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Community Leader, Vol. 13, No. 01, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Newsletter: Community Leader

News and notes from the University of Dayton Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2014-15, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Magazine

This issue includes information about work UD students are doing in Africa, stories long told on campus, and the death penalty.

Voices Raised, Issue 45, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: It’s All About Us (It’s All About You); Women’s Center Welcomes Three New Staff Members; Health Center services; Women’s and Gender Studies: Join the Discussion; The Online Presence of the Women’s Center.

2014 Program: Raymond A. Roesch, S.M., Social Sciences Symposium, University Of Dayton

Roesch Social Sciences Symposium Programs and Other Materials

No abstract provided.

‘Zevach Pesach’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Sandra Yocum, PhD, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:

Zevach Pesach
Constantinople, 1505; first edition of Abrabanel's commentary; earliest obtainable edition

La Biblia, Que Es, Los Sacros Libros Del Viejo Y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible)

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Neomi DeAnda, PhD, Assisant Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:

La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible)
Basle, 1569; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible

Qur'an

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Jusuf Salih, PhD, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:

Qur'an
Kashmir, 1864; an illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.

Polyglot Bible: Psalter

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:

Polyglot Bible: Psalter
1516; First edition in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic

‘Mahayana Sutra Of The Buddha: Boundless Life’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:

Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life
China, early 8th century; Scroll from the Dunhuang caves; in Tibetan language

‘Book Of The Dead: The Book Of Going Forth By Day Of The Priestess Ta-Er-Pet (The Papyrus Macgregor)’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:

Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth By Day of the priestess Ta-er-pet (the Papyrus MacGregor)
Late 1st century BC; 23 feet, 6 inches long, divided into nine sections; includes a unique chart of images depicting 75 protective amulets

‘Aristotle's Logic: A Commentary’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Bobbi Sutherland, PhD, Professor, History, on the following work:

Aristotle's Logic: a commentary
ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle

Woolf: ‘A Room Of One's Own’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Sheila Hassell Hughes, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
1929; first trade edition; presentation copy

Wollstonecraft: ‘A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: With Strictures On Political And Moral Subjects’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Mary Sanderson, PhD, Lecturer, History, on the following work:

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
1792; first edition; original publisher boards

Wheatley: ‘Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Sheila Hassell Hughes, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
London, 1773; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead

Twain: ‘Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Kara Getrost, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 and 1885; first British edition (1884) and first American edition (1885)

Tolkien: ‘The Lord Of The Rings’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Miriamne Ara Krummel, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
London, ca. 1953-1955; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister

Shakespeare: ‘Comedies, Histories, And Tragedies’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Elizabeth Mackay, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

William Shakespeare
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
1632; Second Folio

Remarque: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:

Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1928 and 1929; Corrected galley proofs in author’s hand (1928); first edition (1929)

Ptolemy: ‘Geographiae Universae’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, on the following work:

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Geographiae universae (Geography)
1597; from the library of Robert Burton

Plato: ‘Opera Omnia’ (Complete Works)

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

excerpted from Printing and the Mind of Man (1983), on the following work:

Plato
Opera omnia (Complete Works)
Venice: Aldus, 1513; second printing

Pascal: ‘Pensées’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:

Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Paris, 1670; first edition

O'Connor: ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Brother Tom Wendorf, S.M., PhD, national vocation director, Marianist Province of the United States, on the following work:

Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
ca. 1955; first edition

Newton: ‘Opticks’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

Two brief commentaries prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and H. Angus Macleod, DTech, University of Arizona, on the following work:

Isaac Newton
Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
London, 1704; first edition

Montessori: ‘The Montessori Method’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Treavor Bogard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, on the following work:

Maria Montessori
Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”)
1909; first edition

Marx: ‘Das Kapital’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Alex Macleod, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

Karl Marx
Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy)
Hamburg, 1867; volume 1; first edition

Malcolm X: ‘The Autobiography Of Malcolm X’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

Excerpted from The New York Times, November 5, 1965, on the following work:

Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1963; written with Alex Haley; original typed draft

Maimonides: ‘The Guide Of The Perplexed’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:

Moses Maimonides
Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed)
Possibly Rome, ca. 1469; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon

Linnaeus: ‘Systema Naturae’ (‘A General System Of Nature’)

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Ryan McEwan, PhD, Professor, Biology, on the following work:

Carl Linnaeus
Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature)
Leiden, 1735; first edition

Lincoln: Political Debates Of 1858

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Abraham Lincoln
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois
Columbus, 1860; first edition; first issue; presentation copy

Kepler: ‘Astronomia Nova’ (‘New Astronomy’)

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, on the following work:

Johannes Kepler
Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy)
Heidelberg or Prague, 1609; first edition