In the past week 10 titles added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

A critical discourse analysis of South Asian women’s magazines : undercover beauty /Linda McLoughlin.
This thought provoking book exposes the disconnection between the magazines’ representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience. The author challenges the notion that discourses of freedom and choice employed by women’s magazines are emancipatory, demonstrating instead that the version of feminism on offer is a commodified form which accords with the commercial aims of the publications.

Learning targets : helping students aim for understanding in today’s lesson /Connie M. Moss, Susan M. Brookhart.
This practical book situates learning targets in a theory of action that students, teachers, principals, and central-office administrators can use to unify their efforts to raise student achievement and create a culture of evidence-based, results-oriented practice. The book provides strategies for designing learning targets that promote higher-order thinking and foster student goal setting, self-assessment, and self-regulation.

The real thing : the natural history of Ian McTaggart Cowan /Briony Penn.
This is the first official biography of McTaggart Cowan, known as the “father of Canadian ecology”. Head and founder of the first university-based wildlife department in Canada, Ian McTaggart Cowan revolutionized the way North Americans understood the natural world, and students flocked into his classrooms to hear his brilliant, entertaining lectures regarding the new science of ecology.

Taught by God : making sense of the difficult sayings of Jesus /Daniel Fanous.
This book draws good and plausible conclusions regarding understanding difficult passages of Jesus, and provides a highly useful tool for people who read Scripture in depth and find themselves troubled or perplexed by these passages.

Thou art that : transforming religious metaphor /Joseph Campbell ; edited with a foreword by Eugene Kennedy.
Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors – and their misinterpretations – with the famed mythologist’s characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship.