New Books and Media Received (February 2025)

The following books (49 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in February 2025.

Individual Ebooks

Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust

Called beyond our selves: vocation and the common good

Seminary Library

Lending
African Christian theology:  journal of the association for Christian theological, v. 1, no. 1

African Christian theology:  journal of the association for Christian theological, v. 1, no. 2

Behind the scenes of the New Testament: cultural, social, and historical contexts 

Comfort in the ashes:  explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors 

Ephesians:  a pastoral and contextual commentary by Brian C. Wintle and Ken Gnanakan

How ableism fuels racism:  dismantling the hierarchy of bodies in the church 

Hymnes, t. 1 by Romanus

Hymnes, t. 4 by Romanus

Hymnes, t. 5 by Romanus

Hymns of repentance by Romanus

Turning points in American church history:  how pivotal events shaped a nation and a faith 

Walking with God through the valley:  recovering the purpose of biblical lament 

Welshimer Library

Lending
The art of the literary poster: the Leonard A Lauder Collection

Bad Chaucer: the great poet’s greatest mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Becoming Foucault: the Poitiers years

The Cambridge history of European Romantic literature

Counterfeit countess: the jewish woman who rescued thousands of poles during the holocaust

Emoji and social media paralanguage

England’s insular imagining: the Elizabethan erasure of Scotland

Falsehoods fly: why misinformation spreads and how to stop it

The fine art of literary fist-fighting: how a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne’er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction

The force of truth: critique, genealogy, and truth-telling in Michel Foucault

I dread the thought of the place: the Battle of Antietam and the end of the Maryland Campaign

The inner Civil War: northern intellectuals and the crisis of the Union

Jazz and American culture by Michael Borshuk

King : a life by Jonathan Eig

Kingdom of characters: the language revolution that made China modern

A learning community built on strengths: inspiring educators to positively impact student lives

Lost literacies: experiments in the nineteenth-century US comic strip

The lost princess: women writers and the history of classic fairy tales

MacIntyre’s After Virtue at 40

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era

The Oxford handbook of World War II

The pleasures of memory in Shakespeare’s sonnets

Politics and literature at the dawn of World War II

Power, image, and memory: historical subjects in art

The presidency and the American State: leadership and decision making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft administrations

The private Civil War: popular thought during the sectional conflict

Social work and the grand challenge to eliminate racism: concepts, theory, and evidence based approaches

Theorizing Stephen King by Michael Blouin

The understory: an invitation to rootedness and resilience from the forest floor

The undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

What works in community news: media startups, news deserts, and the future of the fourth estate

Why we vote by Owen M. Fiss

Writing on the social network: digital literacy practices in social media’s first decade

Archives
Beyond the texts: an archaeological portrait of ancient Israel and Judah by William G. Dever

My nine lives: sixty years in Israeli and biblical archaeology by William G. Dever