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BOOKS
College, Gary L. 2012. God
and Charles Dickens: Recovering the Christian Voice of a Classic Author.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
Paper. 202 p.
$19.99.
Dourish, Paul & Genevieve Bell. 2011.
Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology
in Ubiquitous Computing.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cloth.
248 p. $32.
Dyson, George. 2012. Turing’s
Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.
New York: Pantheon Books.
Cloth. 401 p.
$29.95.
Firestone, Chris L. & Nathan A. Jacobs, eds. 2012.
The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre
Dame Press. Paper. 412 p. $40.
Gelernter, David. 2012. America-Lite: How
Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture
(and Ushered in the Obamacrats).
New York: Encounter Books. Cloth.
185 p. $23.99.
Gschwandtner, Christina M. 2013. Postmodern
Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy.
New York: Fordham University Press.
Paper. 352 p. $27.
Gushee, David P. 2013. The Sacredness of
Human Life: Why an Ancient Biblical Vision
Is Key to the World’s Future.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. Cloth.
461 p. $35.
Hancock, Ralph C. 2011. Calvin
and the Foundations of Modern Politics. South Bend, IN:
St. Augustine’s Press.
Paper. 221 p.
$24.
Kandel, Eric R. 2012. The
Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind
and Brain From Vienna 1900 to the
Present. New York: Random House.
Cloth. 616 p.
$40.
Kuyper, Abraham. 2011. Wisdom
& Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art. Tr.
Nelson D.
Kloosterman. Grand
Rapids, MI: Christian’s Library Press. Paper.
191 p. $14.99.
Lyons, Gabe. 2012. The Next Christians: Seven Ways You Can Live
the Gospel and
Restore the World. Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah
Books. Paper. 249 p. $14.99.
Malloch, Theodore Roosevelt. 2011. Doing Virtuous Business: The
Remarkable Success
of Spiritual Enterprise. Nashville, TN: Thomas
Nelson Press. Cloth. 169 p. $21.99.
Maritain, Jacques. 2011. Scholasticism and Politics.
Tr. Mortimer J. Adler.
Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund. Paper. 248 p.
$14.50.
Mitchell, Mark T. & Nathan Schlueter, eds. 2011. The Humane
Vision of Wendell Berry.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Cloth. 334 p.
$29.95.
Nagel, Thomas. 2012. Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian
Conception of Nature
Is Almost Certainly False. New York: Oxford
University Press. Cloth. 130 p. $24.95.
Polis, Dennis F. 2012. God, Science and Mind: The Irrationality of
Naturalism.
Fontana, CA: Xianphil Press. Paper. 303 p.
$27.95.
Roche, Mark William. 2010. Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press. Paper. 198 p. $20.
Segel, Harold B., ed. 2012. The Walls Behind the Curtain: East
European Prison Literature, 1945-1990.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Paper.
436 p. $35.
Seung, Sebastian. 2012. Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us
Who We Are.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Cloth. 359 p.
$27.
Spaemann, Robert. 2012. Love
and the Dignity of Human Life: On Nature and Natural Law.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Paper. 79 p.
$12.
Taliaferro, Charles. 2013. The Golden Cord: A
Short Book on the Secular and the Sacred.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre
Dame Press. Paper. 206 p. $29.
Taylor, F. Flagg IV, ed. 2011. The Great Lie:
Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology
and Totalitarianism.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Paper.
658 p. $30.
Toft, Monica Duffy, Daniel Philpott & Timothy S. Shah. 2011.
God’s Century: Resurgent Religion
and Global Politics.
New York: Norton. Cloth.
276 p. $25.95.
Valčo, Michal & Daniel Slivka, eds. 2012.
Christian Churches in Post-Communist
Slovakia:
Current Challenges and
Opportunities. Salem, VA: Roanoke College.
Cloth. 546 p.
$25.
Wolf, Koenraad De. 2013. Dissident
for Life: Alexander Ogorodnikov and the Struggle for Religious Freedom
in Russia. Tr.
Nancy Forest-Flier. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Cloth. 303 p.
$28.
Zimmermann, Jens. 2012. Incarnational
Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church
in the World.
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic.
Paper. 357 p.
$30.
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