New Books and Media Received (June & July 2018)

The following Books and DVDs (162 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during June and July 2018.

Seminary Library

New Testament Seminar
New Testament philology : essays in honor of David Alan Black, 2018.

Women in the greetings of Romans 16.1-16: a study of mutuality and women’s ministry in the letter to the Romans, 2013.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
The art of listening in the early church, 2015.

Balthasar: a (very) critical introduction, 2012.

The blue parakeet: rethinking how you read the Bible, 2018.

Christ the key, 2010.

The crucifixion: understanding the death of Jesus Christ, 2015.

Echoes of Exodus: tracing themes of redemption through scripture, 2018.

Engaging the doctrine of creation: cosmos, creatures, and the wise and good creator, 2017.

Engaging the doctrine of Revelation: the mediation of the Gospel through Church and Scripture, 2014.

Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c. 1935 to 1972, 2012.

God visible: patristic Christology reconsidered, 2018.

Gravity and grace, 2002.

Introducing world Christianity, 2012.

James: a commentary on the Greek text, 2017.

Les Juges, 1999.

Lexham geographic commentary on the Gospels, 2018.

Living salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda, 2017.

The mission of the church: five views in conversation, 2016.

The morals of the story: good news about a good God, 2018.

North American Mission handbook: US and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas 2017-2019, 2017.

Philippians: a linguistic commentary, 2017.

Renewal theology: systematic theology from a charismatic perspective, 1996.

Spirit hermeneutics: reading scripture in light of Pentecost, 2016.

Tortured for his faith; an epic of Christian courage and heroism in our day, 1970.

Reference
Hebrew Bible, Old Testament : the history of its interpretation, 2015.

A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago Style for students and researchers, 2018.

Office Reference
A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago Style for students and researchers, 2018.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources
The library beyond the book, 2014.

Fine Arts
Playing it straight: art and humor in the Gilded Age, 2012.

History
American revolutions: a continental history, 1750-1804, 2017.

The brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret world war, 2014.

Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, 2017.

Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness, 2015.

The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, 2017.

HEART OF THE DECLARATION: the founders’ case for an activist government., 2018.

PAX GANDHIANA: the political philosophy of mahatma gandhi., 2018.

The story of the Jews. Volume one, finding the words: 1000 BC-1492 AD, 2017.

Why?: explaining the Holocaust, 2017.

Wilhelm II: into the abyss of war and exile, 1900-1941, 2015.

Wilhelm II: the Kaiser’s personal monarchy, 1888-1900, 2015.

Language and Literature
Dante: the story of his life, 2016.

Dr. Seuss and philosophy: oh, the thinks you can think!, 2011.

Mass-market fiction and the crisis of American liberalism, 1972-2017, 2018.

More Dr. Seuss and philosophy: additional hunches in bunches, 2018.

Law
FRAMERS’ COUP: the making of the united states constitution., 2018.

Music
City of Angels, 1990.

Franz Liszt: musician, celebrity, superstar, 2016.

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, 1991.

The political orchestra: the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich, 2016.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
AMERICAN PROPHETS: seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice, 2018.

The analytic tradition in philosophy, 2014.

Dreamtime and dreamwork: decoding the language of the night, 1990.

Evangelism after pluralism: the ethics of Christian witness, 2018.

Heaven and earth in early Han thought: chapters three, four and five of the Huainanzi, 1993.

Holy humanitarians: American evangelicals and global aid, 2018.

The Huainanzi and Liu An’s claim to moral authority, 2001.

Inside the Muslim Brotherhood: religion, identity, and politics, 2016.

The new abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the black social gospel, 2015.

The pope who would be king: the exile of Pius IX and the emergence of modern Europe, 2018.

Protestants: the faith that made the modern world, 2018.

What psychology majors could (and should) be doing: a guide to research experience, professional skills, and your options after college, 2017.

Political Science
The American nonvoter, 2017.

Insecure majorities: Congress and the perpetual campaign, 2016.

On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century, 2017.

Prototype politics: technology-intensive campaigning and the data of democracy, 2016. 

Psychology/Counseling
The art and science of mindfulness: integrating mindfulness into psychology and the helping professions, 2017.

Couples coping with stress: a cross-cultural perspective, 2016.

Diversity in couple and family therapy: ethnicities, sexualities, and socioeconomics, 2017.

Helping couples on the brink of divorce: discernment counseling for troubled relationships, 2017.

Science
Deep learning, 2016.

A lab of one’s own: science and suffrage in the first World War, 2018.

Social Sciences
About abortion: terminating pregnancy in twenty-first-century America, 2017.

American dreamers: how the left changed a nation, 2012.

Federal taxation in America: a history, 2016.

Rigged: how globalization and the rules of the modern economy were structured to make the rich richer, 2016.

Social democratic America, 2015.

Juvenile

Geisel 2006 Honor Book Amanda Pig and the really hot day, 2007.

 

Geisel 2009 Medal Winner Are you ready to play outside?, 2008.

 

  The ASD feel better book: a visual guide to help brain and body for children on the autism spectrum, 2018.

 

Geisel 2014 Honor Book Ball, 2013.

 

Geisel 2010 Medal Winner Benny and Penny in the big no-no!: a Toon book, 2009.

 

Caldecott 2018 Honor Book Big cat, little cat, 2017.

 

Geisel 2014 Honor Book A big guy took my ball!, 2013.

 

Geisel 2011 Medal Winner Bink & Gollie, 2012.

 

Geisel 2009 Honor Book Chicken said, “Cluck!”, 2008.

 

  The conversation train: a visual approach to conversation for children on the autism spectrum, 2014.

 

Geisel 2006 Honor Book Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: partners, 2007.

 

Geisel 2016 Medal Winner Don’t throw it to Mo!, 2015.

 

Geisel 2017 Honor Book Go, Otto, go!, 2016.

 

Geisel 2017 Honor Book Good night owl, 2016.

 

  The green zone conversation book: finding common ground in conversation for children on the autism spectrum, 2015.

 

Geisel 2006 Medal Winner Henry and Mudge and the great grandpas: the twenty-sixth book of their adventures / Henry and Mudge and the great grandpas: the twenty-sixth book of their adventures, 2006.

 

Geisel 2006 Honor Book Hi! Fly Guy, 2005.

 

Geisel 2012 Honor Book I broke my trunk!, 2011.

 

Geisel 2010 Honor Book I spy Fly Guy!, 2009.

 

Geisel 2012 Honor Book I want my hat back, 2011.

 

  I’m just no good at rhyming and other nonsense for mischievous kids and immature grown-ups, 2017.

 

Geisel 2010 Honor Book The infamous Ratsos, 2016.

 

Geisel 2008 Honor Book Jazz baby, 2007.

 

Geisel 2011 Honor Book Ling & Ting: not exactly the same!, 2011.

 

Geisel 2007 Honor Book Mercy Watson goes for a ride, 2006.

 

Geisel 2007 Honor Book Move over, rover!, 2016.

 

Geisel 2015 Honor Book Mr. Putter & Tabby turn the page, 2014.

 

Geisel 2007 Honor Book Not a box, 2008.

 

  Our brains are like computers!: exploring social skills and social cause and effect with children on the autism spectrum, 2016.

 

Geisel 2010 Honor Book Pearl and Wagner: one funny day, 2009.

 

Geisel 2013 Honor Book Pete the cat and his four groovy buttons, 2012.

 

Geisel 2016 Honor Book A pig, a fox, and a box, 2015.

 

Geisel 2013 Honor Book Rabbit & robot: the sleepover, 2014.

 

Geisel 2012 Honor Book See me run, 2012.

 

Geisel 2006 Honor Book A splendid friend, indeed, 2007.

 

Geisel 2012 Medal Winner Tales for very picky eaters, 2014.

 

Geisel 2008 Medal Winner There is a bird on your head!, 2007.

 

Geisel 2013 Medal Winner Up, tall and high, 2012.

 

Geisel 2015 Honor Book Waiting is not easy!, 2014.

 

Geisel 2017 Medal Winner We are growing!, 2016.

 

Geisel 2011 Honor Book We are in a book!, 2010.

 

Geisel 2009 Honor Book Wolfsnail: a backyard predator, 2008.

 

Geisel 2015 Medal Winner You are (not) small, 2014.

 

Geisel 2007 Medal Winner Zelda and Ivy, the runaways, 2013.

Reference
The book of Psalms, 2014.

A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago Style for students and researchers, 2018.

DVDs
Babylon 5. The complete fifth season season: the wheel of fire, 2008.

Babylon 5. The complete first season, Signs and portents, 2008.

Babylon 5. The complete fourth season: no surrender, no retreat, 2008.

Babylon 5. The complete second season, The coming of shadows, 2008.

Babylon 5. The complete third season, Point of no return, 2008.

Babylon 5. The movie collection, 2010.

Barcelona, 2016.

Battlestar Galactica. Blood & chrome, 2013.

Battlestar Galactica. Season 2.0, 2005.

Battlestar Galactica. Season 2.5, 2006.

Battlestar Galactica. Season 3, 2008.

Battlestar Galactica. Season 4.0, 2009.

Battlestar Galactica. Season 4.5, 2009.

Battlestar Galactica. Season one, 2005.

Battlestar Galactica. The plan, 2009.

Damsels in distress, 2012.

Hearts of darkness: a filmmaker’s apocalypse, 2007.

The last days of disco, 2009.

Mary and the witch’s flower, 2018.

Metropolitan, 2006.

Paprika, 2007.

The prisoner. Set 1, 2000.

The prisoner. Set 2, 2000.

The prisoner. Set 3: no man is just a number, 2001.

The prisoner. Set 4: no man is just a number, 2001.

Prisoner. Set 5: no man is just a number, 2001.

Star Wars, 2018.

Terre sans pain, 2016.

The war game; Culloden, 2006.

The West Wing. The complete fifth season, 2005.

The West Wing. The complete first season, 2003.

The West Wing. The complete fourth season, 2005.

The West Wing. The complete second season, 2004.

The West Wing. The complete seventh season, 2006.

The West Wing. The complete sixth season, 2006.

The West Wing. The complete third season, 2004.

Woman in Gold, 2015.

Holloway Archives
Mass-market fiction and the crisis of American liberalism, 1972-2017, 2018.

Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
After lament: Psalms for learning to trust again.

American daughter gone to war: on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam.

The bluest eye.

Eva’s story: a survivor’s tale by the stepsister of Anne Frank.

The Holocaust: the fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945.

Hurting with God: learning to lament with the Psalms.

An introduction to Israel’s wisdom traditions.

The monk’s record player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the perilous summer of 1966.

Passage to Vietnam: through the eyes of seventy photographers.

Sam Houston and the American Southwest.

Telltale hearts: the origins and impact of the Vietnam antiwar movement.

Theology from the great tradition.

Vietnam Inc.

New Books and Media Received (May 2018)

The following Books and DVDs (18 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during May 2018.

Seminary Library

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Christianity at the crossroads: how the second century shaped the future of the church, 2018.

Come, let us eat together: sacraments and Christian unity, 2018.

Death and the afterlife: biblical perspectives on ultimate questions, 2018.

Dictionary of Latin and Greek theological terms: drawn principally from Protestant scholastic theology, 2017.

The divine Christ: Paul, the Lord Jesus, and the scriptures of Israel, 2018.

God’s mediators: a biblical theology of priesthood, 2017.

Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle: a concise introduction, 2018.

The Lord is good: seeking the God of the Psalter, 2018.

The lost world of the flood: mythology, theology, and the deluge debate, 2018.

Proverbs: an introduction and commentary, 2018.

Quest for the historical Apostles: tracing their lives and legacies, 2018.

Righteous by promise: a Biblical theology of circumcision, 2018.

Welshimer Library

DVDs
Blade runner 2049, 2018.

The IT crowd. The complete series, 2016.

Tai chi master, 2008.

Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
Classic works : two novels and nineteen short stories

The power and the glory

Truth and the new kind of Christian : the emerging effects of postmodernism in the church

New Books and Media Received (April 2018)

The following Books and DVDs (102 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during April 2018.

Seminary Library

History
Readings in late antiquity : a sourcebook, 2010.

Language and Literature
Basics of Classical Syriac : complete grammar, workbook, and lexicon, 2016.

The new Syriac primer : an introduction to the Syriac language with a CD, 2007.

Law
The Didascalia apostolorum : an English version, 2009.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Origenes’ vier Bücher von den Prinzipien, 1992.

The best kept secret of Christian mission : promoting the gospel with more than our lips, 2010.

The state of pastors : how today’s faith leaders are navigating life and leadership in an age of complexity, 2017.

Where the gods are : spatial dimensions of anthropomorphism in the biblical world, 2016.

1 Corinthians, 2018.

Reading Romans in context : Paul and Second Temple Judaism, 2015.

The Oxford handbook of the Bible in America, 2017.

Welshimer Library

DVDs
The cathedral films collection, 2014.

The children’s collection, 2015.

The Christmas collection, 2014.

The Christopher films collection, 2014.

The Easter collection, 2014.

The family films collection, 2014.

The Loyola films collection, 2014.

The missions collection, 2014.

Tai ji : zhang sanfeng = Tai chi master, 2008.

Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
A better war : the unexamined victories and final tragedy of America’s last years in Vietnam

A country made by war : from the Revolution to Vietnam : the story of America’s rise to power

A life in a year : the American infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972

A phoenix rising : impressions of Vietnam

A world of hurt

All went willingly, 1941-1945 : World War II

Ancient Cambodia

And if I perish : frontline U.S. Army nurses in World War II

Another Vietnam : pictures of the war from the other side

Approaching Vietnam : from World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954

The art of Champa

Art of Vietnam

Before their time : a memoir

Blundering to glory : Napoleon’s military campaigns

Buddha’s child : my fight to save Vietnam

The diary of a Napoleonic foot soldier

Dien Bien Phu : the epic battle America forgot

The face of battle

Fire in the belly : on being a man

Fire in the streets : the battle for Hue, Tet 1968

Four hours in My Lai

From people’s war to people’s rule : insurgency, intervention, and the lessons of Vietnam

G.I. : the American soldier in World War II

The Green Berets

Hiroshima Joe

Images of women in peace and war : cross-cultural and historical perspectives

In the service of their country : war resisters in prison

Infantry aces

Is Iraq another Vietnam?

Knight’s cross : a life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Learning true love : how I learned and practiced social change in Vietnam

Looking for a hero : Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War

Makers of modern strategy : from Machiavelli to the nuclear age

Massacre at Oradour

The mindful moment

Miracle at St. Anna

The new exiles; American war resisters in Canada.

Pacific War diary, 1942-1945

Page after page

Patches of fire : a story of war and redemption

PAVN : People’s Army of Vietnam

The Pentagon underground

Prince of peace

Reaching the other side : the journal of an American who stayed to witness Vietnam’s postwar transition

The reluctant admiral : Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy

The rockets’ red glare : when America goes to war : the presidents and the people

Romancing Vietnam : inside the boat country

Savoring Southeast Asia : recipes and reflections on Southeast Asian cooking

Shooting war : photography and the American experience of combat

Silence was a weapon : the Vietnam war in the villages

The soldiers’ story : Vietnam in their own words

Spring visits : photographs from Viet Nam

Stalin’s war : a radical new theory of the origins of the second world war

Steel my soldiers’ hearts : the hopeless to hardcore transformation of 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, United States Army, Vietnam

Steel my soldiers’ hearts : the hopeless to hardcore transformation of 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, United States Army, Vietnam

Then the Americans came : voices from Vietnam

There once was a world : a nine-hundred-year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok

The things we do to make it home : a novel

Tiger in the barbed wire : an American in Vietnam, 1952-1991

The two shores of hell

The U.S. government and the Vietnam war : executive and legislative roles and relationships

Under fire : great photographers and writers in Vietnam

Viet Nam : the situation of children and women

Vietnam : a natural history

Vietnam : anatomy of a peace

Vietnam : conflict and controversy

Vietnam : for travellers by travellers

Vietnam at the crossroads

The Vietnam war : its history, literature and music

Vietnam, the necessary war : a reinterpretation of America’s most disastrous military conflict

Vietnamese-English dictionary

The village war : Vietnamese Communist revolutionary activities in Dinh Tuong province, 1960-1964

War

War and the rise of the state : the military foundations of modern politics

War letters.

The war within : America’s battle over Vietnam

The wars of America

Watch the sun set : Korean war memories

We were soldiers once -and young : Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam

Why the North won the Vietnam War

Winking at death : memoir of a World War II POW

The year of the hare : America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964

New Books and Media Received (March 2018)

The following Books and DVDs (107 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget during March 2018.

Seminary Library

New Testament Seminar collection
Early Christian discourses on Jesus’ prayer at Gethsemane : courageous, committed, cowardly?, 2016.

The Greek New Testament, produced at Tyndale House Cambridge, 2017.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Adam and the genome : reading scripture after genetic science, 2017.

All things hold together in Christ : a conversation on faith, science, and virtue, 2018.

Awaiting the King : reforming public theology, 2017.

Basics of Classical Syriac : complete grammar, workbook, and lexicon, 2016.

The Bible, disability, and the church : a new vision of the people of God, 2011.

Creatures of possibility : the theological basis of human freedom, 2016.

The Didascalia apostolorum : an English version, 2009.

Divine simplicity : Christ the crisis of metaphysics, 2016.

The end of Protestantism : pursuing unity in a fragmented Church, 2016.

Ethics for Christian ministry : moral formation for twenty-first-century leaders, 2017.

Evolution and the fall, 2017.

From nature to creation : a Christian vision for understanding and loving our world, 2015.

The general instruction of the Roman Missal : including Norms for the distribution and reception of Holy Communion under both kinds in the dioceses of the United States of America and Universal norms on the liturgical year and the general Roman calendar., 2011.

God’s wider presence : reconsidering general revelation, 2014.

Introducing medieval biblical interpretation : the senses of scripture in premodern exegesis, 2018.

Introducing practical theology : mission, ministry, and the life of the church, 2017.

Introducing Protestant social ethics : foundations in scripture, history, and practice, 2017.

Introducing theological method : a survey of contemporary theologians and approaches, 2017.

Moral conscience through the ages : fifth century BCE to the present, 2017.

The new Syriac primer : an introduction to the Syriac language with a CD, 2007.

The Roman missal : renewed by decree of the most holy Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, promulgated by authority of Pope Paul VI and revised at the direction of Pope John Paul II., 2011.

Where the gods are : spatial dimensions of anthropomorphism in the biblical world, 2016.

You are what you love : the spiritual power of habit, 2016.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography
The Chicago manual of style, 2017.

Education
Approaches and methods in language teaching, 2014.

Fine Arts
A new history of animation , 2016.

History
A history of Algeria, 2017.

A history of modern Uganda, 2017.

A people without a state : the Kurds from the rise of Islam to the dawn of nationalism, 2016.

A place at the altar : priestesses in Republican Rome, 2016.

Athens burning : the Persian invasion of Greece and the evacuation of Attica, 2017.

Citizen internees : a second look at race and citizenship in Japanese American internment camps, 2017.

In the land of a thousand gods : a history of Asia Minor in the ancient world, 2016.

Islamic civilization in thirty lives : the first 1,000 years, 2016.

The triumph of empire : the Roman world from Hadrian to Constantine, 2016.

Juvenile

Caldecott 2018 Medal Winner Wolf in the snow, 2017.
Caldecott 2018 Honor Book A different pond, 2017.
Caldecott 2018 Honor Book Grand Canyon, 2017.
Caldecott & Newbery 2018
Honor Book
Crown : an ode to the fresh cut, 2017.
Geisel 2018  Medal Winner Charlie & Mouse, 2017.
Geisel 2018 Honor Book I see a cat, 2017.
Geisel 2018 Honor Book King and Kayla and the case of the missing dog treats, 2017.
Geisel 2018 Honor Book My kite is stuck! and other stories , 2017.
Geisel 2018 Honor Book Noodleheads see the future, 2017.
Geisel 2018 Honor Book Snail & Worm, again , 2017.
Newbery 2018 Medal Winner Hello universe , 2017.
Newbery 2018 Honor Book Long way down, 2017.
Newbery 2018 Honor Book Piecing me together, 2017.

Language and Literature
Bitter tastes : literary naturalism and early cinema in American women’s writing, 2016.

James Fenimore Cooper : the later years, 2017.

Kafka, the early years , 2017.

Measuring the Harlem Renaissance : the U.S. Census, African American identity, and literary form , 2016.

Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels, 2017.

Montaigne : a life, 2017.

Raciolinguistics : how language shapes our ideas about race, 2016.

The story of Hebrew, 2017.

The value of Milton, 2016.

Library Science, Information Resources
Useful, usable, desirable : applying user experience design to your library, 2014.

Military Science
Utilitarianism and the ethics of war, 2016.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
The book of Greek & Roman folktales, legends, & myths , 2017.

Celtic mythology : tales of gods, goddesses, and heroes, 2017.

Climate church, climate world : how people of faith must work for change, 2018.

Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality, 2017.

EDGE OF REASON : a rational skeptic in an irrational world., 2017.

The Happiness Philosophers : The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians, 2017.

Lévinas’s ethical politics, 2016.

The making of Friedrich Nietzsche : the quest for identity, 1844-1869, 2016.

The new city catechism : 52 questions and answers for our hearts and minds, 2017.

The new city catechism devotional : God’s truth for our hearts and minds, 2017.

The philosophy of cosmology, 2017.

Protestantism after 500 years, 2016.

The social turn in moral psychology , 2017.

Sophistry and political philosophy : Protagoras’ challenge to Socrates, 2016.

Subversive Sabbath : the surprising power of rest in a nonstop world, 2018.

The textual history of the Huai-nan tzu, 1992.

Thomas Aquinas on war and peace, 2017.

What do philosophers do? : skepticism and the practice of philosophy , 2017.

Science
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, 2016.

Social Sciences
The consolations of mortality : making sense of death, 2016.

DVDs
A Madea Christmas, 2014.

Blade runner 2049, 2018.

The Catherine Tate show. Series one. The complete first season, 2007.

Coco, 2018.

Communist blueprint for conquest., 2004.

Confucius, 2008.

Curse of the golden flower, 2007.

Diary of a mad black woman, 2005.

Diary of a mad black woman, 2005.

Hero, 2004.

House of flying daggers, 2005.

Ip Man trilogy, 2016.

The IT crowd : the internet is coming, 2017.

The IT crowd. The complete series, 2016.

Jet Li’s Fearless, 2006.

Know your enemy : the Viet Cong, 2006.

Legend of the black scorpion, 2008.

Madea goes to jail, 2006.

Minamata kara manabu, 2006.

Rabbit hole , 2011.

Red cliff, 2010.

Red nightmare, 2005.

Scipio Africanus : the defeat of Hannibal., 2001.

The Truth about communism, 2006.

Tyler Perry’s I can do bad all by myself, 2010.

Tyler Perry’s Madea goes to jail, 2009.

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s big happy family, 2011.

Checkout EBSCO eBooks to your mobile device (Android or iOS) for offline reading

EbscoHosticonNOTE: Milligan Libraries is no longer recommending use of this feature. This post is retained for historical purposes only. (08.27.2019)

The Library owns and subscribes to thousands of academic ebooks from EBSCO Publishing. These ebooks are accessible to authorized users from our EBSCOhost eBooks Collections database (select it from the “Resources” dropdown > Databases > “General & Multidisciplinary” on the Library website). They are also indexed for access in the Milligan Libraries Catalog, and will also surface among other search results in MCSearch.

The EBSCOhost platform includes a built-in viewer for reading ebooks online using any modern web browser. In a previous post, I provided instructions for checking out and downloading EBSCO ebooks to your computer for offline reading. As it happens, EBSCO’s ebooks can also be checked out and downloaded to your Android or Apple iOS mobile device (smartphone or tablet) for offline reading.

The following instructions will guide you through the process of checking out and downloading EBSCOhost ebooks to your Android or Apple iOS mobile device. The procedure is a little challenging because it requires that you create two authorization accounts and download an application. However, you shouldn’t have too much trouble if you follow these instructions closely. The first 3 steps only have to be done one time. Feel free to contact a librarian if you need assistance.

Step 1: Get an Adobe ID

EBSCOhost ebooks are copy-protected using Adobe Digital Rights Management (DRM). Consequently, you will need an Adobe ID to authorize your access to the ebooks you download from EBSCOhost. You only have to do this step once.

  • Go to http://www.adobe.com/.
  • Click the “Sign in” link on the top right side of the page.
  • Click the “Get an Adobe ID” link.
  • Fill out the Sign up form then click the “Sign Up” button to complete the registration. The email address you supply will become your Adobe ID. You will also need to create a password during registration. Write down your Adobe ID and Password.

Step 2: Create a My EBSCOhost account

If you are a currently registered Milligan College student, faculty, or staff member you do not need to create an account to view an EBSCOhost ebook online. Simply click the “PDF Full Text” link to launch the ebook viewer in your web browser. (If you are off campus or using a mobile data to access electronic resources on the Milligan Libraries website from your device you will be prompted to login using your Milligan network (e.g., Canvas) credentials.)

If you want to checkout and download an EBSCOhost ebook to your mobile device for offline reading you will need to create a “My EBSCOhost” account. You only have to do this step once.

  • From any EBSCOhost database (including MCSearch) click the “Sign In” link at the top right side of the page.
  • Click the “Create a new Account” link.
  • Fill out the form then click the “Save Changes” button to complete the registration. The user name and password you supply will enable you to login to your My EBSCOhost account and download ebooks to your device. Write down your User Name and Password.

Step 3: Download and setup the Bluefire Reader 

application

  • Launch the Google Play Store application on your Android device, or the App Store application on your Apple iOS device.
  • Search for and download the free Bluefire Reader application to your device.
  • Launch the Bluefire Reader application.
  • Tap on the “Info” button from the bottom row of icons (the location of the “Info” button may be different on your specific device), on the next screen tap on the “Authorize” button. Enter your Adobe ID and Password (from Step 1) then tap “Authorize”. Your device is now authorized to download EBSCOhost ebooks on your mobile device. You only have to do this step once.

 The setup is complete. Let’s download an ebook now!

Step 4: Checkout and download an EBSCOhost ebook

NOTE: These instructions apply only to ebooks in EBSCOhost eBook Collections (Milligan Libraries also provide ebooks from other publishers. Those ebooks cannot be downloaded to your device using these instructions).

ebsco3a) Launch the web browser on your mobile device. Browse to the EBSCOhost eBooks Collections database on the Milligan Libraries website (select it from the “Resources” dropdown > Databases > “General & Multidisciplinary”). EBSCOhost eBooks are also indexed for access in the Milligan Library Catalog, and will surface among other search results in MCSearch. (If you are off campus or using a mobile data to access electronic resources on the Milligan Libraries website from your device you will be prompted to login using your Milligan network (e.g., Canvas) credentials.)

ebsco4b) Search (for example) for the book entitled From Plato to Platonism by Lloyd P. Gerson. Click the title link on the search result. This takes you to the book’s record screen.

c) On the record screen tap the “Download (Offline)” button. This takes you to the Sign In screen where you enter the My EBSCOhost account User Name and Password (from Step 2 above). Tap the “Login” button. After the login is accepted you see a “Download This eBook” screen. Select the Checkout Period (most can be checked out for as long as 30 days) and then tap the “Checkout & Download” button.

ebsco6d) You should next see a screen indicating that the ebook has been successfully checked out, and the download process has begun. Assuming you have earlier downloaded and authorized Bluefire Reader (Step 3 above) the app should launch automatically. When the download is complete tap “Read Now” to open the book.

ebsco9e) If you tap anywhere in the middle of the screen you are presented with various navigation and settings controls. From here you can also access the “Bookshelf” to see and open other titles that you may have previously downloaded. The bookshelf also keeps track of how many days remain in the checkout period. The title will cease to be accessible for reading once the checkout period expires. eBook files can be deleted from your device at any time.