Month: July 2021 (Page 1 of 2)

Here is a selection of titles added  to our collection in the past week.

 After whiteness: an education in belonging  /Willie James Jennings. After Whiteness is for anyone who has ever questioned why theological education still matters. It is a call for Christian intellectuals to exchange isolation for intimacy and embrace their place in the crowd. It is part memoir, part decolonial analysis, and part poetry–a multimodal discourse that deliberately transgresses boundaries, as Jennings hopes theological education will do, too.

 Biological safety: principles and practices /edited by Dawn P. Wooley, Karen B. Byers, Now in its fifth edition, Biological Safety: Principles and Practices remains the most comprehensive biosafety reference. A team of expert contributors have outlined the technical nuts and bolts of biosafety and biosecurity within these pages. This book presents the guiding principles of laboratory safety, including: the identification, assessment, and control of the broad variety of risks encountered in the lab; the production facility; and, the classroom.

 Converting the imagination: teaching to recover Jesus’ vision for fullness of life /Patrick R. Manning. In Converting the Imagination, Manning offers a probing analysis of this crisis of meaning, marshalling historical and psychological research to shed light on the connections among the disintegration of the Christian worldview, religious disaffiliation, and a growing mental health epidemic. Converting the Imagination is an invitation to transform the way we teach about faith and make sense of the world, an invitation that echoes Jesus’ invitation to a fuller, more meaningful life. It is sure to captivate scholars and practitioners of religious education, ministers seeking to reengage people who have drifted away from the faith or to support young people suffering from existential anxiety, and anyone in search of deeper meaning in their religious traditions or in their own lives.

 Faith-integrated being, knowing, and doing: a study among Christian faculty in Indonesia /Sarinah Lo. In this holistic study of the integration of faith and learning, Lo challenges the Western tendency to privilege knowing over being and doing. In the context of Indonesian higher education, Dr. Lo addresses the cognitive, affective, spiritual, relational, and vocational aspects of human nature. She demonstrates that effective integration of faith and learning must reach beyond the academic disciplines to address the formation of a Christian perspective in all areas of life, thought, and practice. Utilizing in-depth interviews and qualitative analysis,  Lo’s field research explores the specific challenges facing Christian faculty in Indonesia, where the rise of radical Islam and the pressure to conform to state ideology raise unique questions about the nature of faith-learning integration. The first study of its kind, this is an excellent resource for educators wanting to think more broadly about what it means to follow Christ in the classroom, pushing beyond Western models of integration to embrace the more holistic approach of faith-integrated being, knowing, and doing.

 Larone’s medically important fungi: a guide to identification /Thomas J. Walsh, Randall T. Hayden, Davise H. Larone ; illustrated by Davise H. Larone. With Larone’s Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification, both novices and experienced professionals in clinical microbiology laboratories can continue to confidently identify commonly encountered fungi.

Practical guide to diagnostic parasitology /Lynne S. Garcia. This classic clinical laboratory parasitology reference, now in its third edition, has been extensively revised and updated in a new full-color format. Still organized to provide maximum help to the user, particularly from the bench perspective, every section has been expanded with new images and discussion.

 Teaching cross-culturally: an incarnational model for learning and teaching /Judith E. Lingenfelter and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter. This book is designed to complement Lingenfelter’s highly succesful Ministering Cross Culturally. It guides readers with little understanding of cross-cultural challenges in ministry and helps them see how cultural sensitivity and effective teaching are inseparably linked. Chapters include discussions about how to uncover cultural biases, how to address intelligence and learning styles, and teaching for biblical transformation. It is ideal for the western-trained educator who plans to work in a non-western setting.

 Teaching research processes: the faculty role in the development of skilled student researchers /William Badke. TWU AUTHOR the research processes required to problem-solve and enlist their findings into cogent academic writing. They lack skill in formulating problem statements, identifying the most relevant databases, using those databases effectively, and evaluating found information. More profoundly, they do not understand the confusing information landscape in which they are working. Teaching Research Processes aims to help faculty members overcome the deficits which today’s students struggle with, and develop strong research abilities in their students.

 Utmost art: complexity in the verse of George Herbert /by Mary Ellen Rickey. George Herbert has fared much better in recent decades. Rarely is he held now to be important only as an exemplar of the metaphysical manner, or found wanting because he is unlike Donne; and gradually, he is being dissociated from the company of sweetly solemn versifiers. Many critics in the twentieth century have pronounced Herbert’s English poetry conspicuously lacking in classical allusions. He is universally extolled the master of homely metaphor, as the recorder of immediate, everyday experiences in terms of everyday objects the language of real speech. For such a master, the consensus goes, recourse to the equipment of the ancients have been incongruous; the “artificiality” of classicism no place in such art.