New Books and Media Received (April 2014)

The following Books and DVDs (26 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during April 2014:

(500) days of Summer [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Watermark production ; director of photography, Eric Steelberg ; produced by Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Mason Novick, Steven J. Wolfe ; written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber ; directed by Marc Webb. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2009.

The artist [videorecording (DVD)] / The Weinstein Company and Thomas Langmann present a La Petite Reine … [et al.] co-production ; produced by Thomas Langmann ; written & directed by Michel Hazanavicius. [Culver City, Calif.] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ; [Montreal, QC] : Distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Film, 2012.

Bless me, Ultima / Monkey Hill Films, Gran Via Productions and Tenaja Productions in association with Monarch Pictures present ; written for the screen and directed by Carl Franklin ; produced by Mark Johnson ; produced by Sarah DiLeo ; produced by Jesse B’Franklin ; executive producer, Christy Walton ; executive producer, Kevin Reidy ; a Carl Franklin film. [United States] : Tenaja Productions, LLC, [2012].[United States] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2013].

Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration / Ed Catmull ; with Amy Wallace. New York : Random House, [2014].

Dallas buyers club / Focus Features and Truth Entertainment present a Voltage Pictures/R² Films/Evolution Independent/CE production ; directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ; written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack ; produced by Robbie Brenner ; produced by Rachel Winter ; executive producers, David Bushell, Nathan Ross ; executive producers, Tony Notargiacomo, Joe Newcomb ; executive producers, Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman ; executive producers, Logan Levy, Holly Wiersma ; executive producer, Cassian Elwes ; a film by Jean-Marc Vallée.

The elephant in the church : what you don’t see can kill your ministry / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Mary Lynn Dell. Nashville : Abingdon Press, [2013].

Four musical minimalists : La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass / Keith Potter. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Gender and equality in Muslim family law : justice and ethics in the Islamic legal tradition / edited by Ziba Mir-Hosseini … [et al.]. London : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Glass : a portrait / Robert Maycock. London : Sanctuary, c2002.

Goin’ down the road [videorecording] ; Down the road again / produced and directed by Donald Shebib. [Toronto, Ont.] : Alliance Films, 2011.

The human magnet syndrome : why we love people who hurt us / Ross Rosenberg, M. Ed., LCPC, CADC. Eau Claire, WI : Premier Publishing & Media, [2013].

An inconvenient truth [videorecording] / [presented by] Paramount Classics and Participant Productions ; a Lawrence Bender/Laurie David production ; a Carbon Neutral production ; directed by Davis Guggenheim ; produced by Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns ; executive producers, Jeff Skoll … [et al.] ; co-producer, Leslie Chilcott. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c2006.

The incorporation of America : culture and society in the gilded age / Alan New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.

It’s complicated : the social lives of networked teens / danah boyd. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014].

Living for Jesus and Japan : the social and theological thought of Uchimura Kanzō / edited by Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin. Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, c2013.

Love and pain and the whole damn thing [videorecording] / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; an Alan J. Pakula production ; written by Alvin Sargent ; produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009].

Minimalists / by K. Robert Schwarz. London : Phaidon, 1996.

Music by Philip Glass / by Philip Glass ; edited and with supplementary material by Robert T. Jones. New York : Harper & Row, c1987.

Nebraska / Paramount Vantage presents in association with Filmnation Entertainment, Blue Lake Media Fund, Echo Lake Entertainment ; a Bona Fide production ; executive producers, Doug Mankoff, Neil Tabatznik ; executive producers, George Parra, Julie M. Thompson ; produced by Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa ; written by Bob Nelson ; directed by Alexander Payne. Hollywood, California : Paramount Pictures, [2014].

A new leaf : the end of cannabis prohibition / Alyson  Martin and Nushin New York : New Press, The, [2014].

Priest, prophet, pilgrim : types and distortions of spiritual vocation in the fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy / Todd Edmondson. Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014].

Talking music : conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers / William Duckworth. New York : Da Capo Press, 1999.

The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics / Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014].

Thora, evangelie en Koran. English. Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.

Too high to fail : cannabis and the new green economic revolution / Doug Fine. New York : Gotham Books, [2013], c2012.

Writings on Glass : essays, interviews, criticism / edited and introduced by Richard Kostelanetz ; assistant editor, Robert Flemming. New York : Schirmer Books, c1997.

The following Books (7 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during April 2014:

The daring ladies of Lowell / Kate Alcott. New York : Doubleday, [2014].

The weight of blood : a novel / Laura McHugh. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014].

Pioneer girl : [a novel] / Bich Minh Nguyen. New York, New York : Viking, [2014].

Short stories. Selections. One more thing : stories and other stories / B.J. Novak. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse / Wayne Gladstone. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2014.

Pete Rose : an American dilemma / Kostya Kennedy. New York, NY : Sports Illustrated Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment, Inc., [2014].

Veronica Mars. The thousand-dollar tan line / Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham. New York : Vintage Books, A division of Random House LLC, 2014.

The following Books and DVDs (6 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during April 2014:

Beetle Juice [videorecording] / the Geffen Company presents a Tim Burton film ; screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren ; produced by Michael Bender, Larry Wilson and Richard Hashimoto ; directed by Tim Burton. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008].

Brain-based learning / Eric Jensen. San Diego, CA : The Brain Store, c2000.

Bride & prejudice [videorecording] / Miramax Home Entertainment ; Pathé Pictures in association with UK Film Council, Miramax Films, Kintop Pictures & Bend It Films, a Nayar Chadha production in association with Inside Track; directed by Gurinder Chadha; produced by Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha.

Ghostbusters 1 & 2 [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2005.

Napoleon Dynamite [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Paramount Pictures present in association with MTV Films ; produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel ; written by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess ; directed by Jared Hess. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004.

Nature, man and woman / Alan W. Watts. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1991, c1958.