The following Books and DVDs (119 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during February 2017.
Seminary Library
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Christian mission & economic systems : a critical survey of the cultural and religious dimensions of economies, 2015.
A Fellowship of differents: Showing the world God’s design for life together, 2016.
Fields of blood : religion and the history of violence, 2015.
Finding their voices : sermons by women in the Churches of Christ, 2015.
First Isaiah : a commentary, 2015.
I found God in me : a womanist biblical hermeneutics reader, 2015.
Intercultural theology, 2016.
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible and Deutero-Canonical books, 2014.
Israel’s Exodus in transdisciplinary perspective : text, archaeology, culture, and geoscience, 2015.
The Jesus movement and its expansion : meaning and mission, 2014.
The lively experiment : religious toleration in America from Roger Williams to the present, 2017.
Muslims in the Western imagination, 2015.
Polycentric missiology : Twenty first century mission from everyone to everywhere, 2016.
Serving with eyes wide open : doing short-term missions with cultural intelligence, 2013.
The state of missiology today : global innovations in Christian witness, 2016.
Steps to an ecology of mind, 2000.
What is Islamic philosophy?, 2014.
Welshimer Library
Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources
The Chicago guide to fact-checking, 2016.
The economics of the publishing and information industries : the search for yield in a disintermediated world, 2015.
Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Adventures in the anthropocene : a journey to the heart of the planet we made, 2014.
For ethnography, 2015.
Glaciers : the politics of ice, 2015.
Unbored : the essential field guide to serious fun, 2012.
History
Colonial genocide in indigenous North America, 2014.
Discovering the Olmecs : an unconventional history, 2015.
Elizabeth I and her circle, 2015.
Embattled bodies, embattled places : war in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes, 2014.
Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad, 2016.
Gaza : a history, 2017.
Iran-Contra : Reagan’s scandal and the unchecked abuse of presidential power, 2014.
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah : the United States and Iran in the Cold War, 2016.
Thirteen days in September : the dramatic story of the struggle for peace, 2015.
Thomas Jefferson’s Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress : the Morality of a Slaveholder, 2014.
Twelve voices from Greece and Rome : ancient ideas for modern times, 2014.
When Paris went dark : the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944, 2015.
Language and Literature
American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau, 2008.
The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature, 2015.
Chaucer’s Tale : 1386 and the Road to Canterbury, 2014.
Fight club, 2002.
Flicker : your brain on movies, 2015.
The myth of emptiness and the new American literature of place, 2014.
Place, 2012.
A place for humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the natural world, 2014.
Rebel souls : Walt Whitman and America’s first Bohemians, 2014.
A student guide to Chaucer’s Middle English, 2011.
The underground railroad : a novel , 2016.
Understanding sound tracks through film theory, 2015.
Virtue in media : the moral psychology of excellence in news and public relations, 2014.
Woods etc., 2007.
Medicine
Citizenship and mental health, 2015.
Military Science
The American warfare state : the domestic politics of military spending, 2014.
Music
Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography, 2014.
Debussy, 2014.
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Attention, 2014.
Beauty : the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea, 2014.
Confucius : and the world he created, 2015.
Dewey, 2015.
Doing justice : congregations and community organizing, 2001.
Existence and consolation : reinventing ontology, gnosis, and values in African philosophy, 2015.
The existentialist moment : the rise of Sartre as a public intellectual, 2015.
The gifts of imperfection : let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are, 2010.
God, Freud and religion : the origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism, 2015.
Graduate study in psychology, 2017.
Healing the wounded heart : the heartache of sexual abuse and the hope of transformation, 2016.
On romantic love : simple truths about a complex emotion, 2015.
Play : how it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul, 2010.
The poverty of nations : a sustainable solution, 2013.
Powers of pure reason : Kant and the idea of cosmic philosophy, 2016.
Reconciling all things : a Christian vision for justice, peace and healing, 2008.
The roots of goodness and resistance to evil : inclusive caring, moral courage, altruism born of suffering, active bystandership, and heroism, 2015.
Steal like an artist : 10 things nobody told you about being creative, 2012.
Political Science
Buying the vote : a history of campaign finance reform, 2016.
Civil rights and the making of the modern American state, 2014.
Comparative peace processes, 2014.
Science
Beyond words : what animals think and feel, 2016.
Black hole : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved, 2015.
Einstein : his space and times, 2015.
The fascinating world of graph theory, 2015.
Fire in the valley : the birth and death of the personal computer, 2014.
How the Earth turned green : a brief 3.8-billion-year history of plants, 2014.
It started with Copernicus : vital questions about science, 2014.
Jonas Salk : a life, 2015.
Planck : driven by vision, broken by war, 2015.
Plankton : wonders of the drifting world, 2015.
Radium and the secret of life, 2016.
Understanding evolution, 2014.
Visions of science : books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age, 2014.
Social Sciences
Beginnings, middles, & ends : sideways stories on the art & soul of social work, 2013.
Beyond good intentions : a journey into the realities of international aid, 2012.
Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard, 2010.
Chasing chaos : my decade in and out of humanitarian aid, 2013.
Class matters, 2005.
Critical terms for the study of gender, 2014.
The cry of the soul : how our emotions reveal our deepest questions about God, 1994.
Development as freedom, 1999.
Google : how Google works, 2014.
The justice calling : where passion meets perseverance, 2016.
Lighter as we go : virtues, character strengths, and aging, 2015.
Managing the non-profit organization : practices and principles, 2005.
Out of poverty : sweatshops in the global economy, 2014.
A path appears : transforming lives, creating opportunity, 2014.
Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty, 2011.
Show your work! : 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered, 2014.
Start with why : how great leaders inspire everyone to take action, 2011.
That’s the way it is : a history of television news in America, 2016.
Three little words : a memoir, 2009.
The truth about employee engagement : a fable about addressing the three root causes of job misery, 2007.
Universal man : the lives of John Maynard Keynes, 2015.
The white man’s burden : why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, 2006.
Technology
Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight, 2015.
DVDs
Life and Debt, 2003.
Meet the Patels, 2015.
Selma, 2015.
Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
California cool : West Coast jazz of the 50s & 60s, the album cover art
Caves of Fall Creek Falls
The filioque : history of a doctrinal controversy
Healing in the early church : the church’s ministry of healing and exorcism from the first to the fifth century
Now pilgrim : a Canterbury Tale for today
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia : a reader’s edition