Who Gave You the Epsilon?: And Other Tales of Mathematical History

Title: Who Gave You the Epsilon?: And Other Tales of Mathematical History

Author: Marlow Anderson, Robin Wilson, Victor J. Katz

Pages: 442

Call Number: QA21 .W358 2009

Synopsis: This book picks up the history of mathematics from where Sherlock Holmes in Babylon left it. The 40 articles of Who Gave You the Epsilon? continue the story of the development of mathematics into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The articles have all been published in the Mathematical Association of America journals and are in many cases written by distinguished mathematicians such as G. H. Hardy and B. van der Waerden. The articles are arranged thematically to show the development of analysis, geometry, algebra and number theory through this period of time. Each chapter is preceded by a foreword, giving the historical background and setting and the scene, and is followed by an afterword, reporting on advances in our historical knowledge and understanding since the articles first appeared. This book is ideal for anyone wanting to explore the history of mathematics. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

A Theory of Musical Narrative

Title: A Theory of Musical Narrative

Author: Byron Almén

Pages: 264

Call Number: ML3800 .A46 2008

Synopsis: Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical narrative, a careful delineation of the essential elements and preconditions of musical narrative organization, an eclectic analytical model applicable to a wide range of musical styles and repertoires, a diverse range of musical examples illustrating the range and applicability of the theoretical apparatus, a classification scheme of narrative types and subtypes reflecting conceptually distinct narrative strategies, a wide array of interpretive categories, and a sensitivity to the dependence of narrative interpretation on the cultural milieu of the work, its various audiences, and the analyst.A Theory of Musical Narrativeprovides both an excellent introduction to an increasingly important conceptual domain and a complex reassessment of its possibilities and characteristics. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

Welcome to the Aquarium: A Year in the Lives of Children

Title: Welcome to the Aquarium: A Year in the Lives of Children

Author: Julie Diamond

Pages: 272

Call Number:LB1733 .D53 2008

Synopsis: Told through the observant and wise eyes of a veteran kindergarten teacher, a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an urban elementary school classroom. The loss of veteran teachers with their deep knowledge of children, the successes and failures of different teaching models, and the constraints and possibilities of educational institutions affect schools everywhere. In Welcome to the Aquarium veteran educator Julie Diamond spells out what an experienced teacher knows and shows the magic a veteran teacher works in a classroom. Tracking the progress of one prototypical collection of kindergarteners as they become a class with a distinct personality of its own, Diamond guides us through the myriad details of classroom life: the organization, curriculum, and relationships that create a unique class culturea culture that, she eloquently argues, can represent the reality of our social ideals and values. For parents as well as new and even experienced teachers, Diamond lays out the logic behind the routines and rituals children need to thrive. Like Tracy Kidder'sAmong Schoolchildren,Welcome to the Aquariumoffers a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an elementary school classroom, but from the perspective of an expert insider and educator. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Title: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Author: Christopher McDougall

Pages: 336

Call Number: GV1061.23.M6 M33 2009

Synopsis: Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder. With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

God Reflected: Metaphors for Life

Title: God Reflected: Metaphors for Life

Author: Flora Keshgegian

Pages: 184

Call Number: BT103 .K463 2008

Synopsis: When a loved one dies, somebody inevitably says the death was God's will. The same claim is made when a person is cured of cancer. In a war, both sides often argue that they are carrying out God's will. Faithful people search for God's will for their lives, especially when they are faced with a decision, such as which job to take or whether to have another child. What is meant by God's will? How does God act? What is the character of the God whose will is expressed in and through our lives? This book answers these questions in relation to a broadly Christian perspective. Based on the traditional premise that everything we assert about God is metaphorical, this wonderfully written book presents a range of ways to imagine the nature of God and of God's power and will: from a personal but distant God who is fully in charge and in control, through more gentle and engaged images of God, and ultimately to a non-personal view of God as the energy for life in the universe. Each perspective offers distinct images for God and for the way in which God's will operates; each is assessed for its strengths and weaknesses. With deep insight and clear, inspiring writing, Keshgegian ultimately offers a way to imagine. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

Still at the Margins: Biblical Scholarship Fifteen Years after Voices from the Margin

Title: Still at the Margins: Biblical Scholarship Fifteen Years after Voices from the Margin

Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah

Pages: 176

Call Number: BS476 .S782 2008

Synopsis: Still at the Margins is a review of developments within biblical studies over the last fifteen years, since R. S. Sugirtharajah published his groundbreaking book, Voices from the Margins. This anthology is a unique publication in that it will bring together for the first time different marginal voices in one volume. There are volumes which look at specific marginal voices like black, and feminist biblical hermeneutics but there is no volume which addresses all the marginal voices. More importantly, the volume is written by the very experts who shaped the field, and now they get an opportunity to reflect on and try to move the agenda to the next stage. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

Black: The History of a Color

Title: Black: The History of a Color

Author: Michel Pastoureau

Pages: 216

Call Number: BF789.C7 P3813 2009

Synopsis: Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author ofBluenow tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, Michel Pastoureau tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury. Black took on new meanings for early modern Europeans as they began to print words and images in black and white, and to absorb Isaac Newton's announcement that black was no color after all. During the romantic period, black was melancholy's friend, while in the twentieth century black (and white) came to dominate art, print, photography, and film, and was finally restored to the status of a true color. For Pastoureau, the history of any color must be a social history first because it is societies that give colors everything from their changing names to their changing meanings--and black is exemplary in this regard. In dyes, fabrics, and clothing, and in painting and other art works, black has always been a forceful--and ambivalent--shaper of social, symbolic, and ideological meaning in European societies. With its striking design and compelling text,Blackwill delight anyone who is interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses

Title: Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses

Author: Rainer Diriwachter, Jaan Valsiner

Pages: 263

Call Number: BF202 .S77 2008

Synopsis: This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology? past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline? future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology. Diriwächter and Valsiner focus on developmental holistic psychology as advocated by the second school of Leipzig in Germany. Although largely neglected, this school of thought has provided some of the fundamental ideas necessary for a truly holistic approach in psychology.This volume includes Leibniz? dynamic holism and Ehrenfels?discussion about Gestalt qualities, which has generally been acknowledged as a major milestone in the formation of Gestalt psychology. Each chapter looks at the possible future of holistic psychology. Striving for the Whole contains several well-though out discussions on possible elaborations of holistic psychology by contrasting it with Ernst Boesch? cultural psychology, Pierre Janet? theory on emotions, and Jan Smuts holistic approach to personality theory. Discussions of holistic approaches in biology and evolutionary psychology, as well as a renewed look at Lloyd Morgan? comparative methodology, complete the volume.Striving for the Whole has been written by an international group of authors and will be of interest to students of the social sciences and intellectual history, and anyone who wants to dive deeper into holistic approaches that maintain their ties with empirical methodology. It is ideal for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in psychology. Retrieved from Books in Print, 12/9/09.

Olive Kitteridge

Title: Olive Kitteridge

Author: Elizabeth Strout

Pages: 304

Call Number: PS3569.T736 O5 2008

Synopsis: At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life--sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition--its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. Praise for Olive Kitteridge: Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout's unforgettable novel in stories--The Oprah Magazine. Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You'll never forget her. . . . [Elizabeth Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion. . . . Glorious, powerful stuff--USA Today. Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her--San Francisco Chronicle. Olive Kitteridge still lingers in memory like a treasured photograph--Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Rarely does a story collection pack such a gutsy emotional punch--Entertainment Weekly. Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force. . . . [She] makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air--The New Yorker. Retrived from Books in Print 11/18/09.

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Charles Ives Reconsidered

Title: Charles Ives Reconsidered

Author: Gayle Sherwood Magee

Pages: 216

Call Number: ML410.I94 M34 2008

Synopsis: Charles Ives Reconsideredre-examines a number of critical assumptions about the life and works of this significant American composer, drawing on many new sources to explore Ives's creative activities within broader historical, social, cultural, and musical perspectives. Gayle Sherwood Magee portrays Ives's life, career and posthumous legacy against the backdrop of his musical and social environments from the Gilded Age to the present. The book includes contemporary portraits of the composer, his peers, and his teachers, as seen through archival materials, published reviews, and both historical and modern critical assessments. Magee offers the first large-scale rethinking of Ives's musical development based on the controversial revised chronology of his music. Using Ives's own dictum that "the fabric of existence weaves itself whole" as a guide,Charles Ives Reconsideredoffers several new paths to understanding all of Ives's music as the integrated and cohesive work of a controversial composer who was very much a product of his time and place. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

Title: Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

Author: David Buckingham

Pages: 206

Call Number: HQ799.2.I5 Y67 2008

Synopsis: As young people today grow up in a world saturated with digital media, how does it affect their sense of self and others? As they define and redefine their identities through engagements with technology, what are the implications for their experiences as learners, citizens, consumers, and family and community members? This volume addresses the consequences of digital media use for young people's individual and social identities." "The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They look at the emergence of new genres and forms, from SMS and instant messaging to home pages, blogs, and social networking sites. They discuss such topics as "girl power" online, the generational digital divide, young people and mobile communication, and the appeal of the "digital publics" of MySpace, considering whether these media offer young people genuinely new forms of engagement, interaction, and communication. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

William Baxter Godbey-Itinerant Apostle of the Holiness Movement

Title: William Baxter Godbey-Itinerant Apostle of the Holiness Movement

Author: Barry E. Hamilton

Pages: 328

Call Number: BX7990.H62 H35 2000

Synopsis: Hamilton (librarian and lecturer in theological bibliography at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio) offers a critical recounting of the life and works of nineteenth-century millenarian and perfectionist W. B. Godbey. He specifically considers Godbey's contributions to the theology of the holiness movement, and the relationship of that movement to Methodism and Pentacostalism. The text includes long excerpts of Godbey's work, and several photographs in both color and black and white. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

A Story of Rhythm and Grace: What the Church Can Learn from Rock and Roll about Healing the Racial Divide

Title: A Story of Rhythm and Grace: What the Church Can Learn from Rock and Roll about Healing the Racial Divide

Author: Jimi Calhoun

Pages: 208

Call Number: BT734.2 .C24 2009

Synopsis: Mick Jagger, meet Jack Hayford. These are the worlds spanned by musician and pastor Jimi Calhoun, who uses his experiences in both arenas to help readers dissect racial relation issues. Before becoming a pastor, Calhoun played bass for major recording acts and performed on stage with prominent artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Etta James, Hank Williams Jr., John Lennon, and Elton John. He combines colorful illustrations from the rock-and-roll world with stories from his life as a pastor to show how he has succeeded as a bridge builder between cultures. As he interweaves personal stories with reflections on race, Calhoun challenges Christians to reach out for racial healing and reconciliation and offers hope for racial harmony in the church and in the broader culture.EXCERPTI've lived my life in two cities. One city, popular culture, has made racial tolerance as a very high priority in recent times. The other city, the primarily white evangelical community, has emphasized loving God and loving people as a core value and an indication of authentic faith. Therefore my worldview has been shaped by an ethos that says that loving relationships between human beings is not simply an altruistic dream or slogan, but an imperative. Sadly this was not always the case in both "cities," though it seems my skin color caused more disquiet within the evangelical community than in the world of popular culture. . . . That said, my experience as a pastor did also include some very positive experiences and so these words are but a gentle reminder to the church that I love and respect and have devoted my life to serve. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

Hearing a Film, Seeing a Sermon: Preaching and Popular Movies

Title: Hearing a Film, Seeing a Sermon: Preaching and Popular Movies

Author: Timothy B. Cargal

Pages: 174

Call Number: BV4235.M68 C37 2007

Synopsis: In Hearing a Film, Seeing a Sermon New Testament scholar and experienced pastor Timothy Cargal teaches pastors some of the basics of interpreting films, so that they can integrate insights about popular films into their preaching. Cargal helps trained preachers expand their skills to communicate more effectively about movies and to use these powerful conduits of popular culture in their weekly preaching. Recognizing the cultural power of films, Cargal explains how people see and think about movies and then demonstrates for pastors how this connects with the way parishioners comprehend Scripture and theology. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

Preaching to the Black Middle Class: Words of Challenge, Words of Hope

Title: Preaching to the Black Middle Class: Words of Challenge, Words of Hope

Author: Marvin A. McMickle

Pages: 160

Call Number: BR563.N4 M355 2000

Synopsis: Explores how to minister to and through the African American middle class. Includes sample sermons. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

God As Storyteller: Seeking Meaning in Biblical Narrative

Title: God As Storyteller: Seeking Meaning in Biblical Narrative

Author: John A. Beck

Pages: 0

Synopsis: John Beck honors the role of God as storyteller and discusses how God's inspired authors carefully selected presented events in ways that instilled them with meaning that remains life-changing thousands of years later. This book surveys the traditional categories of narrative criticism, noting how the design of scene, plot, characterization, narration, time, and wordplay shape the story we read." "Where a Bible story takes place is also a key part of its meaning, so Beck introduces and explores narrative geography as an important analytical tool, as he surveys well-known biblical passages - Jesus' speaking with the Samaritan woman at a well and the story of Jonah, among others. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

Title: What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

Author: Keith E. Stanovich

Pages: 328

Call Number: BF431 .S687 2009

Synopsis: Critics of intelligence testswriters such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Golemanhave argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this book, Keith E. Stanovich challenges this widely held assumption. nbsp; Stanovich shows that IQ tests (or their proxies, such as the SAT) are radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning. They fail to assess traits that most people associate with good thinking, skills such as judgment and decision making. Such cognitive skills are crucial to real-world behavior, affecting the way we plan, evaluate critical evidence, judge risks and probabilities, and make effective decisions. IQ tests fail to assess these skills of rational thought, even though they are measurable cognitive processes. Rational thought is just as important as intelligence, Stanovich argues, and it should be valued as highly as the abilities currently measured on intelligence tests. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating

Title: Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating

Author: L. Shannon Jung

Pages: 144

Call Number: BR115.N87 J86 2004

Synopsis: Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jung's gifts as theologian, ethicist, pastor, and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book, he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global, Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order of eating. He exposes Christians' complicity in the face of widespread eating disorders we experience personally, culturally, and globally, and he argues that these disorders can be reversed through faith, Christian practices, attention to habitual activities like cooking and gardening, the church's ministry, and transforming our cultural policies about food. Retrieved from Books in Print 11/18/09.

The Cambridge companion to Jung

Title: The Cambridge companion to Jung

Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath, Terence Dawson

Pages: 378

Call Number: BF109.J8 C36 1997

Synopsis: This new edition represents a wide-ranging and up to date critical introduction to the psychology of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis. Including two new essays and thorough revisions of most of the original chapters, it constitutes a radical new assessment of his legacy. Andrew Samuels's introduction succinctly articulates the challenges facing the Jungian community. The fifteen essays set Jung in the context of his own time, outline the current practice and theory of Jungian psychology and show how Jungians continue to question and evolve his thinking and apply it to aspects of modern culture and psychoanalysis. The volume includes a full chronology of Jung's life and work, extensively revised and up to date bibliographies, a case study and a glossary. It is an indispensable reference tool for both students and specialists, written by an international team of Jungian analysts and scholars from various disciplines. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Chance or Dance: An Evaluation of Design

Title: Chance or Dance: An Evaluation of Design

Author: Jimmy H. Davis, Harry L. Poe

Pages: 236

Call Number: BL240.3 .D37 2008

Synopsis: Chance or Dance An Evaluation of Design is a revised edition of Designer Universe (Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2002), which sold out in its first edition and has been out of print since 2005. The book, which provides an overview of design and clarification of the controversial Intelligent Design Movement, has been edited and expanded in light of recent developments in the ID debate. As the controversy over Intelligent Design has grown over the past few years, there has been a tendency to confuse all statements about design with the Intelligent Design Movement, and to confuse any affirmation of creation with Scientific Creationism, Davis and Poe point out. They begin with a brief historical perspective of the design argument and then examine the major breakthroughs in cosmology, math and physics, and chemistry and biology that have provided renewed speculation in design. They have added new material that shows that the idea of design is far more expansive than the ID movements version of it a discussion of Dawkins interpretation of genetic determinism; a chapter that explores the tendency since Darwin to assume that the presence of an observable cause excludes the possibility of divine involvement; and further reflections on wonder and awe that take into account the recent surge of interest in this area. Their study concludes with an argument for the correlation of faith and sensory experience and with the suggestion that science has been successful at describing processes, but has failed at explaining origins. Chance or Dance is ideal for students and general readers interested in understanding how modern science gives evidence for the creation of nature by the God of the Bible. -- Retrieved from Books in Print 9/21/09.

Acts and Ethics

Title: Acts and Ethics

Author: Thomas E. Philips

Pages: 176

Call Number: BS2625.52 .P45 2005

Synopsis: This volume, the fruit of the sessions on the Book of Acts at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, in San Antonio, Texas, in November 2004, contains these papers: Robert C. Tannehill, 'Do the Ethics of Acts Include the Ethical Teaching in Luke?' C. Kavin Rowe, 'Authority and Community: Lukan Dominium in Acts' F. Scott Spencer, 'Wise Up, Young Man: The Moral Vision of Saul and Other "Neaniskoi" in Acts' Stanley E. Porter, 'The Genre of Acts and the Ethics of Discourse' Robert L. Brawley, 'Identity and the Aim of an Accomplished Life in Acts' Matthew L. Skinner, 'The Importance of Paul's Custody in Acts 21-28 for Determining Luke's Sociopolitical Vision' Thomas E. Phillips, 'Paul as Role Model in Acts' Richard Paul Thompson, '"What Do You Think You Are Doing, Paul?" Synagogues, Accusations, and Ethics in Paul's Ministry in Acts 16-21' Pamela Kinlaw, '"Devout and God-Fearing": Cornelius, Pacifism, and Just War -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy

Title: A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy

Author: George Lodge, Craig WIlson

Pages: 198

Call Number: HD60.5.D44 L63 2006

Synopsis: "Extreme poverty threatens the very underpinnings of our ever-shrinking world. George Lodge and Craig Wilson argue that corporations must lead the fight against global poverty. Their idea of a World Development Corporation will provoke heated discussion-and, I hope, constructive action-in corporate boardrooms and the broader international development community."--Peter D. Bell, President and CEO, CARE""A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty" is a fresh and original approach to the economics and ethics of globalization. Invoking the crisis in corporate legitimacy, the authors of this stimulating book argue persuasively that the reduction of world poverty would restore legitimacy to multinational corporate life. Along the way, readers will absorb much interesting nformation about the global state of play and the presentation of a prospective solution."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning historian"In an attempt to reduce global poverty, some focus on rock concerts, others on macroeconomic theory, others build ever larger bureaucracies. Lodge and Wilson do not hesitate to dissect, deconstruct, and devour ideologies, policies, and institutions that have promised a lot and delivered very little. They provide an alternative answer, one that is clear, hard-headed, obvious, and mostly ignored; business is and will remain the driving part of the equation. If you are interested in results, this is an entertaining and smart book. If you are a theoretician you are likely to become increasingly unhappy as you confront a great deal of common sense delivered with passion and humor."--Juan Enriguez, President of Synthetic Genomics and author of "As The Future CatchesYou""George Lodge and Craig Wilson offer a fascinating review of the fast changing role of big business and its relations with the international community and civil society. The authors comprehensively outline the increasingly complex relationships that multinationals must manage in the face of increased demands to do more than just make profit."--Frannie L?autier, Vice President, World Bank Institute"A very well written book on an important subject. It will reach a broad audience."-- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

The Life and Ministry of William Booth

Title: The Life and Ministry of William Booth

Author: Roger Lancelyn Green

Pages: 304

Call Number: BX9743.B7 G74 2005

Synopsis: Church History/TheologyThroughout his life, William Booth sought to minister to the least, the last, and the lost. Booth, together with his wife Catherine,?nbsp;founded and organized the world-wide?nbsp;mission that is still known as?nbsp;The Salvation Army.?nbsp;Booth's?nbsp;focus on the poor and marginalized comes directly from his theological convictions and his relationship with the Methodist movement in Great Britain, particularly his understanding of John Wesley's doctrine of sanctification and emphasis on social activism.?nbsp;This grounding was the matrix from which Booth?nbsp;transformed his world."Dr. Roger J. Green has written a bold, insightful biography of a remarkable man whose legacy continues today in?nbsp;more than?nbsp;one hundred countries of the world. This portrait of an imperfect but dedicated leader will illumine readers and awaken them to a new understanding of William Booth as a thoroughly biblical Christian and adaptable pioneer with a heart that burned for God."Lt. Colonel Marlene Chase, Editor in Chief, Literary Secretary, The Salvation Army National Headquarters"Roger Green brilliantly shows how the life of William Booth was shaped by: (1) the early Methodists in England and their commitment to both personal and social holiness, (2) his own poverty,?nbsp;and (3) the organizational genius of John Wesley. This is a valuable book?nbsp;that underscores the link between The Salvation Army and the worldwide Methodist family.?nbsp;It can only deepen our kinship and strengthen our resolve to more closely work together!"George H. Freeman,?nbsp; General Secretary, World Methodist Council"This biographical study by Roger Green is a wonderfully textured and theologically sensitive portrait of General William Booth. May it?nbsp;enable?nbsp; readers to recognize and?nbsp;emulate Booth's synthesis of vital Christian piety and active social service." ?nbsp;Paul W. Chilcote, Professor of Historical Theology & Wesleyan Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida"Roger Green gives us remarkable and unprecedented insight into the life?nbsp;of the founder of The Salvation Army, William Booth.?nbsp;His scholarship carefully documents?nbsp;the powerful influence of John Wesley and Wesley's Methodist legacy?nbsp;on General Booth's?nbsp;life, theology, and world-wide ministry.?nbsp;Green?nbsp;gives us a balanced and provocative look into the strengths and?nbsp;flaws of this very human soldier-saint, illuminating the?nbsp;Wesleyan DNA of?nbsp;Booth's legacy,?nbsp;The Salvation Army."Jonathan S. Raymond, Ph.D., President and Vice Chancellor, William & Catherine Booth College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaRoger J. Green is Professor and Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He is co-editor of Word and Deed: A Journal of Salvation Army Theology and Ministry . Dr.Green is also a member of the Salvation Army International Doctrine Council. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities

Title: Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities

Author: Aldert Vrij

Pages: 504

Synopsis: Why do people lie? Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie? How can lies be detected?Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of deception to date. This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of deception research and discusses the working and efficacy of the most commonly used lie detection tools, including: Behaviour Analysis Interview Statement Validity Assessment Reality Monitoring Scientific Content Analysis Several different polygraph tests Voice Stress Analysis Thermal Imaging EEG-P300 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)All three aspects of deception are covered: nonverbal cues, speech and written statement analysis and (neuro)physiological responses. The most common errors in lie detection are discussed and practical guidelines are provided to help professionals improve their lie detection skills.Detecting Lies and Deceit is a must-have resource for students, academics and professionals in psychology, criminology, policing and law. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning

Title: The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning

Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson, Kay Brimijoin, Lane Narvaez

Pages: 239

Call Number: LB1031 .T652 2008

Synopsis: Administrators and teachers alike will find viable ideas and answers to questions as leaders at two schools share milestones and vignettes from their real-life experiences in converting entire faculties to this dynamic approach to teaching and learning. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

Title: Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders

Author: Julie Meltzer, Judith L. Irvin, Melinda Dukes

Pages: 268

Call Number: LB1632 .I785 2007

Synopsis: Even students who are successful readers and writers in the early grades can struggle with demanding texts and writing assignments in secondary schools. But with the leadership plan and action steps in this book, you can continue to build on students? literacy skills and intervene with students who falter. Explore ways to connect literacy instruction to adolescents? needs, interests, and dispositions. Discover how to use assessment data to guide your literacy program. And examine ways to reallocate resources and leadership roles to support a school- or districtwide literacy program. The authors? comprehensive, school-proven model for improvement includes: * Strategies to integrate literacy and learning across the content areas * Targeted interventions for students who are struggling the most * Support structures that involve teachers, administrators, parents, and community members in your literacy program * Examples of school environments that sustain literacy development -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Title: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Author: Maryanne Wolf

Pages: 320

Call Number: QP408 .W64 2007

Synopsis: A remarkable tour de force by a world-renown neuroscientist explains that human beings were never born to read; this invention changed the very organization of man's brain and altered the intellectual evolution of the species. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis

Title: Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis

Author: Harold S. Luft

Pages: 336

Call Number: RA395.A3 L82 2008

Synopsis: Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need, and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care.In Total Cure, Hal Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American. SecureChoice is a plan that restructures payment for medical care, harnessing the flexibility and responsiveness of the market by aligning the incentives of clinicians, hospitals, and insurers with those of the patient. It uses the accountability of government to ensure transparency, competition, and equity. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse

Title: Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse

Author: Steven Levenkron, Abby Levenkron

Pages: 288

Call Number: RC569.5.A28 L48 2007

Synopsis: "The most practical, down to earth, thoughtful, and sensitive book written on women's childhood sexual abuse."--Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD From the psychotherapist who offered groundbreaking work on self-mutilation ("Cutting") comes a landmark examination of the psychology of sexual abuse. "Stolen Tomorrows" encourages the 20 percent of women who have been abused to think about, talk about, and seek help for what has been their secret shame. In addition to giving therapists and other helpers an empathic insight, "Stolen Tomorrows" will enable the survivor to recognize herself in both her personal history and her current struggle to overcome the legacy of abuse. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/21/09.

Understanding Controversial Therapies for Children with Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to

Title: Understanding Controversial Therapies for Children with Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Author: Lisa A. Kurtz

Pages: 192

Call Number: RJ496.L4 K87 2008

Synopsis: "Offering a balanced overview of complementary and alternative therapies, this book is a useful guide for parents of children with autism, ADD or other learning disabilities." "The book covers a wide variety of mind-body interventions and manipulative techniques, as well as energy therapies, biologically-based methods, and alternative medical systems. For each approach, the author provides a detailed description of what the treatment involves, which professionals will be working with the child, and an explanation of the rationale behind the therapy. She also offers advice on who to approach for treatment, and includes a list of recommended resources and useful contacts for further information." "This accessible book is a valuable source of information for parents and professionals working with children who have disabilities that impact their learning or behavior."-- Retrieved from Books In Print 9/21/09.

Pop Goes the Church: Should the Church Engage Pop Culture?

Title: Pop Goes the Church: Should the Church Engage Pop Culture?

Author: Tim Stevens

Pages: 256

Call Number: BR115.C8 S73 2008

Synopsis:
Whether you're a regular attender, a leader, or have yet to step foot in a church, you may have questions about church that aren't being answered. How can the church remain relevant while communicating the unchanging integrity of God's truth? Author Tim Stevens makes an inspiring case for leveraging pop culture to reach out to people in the language of their lives. He offers a new perspective that gives relevance and impact to the church by using popular culture-meeting people in the real world with words, sounds and images that speak to them. He encourages us to get out of our comfort zones and look people in the eyes, meeting them wherever they are, relating to their problems and society's challenges-even celebrating pop culture, where there are exciting signs of spiritual seeking. Pop Goes the Church will open your mind to church in a way that breaks down walls, engages the culture and speaks to a generation that needs to hear good news. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09

Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company

Title: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company

Author: George S. Day, Paul J.H. Schoemaker

Pages: 248

Call Number: HF5415.13 .D369 2006

Synopsis: Strategy. --retrieved from Books in Print 9/7/09

God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology

Title: God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology

Author: Jurgen Moltmann

Pages: 304

Call Number: BR115.W6 M45413 1999

Synopsis: A powerful and provocative case for Christian political involvement. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09

Radical Grace: How Belief in a Benevolent God Benefits Our Health

Title: Radical Grace: How Belief in a Benevolent God Benefits Our Health

Author: J. Harold Ellens

Pages: 219

Call Number: BT732 .E453 2007

Synopsis: The esteemed editor who brought is the acclaimed set The Destructive Power of Religion, 4 volumes, turns his attention here to a similarly powerful yet positive side of religion - how our concept of God can fuel healthy body and mind. This book contends all health - mental and physical - is shaped, for good or ill, by our spiritual, theological and psychological notions about the nature of God, and by the way we form an outlook on life as a result of these notions. Across history, a large percentage of notions people have about God are that He is a threat, and among what Ellens describes as "sick Gods created through pathological beliefs," or "sick Gods that make sick people." But Ellens grounds his brighter perspective in this text on God as a source of unconditional grace and goodwill, then illuminates the affect that this perspective has on people who have incorporated it into their minds and lives. Ellens shows how people with firm faith in God as one of "radical grace" themselves develop psychologically strong and healthy. His offering here of psychology interfacing theology is reminiscent of Carl Rogers teaching on unconditional positive regard, and its ability to heal suffering persons. All readers can benefit by understanding this to inspire spiritual and psychological healing whether for ourselves, family, friends or aiming to help clients in counseling or therapy, he explains. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09.

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management

Title: Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management

Author: Scott Berkun

Pages: 392

Call Number: HD69.P75 B47 2008

Synopsis: In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere. Based on his nine years of experience as a program manager for Internet Explorer, and lead program manager for Windows and MSN, Berkun explains to technical and non-technical readers alike what it takes to get through a large software or web development project. Making Things Happen doesn't cite specific methods, but focuses on philosophy and strategy. Unlike other project management books, Berkun offers personal essays in a comfortable style and easy tone that emulate the relationship of a wise project manager who gives good, entertaining and passionate advice to those who ask. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09.

Is There a Right to Remain Silent?: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11

Title: Is There a Right to Remain Silent?: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Pages: 232

Call Number: KF9668 .D47 2008

Synopsis: The right to remain silent, guaranteed by the famed Fifth Amendment case, Miranda v. Arizona, is perhaps one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture. Yet despite its ubiquity, there is widespread misunderstanding about the right and the protections promised under the Fifth Amendment. In Is There a Right to Remain Silent? renowned legal scholar and bestselling author Alan Dershowitz reveals precisely why our Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being reshaped, limited, and in some cases revoked in the wake of 9/11. As security concerns have heightened, law enforcement has increasingly turned its attention from punishing to preventing crime. Dershowitz argues that recent Supreme Court decisions have opened the door to coercive interrogations-even when they amount to torture-if they are undertaken to prevent a crime, especially a terrorist attack, and so long as the fruits of such interrogations are not introduced into evidence at the criminal trial of the coerced person. In effect, the court has given a green light to all preventive interrogation methods. By deftly tracing the evolution of the Fifth Amendment from its inception in the Bill of Rights to the present day, where national security is the nation's first priority, Dershowitz puts forward a bold reinterpretation of the Fifth Amendment for the post-9/11 world. As the world we live in changes from a "deterrent state" to the heightened vigilance of today's "preventative state," our construction, he argues, must also change. We must develop a jurisprudence that will contain both substantive and procedural rules for all actions taken by government officials in order to prevent harmful conduct-including terrorism. Timely, provocative, and incisively written, Is There a Right to Remain Silent? presents an absorbing look at one of our most essential constitutional rights at one of the most critical moments in recent American history. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09.

Schools That Change: Evidence-Based Improvement and Effective Change Leadership

Title: Schools That Change: Evidence-Based Improvement and Effective Change Leadership

Author: Lew Smith

Pages: 298

Call Number: LB2822.82 .S645 2008

Synopsis: """Schools That Change "integrates equal parts passion and intellect. A well-crafted contribution to the literature on successful reform and a sophisticated and nuanced book that should be read with care.""???From the Foreword by Michael Fullan ""Schools have shown themselves to be gifted and talented at resisting and subverting change. Lew Smith hands us the keys to the storehouse of insights about how schools can change???really change.""???Roland Barth, Founder, The Principals' Center, Harvard UniversityAuthor, "Lessons Learned" "Learn from schools that have made meaningful, positive, and lasting changes!" With an in-depth look at eight schools across the nation???winners of the National School Change Awards???this illuminating resource shows how schools can transform themselves from low-performing into exemplary national status. Qualitative research, specific examples, and portraiture offer an inside view of the day-to-day dynamics of change in schools. This insightful book examines questions such as: Why are some schools able to change while other schools cannot?Why are people challenged by change?What is the best way to measure change?What professional characteristics must principals develop to bring about significant and sustainable change? Learn how your school can realize substantive change that supports a culture of learning, teacher development, and enhanced student achievement.-- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09

Helping Children with Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals

Title: Helping Children with Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals

Author: Bryna Siegel

Call Number: LC4717 .S54 2003

Pages: 498

Synopsis:
Bryna Siegel gives parents of autistic children what they need most: hope. Her first book, The World of the Autistic Child, became an instant classic, illuminating the inaccessible minds of afflicted children. Now she offers an equally insightful, thoroughly practical guide to treating the learning differences (which she sees as 'autistic learning disabilities') associated with this heartbreaking disorder. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09.

Fire from the Rock

Title: Fire from the Rock

Author: Sharon M. Draper

Call Number: PZ7.D78325 Fi 2007

Pages: 240

Synopsis: Sylvia is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in the fall of 1957, whether people like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension in the town ignites into flame. When the smoke clears, she sees clearly that nothing is going to stop the change from coming. It is up to her generation to make it happen, in as many different ways as there are colors in the world. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09.

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Title: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Author: Leonard Susskind

Call Number: QC174.12 .S896 2008

Pages: 480

Synopsis: At the beginning of the 21 st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory--the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But mysteries remain. One of the biggest involved black holes. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever. For three decades, Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem. Finally, in 2004, Hawking conceded. THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind-blowing science that finally won out, and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues the world--this catalog, your home, your breakfast, you--is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/7/09.

Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice

Title: Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice

Author: Verna Benner Carson (Editor), Harold G. Koenig (Editor)

Call Number: RT85.2 .C37 2008

Pages: 416

Synopsis: In this highly anticipated revised edition of Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice, co-editors Verna Benner Carson and Harold G. Koenig offer a thorough update to this seminal work on spirituality and health in the nursing field. The revised edition builds on the foundations laid in the first, providing perspectives on new research in the spiritual dimensions of nursing care, applying nursing theory to spiritual care, and addressing the spiritual needs of both nurses and patients. It also examines ethical issues in nursing and the impact of legal decisions on health care issues. Contributors address issues of spiritual development across the entire lifespan-from the spiritual needs and influences of the very young to the elderly, including those facing chronic illnesses or death. The volume takes a similarly broad approach in addressing spiritual issues from a variety of faith backgrounds-including both theistic and pantheistic religious practices-so that nurses can be prepared to meet the needs of patients from various religious traditions. Second to chaplains, nurses are the major providers of spiritual care, and no other book will serve their needs like Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice. -- Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/2/09.

Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

Title: Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

Author: Leonard S. Marcus

Call Number: Z480.C48 M37 2008

Pages: 416

Synopsis:
What should children read? As preeminent children's literature authority Leonard S. Marcus shows incisively, that's the three-hundred-year-old question that created a rambunctious children's book publishing scene in colonial times. And it's the urgent issue that went on to fuel the transformation of twentieth-century children's book publishing from a genteel backwater to big business.Marcus delivers a provocative look at the fierce turf wars fought among the pioneering editors, progressive educators, and librarians-most of them women- throughout the twentieth century. From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hatto Cormier's The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty analysis of the pivotal books that transformed children's book publishing, and brings alive the revealing synergy between books like these and the national mood of their times.--Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/02/09.

Understanding and Treating Depression: Ways to Find Hope and Help

Title: Understanding and Treating Depression: Ways to Find Hope and Help
Author: Rudy Nydegger
Call Number: RC537 .N93 2008
Pages: 240





Synopsis: In any given year, 10 percent of the population - or about 21 million people - suffer from a depressive disorder. Most do not seek professional help although the great majority could find relief with treatment. And that not only causes hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic costs annually from work slowdown and accidents to illnesses and suicides, the wider picture is that depression hurts not only the person at issue, but millions more who are family members or other loved ones. The problem has become so pervasive yet often ignored that a major pharmaceutical company has launched commercials focused on informing the public that "Depression hurts, everywhere," and can surface not only as psychological aches but also physical pains and illness. This book offers a one-stop source that explains the history, increasing incidence, diagnosis, costs, treatment, and many faces of depression across ages, gender, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic group, and sexual identity. Every chapter includes vignettes and interviews to illustrate the topic and main points. Treatment approaches and success rates are discussed, as are the meanings and myths applied to this common disorder. Current and emerging research, and treatments on the horizon, are also spotlighted.--Retrieved from Books in Print, 9/2/09.

Moon Landing--Astronautics

Title: Moon Landing
Author: Richard Platt & David Hawcock
Call Number: TL789.8.U6A5777 2008 Pages: Pop-up

ISBN: 978-0-7636-4046-0

Review: "This book is packed with amazing details about rockets, mission planning, space suits, and more!"--Cover back.

Beyond the Zonules of Zinn--Human Anatomy

Title: Beyond the Zonules of Zinn
Author: David Bainbridge
Call Number: QM451B35 2008
ISBN: 978-0-674-02610-0
Pages: 338 pgs., with index.

Review:
From Publishers Weekly
In this geographical tour of the nervous system, readers will find an entertaining and enlightening history of neuroscience and a look at the anatomy of the brain. A clinical anatomist at Cambridge University, Bainbridge (The X in Sex) has had ample opportunity to examine the brain and ponder its origins and function—as well as the many strange and marvelous names of its parts, labeled long before anyone knew what they did. The Zonules of Zinn—a name from an ancient map, from a souk, from another galaxy—are small fibers attached to the lens of the eye that adjust it for seeing at different distances. Bainbridge discusses the history and function of each name: in addition to hillocks and pyramids are the Almonds (amygdalae), part of the emotional response system, and the locus coeruleus, or sky-blue place, involved in alertness and stress. Your brain even has its own Area 51, thanks to a German neuroanatomist whose system of numbering different regions of the cerebral cortex is still used today. Bainbridge's tour also includes short discussions of nervous system disorders like multiple sclerosis and epilepsy. The book's relaxed pace, interesting tangents and broad coverage make this book eminently suitable for anyone curious about the brain. 30 b&w illus.
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Hidden on the Mountain--World History/Asia

Title: Hidden on the Mountain
Authors: Deborah Durland Desaix and Karen Gray Ruelle
Call Number: DS135F89
ISBN: 0823419282
Pgs.: 275

Review:
From Booklist
In this inspiring photo-essay, the authors tell an amazing rescue story about a Nazi occupied Protestant community in south-central France that pulled together to save several thousand Jewish children from the Holocaust. Kathy Kacer's Hiding Edith (2006) tells a similar story from the viewpoint of one child. More detailed, this account is based on extensive research and interviews with 30 survivors and rescuers, who recall in diary-style entries how it was. Many readers will focus on the dramatic overviews and commentaries, but the personal details, accompanied by black-and-white photos, are unforgettable, too: living with fear; waiting for a letter ("Why haven't Mama and Pap sent for me?"); escaping to Switzerland. The research is a big part of the book, and the authors have provided extensive documentation as well as time lines, maps, bibliographies, and source notes that can help researchers find out more. Readers slightly younger and older than the target audience will find this compelling, too. Pair it with Carol Matas' novelization of the story, Greater than Angels (1998). Hazel Rochman
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The Great Emergence--Christianity

Title: The Great Emergence
Author: Phyllis Tickle
Call Number: BR121.3T53 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8010-1313-3
Pages: 172 with index


Review: From Booklist
*Starred Review* Long an astute observer of religion, Tickle examines a phenomenon she refers to as the Great Emergence, a once-every-500-years trend within Christianity, in which a new and “more vital” form of the religion emerges. She believes such a development is happening now. To make her case, she examines the complex history of Christianity from Copernicus’ heretical idea that the earth circled the sun to the sixteenth-century Great Reformation to the Catholic Counter-Reformation. She also examines the effect on religion of great nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural and social upheavals including those wrought by Darwin’s Origin of Species; Faraday’s field theory, which became foundational for the technology we all take for granted today; and the theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, and Joseph Campbell. She explores the impact that the rise of the automobile has on Christian worship and church service while also making brief forays into the origins of Pentecostalism, the influence of Karl Marx, Buddhism, Alcoholics Anonymous, recreational drug use, and the changing roles of women and, hence, the notion of the traditional family, in society since World War II. Somehow all these diverse strands come together in a seamless fabric that, at fewer than 200 pages, is small but full of big ideas, a remarkable achievement of synthesis and thoughtful reflections. --June Sawyers

Unaccustomed Earth--American Literature

Title: Unaccustomed Earth
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Number: PS3562.A316U53 2008

Pages: 333 pgs.
ISBN: 978-0-307-26573-9

Review: From Booklist
*Starred Review* Following her thoughtful first novel, The Namesake (2003), which has been made into a meditative film, Lahiri returns to the short story, the form that earned her the Pulitzer Prize for her debut, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). The tight arc of a story is perfect for Lahiri’s keen sense of life’s abrupt and painful changes, and her avid eye for telling details. This collection’s five powerful stories and haunting triptych of tales about the fates of two Bengali families in America map the perplexing hidden forces that pull families asunder and undermine marriages. “Unaccustomed Earth,” the title story, dramatizes the divide between immigrant parents and their American-raised children, and is the first of several scathing inquiries into the lack of deep-down understanding and trust in a marriage between a Bengali and non-Bengali. An inspired miniaturist, Lahiri creates a lexicon of loaded images. A hole burned in a dressy skirt suggests vulnerability and the need to accept imperfection. Van Eyck’s famous painting, The Arnolfini Marriage, is a template for a tale contrasting marital expectations with the reality of familial relationships. A collapsed balloon is emblematic of failure. A lost bangle is shorthand for disaster. Lahiri’s emotionally and culturally astute short stories (ideal for people with limited time for pleasure reading and a hunger for serious literature) are surprising, aesthetically marvelous, and shaped by a sure and provocative sense of inevitability. --Donna Seaman