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1 Turnbull, Margaret From: Sent: To: Subject: Kocourek, Christine Monday, July 15, :35 PM MAN-Staff; MAN-Students Library: New Philosophy and Religion books have arrived These new titles are available today in your library. Stop on up and check them out. Does Jesus really love me? From Publishers Weekly: Whether the Bible disavows or condones gay love takes up its own echelon of discourse in American religious life. In his compassionate, engaging first book, journalist Chu, a gay Christian who was raised Southern Baptist, spends a year interviewing Christians across America, asking the questions that have long frightened me. What Chu finds is a country that deeply wants to love, but is conflicted on how to do so. Overall, the book brings complexity and humanity to a discourse often lacking in both. Handbook for Biblical interpretation: an essential guide to methods, terms, and concepts From Nazarene Theological Seminary: "Randolph Tate's Handbook for Biblical Interpretation is an indispensable reference for any student new to academic biblical studies. I have required the previous edition as a textbook for my biblical hermeneutics classes since its publication. Tate provides just the right amount of information for hundreds of terms that are the working vocabulary of biblical scholarship. The brief bibliographies point to the next level of depth for students ready to investigate further. For those who have been out of seminary for several years, Tate provides longer articles to introduce recent literary and agenda criticisms. No seminarian, seminary graduate, or graduate student of Bible should be without this work." A moral climate: the ethics of global warming 1

2 From Bill McKibben: A thorough look at the ethical and moral issues raised by the biggest thing human begins have ever done: rearrange the workings of the earth s climate system. The Synagogue survival kit: a guide to understanding Jewish religious services From Booklist: This user friendly road map to traditional (Orthodox) services is for readers new to the faith or recently affiliated. Although other books show how a person can live in a more Jewish way daily, this is a guide to worshiping with greater ease. A synagogue teacher and administrator for 20 years, the author brings together what he has learned in a clear and helpful pathway. The book breaks down the complexity of services, the central ideas of each prayer, and objects and symbols in the synagogue. It offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of traditional services and is respectful of other practices. Undergraduate writing in psychology: learning to tell the scientific story From Barnes and Noble: This book takes readers step by step through crafting research questions or theses; executing library database searches; analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing literature; and drafting specific parts of a paper. Writing samples, including two full length student papers in draft, marked up, and final form, illustrate key concepts such as how to synthesize literature, how revision differs from editing, and how to recognize and avoid plagiarism. 2

3 Rastafari: a very short introduction From the jacket: Ennis B. Edmonds provides a concise account of this widespread, but often poorly understood, movement by exploring the essential history of Rastafari, its principles and practices, its global spread, and its far reaching influence on cultural and artistic production in the Caribbean and beyond. Martyrdom: a very short introduction From Barnes and Noble: One person's "martyr" is another person's "terrorist," and one person's "martyrdom operation" is another's "suicide bombing." Suicide attacks around the world have raised many troubling questions about martyrdom. What is martyrdom? Why are some people drawn towards giving up their lives as martyrs? What place does religion play in inciting and creating martyrs? How are martyrs made? In order to answer such questions and to understand the contemporary debates about martyrdom, this Very Short Introduction considers martyrdom's diverse roots Spirituality: a very short introduction From Barnes and Noble: This Very Short Introduction, written by one of the most eminent scholars and writers on spirituality, explores the historical foundations of spirituality and considers how it came to have the significance it has today. The notion of spirituality, Philip Sheldrake notes, expresses the fact that many people are driven by goals that concern more than material satisfaction. Broadly, it refers to the deepest values and sense of meaning by which people seek to live. Sometimes these values are conventionally religious. Sometimes they are associated with what is understood as "the sacred" in a broader sense that is, of ultimate rather than merely instrumental importance. Looking at spirituality in religion, philosophy, anthropology, and 3

4 psychology, Sheldrake sheds light on the concept of the spiritual "experience" and considers the impact and transformation it can have on individuals and on society. Essential Hinduism From Library Journal: Rosen (Introduction to the World's Major Religions) is the ideal author to unravel the mystery of this diverse and complex faith. As editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies, he is especially qualified in his highlighting of Vaishnavism, the most popular form of Hinduism, throughout. The book is made up of 13 chapters and is divided into two conceptual parts: "The Basis," which focuses on Hinduism's history and holy texts, and "The Practice," which discusses philosophical ideas and specific practices such as vegetarianism, meditation, and worship... Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking From Publishers Weekly: A grab bag of metaphors and thought experiments, some more enlightening than others, structure this scattershot treatise on the philosophy of mind. Tufts philosophy professor Dennett (Consciousness Explained) rehashes favorite themes from previous works: how consciousness arises from the brain s decentralized information processing; how Darwinian natural selection explains the development of complex structure from simple origins in innumerable contexts; how computers and artificial intelligence make potent explanatory models of the mind; the existence of free will in a deterministic universe. 4

5 Thought: a very short introduction From Barnes and Noble: In this compelling Very Short Introduction, Tim Bayne offers a compact but wide ranging account of the nature of thought, drawing upon philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology. Bayne touches on a stimulating array of topics. Does thinking occur in public or is it a purely private affair? Do young children and non human animals think? Is human thought the same everywhere, or are there culturally specific modes of thought? What is the relationship between thought and language? What kind of responsibility do we have for our thoughts? In what ways can the process of thinking go wrong? Beginning with questions about what thought is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of mental states, he explores the logical structures of thought as well as the mechanisms that make thought possible. APA College Dictionary of psychology From Barnes and Noble: Condensed from the critically acclaimed APA Dictionary of Psychology in a compact, lightweight, paperback format, the APA College Dictionary of Psychology answers students' specific informational needs from advanced placement high school psychology classes to introductory Psych 101 courses and beyond. Students will be able to successfully navigate all levels of psychology courses with this authoritative, look up resource for study and reference. The Human Spark: the science of human development From Publishers Weekly: As developmental psychologist Kagan (The Nature of the Child) so astutely points out, a great deal of what we know about human development isn t firmly anchored in empirical science. He aims to correct that by encouraging readers to question received knowledge about the forces that transform infants into children, children into adolescents, and adolescents into adults, and he does so by presenting an insightful discussion of the epistemology of psychology, alongside biting critiques of the methodologies used in psychological research and the social applications of misinterpreted findings (he sees attachment parenting, for example, as woefully ill advised) 5

6 Pieces of light From Publishers Weekly: Psychologist Fernyhough (A Thousand Days of Wonder) aims to debunk the myth that memory is purely retrospective memories, he argues, are not heirloom from the past summoned back for display in the present; they are momentary reconstructions. Fernyhough contends that neuroscience is crucial in solving the puzzle of memory, but his primary means of shedding light on the topic is through personal and historical anecdotes... What is abundantly clear throughout is that remembering has always been a deeply imaginative process. Few of Fernyhough s points stand out as groundbreaking, but his notion of memory as a way of being with other people is a refreshingly social take on an intensely personal experience. Christine Kocourek Library Services Assistant Advanced University of Wisconsin Manitowoc 705 Viebahn St. Manitowoc, WI "Be content to act and leave the talking to others." Baltasar Gracian 6