New Titles Tuesday, October 1

In the past week 38 titles were added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

Burning bush 2.0: how pop culture replaced the prophet /Paul Asay.
This title examines of the ways God communicates with us through our media and entertainment streams. Further, the author explores how faith and God’s fingerprints mark movies and music, television and technology.

Culture shock: a biblical response to today’s most divisive issues /Chip Ingram.
This titles shows readers how they can bring light rather than heat to the most controversial and divisive issues of our day. Covering topics such as right and wrong, sex, homosexuality, abortion, politics, and the environment.

The day the revolution began: reconsidering the meaning of Jesus’s crucifixion /N.T. Wright.
This title challenges commonly held Christian beliefs and argues  that Jesus’ death on the cross was not only to absolve us of our sins; it was actually the beginning of a revolution commissioning the Christian faithful to a new vocation for restoring and reconciling all of God’s creation.

A history of Irish theatre, 1601-2000 /Christopher Morash.
This title traces an often forgotten history leading up to the Irish Literary Revival. The author creates a picture of the cultural contexts which produced the playwrights responsible for making Irish theatre’s worldwide historical and contemporary reputation.

Modern and contemporary Irish drama: backgrounds and criticism /edited by John P. Harrington.
This title is chronologically organized by playwright and includes prefaces, letters, journal entries, program notes, and interpretative essays for each play in the volume.

Oberammergau: art, tradition, and passion /Annette von Altenbockum.
This title is a guide to the Bavarian town, its history, and traditions shows why visitors come for the play and then stay for the culture. It is filled with stories and photographs of local inhabitants and their remarkable wood carvings and intricately painted frescoes.

Teachers learning together: lessons from collaborative action research in practice /editor, Ruth Dawson.
The book outlines the powerful and transformational learning that can occur when teachers work collaboratively on action research questions of their choosing. The themes examined include: teacher empowerment; impact of collaboration; teacher leadership; characteristics that enable inquiry; and mathematics as a content area for action research.

A traitor’s kiss: the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 /Fintan O’Toole.
This titles shows that Sheridan must be understood as an Irish writer and dissident, a complicated man who walked a thin line between success in London and extreme danger as a supporter of democratic reform and Irish independence.

What is dramaturgy? /Bert Cardullo, editor.
This title attempts to document, by way of articles, statements, and bibliographies, the dramaturg’s profession, which began with Lessing in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century and was instituted in the United States two hundred years later during the rise of the regional theatre movement.