The following Books and DVDs (68 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during January 2017.
Seminary Library
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Delivering the sermon : voice, body, and animation in proclamation, 2008.
Determining the form : structures for preaching, 2008.
Not with wisdom of words : nonrational persuasion in the New Testament, 2016.
Paul and gender : reclaiming the apostle’s vision for men and women in Christ, 2016.
Saving Karl Barth : Hans Urs von Balthasar’s preoccupation, 2014.
The scandal of having something to say : Ricoeur and the possibility of postliberal preaching, 2013.
The witness of preaching, 2016.
Welshimer Library
Agriculture
The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, 2015.
Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources
Digital paper : a manual for research and writing with library and internet materials, 2014.
A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago Style for students and researchers, 2013.
The Oxford guide to library research, 2015.
Education
The values of American teachers : how teachers’ values help stabilize unsteady democracy, 2014.
Fine Arts
Art of Renaissance Venice 1400-1600, 2015.
Book from the ground : from point to point, 2013.
El Greco, life and work, a new history, 2013.
In a new light : Giovanni Bellini’s “St. Francis in the Desert”, 2014.
Turner & the sea, 2013.
Folklore
Once upon a time : a short history of fairy tale, 2016.
History
Alexander Hamilton, 2004.
The big sort : why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart, 2009.
The impossible state : North Korea, past and future, 2013.
A new history of the humanities : the search for principles and patterns from Antiquity to the present, 2015.
North Korea : markets and military rule, 2015.
Language and Literature
The Bohemians : Mark Twain and the San Francisco writers who reinvented American literature, 2015.
Creating postcolonial literature : African writers and British publishers, 2015.
Grammar to go : how it works and how to use it, 2015.
Greek tragic style : form, language and interpretation, 2014.
How to be a woman, 2016.
Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stage, 2013.
The practice of satire in England, 1658-1770, 2013.
Romantic women writers, revolution and prophecy : rebellious daughters, 1786-1826, 2013.
Law
The hollow hope : can courts bring about social change?, 2008.
Music
Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America, 2016.
Spirits rejoice! : jazz and American religion, 2015.
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Ancient Persia : a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE, 2014.
The book of Master Mo, 2013.
Feed-forward : on the future of twenty-first-century media, 2015.
A history of the modern Middle East, 2013.
Muslims of medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614, 2015.
The Shia revival : how conflicts within Islam will shape the future, 2006.
The victorian translation of China : James Legge’s Oriental pilgrimage, 2002.
Zhuangzi : text and context, 2014.
Political Science
The Arab uprising : the unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East, 2013.
The end of authority : how a loss of legitimacy and broken trust are endangering our future, 2013.
Science
Galileo’s reading, 2016.
Social Sciences
The attention merchants : the epic scramble to get inside our heads, 2016.
The media and public life : a history, 2015.
White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America, 2016.
Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer-and turned its back on the middle class, 2010.
Technology
Vintage game consoles : an inside look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the greatest gaming platforms of all time, 2014.
DVDs
A royal Christmas, 2014.
Brooklyn Bridge, 2004.
Crown for Christmas, 2015.
The cutting edge : the magic of movie editing, 2005.
Dolly Parton’s Christmas of many colors : circle of love, 2016.
Dolly Parton’s Coat of many colors, 2016.
Gay purr-ee, 2003.
The king of comedy, 2002.
The nine lives of Christmas, 2014.
Oh Christmas tree!, 2014.
Pollock, 2001.
The Prestige, 2007.
Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
Chinese calligraphy made easy : a structured course in creating beautiful brush lettering
Dalí illustrator
The magical world of moss gardening
The nature of the Chinese character : gifts from the earth
The Oxford handbook of early modern theology, 1600-1800
The spirit of the Chinese character : gifts from the heart