Month: April 2019 (Page 3 of 3)

In the past week 33 titles added to the library’s collection, below is just a sample. Click on a link for more information.

Contemporary Chinese fiction writers : biography, bibliography, and critical assessment /Laifong Leung.
In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. This book explores Chinese writers such as Gao Xingjian who became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, and many more.

Could it happen here? : Canada in the age of Trump and Brexit /Michael Adams.
This book draws on groundbreaking social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world. Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. Adams examines our economy, institutions, and demographics to answer the question: could it happen here?

Everyday women’s and gender studies : introductory concepts /Ann Braithwaite, University of Prince Edward Island, Catherine M. Orr, Beloit College.
Gender Studies is a text-reader that offers instructors a new way to approach an introductory course on women’s and gender studies. This book highlights major concepts that organize the diverse work in this field: knowledges, identities, equalities, bodies, places, and representations.

Imagining the future of climate change : world-making through science fiction and activism /Shelley Streeby.
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. This book examines the public awareness of climate change and the popularity of works of climate fiction that connect science with activism.

Making space for Indigenous feminism /edited by Joyce Green.
This book provides a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Aboriginal women in their struggles against oppression. The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Aboriginal women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet, there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as feminist.

Playing with feelings : video games and affect /Aubrey Anable.
Interested in the gaming culture, then this book is for you. Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let us “rehearse” feelings, states, and emotions that give new tones and textures to our everyday lives and interactions with digital devices. Rather than thinking about video games as an escape from reality, Anable demonstrates how video games–their narratives, aesthetics, and histories–have been intimately tied to our emotional landscape since the emergence of digital computers.

The religion and film reader /edited by Jolyon Mitchell and S. Brent Plate..
Film is now widely studied and researched in theology and religious studies departments. This anthology offers the most complete survey of information pertaining to film and religion, and is ideal for students and researchers. The book explores such themes as the dawn of cinema: adherents and detractors the birth of film theory: realism, formalism, and religious vision directors and critics.

Stepping into emotionally focused couple therapy : key ingredients of change /Lorrie L. Brubacher.
This volume makes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) widely accessible to therapists of different orientations and to therapists in training. It provides clinicians with practical tools, an experiential tour through case examples, and simple guidance to step into EFT.

Widening the circle : the power of inclusive classrooms /Mara Sapon-Shevin.
In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed “ready to compete” in “mainstream” classes, Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills but with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support.