The Gift of Reading: Brusco Endowment Provides Library With New Books

Thanks to the generous endowment of Richard J. Brusco, Helen A. Brusco and Elizabeth E. Brusco, the McCallie-Kennedy Library was able to purchase 57 new books and DVDs this year. 

The Bruscos' endowment honors the memory of David J. Brusco ’67 and is used to enhance the library’s collection through the purchase of books, periodicals and other materials with preference given to the subjects of history, political science and English literature.

 

Recently, the library was able to purchase the following materials using funds from this gift:

Medium	Title	Author/Studio
Book	Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline	Harvey Bluedorn
Book	Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portugese Expansion to Spanish-American War	Jonathan Hart
Book	Great Jobs for Political Science Majors	Mark Rowh
Book	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl	Timothy Egan
Book	Art of Islam	Titus Buckhardt
Book	Conquerors of Palestine Through Forty Centuries	H.O. Lock, Viscount Allenby
Book	Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age	Christopher A. Rollston
Book	The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet	Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
Book	On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present	Alan Ryan
Book	Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in SouthEast Asia	Eric Tagliacozzo, Wen-Chin Chang
Book	Christianity in the Greco-Roman World	Moyer Hubbard
Book	Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians (Dictionaries of Civilization)	Enrico Ascalone
Book	The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, & Pictograms (2nd ed.)	Andrew Robinson
Book	The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire	Anthony Everitt
Book	When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East"	Stewart Gordon
Book	The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them and Why They Always Fall	Timothy H. Parsons
Book	The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South	Bruce Levine
Book	American Political Cartoons: The Evolution of a National Identity, 1754-2010	Stephen Hess, Sandy Northrup
Book	America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't	Stephen Colbert
Book	Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present	Martin Van Creveld
Book	The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War	Drew Gilpin Faust
Book	The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-Religious Dialogue	John Azumah
Book	The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad	Lesley Hazleton
Book	National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Africa: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Africa's Past	Victoria Sherrow
Book	Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot	Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Book	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln	Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book	Civilization: The West and the Rest	Niall Ferguson
Book	Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City	Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher
Book	Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization	Lars Brownworth
Book	Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of Non-Western Religion	Kwame Bediako
Book	Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire	Judith Herrin
Book	Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River	Alice Albinia
Book	How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity	Thomas C. Oden
Book	Constantine the Emperor	David Potter
Book	Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever	Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Book	Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty	Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
Book	Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2013 Edition	Charles Brooks, Jr., Steve Kelley
DVD	American Experience: The Presidents	American Experience
DVD	The Silk Road: The Journey from China to Turkey	Marlin Darrah
Book	Washington: A Life	Ron Chernow
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete First Season	Aaron Sorkin
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete Second Season	Aaron Sorkin
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete Third Season	Aaron Sorking
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete Fourth Season	Aaron Sorkin
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete Fifth Season	Aaron Sorkin
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete Sixth Season	Aaron Sorkin
DVD	The West Wing: The Complete Seventh Season	Aaron Sorkin
Book	Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power	Jon Meacham
DVD	Metropolis	Gert Heidenreich
DVD	This is Civilization	Matthew Collings
DVD	Becoming Human	Graham Townsley
DVD	Inside Out: Introduction to Psychology	Sally V. Beaty
Book	China: A History: From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire	Harold M. Tanner
Book	The Persian Empire	Lindsay Allen
Book	Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires	Walter Scheidel
Book	Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization	Paul Kriwaczek