Month: September 2021 (Page 2 of 2)

New Titles Tuesday is back after a brief hiatus with a selection of items added to the collection in the past week – including some great journals.

 A companion to the Brontës / edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Deborah Denenholz Morse. A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family.

A philosophy of the Christian religion / Nancey Murphy. Written with the needs of students encountering the philosophy of religion for the first time in mind, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental questions inherent in Christian faith. Murphy also provides tools for how to answer those questions.

 All our relations: finding the path forward / Tanya Talaga. Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonized nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health, income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services, leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism, which united Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island in solidarity.

 American philosophical quarterly.

Annual review of applied linguistics.

Annual review of clinical psychology.

 Bent / Martin Sherman. This play dramatizes the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.

Biblische Zeitschrift.One of the leading international journals in Biblical Studies. Contributions are published in German, English and French. The primary aim of the journal is to further the understanding of the Biblical texts, both of the Old and the New Testament. Articles focus on philological or text-critical issues, raise questions of historical and cultural contextualisation or concentrate on literary, hermeneutical or theological issues – to name only a few of the relevant aspects. Each volume also contains book reviews to help scholars as well as everyone interested in Biblical Studies to keep informed in the ever-developing field of study.

  Black drama in America: an anthology. Edited with a critical introd. by Darwin T. Turner.

Canadian journal of political science |Revue canadienne de science politique.

Childhood education.

Dead Sea discoveries: a journal of current research on the scrolls and related literature. An international journal dedicated to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated literature. The journal is primarily devoted to the discussion of the significance of the finds in the Judean Desert for Biblical Studies, and the study of early Jewish and Christian history. Dead Sea Discoveries has established itself as an invaluable resource for the subject both in the private collections of professors and scholars as well as in the major research libraries of the world.

 Do Jews, Christians, & Muslims worship the same God? / Jacob Neusner, Baruch A. Levine, Bruce D. Chilton, Vincent J. Cornell ; epilogue by Martin E. Marty.  The three faiths must find the will (politically, socially, and personally) to tolerate differences. Perhaps what can help us move forward as pluralistic people is a focus on the goal – peace with justice for all.

 Ethan Frome: a dramatization of Edith Wharton’s novel / by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, suggested by a dramatization by Lowell Barrington. This is a tragic 19th century love story. The story forcefully conveys Wharton’s abhorrence of society’s unbending standards of loyalty

Famous American plays of the 1920s. The Moon of the Caribees, What Price Glory, They Knew What They Wanted, Porgy, Street Scene, Holiday.

 Famous American plays of the 1930s. Here are five plays from the critical decade of the thirties-the decade of the Group Theatre and the Federal Theatre-when American drama challenged the depression years with a stirring force of protest and hope

Famous American plays of the 1940s. Selected and introduced by Henry Hewes. These five outstanding and now-classic plays of the 1940s are works profoundly influenced by World War II, a breaking away from tradition onstage, and an increasing concern with prejudice in America. The Skin of Our Teeth, the most important play of the war years, baffled audiences with its unconventional structure. Home of the Brave and All My Sons brought home the problem of the soldier returning to an America still filled with conflict. Lost in the Stars focused directly on South African racism and The Member of the Wedding brought a new intimacy between actor and audience to the stage.

 Fences: a play / by August Wilson ; introduction by Lloyd Richards. During the 1950’s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.

For the life of the world: theology that makes a difference / Miroslav Volf and Matthew Croasmun. Shows that a recovery of theology is vital to help us evaluate contested questions of value, articulate compelling visions of the good life, and answer the fundamental question of what makes life worth living.

Guy de Maupassant’s The necklace: a play in one act / adapted by Jay Reid Gould from the short story.

 Heart berries: a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot.  A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalised and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma.   In Heart Berries, Mailhot discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.

 Highway of Tears: a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls / Jessica McDiarmid. An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of “over-policing and under-protection.” Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region. Finally, it will link these cases with others found across Canada–estimated to number over 1,200–contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country and of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the missing and murdered.

 How the body of Christ talks: recovering the practice of conversation in the church / C. Christopher Smith. Smith, coauthor of the critically acclaimed and influential Slow Church, addresses why conversation has become such a challenge in the 21st century and argues that it is perhaps the most-needed spiritual practice of our individualistic age. Smith shows how church communities can be training hubs where we learn to talk with and listen to one another with kindness and compassion. The book explores how churches can initiate and sustain conversation, offers advice for working through seasons of conflict, suggests spiritual practices and dispositions that can foster conversation, and features stories from several congregations that are learning to practice conversation.

 If Jesus is Lord: loving our enemies in an age of violence / Ronald J. Sider. Sider provides a career capstone biblical-theological case for the view that Jesus calls his disciples to love, and never kill, their enemies.

Little murders: a comedy in two acts / by Jules Feiffer. Depressed New Yorker Alfred Chamberlain is engaged to perky, can-do Patsy Newquist. As their wedding day grows near, Alfred finds himself embroiled in an urban nightmare not the least of which is his fiance’s family, the possiblity of marriage without Faith, muggings and a sniper’s bullet

 Narrative apologetics: sharing the relevance, joy, and wonder of the Christian faith / Alister E. McGrath. In this groundbreaking book, scholar and author Alister McGrath lays a foundation for narrative apologetics. Exploring four major biblical narratives, enduring stories from our culture such as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, and personal narratives from people such as St. Augustine and Chuck Colson, McGrath shows how we can both understand and share our faith in terms of story.

 Now, how shall we be?: this cultural moment and our Christian response / Ken Badley, Amanda Ross. This discussion resource surveys major features of the church’s contemporary context, notes common responses to that context, and suggests postures that Christians should adopt if we wish to live well in this context, both as individual Christians and as the Body of Christ. Includes Resources for Leading Discussions.

 Old times / by Harold Pinter. Three characters, a man, his wife, and a female friend whom they have not seen for 20 years. Beneath the surface of taut, witty conversation lurks suggestions of darkness, until the present is overwhelmed with intimations of some frightening past.

Other places: three plays / by Harold Pinter. When this triptich of new plays by Harold Pinter opened in London in October 1982 it was celebrated by critics and audiences alike as an electrifying theatrical event that confirmed once again the author’s undisputed place in the forefront of today’s dramatists.

 Smash: an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s novel An unsocial socialist / by Jeffrey Hatcher.  The story centers on Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire Socialist who leaves his bride on their wedding day.

Stars in the morning sky: drama / by Alexander Galin ; translation by Elise Thoron. The play is concerned with a small group of prostitutes who have been evicted from Moscow just before the tourists arrive for the 1980 Olympics. They’ve been sent to some dilapidated barracks in a mental asylum. There is strong dramatic interaction among these “Olympic Girls”—in a sad love affair between one of them and an escaped patient, and in the demands of some offstage clients, which have violent repercussions. All the while the runner with the Olympic flame who will pass their barracks is getting closer.

 Strictly dishonorable and other lost American plays / selected and introduced by Richard Nelson. includes: Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges, The Racket by Bartlett Cormack, The Ghost of Yankee Doodle by Sidney Howard and A Slight Case of Murder by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon. 

The doctrine of triangles: a history of modern trigonometry / Glen Van Brummelen. TWU AUTHOR An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century through to the early twentieth century The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used in fields such as surveying and navigation.

 The Evangelical dictionary of world religions / H. Wayne House, editor. More than 70 scholars offer a thoroughly researched and comprehensive reference on Christianity, other world religions, and alternative religious views, including nearly 500 entries on movements, theological terms, and major historical figures.

The Georgian playhouse: actors, artists, audiences and architecture, 1730-1830 : [catalogue of an exhibition held at the] Hayward Gallery, 21 August to 12 October 1975

 The Greatest revue sketches / compiled and edited by Donald Oliver. A collection of comedy revue sketches from the Broadway stage features works by writers including George S. Kaufman, W. C. Fields, Moss Hart, Abe Burrows, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Mel Brooks

 The marrow of longing / Celeste Nazeli Snowber. Be swept into The Marrow of Longing. An exploration of Armenian heritage uncovers universal themes of longing and belonging.  Snowber’s deeply personal and interpersonal  book of poetry traces the inherited trauma of the Armenian genocide, lessons learned in kitchen conversations, fragmented memories of grandparents, parent’s love letters, prayers in the night, and bodily yearnings. “Fragments can hold a world,” she says. A descendant of genocide survivors, she explores relationships between longing, belonging and id ntity, uncovering universal that guide readers to what has shaped their own lives.

 The modern theatre / Robert W. Corrigan.

The new underground theatre / edited by Robert J. Schroeder.

The pastor in a secular age: ministry to people who no longer need a God / Andrew Root. Through an abundance of examples, this book explores how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age, and provides a new vision for pastoral ministry today.

 The torch song trilogy: three plays / by Harvey Fierstein ; with an introduction by James Leverett and a note by the author.

The Wizard of Oz: a play in three acts / dramatized by Elizabeth Fuller Chapman from the story by L. Frank Baum.

 They called me number one: secrets and survival at an Indian residential school / Bev Sellars ; [foreword by Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Bill Wilson) ; afterword by Wendy Wickwire]. One woman’s account of triumph over a childhood spent in an Indian residential school.

 Tolkien studies. Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J.R.R. Tolkien’s voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.

Vilhelm Moberg / by Gunnar Eidevall.

 Wenceslas Square / by Larry Shue. An American college professor’s personal confrontation with the Prague Spring of 1968 and its aftermath.

When we dead awaken: [and three other plays] / Newly translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer. The last play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen