Recent additions to stock (Nonfiction and Reference)

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Selected recent additions, Feb-Mar 2010

Karen Armstrong
The case for God : what religion really means (London : The Bodley Head, 2009) Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun now a campaigner for religious liberty, traces the history of religious faith through the ages and discusses how in modern times science and religion have become estranged. She suggests that in spite of seeming contradictions faith still has a role in the twenty-first century.

Stanley Feldman and Vincent Marks
Global warming and other bollocks (London : Metro Publishing, 2009) Two professors of medicine seek to debunk the myths and half-truths, as they see them, which politicians and pressure groups are using to make us all feel guilty about our behaviour and frightened about our futures. Global warming, obesity, and assorted medical scares come under fire in this well-presented work of popular science.

Global warming and other bollocks / Sranley Feldman and Vincent Marks

David Priestland
The red flag: Communism and the making of the modern world (London : Allen Lane, 2009) The rise and fall of Communism is a dominant theme in the history of the twentieth century. Priestland shows how varied a phenomenon it was, from Bolshevik Russia to China, the Iron Curtain countries, the Communist parties of post-war western Europe, and the Communist regimes of the Third World, some of which are still in power today.

The red flag : Comunism and the making of the modern world / David Priestland

Francis Wheen
Strange days indeed (London : 4th Estate, 2009) The nineteen-seventies, as a decade, has always languished in the shadow of the sixties. Guardian and Private Eye colmnist Wheen subtitles his survey of the seventies, the era of Nixon in the White House, Harold Wilson in Downing Street, and Abba in the pop charts, as the 'Golden Age of Paranoia'.

Nóirín Ní Riain
Listen with the ear of the heart : an autobiography (Dublin : Veritas, 2009) The Limerick-born singer who has made several records of Gregorian chant with the monks of Glenstal Abbey introduces us to the theology of sound, which has become the staple of her spiritual life. For this she has coined the word 'theosony', from the Greek Theos (God) and sonans (sounding).

Listen with the ear of the heart : an autobiography / Nóirín Ní Riain

Ken Douglas
The downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland (Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2009) 'Take great heed lest you fall upon the island of Ireland' the leader of the Spanish Armada told his captains, as they made their way up the North Sea to find safe passage home to Spain in the autumn of 1588. His words were prophetic as 24 Spanish ships were wrecked off the north and west coasts of Ireland in that journey. Douglas tells the story of each of the doomed vessels and investigates the fate of survivors in a war-torn island.

The downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland / Ken Douglas

Brenda Costigan
From Brenda's kitchen : 100 favourite recipes (Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2009) Costigan, food writer for the Sunday Independent, assembles her top 100 recipes. In contrast to many more glossy cookbooks, one can imagine oneself preparing and eating these dishes, which range from soups to starters, roasts, fish, and desserts.

From Brenda's kitchen : 100 favourite recipes / Brenda Costigan

Michael Hunter
Boyle : between God and science (New Haven and london : Yale University Press, 2009) Known to every schoolgoer for Boyle's Law, Robert Boyle, the son of the Earl of Cork and born at Lismore Castle, stood between the old and the new, when alchemy was giving way to science and scientific discoveries were beginning to cast doubt on Divine Revelation. Michael Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London and an expert in science and culture in early modern England.

Boyle : between God and science / Michael Hunter

Edward Kennedy
True compass : an autobiography (London : Little Brown, 2009) Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009, worked for five years on this account of his troubled yet ultimately successful life in American politics. Scarred by the deaths of his brothers, alcoholism, sexual scandal, and family misfortune, he went on to become one of the great American legislators, remaining a consistent voice for liberal values and fair play in the Reagan and Bush eras, and endorsing change with his championship of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

True compass : an autobiography / Edward Kennedy

Jonathan Carr
The Wagner clan (London : Faber, 2009) Carr, a regular visitor to the Bayreuth Festival, tells how the descendants of composer Richard Wagner became entangled with Nazism and anti-Semitism, and sees in their turbulent lives a reflection of German politics and society in the twentieth century.

Chris Evans
It's not what you think (London : HarperCollins, 2009) A lighter choice, this entertaining autobiography fills in the background of the British television personality from his childhood in a working class estate in the British midlands to his current superstar status. He has been part of many successful radio and TV shows including 'The Big Breakfast', and 'Don't forget your toothbrush'.

Further suggestions from your local librarian at the following links: Adult Lending (Grand Parade), Bishopstown , Douglas , Tory-Top , Mayfield , St. Mary's Road , and Hollyhill

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