New Books:
Ref 004.03 H496e Harry Henderson. Encyclopedia of computer science & technology. Rev. ed. 2009.
Reliable update to the 2003 edition, with lot of good, short definitions.
Ref 808.02 G422m MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 7th ed. 2009.
A good resource for our students.
Atlas 912 T863 The Times comprehensive atlas of the world. 12th ed. 2008.
The updated gold standard for the genre.
111.85 S435b Roger Scruton. Beauty. 2009.
Short book argues that Beauty is fundamental for human life.
115.03 B619e H. James Birx, ed. Encyclopedia of time. 3 vols. 2009.
Phenomenal resource! From Abelard & aging, to Rahner & wine, to Zeitgeist. Everything timely.
152.43 D928c Duong Tán Tuoi. Cụi: nguyên-nhân và thuc-chât. 1968.
158.1 N498t Nguyên Duy Càn. Tôi tu-hoc. 1985?
179.9 H541p Jennifer A. Herdt. Putting on virtue: the legacy of the splendid vices. 2008.
A study of ethical teaching, from Rome to Augustine to Aquinas to the modern day.
183.2 S678 W325w Robin Waterfield. Why Socrates died; dispelling the myths. 2009.
Sets the event in historical reality to see much more at work than Plato suggests!
191 E26 M364s George M. Marsden. Short life of Jonathan Edwards. 2009.
Excellent introduction to the Colonial theologian & philosopher.
194.0922 H131p Pierre Hadot. The present alone is our happiness. 2009.
Conversations with modern philosophers and their use of ancient philosophies for life.
200.92 S649t Huston Smith. Tales of wonder: adventures in chasing the divine. 2009.
Autobiography of the famous scholar of world religions.
220.93 F889d Richard A. Freund. Digging through the Bible. 2009.
Great introduction. Essays on particular topics that shed light on the whole book.
229.921 J92 Rodolphe Kasser, ed. The gospel of Judas. 2006.
Caused a small sensation a few years back; we have explanatory books, too.
230 O13g George D. O’Brien. God & the New Haven Railway, & why neither one is doing very well. 2008.
A reissue of a classic study of why modern communities & churches are foundering.
231.6 L433s Lê Van Quang. Súc manh t́nh yêu. 2000.
237.453 M918 John Henry Newman. The Mother of God. 2003.
Lays out beliefs, misconceptions, and excesses.
238.2 C363c P534p John-Peter Pham. A primer for the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 1994.
Short introduction, with highlights.
242.5 D346p Roy DeLeon, OblSB. Praying with the body: bringing the Psalms to life. 2009.
A holistic style of saying the Psalms, showing how to position oneself.
242.72 A983g Nicholas Ayo, CSC. Gloria Patri: the history & theology of the Lesser Doxology. 2007.
Neat little unpacking of a powerful but often taken-for-granted prayer.
246.909 D657l Allan Doig. Liturgy & architecture: from the Early Church through the Middle Ages. 2008.
Traces how the two forces played off each other to guide the development of Church building.
261.833 L238g Lisa B. Lampman, ed. God & the victim. 1999.
Essays on the aftermath of violence, God’s rôle, & our responsibilities.
262.22 B932n J.B. Bùi Tuân. Nói vói giá dân. 1997.
270.82092 J66 B642r Joseph R. Blaney, ed. Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II. 2009.
Essays on the late pope’s communication, as well as on communications about him.
271.3092 K81 T786m Patricia Treece. A man for others: Maximilian Kolbe, saint of Auschwitz. 1982.
Largely a collection of reminiscences of friends and colleagues.
274.20809 W226w Michael J. Walsh. The Westminster cardinals: the past & the future. 2008.
Biographical sketches of the ten English archbishops, since the restoration of 1850.
274.4082 V258o Jean Vanier. Our life together: a memoir in letters. 2008.
His letters to supporters and communities, from the beginning of the L’Arche movement to now.
282 R597w John M. Rist. What is truth? From the Academy to the Vatican. 2008.
Historical survey of how the Catholic Church has appropriated aspects of the world for the better.
294.309051 M167m David L. McMahan. Making of modern Buddhism. 2008.
How Buddhism has been changed by modern pressures & Western contributions.
297.1226 W135o Walter H. Wagner. Opening the Qur’an: introducing Islam’s Holy Book. 2008.
A helpful guide to the essential document of the faith.
299.51482 S713d Siroj Sorajjakool. Do nothing: inner peace for everyday living. 2009.
Seeks to apply Chuang Tzu to modern life.
303.483 P858t Neil Postman. Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology. 1992.
Perhaps more pertinent now than when he wrote it?
305.89592 N576u Nguyên Van Khang. Úng xu ngôn trong giao tiêp gia đ́nh ngụi Viêt. 1996.
307.7609 D411c Richard Dennis. Cities in modernity: representations & productions of metropolitan space, 1840-1930. 2008.
Metropolitan development, including architecture, culture, & religion.
333.79 I61w International Energy Agency. World energy outlook, 2008.
Very careful, very concerned study of how energy production & use are moving.
333.794 F855w S. David Freeman. Winning our energy independence. 2007.
Ideas on a goal that many regard as impossible.
335.4309 B877r Archie Brown. The rise & fall of Communism. 2009.
How the system took hold in so many places and how it crumbled so quickly.
362.556 R863s Margaret Roush, ed. Social services for the poor. 2009.
Reprints of articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, from all perspectives.
378.73 B826a John M. Braxton, ed. Analyzing faculty work & rewards: using Boyer’s four domains of scholarship. 2006.
Scholarly essays on an always timely topic.
385.0977 G762i H. Roger Grant. Iowa’s railroads: an album. 2009.
Nicely illustrated history of an important industry.
390.09597 T627t Toan Ánh. Phong tuc tḥ cúng trong gia đ́nh Viêt Nam. 1996.
394.12 W941c Richard Wrangham. Catching fire: how cooking made us human. 2009.
A paleontologist asserts that the switch from raw to cooked food was critical for human evolution.
413.028 C874o A.P. Cowie, ed. Oxford history of English lexicography. 2 vols. 2009.
Highly regarded survey of the development & specialization of dictionaries.
422 O18o Patricia T. O’Connor. Origins of the specious: myths & misconceptions of the English language. 2009.
Delightful essays on “rules” of English, & how they’re often wrong.
427 K85v Bernd Kortmann, ed. Varieties of English. 4 vols & CD-ROM. 2008.
Region-by-region analysis of how the language has morphed.
495.9228342 N576t Nguyên Đúc Dân. Tiêng Viêt (thuc hành). 1995.
508 S453l Sherry Seethaler. Lies, damned lies, & science. 2009.
Provides guides for seeing through pseudo-scientific twaddle.
523.1 P866y Christopher Potter. You are here: a portable history of the universe. 2009.
A nifty story, starting 14 billion years ago, and running to the end.
599.938 B773c André Bournguignon. Con ngụi không thê đoán truóc lich su tu nhiên cua con ngụi. 1997.
641.300951 A546f E.N. Anderson. The food of China. 1988.
Studies Chinese agriculture and food through history, & its social and political uses.
701 G294a Adam Geczy. Art: histories, theories & exceptions. 2008.
How art developed, and what it all means today.
704.947 L917a Steven Lowenstam. As witnessed by images: the Trojan War in Greek & Etruscan art. 2008.
Important clues from vases, sculptures, & other objects as to what it all meant to the Ancient Greeks.
794.18 H678p Hoàng Đ́nh Hông. Pháo đâu phá thuân pháo & si giác pháo. 1996.
794.18 H772t Hông Triêt. Thuong ky giang hô tàn cuc phá giai. 1997.
796.35703 D554d Paul Dickson. The Dickson baseball dictionary. 3rd ed. 2009.
Massive, comprehensive guide to the game’s terminology, jargon, & slang.
808.8 O37a Anthony O’Hear. The great books: a journey through 2,500 years of the West’s classic literature. 2009.
Very useful guide to the big guns, and the bases for our literature & civilization.
810.9898 H874g Guiyou Huang, ed. Encyclopedia of Asian American literature. 3 vols. 2009.
Scholarly essays on writers, national literatures, and other topics.
813.54 D637cr E.L. Doctorow. Creationists: selected essays, 1993-2006. 2007.
Essays on novels, writers, actors, & science.
813.54 H249i Ron Hansen. Isn’t it romantic? An entertainment. 2003.
A worldly French couple stranded & taken in by Seldom, Nebraska.
813.54 S523s Jeff Shaara. The steel wave: a novel of World War II. 2008.
Set around D-Day, with many characters dealing with the tumultuous period.
821.4 M662 C187j Gordon Campbell. John Milton: life, work, & thought. 2008.
Intellectual biography of the important English writer.
823.8 M135 H468g Roland Hein. George MacDonald: images of his world. 2004.
Wonderful photographs showing the great Scottish writer’s homes & country.
823.912 C525cfb G.K. Chesterton. The complete Father Brown. 1982.
Terrific set of all of the wonderful stories.
823.912 S275 K36r Catherine Kenney. The remarkable case of Dorothy L. Sayers. 1990.
828.9954905 S528a Muneeza Shamsie. And the world changed: contemporary stories by Pakistani women. 2008.
Written in English, both in Pakistan and in other nations.
863.861 G216 M381g Gerald Martin. Gabriel García Marquez: a life. 2008.
The first biographical study of the Nobel laureate.
895.92234 T367n Thanh Vinh. Nùa đ̣i phiêu bat. 1988.
909.09821 L991h Jonathan Lyons. House of wisdom: how the Arabs transformed Western civilization. 2009.
How Medieval Arabic civilization grew, and how the West learned from the Middle East.
937.09 G624h Adrian Goldsworthy. How Rome fell. 2009.
Argues that internal fighting sapped Roman energy and led to the decline.
957.7 T474s Niobe Thompson. Settlers on the edge: identity & modernization on Russia’s Arctic frontier. 2008.
Analyzes how Russia’s political changes have made life even more difficult in the region.
959.7 H111t Hà Van Thu. Tóm tát niên biêu lich su Viêt Nam. 1996.
959.7 T772c Trân Quang Trân. Con gong Viêt Nam vói ngụi giao thi. 1996.
959.704 N567m Nguyên Đ́nh Thu. Môt tḥi tranh đâu, 1942-1954. 1999.
959.8022 H737s Inez Hollander. Silenced voices: uncovering a family’s colonial history in Indonesia. 2008.
A Dutch woman, curious about her family’s reticence about the past, finds more than she expected.
970.3 S618o B628b John G. Neihardt. Black Elk speaks. 2008.
The classic Native American text, with great notes & illustrations.
974.811 Q3c Joe Queenan. Closing time. 2009.
The satirist’s moving story of rising above poverty & abusive parents.
977.303 C156p Edward Callary. Place names of Illinois. 2009.
Handy dictionary.
Compact Disks:
221.83036 B662d Lawrence Boadt, CSP. Dealing with violence & war in the Old Testament. 2006. 5 CDs.
781.6261 P259a Eliseo Parra. Le ayer mañana. 2005. Spanish folk songs.
781.6291497 A582m Kim Angelis. The messenger. 1992. Romany folk music by a violinist.
781.642 D619t Dixie Chicks. Taking the long way. 2006.
781.65 T312e John Gentry Tennyson. Europa. 2000. Piano jazz.
781.66 H394w Sophie B. Hawkins. Whaler. 1994.
782.42 B849d Jim Brickman. Destiny. 1999. With interesting guest singers.
784.274 D942f Jacqueline du Pré. Favorite cello concertos. 1989.
787.4 S232b Sara Sant’ Ambrogio. Bach cello suites 1,2,3. 2008.
DVDs:
823.914 G738m Midsomer murders: the early cases. The first 18 films.
843.8 D886c The Count of Monte Cristo. 2002. Jim Caviezel & Richard Harris.
843.8 D886t Three Musketeers & Four Musketeers. 1973 & 1974. Great fun.
895.92234 N576v Journey from the fall. 2006. Vietnamese drama based on the Boat People’s flight.