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New Title Tuesday, October 22

October 22, 2019 /

In the past week 113 titles were added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information.

Constituting religion: Islam, liberal rights, and the Malaysian state /Tamir Moustafa.
This title documents using the case study of Malaysia how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics.

German operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940 /Derek B. Scott.
This title examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA and offers a historical and critical survey of these operettas and their music.

Gift exchange: the transnational history of a political idea /Grégoire Mallard.
This title adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis.

A hobbit, a wardrobe, and a great war: how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis rediscovered faith, friendship, and heroism in the cataclysm of 1914-1918 /Joseph Loconte.
Unlike a generation of young writers who lost faith in the God of the Bible, Tolkien and Lewis produced epic stories infused with the themes of guilt and grace, sorrow and consolation. This title explores their work in light of the spiritual crisis sparked by the conflict.

Infrastructure development and ape conservation /edited by Helga Rainer, Alison White and Annette Lanjouw.
This title discusses infrastructure development in Africa and Asia and how road networks, hydropower dams and ‘development corridors’ tend to have adverse effects on local populations, natural habitats and biodiversity.

The making of Japanese settler colonialism: Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 /Sidney Xu Lu.
This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific.

Oral democracy: deliberation in Indian village assemblies /Vijayendra Rao, Paromita Sanyal.
This title studies citizens’ voices in civic and political deliberations in India’s gram sabhas (village assemblies). By drawing out the varieties of speech apparent in citizen and state interactions, this title shows that citizens’ oral participation in development and governance can be improved by strengthening deliberative spaces through policy.

The peacebuilding puzzle: political order in post-conflict states /Naazneen H. Barma.
This title explains the disconnect between the formal institutional engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the governance outcomes that emerge in their aftermath.

The story of the circle of chalk: a drama from the old Chinese = [Hui Lan-chi] = Hui-Lan-ki /translated by Frances Hume; with illustrations by John Buckland-Wright.
This title traces the history of the story of Chalk Circle from its beginnings as a Yuan dynasty zaju by Li Qianfu through its European and American manifestations and back to its indigenous culture in the form of a Peking opera.

New Titles Tuesday, October 1

October 1, 2019 /

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.

New Titles Tuesday, Sept 10

September 10, 2019 /

In the past week 84 titles added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

All you need is love and other lies about marriage: a proven strategy to make your marriage work, from a leading couples therapist /John W. Jacobs.
This title examines why marriages today are incredibly fragile, and stresses that unless a couple understands what is making contemporary marriage so vulnerable to dissolution, the marriage is at risk.

Exclusion and embrace: a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation /Miroslav Volf.
This title proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.

Francis & Clare of Assisi: selected writings /foreword by Michael Morris; translation by Regis J. Armstrong and Ignatius C. Brady; edited by Emilie Griffin.
A collection of works from Francis and Clare of Assisi in a poignant presentation of the power of faith and simplicity that speaks powerfully to us in our hectic world.

Gods, heroes, and monsters: a sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern myths in translation /edited by Carolina López-Ruiz, The Ohio State University.
This anthology of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern myths stresses cultural continuities and comparisons, showing how Greek and Roman myths did not emerge in a vacuum but rather evolved from and interacted with their counterparts in the ancient Near East.

The Hutterian people: ritual and rebirth in the evolution of communal life /Peter H. Stephenson.
This title attempts to understand the role which ritual has played for five centuries in the evolution of the Hutterian culture, and a refinement of our understanding of ritual itself.

The illustrated letters of Jane Austen /selected and introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett.
An illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. This book is illustrated with portraits, facsimile letters, topographical engravings and fashion plates, all helping to bring to life the world Jane Austen inhabited.

On faith and reason /Thomas Aquinas; edited, with introductions, by Stephen F. Brown.
The selections included in this anthology, drawn from a variety of Aquinas’ works, focus on the roles of reason and faith in philosophy and theology. Expanding on these themes are Aquinas’ discussions of the nature and domain of theology.

Refugees and ambassadors: Mennonite missions in Brazil /by Victor Wiens.
This title examines the story of how Mennonites came to Brazil in 1930 through the lenses of history, theology, training and church growth.

Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The revolutions of the heavenly spheres /William T. Vollmann.
This title navigates Nicolaus Copernicus’ text “The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres”, and provides a fresh and enlightening explication of Copernicus, his book, and his time.

New Titles Tuesday, September 3

September 3, 2019 /

In the past week 21 titles added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

1434: the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance /Gavin Menzies.
This title argues that in the year 1434, China provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. Further, this book offers a historical reexamination with the excitement of an investigative adventure.

A room of one’s own /Virginia Woolf; foreword by Mary Gordon.
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.

Four modern philosophers: Carnap, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre /Arne Næss; translated by Alastair Hannay.
This title examines four philosophers who have shaped much of the contemporary logical, philosophical, and literary efforts, and includes a discussion of each philosopher (such as an account of his life, academic career, and known extra-scholarly influences).

Love deformed, love transformed: a Christian response to sexual addiction /David C. Bellusci.
Working within a Christian anthropology drawn from Thomas Aquinas, this title considers the morality of pleasure; how pleasure suggests an antinomy of satisfaction-dissatisfaction.

The Paideia program: an educational syllabus /Mortimer J. Adler; essays by the Paideia Group; preface and introduction by Mortimer J. Adler.
Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece. The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible.

West African kingdoms in the nineteenth century /edited with an introduction by Daryll Forde and P. M. Kaberry.
This title analyzes the political, social, and economic institutions of ten precolonial West Africian societies (Benin and Oyo in Nigeria, Dahomey, Maradi in Niger, Kom in Cameroun, Mossi in Upper Vola, Gonja and Ashanti in Ghana, the Mende country in Sierra Leone, and Kayor in Senegal.

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