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Here is a selection of the new print and ebooks recently added to our catalogue.

 Price paid : the fight for First Nations survival /Bev Sellars. Price Paid untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations and addresses misconceptions still widely believed today. This book is based on a popular presentation Sellars often told to treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators. The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America’s indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of Aboriginal rights in Canada and Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view.

 Rescuing science: restoring trust in an age of doubt /Paul M. Sutter. Examines the growing social distrust toward the scientific community, grounding its source in the academic scientific community itself, and offers solutions on how to solve it. Interweaving his own experiences as an astrophysicist with broader trends observed by himself and others, Sutter roots the current distrust of science within the academic scientific community itself. Throughout this book, Sutter reveals a community that has come to disregard the broader public, is obsessed with winning grants, ignores political landmines, limits the entrance of minorities, and permits fraud in the pursuit of notoriety.

Research methods in physical activity /Jerry R. Thomas, Philip E. Martin, Jenny L. Etnier, Stephen J. Silverman. Research Methods in Physical Activity, Eighth Edition, systematically guides students through the research process, introducing research methods, tools, and analysis techniques specifically for kinesiology and exercise science disciplines, including the subdisciplines of physical therapy, rehabilitation, and occupational therapy. The eighth edition continues its legacy with the authors’ trademark humor and is now enhanced with a new full-color layout.

 Scaling leadership : building organizational capability and capacity to create outcomes that matter most /Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams ; foreword by Ed Catmull.   Scaling Leadership provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization. Scalable leadership drives forward-momentum by multiplying high-achieving leaders at scale so that growth, productivity and innovation increase exponentially. Creative leaders multiply their strengths beyond technical competence by leading in deep relationship, with radical humanity, passion and integrity.

 Sex in Canada :the who, why, when, and how of getting down up north /Tina Fetner. What do we do in the bedroom? Do other people do the same? How often? Who with? Movies and the internet seem saturated in sex, but it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction, and real talk about our own sexual lives can feel uncomfortable. Sex in Canada pulls the covers off, breaking through myths with frank talk and hard facts. Fetner delves into sex among singles and couples, marriage and monogamy, hooking up and committed relationships, guided by the results of her one-of-a-kind survey of adults aged eighteen to ninety. She shows us how the social forces that shape our lives also nudge our sexual behaviour into patterns that reflect the world around us. In applying the tools of social science to a formerly taboo topic, Sex in Canada offers the most accurate picture to date not just of Canadians’ sex lives but of why we act the way we do.

Six great ideas: truth, goodness, beauty : ideas we judge by ; liberty, equality, justice : ideas we act on /Mortimer J. Adler.  Truth, Goodness, and Beauty – the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice – the ideas we act on. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the specialist. He argues that “philosophy is everybody’s business,” and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral, and social issues that confront us daily.

 Teaching high school science through inquiry and argumentation /Douglas Llewellyn.  Devoted to Grades 9-12, this new edition of Douglas Llewellyn’s ground-breaking text aligns the four key elements of effective science education: scientific literacy, inquiry, argumentation, and the nature of science. Fully revised, the second edition features: content that addresses the new direction of science standards; exceptional coverage of scientific argumentation; enhanced chapters on assessment and classroom management; questioning techniques that promote the most learning; activities that emphasize making claims and citing evidence; new examples of inquiry investigations; new approaches to traditional labs; and case studies and vignettes.

 Teaching honesty in a populist era: emphasizing truth in the education of citizens /Sarah M. Stitzlein Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era‘ asserts that honesty is an important component in a healthy democracy and yet very few schools overtly teach it. This book describes what honesty is, how it is connected to truth, why both are important to and at risk in democracies today, and how we should teach them in schools.

 The certainties of the gospel /by William Childs Robinson.  Certainty, the lost chord in modern Protestantism — The certainties of the Christian gospel. The certainty that God is the author of the gospel ; The certainty of Jesus Christ, the substance of the gospel ; The certainty of the A-B-Cs of the gospel ; The certainty of grace, the fundamental characteristic of the gospel ; The certainty of justification by faith, the gospel way of salvation ; The certainty of God’s love and care, the comfort of the gospel — Conclusion: For the Gospel! And unashamed!

 The elements of Marie Curie: how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science /Dava Sobel. Sobel crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. “Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,” writes Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science-Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally memorable outside it. Grieving Pierre’s untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with X-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two US presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life. Sobel she approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy-from France’s Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie’s elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Ève’s later recollection, “discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world.”

 The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien /a selection edited by Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was one of the most prolific letter-writers of the last century. Over the years he wrote a mass of letters–to his publishers, to members of his family, to friends, and to ‘fans’ of his books–which often reveal the inner workings of his mind, and which record the history of composition of his works and his reaction to subsequent events. A selection from Tolkien’s correspondence, collected and edited by Tolkien’s official biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, and assisted by Christopher Tolkien, was published in 1981. It presented, in Tolkien’s own words, a highly detailed portrait of the man in his many aspects: storyteller, scholar, Catholic, parent, friend, and observer of the world around him. In this revised and expanded edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, it has been possible to go back to the editors’ original typescripts and notes, restoring more than 150 letters that were excised purely to achieve what was then deemed a ‘publishable length,’ and present the book as originally intended. Enthusiasts for his writings will find much that is new, for the letters not only include fresh information about Middle-earth, such as Tolkien’s own plot summary of the entirety of The Lord of the Rings and a vision for publishing his ‘Tales of the Three Ages,’ but also many insights into the man and his world. In addition, this new selection will entertain anyone who appreciates the art of letter-writing, of which J.R.R. Tolkien was a master.

Here is is a selection of the new print and ebooks recently added to our collection.

Design thinking in healthcare: from problem to innovative solutions /Anni Pakarinen, Thomas Lemström, Eeva Rainio, Eriikka Siirala, editors. This book offers basic knowledge on Design Thinking as a method, process and philosophy. It presents thoughtful Design Thinking case examples and tools for nurses and other healthcare professionals, researchers, students and educators to support their development as creative and transformative leaders in their fields. Healthcare managers of the past viewed patients’ needs merely as targets for population-level health outcomes to be validated in the final phases of developing interventions and services. Today we know better. Patients’ needs and experiences should be viewed as sources of innovation at the front-end of the development process. It provides the basis for applying design thinking to develop better healthcare services and health tech applications. Today, the success of any healthcare service depends on complex interactions between various stakeholders, and new solutions can only be delivered effectively through co-creative and collaborative efforts. Coordinating such efforts relies on strong concepts that can only result from properly run design processes, that this book describes in light of case studies around the world. Design thinking is crucial generalist skill and is receiving increasing attention in the field, as forward-thinking organizations delve into the practice. It can change the way medical solutions are created and how clinical services are delivered. By driving innovation by means of empathy and practicality, design thinking provides tools for those seeking to drive radical renewal in the field.

  Developing cross-cultural measurement in social work research and evaluation /Thanh Tran, Tam Nguyen, Keith Chan. Given the demographic changes and the reality of cultural diversity in the United States and other parts of the world today, social work researchers are increasingly aware of the need to conduct cross-cultural research and evaluation, whether for hypothesis testing or for outcome evaluation. This work’s aims are twofold: to provide an overview of issues and techniques relevant to the development of cross-cultural measures and to provide readers with a step-by-step approach to the assessment of cross-cultural equivalence of measurement properties.

 Developing person-centred cultures in healthcare education and practice: an essential guide /edited by Brendan McCormack. Dive into a groundbreaking exploration of person-centred healthcare education, offering a multi-dimensional framework that redefines learning and practice in the healthcare landscape. This comprehensive guide, with contributions from top experts in the field, dissects the critical components of a person-centred curriculum, spanning philosophy, strategy, values, leadership, and practical skills. The book empowers readers with real-world case studies, tools, and reflective exercises, propelling the implementation of transformative person-centred healthcare practices. Derived from the concepts introduced by the first European-funded project to frame and develop a person-centred healthcare curriculum, Developing Person-Centred Cultures in Healthcare Education and Practice presents an indispensable resource for healthcare practitioners looking for a way to develop person-centred cultures within the workplace.

Dirty teaching : a beginner’s guide to learning outdoors /Juliet Robertson. Robertson offers tips and tricks to help any teacher develop variety in their teaching. One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it and this book will give you the confidence to do it. It contains a wealth of ideas from cheat sheets to activities that allow teachers and parents to encourage outdoor learning and improve student participation. There is no need for expensive tools or complicated technologies; all you need is your coat and a passion for learning? oh, and you’d better bring the kids too.

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Discovering God : a devotional journey through the Bible /Philip Yancey.  Here is a collection of 180 transforming stories – at least one from each book of the Bible. With characteristic style and insight,  Yancey reveals God’s plan for the planet and each of us in these devotional readings.

 Do you care to lead? : a 5-part formula for creating loyal and results-focused teams and organizations /Michael G. Rogers.  People problems are some of the most stressful problems leaders have. Drama, personal conflict, negativity, crumbling trust, communication breakdowns, little personal accountability and performance issues are what stare leaders in the face every day. Leading is hard and leadership can be lonely. But it doesn’t have to be. There is one thing that leaders can do to lessen and even eliminate what makes leadership so difficult. They can lead from the heart. When leaders lead from the heart, they have the hearts of those they lead. Leading from the heart is about building deeper connections and relationships with others. It is about serving, nurturing, trusting, inspiring and committing. It is about putting people first. After reading this book, leaders will be able to apply practical heart-based leadership approaches that create buy-in into bigger visions, improve loyalty and move their teams and organizations to unprecedent levels of action. Through living the principles and implementing the tools in this book, leaders won’t simply maintain performance on their team and in their organizations, they will significantly improve it.

**TWU Author** Environmental education: an interdisciplinary approach to nature /edited by Matthew Etherington ; foreword by Amba J. Sepie. This book has a single motif and a dual purpose. Its motif is the portrayal of influential authors within an environmental framework and worldview. The design is presented in different ways in which environmental understandings might be understood. The purposes are to engender in the reader a broad knowledge of some of the ideas and problems inherent in a discussion of nature and the environment and to stimulate the reader to go further into the sources of their tradition and worldview in search of meaning and insights that are uniquely relevant to their philosophy.

 Expository notes on the prophet Isaiah /by H.A. Ironside.  This book provides a detailed, insightful analysis of the book of Isaiah, focusing on its phophetic messages, both for the time of the prophet and future events invoving Israel and the Gentiles.  The book explores the prophecies’ partial fulfillment, like the Babylonian captivity, and their ultimate fulfillment in the future, specifically the “great time of tribulation”. Ironside emphasizes the Messianic prophecies in Isaiah, highlighting the sufferings and glories of Christ. The notes are designed to be accessible to both scholars and average readers, using a clear and flowing style of expression.

 Ezekiel /Peter C. Craigie. This illuminating study enables the reader to better understand the vocation and message of an extraordinary prophet. The message Ezekiel delivered to the people of Babylon centered on the holiness of God. Even though he foretold doom and judgement, the prophet held out the promise of hope, based on the continuing mercy and forgiveness of God.Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.

 Forensic nursing: evidence-based principles and practice /Rose E. Constantino, Patricia A. Crane, Susan E. Young. Written by experts in the field with contributions from well-known specialists, this text explores the role of the forensic nurse in both the health care and criminal justice systems. Inside is an overview of the forensic nursing field as well as crucial coverage on specific issues of evidence collection including prison health care, human trafficking, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. Step-by-step, it shows how to build a solid foundation in forensic nursing practice by developing competencies in deductive analysis, critical thinking, evaluation, application, and communication.

 Full surrender /J. Edwin Orr ; with an introduction by Billy Graham.  Written in 1951 from Dr. Orr’s messages at a world-impacting conference, Full Surrender has blessed and influenced Christians all over the world. Published again with permission, Full Surrender can impact a whole new generation. “This is individual revival. Multiply it in faith, and there develops congregational revival, community revival, national revival and worldwide revival of Christians, with resultant soulwinning and missionary endeavour. There is a price to pay, but the reward is far greater.”   Written in 1951 from Dr. Orr’s messages at a world-impacting conference, Full Surrender has blessed and influenced Christians all over the world. Published again with permission, Full Surrender can impact a whole new generation. “This is individual revival. Multiply it in faith, and there develops congregational revival, community revival, national revival and worldwide revival of Christians, with resultant soulwinning and missionary endeavour. There is a price to pay, but the reward is far greater.”

Lectures on Daniel the prophet /by H.A. Ironside.  The truth of God is learned through the conscience; this is why the most brilliant men can read the Bible through over and over and never hear the voice of God in it at all. It has been said that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison.” The very Word of God may become poison to an unspiritual man if he reads it without being in subjection to God-reads it to find difficulties-and arises from its perusal more confirmed in his unbelief than he was when he sat down to consider it. The results are different when the same book is put into the hands of a spiritually-minded person-one who has bowed in God’s presence, acknowledged his lost condition, trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, and who is now seeking to live in obedience to God and His Word. That man sits down to the same book and finds it to be food for his soul, building him up in his faith.

 Lesson planning with purpose :five approaches to curriculum design /Christy McConnell, Bradley Conrad, P. Bruce Uhrmacher ; foreword by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks. Lesson Planning with Purpose takes readers on a journey through many pathways to engaging and meaningful educational experiences. The text first discusses Perceptive Teaching and then explores five unique approaches to lesson planning: behaviorist, constructivist, aesthetic, ecological, and integrated social-emotional learning. Chapters end with a sample lesson that can be compared across approaches.

Measuring and interpreting subjective wellbeing in different cultural contexts: a review and way forward /Robert A. Cummins. The scientific study of ‘wellbeing’ involves both objective and subjective variables. While objective wellbeing can be simply measured as tangible aspects of the living environment, measuring subjective wellbeing involves quantifying self-reported feelings. Although reliable and valid measures can be achieved, in a cross-cultural context differences in language and culture present formidable challenges to measurement comparability. This Element begins by describing the behaviour of subjective wellbeing in single cultures, using the theory of homeostasis. Robert A. Cummins then discusses cross-cultural differences in subjective wellbeing, with a focus on measurement invariance as a means of ensuring the validity of comparative results. Cummins proposes that the major barrier to creating such comparability of measurement is a pervasive response bias that differs between cultures. He concludes that current instruments are inadequate to provide valid cross-cultural measures of subjective wellbeing, and that suitable measures may be created as short forms of current scales.

More than words: how to think about writing in the age of AI /John Warner. In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not very much. More Than Words argues that generative AI programs like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should, since these assignments don’t challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner, writing is thinking-discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page-and feeling-grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human. The fact that we ask students to complete so many assignments that a machine could do is a sign that something has gone very wrong with writing instruction. More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words-and how all of us should rethink our relationship with writing.

 My body is not a prayer request: disability justice in the Church /Amy Kenny. A disabled Christian reflects on her myriad experiences inside the church to expose unintentional ableism and cast a new vision for Christian communities to engage disability justice.

 Narrative inquiry: philosophical roots /Vera Caine, D. Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard. Introducing key ideas of narrative inquiry, this is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people’s experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists. The book is arranged into five parts covering a range of topics including: embodiment, memory, knowledge, wonder, imagination, community, responsibility, and place. Each section ends with a methodological discussion of their work involving refugee families with young children from Syria.

Narrative research in nursing /Immy Holloway, Dawn Freshwater.  Narrative Research in Nursing examines the nature of narratives and their role in the development of nursing and health care. Strategies and procedures are identified, including the practicalities of sampling, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings. The authors discuss authenticity of evidence and ethical issues while also exploring problems and practicalities inherent in narrative inquiry and its dissemination. Narrative Research in Nursing is a valuable resource for nurses interested in writing and publishing narrative research.

 Patient-centered measurement : ethics, epistemology, and dialogue in contemporary medicine /Leah M. McClimans. Contemporary medicine is Janus-faced. Evidence-based medicine is one face of it, emphasizing evidence, statistics, and method. Patient-centered care is the other, prioritizing patient experiences, judgement, and values. Government agencies, policy makers, major insurers and clinicians have sought ways to bring these faces together. This book is about one such approach, patient-centered measurement. Patient-centered measurement is the idea that patient perspectives on, for instance, physical functioning or quality of life, should play an evidentiary role in determining how effective a drug is taken to be, the degree to which a hospital provides good quality care or whether a particular intervention should be funded by an insurer. This idea may sound prosaic, but in fact it’s nothing short of revolutionary. Patient-centered measurement treats patient perspectives on par with more traditional metrics such as mortality, morbidity, and safety. It says, patient views matter-not as an afterthought, and not only at the bedside, but in the nuts and bolts of creating our evidence base. What’s more, these measures are popular. They are part of FDA initiatives, the UK’s development of the NHS, and Denmark’s policy to improve patient care. Yet despite these policies, initiatives and recommendations, patient-centered measures present a puzzle. And this puzzle has its source in the Janus-faced nature of medicine. How can measurement, which relies on standardization, represent patient perspectives, which, if not idiosyncratic are at least various and changeable? This book aims to solve that puzzle.

 Patient-reported outcomes and experience :measuring what we want from PROMs and PREMs /Tim Benson. This book shows how PROMs and PREMs can help improve patient experience and outcomes. Part 1 covers the core principles of PROMs and PREMs, including their strengths and weaknesses, reporting and analysis, data sharing and valuation. Part 2 covers measures of patient experience, health status, wellbeing, self-efficacy, individualized measures, social determinants of health and impact evaluation. It concludes with a discussion of staff-reported measures, proxies and caregivers. Patient-Reported Outcomes and Experience: Measuring What We Want with PROMs and PREMs concisely covers how to use these measures successfully to improve patient experience of healthcare services and associated outcomes. It is a critical resource for trainee and practicing clinicians, managers, analysts and policymakers seeking an up-to-date reference on the latest developments in this rapidly expanding field.

Preaching :communicating faith in an age of skepticism /Timothy Keller.  Most Christians―including pastors―struggle to talk about their faith in a way that applies the power of the Christian gospel to change people’s lives. Timothy Keller is known for his insightful, down-to-earth sermons and talks that help people understand themselves, encounter Jesus, and apply the Bible to their lives. In this accessible guide for pastors and laypeople alike, Keller helps readers learn to present the Christian message of grace in a more engaging, passionate, and compassionate way.

Here is a selection of print and e-books recently added to our collection.

 Addresses on the Song of Solomon /by H.A. Ironside.   Addresses on the Song of Solomon is a book of sermons by H.A ironside, first published in 1933.  It presents an abbreviated version of addresses delivered at Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, focused on the Song of Solomon. The book primarily offers an allegorical interpretation, viewing the Song as a representation of Christ and His relationship with the Church

 Aging faithfully: the holy invitation of growing older /Alice Fryling.  Would you like to grow in life-giving ways as you age? Do you have the courage to let go of former ways of thinking to receive God’s love and life in new ways? As we age, we experience the loss of physical stamina, independence, and career fulfillment. Yet within each of these losses is a holy invitation to grow. God calls us to let go of our need for accomplishment and embrace the gift of fruitfulness so that we might be transformed in this final season of our lives. In Aging Faithfully, Fryling explores how to navigate the journey of retirement, lifestyle changes, and new limitations. In this season of life, we are invited to hold both grief and hope, to acknowledge ways of thinking that no longer represent who we are, and to receive peace in the midst of our fears. We all age differently, and God calls each of us to new spiritual birth as we mature. When we embrace the aging process, we grow closer to God and experience his grace as he renews us from within. Whether you are approaching the beginning, middle, or end of your senior years, you are invited. Come and be transformed.

  Applied logistic regression /David W. Hosmer, Jr., Stanley Lemeshow, Rodney X. Sturdivant.  This thoroughly expanded Third Edition of the definitive guide to logistic regression modeling for health science and other applications provides an easily accessible introduction to the logistic regression (LR) model and highlights the power of this model by examining the relationship between a dichotomous outcome and a set of covariables. The book emphasizes applications in the health sciences and handpicks topics that best suit the use of modern statistical software. It also provides readers with state-of-the-art techniques for building, interpreting, and assessing the performance of LR models. New and updated features include: A chapter on the analysis of correlated outcome data. A wealth of additional material for topics ranging from Bayesian methods to assessing model fit. Rich data sets from real-world studies that demonstrate each method under discussion. Detailed examples and interpretation of the presented results as well as exercises throughout..

  Art as witness : a practical theology of arts-based research /Helen T. Boursier.  Art As Witness argues for the integration of arts-based research with theology and religious studies to make urgent social justice themes easily accessible for education, advocacy, and public witness. Several case studies engage the arts with immigration, biblical studies, political protest, HIV/AIDS, gender equity, racial justice, and more.

 Assessing well-being /Ed Diener, editor. The Collected Works of Ed Diener, in 3 volumes, present the major works of the leading research scientist studying happiness and well-being. Professor Diener has studied subjective well-being, people’s life satisfaction and positive emotions, for over a quarter of a century, and has published 200 works on the topic, many more than any other scholar. He has studied hundreds of thousands of people in over 140 nations of the world, and the Collected Works present the major findings from those studies.

Augustine and the limits of virtue /James Wetzel.  Augustine’s moral psychology was one of the richest in late antiquity, and in this book James Wetzel evaluates its development, indicating that the insights offered by Augustine on free-will have been prevented from receiving full appreciation as the result of an anachronistic distinction between theology and philosophy. He shows that it has been commonplace to divide Augustine’s thought into earlier and later phases, the former being more philosophically informed than the latter. Wetzel’s contention is that this division is less pronounced than it has been made out to be. The author shows that, while Augustine clearly acknowledges his differences with philosophy, he never loses his fascination with the Stoic concepts of happiness and virtue, and of the possibility of their attainment by human beings. This fascination is seen by Wetzel to extend to Augustine’s writings on grace, where freedom and happiness are viewed as a recovery of virtue. The notorious dismissal of pagan virtue in ‘The City of God’ is part of Augustine’s family quarrel with philosophers, not a rejection of philosophy per se. Augustine the theologian is thus seen to be a Platonist philosopher with a keen sense of the psychology of moral struggle.

 Bible commentary: Jeremiah /by Theo. Laetsch.  This classic Lutheran commentary on the Prophet Jeremiah’s writings, by Dr. Theodore Laetsch, opens the work of Jeremiah, with a focus on the fact that he wrote by the inspiraton of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ testifying through him

 Cambridge history of China. Vol. 10-11, Late Ch́˜ing, 1800-1911 /edited by John F Fairbank  This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch’ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch’ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch’ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynasty’s survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. Each chapter is written by a specialist from the international community of sinological scholars. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are a bibliographical essays describing the source materials on which each author’s account is based.

  Charles Wesley (1707-1788): preacher, poet, pastor /edited by Clive Murray Norris. Charles Wesley (1707-88) is most celebrated as a hymnwriter, and three of the essays in this book discuss this topic. They analyze how his verse encouraged both individuals and the church collectively to seek “renewal”; his use of symbolic language and the psychological responses that this engenders; and the complex history of the changing music to which his hymns are sung. Another essay focuses on Charles’s role as an evangelist and leader in the early years of the Evangelical Revival in Bristol. His role as a pastor is covered in a discussion of his relationship with an eccentric contemporary who dabbled in the occult, John Henderson (1757-88). Finally, there is a detailed analysis of known portraits of Charles Wesley, portraits which illustrated his status as one of history’s most consequential Methodists.

  Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high /Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory.  Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation-especially difficult ones-leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you’ll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.

  Delphi methods in the social and health sciences: concepts, applications and case studies/Marlen Niederberger, Ortwin Renn, editors. Delphi methods enable the systematic collection of expert judgments. They have proven to be particularly useful when a certain level of expertise and judgment is required to answer a research question. There are different variants of Delphi methods, such as the group Delphi or the real-time Delphi. The book presents current methodological developments and examples of application in the social and health sciences. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Delphi-Verfahren in den Sozial- und Gesundheitswissenschaften by Marlen Niederberger and Ortwin Renn, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Here is a selection of print and ebooks recently added to our collection.

 A little history of music /Robert Philip. Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today’s mass-produced songs. This is a truly global story. Looking to Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, Philip reveals how musicians have been brought together by trade and migration and examines the vast impact of colonialism. From Hildegard von Bingen and Clara Schumann to Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, great performers and composers have profoundly shaped music as we know it.

  A people and a nation : new directions in contemporary Métis studies /edited by Jennifer Adese and Chris Andersen. In  A People and a Nation the authors, most of whom are Métis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of historical and contemporary Métis nationhood and peoplehood. The field of Métis Studies has been afflicted by a longstanding tendency to situate Metis within deeply racialized contexts, and/or by an overwhelming focus on the nineteenth century. This volume challenges the pervasive racialization of Métis studies with multidisciplinary chapters on identity, history, politics, literature, spirituality, religion, and kinship networks, reorienting the conversation toward Métis experiences today.

Aquinas and the early Chinese masters : Chinese philosophy and Catholic theology /Joshua R. Brown.  Although Catholictheology in Chinese contexts has drawn upon Chinese philosophical concepts, few have attempted to develop a rigorous, systematic approach to testing what in the Chinese philosophical traditions can be fruitful or unfruitful for Catholic theological expression. This book attempts to model such an approach by engaging classical Chinesephilosophy with the mind and spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, who read Aristotle and other pagan philosophers with both charitable appreciation and a firm, critical eye. It applies this Thomistic lens through concrete comparative engagements with three main representatives of earlyChinesephilosophy: Mencius (Mengzi孟子), Xunzi荀子, and Mozi墨子.

 As if human : ethics and artificial intelligence /Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, transparent, and accountable? How do we harness this extraordinary technology to empower rather than oppress? Despite increasingly sophisticated programming, artificial intelligences share none of our essential human characteristics–sentience, physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, versatile general intelligence. However, Shadbolt and Hampson argue, if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. The authors go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence”

 Broken city : land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis /Patrick M. Condon. How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. In just one city, Vancouver, land prices increased by 600 percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and clearly reasoned treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good–and proposes bold strategies that cities in North America could use to shift it back.

 Business as mission :a comprehensive guide to theory and practice /C. Neal Johnson ; foreword by Steve Rundle.  Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures. But Christian companies and business leaders do not automatically accomplish missional purposes. BAM requires mastery of both the world of business and the world of missions, merging and contextualizing both into something significantly different than either alone. Johnson offers the first comprehensive guide to business as mission for practitioners. He provides conceptual foundations for understanding BAM’s unique place in global mission and prerequisites for engaging in it. Then he offers practical resources for how to do BAM, including strategic planning and step-by-step operational implementation. Drawing on a wide variety of BAM models, Johnson works through details of both mission and business realities, with an eye to such issues as management, sustainability and accountability. Business as mission is a movement with enormous potential. This book breaks new ground in how faith and work intersect and are lived out in crosscultural contexts, where job creation and community transformation go hand in hand. Come, participate in what may well be one of the most strategic mission paradigms of the 21st century.

 Disrupting the culture of silence :confronting gender inequality and making change in higher education /edited by Kristine De Welde and Andi Stepnick ; foreword by Penny A. Pasque. Despite tremendous progress toward gender equality and equity in institutions of higher education, deep patterns of discrimination against women in the academy persist. From the “chilly climate” to the “old boys club”,  women academics must navigate structures and cultures that continue to marginalize, penalize, and undermine their success. This book is a toolbox for advancing greater gender equality and equity in higher education. It presents the latest research on issues of concern to women academics, and to anyone interested in a more equitable academy.

 Essential grammar: the resource book every secondary English teacher will need /Jennifer Webb and Marcello Giovanelli.  What is grammar? Why is it so central to the teaching of English? How can we teach it with confidence in secondary schools? Essential Grammar will provide clarity, meaning and teacher expertise to this much debated area of the English curriculum. By exploring grammar as applied to literary analysis and using a range of examples from commonly-taught and popular texts, this highly accessible book provides an extensive overview of how to use grammar to enhance the teaching of academic and creative writing. Drawing on a range of resources, Webb and Giovanelli: – discuss the context of grammar teaching in schools – provide a clear overview of concepts and terminology for the teacher – offer a wide range of examples of how grammar can be applied to the analysis of texts and the development of students’ writing – debunk the unhelpful view of grammar as a list of prescriptive rules and limits – outline grammatical concepts in a way which is clear and simple to understand – provide a huge range of practical ways to ensure that teaching of grammatical concepts can be rigorous and successful for all. This resource, with its grounded and straightforward approach to grammar, will be immediately useable in the classroom with strategies that be used by teachers in their classroom today. For any training and practicing secondary English teachers, Essential Grammar will be a compulsory classroom companion.

 Pentecostal preacher woman: the faith and feminism of Bernice Gerard /Linda M. Ambrose. Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the life of the Reverend Bernice Gerard (1923-2008), one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia, whose complicated blend of social conservatism and social compassion has lessons for our polarized times. Coming out of a difficult childhood, Gerard was attracted to Pentecostalism’s emphasis on direct personal experience of God and the use of spiritual gifts, and she became a widely travelled international evangelist. As a pastor, radio personality, and alderman, she was a compelling communicator for the Christian right and an ardent critic of liberal social mores, yet she supported social justice for refugees, Indigenous people, and Vancouver’s homeless population. She remained rooted in patriarchal religious institutions but practised a kind of feminism and shared her life with a female partner. Based on Reverend Gerard’s personal archives and writings, Pentecostal Preacher Woman traces the complex evolution of a conservative woman’s ideas about faith and society.

 The craft of editing /edited by Adnan Mahmutovic and Lucy Durneen.  Using genuine case studies from published works – including annotated manuscripts and debates between author and editor – this book deals with the issue of editing through direct analytical engagement. Durneen and Mahmutovic, both published writers themselves, bring transparency to the mystique that often surrounds the craft and practice of editing, from draft through to publication. This is an essential part of any writing experience, but one that is often not covered in CW courses. This book reveals some major stakes, notions, and practices surrounding editing. Through cooperation with journal editors and individual writer-practitioners they find, despite many common denominators, quite singular and authentic practices.

 The genetic book of the dead : a Darwinian reverie /Richard Dawkins ; illustrated by Jana Lenzová. From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms. Dawkins shows how the body, behavior, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book—an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. In the future, a zoologist presented with a hitherto unknown animal will be able to decode its ancestral history, to read its unique “book of the dead.”

 The gift of prophecy in the New Testament and today /Wayne Grudem.This updated, comprehensive work by a respected New Testament scholar brings new understanding of the gift of prophecy and suggests how to enjoy it without compromising the supremacy of Scripture.

 We remember the coming of the white man /Elizabeth Yakeleya, Sara Simon, and other Sahtu and Gwich’in elders ; Sarah Stewart, editor ; Raymond, Yakeleya, foreword ; Colette Poitras, afterword.  We Remember the Coming of the White Man chronicles the history of the Sahtú (Mountain Dene) and Gwinch’in People in the extraordinary time of the early 20th century. Chapters are transcripts of oral histories by ten Elders about their recollections of the early days of fur trading, guns, and flu pandemic; dismay about the way oil and uranium discoveries and pipelines were handled on their land; and the emotional and economic fallout of the signing of Treaty 11. Rich with photographs, Elders’ stories are in English and Dene Gwich’in.

  Why biodiversity matters /Nigel Dudley. All life on Earth has the right to exist, but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct. We are witnessing the largest and fastest rate of extinction in the history of the planet. While the concept of rights is a human one, all plants and animals strive to survive, and this book argues for their rights to continue doing so without being driven into premature extinction by human actions. Acknowledging and describing the practical reasons for conserving biodiversity, this book argues that these should not overshadow the compelling ethical reasons to care about the future of species other than our own. However, the issues are complex. What do we do when faced with an immediate ethical choice where biodiversity rights, animal rights, human rights,economic development and ecosystem survival all get mixed up together? There are seldom hard and fast answers, but thinking about and understanding a variety of points of view will help us make informed trade-offs. Drawing on his vast practical experience, the author presents insightful perspectives and real-world examples with the hope that this book will instigate a much-needed rethink about why and how we practise conservation. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with sustaining our planet, and all who inhabit it, in the face of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and ecological collapse.