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Books Added to Benner Library from Estate of Dr. William Foote Books added to Benner Library from estate of Dr. William Foote # CALL NUMBER TITLE Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature / by L.D. Reynolds and N.G. 1 001.2 R335s, 1991 Wilson. 2 001.2 Se15e Emerson on the scholar / Merton M. Sealts, Jr. 3 001.3 R921f Future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo. 4 001.30711 G163a Academic instincts / Marjorie Garber. Book of the book : some works & projections about the book & writing / edited by Jerome Rothenberg and 5 002 B644r Steven Clay. 6 002 OL5s Smithsonian book of books / Michael Olmert. 7 002 T361g Great books and book collectors / Alan G. Thomas. 8 002.075 B29g Gentle madness : bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books / Nicholas A. Basbanes. 9 002.09 B29p Patience & fortitude : a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Books of the brave : being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the 10 002.098 L552b sixteenth-century New World / Irving A. Leonard ; with a new introduction by Rolena Adorno. 11 020.973 R824f Foundations of library and information science / Richard E. Rubin. 12 021.009 J631h, 1976 History of libraries in the Western World / by Elmer D. Johnson and Michael H. Harris. 13 025.2832 B175d Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker. London booksellers and American customers : transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library 14 027.2 R196L Society, 1748-1811 / James Raven. 15 028 Sa16s Space between words : the origins of silent reading / Paul Saenger. 16 028.5 Sp49i Inside picture books / Ellen Handler Spitz. 17 028.9 B29e Every book its reader : the power of the printed word to stir the world / Nicholas A. Basbanes. 18 028.9 J134f Fear of books / Holbrook Jackson. 19 028.9 J134m Marginalia : readers writing in books / H.J. Jackson. 20 028.9092 F126e Ex libris : confessions of a common reader / Anne Fadiman. All there is to know : readings from the illustrious eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica / edited by 21 031 AL51c Alexander Coleman and Charles Simmons. Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Britannica : more than two centuries of facts, curiosities, and discoveries from 22 031 T725f the most distinguished reference work of all time / general editor, Clifton Fadiman, contributing editors, Bruce L. Felknor, Robert McHenry. 23 032.02 M257n Norris McWhirter's book of millennium records : the story of human achievement in the last 2000 years. 24 034 B621e Enlightening the world : Encyclope¿¿die, the book that changed the course of history / Philipp Blom. 25 051 G624r Republic of words : the Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / Susan Goodman. 26 051 Sch58d Dream of a new social order : popular magazines in America, 1893-1914 / Matthew Schneirov. 27 051.0904 Y1a About town : the New Yorker and the world it made / Ben Yagoda. 28 070.9 D72s Social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture / Brendan Dooley. World War II on the air : Edward R. Murrow and the broadcasts that riveted a nation / Mark Bernstein & Alex 29 070.92 B458w Lubertozzi ; CD narrated by Dan Rather. Press effect : politicians, journalists, and the stories that shape the political world / Kathleen Hall Jamieson & 30 071.3 J242p Paul Waldman. American Aurora : a Democratic-Republican returns : the suppressed history of our nation's beginnings and the 31 071.3 R724a heroic newspaper that tried to report it / Richard N. Rosenfeld ; foreword by Edmund S. Morgan. 32 100 Ar33e Essays in understanding, 1930-1954 / Hannah Arendt ; edited by Jerome Kohn. 33 111.85 W421d Discipline of taste and feeling / Charles Wegener. Wisdom of the world : the human experience of the universe in Western thought / Re¿¿mi Brague ; translated 34 113 B73w by Teresa Lavender Fagan. 35 116 St35g Grammars of creation : originating in the Gifford Lectures for 1990 / George Steiner. 36 117 T216m Moment of complexity : emerging network culture / Mark C. Taylor. 37 121 W67t Truth & truthfulness : an essay in genealogy / Bernard Williams. Page 1 Books added to Benner Library from estate of Dr. William Foote # CALL NUMBER TITLE Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas 38 121.5 H355d Jefferson and Emily Dickinson / Jennifer Michael Hecht. 39 126 J954u-L Undiscovered self / by C. G. Jung ; translated from the German by R.F.C. Hull. 40 128 Z37i Intimate history of humanity / Theodore Zeldin. 41 133.43 F646r Rise of magic in early medieval Europe / Valerie I.J. Flint. 42 141 G317o German idealism : an anthology and guide / edited by Brian O'Connor and Georg Mohr. 43 142.78 C826e Existential America / George Cotkin. 44 146 Am35r American philosophic naturalism in the twentieth century / edited by John Ryder. 45 149.8 G412n Nihilism before Nietzsche / Michael Allen Gillespie. 46 150.1 K119t Three seductive ideas / Jerome Kagan. 47 150.1952 G253g Godless Jew : Freud, atheism, and the making of psychoanalysis / Peter Gay. 48 152.1 Ac57n Natural history of the senses / Diane Ackerman. 49 152.4 G256h Hatred : the psychological descent into violence / Willard Gaylin. Envy : a theory of social behaviour / by Helmut Schoeck ; [translated from the German by Michael Glenny and 50 152.434 Sch62e Betty Ross]. Mirror : a history / Sabine Melchior-Bonnet ; translated by Katharine H. Jewett ; with a preface by Jean 51 155.91 M481m Delumeau. 52 155.924 Su56b Born to rebel : birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives / Frank J. Sulloway. 53 170 N317e Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy / Susan Neiman. Comparative study of the origins of ethical thought : Hellenism and Hebraism / Seizo¿¿ Sekine ; translated by 54 170.9 Se47c Judy Wakabayashi. 55 170.973 B644r Real American ethics : taking responsibility for our country / Albert Borgmann. 56 171.3 C315c Cities of words : pedagogical letters on a register of the moral life / Stanley Cavell. 57 172 Ar33r Responsibility and judgment / Hannah Arendt ; edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn. Flight from truth : the reign of deceit in the age of information / Jean-Franc¿¿ois Revel ; translated from the 58 177.3 R321f French by Curtis Cate. 59 179.7 Sm61f Fools, martyrs, traitors : the story of martyrdom in the Western world / Lacey Baldwin Smith. 60 181.06 P547y, 1993 Works of Philo : complete and unabridged / translated by C.D. Yonge. 61 188 M334m-b Meditations / Marcus Aurelius ; translated by George Long. 62 189 M961r, 1985 Reason and society in the Middle Ages / by Alexander Murray. 63 189.4 Aq55yd Thomas Aquinas : contemporary philosophical perspectives / edited by Brian Davies. 64 189.4 Aq55ykr Cambridge companion to Aquinas / edited by Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump. Aristotle's children : how Christians, Muslims, and Jews rediscovered ancient wisdom and illuminated the Dark 65 189.4 R823a Ages / Richard E. Rubenstein. 66 190 C273p Philosophy of the enlightenment; translated by Fritz C.A. Koelln and James P. Pettegrove. 67 190 C723p Columbia history of Western philosophy / edited by Richard H. Popkin. 68 190 H235i Infinity and perspective / Karsten Harries. 69 191 R952j John Dewey and the high tide of American liberalism / by Alan Ryan. 70 191.08997 Am35w American Indian thought : philosophical Essays / edited by Anne S. Waters. Coleridge and German idealism; a study in the history of philosophy with unpublished materials from 71 192 C679yo Coleridge's manuscripts, by G.N.G. Orsini. Magus of the north : J.G. Hamann and the origins of modern irrationalism / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry 72 193 B455m Hardy. 73 193 M522f Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris. 74 193 P655g German philosophy, 1760-1860 : the legacy of idealism / Terry Pinkard. 75 195 C871yr Benedetto Croce and the uses of historicism / David D. Roberts. 76 195 G435w Wooden eyes : nine reflections on distance / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper. 77 197 C355m Motherland : a philosophical history of Russia / Lesley Chamberlain. Fear and trembling : dialectical lyric by Johannes de silentio / Kierkegaard ; translated with an introduction by 78 198.9 K546f-h, 2003 Alastair Hannay. All things shining : reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age / Hubert Dreyfus and Sean 79 200 D826a Dorrance Kelly. Page 2 Books added to Benner Library from estate of Dr. William Foote # CALL NUMBER TITLE 80 200 F825h Founders on religion : a book of quotations / James H. Hutson, editor. 81 200 G231d Disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion / Marcel Gauchet ; translated by Oscar Burge. 82 200 M522j H.L. Mencken on religion / edited by S.T. Joshi. 83 200.9 Ar57b, 2001 Battle for God / Karen Armstrong. World treasury of modern religious thought / edited by Jaroslav Pelikan ; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman, 84 200.9034 W893p general editor. New religious America : how a "Christian country" has now become the world's most religiously diverse nation 85 200.92 Ec51n / Diana L. Eck. 86 200.94 G812r Religion in Europe at the end of the second millennium : a sociological profile / Andrew M. Greeley. Lessing and the Enlightenment : his philosophy of religion and its relation to eighteenth-century thought / 87 201 L566ya Henry E. Allison. When they severed earth from sky : how the human mind shapes myth / Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. 88 201.3 B233w Barber. How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by 89 201.3 B776h Catherine Tihanyi. 90 201.65 W776m Measure of God : our century-long struggle to reconcile science & religion / Larry Witham. 91 202.3 Se37 Life after death : a history of the afterlife in Western religion / Alan F.
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