Books BS-BT Bible & Theology

Title People's Bible
Author Derek Wilson
Publisher Lion
Call No. BS186.W44 2010
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Title What the Bible Really Tells Us
Author T. J. Wray
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No. BS511.3.W73 2011
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Title Conquering with Christ: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation
Author Ian A. Fair
Publisher ACU Press
Call No. BS2825.53.F35 2011
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Title Justification
Author N. T. Wright
Publisher IVP
Call No. BT764.3.P573 W75 2009
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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

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
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Title Our Schools & Our Future...Are we still at risk?
Author Paul E. Peterson, Ed.
Publisher  Hoover Pres
Call No.  LA217.2.O87 2003
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Title Rethinking Homework: Best Practices that support Diverse Needs
Author Cathy Vatterott
Publisher ASCD
Call No. LB1048.V37 2009
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Title Preschool in three cultures revisited
Author Joseph Tobin, Hey Hsueh, and Mayumi Karasawa
Publisher Chicago
Call No. LB1140.25.Je T6132 2011
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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
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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

Books B-BH

Title The Pursuits of Wisdom
Author John M. Cooper
Publisher Princeton
Call No. B111.C67 2012
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Title Charles Sanders Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature
Author Leon J. Niemoczynski
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
Call No.  B945.N54 2011
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Title Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza
Author Moira Gatens, Ed.
Publisher Penn State Press
Call No. B3998.F38 2009
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Title Why Does the World Exist?
Author Jim Holt
Publisher Liveright Publishing
Call No. BD511.H65 2012
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Title Friendships in Childhood & Adolescence
Author Catherine L. Bagwell & Michelle E. Schmidt
Publisher Guilford
Call No. BF723.F68 B34 2011
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Title Introducting Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
Author Darren Hudson Hick
Publisher Continuum
Call No. BH201.H53 2012
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New Books Books: BR Christianity

Title The Unity of Christ
Author Christopher A. Beeley
Publisher Yale
Call No. BR67.B377 2012
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Title Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context
Author Atsuuoshi Fujiwara
Publisher Princeton
Call No. BR115.C8 F34
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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
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"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
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Title Evangelical Calvinism
Author Myk Habets & Bobby Grow, Eds.
Publisher Pickwick
Call No. BR1640.E854 2012
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Title Philip's Daughters
Author Estrelda Alexander & Amos Yong, Eds.
Publisher Princeton
Call No. BR1644.P5 2009
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Title Basil of Caesarea
Author Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
Publisher Cascade
Call No.  BR1720.B3 R23 2012
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Books HM-HV

Title The Measure of Civilization
Author Ian Morris
Publisher Princeton
Call No. HM706.M67 2013
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Title European Foundations of the Welfare State
Author Franz-Xaver Kaurmann
Publisher Berghahn Books
Call No. HN373.K38 2012
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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
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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
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Title Deaf World : A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook
Author Lois Bragg, Ed.
Publisher New York University
Call No. HV2545.D43 2001
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Title Managing Criminal Justice Organizations
Author Richard R. E. Kania & Richards P. Davis
Publisher Elsevier
Call No. HV7419.K36 2012
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Title Why law enforcement organizations fail
Author Patrick O'Hara
Publisher Carolina Academic Press
Call No. HV8141.O53 2012
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New Library Books: Q - QA

Title  Ignorance: How it drives science
Author Stuart Firestein
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  Q175.32.K45 F57 2012
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Title Great Jobs for Math Majors, 2nd ed.
Author Stephen E. Lamberg & Ruth J. DeColis
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Call No. QA10.5.L36 2006
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Title The Universe and the Teacup: The mathematics of truth and beauty
Author K. C. Cole
Publisher Harcourt
Call No. QA36.C65 1999
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Title Math for theFrightened
Author Colin Pask
Publisher Peometheus
Call No. QA41.P37 2011
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Title Turing's Cathedral
Author George Dyson
Publisher Pantheon
Call No.  QA76.17.D97 2012
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Title The Millennium Problems
Author Keith Devlin
Publisher Basic Books
Call No. QA94.D47 2002
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New Books Literature Part 2 PR & PS

Title Nine lives of William Shakespeare
Author Graham Holderness
Publisher Continuum
Call No. PR2894.H595 2011
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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
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Title Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period
Author Drew Lopenzina
Publisher SUNY
Call No. PS153.I52 L67 2012
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Title Once upon a Time in a Different World
Author Neal A. Lester
Publisher Routledge
Call No. PS153.N5 L45 2011
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Title How did Poetry Survive?
Author John Timberman Newcomg
Publisher Illinois
Call No. PS310.M57 N4882012
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Title Quick, Said the Bird
Author Richard Swogg
Publisher Iowa
Call No. PS323.5.S95 2012
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Title Downwardly Mobile
Author Lawson, Andrew
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PS374.R47 L39 2012
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Title Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War
Author Thomas E. Barden, ed.
Publisher Virginia
Call No.  PS3537.T3234 2012
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Title Evangellyfish: a novel
Author Douglas Wilson
Publisher Canonpress
Call No.  PS3623.I57375 E93 2012
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New Books in Languages and Literature P --PQ Part I

Title Painting Borges
Author Garcia, Jorge
PublisherSUNY
Call No. P53.G64 2012
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Title Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Author Simon Goldhill
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  PA4417.G65 2012
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Title The Golden Ass
Author Apuleius
Publisher Yale
Call No. PA6209.M3 R83 2011
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Title The Brothers Grimm
Author Jack Zipes
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No. PD63.Z57 2002
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Title The Big Screen
Author David Thomson
Publisher FSG
Call No.  PN1993.5.U6 T463 2012
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Title The Inferno
Author Dante Alighieri
Publisher Graywolf Press
Call No. PQ4315.2.B36 2012
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Title Sonnets and Shorter Poems
Author Petrarch
Publisher Harvard
Call No.  PQ4496.E23 S58 2012
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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
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Title Chagall
Author
Publisher Museo Thyssen-Bprmemosza
Call No.  N6999.C46 A4 2012
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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
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Title The Art of Kate Greenaway
Author Ina Taylor
Publisher Pelican
Call No.  NC978.5.G7 T37 1991
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Title Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
Author Ivan Brunetti
Publisher Yale
Call No. NC1320.B85 2011
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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
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Title Leaving My Tracks: Jim Dine Printmaker
Author Clifford S. Ackley & Patrick Murphy
Publisher MFA Publications
Call No.NE539.D5 A4 2012
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Title Surrealism in Latin America
Author Dawn Ades, Rita Eder & Graciala Speranza, Eds.
Publisher Getty
Call No. NX501.5.S86 2012
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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
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Title Saving Higher Education
Author Martin J. Bradley, Robert H. Seidman, & Steven R. Painchaud
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No.  LA227.4B72 2012
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Title The Innovative University
Author Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No. LA227.4.C525 2011
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Title College: What it was, is, and should be
Author Andrew Delbanco
Publisher Princeton
Call No.  LA227.4.D455 2012
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Title Republic of Noise
Author Diana Senechel
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No.  LB1027.23.S46 2012
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Title Beyond Leveled books
Author Karen Szymusiak, Franki Sibberson, & Lisa Koch, Eds.
Publisher Stenhouse
Call No. LB1673.45.S99 2008
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Title Leading the Learner-Centered Campus
Author Michael Harris & Roxanne Cullen
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No. LB2341.H324 2010
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Title Defending religious diversity in public schools
Author Nathan R. Kollar
Publisher Praeger
Call No.  LC111.K65 2009
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Title Using picture storybooks to teache character education
Author Susan Hall
Publisher Oryx
Call No.  LC311.M33 2000
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Title No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
Author Douglas Jacobsen & Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  LC383.J33 2012
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Title Teaching in the Terrordome
Author Heather Kirn Lanier
Publisher University of Missouri Press
Call No. LC5133.B35 L36 2012
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New Books American History

Title Some of my best friends are black
Author Tanner Colby
Publisher Viking
Call No. E184.A1 C5376 2012
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Title Discovering Black America
Author Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher Abrams
Call No. Curr Center E185.T198 2012
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Title For Liberty and Equality
Author Alexander Tsesis
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  E221.T74 2012
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Title The Weight of Vengeance
Author Troy Bickham
Publisher Oxford
Call No. E357.B53 2012
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Title Help me to find my people
Author Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher University of North Carolina Press
Call No.  E443.W63 2012
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Title Lincoln and thge Negro
Author Benjamin Quarles
Publisher Da Capo
Call No.  E457.2.Q3 1990
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Title Lincoln, Inc.
Author Jackie Hogan
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No. E457.2.H69 2011
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Title The Lincoln Assassination
Author Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds & Frank J. Williams, eds.
Publisher Fordham
Call No.  E457.5.L735 2012
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Title The essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence
Author Orville Vernon Burton, ed.
Publisher Hill and Wang
Call No. E457.92.2009c
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Title Terrible Swift Sword
Author Joseph Wheelan
Publisher Da Capo
Call No. E467.1.S54 W54 2012
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Title African American Faces of the Civil War
Author Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. E540.N3 C64 2012
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Title Bush's Wars
Author Terry H. Anderson
Publisher Oxford
Call No. E902.A5745 2011
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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
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Title Robspierre: A Revolutionary Life
Author Peter McPhee
Publisher Yale
Call No.  DC146.R6 M38 2012
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Title Ghost on the Throne
Author James Romm
Publisher Knopf
Call No. DF 235.4.R66 2011
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Title The Romans and their World: A short introduction
Author Brian Campbell
Publisher Yale
Call No. DG209.C28 2011
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Title Savonarola
Author Donald Weinstein
Publisher Yale
Call No. DG737.97.W43 2011
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Title A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism
Author Phyllis Goldstein
Publisher Facing History and Ourselves
Call No. DS145.G652 2012
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