Month: December 2021 (Page 2 of 3)

 A subversive gospel: Flannery O’Connor and the reimagining of beauty, goodness, and truth  /Michael Mears Bruner. Exploring the theological aesthetic of American author Flannery O’Connor, Bruner argues that her fiction reveals what discipleship to Jesus Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness.

Analytical essays on music by women composers: secular & sacred music to 1900 /edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft. This collection of in-depth analytical essays celebrates music by female composers from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. The essays, written by leading music theorists and musicologists, examine select compositions in detail, collectively establishing a foundation for new scholarly research into outstanding compositions created by women.

 Art and faith: a theology of making /Makoto Fujimura ; foreword by N. T. Wright. This is Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of making. What he does in the studio, he asserts, is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how, unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives.

 Being you: a new science of consciousness /Anil Seth. Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness. Seth’s  radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness.

 Biblical and theological studies: a student’s guide /Michael J. Wilkins & Erik Thoennes. In this book, a New Testament scholar and a theologian team up to offer readers a robust introduction to biblical and theological studies. This readable guide outlines a distinctly evangelical approach to studying the Bible and theology, highlighting the proper methods for understanding and synthesizing the teachings of the Bible, leading to deeper knowledge of God, ourselves, and how we are to meaningfully apply his Word to our lives.

 Bringing leadership to life in health: LEADS in a caring environment : putting LEADS to work /Graham Dickson, Bill Tholl, editors. This book shows why better leadership helps meet the challenges facing health care. The focus is on the Canadian-developed LEADS in a Caring Environment framework: what it does, how it was developed and how LEADS can be a model to envision and plan change.

 Chart a new course: a guide to teaching essential skills for tomorrow’s world /Rachelle Dene Poth. In researching the top skills students need to succeed in the future, author Rachelle Dene Poth identified the following: ability to communicate, work in teams, think creatively, problem-solve and design. This book shows educators how to help students develop these essential skills through authentic, real-world learning experiences, building a pathway for the future of learning and work.

 Closing the gap: digital equity strategies for teacher prep programs /Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, Regina Schaffer. This book discusses the historical placement of digital equity content in teacher education programs; research- and evidence-based vignettes from teacher educators, higher education deans, and department coordinators demonstrating best practices; examples of ISTE Standards in action; practical tips for preparing future teachers to navigate the process; positive applications of digital equity; and a hypothesis for the future direction of digital equity in teacher education.

 Come back to the 5 & dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: a comedy-drama /by Ed Graczyk.In a small town dime store in West Texas, the “Disciples of James Dean” gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived with Dean during the shoot. The ladies’ congenial reminiscences mingle with flash backs to their youth; then the arrival of a stunning but familiar stranger.

Compact, contract, covenant: Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada /J.R. Miller. Renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller’s explores and explains more than four centuries of treaty-making.

 Dark of the moon /by Howard Richardson and William Berney. Set in the Appalachian Mountains and written in an Appalachian dialect, the play centers on the character of John, a witch boy who seeks to become human after falling in love with a human girl, Barbara Allen.

Dearly: new poems /Margaret Atwood. In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and – zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.

 Encyclopedia of video games: the culture, technology, and art of gaming /Mark J.P. Wolf, editor. This three-volume encyclopedia covers all things video games, including the games themselves, the companies that make them, and the people who play them. Written by scholars who are exceptionally knowledgeable in the field of video game studies, it notes genres, institutions, important concepts, theoretical concerns, and more and is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of video games of its kind, covering video games throughout all periods of their existence and geographically around the world. This set is a vital resource for scholars and video game aficionados alike.–Provided by publisher.

 Erasmus of Rotterdam: the spirit of a scholar /William Barker. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.

 Flawed precedent: the St. Catherine’s case and Aboriginal title /Kent McNeil. Preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil provides a compelling account of a contentious case. He begins by delving into the historical and ideological context of the 1880s. He then examines the trial in detail, demonstrating how prejudicial attitudes towards Indigenous peoples influenced the decision. He further discusses the effects that St. Catherine’s had on law and policy until the 1970s when its authority was finally questioned in Calder, then in Delgamuukw, Marshall/Bernard, Tsilhqot’in, and in other key rulings. He also provides an informative analysis of the current judicial understanding of Aboriginal title in Canada, now driven by evidence of Indigenous law and land use rather than the discarded prejudicial assumptions of a bygone era.

 God in the modern wing: viewing art with eyes of faith /edited by Cameron J. Anderson, G. Walter Hansen.? This volume gathers the reflections of artists, art historians, and theologians who collectively offer a narrative of the history of modern art and its place in the Christian life. Readers will find insights on the work and faith of artists like Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and more.

 Greek genres and Jewish authors: negotiating literary culture in the Greco-Roman era /Sean A. Adams. Examines how Second Temple Jewish writings appropriated and adapted Hellenistic generic conventions.

In defence of the human being: foundational questions of an embodied anthropology /Thomas Fuchs. This book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to current scientific, technological and cultural developments.

 Inventing Eleanor: the medieval and post-medieval image of Eleanor of Aquitaine /Michael R. Evans. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have been embellished–and even obscured–by myths that have grown up over eight centuries. This process began in her own lifetime, as chroniclers reported rumours of her scandalous conduct on crusade, and has continued ever since. She has been variously viewed as an adulterous queen, a monstrous mother and a jealous murderess, but also as a patron of literature, champion of courtly love and proto-femin.

 Jamaica ladies: female slaveholders and the creation of Britain’s Atlantic empire /Christine Walker. Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. As slavery’s beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception.

 Making math meaningful to Canadian students, K-8 /Marian Small, University of New Brunswick. Making Math Meaningful supports mathematics teaching by providing insight into how to make mathematics make sense to students and how to capture their interest.

Management and leadership skills for medical faculty and healthcare executives: a practical handbook /Anthony J. Viera, Rob Kramer, editors. This handy, practical title offers a comprehensive roadmap and range of solutions to common challenges in the complex and changing Academic Medical Center (AMC) and health care organization. With critical insights and strategies for both aspiring and seasoned academicians and health executives, Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty and Healthcare Executives: A Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition is a must-have resource for faculty in AMCs and for anyone with a role in healthcare leadership.

 Modern and ancient literary criticism of the gospels: continuing the debate on gospel genre(s) /edited by Robert Matthew Calhoun, David P. Moessner, and Tobias Nicklas. TWU AUTHOR. In this volume, the ongoing debate regarding the genre of the Gospels is given new impetus through contributions from diverse methodological perspectives, which disclose new stirrings and sightings of broader, more heuristically promising literary, rhetorical, and cultural registers which intersect in ancient narrative. Includes Intertextual Transformations of Jesus: John as Mnemomyth by Professor Tom Hatina

 Noise: a flaw in human judgment /Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein. Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of noise–variables that can cause bias in decision making–and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.

 Outside the Bible: ancient Jewish writings related to Scripture /edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman. Outside the Bible seeks, gathers portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the biblical apocrypha, and pseudepigrapha, and the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Josephus. The editors have brought together these diverse works in order to highlight their common Jewish background. The commentaries that accompany the texts devote special attention to their references to Hebrew Scripture and to issues of halakhah (Jewish law), their allusions to motifs and themes known from later Rabbinic writings in Talmud and Midrash, their evocation of recent or distant events in Jewish history, and their references to other texts in this collection. Outside the Bible offers new insights into the development of Judaism and early Christianity.

 Paradox and contradiction in the biblical traditions: the two ways of the world /Brayton Polka. The principal thesis that the author advances in this book is that paradox and contradiction constitute the two ways of the world. The author distinguishes the paradoxical way of the world from the contradictory way of the world through the examination of principal texts of four of the most significant early modern, European thinkers from the later sixteenth century to the earlier eighteenth century: Montaigne, Descartes, Spinoza, and Vico. He shows that each of these authors, in distinctive yet fundamentally interrelated fashion, provides us with profound insight into how absolutely different the paradoxical way of the world as biblical is from the contradictory way of the world as found, primarily and specifically, in Greek and Roman antiquity.

 Perspectives on arts education research in Canada. Volume 1, Surveying the landscape /edited by Bernard W. Andrews. This peer-reviewed book, the first of two volumes, captures some of the exciting developments in Canada. Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape provides a wide spectrum of current research Contributors  including Kathryn Ricketts, Pauline Sameshima, and Sean Wiebe.

 Phonological word and grammatical word: a cross linguistic typology /edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon and Nathan M. White. (TWU AUTHOR) This volume examines the concept of ‘word’ as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.

 Plagiarism in higher education: tackling tough topics in academic integrity /Sarah Elaine Eaton. This candid treatment of plagiarism in higher education identifies causes of academic dishonesty and offers practical solutions.

Pornography and public health /Emily F. Rothman. Throughout history repressive forces have inflated the charges against sexually explicit material in order to advance a morality-based agenda. Nevertheless, a public health approach and tried public health practices, such as harm reduction and coalition-building, will be instrumental to addressing the emergence mainstream, internet pornography.

 Religion and the American Revolution: an imperial history /Katherine Carté. Carté argues that British imperial Protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.

 Resurgence and reconciliation: indigenous-settler relations and earth teachings /edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully. Resurgence and Reconciliation is a multi-disciplinary, critical, and constructive analysis of the two major schools of thought in Indigenous-Settler relationships today: the reformist narrative of reconciliation and the more revolutionary resurgence school.

 Roots of entanglement: essays in the history of native-newcomer relations /edited by Myra Rutherdale, Kerry Abel, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada.

Talking back to the Indian Act: critical readings in settler colonial histories /Mary-Ellen Kelm and Keith D. Smith. Through an analysis of thirty-five sources pertaining to the Indian Act-addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land-the authors provide readers with a much better understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics involved in its creation and maintenance.

 The American pilot /David Greig. A spy plane crash-lands in a remote valley in a distant country. The local villagers take in the wounded pilot and argue his fate. The American Pilot explores the way the world sees America and the way America sees the world.

 The immersive classroom: create customized learning experiences with AR/VR /Jaime Donally. This book helps educators discover the possibilities of immersive technology to deepen student engagement; activate learning through hunts, breakouts and labs; and explore global collaboration.

 The mad scientist’s guide to composition*: (a somewhat cheeky but exceedingly useful introduction to academic writing) : *now with 100% more monsters! /Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Considering the composition classroom as a ‘mad scientist’s laboratory,’ this guide introduces different kinds of writing as ‘experiments.’ This loose theme lends coherence to the approach to composition, while encouraging students to have fun with writing. The Guide covers the kinds of writing most often required on college campuses, while also addressing important steps and activities frequently overlooked in composition guides, such as revision and peer reviewing. Actual examples of student writing are included throughout, as are helpful reminders and tips to help students polish their skills. First and foremost, the Mad Scientist’s Guide seeks to make writing fun.

 The Precariat: the new dangerous class /Guy Standing. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly…these are The Precariat.  Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists.  By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.

 The Routledge handbook of translation studies and linguistics /edited by Kirsten Malmkjær. This Routledge Handbook  explores the interrelationships between translation studies and linguistics in six sections of state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading specialists from around the world.  With an introduction by the editor and an extensive bibliography, this handbook is an indispensable resource for advanced students of translation studies, interpreting studies and applied linguistics.

 Thriving as an online K-12 educator: essential practices from the field /edited by Jody Peerless Green. Thriving as an Online K-12 Educator is the perfect all-in-one guide to taking your K-12 class online. This concise, accessible book collects time-tested strategies and fresh perspectives from experienced educators to help you smooth out even the most abrupt shift to technology-enhanced teaching and learning.

 We all go back to the land: the who, why, and how of land acknowledgements /Suzanne Keeptwo. Métis artist and educator Suzanne Keeptwo sees the Land Acknowledgement as an opportunity for Indigenous people in Canada to communicate their worldview to non-Indigenous Canadians–a worldview founded upon Age Old Wisdom about how to sustain the land we all want to call home. For Keeptwo, the Land Acknowledgement is a way to teach and a way to learn: a living, evolving record of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit people in Canada and the land that for millennia they. This is an indispensable guide to getting the contemporary Land Acknowledgement right.

 Welcome family and friends to our bighouse and our Kwakwa̲ka̲’wakw potlatch /written by Nella Nelson ; illustrated by Karin Clark. This contemporary story is told through the voice of a 12-year-old Kwakwaka’wakw girl named Gana, who lives in ‘Yalis (Alert Bay, BC). From the time she is little, Gana attends Potlatches and ceremonies in the Bighouse. The regalia she wears–a button blanket, dancing apron and masks–were designed and made for her based on her family origins or clans. The ancient cultural teachings she learns in the Bighouse are useful to Gana in her everyday life and continue to have value in the 21st century.

 Wired youth: the online social world of adolescence /Ilan Talmud and Gustavo Mesch. This book presents an up-to-date review of the literature on youth sociability, relationship formation, and online communication, examining the way young people use the internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. The core of the book investigates the motivations for online relationship formation and the use of online communication for relationship maintenance. The final part of the book focuses on the consequences, both positive and negative, of the use of online communication, such as increased social capital and online bullying.