Month: January 2018 (Page 2 of 2)

Here is a selection of the 26 print and electronic books added to the collection in the past week. Clikc on a title for more information. TWU login may be required

BUSINESS

The Oxford handbook of management theorists / edited by Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner. he Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists examines and evaluates the contributions that seminal figures, past and present, have made to the theory of management by providing in-depth, up-to-date, and detailed scholarly analysis of their ideas and influence. Chapters by leading management and management history scholars explore the origins of each thinker or school of thought and their ideas, and discuss the significance and influence in a broader framework. The Handbook contextualises each theorist and their theories, analysing their actions,interactions, and re-actions to contemporary events and to each other.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

De bestiis marinis, or, The beasts of the sea / by Georg Wilhelm Stellar ; translated by Walter Miller and Jennie Emerson Miller ; transcribed and edited by Paul Royster. Steller’s classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or “sea bear” (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). This English translation originally appeared in 1899. A brief bibliography, links to online works and sites, and illustrations have been added by the present editor.

 Confessions of a Greenpeace dropout: the making of a sensible environmentalist / Patrick Moore.  Dr. Patrick Moore’s engaging firsthand account of his many years spent as the ultimate Greenpeace insider, a co-founder and leader in the organization’s top committee. Moore explains why, 15 years after co-founding it, he left Greenpeace to establish a more sensible, science-based approach to environmentalism. From energy independence to climate change, genetic engineering to aquaculture, Moore sheds new light on some of the most controversial subjects in the news today.

 Global warming and population responses among Great Plains birds / Paul A. Johnsgard. Based on an analysis of 47 years (1967–2014) of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts, evidence for population changes and shifts in early-winter ranges of nearly 150 species of birds in the Great Plains states is summarized. Over this 47-year period there has been a progressive winter warming trend regionally, and associated ecological changes, influencing the early winter regional abundance and geographic distributions of many birds. The great majority these changes have involved northward shifts in early winter distributions.

HISTORY

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: the age of social catastrophe / Robert Gellately. A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945 — from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.

The Oxford handbook of the Ancien Régime / edited by William Doyle. An international team of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. .In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Regime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Regime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.

We survived: at last I speak / Léon Malmed. This is Malmed’s true story of his and his sister Rachel’s escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their courageous and heroic French neighbors volunteered to watch their children until they returned. Henri and Suzanne Ribouleau, gave the children a home and family and sheltered them through subsequent roundups, threats, air raids, and the war’s privations. Leon bares his soul in this narrative of love and courage, set against a backdrop of tragedy, fear, injustice, prejudice, and the greatest moral outrage of the modern era. It is a story of goodness triumphing once more over evil.

LINGUISTICS

The Oxford handbook of linguistic fieldwork / edited by Nicholas Thieberger. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the sub-fields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. They consider the application of new technological approaches to recording and documentation, but never lose sight of the crucial relationship between subject and researcher. The book is timely: an increased awareness of dying languages and vanishing dialects has stimulated the impetus for recording them as well as the funds required to do so. The handbook is an indispensable source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural work.

MUSIC

Syntagma musicum.II, De organographia parts III-V, with index / Michael Praetorius ; translated and edited by Quentin Faulkner.  Praetorius’s three-volume Syntagma musicum (Musical Encyclopedia) belongs to the last years of his life.  Volume II, De organographia (1619, in German) deals with musical instruments, in particular with the organ.This work includes a precise description of ancient and modern organs, their manual and pedal keyboards, bellows, stoplists, and various kinds of stops, as well as how to tune regals and harpsichords easily and precisely; and what to consider when accepting a [newly‑built] organ, together with an appended detailed table . This edition shows the German original on the left and the English translation on the facing right-hand pages.

Musica mechanica organoedi / Musical mechanics for the organist / by Jacob Adlung ; edited for publication by Johann Lorenz Albrecht ; with commentary by Johann Friedrich Agricola ; English translation by Quentin Faulkner.  This is the first English translation of Musica mechanica organoedi, originally published in Berlin in 1768. Its author Jacob Adlung (1699-1762) was a musician and scholar and organist at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt. The Musica mechanica organoedi focuses primarily on the organ, from the perspective of the information an organist might need to know about the instrument.

PHILOSOPHY

The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe / editors of compilation, Professor Desmond M. Clarke, University College, Cork, and Professor Catherine Wilson, University of Aberdeen. Twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic,mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The Handbook surveys a number of the most important developments in the philosophy of the period, as these are expounded both in texts that have since become very familiar and in other philosophical texts that are undeservedly less well-known. It also reaches beyond the philosophy to make evident the fluidity of the boundary with science, and to consider the impact on philosophy of historical and political events – explorations, revolutions and reforms, inventions and discoveries. Thus it not only offers a guide to the most important areas of recent research, but also offers some new questions for historians of philosophy to pursue and to have indicated areas that are ripe for further exploration.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

A dictionary of Asian Christianity / edited by Scott Sunquist ; associate editors, David Wu Chu Sing and John Chew Hiang Chea. Describing Christianity as it exists in the region from Pakistan to Japan and from Mongolia to Indonesia, this volume’s 1,260 signed articles include biographies of important Asian church leaders as well as reliable, up-to-date information on the political, cultural, and religious movements that have shaped the Christian faith in this part of the world. Maps, cross-references, and bibliographies enhance the dictionary’s usefulness for teachers, students, and general readers interested in global Christianity.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Oxford handbook of gender in organizations / edited by Savita Kumra, Ruth Simpson, and Ronald J. Burke. The Oxford Handbook of Gender Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking and research on gender in organizations with original contributions from key international scholars in the field. In Bringing together a broad range of research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary thinking and future research directions.

The Oxford handbook of sociology and organization studies: classical foundations / edited by Paul S. Adler. The aim of this handbook is to re-assert the importance of classical sociology to the future of Organization Studies. Alongside several thematic chapters, the volume includes chapters on each of nearly two dozen major European and American theorists. Each of these chapters addresses the ideas and their context, the impact of these ideas on the field of Organization Studies, and the potential future research these ideas might inspire.