New Titles Tuesday, November 16

Here is a selection of titles added to the collection in the past week.

 350 Jahre Passionsspiele Oberammergau: [offizieller Bildband]. Predominantly consists of scenes from productions by the Oberammergau Passionstheater in the jubilee year 1984.

American operetta: from H.M.S. Pinafore to Sweeney Todd /Gerald Bordman. This book provides an overview of American operetta. It discusses how operetta has been used as an art form and its influences and its construction. Includes Viennese operetta,

 The Book of Kells: an illustrated introduction to the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin /Bernard Meehan. This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament–a combination of high seriousness and humor. The text is by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin.

 The concept of just war in Judaism, Christianity and Islam /edited by Georges Tamer, Katja Thörner. The aim of this book is to explore the respective understanding of just war in each one of these three religions and to make their commonalities and differences discursively visible. In addition, it highlights and explains the significance of the topic to the present time.

Connecting with God: New Testament survey : student workbook /Timothy Foutz, Gary Gordon. See the New Testament as a unified text, rather than isolated facts! Six units cover the big picture of the New Testament, the Gospels, History, Letters from Paul, General Letters and Prophecy (Revelation). This workbook contains comprehension questions for passages of Scripture with application and critical thinking questions sprinkled throughout. S

 Discussions of modern American drama. Edited with an introd. by Walter J. Meserve.

Exploring white fragility: debating the effects of whiteness studies on America’s schools /Christopher Paslay. This book uses both existing research and anecdotal classroom observations to examine the effects whiteness studies is having on America’s schools–Provided by publisher.

 Famous American playhouses, 1900-1971[by] William C. Young.

 Heaven can indeed fall: the life of Willmoore Kendall /Christopher H. Owen Kendall was a man against the world, a maverick, an iconoclast, a man who never lost an argument or kept a friend. He co-founded National Review, helped turn the word liberal into an insult, and became the chief theorist of conservative populism. Understanding Kendall helps us understand America.

 Journeying with God: a survey of the Old Testament : teacher guide. Teacher information includes suggested Bible readers, an overview, authorship and date of the passage, message with outline, sidebar teaching suggestions, and student questions with the answers underneath for each book of the Bible. “Caution” sections tackle hard questions that require more in-depth answers, while extra-mile activities provide group and individual activities. Exams & exam answers; blackline masters, and a *CD-ROM with printable blackline masters of the maps, charts, and exams are included.

 Keeping the ancient way: aspects of the life and work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) /Robert Wilcher. Keeping the Ancient Way provides a wealth of up-to-date scholarship and close readings across the spectrum of the poetry and prose of a major seventeenth-century writer. Its ten chapters open up topics that are central to the understanding and appreciation of a poet whose life was turned upside down by civil war and religious persecution.

 The Ladislaw case /Imke Thormählen. The Ladislaw Case is a whodunnit as well as a gripping psychological drama involving the key characters of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. When Francis Courdroy is found dead of arsenic poisoning, his political rival Will Ladislaw is immediately the prime suspect. Courdroy had tried to blackmail him, and incriminating papers were found at the scene of the crime. Even if Will is innocent, he seems to be the key to the mystery. Will himself is convinced that someone is trying to harm him. The problem is that the only person he can think of who had any reason to wish him ill died years ago.

 Levels of organic life and the human: an introduction to philosophical anthropology /Helmuth Plessner ; introduction by J.M. Bernstein ; translated by Millay Hyatt. A modern classic, this account of embodiment now appears in English for the first time. Plessner’s account of how the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman will invigorate a range of current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.

#LiveFully: reimagining the greatest calling on earth /Brian Burchik. If we’re going to live fully, we must re-imagine our God-given calling on the earth.

 The making of biblical womanhood: how the subjugation of women became gospel truth /Beth Allison Barr. Biblical womanhood isn’t biblical, says historian Barr. It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments. This book moves the conversation about biblical womanhood beyond Greek grammar and into the realm of church history–ancient, medieval, and modern–to show that this belief is not divinely ordained but a product of human civilization that continues to creep into the church. Interweaving her story as a Baptist pastor’s wife, Barr sheds light on the #ChurchToo movement and abuse scandals in the broader evangelical world, helping readers understand why biblical womanhood is more about human power structures than the message of Christ.

Museum of the Bible. Volume 4, Acts through the book of Revelation: student edition /Editor-in-Chief: Jerry A. Pattengale, Ph.D., Indiana Wesleyan University. The Museum of the Bible Volume 4: Acts through the Book of Revelation Student Edition is part of the fourth level of the Museum of the Bible homeschool curriculum.  This volume includes 28 chapters that cover the narratives from the book of Acts and the rest of the New Testament writings. Chapters also discuss early New Testament manuscripts, the history of Christianity from its earliest days through to the modern missionary movement. Lessons also explore the impact of the Bible on family, human rights, architecture, and religious holidays.

 Pastor Hall, by Ernst Toller, translated from the German by Stephen Spender & Hugh Hunt,  and Blind man’s buff, by Ernst Toller and Denis Johnston..A play based on the true story of  Pastor Martin Niemöllerr who was taken to the Dachau concentration camp in the 1930s for questioning the Nazi Party.  An inspiring and moving real-life story of bravery in the face of certain death, this play will appeal to anyone interested in true-to-life accounts of pre-WWII Nazi Germany.

 Philosophy and the natural environment /edited by Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey. In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of the environment, and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications of these concepts. For environmentalists who are not philosophers, it will stimulate reflection on their own concepts and principles.

 Selected plays of Lady Gregory /chosen and with an introduction by Mary FitzGerald ; with a foreword by Sean O’Casey. This collection of thirteen plays, and her writings about them, is intended to show the breadth of her playwriting abilities, and her thoughts on the plays and their creation.

The sharing circle: stories about First Nations culture /text, Theresa Meuse-Dallien ; illustrations, Arthur Stevens.  The Sharing Circle is a collection of seven stories about First Nations culture and spiritual practices: The Eagle Feather, The Dream Catcher, The Sacred Herbs, The Talking Circle, The Medicine Wheel, The Drum, and The Medicine Pouch. Researched and written by Mi’kmaw children’s author Theresa Meuse-Dallien, and beautifully illustrated by Mi’kmaw illustrator Arthur Stevens, this book will engage and inform children of all ages.

 Smugglers, pirates, and patriots: free trade in the age of revolution /Tyson Reeder. Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult, revealing how merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates influenced contentious paths of independence in the United States and Brazil.

 The story of the Abbey Theatre, edited by Sean McCann; drawings by John Cullen Murphy.  Founded as the Irish Literary Theatre by a group of Irish visionaries and patriots, the Abbey Theatre is today one of the most famous in the world. Fire, exile and controversy – all have combined to end the Abbey. But, as this book tells for the first time , all have failed.

Unfinished business: memoirs, 1902-1988 /John Houseman. In Unfinished Business , Houseman distills his life into one astonishing volume, with fresh revelations throughout and a riveting new final chapter which brings the Houseman saga to a close.

 The year of our Lord 1943: Christian humanism in an age of crisis /Alan Jacobs. The Year of Our Lord 1943 tells the story of how five Christian intellectuals – Jacques Maritain, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, and Simone Weil – sought to provide a plan for the moral and spiritual renewal of the Western democracies in the post-World War II world.