In the past week 121 titles added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

Adam’s dust and Adam’s glory in the Hodayot and the letters of Paul : rethinking anthropogony and theology /by Nicholas A. Meyer.
In this volume, the author challenges the scholarly reconstruction of a traditional theological framework of creation, fall, and restoration in order to comprehend the pessimistic anthropologies of the Hodayot and the letters.

Antisocial media : how facebook disconnects US and undermines democracy /Siva Vaidhyanathan.
This book explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that makes democracy a lot more challenging.

Bonhoeffer on resistance : the word against the wheel /Michael P. DeJonge.
The author provides an account of Bonhoeffer’s resistance thinking as a whole, situated in the context of his thinking about political life and his theology. The book presents Bonhoeffer’s resistance thinking chronologically according to three phases of development and systemically according to a sixfold typology of resistance.

Elements of Indigenous style : a guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples /Gregory Younging.
This book offers Indigenous writers and editors, and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples, the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. This guide features advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge.

 

Knowing home : braiding Indigenous science with western science /edited by Gloria Snively and Wanosts’a7 Lorna Williams.
This second book attempts to capture the creative vision of Indigenous scientific knowledge and technology that is derived from an ecology of a home place. The book provides a window into the vast storehouse of innovations and technologies of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America.

STEM literacies in makerspaces : implications for learning, teaching, and research /Eli Tucker-Raymond, Brian E. Gravel.
This books provides a framework for the study of makerspaces in a literacy context, and bridges the scholarship of literacy studies and STEM and offers a window into the practices that makers learn and interact with.

Taan’s moons : a Haida moon story /by Alison Gear ; illustrated by Kiki van der Heiden with the Children of Haida Gwaii ; foreword by Richard Van Camp.
In Haida language taan refers to the bear, and the Haida people have a unique way of recording time according to the way the bear follows the seasons of the year. During a three month art project involving primary grade students at Haida Gwaii elementary schools, the author, artist, and student artists worked together to create this picture book about the bear’s moons.

Turing’s vision : the birth of computer science /Chris Bernhardt.
The author explains Turing’s contribution to computer science and argues that the strength of Turing’s theory of computation is its simplicity. To explain Turing’s ideas, Bernhardt examines three well-known decision problems to explore the concept of undecidability; investigates theoretical computing machines, including Turing machines; explains universal machines; and proves that certain problems are undecidable, including Turing’s problem concerning computable numbers.

Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic ministry : informing a dialogue on gender, church, and ministry /edited by Margaret English de Alminana, Lois E. Olena.
This book offers missing and/or silent voices in the Pentecostal/charismatic movement an important corrective and a way forward to shape gender-focused discussions.

18 miles : the epic drama of our atmosphere and its weather /Christopher Dewdney.

This book details the history of weather forecasting and introduces the reader to the eccentric and determined pioneers of science and observation whose efforts gave us the understanding of weather we have today.