New Titles Tuesday, April 3

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

#IDLENOMORE and the remaking of Canada /Ken Coates. In #IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada, author Ken Coates reflects on how the movement’s legacy lives on through a new generation of empowered First Nations youth.

Ethics and biblical narrative: a literary and discourse-analytical approach to the story of Josiah /S. Min Chun. (TWU AUTHOR) This book proposes a methodological framework for an ethical reading of Old Testament narrative and demonstrates its benefits and validity by providing an exemplary reading of the story of Josiah in Kings. Through the ethical commentary of the story of Josiah, the theme of contingency in life can be noticed to prevail in the story.

Head-hunters about themselves: an ethnographic report from Irian Jaya, Indonesia /J.H.M.C. Boelaars. “Every book has its own personal story and my book on the Jaqaj people is no exception. I collected my initial data at the time when the Dutch government was responsible for what is now lrian Jaya, a province of Indonesia.”

Introduction to algorithms /Thomas H. Cormen [and others]. This edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes some new chapters. It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms as well as a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks.

Moral distress in the health professions /Connie M. Ulrich, Christine Grady, editors. This is the first book on the market or within academia dedicated solely to moral distress among health professionals. It aims to bring conceptual clarity about moral distress and distinguish it from related concepts. Explicit attention is given to the voices and experiences of health care professionals from multiple disciplines and many parts of the world.  Contributors explain the evolution of the concept of moral distress, sources of moral distress including those that arise at the unit/team and organization/system level, and possible solutions to address moral distress at every level. A liberal use of case studies will make the phenomenon palpable to readers.

Semantics, pragmatics and meaning revisited: the case of conditionals /Magdalena Sztencel. This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly inferential account of meaning – one which foregrounds a reasoning subject’s individual state of mind. The topics discussed in the book include conceptual content, internalism and externalism, the semantics-pragmatics distinction, meaning holism and explicit versus implicit communication.

Veiled intent: dissenting women’s aesthetic approach to biblical interpretation /Natasha Duquette ; foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Veiled Intent traces the pattern of tactical moves and counter-moves deployed by Anna Barbauld, Phillis Wheatley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, and Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. These female poets and philosophers veiled provocative hermeneutical claims and calls for social action within aesthetic forms of discourse viewed as more acceptably feminine forms of expression. In between the lines of their published hymns, sonnets, devotional texts for children, and works of aesthetic theory, the perceptive reader finds striking theological insights shared from a particularly female perspective. These women were not only courageously interjecting their individual viewpoints into a predominantly male domain of formal study-biblical hermeneutics-but also intentionally supporting each other in doing so. Their publications reveal they were drawn to biblical imagery of embodiment and birth, to stories of the apparently weak vanquishing the tyrannical on behalf of the oppressed, and to the metaphor of Christ as strengthening rock.