Friday, August 2, 2013

Coming Soon Fall Books

Although our new additions slowed down over the summer, we have not stopped adding books .  Please stop in and look at the new book display.

In the meantime, check out the libguide New Books Pages for a selection of the books added this past year.
http://roberts.libguides.com/Newbks

New Fall Books will start again the last week of August.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Books P Literature


This will be the final new books announcement for this Spring 2013.  However, since we will continue placing newly processed and cataloged books at  the display area, please stop in.  New books lists will resume with the Fall Semester.

Title The Event of Literature
Author Terry Eagleton
Publisher Yale
Call No. PN45.E24 2012
Synopsis

Title The Past is a moving picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film
Author Janna Jones
Publisher University Press of Florida
Call No. PN1995.9.H5 J64 2012
Synopsis

Title Reporting News and Religion
Author Judith M. Buddenbaum
Publisher Iowa State
Call No. PN4888.R4 B83 1998
Synopsis

Title Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral education
Author Margaret Olofson Thickstun
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No. PR3562.T47 2007
Synopsis

Title C. S . Lewis, Poetry and the Great War, 1914-1918
Author John Bremer
Publisher Lexington Books
Call No. PR6023.E926 Z588 2012
Synopsis

Title Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of  Literary Rivalry
Author Joseph Fruscione
Publisher Ohio State
Call No. PS138.F78 2012
Synopsis

Title Hemingway and Africa
Author Mriam B. Mandel, Ed.
Publisher Camden House
Call No. PS3515.E37 Z617913 2011
Synopsis

Title Twenty Thousand Mornings : An autobiography
Author John Joseph Mathews
Publisher Oklahoma
Call No. PS3525.A8477 Z46 2012
Synopsis

Title The Betsy-Tacy Treasury
Author Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher Harper Perennial
Call No. Curriculum Center PZ7.L9561 Be 2011
Synopsis

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Books M - Music

Title The Flute Book 3rd. ed.
Author Nancy Toff
Publisher Oxford
Call No. ML935.T65 2012
Synopsis

Title The Trombone in the Renaissance
Author Stewart Carter
Publisher Pendragon Press
Call No. ML965.C37 2012
Synopsis

Title American Art Song and Amereican Poetry, 2nd ed.
Author Ruth C. Friedberg & Robin Fisher
Publisher Scarecrpw
Call No. ML2811.F75 2012
Synopsis

Title The Beautiful Music all around Us
Author Stephen Wade
Publisher Illinois
Call No. ML355.2.W34 2012
Synopsis

Title Community Music in Theory and Practice
Author Lee Higgins
Publisher Oxford
Call No. ML3916.H56 2012
Synopsis

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Books BS-BT Bible & Theology

Title People's Bible
Author Derek Wilson
Publisher Lion
Call No. BS186.W44 2010
Synopsis

Title What the Bible Really Tells Us
Author T. J. Wray
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No. BS511.3.W73 2011
Synopsis

Title Conquering with Christ: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation
Author Ian A. Fair
Publisher ACU Press
Call No. BS2825.53.F35 2011
Synopsis

Title Justification
Author N. T. Wright
Publisher IVP
Call No. BT764.3.P573 W75 2009
Synopsis

Title The Good & Evil Serpent
Author James H. Charlesworth
Publisher Yale
Call No. BT982.C45 2010
Synopsis - Table of Contents
Physiology Undergirds Symbology: Thirty-two Virtually Unique Characteristics of a Snake 32
3. Realia and Iconography: The Symbolism of the Serpent in the Ancient Near East (and the Religion of Israel) 58
4. The Perception That the Serpent Is a Positive Symbol in Greek and Roman Literature 125
5. The Full Spectrum of the Meaning of Serpent Symbolism in the Fertile Crescent 188
6. Serpent Symbolism in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) 269
7. The Symbolism of the Serpent in the Gospel of John 352
Conclusion 416
Epilogue 421
Appendixes
I: Biblical Hebrew Terms for Various Types of Snakes 425
II: A Lexicon of Words for ¿Serpent¿ in Ancient Greek 452
III: Anguine Iconography and Symbolism at Pompeii 461
IV: Notes on Serpent Symbolism in the Early Christian Centuries

Monday, April 29, 2013

New Books: L (Education Topics)

Title The individual, society, and education: A history of American educational ideas
Author Clarence J. Karier
Publisher Illinois
Call No. LA205.K3 1986
Synopsis

Title Our Schools & Our Future...Are we still at risk?
Author Paul E. Peterson, Ed.
Publisher  Hoover Pres
Call No.  LA217.2.O87 2003
Synopsis

Title Rethinking Homework: Best Practices that support Diverse Needs
Author Cathy Vatterott
Publisher ASCD
Call No. LB1048.V37 2009
Synopsis

Title Preschool in three cultures revisited
Author Joseph Tobin, Hey Hsueh, and Mayumi Karasawa
Publisher Chicago
Call No. LB1140.25.Je T6132 2011
Synopsis

Title Transformations at the edge of the world
Author Ronald J. Morgan & Cynthia Toms Smedley. Eds.
Publisher Abilene Christian University Press
Call No.  LB2376.T63 2010
Synopsis

Title Soul Care: Christian Faith and Academic Administration
Author Harold Heie and Mrk Sargent, Eds.
Publisher Abilene Christian Uiversity Press
Call No.  LC484.S676 2012
Synopsis
Sample chapters
ch. 10. Strategic planning at a Christian university / Dale Soden and Kathleen Storm
ch. 11. Relationality in academic administration / Carla D. Sanderson
ch. 12. Evaluation of faculty performance and fit / Marie S. Morris
ch. 13. Encouragers wanted / Seth Crowell

Friday, April 26, 2013

Books B-BH

Title The Pursuits of Wisdom
Author John M. Cooper
Publisher Princeton
Call No. B111.C67 2012
Synopsis

Title Charles Sanders Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature
Author Leon J. Niemoczynski
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
Call No.  B945.N54 2011
Synopsis

Title Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza
Author Moira Gatens, Ed.
Publisher Penn State Press
Call No. B3998.F38 2009
Synopsis

Title Why Does the World Exist?
Author Jim Holt
Publisher Liveright Publishing
Call No. BD511.H65 2012
Synopsis

Title Friendships in Childhood & Adolescence
Author Catherine L. Bagwell & Michelle E. Schmidt
Publisher Guilford
Call No. BF723.F68 B34 2011
Synopsis

Title Introducting Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
Author Darren Hudson Hick
Publisher Continuum
Call No. BH201.H53 2012
Synopsis

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

New Books Books: BR Christianity

Title The Unity of Christ
Author Christopher A. Beeley
Publisher Yale
Call No. BR67.B377 2012
Synopsis

Title Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context
Author Atsuuoshi Fujiwara
Publisher Princeton
Call No. BR115.C8 F34
Synopsis

Title Exposing Myths about Christianity: A Guide to Answering 145 Viral Lies and Legends
Author Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher   InterVarsity Press
Call No. BR135.R37 2012
Synopsis
"Examines a wide array of common misperceptions, characterizations, stereotypes, caricatures and outright myths about Christianity that circulate heavily within today's society, and are even believed by many Christians. In a succinct and engaging manner, Russell discusses these errors and provides thoughtful, even-handed, carefully researched and sharp-witted responses--Cf. publisher description."
Title The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
Author Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher Yale University Press
Call No. BR162.3.W55 2012
Synopsis

Title Evangelical Calvinism
Author Myk Habets & Bobby Grow, Eds.
Publisher Pickwick
Call No. BR1640.E854 2012
Synopsis

Title Philip's Daughters
Author Estrelda Alexander & Amos Yong, Eds.
Publisher Princeton
Call No. BR1644.P5 2009
Synopsis

Title Basil of Caesarea
Author Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
Publisher Cascade
Call No.  BR1720.B3 R23 2012
Synopsis

Monday, April 22, 2013

Books HM-HV

Title The Measure of Civilization
Author Ian Morris
Publisher Princeton
Call No. HM706.M67 2013
Synopsis


Title European Foundations of the Welfare State
Author Franz-Xaver Kaurmann
Publisher Berghahn Books
Call No. HN373.K38 2012
Synopsis

Title Where the Aunts Are: Family, Feminism, & Kinship in popular culture
Author Patricia J. Sotorin & Laura L. Ellingson
Publisher Baylor University Press
Call No.  HQ759.94.S68 2013
Synopsis

Title Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Author Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Publisher University ofNew Mexico
Call No.  HT1052.5.S36 2011
Synopsis

Title Deaf World : A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook
Author Lois Bragg, Ed.
Publisher New York University
Call No. HV2545.D43 2001
Synopsis

Title Managing Criminal Justice Organizations
Author Richard R. E. Kania & Richards P. Davis
Publisher Elsevier
Call No. HV7419.K36 2012
Synopsis

Title Why law enforcement organizations fail
Author Patrick O'Hara
Publisher Carolina Academic Press
Call No. HV8141.O53 2012
Synopsis

Friday, April 19, 2013

New Library Books: Q - QA

Title  Ignorance: How it drives science
Author Stuart Firestein
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  Q175.32.K45 F57 2012
Synopsis

Title Great Jobs for Math Majors, 2nd ed.
Author Stephen E. Lamberg & Ruth J. DeColis
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Call No. QA10.5.L36 2006
Synopsis

Title The Universe and the Teacup: The mathematics of truth and beauty
Author K. C. Cole
Publisher Harcourt
Call No. QA36.C65 1999
Synopsis

Title Math for theFrightened
Author Colin Pask
Publisher Peometheus
Call No. QA41.P37 2011
Synopsis

Title Turing's Cathedral
Author George Dyson
Publisher Pantheon
Call No.  QA76.17.D97 2012
Synopsis

Title The Millennium Problems
Author Keith Devlin
Publisher Basic Books
Call No. QA94.D47 2002
Synopsis

Monday, April 15, 2013

New Books Literature Part 2 PR & PS

Title Nine lives of William Shakespeare
Author Graham Holderness
Publisher Continuum
Call No. PR2894.H595 2011
Synopsis

Title Emma
Author Jane Austen; George Justice, Ed.
Publisher Norton
Call No. PR4034.E5 2012
Synopsis
A Norton Critical Edition

Title Wordsworth's revisitings
Author Stephen Gill
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PR5881.G553 2011
Synopsis

Title Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period
Author Drew Lopenzina
Publisher SUNY
Call No. PS153.I52 L67 2012
Synopsis

Title Once upon a Time in a Different World
Author Neal A. Lester
Publisher Routledge
Call No. PS153.N5 L45 2011
Synopsis

Title How did Poetry Survive?
Author John Timberman Newcomg
Publisher Illinois
Call No. PS310.M57 N4882012
Synopsis


Title Quick, Said the Bird
Author Richard Swogg
Publisher Iowa
Call No. PS323.5.S95 2012
Synopsis

Title Downwardly Mobile
Author Lawson, Andrew
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PS374.R47 L39 2012
Synopsis

Title Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War
Author Thomas E. Barden, ed.
Publisher Virginia
Call No.  PS3537.T3234 2012
Synopsis

Title Evangellyfish: a novel
Author Douglas Wilson
Publisher Canonpress
Call No.  PS3623.I57375 E93 2012
Synopsis

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

New Books in Languages and Literature P --PQ Part I

Title Painting Borges
Author Garcia, Jorge
PublisherSUNY
Call No. P53.G64 2012
Synopsis

Title Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Author Simon Goldhill
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  PA4417.G65 2012
Synopsis

Title The Golden Ass
Author Apuleius
Publisher Yale
Call No. PA6209.M3 R83 2011
Synopsis

Title The Brothers Grimm
Author Jack Zipes
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No. PD63.Z57 2002
Synopsis

Title The Big Screen
Author David Thomson
Publisher FSG
Call No.  PN1993.5.U6 T463 2012
Synopsis

Title The Inferno
Author Dante Alighieri
Publisher Graywolf Press
Call No. PQ4315.2.B36 2012
Synopsis

Title Sonnets and Shorter Poems
Author Petrarch
Publisher Harvard
Call No.  PQ4496.E23 S58 2012
Synopsis


Monday, April 8, 2013

New Books for Art


Title The Civil War and American Art
Author Eleanor Jonees Harvey
Publisher Smithsonian American Art Museum
Call No.  Oversize N6516.H37 2012
Synopsis

Title Chagall
Author
Publisher Museo Thyssen-Bprmemosza
Call No.  N6999.C46 A4 2012
Synopsis

Title The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
Author  John W. Dower, Anne Nishimura Morse, Jacqueline M. Atkins & Frederic A. Sharf
Publisher  MFA publications
Call No. N6355.5.M64 B75 2012
Synopsis

Title The Art of Kate Greenaway
Author Ina Taylor
Publisher Pelican
Call No.  NC978.5.G7 T37 1991
Synopsis

Title Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
Author Ivan Brunetti
Publisher Yale
Call No. NC1320.B85 2011
Synopsis

Title Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
Author Barbara Dayer Gallati, ed.
Publisher New York Historical Society
Call No. ND1451.5.M35 2011
Synopsis

Title Leaving My Tracks: Jim Dine Printmaker
Author Clifford S. Ackley & Patrick Murphy
Publisher MFA Publications
Call No.NE539.D5 A4 2012
Synopsis


Title Surrealism in Latin America
Author Dawn Ades, Rita Eder & Graciala Speranza, Eds.
Publisher Getty
Call No. NX501.5.S86 2012
Synopsis

Friday, April 5, 2013

New Books in Education

Title The Shaping of American Higher Education
Author Arthur M. Cohen & Carrie B. Kisker, Ed.
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No. LA226.C66 2010
Synopsis

Title Saving Higher Education
Author Martin J. Bradley, Robert H. Seidman, & Steven R. Painchaud
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No.  LA227.4B72 2012
Synopsis

Title The Innovative University
Author Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No. LA227.4.C525 2011
Synopsis

Title College: What it was, is, and should be
Author Andrew Delbanco
Publisher Princeton
Call No.  LA227.4.D455 2012
Synopsis

Title Republic of Noise
Author Diana Senechel
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No.  LB1027.23.S46 2012
Synopsis

Title Beyond Leveled books
Author Karen Szymusiak, Franki Sibberson, & Lisa Koch, Eds.
Publisher Stenhouse
Call No. LB1673.45.S99 2008
Synopsis

Title Leading the Learner-Centered Campus
Author Michael Harris & Roxanne Cullen
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No. LB2341.H324 2010
Synopsis

Title Defending religious diversity in public schools
Author Nathan R. Kollar
Publisher Praeger
Call No.  LC111.K65 2009
Synopsis

Title Using picture storybooks to teache character education
Author Susan Hall
Publisher Oryx
Call No.  LC311.M33 2000
Synopsis

Title No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
Author Douglas Jacobsen & Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  LC383.J33 2012
Synopsis

Title Teaching in the Terrordome
Author Heather Kirn Lanier
Publisher University of Missouri Press
Call No. LC5133.B35 L36 2012
Synopsis

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

New Books American History

Title Some of my best friends are black
Author Tanner Colby
Publisher Viking
Call No. E184.A1 C5376 2012
Synopsis

Title Discovering Black America
Author Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher Abrams
Call No. Curr Center E185.T198 2012
Synopsis

Title For Liberty and Equality
Author Alexander Tsesis
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  E221.T74 2012
Synopsis

Title The Weight of Vengeance
Author Troy Bickham
Publisher Oxford
Call No. E357.B53 2012
Synopsis

Title Help me to find my people
Author Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher University of North Carolina Press
Call No.  E443.W63 2012
Synopsis

Title Lincoln and thge Negro
Author Benjamin Quarles
Publisher Da Capo
Call No.  E457.2.Q3 1990
Synopsis

Title Lincoln, Inc.
Author Jackie Hogan
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No. E457.2.H69 2011
Synopsis

Title The Lincoln Assassination
Author Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds & Frank J. Williams, eds.
Publisher Fordham
Call No.  E457.5.L735 2012
Synopsis

Title The essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence
Author Orville Vernon Burton, ed.
Publisher Hill and Wang
Call No. E457.92.2009c
Synopsis

Title Terrible Swift Sword
Author Joseph Wheelan
Publisher Da Capo
Call No. E467.1.S54 W54 2012
Synopsis

Title African American Faces of the Civil War
Author Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. E540.N3 C64 2012
Synopsis

Title Bush's Wars
Author Terry H. Anderson
Publisher Oxford
Call No. E902.A5745 2011
Synopsis

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

New Books in World History

Title European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century
Author Thomas F. X. Noble & John Van Engen, eds.
Publisher University of Notre Dame
Call No. D201.8.E87 2012
Synopsis

Title Robspierre: A Revolutionary Life
Author Peter McPhee
Publisher Yale
Call No.  DC146.R6 M38 2012
Synopsis

Title Ghost on the Throne
Author James Romm
Publisher Knopf
Call No. DF 235.4.R66 2011
Synopsis

Title The Romans and their World: A short introduction
Author Brian Campbell
Publisher Yale
Call No. DG209.C28 2011
Synopsis

Title Savonarola
Author Donald Weinstein
Publisher Yale
Call No. DG737.97.W43 2011
Synopsis

Title A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism
Author Phyllis Goldstein
Publisher Facing History and Ourselves
Call No. DS145.G652 2012
Synopsis

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

New Books Music

Title The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music
Author Alison McQueen Tokita & David W. Hughes, ed.
Publisher Ashgate
Call No. ML340.A84 2006
Synopsis

Title Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year
Author Hugh McDonald
Publisher Boydell Press
Call No.  ML390.M16 2012
Synopsis

Title The Ashgate Research companion to Henry Purcell
Author Rebecca Herissone, ed.
Publisher Ashgate
Call No. ML 410.P93 A83 2012
Synopsis

Title A History of Singing
Author John Potter & Neil Sorrell
Publisher Cambridge
Call No. ML1400.P67 2012
Synopsis

Title Song Means: Analysing and interpreting recorded popular song
Author Allan F. Moore
Publisher Ashgate
Call No.  MT146.M66 2012
Synopsis

Monday, March 25, 2013

Books Religion and Philosophy

Title The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Author Christopher Shields
Publisher Oxford
Call No. B485.O94 2012
Synopsis

Title Ethics and War
Author Steven P. Lee
Publisher Cambridge
Call No. B105.W3 L44 2012
Synopsis

Title The  Color of Christ
Author David R. Swartz
Publisher UNC Press
Call No.  BR515.B59 2012
Synopsis

Title The Sacrednesss of  Human Life
Author David P. Gushee
Publisher Eerdmans
Call No. BT 701.3.G87 2013
Synopsis

Title The Hole in our Holiness
Author Kevin DeYoung
Publisher Crossway
Call No.  BV4509.5.D49 2012
Synopsis


Monday, March 18, 2013

Books - BL - BT



Title Faith and Reason: Their Roles in Religious and Secular Life
Author Donald A. Crosby
Publisher State University of New York Press
Call No. BL51.C698 2011
Synopsis

Title Handbook of Religion and Health, 2nd ed.
Author Harold G. Koenig, Dana E. King, and Verna Benner Carson, eds.
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  BL65.M4 K597 2012
Synopsis



Title Are Muslims Distinctive: A Look at the Evidence
Author M. Steven Fish
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  BP173.25.F57 2011
Synopsis

Title The Juvenilization of American Christianity
Author Thomas E. Bergler
Publisher Zondervan
Call No.  BR526.B455 2012
Synopsis

Title Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
Author David R. Swartz
Publisher Penn
Call No. BR1642.U6 S93 2012
Synopsis

Title Teaching History & Historical Geography of Bible Lands: A syllabus
Author Anson F. Rainey
Publisher Carta
Call No.  BS632.R35 2011
Synopsis

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Books - H-HF Business; Leadership, Economy



Title Breaking Through Culture Shock
Author Elisabeth Marx
Publisher Nicholas Brealey Pub.
Call No. HB58.7.M3747 1999
Synopsis

Title Engineering the Financial Crisis
Author Jeffrey Friedman & Wladimar Kraus
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Call No.  HB3717 2008 .F75 2011
Synopsis

Title The Green @ Work: 100 Ways you can make the environment your business
Author Kim Mckay
Publisher National Geographic
Call No. HD30.255.M37 2008
Synopsis

Title What Matters Now
Author Gary Hamel
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No.  HD31.H253 2012
Synopsis

Title The Nature of Leadership
Author David V. Day & John Antonakis, eds.
Publisher Sage
Call No. HD 57.7.N377 2012
Synopsis


Title Leading Teams
Author Harvard Business School
Publisher Harvard
Call No. HD66.L436 2006
Synopsis

Title The People's Pension: The Struggle to defend Social Security since Reagan
Author Eric Laursen
Publisher  AK Press
Call No. HD7125.L38 2012
Synopsis


Title Winning New Business
Author Richard Denny
Publisher Kogan Pagw
Call No.  HF5438.25.D463 2010
Synopsis

Title The Effective Presentation: Talk Your Way to Success
Author Asha Kaul
Publisher Response Books
Call No.  HF5718.22.K38 2005
Synopsis

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Books D World History

Title  The Birth of the Past
Author Zachary Sayre Schiffman
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. D16.8.S268 2011
Synopsis

Title Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History
Author Jean Shepherd Hamm
Publisher Gale Press
Call No.  D113.H235 2010
Synopsis

Title Thinking Medieval: An introduction to the study of the Middle Ages
Author Marcus Bull
Publisher Palgrave/Macmillan
Call No. D116.B95 2005
Synopsis

Title Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Author Robert Gerwarth
Publisher  Yale
Call No. DD247.H42 G47 2012
Synopsis

Title The Historians of Ancient Rome. 3rd ed.
Author Ronald Mellor
Publisher Routledge
Call No. DG207.H57 2013
Synopsis

Title Sacred Killing: The Archeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East
Author Anne Porter & Glenn M. Schwartz, ed.
Publisher Eisenbrauns
Call No.  DS 56.S13 2012
Synopsis

Title The Modern History of Iraq
Author Phebe Marr
Publisher Westview Press
Call No.  DS79.65.M33 2012
Synopsis

Title The Making of the Raj: India under the East India Company
Author Ian St. John
Publisher Praeger
Call No.  DS465.S75 2012
Synopsis

Title Ming China 1368-1644
Author John W/ Dardess
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No.  DS753.D37 2012
Synopsis

Title Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
Author Matt K. Matsuda
Publisher Cambridge
Call No.  DU28.3.M34 2012
Synopsis

Monday, March 11, 2013

Books - Communication - P-PN

Title Media Theories & Approaches
Author Mark Balnaves, Stephanie Hemelrik, donald & Brian Schoesmith
Publisher Palgrave
Call No.  P90.B273 2009
Synopsis

Title Rethinking Communication: Keywords in Communication Research
Author Stuart Allan, Ed.
Publisher Hampton Press
Call No. P91.R442 2010
Synopsis

Title The Role of the Reader
Author Umberto Eco
Publisher Indiana University Press
Call No.  P99.E28 1984
Synopsis

Title The Ultimate Writing Guide for Students
Author Mignon Fogarty
Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
Call No. PE1112 .F6127 2011b
Synopsis

Title Egyptian Hierogplyphs for Complete Beginners
Author Bill Manley
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Call No. PJ1097.M25 2012
Synopsis

Title The Routledge Concise History of World Literature
Author Theo D'Haen
Publisher Routledge
Call No. PN523.H34 2012
Synopsis

Title Voice and the Young Actor
Author Rena Cook
Publisher Methuen
Call No.  PN4162.C66 2012
Synopsis

Title The Digital Journalist's Handbook
Author Mark S. Luckie
Publisher
Call No.  PN4729.3.L83 2010
Synopsis

Title Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death
Author Susan D. Moeller
Publisher Routledge
Call No.  PN4888.D57 M64 1999
Synopsis

Title BadIsland
Author Doug TenNapel
Publisher Gra[jox
Call No. PN6727.T295 B33 2011
Synopsis

Title A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
Author Zeina Abirached
Publisher Graphic Universe
Call No. PN6790.I43 A7513 2012
Synopsis

Monday, March 4, 2013

End of the Library: S-Z Books

Title Noodlers in Missouri
Author Mary Grigsby
Publisher Truman State University Press
Call No. SH691.C35 G74 2012
Synopsis

Title Nuclear Energy: What Everyone needs to know
Author Charles D. Ferguson
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  TK9145.F47 2011
Synopsis

Title Tomorrow's energy
Author Peter Hoffman
Publisher MIT Press
Call No.  TP359.H3 H633 2012
Synopsis

Title Pictures and Progress
Author Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, eds.
Publisher Duke
Call No. TR23.P53 2012
Synopsis

Title The World History of Animation
Author Stephen Cavalier
Publisher University of California Press
Call No.  TR897.5.C38 2011
Synopsis

Title Soldiers to Citizens
Author Suzanne Mettler
Publisher Oxford
Call No. UB357.M475 2005
Synopsis

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Books: G is for--- Geography, Anthropology, Sports

Title Essential Do's and Taboos: The complete guide to International Business and Leisure Travel
Author Roger E. Axtell
Publisher Wiley
Call No.  G156.5. .B86 A98 2007
Synopsis

Title The Value of the Species
Author Edward L. Mccord
Publisher Yale
Call No.  GE42.M378 2012
Synopsis

Title The Environment in World History
Author Stephen Mosley
Publisher Routledge
Call No. GF13.M67 2010
Synopsis

Title The Media Ecosystem
Author Antonio Lopez
Publisher Evolver Editions
Call No. GF 21.L66 2012
Synopsis


Title Masters of the Planet: The search for our Human Origins
Author Ian Tattersall
Publisher Macmillan
Call No. GN281.T364 2012
Synopsis

Title The Irresistible Fairy Tale
Author Jack Zipes
Publisher Princeton
Call No. GR550.Z59 2012
Synopsis

Title The Rise of Gridiron University
Author Brian M. Ingrassia
Publisher Kansas
Call No. GV959.5.I64 2012
Synopsis

Monday, February 18, 2013

BP - BX Other Religions & Denominations

Title Puritan Islam: The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World
Author Barry A. Vann
Publisher Prometheus Books
Call No.  BP 163.V36 2011
Synopsis

Title Islamism and Islam
Author Bassam Tibi
Publisher Yale
Call No. BP 173.5.T534 2012
Synopsis

Title Christianities in Asia
Author Peter C. Phan
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Call No.  BR1066.C45 2011
Synopsis

Title Between Heaven and Earth: Christian Perspectives on Environmental Protection
Author Fred Van Dyke
Publisher Praeger
Call No.  BT695.5 .V35 2010
Synopsis

Title The War on Heresy
Author R. I. Moore
Publisher Belknap-Harvard
Call No.  BT1319.M67 2012
Synopsis

Title Center Church
Author Timothy Keller
Publisher Zondervan
Call No. BV2653.K45 2012
Synopsis


Title Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement
Author Alister Chapman
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  BX6199.S8344 C43 2012
Synopsis

Friday, February 15, 2013

Books H-HF Business

Title Meet you in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America
Author  Lee Standiford
Publisher Crown
Call No.  HD9519.C2 S83 2005
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Title Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power
Author Steve Coll
Publisher Penguin Press
Call No. HD9569.E95 C65 2012
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Title  The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
Author Margaret Mary & Carol S. Pearson
Publisher McGraw Hill
Call No.  HF5415.15.M334 2001
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Title The Workforce Scorecard
Author Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, & Richard W. Beatty
Publisher Harvard
Call No. HF5549.5.P35 H87 2005
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Title Transferring Learning to Behavior: Using the Four Levels to Improve Performance
Author Donald L. Kirkpatrick & James D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher Barrett-Koehler Publishers
Call No. HF5549.5.T7 K572 2005
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

D

Title Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
Author Doreen Rappaport
Publisher Candlewick Press
Call No.  D804.6.R37 2012
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Title The Last Lion
Author William Manchester and Paul Reid
Publisher Little Brown
Call No. DA566.9.C5 M26 1983 v.3
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Title Iron Curton: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Author Anne Applebaum
Publisher Doubleday
Call No.  DJK 45.S65 A67 2012
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Title On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War
Author Bernard Wasserstein
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Call No. DS135.E83 W36 2012
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Title On Saudi Arabia
Author Karen Elliott House
Publisher Alfred Knopf
Call No. DS215.H68 2012
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Title Kenya: A History Since Independence
Author Charles Hornsby
PublisherJ. B. Tauris
Call No. DT 433.58.H67 2012
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

New Books: B - BF

Title Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought
Author James Giles, Ed.
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No. B4377.K45525 2008
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Title The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors and Beliefs
Author Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall
Publisher Yale
Call No. BF311.D466 2012
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Title Are We Getting Smarter: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
Author James R. Flynn
Publisher Cambridge
Call No. BF431.F565 2012
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Title That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
Author Rachel Herz
Publisher Norton
Call No. BF565.A386 H47 2012
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Title The Bully Society
Author Jessie Klein
PublisherNYU
Call No. BF637.B85.K584 2012
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

New Books HD-HM

Title The Predictable Surprise: The unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System
Author Sylveester J. Schieber
Publisher Oxford
Call No. HD7125.S327 2012
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Title Life Behind the Lobby
Author Pawan Dhingra
Publisher Stanford
Call No. HD2385.5.U6 D45 2012
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Title DevelopYour Marketing Skills
AuthorRichardson, Neil
Publisher Kogan Page
Call No. HF 5415.R5418 2011
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Title Marketing Plans: A Complete Guide in Pictures
Author Malcolm McDonald & Peter Morris
Publisher Wiley
Call No. HF5415.3.M36913 2012
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Title The Big Push: How Popular Culture is Always Selling
Author Erika Wittekind
Publisher Compass Point
Call No. HF5414.32.W58 2012
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Title Transferring Learning to Behavior
Author Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher Berrett-Koehler
Call No.  HF5549.5.T7 K572 2005
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Title Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions
Author Dale Spencer; Kevin Walby; Alan Hunt
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Call No.  HM1033.E46 2012
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

New Books: Literature PR-PZ

Title The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880
Author  John Kucich & Jenny Bourne Tayloe, Eds.
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PR861.N56 2012
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Title Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures
Author Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher University of Chicago
Call No. PR 4036.J57 2012
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Title James Joyce A New Biography
Author Gordon Bowker
Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
Call No. PR6019.O9 Z52616 2012
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Title Bring Up the Bodies
Author Hilary Mantel
Publisher Henry Holt
Call No. PR 6063.A438 B75 2012
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Title Uncertain Chainces: Science, Skepticism and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author Maurice S. Lee
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  PS217.C46 L44 2012
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Title The Art of Robert Frost
Author Tim Kendall
Publisher Yale
Call No.  PS3511.R94 Z7585 2012
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Title The Round House
Author Louise Erdrich
Publisher Harper
Call No. PS3555.R42 R68 2012
Synopsis  National Book Award Winner 2012

Title The Best American Short Stories 2012
Author Tom Perrotta Ed.
Publisher  Houghton Mifflin
Call No. PZ 1.B446235
Synopsis - Each year a selection of published short stories are presented as examples of this genre.  The library currently has over 80 volumes.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

New Books J-L

Title Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Author James T. Schliefer
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Call No. JK216.T648 S34 2012
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Title The TEA party: A brief history
Author Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. JK 2391.T43 F67 2012
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Title The Everlasting Empire
Author Yuri Pines
Publisher Princeton
Call No. JQ1510.P56 2012
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Title The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know
Author James L. Gelvin
Publisher Oxford
Call No. JQ 1850.A91 G37 2012
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Title Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
Author Juan Williams
Publisher Norton
Call No. KF4757.W53 2002
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Title Education and the Crisis of Public Values
Author Giroux, Henry A.
Publisher Peter Lang
Call No.  LA217.2.G54 2012
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Title How Children Succeed
Author Paul Tough
Publisher  HMH
Call No. :B1130/25/T68 2012
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Title Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades
Author Janeczko, Paul B.
Publisher Heinemann
Call No. LB1631.J366 2011
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Monday, February 4, 2013

New Books HV Criminal Justice

Title The Gender of Crime
Author Dana Britton
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No. HV6046.B825 2011
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Title:  The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Author: Mark Bowden
Published Atlantic Monthly Press
Call No. HV6430.B55 B69 2012
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Title The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism's Prison Connection
Author Patrick T. Dunleavy
Publisher Potomac Books
Call No.  HV6432.D86 2011
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Title Digital Piracy
Author George E. Higgins & Catherine D. Marcum
Publisher Carolina Academic Press
Call No.  HV6778.H543 2011
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Title In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process
Author Dan Simon
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call No.  HV7419.S57 2012
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

New Books Q -RC Science & Medicine

Title The Busy Librarian's Guide to Information Literacy in Science and Engineering
Author Katherine O'Clair & Jeanne R. Davidson, eds.
Publisher ACRL
Call No.  Q 181..B968 2012
Synopsis : table of contents.  Looking for ideas to help your students do better research and improve life long learning skills.  Try these:
 3. Life and health sciences / Elizabeth (Betsy) Hopkins
4. Chemistry / Olivia Bautista Sparks
5. Human nutrition / Rebecca K. Miller
6. Patents / John Meier
7. Interdisciplinary science courses : remote sensing / Linda Blake and Timothy A. Warner

Title In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 equations that changed the world
Author Ian Stewart
PublisherBasic Books
Call No. QA21.S834 2012
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Title Cultural History of Physics
Author Karoly Simonyi
Publisher CRC Press
Call No. Oversize QC 7.S5531 2012
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Title God's Hotel
Author Victoria Sweet
Publisher Riverhead Books
Call No.  R154.S925 A3 2012
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Title The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
Author Ira Bycock
Publisher Avery
Call No. R726.8.B96 2012
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Title It's Enough To Make You Sick: The Failure of American Health Care...
Author Jeffrey M. Lobosky
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No.  RA410.53.L63 2012
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Title Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare
Author Meredith Minkler, ed.
Publisher Rutgers, University Pres
Call No.  RA427.8.C64 2012
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Title Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Author Susan Gunbar
Publisher Norton
Call No. RC280.O8 G83 2012
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

New Books BF - BL

Title Attention in a Social World
Author Michael I. Posner
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  BF321.P67 2012
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Title Are we getting smarter?
Author James R. Flynn
Publisher Cambridge
Call No. BF431.F565 2012
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Title Roman Christianity & Roman Stoicism: A Comparitive Study of Ancient Morality
Author RUNAR M. Thorstensson
Publisher Oxford
Call No. BJ221.T46 2010
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Title Natural Signs and Knowledge of God
Author C. Stephen Evans
Publisher  Oxford
Call No. BL 200.E93 2010
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Title The Predicament of Belief
Author Philip Clayton & Steven Knapp
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  BL240.3.C53 2011
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Title The New Religious Intolerance
Author Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher Harvard
Call No. BL640.N88 2010
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Title Religion in the Roman Empire
Author James B. Rives
Publisher Blackwell
Call No.  BL803.R58 2007
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Friday, January 18, 2013

New Books N , P, R

Title Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design
Author Maggie MacNab
Publisher Newriders
Call No.  NC703.M236 2012
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Title The Information Design Handbook
Author O'Grady, Jenn & O'Grady, Kenn
Publisher HOW books
Call No. NC715.V57 2008
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Title Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the meaning of everything
Author David Bellos
Publisher Faber and Faber
Call No. P306.B394 2012
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Title On Media: Making Sense of Politics
Author Doris A. Graber
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PN4888.P6 G63 2012
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Title Confronting America's Health Care Crisis: Establishing a Clinic for the Medically Uninsured
Author  Anne Boston Parish
Publisher Author House
Call No.  RA395.A3 P3757 2008
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Title The Tracks we leave: Ethics in Healthcare management
Author Frankie Perry
Publisher Health Administration Press
Call No.  RA413.T73 2012
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Title Leading Healthcare cultures: How Human capital drives financial performance
Author Tom Atchison & Greg Carlson
Publisher Executive Essentials
Call No. RA971.35.A83 2009
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Monday, January 14, 2013

New Books BV Spiritual Life

Title Church in Translation: Vibrant Christianity in Your Time and Place
Author Dan Collison
Publisher Abingdon
Call No. BV652.25.C64 2010
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Title Mission Trips That Matter
Author Don C. Richter
Publisher Upper Room Books
Call No. BV2061.3.R53 2008
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Title Rhythms of Revival: The Spiritual Awakeniing of 1857-1863
Author Ian Randall
Publisher Paternoster
Call No. BV3777.G7 R36 2010
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Title Made Healthy in Ministry for Ministry
Author C. John Weborg
Publisher Pickwick
Call No. BV4011.6.W43 2011
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Title A vision for the Aging Church: Renewing Ministry for and by Seniors
Author James M. Houston & Michael Parker
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Call No. BV4435.H68 2011
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Title Glorious Mess
Author Mike Howerton
Publisher Baker Books
Call No. BV4501.3.H73 2012
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Title Julian of Norwich, Theologian
Author Denys Turner
Publisher Yale
Call No. BV4832.3.J863 T87 2011
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