New Books and Media Received (December 2014 – January 2015)

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The following Books and DVDs (383 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during December 2014 and January 2015.

*Some of these items are not yet processed.

Bible = Fund

  • Case for female deacons.
  • Ezekiel, Daniel
  • Mothers are leaders

Chemistry = Fund

  • Student friendly quantum field theory : basic principles and quantum electrodynamics

English = Fund

  • A poet’s revolution : the life of Denise Levertov
  • In the wake of the sun : navigating the southern works of Cormac McCarthy
  • Making neighborhoods whole : a handbook for Christian community development
  • Myth, legend, dust : critical responses to Cormac McCarthy
  • So you want to sing music theater : a guide for professionals
  • The real Jane Austen : a life in small things
  • The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code

Film = Fund

  • Bewitched. Seasons 1 & 2
  • Buffy the vampire slayer. The complete fourth season
  • Forbidden planet
  • I married a monster from outer space
  • Jason and the Argonauts
  • The outer limits. Volume 1 the original series
  • The thing from another world
  • The twilight zone. The complete first season
  • The X-files. The complete fourth season
  • Village of the damned [and] Children of the damned

History = Fund

  • Candida Höfer : libraries
  • The library : a world history
  • The public library

Library = Fund

  • 1-2 Thessalonians
  • A citizen’s guide to deficits and debt : the politics of taxing, spending and borrowing
  • A history of ancient Egypt : from the first farmers to the Great Pyramid
  • A history of Christian theology : an introduction
  • A history of Jewish-Muslim relations : from the origins to the present day
  • A history of modern Tibet. Volume 2, The calm before the storm, 1951-1955
  • A history of modern Tibet. Volume 3, The storm clouds descend, 1955-1957
  • A history of political ideas from antiquity to the Middle Ages /
  • A mere machine : the Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy
  • A people’s art history of the United States : 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements
  • A plague of informers : conspiracy and political trust in William III’s England
  • A quick guide to television writing
  • A sense of place : the political landscape in late medieval Japan
  • A student’s guide to entropy
  • A word from our sponsor : admen, advertising, and the golden age of radio
  • Acting in documentary theatre
  • Advancing digital humanities : research, methods, theories
  • Afghanistan : a distant war
  • After the beautiful : Hegel and the philosophy of pictorial modernism
  • After the civil war : making memory and re-making Spain since 1936
  • After the sheikhs : the coming collapse of the gulf monarchies
  • Albert Ellis revisited
  • Alfred Russel Wallace : letters from the Malay Archipelago
  • America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture
  • American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900
  • American epic : reading the u.s. constitution.
  • An anthropologist’s arrival : a memoir
  • An environmental history of wildlife in England, 1650-1950
  • Animal oppression and human violence : domesecration, capitalism, and global conflict
  • Animal wise : the thoughts and emotions of our fellow creatures
  • Answer the call : virtual migration in Indian call centers
  • APA dictionary of statistics and research methods
  • Approaching the end : eschatological reflections on church, politics, and life
  • Aquinas and the cry of Rachel : Thomistic reflections on the problem of evil
  • Are dolphins really smart? : the mammal behind the myth
  • Arik : the life of Ariel Sharon
  • Art and the Internet
  • Art and the Second World War
  • Ashes of Hama : the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria
  • At the edge of sight : photography and the unseen
  • Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Autobiography of Mark Twain. Volume 2
  • Back to normal : why ordinary childhood behavior is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Basic concepts in physics : from the cosmos to quarks
  • Becoming Brothertown : native American ethnogenesis and endurance in the modern world
  • Becoming Ottomans : Sephardi Jews and imperial citizenship in the modern era
  • Becoming right : how campuses shape young conservatives.
  • Bees : a natural history
  • Between Pagan and Christian
  • Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism
  • Bible and cinema : an introduction
  • Bioethics in historical perspective
  • Bleeding Kansas, bleeding Missouri : the long Civil War on the border
  • Blindspot : hidden biases of good people
  • Blood telegram.
  • Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin
  • Braiding sweetgrass
  • Buddhism goes to the movies : introduction to Buddhist thought and practice
  • Camelot’s court : inside the Kennedy White House
  • Capital in the twenty-first century
  • Capitalism : should you buy it? an invitation to political economy
  • Caught on camera : film in the courtroom from the Nuremberg trials to the trials of the Khmer Rouge
  • Central Europe in the high Middle Ages : Bohemia, Hungary and Poland c.900- c.1300
  • Chicago Shakespeare Theater : suiting the action to the word
  • Christians and the color line : race and religion after Divided by faith
  • Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike
  • Clandestine political violence
  • Climate and ecosystems
  • Cold War : an international history
  • Collected essays and other prose
  • Complex communities : the archaeology of early Iron Age West-Central Jordan
  • Composing for the cinema : the theory and praxis of music in film
  • Confederate visions : nationalism, symbolism, and the imagined South in the Civil War
  • Connected viewing : selling, streaming, & sharing media in the digital era
  • Conservative internationalism : armed diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan
  • Constructing democratic governance in Latin America
  • Crafting a continuum : rethinking contemporary craft
  • Days of God : the revolution in Iran and its consequences
  • Demarketing
  • Desert
  • Design for information : an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations
  • Dickensian laughter : essays on Dickens and humour
  • Dictionary of untranslatables : a philosophical lexicon
  • Different bodies : essays on disability in film and television
  • Do I count? : stories from mathematics
  • Domesticating empire : enlightenment in Spanish America
  • Don’t hurry me down to Hades : the Civil War in the words of those who lived it
  • Double life of paul de man.
  • Downton Abbey. Season 5
  • Drugged : the science and culture behind psychotropic drugs
  • Dying every day : Seneca at the Court of Nero
  • Dynamism, rivalry, and the surplus economy : two essays on the nature of capitalism
  • Easter Island’s silent sentinels : the sculpture and architecture of Rapa Nui
  • Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities
  • Elf
  • Emerson’s English traits and the natural history of metaphor
  • Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
  • Encountering gorillas : a chronicle of discovery, exploitation, understanding, and survival
  • Enhancing adolescents’ motivation for science : research-based strategies for teaching male and female students
  • Escape from New York : the New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
  • Europe (c. 1400-1458)
  • Evangelicals and American foreign policy
  • Exemplary women of early China : the Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
  • Extreme explosions : supernovae, hypernovae, magnetars, and other unusual cosmic blasts
  • Facing the modern : the portrait in Vienna 1900
  • Familiar lectures on the Pentateuch : delivered before the morning class of Bethany College, during the session of 1859-60
  • Families and faith : how religion is passed down across generations
  • Fashion and age : dress, the body and later life
  • Fire in the sea : bioluminescence & Henry Compton’s art of the deep
  • Focus : the hidden driver of excellence
  • Foreign fighters : transnational identity in civil conflicts
  • Forensics in America : a history
  • Forgotten ally : China’s World War II, 1937-1945
  • Freedom now! : forgotten photographs of the civil rights struggle
  • Fresh impressions : early modern Japanese prints
  • Freud on the couch : a critical introduction to the father of psychoanalysis
  • Friendship
  • From Aristotle to Schrödinger : the curiosity of physics
  • Fundamentals of physics : mechanics, relativity, and thermodynamics
  • Galatians
  • Galatians, Ephesians
  • Generation Dada : the Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War
  • Global interdependence : the world after 1945
  • Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry
  • Green retreats : women, gardens, and eighteenth-century culture
  • Guardians of the galaxy
  • Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy : the many faces of Anonymous
  • Hanoi’s road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
  • Hans Holbein
  • Harold and Maude
  • Heir to the Empire City : New York and the making of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson : here and now
  • Homespun gospel : the triumph of sentimentality in contemporary American evangelicalism
  • How partisan media polarize America
  • How real is race? : a sourcebook on race, culture, and biology
  • Humanism and classical crisis : anxiety, intertexts, and the Miltonic memory
  • Ida McKinley : the turn-of-the-century first lady through war, assassination, and secret disability
  • In 100 years : leading economists predict the future
  • In meat we trust : an unexpected history of carnivore America
  • In search of mechanisms : discoveries across the life sciences
  • Inside African politics
  • Inside concentration camps : social life at the extremes
  • Inside Paradise lost : reading the designs of Milton’s epic
  • Integrating regions : Asia in comparative context
  • Interactive open educational resources : a guide to finding, choosing, and using what’s out there to transform college teaching
  • It began with Babbage : the genesis of computer science
  • Jeremiah and God’s plans of well-being
  • Jonathan Edwards and the church
  • Just babies : the origins of good and evil
  • Language after Heidegger
  • Life atomic : a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine
  • Life, death and growing up on the western front
  • Light
  • Lillian Hellman : an imperious life
  • Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops
  • Literature in the ashes of history
  • Literature of the Holocaust
  • Marching into darkness : the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
  • Martha Graham : gender & the haunting of a dance pioneer
  • Mathematics for the life sciences : calculus, modeling, probability, and dynamical systems
  • Maximilian and Carlota : Europe’s last empire in Mexico
  • Mein Kampf : my struggle
  • Memoirs (1630-1680)
  • Milestones on a golden road : writing for Chinese socialism, 1945-80
  • Mindwise : why we misunderstand what others think, feel, and want
  • More than Bollywood : studies in Indian popular music
  • More than nature needs : language, mind, and evolution
  • More women can run : gender and pathways to the state legislatures
  • Mud
  • Musorgsky and his circle : a Russian musical adventure
  • My brief history
  • Nation of devils : democratic leadership and the problem of obedience
  • National response to the Holocaust : nation, identity and public memory
  • Neanderthal man : in search of lost genomes
  • Never call retreat : Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War
  • Nietzsche’s justice : naturalism in search of an ethics
  • Observing the user experience : a practitioner’s guide to user research
  • Old Book, new technologies : the representation, conservation and transformation of Book since 1700
  • Old Testament pseudepigrapha : more noncanonical scriptures
  • On Hinduism
  • On poetry
  • On telling images of China : essays in narrative painting and visual culture
  • One in Christ Jesus Essays on Early Christianity and All That Jazz in Honor of S. Scott Bartchy
  • Open Access and the Humanities Contexts, Controversies and the Future
  • Opening science : the evolving guide on how the Internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing
  • Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America
  • Oral history off the record : toward an ethnography of practice
  • Origins
  • Otherwise homeless : vehicle living and the culture of homelessness
  • Our changing journey to the end : reshaping death, dying, and grief in America
  • Our sun : biography of a star
  • Oxygen : a four billion year history
  • Partisan journalism : a history of media bias in the United States
  • Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama
  • Peacebuilding in practice : local experience in two Bosnian towns
  • Pee-wee’s playhouse. #2
  • Pee-Wee’s playhouse. Seasons 1 & 2
  • Philosophy and probability
  • Philosophy of biology
  • Poetry of the First World War : an anthology
  • Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine
  • Post-ethical society : the Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the moral failure of the secular
  • Prelude to revolution : the Salem gunpowder raid of 1775
  • Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics
  • Pueblo Indians and Spanish colonial authority in eighteenth-century New Mexico
  • Pure and modern milk : an environmental history since 1900
  • Reading scripture with the reformers
  • Reconsidering Longfellow
  • Redeeming “The prince” : the meaning of Machiavelli’s masterpiece
  • Redefining Hungarian music from Liszt to Bartók
  • Religion, personality, and social behavior
  • Religions of Iran : from prehistory to the present
  • Revealing the heart of the galaxy : the Milky Way and its black hole
  • Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the world : an anthology of international retellings
  • Revolutionary ideas : an intellectual history of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre
  • Rwanda before the genocide : Catholic politics and ethnic discourse in the late colonial era
  • Sacred relics : pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America
  • Salvador Allende : revolutionary democrat
  • Saturday night live & American TV
  • Scandal work : James Joyce, the new journalism, and the home rule newspaper wars
  • Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement in early America
  • Secrets and leaks : the dilemma of state secrecy
  • Selling under the swastika : advertising and commercial culture in Nazi Germany
  • Shakespeare and the Book Trade
  • Silent conflict : a hidden history of early Soviet-Western relations
  • Simply managing : what managers do and can do better
  • Singing school : learning to write (and read) poetry by studying with the masters
  • Sister churches : American congregations and their partners abroad
  • Six simple rules : how to manage complexity without getting complicated
  • Small wars, faraway places : global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965
  • Spell it out : the curious, enthralling and extraordinary story of english spelling
  • St. Petersburg : shadows of the past
  • State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands
  • States of union : family and change in the American constitutional order
  • Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America
  • Stokely : a life
  • Stop stealing sheep & find out how type works
  • Tennyson : to strive, to seek, to find
  • Textual rivals : self-presentation in Herodotus’ Histories
  • That Religion in Which All Men Agree : freemasonry in American culture
  • The ACME catalog : quality is our #1 dream : from the makers of ACME products
  • The affluent society revisited
  • The Alzheimer conundrum : entanglements of dementia and aging
  • The American West in bronze, 1850-1925
  • The app generation : how today’s youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world
  • The battle for the fourteenth colony : America’s war of liberation in Canada, 1774-1776
  • The biology of reefs and reef organisms
  • The book of trees : visualizing branches of knowledge
  • The Cambridge companion to Aristotle’s Politics
  • The circle of security intervention : enhancing attachment in early parent-child relationships
  • The collected later poems and plays
  • The complete Peanuts : 1991 to 1992
  • The complete Peanuts, 1993-1994
  • The confidence trap : a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present
  • The cost of liberty : the life of John Dickinson
  • The craft of ritual studies
  • The death and afterlife of the North American martyrs
  • The decameron
  • The democratic surround : multimedia & American liberalism from World War II to the psychedelic sixties
  • The Documentary Film Book
  • The domestication of Martin Luther King Jr. : Clarence B. Jones, right-wing conservatism, and the manipulation of the King legacy
  • The electronic silk road : how the web binds the world in commerce
  • The end of plagues : the global battle against infectious disease
  • The equality of the sexes : three feminist texts of the seventeenth century
  • The everlasting flame : Zoroastrianism in history and imagination
  • The everyday life of the state : a state-in-society approach
  • The forgotten kingdom : the archaeology and history of Northern Israel
  • The French Revolution : faith, desire, and politics
  • The future of nature : documents of global change
  • The golden rule
  • The great convergence : Asia, the West, and the logic of one world
  • The Group Theatre : passion, politics, and performance in the Depression era
  • The heathen school : a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early republic
  • The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England
  • The Indian Ocean in world history
  • The infested mind : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects
  • The invaded : how Latin Americans and their allies fought and ended U.S. occupations
  • The joy of factoring
  • The kingdom of dreams and madness
  • The letters of Ernest Hemingway. Volume 2, 1923-1925
  • The liberation of painting : modernism and anarchism in avant-guerre Paris
  • The Lumière autochrome : history, technology, and preservation
  • The medieval Christian philosophers : an introduction
  • The medieval church : a brief history
  • The modern spirit of Asia : the spiritual and the secular in China and India
  • The Muppet show. 2
  • The Muppet show. 3
  • The Muppet Show. Season one
  • The Muslim Brotherhood : evolution of an Islamist movement
  • The Nostalgia factory : memory, time and ageing
  • The objects of thought
  • The once and future world : nature as it was, as it is, as it could be
  • The open mind : Cold War politics and the sciences of human nature
  • The origins of southern evangelicalism : religious revivalism in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1670-1760
  • The other Gospels : accounts of Jesus from outside the New Testament
  • The Oxford anthology of Roman literature
  • The Palestinian-Israeli conflict : a very short introduction
  • The people’s network : the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age
  • The perfect theory : a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity
  • The phantom of the ego : modernism and the mimetic unconscious
  • The political economy of human happiness : how voters’ choices determine the quality of life
  • The power of song : nonviolent national culture in the Baltic singing revolution
  • The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation
  • The quest of the absolute : birth and decline of European romanticism
  • The Routledge companion to philosophy of science
  • The secular spectacle : performing religion in a southern town
  • The sense of style : the thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century!
  • The social value of drug addicts : uses of the useless
  • The South Africa reader : history, culture, politics
  • The story of the human body : evolution, health, and disease
  • The time is always now : Black thought and the transformation of US democracy
  • The Tupac Amaru rebellion
  • The Tuscarora War : Indians, settlers, and the fight for the Carolina colonies
  • The twilight of the American enlightenment : the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief
  • The wind rises
  • The wire the complete series
  • The work of poverty : Samuel Beckett’s vagabonds and the theater of crisis
  • Theorizing art cinemas : foreign, cult, avant-garde, and beyond
  • This land that I love : Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the story of two American anthems
  • Time, history, and literature : selected essays of Erich Auerbach
  • To march for others : the black freedom struggle and the United Farm Workers
  • To raise up a nation : John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the making of a free country
  • Tove Jansson : work and love
  • Toward a philosophical theory of everything : contributions to the structural-systematic philosophy
  • Tragic spirits : shamanism, memory, and gender in contemporary Mongolia
  • Transforming teaching and learning with active and dramatic approaches : engaging students across the curriculum
  • Transporting visions : the movement of images in early America
  • Tyranny : a new interpretation
  • Unbroken : an Olympian’s journey from airman to castaway to captive
  • Unearthing gender : folksongs of North India
  • Utopia as method : the imaginary reconstruction of society
  • Vicissitudes of the Goddess : reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India’s religious traditions
  • Victorians and the case for charity : essays on responses to English poverty by the state, the church and the literati
  • Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era
  • Visual thinking strategies : using art to deepen learning across school disciplines
  • War and independence in Spanish America
  • War crimes, genocide, and justice : a global history
  • Water and the future of humanity : revisiting water security
  • Westmoreland’s war : reassessing American strategy in Vietnam
  • What causes war? : an introduction to theories of international conflict
  • What is chemistry?
  • What patients teach : the everyday ethics of health care
  • What really happened in the Garden of Eden?
  • What unions no longer do
  • When soldiers fall : how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan
  • Where the Negroes are masters : an African port in the era of the slave trade
  • Whistler : a life for art’s sake
  • White magic : the age of paper
  • White magic : the age of paper
  • Why Europe matters : the case for the European Union
  • Why is English literature? : language and letters for the twenty-first century
  • Women and interreligious dialogue
  • Worlds of autism : across the spectrum of neurological difference
  • Yoga : the art of transformation
  • Young Catholic America : emerging adults in, out of, and gone from the church
  • Young Mr. Roosevelt : FDR’s introduction to war, politics and life

Sociology = Fund

  • Something the Lord made
  • The boy in the striped pajamas
  • The witches of Gambaga