October
2007 Library News
New Books:
Ref 610.3 D711 Dorland’s illustrated medical dictionary. 31st ed. 2007.
Useful, authoritative guide to the terminology, drugs, illnesses.
Atlas 912.777 D362i Iowa atlas & gazetteer. 2004.
Very usable atlas with pretty good detail.
Window 220.52 J12s St John’s Bible: Wisdom Books. 2007.
Incomparably beautiful script, art work, symbols.
Window 741.597 L334c Gary Larson. The complete Far Side. 2 vols. 2003.
Treasure trove of talking dogs, inter alia.
Window 220.91 B422b Barry J. Beitzel, ed. Biblica: the Bible atlas. 2006.
Huge guide; lots of maps, photographs, Medieval art, & helpful prose.
128.37 S689t Robert C. Solomon. True to our feelings: what our emotions are really telling us. 2007.
Discusses how emotions are formed, & how they form our lives.
150.717 K92e Jeffrey J. Kripal. Esalen: America & the religion of no religion. 2007.
A history of the famous institution of alternative psychology & philosophy.
183.2 W747d Emily Wilson. The death of Socrates. 2007.
A study of the event, its causes, and its powerful effects over the millennia.
184 A1sym S542p Frisbee C.C. Sheffield. Plato’s Symposium: the ethics of desire. 2006.
How Plato understood desire, & how this was central to his philosophy.
184 B474c Hugh H. Benson, ed. A companion to Plato. 2006.
Scholarly essays on Plato and his work.
186.4 P729e S783p Giannis Stamatellos. Plotinus & the Presocratics: a philosophical study of Presocratic influences in Plotinus’ Enneads. 2007.
193 H465 M259h Jeff Malpas. Heidegger’s topology: being, place, world. 2006.
How the concept of place figures prominently in his work.
194 G251 L837p Antonia LoLordo. Pierre Gassendi & the birth of Early Modern philosophy. 2007.
The significance of the 17th-century philosopher & his influence.
201.5 S689a Norman Solomon. Abraham’s children: Jews, Christians & Muslims in conversation. 2005.
Essays & discussions of important figures, events, & concepts.
215 S129v Carl Sagan. The varieties of scientific experience: a personal view of the search for God. 2006.
Series of essays on religion and science, in many aspects.
227.8307 F518p Benjamin Fiore, SJ. The pastoral epistles. 2007.
Translation & commentary on I & II Timothy & Titus; in the Sacra Pagina series.
229.921 J92 E33l Bart D. Ehrman. The lost gospel of Judas Iscariot. 2006.
A scholarly study of the pseudogospel and the character of Judas.
232.96 G449p C363g A guide to the Passion: 100 questions about The Passion of the Christ. 2004.
Designed to accompany a discussion of the Mel Gibson film.
241.4 L896h Lawrence G. Lovasik, SVD. The hidden power of … kindness. 1962.
General guide to concrete acts of love to our neighbors.
242.802 U58c USCCB. Commission on Liturgy. Catholic household blessings & prayers. 2007.
Revised edition; profiled in a recent issue of Witness.
248.482 D934s Henri J.M. Nouwen. Sabbatical journey. 1998.
Nouwen’s diary of his final year.
248.482 P616m Gregory F. A. Pierce. The Mass is never ended: rediscovering our mission to transform the world. 2007.
Meditations on the “dismissal,” “Ite, missa est.” Blurb by Stephen Bevans, SVD.
248.842 R739q Richard Rohr, OFM. Quest for the Grail. 1994.
Uses the Grail stories as a framework for a man’s growth in searching for God.
248.86 A756b Johann C. Arnold. Be not afraid: overcoming the fear of death. 2002.
Living with a reality, and conquering a deep fear.
255.0022 M734b Frank Monaco. Brothers & sisters: glimpses of the cloistered life. 2001.
Stunning b&w photographs from Western European religious houses.
261.296 N974l Klaus Nürnberger. The living dead & the living God. 2007.
Christianity and African veneration of ancestors; what is a proper response?
264.02099 G874i Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR. In the presence of Our Lord. 1997.
A comprehensive study of the background and nature of Eucharistic devotion.
270.7 K74e Ronald A. Knox. Enthusiasm. 1961.
A study of recent religious history.
271.97 M69p Mother Teresa. Come be my light: private writings. 2007.
Collected by a long-time friend, showing new depths to her spirit.
296.0901 H586i Richard S. Hess. Israelite religions: an Archæological & Biblical survey. 2007.
A careful, modern study of a very complicated subject.
302.03 B347e Roy F. Baumeister, ed. Encyclopedia of social psychology. 2007. 2 vols.
Scholarly essays of important terms, figures, & topics of research.
363.8 S785w Claire Stanford, ed. World hunger. 2007.
Newspaper & magazine articles on aspects of a universal problem.
378.001 D438e Christopher Derrick. Escape from scepticism: liberal education as if truth mattered. 1977.
Argues that higher education has failed in providing a defense against skepticism.
388.40973 F761w Paul M. Fotsch. Watching the traffic go by: transportation & isolation in urban America. 2007.
How the automobile has affected American urban and political culture, seldom for good.
398.2094 Z79f Jan M. Ziolkowski. Fairy tales from before fairy tales. 2007.
How early folk tales found their way into Medieval Latin, & how the process evolved.
401.93 H698b Erika Hoff. Blackwell handbook of language development. 2007.
Scholarly essays on central topics & ongoing research.
401.93 Y22i Charles Yang. The infinite gift: how children learn & unlearn the languages of the world. 2006.
Not simply the acquisition of language, but a theory on how grammar is hard-wired into our brains.
471.7 H319w K. David Harrison. When languages die. 2007.
How languages are dying off, & what they’re taking with them.
510.93 R916h Peter S. Rudman. How mathematics happened: the first 50,000 years. 2007.
Not just how, but why systems evolved.
523.4 W424i David A. Weintraub. Is Pluto a planet? A historical journey through the solar system. 2007.
Nifty survey of the historical understanding of the solar system, which is still changing!
704.948996 P769h Patrick A. Polk. Haitian vodou flags. 1997.
Nice little scholarly guide to the genre.
726.609456 M648s Keith Miller. St Peter’s. 2007.
Neat guide to the history, architecture, and furnishings of the great church.
759.97294 R693w Selden Rodman. Where art is joy: Haitian art. 1988.
Covers art from the mid-1940s to the late 1980s.
791.43092 B499 S617i Irving Singer. Ingmar Bergman, cinematic philosopher. 2007.
Themes & ideas that run through Bergman’s films.
791.43092 K95 A161p Jerold J. Abrams, ed. The philosophy of Stanley Kubrick. 2007.
Essays on themes and films.
810.9896 W794h Cary D. Wintz, ed. Harlem speaks: a living history of the Harlem Renaissance. 2007.
Essays, primary sources, and a CD with music and voices of writers.
813.52 L236f Louis L’Amour. From the listening hills. 2006.
12 short stories from the popular writer.
813.54 D193br Edwidge Danticat. Brother, I’m dying. 2007.
The tragic story of her uncle, who cared for her in Haiti & died in a Miami detention center.
813.54 D821s Andre Dubus. Selected stories. 1988.
Considered a classic collection, by the Catholic writer
813.54 D637b E.L. Doctorow. Billy Bathgate. 1989.
Young boy in the employ of gangster Dutch Schultz.
813.54 D637c _______. City of God. 2000.
Rather disjointed novel involving a crucifix, stolen from an Episcopal Church.
813.54 D864l John Dufresne. Louisiana Power & Light. 1994.
Rollicking novel about a scion from a most criminally incompetent family in the Bayou.
813.54 G791v Andrew M. Greeley. Virgin & martyr.1985.
Friends investigate the death in Central America of a former nun.
813.54 H249m Ron Hansen. Mariette in ecstasy: a novel. 1991.
All sorts of questions about the new, young postulant. Like is she a saint or charlatan?
813.54 K55a Barbara Kingsolver. Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life. 2007.
The writer’s account of her family’s countercultural attempt to eat only locally grown produce.
813.54 Q7b Peter Quinn. Banished children of Eve: a novel of Civil War New York. 1994.
Highly praised story set in the Draft Riots of 1863.
813.54 T981b Anne Tyler. Breathing lessons. 1988.
Novel that upset many because it portrayed marriage as a difficult business.
813.6 B534t Steve Berry. The Templar legacy. 2006.
Good guys & bad search for the cache of Templar gold.
813.6 C548f Tinling Choong. Firewife: a story of fire & water. 2007.
A woman circles the globe, photographing & studying women.
813.6 H811l Nancy Horan. Loving Frank: a novel. 2007.
A diary recounts a love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright.
815.08 A512 A512 American speeches. 2006. 2 vols.
Political oratory, collected by the Library of America series.
820.8 R256e Michael Ravitch, ed. The English reader: what every literate person needs to know. 2006.
Collection of poetry, prose, lyrics – stuff that we should have learned in college.
821.912 E42 R155t Craig Raine. T.S. Eliot. 2006.
Looks for common threads, especially in the failure of feelings, throughout Eliot’s works.
821.914 H434s Seamus Heaney. The spirit level. 1996.
Poems from the Nobel laureate.
823.914 T789a Peter Tremayne. Act of mercy. 1999.
Sister Fidelma, an Irish advocate, deals with murder while on pilgrimage to Spain in 666.
823.914 T789m _______. The monk who vanished. 1999.
The disappearance of an elderly monk & some valuable relics from their Munster abbey.
823.914 T789s _______. Smoke in the wind. 2001.
Sr Fidelma tries to locate an entire monastic community, which has disappeared in Wales.
823.914 T789sh _______. Shroud for the archbishop. 1995.
A murder in Rome of 664, involving papal politics & lots of loot.
828.9915 G242f Devin A. Garrity. 44 Irish short stories.1955.
Nice anthology of early 20th-century fiction.
839.81374 H693s Peter Høeg. Smilla’s sense of snow. 1993.
An Eskimo woman tracks down a killer in Copenhagen & Greenland.
839.82374 G111s Jostein Gaarder. Sophie’s world: a novel about the history of philosophy. 1994.
Curious letters prompt Sophie to try to understand reality.
939.21 S912t Barry Strauss. The Trojan War: a new history. 2006.
Based on textual and Archæological research, with illustrations.
940.531803 G984e Israel Gutman, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 1990. 2 vols.
Marvelous collection of scholarly essays on all aspects of the horror.
968.0481 M323d Martin Meredith. Diamonds, gold, & war: the British, the Boers, & the making of South Africa. 2007.
The tumultuous history of the region in the late 19th century, focusing on Rhodes & Smuts.
DVDs
232.92 H267n The Nativity story. 2006. Catherine Hardwicke’s interesting film from last year.
781.6297 B189d Discovering American Indian music. Filmed in 1971 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
812.54 F688t The trip to Bountiful. 1985. Geraldine Page’s classic.
813.54 K95p Paths of glory. Kubrick 1957 anti-war film, with Kirk Douglas.
822.914 B694m A man for all seasons. The classic 1966 film from the Robert Bolt play.
823.7 A933s Sense & sensibility. Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslett in the 1995 version.
842.914 A765b Becket. 1964. Peter O’Toole seeks to be rid of this meddlesome Burton.
843.914 C277j Joyeux Noël.
944.026 J43 M649j Joan of Arc. 1999. Remarkable retelling of the story.
CDs
271.106 B463r The Holy Rule of St Benedict. 2004.
271.730946 J613d St John of the Cross. Dark night of the soul. 5 CDs.
