New Books and Media Received (October 2017)

The following Books and DVDs (132 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during October 2017.

Seminary Library

History
The sin of white supremacy : Christianity, racism, and religious diversity in America, 2017.

Language and Literature
Meaning and relevance, 2012.

New Testament Seminar Collection
Acts, 2017.

Ancient apocryphal gospels, 2017.

Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Critica Maior/Band III: Die Apostelgeschichte Teil 1.2: Text. Kapitel 15-28, 2017.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

African Christian leadership : realities, opportunities, and impact, 2017.

The ascetical homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, 2011.

Barcelona, Berlin, New York 1928-1931, 2008.

Berlin, 1932-1933, 2009.

Building God’s kingdom : inside the world of Christian reconstruction, 2015.

The Catholic enlightenment : the forgotten history of a global movement, 2016.

Characters and characterization in the Gospel of John, 2013.

Christianity in the second century : themes and developments, 2017.

Conspiracy and imprisonment, 1940-1945, 2006.

Crossing cultural frontiers : studies in the history of world Christianity, 2017.

Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran traditions, 2017.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, indexes and supplementary materials, 2014.

Ecumenical, academic, and pastoral work, 1931-1932., 2012.

Ethics, 2005.

Faith in the face of empire : the Bible through Palestinian eyes, 2014.

Fiction from Tegel Prison, 2010.

God in the tumult of the global square : religion in global civil society, 2015.

Hymnes contres les hérésies ; Hymnes contre Julien, 2017.

Jesus in the eyes of the Sufis, 2012.

Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians in antiquity, 2010.

Letters and papers from prison, 2010.

London, 1933-1935, 2007.

Moral reflections on the book of Job, v. 1. Preface and Books 1-5 (Job 1:5 to 5:2), 2014.

Moral reflections on the book of Job, v. 2. Books 6-10 (Job 5:3 to 12:5), 2014.

Moral reflections on the book of Job, v. 3. Books 11-16 (Job 12:6 to 24:20), 2014.

On our own terms : Moyers on dying, 2011.

The original bishops : office and order in the first Christian communities, 2014.

Orthodox readings of Aquinas, 2012.

A Palestinian theology of liberation : the Bible, justice, and the Palestine-Israel conflict, 2017.

Patterns of ministry among the first Christians, 2017.

Prayer, 1994.

Preaching the women of the Old Testament : who they were and why they matter, 2017.

The rise and fall of the complementarian doctrine of the Trinity, 2017.

Saint Mary of Egypt : three medieval lives in verse, 2005.

The spiritual world of Isaac the Syrian, 2000.

Talking back : a monastic handbook for combating demons, 2009.

Theological education at Finkenwalde, 1935-1937, 2013.

Theological education underground, 1937-1940, 2011.

Walking with the poor : principles and practices of transformational development, 2011.

The wisdom of the pearlers : an anthology of Syriac Christian mysticism, 2008.

Women of war, women of woe : Joshua and Judges through the eyes of nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters, 2016.

Welshimer Library

Auxiliary Sciences of History
The Black Calhouns., 2017.

The house of wisdom : how the Arabs transformed Western civilization, 2009.

Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources
The visual history of type , 2017.

Education
Excellent sheep : the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life, 2014.

Fine Arts
American impressionism : a new vision, 1880-1900, 2014.

Cubism : the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, 2014.

Seven days in the art world, 2008.

History
America’s original sin : racism, white privilege, and the bridge to a new America , 2017.

Appomattox : victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the civil war, 2015.

The cultural revolution : a people’s history, 1962-1976, 2017.

Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history, 2017.

The first frontier : the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America, 2012.

Historiography : ancient, medieval, & modern, 2007.

The Immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero, 2016.

The Iran-Iraq war, 2015.

Madison’s gift : five partnerships that built America, 2015.

Making of a Racist : a southerner reflects on family, history, and the slave trade., 2017.

Masters of Empire : Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America, 2015.

McNamara’s folly : the use of low-IQ troops in the Vietnam War ; plus the induction of unfit men, criminals, and misfits, 2015.

Northern Armageddon : the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the making of the American Revolution, 2017.

Propaganda 1776 : secrets, leaks, and revolutionary communications in early America, 2014.

The Quartermaster : Montgomery C. Meigs : Lincoln’s General, master builder of the Union army, 2016.

Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America , 2016.

Stanton : Lincoln’s war secretary, 2017.

Tariff wars and the politics of Jacksonian America, 2017.

Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life, 2016.

Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution, 2016.

Woodrow Wilson : a biography, 2011.

Language and Literature
The annals of Lü Buwei  : a complete translation and study, 2000.

Baking with Kafka : comics, 2017.

Neoliberalism and contemporary literary culture, 2017.

The poems of T.S. Eliot, 2015.

Power and pathos : bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world, 2015.

Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel , 2017.

What was tragedy? : theory and the early modern canon, 2015.

Who’s afraid of the Song of the South? : and other forbidden Disney stories, 2012.

Law
A storm of witchcraft : the Salem trials and the American experience, 2015.

The Burger Court and the rise of the judicial right, 2017.

How sex became a civil liberty, 2013.

Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck, 2017.

Music
The school choral program : philosophy, planning, organizing, and teaching, 2008.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
The age of evangelicalism : America’s born-again years, 2014.

Dear white Christians : for those still longing for racial reconciliation, 2014.

Ecotherapy : theory, research and practice, 2016.

Encountering the history of missions : from the early church to today, 2017.

Mere Sexuality Rediscovering the Christian Vision of Sexuality., 2017.

Nature and therapy : understanding counselling and psychotherapy in outdoor spaces, 2015.

The positive side of negative emotions, 2014.

Photography
The photographer and the president : Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Gardner, and the images that made a presidency, 2015.

Social Sciences
All the single ladies : unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation, 2016.

Braving the wilderness : the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone , 2017.

Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America, 2015.

Every third woman in America : how legal abortion transformed our nation, 2014.

An extraordinary time : the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy, 2016.

Finding time : the economics of work-life conflict, 2016.

A Hercules in the cradle : war, money, and the American state, 1783-1867, 2014.

Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics, and American economics in the Progressive era, 2016.

The incomplete, true, authentic, and wonderful history of May Day, 2016.

The money makers : how Roosevelt and Keynes ended the Depression, defeated fascism, and secured a prosperous peace, 2015.

The road not taken : a history of radical social work in the United States, 2002.

Twitter : social communication in the Twitter age, 2013.

Western Union and the creation of the American corporate order, 1845-1893, 2015.

Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul, 2016.

DVDs
5 centimeters per second, 2015.

The big bang theory. The complete tenth season, 2017.

The story of China with Michael Wood, 2017.

Vietnam War, The: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick., 2017.

Voices of a distant star, 2003.

Your name, 2017.

Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
The age of doubt : American thought and culture in the 1940s

Augustine, the Trinity, and the Church : a reading of the anti-Donatist sermons

Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America

Man of letters : the early life and love letters of Robert Chambers

Mountain year : a Southern Appalachian nature notebook

The new catastrophism : the importance of the rare event in geological history

Painting and reality

Peirce’s cosmology

Philosophy in the twentieth century

The problem of evolution; a study of the philosophical repercussions of evolutionary science

Reason in common sense

The Red Queen : sex and the evolution of human nature

The revolt from the village, 1915-1930

Science and sentiment in America : philosophical thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey

The Second Amendment : a biography

The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures

Typology and early American literature