Origins of war; Food and faith; Islam and Christianity

The origins of war : a Catholic perspective / Matthew A. Shadle. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Food and faith : a theology of eating / Norman Wirzba. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Islam and Christianity : theological themes in comparative perspective / John Renard. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Islamist movements; Social sciences

Guide to Islamist movements / edited by Barry Rubin. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

International encyclopedia of the social sciences / William A. Darity, Jr., editor in chief. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Crime and punishment; environmental history; religious history

Crime and punishment around the world.Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Encyclopedia of American environmental history / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan. New York, N.Y. : Facts On File, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Encyclopedia of American religious history / Edward L. Queen II, Stephen R. Prothero, and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. ; Martin E. Marty, editorial adviser ; book producer, Marie A. Cantlon. 3rd ed. New York, NY : Facts On File, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah

The Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) have digitized their copy of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.  You can read their press release about it, or go directly to the manuscript.  (There is an introductory page with information about it, and you click on the big “Read the manuscript” button in the upper right corner to get to the manuscript itself.)

I know – I don’t read 12th century Hebrew, either.  (I wish I did!) But this is worth a peek, even if you have no idea what is on the page.  It’s amazing to be able to see a book that is more than 800 years old, especially since books this old are generally not available to the public because they are so fragile and precious.

It’s quite an amazing accomplishment, and the story of how the text was made available is interesting, too. Visit the site and experience some good, old-fashioned wonderment.

The Catholic Study Bible and the New American Bible

Librarians here are getting a lot of requests for the Catholic Study Bible.  As much as we’d like to have a copy for every student on campus, we can’t spend our entire book budget on buying multiple copies of the same book.

We do have the 1990 edition in our reference collection, which means it can only be used in the building.  We also have a circulating copy of the 1990 edition, and also a circulating copy of the 2006 edition.

Unfortunately, this book is not available in electronic format from any of the library ebook vendors.  In fact, it’s not available in electronic format anywhere, not even for personal use on Kindles or Nooks.

The Catholic Study Bible is based on the New American Bible.  The 2002 edition of the New American Bible is available online from the Vatican.  Students can copy and paste the text into a word document and format it to their liking.  This version lacks the footnotes and commentary that are available in the Catholic Study Bible, but the underlying text should be nearly identical.  Luckily, the online version does have a concordance and a glossary, and it is searchable.

We hope that helps!

Learning machine translation; Journalism; Church and secularity

Learning machine translation / [edited by] Cyril Goutte … [et al.]. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Journalism, ethics and society / David Berry. Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The church and secularity: two stories of liberal society / Robert Gascoigne. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The Bible; The International Criminal Court; Chinese art

For the love of God: the Bible as an open book / Alicia Suskin Ostriker. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Court of remorse: inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Thierry Cruvellier ; translated by Chari Voss. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The Chinese aesthetic tradition / Li Zehou ; translated by Maija Bell Samei. Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Human rights; Religion and the law; Kennedy’s Catholicism

Human rights or religious rules? / by Johannes A. van der Ven. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Wrestling with God: the courts’ tortuous treatment of religion / Patrick M. Garry. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2006. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The making of a Catholic president: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 / Shaun A. Casey. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Nuclear Iran; China and India; Secularism and Islam

The rise of nuclear Iran: how Tehran defies the West / Dore Gold. Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub., 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

China and India: prospects for peace / Jonathan Holslag. New York : Columbia University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Secularism confronts Islam / Olivier Roy ; translated by George Holoch. New York : Columbia University Press, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

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)