Here is a selection of titles recently added to the collection

 A complete ABA curriculum for individuals on the autism spectrum with a developmental age of 4-7 years: a step-by-step treatment manual including supporting materials for teaching 150 intermediate skills / Julie Knapp and Carolline Turnbull.

A mind spread out on the ground / Alicia Elliott. The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced.

 A modern relation of theology and science assisted by emergence and kenosis / Bradford McCall.

 A nature guide to Boundary Bay / Anne Murray ; with photographs by David Blevins.

 A recipe for disaster: four ways churches and parents prepare individuals to lose their faith and how they can instill a faith that endures / John Marriott.  A Recipe for Disaster focusses  on the four ways churches and parents unwittingly contribute to the deconversion process. By over-preparing, under-preparing, ill-preparing, and painfully preparing those they are responsible to disciple into mature believers, churches and parents instead set them up for a crisis of faith that all too often leads to the loss of faith. In response to each of the four methods of poor preparation, A Recipe for Disaster offers a recipe for success, four alternative methods of preparation designed to instill lifelong faith.

 A war of loves: the unexpected story of a gay activist discovering Jesus / David Bennett ; foreword by N.T. Wright.. A War of Loves investigates what the Bible teaches about sexuality and demonstrates the profligate, unqualified grace of God for all people. David describes the joy and intimacy he found in following Jesus Christ and how love has taken on a radically new and far richer meaning for him.

  Acts of interpretation: scripture, theology, and culture / edited by S.A. Cummins & Jens Zimmermann. TWU Author

 Addiction: how we get stuck and unstuck in compulsive patterns and behavior / Robert P. Vande Kappelle. As this book demonstrates, addiction is a pattern of learned behavior that utilizes ancient mental pathways designed to promote survival and reproduction.  Designed as a study guide for groups or individual use, this book approaches the topic comprehensively, examining the nature of addiction; its cause, symptoms, consequences, and means of recovery.

 Africa and the Bible: corrective lenses : critical essays / by Gene Rice ; edited by Alice Ogden Bellis ; foreword by Cain Hope Felder ; preface by Jonathan Rice. Africa and the Bible is a collection of essays about the African influence on and presence in the Old Testament. They focus on characters with African heritage such as Ebed-melech and Jehudi in Jeremiah, and the prophet Zephaniah himself, as well as dealing with texts that have been misinterpreted to the detriment of African-Americans such as the story of the curse of Canaan, the book is a treasure-trove of carefully researched, thought-provoking articles, and a perfect supplement to be used alongside a Hebrew Bible textbook.

 Beaver and Porcupine / David Bouchard ; art by Nidhi Chanani. Beaver and Porcupine are best friends. They love each other, even though they are different.

 Christ and the cosmos: a reformulation of Trinitarian doctrine / Keith Ward. Ward argues that social Trinitarian thinking threatens the unity of God, and that this new view of God does not require a ‘social’ component. Expanding on the work of theologians such as Barth and Rahner, who insisted that there was only one mind of God, Ward offers a coherent, wholly monotheistic interpretation of the Trinity. Christ and the Cosmos analyses theistic belief in a scientific context, demonstrating the necessity of cosmology to theological thinking that is often overly myopic and anthropomorphic. This important volume will benefit those who seek to understand what the Trinity is, why it matters, and how it fits into a scientific account of the universe.

 Church of spies: the Pope’s secret war against Hitler / Mark Riebling. Riebling shows that, Pope Pius XII ran the world’s largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Skimming from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recording meetings with top Nazis, Pius sent birthday cards to Hitler– while secretly plotting to kill him. Fearing that overt protest would impede his covert actions, he muted his public response to Nazi crimes.

 Eccentricity in anthropology: David H. Kelsey’s anthropological formula as a way out of the substantive-relational Imago Dei debate / Stephen R. Milford. Eccentricity in Anthropology brings into conversation a constructive, critical interpretation of David Kelsey’s Eccentric Existence with a central–yet often overlooked–debate in theological anthropology: the substantive-relational imago Dei. Milford’s work explores new insights into human identity and dignity. In particular he demonstrates the value of an alternate constructive of humanity in the image of God.

 Excusing sinners and blaming God: a Calvinist assessment of determinism, moral responsibility, and divine involvement in evil / Guillaume Bignon. This book is a philosophically rigorous and comprehensive defense of Calvinism against arguments. With respect to human moral responsibility, it discusses whether determinism destroys free will, turns humans into pets or puppets, and involves or is analogous to coercion and manipulation.

 Eyes on Jesus: through Mark’s gospel / Tim MacIntosh.

Forgetting the former things: brain injury’s invitation to vulnerability and faith / Tamara Puffer ; with Joyce Hollyday ; foreword by Bill Gaventa.

 From the monastery to the world: the letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal / translated and edited by Jessie Sandoval ; with additional notes and translations by Jeffrey Neilson ; introduction by Robert Hass.

 Getting at Jesus: a comprehensive critique of neo-atheist nonsense about the Jesus of history / Peter S. Williams. This comprehensive critique documents the falsehood of neo-atheist claims, correcting their historical and philosophical mistakes to show how we can get at the truth about the historical Jesus.

 Graphic design rules: 365 essential design dos and don’ts / Sean Adams, Peter Dawson, John Foster, Tony Seddon.Graphic Design Rules is a handy guide for professional graphic designers, students, and laymen who incorporate graphic design into their job or small business. Packed with practical advice, this spirited collection of design dos and don’ts takes readers through 365 rules like knowing when to use a modular grid–and when to throw the grid out the window. All designers will appreciate tips and lessons from these highly accomplished authors, who draw on years of experience to help you create good design.

 Graphic design theory: readings from the field / edited by Helen Armstrong. Graphic Design Theory presents groundbreaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers. Striking color images illustrate each of the movements discussed and demonstrate the ongoing relationship between theory and practiceAuthors include such influential designers as Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Karl Gerstner, Katherine McCoy, Michael Rock, Lev Manovich, Ellen Lupton, and Lorraine Wild. Additional features include a timeline, glossary, and bibliography for further reading. A must-have survey for graduate and undergraduate courses in design history, theory, and contemporary issues.

 Greening the children of God: Thomas Traherne and nature’s role in the ecological formation of children / Chad Michael Rimmer. Greening the Children of God establishes the contemporary significance of Traherne’s moral theory in conversation with child psychologists, educators, philosophers, and theologians who know that cultivating a place-based relationship to the local ecology helps children perceive creation’s deep mutuality and develop a moral identity in the image of a caring Creator.

 Helping hands / Robert Cutting. Many Aboriginal peoples helped Europeans adjust to a new way of life.

 Her preaching body: conversations about identity, agency, and embodiment among contemporary … female preachers / Amy P. McCullough. McCullough explores the every-Sunday bodily decisions of contemporary female preachers, with an eye to uncovering the meanings about body, preaching, and God alive underneath. Ultimately, she argues for a renewed understanding of embodiment, in which one’s living body, inescapably intertwined with her preaching, becomes the avenue for greater knowledge about how to preach and deeper insight into the faith professed.

 History through trauma: history and counter-history in the Hebrew Bible / Tiffany Houck-Loomis. History through Trauma explores the symbolic function of religious, political, and national symbols that aid in the construction of historical narratives, and the psychological effects of trauma on their creation and dissolution.  This work offers a valuable new understanding of the impact of trauma on history-making in general–an understanding that brings light to biblical studies, practical theology, pastoral psychology, and psychoanalysis.

 Humbling faith: brokenness, doubt, dialogue : what unites atheists, theists, and nontheists / Peter Admirand. This is a book hoping to embolden doubt and sharpen unanswerable questions, all in the context of loving the self and one another. Humbling Faith helps us see how our beliefs, or non-beliefs, our belongings and identities, often remain flawed, myopic, self-absorbed, unredeemed. The hope is that such awareness of our brokenness can fuel greater ethical partnerships and dialogue, promoting peace from our recognized need for one another. Humbling Faith is not only a resource towards humbling other faiths, but most importantly, your own.

 Hymns and hymnody: historical and theological introductions. Volume 2, From Catholic Europe to Protestant Europe / edited by Mark A. Lamport, Benjamin K. Forrest, and Vernon M. Whaley. Hymns and Hymnody is a 60-chapter, three-volume introductory textbook describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church.

 In progress: see inside a lettering artist’s sketchbook and process, from sketch to vector / Jessica Hische ; preface by Louise Fili. This show-all romp through design-world darling Jessica Hische’s sketchbook reveals the creative and technical process behind making award-winning hand lettering. See everything, from Hische’s rough sketches to her polished finals for major clients such as Wes Anderson, NPR, and Starbucks. The result is a well of inspiration and brass tacks information for designers who want to sketch distinctive letterforms and hone their skills.This highly visual book is an essential–and entirely enjoyable–resource for those who practice or simply appreciate the art of hand lettering.–

 Indigenous theology and the Western worldview: a decolonized approach to Christian doctrine / Randy S. Woodley. A Cherokee teacher, missiologist, and historian encourages us to reject the many problematic aspects of the Western worldview and to convert to a worldview that is closer to that of both Indigenous traditions and Jesus.

 Jesus and Christian origins: directions toward a new paradigm / edited by Ben Wiebe. The purpose here is not to develop particular New Testament themes as such. Rather, in this volume the writers take up Gospel related topics in the context of the early church in order to illuminate specific baselines for New Testament interpretation and to discern directions toward a new paradigm.

 Joseph: a gateway to the Lord / Merrell M. Peters. Using concepts from the common law, the author shows the organizational structure of this remarkable story and sets out the writer’s argument concerning God’s relationship with humanity. Understanding the story of Joseph, the reader gets pointed in the right direction for further exploration of Holy Scripture.

  Making love with the land / Joshua Whitehead. Making Love With the Land is a startling, heartwrenching look at what it means to live as a queer Indigenous person in the rupture between identities. In sharp, surprising, unique pieces,Whitehead illuminates this particular moment, in which both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are navigating new (and old) ideas about the land.

 New world, new church?: the theology of the emerging church movement. / Hannah Steele. Offering an assessment of the impact of the emerging church upon the church in the West, and examining the thinking of the movement’s leading proponents including Brian McLaren and Rob Bell, New World, New Church? affirms what is good and insightful in the emerging church and offers a robust critical evaluation of its theological revisions.

 Oedipus unbound: selected writings on rivalry and desire / René Girard ; edited and with an introduction by Mark R. Anspach. The hard-to-find writings assembled here include three major early essays, never before available in English, which afford a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the emergence of Girard’s scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone—or anything—a rival desires. In a wide-ranging and provocative introduction, Mark R. Anspach presents fresh evidence for Girard’s hypotheses from classical studies, literature, anthropology, and the life of Freud himself.

 Peace and good order: the case for indigenous justice in Canada / Harold R. Johnson. In this direct, concise, and essential volume, Johnson examines the justice system’s failures to deliver peace and good order to Indigenous people. He explores the part that he understands himself to have played in that mismanagement, drawing on insights he has gained from the experience; insights into the roots and immediate effects of how the justice system has failed Indigenous people, in all the communities in which they live; and insights into the struggle for peace and good order for Indigenous people now.

 Pixilated practices: media, ritual, and identity / Christopher Peyton Miller. Miller demonstrates how media has taken the place of ritual(s).

 Red River girl: the life and death of Tina Fontaine / Joanna Jolly. On August 17, 2014, the body of fifteen-year old runaway Tina Fontaine was found in Winnipeg’s Red River. It was wrapped in material and weighted down with rocks. Red River Girl is a gripping account of that murder investigation and the unusual police detective who pursued the killer with every legal means at his disposal. Aware of the reality of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jolly has chronicled Tina Fontaine’s life as a reminder that she was more than a statistic. Most importantly, the book will chronicle whether Tina’s family will find justice.

 Rethinking the dates of the New Testament: the evidence for early composition / Jonathan Bernier.This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how quickly early Christians produced what became the seminal texts for their new movement.

 Ring by spring: dating and relationship cultures at Christian colleges / Stacy Keogh George. This book begins to explore this complicated dynamic that is unique to Christian colleges by describing the experiences of Christian college students and alumni. The author provides additional thoughts on how to support students overwhelmed by this culture, and how to foster positive relationships of all kinds on college campuses that too often make romantic relationships too serious too quickly.

 Rockhounding for beginners: your comprehensive guide to finding and collecting precious minerals, gems, geodes, & more / Lars W. Johnson ; with Stephen M. Voynick. Rockhouding for Beginners shows you how to take your rockhounding to the next level, providing everything you need to know from tips for finding local sources for really cool finds to techniques for safely cleaning, cutting, polishing, and caring for the best samples. Complete with full-color photos to help you identify each rock and mineral wherever you find them, this guide has all the rockhounding information you need whether you’re ready to get down and dirty or simply want to learn more from the comfort of your couch.