Month: January 2019 (Page 2 of 2)

New year, new titles! Over the Christmas break library staff still managed to add 1737 print and electronic titles to the catalogue. Here is a small sample. Click on a title for more information

Ancient apocryphal gospels /Markus Bockmuehl.

Atonement and the new perspective: the God of Israel, covenant, and the cross /Stephen Burnhope.

Book of confessions: study edition revised : part 1 of the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) /[Presbyterian Church U.S.A.]. This revised study edition of the Book of Confessions contains the official creeds, catechisms, and confessional statements of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), including the new Confession of Belhar, which was added at the 222nd General Assembly (2016). Each text is introduced by an informative essay providing in-depth historical and theological background information. The book also includes two appendixes that explore the purpose of confessions. This study edition is ideal for seminarians and leaders looking for more extensive information about the history and theology of the confessions along with the official documents, all conveniently located in one volume. – back cover.

Case closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK /Gerald L. Posner.

Catholic Vietnam: a church from empire to nation /Charles Keith. Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. Much like the revolutionary ideologies and struggles in the name of the Vietnamese nation the revolution in Vietnamese Catholic life polarized the place of the new Church in post-colonial Vietnamese politics and society.

China’s great train: Beijing’s drive west and the campaign to remake Tibet /Abrahm Lustgarten.

A church with the soul of a nation: making and remaking the United Church of Canada /Phyllis D. Airhart.

A cruel and shocking act: the secret history of the Kennedy assassination /Philip Shenon. Investigative reporter and bestselling author Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character driven, dialogue rich, with facts and incidents that will stun and surprise.

Crossing the Rubicon: the borderlands of philosophy and theology /Emmanuel Falque ; translated by Reuben Shank. Falque presents a theological critique of French phenomenology, engaging Levinas, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Bonaventure, Scotus, Aquina and others. He advances a Catholic hermeneutic of the body and the voice, a phenomenology of believing, and a metaphysical movement from human finitude and contingency to conversion and transformation via the overlay of the God-man.

Divided by borders: Mexican migrants and their children /Joanna Dreby Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders.

Divine stories: Divyāvadāna. Part 2 /translated by Andy Rotman. With stories of wicked wives, patricidal princes, and shape-shifting serpents, Divine Stories offers a fascinating illustration of the law of karma–the truth that the power of good and bad deeds is never lost. These are some of the oldest Buddhist tales ever committed to writing, illuminating the culture of northern India in the early centuries of the common era and bringing to life the Buddhist values of generosity and faith. Rotman’s evocative translation combines accuracy with readability, with detailed editorial notes comparing readings in various Sanskrit, Pali, and Tibetan sources. Divine Stories is a major contribution to Indian and Buddhist studies.

Exalting Jesus in Isaiah /author, Andrew M. Davis.

Exalting Jesus in Proverbs /authors, Daniel L. Akin and Jonathan Akin ; series editors, David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida.

God & Churchill: how the great leader’s sense of divine destiny changed his troubled world and offers hope for ours /Jonathan Sandys & Wallace Henley.God and Churchill tells the remarkable story of how one man, armed with belief in his divine destiny, embarked on a course to save Christian civilization when Adolf Hitler and the forces of evil stood opposed. It traces the personal, political, and spiritual path of one of history’s greatest leaders and offers hope for our own violent and troubled times.More than a spiritual biography, God and Churchillis also a deeply personal quest. Written by Jonathan Sandys (Churchill’s great-grandson) and former White House staffer Wallace Henley, God and Churchillexplores Sandys’ intense search to discover his great-grandfather–and how it changed his own destiny forever.

The future of scholarly publishing: open access and the economics of digitisation /edited by Peter Weingart & Niels Taubert. The Future of Scholarly Publishing documents the materials and results of an interdisciplinary working group commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities to analyse the future of scholarly publishing and to make recommendations on how to respond to the challenges posed by these developments. This book will contribute to the transfer of ideas and perspectives, and allow for mutual learning about the current and future state of scientific publishing in different settings.

The genocidal gaze: from German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich /Elizabeth R. Baer. The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman–lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion–and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what Baer refers to as the “genocidal gaze,” an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists.

History of the Canadian National Railways [by] G. R. Stevens.

The invisible bridge: the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan /Rick Perlstein. The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan.

Inuit shamanism and Christianity: transitions and transformations in the twentieth century /Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten. Using both archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Laugrand and Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted “outside” elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the hunting ideology shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions. Inuit Shamanism and Christianity is particularly useful in distinguishing between the influence of Anglican, Catholic, and, more recently, Pentecostal and Evangelical movements and in delineating the ways in which Shamanism still influences modern life in Inuit communities.

Israeli cinema: identities in motion /edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg.

Literary obscenities: U.S. case law and naturalism after modernism /Erik M. Bachman. Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word’s power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.

The manager’s guide to simple, strategic, service-oriented business continuity /Rachelle Loyear, , Kristen Noakes-Fry, Editor.

Noli me tangere: on the raising of the body /Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Sarah Clift, Pascale-Anne Brault, and Michael Naas.

Our savage neighbors: how Indian war transformed early America /Peter Silver. In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver gives us an astonishingly vivid picture of eighteenth-century America. He straddles cultural history, political history, social history, and ethnohistory to offer groundbreaking insights into the seminal forces that continue to shape the United States today.

Palestine between politics and terror, 1945-1947 /Motti Golani. A fascinating look at the end of British rule in Palestine, through the eyes of its final high commissioner.

Prolegomena to charity /Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Stephen E. Lewis.

Restless souls: the making of American spirituality /Leigh Eric Schmidt. Tracing out the USA’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless Souls explores America’s abiding romance with spirituality as religion’s better half. Now in its second edition, including a new preface, Schmidt’s fascinating book provides a rich account of how this open-road spirituality developed in American culture in the first place.  

Signing the body poetic: essays on American Sign Language literature /H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, editors ; with a foreword by William C. Stokoe. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The book provides new insight into the history, culture, and creative achievements of the deaf community while expanding the scope of the visual and performing arts, literary criticism, and comparative literature.

Stories in red and black: pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs /Elizabeth Hill Boone. This book will be important reading not only for scholars of ancient Mexico, but also for avocational students of Pre-Columbian history who want to learn to read the Aztec and Mixtec codices and learn their stories and legends. Likewise, it offers food for thought to scholars in a variety of disciplines who think comparatively about histories and/or graphic systems of communication.

Suffering for science: reason and sacrifice in modern America /Rebecca M. Herzig. In this lucid and absorbing history, Herzig explores the rise of an ethic of “self-sacrifice” in American science.

The wedding feast of the Lamb: eros, the body, and the Eucharist /Emmanuel Falque ; translated by George Hughes.

Thomas D’Arcy McGee /David A. Wilson. A biography of Thomas D’arcy McGee, Irish Nationalist, Catholic spokesman, writer and politician and a father of Confederation.

Wargames: from gladiators to gigabytes /Martin van Creveld. Starting with the combat of David versus Goliath, passing through the gladiatorial games, tournaments, trials by battle, duels, and board games such as chess, all the way to the latest simulations and computer games, this unique book traces the subject in all its splendid richness. As it does so, it provides new and occasionally surprising insights into human nature.

Winston Churchill and his inner circle /by John Colville.

Zaprudered: the Kennedy assassination film in visual culture /Øyvind Vågnes.