New Library titles 9-15 October are available here. Highlights include:
- The abuse of evil: the corruption of politics and religion since 9/11 by Richard J. Bernstein Library catalogue holdings details
- China as the world factory, edited by Kevin Honglin Zhang Library catalogue holdings details
- Dead centre by Robin Bowles (Joanna Lees and Peter Facolonio) Library catalogue holdings details
- Race against time: searching for hope in AIDS ravaged Africa, by Stephen Lewis Library catalogue holdings details
- Pharmacists talking with patients: a guide to patient counseling by Melanie J. Rantucci Library catalogue holdings details
- The coaching organization: a strategy for developing leaders by James M. Hunt Library
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- Wine by design by Sean Stanwick and Loraine Fowlow Library catalogue holdings details
- Reality television by Richard M. Huff Library catalogue holdings details
- Out of my comfort zone: the autobiography by Steve Waugh Library catalogue holdings details
- Critical reading and writing for postgraduates by Mike Wallace and Alison Wray Library catalogue holdings details
- Online newswriting by K. Tim Wulfemeyer Library catalogue holdings details
- Writing never arrives naked: early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia by Penelope van Toorn Library catalogue holdings details
- Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay Library catalogue holdings details
- Learning to dance: Elizabeth Jolley – her life and work, selected and introduced by Caroline Lurie Library catalogue holdings details
- Somalia : state collapse and the threat of terrorism by Ken Menkhaus Library catalogue holdings details
- Jesus people: the historical Jesus and the beginnings of community by David Cahpole. Library catalogue holdings details
Why do you buy books about Christianity? What about other religions?
Hello “puzzled”,
What makes you think we only buy books about Christianity?
The library Blog shows ‘selected’ new titles, but we buy much more than you see here. The library has weekly “new title lists” available from the library home page. A browse of the library catalogue (keyword subject search for “religion”)or of the shelves at 200, will show you a wealth of titles – mostly held at St Marks in Canberra, as that’s CSU’s centre of theology, but many also at Wagga and Bathurst where they provide background reading for history, politics, sociology, philosophy and also for some theology subjects. Recent titles such as “Religions in global society” cover Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto and “new religions”. “A reader in new religious movements” is about sects & cults. “The sacred wound of Australia” covers Aboriginal religion and we have “African traditional religion in the modern world”. “Muslims, their religious beliefs and practices” and so on. The library endeavours to present a fair and balanced selection of materials to support all courses. I hope these examples go some way towards allaying your concerns,
Library Team.