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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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