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Acquisition Monograph New Additions

A detailed title list, by fiscal year, of monographs ordered and received by the Acquisitions department for the library collection.

New Monograph Additions, Fiscal Year 2026

The following titles were ordered and received June-August, 2025:

  • Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction by Mary Ziegler
  • Passing the Torch: An Apology for Classical Christian Education by Louis Markos
  • Moral Reflections on the Book of Job, Volume 5: Books 23-27 (Volume 260) (Cistercian Studies Series) by Gregory the Great
  • Moral Reflections on the Book of Job, Volume 6: Books 28-36 (Vol. 261) (Cisterian Studies Series) by Gregory the Great
  • Catholic Dogmatic Theory: A Synthesis: Book 4: On Creation and the Creator (Thomistic Ressourcement Series) by Jean-Herve Nicolas
  • Natural Law: Five Views (CriticalPoints Series) by Zondervan
  • The Spiritual Formation of Seminarians: Learning to Live in Intimate and Unceasing Union with God by James Keating
  • How to Mentor Anyone in Academia (Skills for Scholars) by Maria LaMonaca Wisdom
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion) edited by George Hunsinger
  • Flannery O'Connor and Blaise Pascal: Recovering the Incarnation for the Modern Mind by Ann Hartle
  • All Creation Is Connected: Voices in Response to Pope Francis's Encyclical on Ecology by Daniel R. DiLeo
  • Nature and Grace: A New Approach to Thomistic Ressourcement by Andrew Dean Swafford
  • Discourse on Free Will (Bloomsbury Revelations) by Desiderius Erasmus (replacement copy)
  • Biblical Natural Law: A Theocentric and Teleological Approach by Matthew Levering 
  • Plato's Pragmatism: Rethinking the Relationship Between Ethics and Epistemology by Nicholas R. Baima
  • Maritain and America (American Maritain Association Publications) by Christopher M. Cullen
  • Heidegger's Being and Time: Paraphrased and Annotated, Volume 1 (New Heidegger Research) by Thomas Sheehan
  • In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet
  • Reflection and Choice: The Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, and the Debate that Defined America by Gary L. Gregg II
  • Heidegger on Transcendence (Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger) by Chad Engelland
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics (Contemporary Contin Philosophy) by Dieter Misgeld
  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes (replacement copy)
  • The Divine Comedy: Inferno: Purgatorio: Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri (replacement copy)
  • Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence by Valerie L. Gager
  • Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library) by Cormac McCarthy (two copies)
  • Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century by Gail Marshall
  • Last Impressions: Jane Austen's Endings by Theresa M. Kenney
  • Conrad's Drama (Conrad Studies, 11) by John G. Peters
  • Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues (Chaucer Studies, Vol. 7) by Barry A. Windeatt
  • A Little Order: A Selection from His Journalism by Evelyn Waugh
  • Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the "Divine Comedy" by Olivia Holmes
  • T. S. Eliot's Ariel Poems: Making Sense of the Times (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) by Anna Budziak
  • Psychology and the Human Dilemma by Rollo May (two copies) (one replacement copy)
  • Dante and Renaissance Florence (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 56) by Simon A. Gilson
  • Poetry's Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody by Meredith Martin
  • The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities) by Charles I. Armstrong
  • Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry by Adam Plunkett
  • William Blake and the Sea Monster's of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World by Philip Hoare
  • A History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian
  • Letters from Rousseau: Selected Correspondence (Agora Editions) by Eve Grace
  • A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page (Toronto Iberic) by Howard Mancing
  • Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act: Second Edition (Introductions to Catholic Doctrine) by Steven Long
  • Helena by Evelyn Waugh (replacement copy)
  • Milton's Teleological Process: Reading De Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost by Jason A. Kerr
  • The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius (replacement copy)
  • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts and Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph (replacement copy)
  • Purgatorio  by Dante Alighieri (replacement copy)
  • Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (replacement copy)
  • Stephen Langton: Quaestiones Theologiae: Liber III, Vol. 1 (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 36) by Magdalena Bieniak
  • Stephen Langton: Quaestiones Theologiae: Liber III, Vol. 2 (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 40) by Magdalena Bieniak
  • Stephen Langton: Quaestiones Theologiae: Liber III, Vol. 3 (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 45) by Magdalena Bieniak
  • The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus by Lucretius (replacement copy)
  • Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by David N. Sedley (replacement copy)
  • The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
  •  Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Monica R. Gale
  • Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future by James I. Porter (replacement copy)
  • Oxford Readings in Lucretius (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Monica R. Gale (replacement copy)
  • Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism by Robert Gooding-Williams (replacement copy)
  • Nietzsche and Asian Thought by Graham Parkes (replacement copy)
  • The Invention of Dionysus by James I. Porter (replacement copy)
  • Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Freidrich Nietzsche (replacement copy)
  • On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich William Nietzsche (replacement copy)
  • The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
  • Twilight of the Idols (Hackett Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche (replacement copy)
  • The Will to Power (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Einletung in die Philosophie: Vorlesungen 1922/23 (Husserliana) (German Edition) by Edmund Husserl
  • Lucretius as Theorist of Political Life (Recovering Political Philosophy) by John Colman (replacement copy)
  • Motivation and the Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knoweldge (Series in Continental Thought) by Peter Antich
  • The Absent Body by Drew Leder
  • Stumbling Toward Justice: Stories of Place (Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience) by Lee Hoinacki
  • The Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain by Jason L. A. West
  • The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
  • The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance by Bernd Roeck
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
  • The Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education and Culture: Volume 1: From Jesus the Teacher to St. John the Teacher to St. John Henry Newman by Alex E. Lessard
  • The Real Economy: History and Theory by Jonathan Levy
  • Behind the Angel of History: The "Angelus Novus" and Its Interleaf by Annie Bourneuf
  • The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings by Travis Curtright
  • The Holy Innocents: A Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Miguel Delibes
  • The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs (Oxford Handbooks)
  • Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay
  • Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume I (Routledge Revivals 2) by Josef Meri
  • Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume II (Routledge Revivals 2) by Josef Meri
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare/Edited by David Daniell (five copies)
  • Creating Balance? International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals by Stephen Kaiser, et. al.
  • Civis Romanus: A Reader for the First Two Years of Latin by J. M. Cobban (two copies)
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2: Spiritual Master by Jean-Pierre Torrell
  • Newman, Canon Law, and Development: Quarrying Granite Rocks with Razors (Biblioteca Iuris Canonici) by David Long
  • James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories by James Baldwin (replacement copy)
  • Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of e. e. cummings by Richard S. Kennedy (replacement copy)
  • Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology edited by David Young and Keith Hollaman
  • Turtle Diary by Russel Hoban
  • Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
  • The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  • The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  • Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
  • The Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics) by Einhard (replacement copy)
  • e. e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by e. e. cummings (replacement copy)
  • Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato
  • Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews (Cornell Paperbacks) by Michel Foucault (replacement copy)
  • The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History by Moritz Follmer
  • Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle S. Allen
  • How to Read Medieval Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art How to Read) by Wendy A. Stein
  • Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus
  • Cicero: The Man and His Works by Andrew R. Dyck
  • Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (Curti Lecture Series) by Peter Brown
  • The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great (Oxford History of the Christian Church) 
  • Great Powers and Geopolitical Change by Jakub J. Grygiel
  • Explaining America: The Federalist by Gary Wills
  • The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
  • How to Read Portraits (The Metropolitan Museum of Art How to Read) by Kathryn Calley Galitz
  • A History of Early Christian Creeds (DeGruyter Studium) by Wolfram Kinzig
  • Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Reference Guide  (Greenwood Guides to Multicultural Literature) by Howard Mancing
  • Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay by Scott F. Crider (replacement copy)
  • The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (replacement copy)
  • Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking by Dennis Q. McInerny

The following titles were ordered and received September-October, 2025: 

  • The French Revolution: A Political History by John Hardman
  • Une Saison a Rihata
  • Deleuze and Education edited by Inna Semetsky and Diana Masny
  • Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence by Trevor Burnard
  • Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist by Julianne Sandberg
  • Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition by John Milton
  • The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes by R. Baxter Miller
  • Persuasion: A Norton Critical Edition by Jane Austen
  • Staging Story: Five Fundamentals for the Stage Director by Robert Moss
  • Modern Moral Philosophy by Stephen Darwall
  • Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 4: On the Church, Mary, Nature and Grace (Thomistic Ressourcement Series)
  • The Ethos of the Christian Heart: Reading Veritatis Splendor by Adrian J. Reimers
  • Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings, edited by Peter King
  • Amor Dei: A Study of the Religion of St. Augustine by John Burnaby
  • The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud (24 volumes)
  • Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics by Michael Cavanagh
  • Corpus Rhetoricum Tome IV: Prolegomenes au De Ideis (French Ed.) by Michel Patillon
  • Corpus Rhetoricum II (French Ed.) by Michel Patillon
  • Corpus Rhetoricum: Anonyme: Preambule a la rhetorique Aphtonios by Michel Patillon
  • Corpus Rhetoricum: Tome V: Pseudo-Hermogene (French and Ancient Greek Ed.) by Michel Patillon
  • Corpus Rhetoricum: Tome III, Pts. 1 and 2 (French and Greek Ed.) by Michel Patillon
  • The Politics of Desire: Foucault, Deleuze, and Psychoanalysis by Agustin Colombo
  • Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
  • Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and Their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon by A. E. Stallings
  • Three Guineas: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition by Virginia Woolf (two copies)
  • Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Legacy by Donald S. Hair
  • Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity: From Static to Genetic Phenomenology by Husserl
  • Aquinas on Theology and God's Existence: The First Two Questions of the Summa Theologiae Newly Translated and Carefully Explained by Michael Augros
  • Mystery and Intelligibility: History of  Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom by Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
  • John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit by Jeanne Shami
  • Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty by Stephen Richard Turley
  • The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis by Martha C. Nussbaum
  • The Framework of the Federalist: Visualizing the Structure of the Argumentation by Harvey Flaumenhaft
  • The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life by Anahid Nersessian
  • Proglomena (Homer's Iliad, the Basel Commentary)
  • The De Malo of Thomas Aquinas edited by Brian Davies/translated by Richard Regan
  • Holderlin's Hymn "Remembrance" by Martin Heidegger
  • Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind edited by Mark Kremer
  • In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon by Ivan Illich (replacement copy)
  • Huis Clos, Suivi de Les Mouches (French Ed.) by Jean-Paul Sartres (replacement copy)
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hackett Classics) (five replacement copies)
  • The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV by Eric Hart
  • Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology by Ezra Sullivan
  • The Thinking Historian: A Search for History as Understanding by Eric W. Sager
  • Contemplation and the Cross: A Catholic Introduction to the Spiritual Life by Thomas Joseph White
  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 
  • Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) (replacement copy)
  • Greek Tragedies, Vol. 2 (replacement copy)
  • Greek Tragedies, Vol. 3 (replacement copy)
  • Elementary Latin Dictionary (replacement copy)
  • The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume 1 (replacement copy)
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Vintage Classic) (replacement copy)
  • Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Bantam Classics) (replacement copy)
  • Utopia by Thomas More (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (replacement copy)
  • Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Regine Pernoud (replacement copy)
  • Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) (replacement copy)
  • The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth and On Plato's Euthyphro (New Ed.) by Ronna Burger
  • To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
  • Conceptual Harmonies: The Origins and Relevance of Hegel's Logic by Paul Redding
  • Words Made Flesh: The Sacramental Mission of Catholic Education by R. Jared Staudt
  • Opportunities for Learning: A Sociological Perspective by Maureen T. Hallinan
  • Frederick Douglass: A Life in American History by Mark Christian (Black History Lives) 
  • Quixotic Quests: Salvador Dali's First Illustrated Don Quixote by Daniel Holcombe (Toronto Iberic)
  • The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein
  • Inherent Human Dignity: A Philosophical Meditation by Glenn Hughes
  • One (Un)Like the Other: Rethinking Ethics, Empathy, and Transcenence from Husserl to Derrida by Michael F. Andrews
  • Virtue Ethics in Christian Perspective by Robert Campbell Roberts
  • The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation by Doyen T. Nguyen
  • El discurso critico-literario en el siglo XIX hispanico: Criticos, lectores, receptores by Borja Rodriguez Gutierrez (Spanish Ed.)
  • Cicero's Brutus (Oxford Classical monographs)
  • Negotiation: The Game Has Changed by Max. H. Bazerman
  • What Is Quality in Art?: A Meditation Based on European Paintings from the 15th to the 18th Centuries by Alejandro Vergara-Sharp
  • Literature and History in Carlos Fuentes: Imperfect Creations by Roberto Sanchez-Benitez
  • Dante in Conversation with Contemporary Theorists: Insights for the Western Secular Cognoscenti by Blaise Cirelli
  • How to Read Middle English Poetry by Daniel Sawyer
  • Church without the the Church by M. K. Shaddix
  • Middlemarch: A Norton Critical Edition by George Eliot
  • Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition by Howell D. Chickering
  • Teaching Reading in Spanish: A Linguistically Authentic Framework for Emerging Multilinguals by Rocio Castillo-Perez
  • Supremacy and Survival: How Catholics Endured the English Reformation by Stephanie A. Mann (two copies)
  • Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays by Peter J. Ahrensdorf
  • The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage by Jonathan Turley
  • Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Sophie Mills
  • The Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom
  • Gratia non Tollit Naturam: Technologies of the Self and the Catholic Constitution of Time and Space by Philipp Rosemann

The following titles were ordered and received November-December, 2025: 

The following titles were ordered and received January-February, 2026: 

The following titles were ordered and received March-May 2026: