In the past week 56 titles added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

Art 21 : art in the 21st century /essays by Thelma Golden.
Companion book to Art for the Twenty-First Century, the first broadcast series on PBS television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States today.

Digital filmmaking /Mike Figgis.
Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital filmmaking technology so as to get the very best from it. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process–from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement.

A history of Christianity in Korea since 1945 /edited by the Society of the History of Christianity in Korea ; translated by Moon Jeong-II.
This book provides a holistic picture on the history of Korean Christianity after the 1945 liberation. The editor follows the trials and growth of Korean Christianity not only in terms of church structure, modes of faith and theology, but also in terms of relationships between church and society.

Manufacturing consent : Noam Chomsky and the media :  the companion book to the award-winning film by Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar / edited by Mark Achbar.
This companion volume explores the breadth of Chomsky’s thought, from his pioneering work in linguistics, to his radical politics, to his analysis of professional sports. A complete transcript of the film is complemented by key excerpts from the writings, interviews and correspondence of Chomsky.

Neurolinguistics : an introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders /John C.L. Ingram.
This textbook introduces the central topics in neurolinguistics: speech recognition, word and sentence structure, meaning, and discourse. The book provides a balanced discussion of key areas of debate such as modularity and the ‘language areas’ of the brain, ‘connectionist’ versus ‘symbolic’ modelling of language processing, and the nature of linguistic and mental representations.

The portable Hannah Arendt /edited with an introduction by Peter Baehr.
Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century. This anthology of her writings includes selections from her major works, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters.

Rivers in time : the search for clues to earth’s mass extinctions /Peter D. Ward.
Written by a paleontologist, this book presents the author’s investigations into the history of life and death on Earth through a series of expeditions from the Philippine Sea to the Queen Charlotte Islands and to the Karoo desert in southern Africa. The author offers powerful proof that if radical measures are not taken to protect the biodiversity of this planet, much of life as we know it may not survive.

A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship and survival in World War Two /Caroline Moorehead.
Drawing on interviews with survivors and their families, on German, French and Polish archives, and on documents held by WW2 resistance organizations, this book tells the story of French women resisters survival in a detention camp. This book is a portrait of ordinary people, of bravery and endurance, and of the particular qualities of female friendship.

When parents die : learning to live with the loss of a parent /Rebecca Abrams.
An indispensable aid to the bereaved and the many professionals who work with them, this book is written in a clear and sympathetic style and speaks to bereaved children of all ages. The author draws on her personal and professional understandings of parental loss, as well as the experiences of many other adults, teenagers and children, to provide the reader with an honest, compassionate and insightful exploration of the experience of losing a parent.

Why don’t students like school? : a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom /Daniel T. Willingham.
This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.