New Titles Tuesday, October 10

Alloway Library added 32 titles to the collection in the past week. Here is a sampling.  Click on a title for more information.

ARTS

Many beautiful things [videorecording]: the life and vision of Lilias Trotter /Kurosawa Productions and Oxvision Films present ; in association with Image Bearer Pictures ; a film by Laura Waters Hinson. Follows the life of Lilias Trotter, from her work as an artist in Victorian England to her missionary work with women and children in French Algeria in the late 1800s.

 EDUCATION

Final draft. 4 /Wendy Asplin, Monica F. Jacob, Alan S. Kennedy. Academic writing is difficult, and Final Draft gives students all the tools they need. Writing skills and in-depth analysis of models set the stage for development. Corpus-based vocabulary, collocations, and phrases, as well as detailed information on the grammar of writing, prepare your learners for college writing courses. Students learn to avoid plagiarism in every chapter of every level.

HISTORY

 Faith and sword: a short history of Christian-Muslim conflict /Alan G. Jamieson.  Jamieson explores the long and bloody history of the Christian-Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history.  Faith and Sword reveals the essence of this enduring struggle and its consequences.

 For the glory: the life of Eric Liddell /Duncan Hamilton.  For the Glory takes the reader from Liddell the fastest man on the planet, through Liddell the man with a higher purpose, to Liddell when he had to be stronger than all around him, detained in an internment camp under terrible conditions, when he became the moral centre of an otherwise unbearable world. This is the story of a true hero of our times.

A short history of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 /Albert Soboul ; translated by Geoffrey Symcox. The author argues that the French Revolution can only be understood in terms of class struggle, and that any attempt to diminish the significance of class conflict as its motive force obscures the meaning of the events of the Revolution and rends them ultimately incomprehensible.  Soboul shows that although the Revolution was caused initially by specific factors peculiar to the structure of French society at the end of the Old Regime, it came to constitute the definitive type of the bourgeois revolution and opened the way for the ascendary of industrial capitalism in the next century, not merely in France, but in the rest of Europe and the world at large.

 LINGUSITICS

Internet linguistics: a student guide /David Crystal.  In his engaging trademark style, Crystal addresses the online linguistic issues that affect us on a daily basis, incorporating real-life examples drawn from his own studies and personal involvement with Internet companies. He provides new linguistic analyses of Twitter, Internet security, and online advertising, explores the evolving multilingual character of the Internet, and offers illuminating observations about a wide range of online behaviour, from spam to exclamation marks. Including many activities and suggestions for further research, this is the essential introduction to a critical new field for students of all levels of English language, linguistics and new media.

 PSYCHOLOGY

Child-centered play therapy: a clinical session /produced and directed by Gary L. Landreth. This DVD is a perfect complement to Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship, giving students, instructors, supervisors and practitioners visual reinforcement of the materials presented in the text. It shows a complete unrehearsed play therapy session, featuring Gary Landreth as he works with a young girl in a fully equipped play therapy room.

 RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Christian understandings of evil: the historical trajectory /Charlene P.E. Burns. Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of evil and suffering. From a personal Satan and demonic activity, to questions of free will and autonomy, to the nature of God and Gods role in suffering, Burns offers a clear and compelling overview.

 Christian understandings of the future: the historical trajectory /Amy Frykholm. Frykholm outlines the enduring fascination believers have had with future events and the myriad ways they have articulated their beliefs about what the future holds. From the imperial contexts of the book of Revelation to the end times prophecy of Harold Camping, Frykholm presents a thoughtful and insightful tour.

 The death of race: building a new Christianity in a racial world /Brian Bantum. Bantum argues that our attempts to heal racism will not succeed until we address what gives rise to racism in the first place: a fallen understanding of our bodies that sees difference as something to resist, defeat, or subdue. Therefore, he examines the question of race, but through the lens of our bodies and what our bodies mean in the midst of a complicated, racialized world, one that perpetually dehumanizes dark bodies, thereby rendering all of us less than God’s intention.

 Exploring our Hebraic heritage: a Christian theology of roots and renewal /Marvin R. Wilson. Wilson illuminates theological, spiritual, and ethical themes of the Hebrew scriptures that directly affect Christian understanding and experience. Wilson calls for the church to restore, renew, and protect its foundations by studying and appreciating its origins in Judaism. Designed to serve as an academic classroom text or for use in personal or group study, the book includes hundreds of questions for review and discussion.

 Girl at the end of the world: my escape from fundamentalism in search of faith with a future /Elizabeth Esther. A story of mind control, the Apocalypse, and modest attire. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Girl at the End of the World is a story of the lingering effects of spiritual abuse and the growing hope that God can still be good when His people fail.

 God vs. gay?: the religious case for equality /Jay Michaelson. Michaelson shows that not only does the Bible not prohibit same-sex intimacy, but the vast majority of its teachings support the full equality and dignity of gay and lesbian people.

 Insights from filmmaking for analyzing biblical narrative /Gary Yamasaki. Yamasaki develops an innovative approach to biblical narrative, exploring the way stories are treated in filmmaking and using that as a model for analyzing biblical stories. This book demonstrates how fresh interpretive insights emerge when we read biblical stories like we watch movies.

 Isaiah old and new: exegesis, intertextuality, and hermeneutics /Ben Witherington, III. Reading the book of Isaiah in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for understanding its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary on Isaiah, as well as a reasoned consideration of how Isaiah was heard and read in early Christianity. By reading “forward and backward,” Witherington advances the scholarly discussion of intertextuality and opens a new avenue for biblical theology.

 Love in a time of climate change: honoring creation, establishing justice /Sharon Delgado. This book creatively adapts John Wesley’s theological method by using scripture, tradition, reason, and experience to explore the themes of creation and justice in the context of the earth’s changing climate. By consciously employing these four sources of authority, readers discover a unique way to reflect on planetary warming theologically and to discern a faithful response. The book’s premise is that love of God and neighbor in this time of climate change requires us to honor creation and establish justice for our human family, for future generations, and for all creation.

My flesh is meat indeed: a nonsacramental reading of John 6:51-58 /Meredith J.C. Warren.  Warren shows that the “bread of life” discourse  in John bears no Eucharistic overtones. Instead, John plays on Mediterranean cultural expectations about the nature of heroic sacrifice and the sacrificial meal that established the identification of a hero with a deity. Warren traces a literary trope in which a hero or heroine’s antagonistic relationship with a deity is resolved through the hero’s sacrifice. Against this milieu, Jesus’ insistence that his flesh be eaten demonstrates the Christology of the Gospel.

“The prophet” in the Lachish ostraca /D. Winton Thomas. The Lachish Letters are an important discovery in the study of Biblical Archaeology and shed much light on the last days of Judah.  Thomas  discusses “the prophet”   in the Lachish ostraca. Considering first the evidence provided by the ostraca for the belief that a prophet is mentioned in them. With this evidence established, he turns to a discussion of the prophet’s identity, more especially with
reference to his proposed identification with Jeremiah and then deals briefly with the question of the role played by the prophet.  He ends with some observations on the kind of contact that may rightfully be looked for between the ostraca and the book of Jeremiah.