Here is a selection of the 31 items added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

ARTS

Arts of engagement: taking aesthetic action in and beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada /Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, editors. It’s about the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. The essays question the ways in which components of the reconciliation, such as apology and witnessing, have social and political effects for residential-schools survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics.

HISTORY

The Oxford handbook of American Indian history /edited by Frederick E. Hoxie.  The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History confronts the erroneous views by presenting an accurate and comprehensive history of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. Thirty-two leading experts, both Native and non-Native, describe the historical developments of the past 500 years in American Indian history, focusing on significant moments of upheaval and change, histories of indigenous occupation, and overviews of Indian community life. The first section of the book charts Indian history from before 1492 to European invasions and settlement, analyzing US expansion and its consequences for Indian survival up to the twenty-first century. A second group of essays consists of regional and tribal histories. The final section illuminates distinctive themes of Indian life, including gender, sexuality and family, spirituality, art, intellectual history, education, public welfare, legal issues, and urban experiences. A much-needed and eye-opening account of American Indians, this Handbook unveils the real history often hidden behind wrong assumptions, offering stimulating ideas and resources for new generations to pursue research on this topic.

LEADERSHIP

Servant empowered leadership: a hands-on guide to transforming you and your organization /Don Page. What sets this book apart from so many other books on leadership in general, and Christian leadership more specifically, is that half of each chapter is devoted to how to make the subject of the chapter a reality in an organization.

MATHEMATICS

The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics /edited by Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall. This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how.  Because the history of mathematics should interact constructively with other ways of studying the past, the contributors to this book come from a diverse range of intellectual backgrounds in anthropology, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and literature, as well as history of mathematics more traditionally understood. The key mathematical cultures of North America, Europe, the Middle East, India, and China are all represented here as well as areas which are not often treated in mainstream history of mathematics, such as Russia, the Balkans, Vietnam, and South America. A vital reference for graduates and researchers in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.

PHILOSOPHY

The Oxford handbook of medieval philosophy /edited by John Marenbon. This Handbook is intended to show the links between the philosophy written in the Middle Ages and that being done today. Essays by over twenty medieval specialists, who are also familiar with contemporary discussions, explore areas in logic and philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Each topic has been chosen because it is of present philosophical interest, but a more or less similar set of questions was also discussed in the Middle Ages. The eleven chapters constitute the fullest, most wide-ranging and up-to-date chronological survey of medieval philosophy available. All four traditions – Greek, Latin, Islamic and Jewish (in Arabic, and in Hebrew) – are considered, and the Latin tradition is traced from late antiquity through to the seventeenth century and beyond.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Baptist foundations: church government for an anti-institutional age /edited by Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman; foreword by James Leo Garrett. The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church membership, church discipline, and a Baptist approach to the ordinances. Each section explores the pastoral applications of these arguments.

Developing a biblical worldview: seeing things God’s way /C. Fred Smith. Developing a Biblical Worldview equips readers to think biblically about the world in which we live. Four questions that everyone asks, at least implicitly, about life and reality are used as a rubric for analyzing worldviews: Who are we? Where are we? What is wrong? What is the answer? Professor C. Fred Smith answers these questions from a biblical perspective, enabling readers to discern how they have been influenced by false worldviews and where they need to grow in their biblical understanding.

Fifty years in Madagascar [electronic resource]: personal experiences of mission life and work /by James Sibree. Sibree [1836-1929] began his missionary work with the London Missionary Society in Madagascar in 1863 as an architect. He wrote 16 books in English, including this one (his autobiography) on a wide range of subjects.

Perspectives on Israel and the church: 4 views /Chad O. Brand, Tom Pratt Jr., Robert L. Reymond, Robert L. Saucy, Robert L. Thomas ; edited by Chad O. Brand. Perspectives on Israel and the Church brings together respected theologians representing four positions: Traditional covenantal view by Reymond; Traditional dispensational view by Thomas; Progressive dispensational view by Saucy; Progressive covenantal view by Brand and Tom Pratt Jr.

Perspectives on the extent of the atonement: 3 views /Carl R. Trueman, Grant R. Osborne, John S. Hammett ; edited by Andrew David Naselli and Mark A. Snoeberger. Perspectives on the Extent of the Atonement presents a point-counterpoint exchange concerning God’s intention in sending Christ to die on the cross. All three contributors recognize a substitutionary element in the atoning work of Christ, but disagree over the nature and objects of that substitution.

Truth in a culture of doubt: engaging skeptical challenges of the Bible /Andreas J. Köstenberger, Darrell L. Bock, and Josh D. Chatraw. Truth in a Culture of Doubt takes readers on a journey to explain topics such as the Bible’s origins, the copying of the Bible, alleged contradictions in Scripture, and the relationship between God and evil. Responding to skeptical scholars such as Bart Ehrman this book is written for all serious students of Scripture and will enable you to know how to respond to a wide variety of critical arguments raised against the reliability of Scripture and the truthfulness of Christianity.

The problem of Deuteronomy [electronic resource] /by the Rev. J.S. Griffiths. This little book is a revised and enlarged edition of The Historical Truth and Divine Authority of the Book of Deuteronomy. It is mainly an attempt to present as clearly and concisely as possible the chief arguments for and against the Mosaic origin of Deuteronomy, so that the English reader may be able to test them and arrive at a just conclusion on this important and much-debated question.

Worship through the ages: how the great awakenings shape evangelical worship /Elmer L. Towns and Vernon M. Whaley. Narrative for this study is energized by telling’the story’of engaging personalities, influencers and movers and shakers. Emphasis is given to changes in worship practices from the Early Church, Reformation, the Great Awakenings, revival movements, large evangelistic crusades of the 1940s and 1950s, Jesus Movement, and the Praise and Worship movement. A chart tracing the development of worship from Genesis 4 to the twenty-first century is included.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Manual on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for practitioners /lead author: Robert Bos ; contributing authors: David Alves, Carolina Latorre, Neil Macleod, Gérard Payen, Virginia Roaf & Michael Rouse. The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support the progressive realisation of universal access. The Manual introduces a human rights perspective that will add value to informed decision making in the daily routine of operators, managers and regulators. It also encourages its readership to engage actively in national dialogues where the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are translated into national and local policies, laws and regulations.