Other Books Received

Chautard, Jean-Baptiste, O.C.S.O. The Spirit of Simplicity. Translated and annotated by Thomas Merton. (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press. 2017. Pp. xviii, 139. $15.95 paperback.)

Darrow, Leah. The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Books. 2017. Pp. xx, 184. $16.99 paperback.)

Escrivá de Balaguer, Josemaría. En Diálogo con el Señor. Textos de la Predicación Oral. [Obras Completas de San Josemaría, V/1.] (Madrid: Ediciones RIALP, S. A. 2017. Pp. xlvi, 460. €36,00 paperback.)

Frank, Gillian, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R. White (eds.). Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2018. Pp. xii, 303. $32.95 paperback.) Among the thirteen essays published here are "Sex is Holy and Mysterious: The Vision of Early Twentieth-Century Catholic Sex Education Reformers," by James P. McCartin (pp. 71–89.); "Sexual Diplomacy: U.S. Catholics' Transnational Anti-Birth Control Activism in Postwar Japan," by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (pp. 113–32); and "Modernizing Decency: Citizens for Decent Literature and Covert Catholic Activism in Cold War America," by Whitney Strub (pp. 133-51).

Frilingos, Christopher A. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2017. Pp. xvi, 183. $39.95 cloth.)

Gellert, Michael. The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God's Inner Journey. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 2018. Pp. 286. $26.00 cloth.)

Goodman, Martin. A History of Judaism. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2018. Pp. xxx, 623. $39.95 cloth.)

Graney, Christopher M. Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2017. Pp. xxx, 145. $25.00 paperback.)

Gunn, Steven. The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. Pp. xvi, 297. $47.95 cloth.)

Keating, Ryan W. Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era. (New York: Fordham University Press. 2017. Pp. viii, 312. $140.00 clothbound; $40.00 paperback.)

Levering, Matthew. Engaging the Doctrine of Creation: Cosmos, Creatures, and the Wise and Good Creator. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2017. Pp. xii, 372. $44.99 cloth.)

Nagasawa, Yujin. Miracles: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. Pp. xii, 115. $11.95 paperback.)

O'Collins, Gerald. Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2017. Pp. xxiv, 139. $11.95 paperback.)

Puente Luna, José Carlos de la. Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court. (Austin: University of Texas Press. 2018. Pp. xiv, 345. $99.00 hardcover; $29.95 paperback.)

Teresa of Avila, Saint. Her Life in Letters. Translated and introduced by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press. 2018. Pp. x, 338. $22.00 paperback.) An abridged version of The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, 2 vols. (Washington D.C.: Institute of Carmelite Studies Publications. 2001, 2007).

Weber, Francis J. An Historical Compendium of Rev. Maynard J. Geiger's "The Life and Times of Saint Junípero Serra" (1959). (Mission Hills, CA: Saint Francis Historical Society. 2017. Pp. 196. $8.95 paperback.) Part Two contains fourteen essays on the history of the cause of canonization, devotion to and commemorations of Serra, and Weber's memories of the ceremony of September 23, 2015.