The following Books and DVDs (106 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during September 2017.
Seminary Library
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Changing the questions : explorations in Christian ethics, 2015.
Christian doctrine and the Old Testament : theology in the service of biblical exegesis, 2017.
Dialogue of the heart : Christian-Muslim stories of encounter, 2017.
Four women doctors of the church, 2017.
The Gorgias encyclopedic dictionary of the Syriac heritage, 2011.
The image of the Biblical Job : a history, v. 1. Job in the ancient world, 2006.
The image of the Biblical Job : a history, v. 2. Job in the medieval world, 2006.
The image of the Biblical Job : a history, v. 3. Job in the modern world, 2006.
Job 1-21 : interpretation and commentary, 2013.
The journey of reconciliation : groaning for a new creation in Africa, 2017.
Latin American theology : roots and branches, 2016.
The original bishops : office and order in the first Christian communities, 2014.
The problem of wealth : a Christian response to a culture of affluence, 2017.
Prophecy without contempt : religious discourse in the public square, 2016.
The rhythm of being : the Gifford lectures, 2010.
Scripture as real presence : sacramental exegesis in the early church, 2017.
Steward of God’s mysteries : Paul and early church tradition, 2017.
DVD
Silence, 2017.
Welshimer Library
Auxiliary Sciences of History
The house of wisdom : how the Arabs transformed Western civilization, 2009.
Education
Excellent sheep : the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life, 2014.
Fine Arts
Cubism : the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, 2014.
House Industries : the process is the inspiration, 2017.
The moderns : midcentury American graphic design, 2017.
Type hybrid : typography in multilingual design, 2016.
History
American enlightenments : pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason, 2016.
Appomattox : victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the civil war, 2015.
The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War, 2015.
The edge of the Empire : a journey to Britannia: from the heart of Rome to Hadrian’s Wall, 2016.
The English and their history, 2016.
From Herodotus to H-Net : the story of historiography, 2016.
From reliable sources : an introduction to historical methods, 2001.
From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in america., 2017.
The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, 2016.
A Hercules in the cradle : war, money, and the American state, 1783-1867, 2014.
Jim Crow’s legacy : the lasting impact of segregation /, 2015.
Joan of Arc : a history, 2015.
McNamara’s folly : the use of low-IQ troops in the Vietnam War ; plus the induction of unfit men, criminals, and misfits, 2015.
Nixon’s White House wars : the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever, 2017.
The political life of Abraham Lincoln, 2016.
Race in society : the enduring American dilemma /, 2017.
Reading the Middle Ages : sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, 2014.
Rightful heritage : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America, 2016.
The Russian Revolution : a new history, 2017.
Scars of independence : America’s violent birth, 2017.
Spain in our hearts : Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, 2016.
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America, 2016.
Tariff wars and the politics of Jacksonian America, 2017.
Theories and practices of development, 2011.
Wrestling with his angel : the political life of Abraham Lincoln. Vol. II, 1849-1856, 2017.
Language and Literature
Consider the lobster and other essays, 2007.
Nunca fui Primera Dama, 2008.
Who’s afraid of the Song of the South? : and other forbidden Disney stories, 2012.
Law
How sex became a civil liberty, 2013.
A storm of witchcraft : the Salem trials and the American experience, 2015.
Music
Women music educators in the United States : a history, 2014.
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Babel is everywhere! : migrant readings from Africa, Europe, and Asia, 2013.
Christianity, the biography : two thousand years of the global church, 2016.
Devoted to nature : the religious roots of American environmentalism, 2015.
Dictionary of daily life in biblical and post-biblical Antiquity. 2nd ed. Complete in one volume. A-Z., 2017.
Engaging globalization : the poor, Christian mission, and our hyperconnected world, 2017.
The Hebrew Bible : a critical companion, 2016.
The positive side of negative emotions, 2014.
Scripture and its interpretation : a global, ecumenical introduction to the Bible, 2017.
Under the big top : big tent revivalism and American culture, 1885-1925, 2015.
Photography
Best of college photography annual, 2017.
The photographer and the president : Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Gardner, and the images that made a presidency, 2015.
Science
Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy, 2016.
Social Sciences
Defenders of the unborn : the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade, 2016.
Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement, 2015.
Private government : how employers rule our lives (and why we don’t talk about it), 2017.
A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression, 1929-1939, 2017.
The war on alcohol : prohibition and the rise of the American state, 2016.
Western Union and the creation of the American corporate order, 1845-1893, 2015.
Technology
Paper : paging through history, 2016.
DVDs
Hearing is believing, 2017.
Loving, 2017.
Lust for life, 2006.
Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
Alice in Quantumland : an allegory of quantum physics
The American farmhouse
At home : the American family, 1750-1870
A Cambridge movement
The Chamberlain selection of New England rooms, 1639-1863
The church follows its students,
Contemporary singing techniques
Eighteenth century English poetry
The end of knowledge in higher education
Faith and knowledge : mainline Protestantism and American higher education
The first man
Four views on women and church leadership
The joy of the gospel = Evangelii gaudium : apostolic exhortation
Julian Apostata
Ministering in the secular university : a guide for Christian professors and staff
Moravian architecture and town planning; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and other eighteenth-century American settlements,
New England by the sea : from material originally published as the White pine series of architectural monographs, edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown
Prison exposures : first photographs inside prison by a convict
Religious ideas for secular universities
Seven plays by Henrik Ibsen.
The structure of praise; a design study architecture for religion in New England from the 17th century to the present
A study of the history of Nestorian Christianity in China and its literature in Chinese : together with a new English translation of the Dunhuang Nestorian documents
There’s a bed in the piano : the inside story of the American home
Understanding world Christianity : the vision and work of Andrew F. Walls
The vocal coach vocal workout book
White Pillars: The Architecture of the South.
Women of flowers : a tribute to Victorian women illustrators
Donated Gift DVD to the Milligan Libraries
The vocal workout