February
2009 Library News
New Books:
Reference 209.0973 J76r Religious congregations & membership in the United States: 2000. 2002.
Cool statistics by region, state, and county, showing church membership.
158.39 F683i Lisa A. Fontes. Interviewing clients across cultures: a practitioner’s guide. 2008.
How to convey and gather information in challenging circumstances.
153.4 H189w Joseph T. Hallinan. Why we make mistakes. 2009.
What is it in us that makes us forget things, overlook important details, & do dopey things?
190.0922 C934b Simon Critchley. The book of dead philosophers. 2008.
Almost 200 philosophers speaking & writing about death, & then dying. Good stories.
220.6 D656j Natalie B. Dohrmann. Jewish Biblical interpretation & cultural exchange. 2008.
How Jewish exegesis influenced & was influenced by contact with Christian & Muslim scholars.
225.7 D963n Daniel Durken, ed. New Collegeville Bible commentary: New Testament. 2009.
Commentary by various scholars.
241.6608 S186s Todd A. Salzman. The sexual person: toward a renewed Catholic anthropology. 2008.
Argues that current Catholic teaching on sexuality is outdated & needs serious revision.
242.34 R125w Timothy Radcliffe, OP. Why go to Church? The drama of the Eucharist. 2008.
Lenten reflections, following the order of the Mass.
242.5 B832g Peter van Breemen, SJ. The God of our deepest longings. 2009.
Seven meditations based on St John’s Gospel & Ignatian spirituality.
264.02001 B178r John F. Baldovin, SJ. Reforming the liturgy: a response to the critics. 2008.
Analyzes criticism about post-V2 reforms, & suggests directions for continuing reform.
264.0203609 F663f Edward Foley, OFM Cap, From age to age: how Christians have celebrated the Eucharist. 2008.
Illustrated history, including vestments, architecture, & all other aspects.
277.3049921 G643f Joaquin J. Gonzalez, III. Filipino American faith in action. 2009.
How Church is the center of the 2nd-largest Asian American ethnic group’s communal life.
296.155 F557g Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ. A guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls & related literature. 2008.
From the master Biblical scholar, on the caves, the scrolls, & the background.
304.202 D743e Michael R. Dove, ed. Environmental anthropology: a historical reader. 2008.
Writings from the last century on how societies interact with their world.
304.82 L517m International Organization for Migration. Migration for development. 2006.
Positive results from migration, with special attention on the Southern hemisphere.
306.46 A218e Tyrone L. Adams, ed. Electronic tribes: the virtual world of geeks, gamers, shamans, & scammers. 2008.
Scholarly essays on self-selected online interest groups.
331.40951 C456f Leslie T. Chang. Factory girls: from village to city in a changing China. 2008.
Fascinating look at internal migrant labor; why they move, & what life is like when they do.
320.5092 A681 K15a Stephan Kampowski. Arendt, Augustine, & the New Beginning. 2008.
Traces the influence of Augustine on her social philosophy.
325.0018 C353m Stephen Castles. Migration & development: perspectives from the South. 2008.
How migration – in both directions – is affecting economies in the southern hemisphere.
338.900223 W927a World Bank. Atlas of global development. 2nd ed. 2009.
All sorts of informative graphs & maps.
363.73874 N832q William Nordhaus. A question of balance: weighing the global options on global warming policies. 2008.
How to confront the challenge in ways that are feasible and effective.
398.36849 H219a Roy Hamilton. The art of rice: spirit & sustenance in Asia. 2003.
Stunning, copiously illustrated guide to festivals & ceremonies in Asia focused on this crop.
401.4 B265a Naomi S. Baron. Always on: language in an online & mobile world. 2008.
How language technologies are changing how we communicate, not always as expected.
530 B186a Sébastien Balibar. The atom & the apple: 12 tales from contemporary physics. 2008.
12 chapters on problems & challenges, & how physics addresses them.
572.86 W339a James D. Watson. Avoid boring people: (lessons from a life in science). 2007.
Straightforward opinions & ideas on what is involved in collegial life & success.
576.8 C881w Jerry A. Coyne. Why evolution is true. 2009.
Marshals evidence supporting the concept.
599.938 C663t Gregory Cochran. The 10,000 year explosion: how civilization accelerated human evolution. 2009.
From lactose tolerance to blue eyes, how we are changing and why.
612.82 P275b Kenneth Partridge, ed. The brain. 2009.
Articles from magazines, journals & newspapers on current research on the mind.
641.23 H231b Tim Hampson. The beer book: your drinking companion to over 1,700 beers. 2008.
A cool, nicely illustrated guide to the world of brewing, with sidebars on all kinds of topics.
704.94809 Jeffrey Spier. Picturing the Bible: the earliest Christian art. 2008.
Wonderful illustrations and essays on the first few centuries.
809.387202 M817h Susan Moody, ed. Hatchard’s crime companion. 1990.
Listing of 100 best (or at least favorite) crime novels in various categories.
813.52 F263 P844w Carolyn Porter. William Faulkner. 2007.
Brief, cogent literary biography.
813.54 H249aj Ron Hansen. The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. 1983.
Western novel by next year’s lecturer. (See list of new DVDs)
813.54 H249d Ron Hansen. Desperadoes. 1979.
An early novel, again set in the Wild West.
813.54 R965s Mary Doria Russell. The sparrow: a novel. 1996.
A group sent to explore a planet includes four Jesuits.
823.912 C525 O22c William Oddie. Chesterton & the romance of orthodoxy. 2008.
Intellectual biography of Chesterton’s first 35 years, with its remarkable journey.
823.914 R284cc Miss Read. The Caxley Chronicles. 1966 & 1967.
Tales from Caxley, a town close to Fairacre, covering the last century.
823.914 R284o _______. Over the gate. 1964.
Lessons learned from daily conversations held … over the gate … in Fairfield.
863.82 M385c Guillermo Martínez. The Oxford murders. 2005.
Interesting setting for a murder-mystery from an Argentine writer!
940.3 K26i John Keegan. Illustrated history of the First World War. 2001.
Combines great photographs with the master historian’s narrative.
942.08101 M682d Sally Mitchell. Daily life in Victorian England. 2008.
Great introduction to the nuts and bolts of 19th-century English life.
955.05 A159h Ervand Abrahamian. A history of modern Iran. 2008.
The tumultuous 20th century, with focus on the past few decades.
DVDs
759.13 P776 M894w Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? 2006. How much is a $5 painting worth?
781.63097 S664j JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music & dance of the Americas. 6 DVDs & booklets, covering both continents and the islands.
796.357092 G311p Pride of the Yankees. 1942. Interesting story of guy who dies from a disease with his name! Gary Cooper.
813.52 F232b The black stallion. 1979. Francis Ford Coppola’s wonderful dramatization of the story.
813.54 H249aj The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. 2007. Ron Hansen novel, with Brad Pitt as the outlaw.
813.54 P852t True grit. 1969. John Wayne’s only Oscar. With Glen Campbell.
813.54 R921e Empire Falls. 2005. HBO mini-series dramatization of Richard Russo novel.
813.6 C223e The emperor’s club. 1998. Kevin Kline teaching in a boys school with challenges.
813.6 K33f Fireproof. 2008. Popular film; fireman’s marriage is in trouble.
823.914 D886r Rebecca. 1997. Marvelous 3-hour adaptation with Diana Rigg. Terrifying!
891.914 T654a Anna Karenina. 1977. 9-hour, very fine version.
891.73 T654w War & peace. 1972. 15-hour production by the BBC, with Anthony Hopkins.
909.04395 K96n The Normans: the complete epic saga. 2008. 2.5-hour survey of a fascinating story.