New Titles Tuesday, November 7

Here is a selection of the 21 books added to the collection in the past week, including items donated to the library from the collection of the late Peter Flint.  Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required for eBooks.

EDUCATION

Language assessment: principles and classroom practices / H. Douglas Brown ; Priyanvada Abeywickrama.  Provides teachers with a clear presentation of the essentials for assessing second language learning fairly and effectively. This updated second edition includes new research and information on standardized tests, a new chapter on form-focused assessment, and a concise glossary of terms.

What teachers need to know: topics in diversity and inclusion / edited by Matthew Etherington.  TWU AUTHOR. This book is about teachers, educators, and topics related to inclusion and helps to satisfy a cavity in learning for teachers and educators in general.

EARTH SCIENCES

Ethical aspects of climate engineering / Gregor Betz and Sebastian Cacean. This study investigates the ethical aspects of deploying and researching into so-called climate engineering methods, i.e. large-scale technical interventions in the climate system with the objective of offsetting anthropogenic climate change. The moral reasons in favour of and against R&D into and deployment of CE methods are analysed by means of argument maps. These argument maps provide an overview of the CE controversy and help to structure the complex debate.

FILM STUDIES

Master shots: 100 advanced camera techniques to get an expensive look on your low-budget movie / Christopher Kenworthy. Master Shots gives you so many powerful techniques that you’ll be able to respond, even under pressure, and create knock-out shots. The techniques in this book can rescue your film, and make every shot look like it cost a fortune.    Each technique is illustrated with samples from great feature films and computer-generated diagrams for absolute clarity.

LITERATURE

The Oxford handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley / edited by Michael O’Neill and Anthony Howe ; with the assistance of Madeleine Callaghan. The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. Packed with stimulating insights and readings, The Handbook brings out the relevance to Shelley’s own work of his dictum that “All high poetry is infinite”.

MEMOIR

Silentium, and other reflections on memory, sorrow, place, and the sacred / Connie T. Braun. TWU AUTHOR. With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these pieces form a memoir about her grandparents’ and mother’s life in Poland, their experiences of war and displacement, and their eventual immigration and acculturation. The author invites the reader to accompany her as she traverses the territory of old and new worlds, war and peace, the landscape of dispossession, and the mass forced migrations of World War II within the ground of holocaust. Braun conveys through story that not only words, but silences, speak meaning.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

1 Enoch: a new translation, based on the Hermeneia commentary / George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam. Created in conjunction with an exhaustive critical commentary, this is the only English translation of 1 Enoch that takes into consideration all of the textual data now available in the Ethiopic version, the Greek texts, and the Dead Sea Aramaic fragments. This book provides an indispensable translation of the whole work.

The book of Daniel: composition and reception / edited by John J. Collins and Peter W. Flint ; with the assistance of Cameron VanEpps. More than thirty leading scholars from Europe, North America and Israel examine the Composition and Reception of Daniel in eight sections

The books of Kings: sources, composition, historiography and reception / editors, André Lemaire and Baruch Halpern ; associate editor, Matthew J. Adams. This collaborative commentary on Kings explores cross-cutting aspects of Kings ranging from the analysis of its composition, historically regarded, to its transmission and reception. Ample attention is accorded sources, figures and peoples who play a part in the book. The commentary deals with Kings’ treatment in translation and role in later ancient literature. This volume functions as a meta-commentary, offering windows into the secondary literature, but assembling data more fully than is the case in individual commentaries.

The book of Psalms: composition and reception / edited by Peter W. Flint and Patric D. Miller, Jr. ; with the assistance of Aaron Brunell and Ryan Roberts. Offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Psalms study. The almost 30 essays consist of two overall sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature; commentary on or interpretation of specific Psalms; social setting; and the Psalter as book. The second section contains essays on the literary context of the Psalter (including Qumran texts); textual history and reception in Judaism and Christianity; and the theology of the Psalter. The volume ends with a cumulative bibliography and several useful indices.

The Dead Sea scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts with English translations / edited by James H. Charlesworth with F.M. Cross … [et al.]. The Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project provides a major landmark in general access to these documents. It is the first serious attempt to provide accurate transcriptions and translations with critical commentary to all the nonbiblical scrolls found at Qumran. These are important reference books for specialized studies in biblical fields.

Emanuel: studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea scrolls in honor of Emanuel Tov / edited by Shalom M. Paul … [et al.] ; with the assistance of Eva Ben-David.  Colleagues from all over the world have contributed significant studies in the three areas of Tov’s primary interest and expertise: the Hebrew Bible, its Greek translations, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Hebrew Bible, Greek Bible and Qumran: collected essays / Emanuel Tov. This updated and revised collection of essays represents the work of Emanuel Tov in the past seventeen years. He focuses on various aspects of the textual analysis of the Hebrew and Greek Bible, as well as the Qumran biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek. The author also focuses on the interaction between textual and literary criticism and the question of the original text or texts of the Hebrew Bible.

The pastoral letters: a handbook on the Greek text / Larry J. Perkins. TWU AUTHOR. Offers teachers and students a comprehensive guide to the grammar and vocabulary of the Pastoral Letters. A perfect supplement to any commentary, this volume’s lexical, analytical, and syntactical analysis is a helpful tool in navigating New Testament literature. Perkins leads students toward both a greater understanding of the Greek text and an appreciation for the textual and rhetorical intricacies not available in English translations.

The quest for context and meaning: studies in biblical intertextuality in honor of James A. Sanders / edited by Craig A. Evans and Shemaryahu Talmon. Published in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of the canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and the relationship of the two Testaments. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study. The studies investigate in what ways the early sacred tradition was interpreted and how this tradition takes new shape in the Jewish and Christian communities of faith.  In many instances novel interpretations and new approaches to old problems are offered. Advanced students and veteran scholars will enjoy the many insights and provocative new ideas.

The story of the Irish church missions [electronic resource]: continued to the year 1869 / including a report by Alexander Dallas. This work is an abridged version of the Rev Alexander Dallas’s book on Irish Church Mission with a continuation to the time of his death in 1869.

The way of the doctor [electronic resource]: a study in medical missions / R. Fletcher Moorshead ; with a foreword by Leonard Rogers. Moorshead [1874-1934] provides a handbook for doctors and nurses preparing for missionary service overseas. The book covers both the theological and practical aspects of the role.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Tyneside neighbourhoods: deprivation, social life and social behaviour in one British city / Daniel Nettle. This book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. Tyneside Neighbourhoods uses multiple research methods to explore social relationships and social behaviour, attempting to understand whether the experience of deprivation fosters social solidarity or undermines it. The book sheds light on one of the main issues of our time: the roles of culture and socioeconomic factors in determining patterns of human social behaviour. A must-read for scholars, students, individual readers, charities and government departments seeking insight into the social consequences of deprivation and inequality.