Women and reading; the Coptic papacy; the new atheism

Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives: how books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Swanson, Mark N. The Coptic papacy in Islamic Egypt (641-1517). Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Amarasingam, Amarnath, ed. Religion and the new atheism: a critical appraisal. Leiden: Brill, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Asian American cinema; health care debates; Samuel Beckett

Mimura, Glen M. Ghostlife of third cinema: Asian American film and video. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Taylor, Gary, and Helen Hawley. Key debates in health care. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gibson, Andrew. Samuel Beckett. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Religious studies

Pui-lan, Kwok, ed. Hope abundant: Third World and indigenous women’s theology. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Groome, Thomas H., and Michael J. Daley, eds. Reclaiming Catholicism: treasures old and new. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Shortt, Rupert. Rowan’s rule: the biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Film studies

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)

Being wrong; intercultural philosophy; Joe Louis

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)

Film studies: The fourth world; class; medieval film; Clint Eastwood

Columpar, Corinn. Unsettling sights: the fourth world on film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Nystrom, Derek. Hard hats, rednecks, and macho men: class in 1970s American cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Bernau, Anke, and Bettina Bildhauer, eds. Medieval film. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Hughes, Howard. Aim for the heart: the films of Clint Eastwood. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Photography

Willis, Deborah. Posing beauty: African American images, from the 1890s to the present. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Siegel, Elizabeth. Playing with pictures: the art of Victorian photocollage. Chicago, Ill.: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Photographing America, 1929-1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: a life beyond limits. London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Art: Chicana and Chicano art; Cézanne; Michelangelo

Jackson, Carlos Francisco. Chicana and Chicano art: ProtestArte. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Stavitsky, Fail, and Katherine Rothkopf, eds. Cézanne and American modernism. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Wallace, William E. Michelangelo: the artist, the man, and his times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Film studies and international studies

Frindéthié , K. Martial. Francophone African cinema: history, culture, politics and theory. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Chan, Kenneth. Remade in Hollywood: the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Sadlier, Darlene J., ed. Latin American melodrama: passion, pathos, and entertainment. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Macnab, Geoffrey. Ingmar Bergman: the life and films of the last great European director. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Film studies

Casty, Alan. Communism in Hollywood: the moral paradoxes of testimony, silence, and betrayal. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Prince, Stephen. Firestorm: American film in the age of terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Beltrán, Mary C. Latina/o stars in U.S. eyes: the making and meanings of film and TV stardom. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Simon, Joan, ed. Alice Guy Blaché: cinema pioneer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)