New Books and Media Received (April 2012)

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (26 titles) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during April 2012:

400 years of the telescope [videorecording] : a journey of science, technology and thought / PBS ; An Interstellar Studios production ; executive producers, Dan Koehler and Kris Koenig ; produced and directed by Kris Koenig ; writers, Donald Goldsmith, Kris Koenig and Albert Van Helden ; director, Kris Koenig. [United States] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2009, 2008.

The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information. Washington, DC : American Chemical Society ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

American experience. Freedom riders [videorecording] / American Experience Films presents ; a film by Stanley Nelson ; produced by Laurens Grant ; A production of Firelight Films ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson. [United States] : PBS Distribution, c2011.

Ancient Christian Writers Standing Order. Newman Press.

Beyond our differences [videorecording] / directed by Peter Bisanz ; produced by Peter Bisanz, Vladimir Trushchenkov, Catherine Tatge, Tonko Soljan, Karin Chien, Michael Griffiths ; written by Peter Bisanz, Hilary Deutch ; Entropy Films, LLC. [Arlington, VA] : PBS Home Video, c2009.

The calling [videorecording] : seven lives, four faiths, one call / the Kindling Group presents ; directors, Yoni Brook, Alicia Dwyer, Musa Syeed, Maggie Bowman. [United States] : PBS Distribution, c2011.

Darwin’s darkest hour [videorecording] / a National Geographic Television production ; in association with NHK and NOVA/WGBH ; produced by Michael Mahoney ; teleplay by John Goldsmith ; directed by John Bradshaw. [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic, c2009.

Digital media [videorecording] : new learners of the 21st century / a production of TPT National Productions and Mobile Digital Arts ; producer/writer, Stephen Brown ; director, Drea Cooper. [United States] : PBS Home Video, 2010.

Ford Madox Brown. Pre-Raphaelite pioneer. Julian Treuherz. London : Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. 2011.

Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1830-1896 : painter and sculptor of the Victorian age / edited by Margot Th. Brandlhuber and Michael Buhrs ; with contributions by Christopher Newall … [et al.]. Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2009.

Frontline. Facing death [videorecording] / written, produced & directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O’Connor ; a Frontline production with Mead Street Films, LLC. [Brighton, Mass.] : PBS Distribution, [2011].

Growing up online [videorecording] / PBS ; written by Rachel Dretzin ; produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio ; a Frontline co-production with Ark Media, LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation. Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2008.

A history of Christianity [videorecording] : the first three thousand years / written and presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch ; Jerusalem Productions ; BBC Productions ; produced and directed by Gillian Bancroft and Sian Salt. London : BBC Worldwide ; New York : distributed by Ambrose Video, c2010.

How to talk with families about genetics and psychiatric illness / Holly Peay, Jehannine Austin. New York : W. W. Norton, c2011.

Judges : a commentary / Susan Niditch. Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, c2008.

Latin music USA [videorecording] / senior producer, Adriana Bosch ; executive producer, Elizabeth Deane ; a co-production of WGBH/Boston and the BBC. [United States] : PBS Distribution, c2009.

The long search [videorecording] / with Ronald Eyre ; produced by BBC in association with Time-Life Television, R.M. Productions, Munich ; producer, Peter Montagnon. New York : Ambrose Video Pub., [2001?].

Meaning in history / by Karl Lowith. Chicago [etc.] : University of Chicago Press, 1949.

My name is Aram / William Saroyan;  illustrated by Don Freeman. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1940.

My word! : plagiarism and college culture / Susan D. Blum. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2010.

Peggy’s violin [sound recording] : a butterfly in time. Pickering, Ont. : Children’s Group Inc., p2007.

Philosophy of Linguistics. North-Holland 2012.

Steve Jobs [videorecording] : one last thing / Pioneer Productions for PBS ; in association with Channel 4 and Mentorn International ; senior producer/director, Susan Crook ; produced and directed by Jonathan Challis, John Coffey, Ian Lynch. [Arlington, VA] : PBS Distribution, c2011.

Switching time : a doctor’s harrowing story of treating a woman with 17 personalities / Richard K. Baer. New York : Crown Publishers, c2007.

These amazing shadows [videorecording] / Sundance Selects ; Gravitas Docufilms ; directed by Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton ; produced by Christine O’Malley, Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton ; written by Kurt Norton, Paul Mariano, Doug Blush. New York, N.Y. : PBS Distribution, [2011].

While I was praying : finding insights about God in Old Testament prayers / Ralph K. Hawkins. Macon, Ga. : Smyth & Helwys Pub., c2006.

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during April 2012:

The cove / Ron Rash. New York : Ecco, c2012.

House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East / Anthony Shadid. Boston  : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Loving / Karen Kingsbury. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2012.

Some assembly required : a journal of my son’s first son / Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott. New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.

Still : notes on a mid-faith crisis / Lauren F. Winner. New York : HarperOne, c2012.

The following Books (3 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during April 2012:

Ecumenical Babel : confusing economic ideology and the church’s social witness / by Jordan J. Ballor ; foreword by Stephen J. Grabill. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Christian’s Library Press, 2010.

Tennessee blue book, 2011-2012 / Tre Hargett, Secretary of State. Nashville : State of Tennessee, Secretary of State, 2011.

The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006.