Religion

11/30/2010

Elias, Jamal J., ed. Key themes for the study of Islam. Oxford; Oneworld, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

ter Borg, Meerten B., and Jan Willem van Henten, eds. Powers: religion as a social and spiritual force. New York: Fordham University press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Warner, Michael, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Craig Calhoun, eds. Varieties of secularism in a secular age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Wiley, Tatha. Encountering Paul: understanding the man and his message. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Literature

11/29/2010

Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton anthology of theory and criticism. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Gardiner, Michael, and Willy Maley, eds. The Edinburgh companion to Muriel Spark. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Mason, Emma. The Cambridge companion to William Wordsworth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Philosophy

11/24/2010

Blum, Paul Richard, ed. Philosophers of the Renaissance. Trans. Brian McNeil. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Young, Julian. Friedrich Nietzsche: a philosophical biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Gordon, Peter E. Continental divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Cambridge: Harvard University press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Religious studies

11/23/2010

Rourke, Thomas R. The social and political thought of Benedict XVI. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Monsma, Stephen V., and J. Christopher Soper. The challenge of pluralism : church and state in five democracies. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Hertog, Katrien. The complex reality of religious peacebuilding : conceptual contributions and critical analysis. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Strip clubs; Organizational change at Boeing

11/22/2010

Price-Glrnn, Kim. Strip club : gender, power, and sex work. New York: New York University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Greenbreg, Edward S., et al. Turbulence: Boeing and the state of American workers and managers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.(Publisher’s description)


Film studies

11/19/2010

Neibaur, James L. The fall of Buster Keaton : his films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Booker, M. Keith. Historical dictionary of science fiction cinema. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Cline, John, and Robert G. Weiner, eds. From the arthouse to the grindhouse : highbrow and lowbrow transgression in cinema’s first century. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Religion and democracy; Islam

11/18/2010

Buruma, Ian. Taming the gods : religion and democracy on three continents. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Donner. Fred M. Muhammad and the believers : at the origins of Islam. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.(Publisher’s description)


Being wrong; intercultural philosophy; Joe Louis

11/17/2010

Schulz, Kathryn. Being wrong : adventures in the margin of error. New York: Ecco, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Wallner, Fritz G., Florian Schmidsberger, and Franz Martin Wimmer, eds. Intercultural philosophy : new aspects and methods. Frankfrut am Main: Peter Lang, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Roberts, Randy. Joe Louis : hard times man. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Literature

11/16/2010

Ferretter, Luke. Sylvia Plath’s fiction: a critical study. Edinburgh: Edinburgh university Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Stavans, Ilan, general editor. The Norton anthology of Latino literature. New York: W.W.Norton, 2011. (Publisher’s description)


First amendment; FDR and the Democratic Party

11/15/2010

O’Brien, David M. Congress shall make no law: the First Amendment, unprotected expression, and the Supreme Court. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.(Publisher’s description)

Dunn, Susan. Roosevelt’s purge: how FDR fought to change the Democratic Party. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.(Publisher’s description)


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