Thursday, March 24, 2011

March 24, 2011, New Items in the Library

New Non-Fiction Books
Children's Books Too Good to Miss by Arbuthnot
In Search of a Leader by Dingman
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Diamond
Gun, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies by Diamond
Election Connection by Susan Ring (junior level)
The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Science (junior level)
A Science Project by DeWitt (junior level)
100 Award-winning Science Fair Projects (junior level)
Physics by Green (junior level)
Planet Earth by Davis (junior level)
Hurricanes by Hood (junior level)
Tornadoes! by Rose (junior level)
Tornadoes by Seymour (junior level)
Thunder and Lightning by Cutts (junior level)
Spiders by Bason (junior level)
Usborne Internet-linked First Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by Taplin (junior level)
Life in the Oceans by Baker (junior level)
The Usborne Internet-linked First Encyclopedia of Animals (junior level)
Sharks by Seymour (junior level)
Whales by Seymour (junior level)
The Friendly Dolphins by Lauber (junior level)
Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child When a Parent is Sick by Raunch
Romio wa Julliet=Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare [Korean]
Romio to Jurietto=Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare [Japanese]
T'olsut'oi tanp'yonson=Tolstoy's Short Stories [Korean]
Pin wei hangzhou=Aspects of Hangzhou [Chinese]
The American Patriot's Almanac by William Bennett

New DVDs
Radio
Blindside

New Professional Books
WonderScience: Over 400 Hands-on Elementary Science Activities
The Best of WonderScience: over 200 Hands-on Elementary Science Activities

New Reference Books
Junia, ank Wa-Ei jiten=The Junior Anchor Japanese-English Dictionary
Eerdmans' Atlas of the Bible: with A-Z Guide to Places (junior level)

New Oversized Book
Roy DeCarava,Photographs by Roy DeCarava

New Fiction Books
The Allies by Cavanaugh [book6 in American Family series]
The Pioneers by Cavanaugh [book 5 in American Family series]
Puhwal=Voskesenie=Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy [Korean--2 volumes]
The Present of Love by Chee Mun Yang [Korean]

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011 New Items in the Library

New Non-Fiction CDs (and books on tape)
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Money Game by Peter Navarro
The Masters of Enterprise by H.W. Brands
The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande
Songs of the Civil War
Battle Cry of Freedom [Robert Shaw]
Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt [Shakespeare]
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1776 by David G. McCullough
Harry S. Truman by Robert Dalleck

New Fiction CDs (books on tape)
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
1984 by George Orwell
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

New Non-Fiction Books
The Templars by Piers Paul Read
To Lead the World: American strategy after the Bush Doctrine
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
The Woman With the Worm in Her Head by Pamela Nagami
The Tarantula in My Purse by Jean Craighead George
Leonardo da Vince by Sherwin Nuland
No Shortcuts to the Top: climbing the world's 14 highest peaks by Ed Viesturs
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Echomaker by Richard Powers
46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense and the turning point to American independence by Scott Liell

New Fiction Books
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by W. R. Philbrick
Abe: a Novel by Richard Slotkin [Abraham Lincoln]
Ku kyoul ui kkut=Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton [Korean edition]

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

March 8, 2011 New Books on the NEW Shelf in the Library

The Human Embryo: Research Debates by Ronald Green
A Farewell to Alms: a Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
Mr. China: a Memoir by Tim Clissold
Blood: an Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases by Laurie Garrett
The Great Influenza by John Barry
Scourge: the Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan Tucker
Stem Cell Now by Christopher Scott
The Dressing Station: a Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine by Jonathan Kaplan
Air and Space: the National Museum by Andrew Chaikin
Flight: My Life in Mission Control by Chris Kraft
Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography
Sailing Alone Around the Room: Poems by Billy Collins
Humbolt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation by Jeffrey Meyers
In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by C. Alexander
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass
The Armada by Garrett Mattingly
Henry VIII by Alison Weir
London: a Social History by Roy Porter
The Great Fire of London: 1666 by Neil Hanson
Ghost Wars: the Secret History of the CIA by Steve Coll
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought the Civil War by James McPherson
Hardtack and Coffee: the Unwritten Story of Army Life by John Billings
Gettysburg: a Testing of Courage by Noah Trudeau
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Age of Reagen by Sean Wilentz
The Lost Tribe: a Harrowing Passage Into New Guinea's Heart of Darkness by E. Marriott

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

New CDs and DVDs for March

New Videos and DVDs
  1. Life on the Edge by James Dobson [4 videocassettes and leader's guide]
  2. The End Times: in the Words of Jesus
  3. Breakthrough [life of James Fraser, missionary to the Lisu people]
  4. 1040: Christianity in the New Asia by Jaeson Ma
  5. Awakening Cambodia by Joyce Marcarell
  6. On Board Air Force One
  7. Canciones de Mi Padre=Songs of my father
  8. The Charlie Chaplin Collection
  9. Fireproof
  10. Hoop Dreams
  11. Invictus
  12. A State of Mind [North Korean gymnastics]
  13. Encounters at the End of the Word [Antarctica]
  14. King Tut's Final Secrets
  15. Tut: the Boy King
  16. Enola Gay [plane that dropped the atom bomb]

New CDs and Books on Tape
  1. Big Picture Investing by Peter Navarro
  2. Einstein: his life and universe by Walter Isaacson
  3. Old Guard and Fife Drum Corps: Spirit of America
  4. Wealth and Wisdom by Benjamin Franklin
  5. Rip Van Winkle and other stories by Washington Irving
  6. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  7. Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin
  8. Sailing to the Edge of the World: journeys of the great explorers by Glyndwr Williams
  9. To Rule Mankind and Make the World Obey: a history of ancient Rome by Frances Titchener
  10. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
  11. The Whiskey Rebellion by William Hogeland
  12. Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief by James McPherson
  13. The Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Boritt
  14. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Monday, February 21, 2011

New Items February 2011

New Reference Books
Seisho: waei taisho=Good News Bible [Japanese version]
English-Korean Dictionary of English for Studying Abroad
English-Korean Dictiontary of Physics and Chemistry for Studying Abroad
English-Korean Dictionary of Social Studies for Studying Abroad

New CD [book on tape]
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [11 discs, 12 hours]


New Fiction Books

Hwassi 451=Fahrenheit 451 by Roy Bradbury [Korean edition]
Taeji=The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck [Korean edition]
Green by Ted Dekker (Circle Series; book 0)
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Liao bu qi de Gaicibi=The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Chinese edition]
Chuhong kaeulssi=The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tuck by Stephen Lawhead (Raven King Series; book 3)
Prizrak Opery=Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux [Russian edition]
Akage no an=Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery [Japanese edition]
Hok ulberi P'in ui mohom=Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain [Korean edition]

New Non-Fiction Books
Answers for Chicken Little : a No-nonsense Look at Revelation by Dan Boone
The Grad's Guide to Choosing Well: Wisdom for Life on Your Own
Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet
Daniel haksuppop by Tong-hwan Kim [Korean Christian college student]
Science Fair Workshop by Marcia Daab
60 Super Simple Science Experiments by Q. L. Pearce
Science Experiments and Amusements by Charles Vivian
Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings
Chinese Cultural Art Treasures by Li Gu Guo
Watercolor Painting Techniques by David Lewis
Gedichte by Heinrich Heine [Japanese version of German poetry]
T'olsut'oi tanp'yonson by Leo Tolstoy [short stories of Tolstoy in Korean version]
The History of the West [Korean edition]
China: the Dream of Man? by Tore Ulf Zetterhom

Friday, February 4, 2011

New Items This Month

Several generous donations added to our collection here in the academy library. Here are some of the new DVDs, CDs and books displayed on the New Items Shelf by the newspapers in front of the library check-out desk:

DVDs
The Lord of the Flies
Amish Grace (true story of forgiveness after the slaughter of several Amish schoolgirls)
Rascal by Sterling North (Walt Disney)
It's a Wonderful Life

CDs
Beowulf: translated and read by Seamus Heaney (BBC)

Books (non-fiction)
The National Atlas of Korea (over-sized book)
Teaching to Change Lives
by Howard Hendricks (professional interest book)
Redesigning Humans by Gregory Stock
(genetic future)
20 Hot Potatoes Christians are Afraid to Touch
by Tony Campolo
Find the Freedom of Self-Control
by William Backus
Master Your Money
by Ron Blue
Debt-Free Living by Larry Burkett
Mind over Money by Wayne Nance
Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
The FBI Career Guide by Joseph W. Koletar
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Moose Country by Micahel Runtz
Better Body Management by Stormie Omartian
Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging by Bettyann Kelves
A Whale Hunt by Robert Sullivan
The Key to Your Child's Heart by Gary Smalley
Introduction to Backpacking by Robert Colwell
Backpacking by Rick Greenspan
Backpacking One Step at a Time by Harvey Manning
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston (boy who cut his own arm off to save his life after a hiking accident)
Wildwater by Lito Tejada-Flores (kayaking and whitewater boating)
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton (sinking of the USS Indianapolis in WWII)
Saratoga by Richard M. Ketchum (battle in the American Revolution)
Andrew Jackson and the Indian Wars by Robert Vincent Remini
Abraham Lincoln by George S. McGovern


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

New DVDs and Books on CD in the Library

Look for these on the NEW shelf next to the newspapers in front of the check-out desk:

New DVDs (Ancient Civilizations for Children Series--most 23 minutes long)
Ancient Aegean--
Ancient Africa--
Ancient Aztec: the Fall of the Empire--
Ancient Aztec Empire--
Ancient China--
Ancient Egypt--
Ancient Greece--
Ancient Inca--
Ancient Maya--
Ancient Mesopotamia--
Ancient Rome
Art DVDs
Drawing Lessons: Drawing Simple Shapes--
Andy Warhol--
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
More History DVDs
Newscast From the Past: September 19, 1356--
Newscast From the Past: May 30, 1431--
Everyday Life in the Renaissance--
A History of the Renaissance--
Secrets of the Civil War: lost battles and covert missions--
Teddy Roosevelt: an American lion--
Johnny Tremain (Walt Disney)

New Books on CD
The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis (includes a DVD as well)
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Making the Rounds with Oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat by Dr. David Dosa (a true story about a cat who comforts people in a nursing home)
Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush