans- Henrik Holm, Georg Sørensen and Michael Stohl. Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2012.

Girlchild / Tupelo Hassman. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012 (Printed in the United States of America).

Go west, young women! : the rise of early Hollywood / Hilary A. Hallett. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

The Gospels of the marginalized : the redemption of Doubting Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas Iscariot in early Christian literature / Marvin W. Meyer. Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2012.

Gulf women / edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2012.

Handbook for biblical interpretation : an essential guide to methods, terms, and concepts / W. Randolph Tate. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2012.

Healing elements : efficacy and the social ecologies of Tibetan medicine / Sienna R. Craig. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

The hermetic Deleuze : philosophy and spiritual ordeal / Joshua Ramey. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

High schools, race, and America’s future : what students can teach us about morality, diversity, and community / Lawrence Blum. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2012.

Home is where the school is : the logic of homeschooling and the emotional labor of mothering / Jennifer Lois. New York : New York University Press, [2013].

Hope springs [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures present a Film 360/Escape Artists production ; producer, Todd Black, Guymon Casady ; screenplay, Vanessa Taylor ; director, David Frankel. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2012.

Ingmar Bergman / Robin Wood ; edited by Barry Keith Grant. Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2012.

International migration and social theory / Karen O’Reilly. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

The interview : an ethnographic approach / Jonathan Skinner.

An introduction to the philosophy of mathematics / Mark Colyvan, University of Sydney. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The invention of religion in Japan / Jason Ānanda Josephson. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012].

Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2013.

James Joyce : a new biography / Gordon Bowker. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

The Jewish Kulturbund theatre company in Nazi Berlin / Rebecca Rovit. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

John keats : a new life. [S.l.] : Yale University Press, 2013.

Johnny Appleseed and the American orchard : a cultural history / William Kerrigan. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Key concepts in leadership / Jonathan Gosling, Stephanie Jones and Ian Sutherland with Joost Dijkstra. Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2012.

The Kingdom of Waalo : Senegal before the conquest / Boubacar Barry. New York : Diasporic Africa Press, 2012.

The language of flowers : a novel / Vanessa Diffenbaugh. New York : Ballantine Books, 2012.

The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill : Alone, 1932-1940 / by William Manchester. New York : Delta Trade Paperback, c1988.

The little bookstore of big Stone Gap : a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book / Wendy Welch. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

A little history of science / William Bynum. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2013.

Maddie on things : a super serious project about dogs and physics / by Theron Humphrey. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2013.

Making women’s histories : beyond national perspectives / edited by Pamela S. Nadell and Kate Haulman. New York : New York University Press, [2013].

A man’s guide to a nursing career / Chad E. O’Lynn. New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2013.

Matchstick men [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents an ImageMovers/ Scott Free production in association with Rickshaw Productions and Live Planet, a Ridley Scott film ; producers, Jack Rapke, Ridley Scott and Steve Starkey, Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin ; screenplay by Nicholas Griffin and Ted Griffin ; directed by Ridley Scott. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004], c2003.

Matters of fact in Jane Austen : history, location, and celebrity / Janine Barchas. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Medieval autographies : the “I” of the text / A. C. Spearing. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

The most fundamental right : contrasting perspectives on the Voting Rights Act / edited by Daniel McCool. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012].

Movement training for actors / Jackie Snow. London : Methuen Drama, 2012.

Musical theatre auditions and casting : a performer’s guide viewed from both sides of the audition table / Neil Rutherford ; with a foreword by Bartlett Sher. London : Methuen Drama, 2012.

N.E.S.T. approach : dementia practice guidelines for disturbing behaviors / by Linda L. Buettner and Suzanne Fitzsimmons. State College, PA : Venture Publishing, c2009.

Occupational therapy in mental health : a vision for participation / editors, Catana Brown, Virginia C. Stoffel ; associate editor, Jaime Phillip Muñoz. Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c2011.

On modern poetry : from theory to total criticism / Robert Rowland Smith. London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

One billion hungry : can we feed the world? / Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah. Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2012.

Orchestra of exiles [videorecording]. [United States] : First Run Features, 2013.

Oxford textbook of spirituality in healthcare / edited by Mark Cobb, Christina M. Puchalski and Bruce Rumbold. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

The perfection of freedom : Schiller, Schelling and Hegel between the ancients and the moderns / D. C. Schindler. Eurene, Oregon : Cascade Books, c2012.

Philosophy of art : aesthetic theory and practice / David Boersema, Pacific University. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2013].

Pictures and progress : early photography and the making of African American identity / edited by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

The poetics of Slumberland : animated spirits and the animating spirit / Scott Bukatman. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

The promise of wilderness : American environmental politics since 1964 / James Morton Turner ; foreword by William Cronon. Seattle, Wash. : Univ of Washington Press, 2013.

Radical distortion : how emotions warp what we hear / John W. Reich. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2012.

Roots of Brazil / Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ; translated by G. Harvey Summ ; foreword by Pedro Meira Monteiro. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Red brick, Black Mountain, white clay : reflections on art, family, and survival / Christopher Benfey. New York : Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012.

The red land to the south : American Indian writers and indigenous Mexico / James H. Cox. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

The reign of Richard II : from minority to tyranny 1377-97 / selected sources translated and annotated by Alison K. McHardy. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Rising sea levels : an introduction to cause and impact / Hunt Janin and Scott A. Mandia. Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2012.

River of hope : forging identity and nation in the Rio Grande borderlands / Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez.. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2013.

Rivers : a very short introduction / Nick Middleton. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Robotic exploration of the solar system / Paolo Ulivi ; with David M. Harland. Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2007-

Sandalwood and carrion : smell in Indian religion and culture / James McHugh. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

The beauty of the moment : women in Japanese woodblock prints / edited by Katharina Epprecht ; essays by Shawn Eichman … [et al.]. Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess : Museum Rietberg, 2012.

Scientific method in brief / Hugh G. Gauch, Jr. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The screenwriter activist : writing social issue movies / Marilyn Beker. New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Short nights of the shadow catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis / Timothy Egan. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, c2013.

Six months in 1945 : Fdr, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman–from world war to cold war / by Michael Dobbs. New York  : Vintage/Random lHouse, Inc., , 2013.

So therefore : a practical guide for actors / by Al Ruscio. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

The soldier and the changing state : building democratic armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas / Zoltan Barany. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Speaking of Jack : a C.S. Lewis discussion guide / Will Vaus. Hamden, CT : Winged Lion Press, [2011].

Successful research projects : a step-by-step guide / Bernard C. Beins, Ithaca College. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2014.

A theory of grocery shopping : food, choice and conflict / Shelley L. Koch. London ; New York : Berg, 2012.

Things : religion and the question of materiality / edited by Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer. New York : Fordham University Press, c2012.

Thomas and the Gospels : the case for Thomas’s familiarity with the Synoptics / Mark Goodacre. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

The transatlantic century : Europe and America, 1890-2010 / Mary Nolan. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Twitter : social communication in the Twitter age / Dhiraj Murthy. Cambridge : Polity, 2013.

Utopias : a brief history from ancient writings to virtual communities / Howard P. Segal. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Violence and punishment : civilizing the body through time / Pieter Spierenburg. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2013.

The visual culture reader / edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff. London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Africa / edited by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Edmund Abaka. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2012.

Women and gender in twentieth-century China / Paul J. Bailey. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Working in your major : how to find a job when you graduate / Mary E. Ghilani. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012.

Xenophon’s Anabasis, or, the Expedition of Cyrus / Michael A. Flower. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Yinyang : the way of heaven and earth in Chinese thought and culture / Robin R. Wang, Loyola Marymount University. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The following Books (6 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during August 2013:

The Cuckoo’s Calling / Robert Galbraith. New York : Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime / Judith Flanders. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2013.

The ocean at the end of the lane / Neil Gaiman. New York : William Morrow, c2013.

The secrets of lost cats : one woman, twenty posters, and a new understanding of love / Dr. Nancy Davidson. New York : St. Martin’s Press, [2013].

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars : verily, a new hope / by Ian Doescher ; inspired by the work of George Lucas and William Shakespeare. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2013.

ZEALOT : The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth  / Reza Aslan. New York : Random House, 2013.

The following Books & DVD (4 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during August 2013:

The bonsai workshop / Herb L. Gustafson. New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c1994.

The pink panther [videorecording] / Mirisch Company presents a Blake Edwards production ; produced by Martin Jurow ; directed by Blake Edwards ; written by Maurice Richlin and Blake Edwards. Santa Monica, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2008.

Reflecting in communities of practice : a workbook for early childhood educators / Deb Curtis, Debbie Lebo, Wendy C. M. Cividanes, Margie Carter. St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, [2013].

Silencing the self : women and depression / Dana Crowley Jack. New York : HarperPerennial, 1993.

A quarter gets us there!

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ImageWe’re very close to meeting the $10,000 goal of the Million Pennies Campaign! So close, in fact, that if every Milligan Library user contributed 25 cents, we could end the Campaign today!

Our campaign donations now total $9,185.04, thanks to the $68.77 donated in August 2013. Last month’s totals reflect an average contribution of around 2 cents per Library user. So contribute a quarter (or more!) and let’s build some momentum as we move closer to our $10,000 goal!

Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) We’ll do a count of new contributions around the first of each month this semester and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

Flat broke? We will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign. There’s a donation box in the library lobby. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the semester!

New Books and Media Received (Summer 2013)

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The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (76 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during June & July 2013:

About time : cosmology and culture at the twilight of the big bang / Adam Frank. New York : Free Press, c2012.

Aesthetic education in the era of globalization / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Afghanistan : a cultural history / St John Simpson. Northampton, MA : Interlink Books, 2012.

The aha! moment : a scientist’s take on creativity / David Jones. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Anne Frank unbound : media, imagination, memory / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt -Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Anthropology and the cognitive challenge / Maurice Bloch. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The archaeology of China : from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age / Li Liu, Stanford University, Xingcan Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The beach book : science of the shore / Carl H. Hobbs. New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Breasts : a natural and unnatural history / Florence Williams. New York : Norton, 2013.

Cicero’s practical philosophy / edited by Walter Nicgorski. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen. Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy, 2012.

Contracts in the real world : stories of popular contracts and why they matter / Lawrence A. Cunningham. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.

Drugs for life : how pharmaceutical companies define our health / Joseph Dumit. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Durer / Jeffrey Chipps Smith. London ; New York : Phaidon, c2012.

Early European castles : aristocracy and authority, AD 800-1200 / Oliver H. Creighton. London : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.

Earth : a tenant’s manual / Frank H.T. Rhodes. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

The emotions : a philosophical introduction / Julien A. Deonna and Fabrice Teroni. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Entrepreneurship : an evidence-based guide / Robert A. Baron. Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2012.

Environmental health ethics / David B. Resnik. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Eyes on labor : news photography and America’s working class / Carol Quirke. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

The family : a world history / by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

A field guide to radiation / Wayne Biddle. New York : Penguin Books, 2012.

Film genre reader IV / edited by Barry Keith Grant. Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2012.

The flute book : a complete guide for students and performers / Nancy Toff. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2012].

Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint / Andre Vauchez ; translated by Michael F. Cusato. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2012.

From stars to stalagmites : how everything connects / Paul S Braterman. Singapore ; London ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2012.

Geometries / A.B. Sossinsky. Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2012.

The governance of friendship : law and gender in the Decameron / Michael Sherberg. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.

Government versus markets : the changing economic role of the state / Vito Tanzi. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

A guide to Asian philosophy classics / Puqun Li ; with Arthur K. Ling. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2012.

Hollywood left and right : how movie stars shaped American politics / Steven J. Ross. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013].

The (honest) truth about dishonesty : how we lie to everyone–especially ourselves / Dan Ariely. New York : Harper Perennial, [2013].

Ideology in America / Christopher Ellis, James A. Stimson. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Inequality in America : facts, trends, and international perspective / Uri Dadush … [et al.]. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012.

The instant economist : everything you need to know about how the economy works / Timothy Taylor. New York : Plume, c2012.

Integrated but unequal : Black faculty in predominately white space / edited by Mark Christian. Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2012.

An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital / by Michael Heinrich ; translated by Alexander Locascio. New York : Monthly Review Press, 2012.

Japanese philosophy : a sourcebook / edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, John C. Maraldo. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2011.

Knowledge / Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.

LGBT youth in America’s schools / Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Libya : the rise and fall of Qaddafi / Alison Pargeter. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

Life everlasting : the animal way of death / Bernd Heinrich. Boston : Mariner Books, 2013.

Looking North : writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the present / edited by John J. Hassett and Braulio Munoz. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.

Magnetism : a very short introduction / Stephen Blundell. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Moral classrooms, moral children : creating a constructivist atmosphere in early education / Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan. New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.

The moral foundation of economic behavior / by David C. Rose. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Moving data : the iphone and the future of media / edited by Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau. New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.

My business is to create : Blake’s infinite writing / Eric G. Wilson. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.

National security intelligence : secret operations in defense of the democracies / Loch K. Johnson. Cambridge : Polity, 2012.

The nature-nurture debates : bridging the gap / Dale Goldhaber, University of Vermont. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea / Callum Roberts. New York : Penguin Books, 2013, c2012.

Opening up Middle English manuscripts : literary and visual approaches / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

The persistence of the sacred in modern thought / edited by Chris L. Firestone and Nathan A. Jacobs. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Prophetic encounters : religion and the American radical tradition / by Dan McKanan. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2011.

The publishing business : from p-books to e-books / Kelvin Smith. Lausanne, Switzerland ; [Worthing] : AVA Academia, 2012.

Raffaello. English. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2012].

Reawakening the learner : creating learner-centric, standards-driven schools / Copper Stoll and Gene Giddings. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2012.

Republic of noise : the loss of solitude in schools and culture / Diana Senechal. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2012.

Robotic exploration of the solar system / Paolo Ulivi ; with David M. Harland. Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2007-

The Russian folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp / edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester ; foreword by Jack Zipes. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2012].

The sacrifice of Socrates : Athens, Plato, Girard / Wm. Blake Tyrrell. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2012].

The secrets of economic indicators : hidden clues to future economic trends and investment opportunities / Bernard Baumohl. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2013.

Sexual harassment : an introduction to the conceptual and ethical issues / Keith Dromm. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2012.

The social conquest of Earth / Edward O. Wilson. New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corp., 2013, c2012.

Social trends in American life : findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 / edited by Peter V. Marsden. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.

The Spanish Civil War / Stanley G. Payne. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior / Leonard Mlodinow. New York : Vintage Books, c2013.

Suicide : the philosophical dimensions / Michael Cholbi. Peterborough, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Broadview Press ; London : Eurospan Group [U.K. distributor], c2011.

Tanak : a theological and critical introduction to the Jewish Bible / Marvin A. Sweeney. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2012.

Text, image, and otherness in children’s Bibles : what is in the picture? / edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2012.

Understanding probability / Henk Tijms. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Using SPSS : an interactive hands-on approach / James B. Cunningham, James O. Aldrich. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2012.

Vision and brain : how we perceive the world / James V. Stone. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.

Voice and the young actor : a workbook and dvd / Rena Cook ; illustrated by Carey Hissey ; DVD designed and created by Adam Davis Beatty, Royce Sharp, Matt Kendrick. London : Methuen Drama, 2012.

What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O’Shannon. New York : Continuum, 2012.

The following Books (9 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during June & July 2013:

American Savage : insights, slights, and fights on faith, sex, love, and politics / Dan Savage. New York, New York : Dutton, [2013].

The fall of Arthur / by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Fin & lady / Cathleen Schine. New York : Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

The impossible lives of Greta Wells / Andrew Sean Greer. New York : Ecco, c2013.

Lost girls : an unsolved American mystery / Robert Kolker. New York, NY : Harper, [2013].

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek / Michelle Tea. [San Francisco, California] : McSweeney’s McMullens, [2013].

The moon and more / Sarah Dessen. New York : Viking, 2013.

Revolutionary summer : the birth of American independence / Joseph J. Ellis. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Someone could get hurt : a memoir of twenty-first-century parenthood / Drew Magary. New York : Gotham Books, [2013].

The following Book was received into the Library collection as a Gift Donation during July 2013:

The message of the Qura’an : the full account of the revealed Arabic text accompanied by parallel transliteration / translated and explained by Muhammad Asad. Bristol, England : Book Foundation, 2008.