Here is a selction of recently added titles.

Run towards the danger: confrontations with a body of memory / Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki. Polley’s Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then.

 Scientific models for religious knowledge: are the scientific study of religion and a religious epistemology compatible? / Andrew Ralls Woodward. In Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge, the author aims to get outside typical polarized debates between traditional, a priori theism and radical, scientistic naturalism. Instead, a new science and religion compatibility system–between a scientific study of religion and a religious epistemology–is our new, elusive problem. Moreover, we shall look at a comparison and contrast of modern science with the simple deference of the human mind to the actions of culturally postulated superhuman agents. This book pays critical attention to the contributions of scholars in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, and the scientific study of religion. Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge is useful for readers looking to expand their learning in the philosophies of science and religion as these subjects are taught and analyzed in modern research universities.

 Super dinosaur encyclopedia / author, Chris Barker ; Smithsonian consultant, Matthew T. Miller ; general consultant, Darren Naish. Prepare to be amazed as more than 40 incredible prehistoric creatures come roaring back to life in stunning CGI reconstructions. Alongside the amazing images, Super Dinosaur is packed with incredible facts about these extraordinary creatures. Features on fascinating fossils and the latest scientific techniques will show you exactly how paleontologists piece together information about how dinosaurs would have looked and lived

The big dark / David Bouchard. All of these stories have a traditional Aboriginal origin and are retold by Aboriginal authors. From trickster tales to creation stories, all of these contain important life lessons.

 The business of design: balancing creativity and profitability / Keith Granet ; foreword by Holly Hunt. The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. The Business of Design is written and illustrated to speak to a visually thinking audience. The book covers all aspects of running a successful design business, including human resources, client management, product development, marketing, and licensing. This timely update on the tenth anniversary of the first edition includes new content on social media, working from home, and understanding and working with different generations, essential tools in today’s ultracompetitive marketplace.

 The Christian wallet: spending, giving, and living with a conscience / Mike Slaughter ; with Karen Perry Smith.

 The formation of gaming culture: UK gaming magazines, 1981-1995 / Graeme Kirkpatrick.This book analyses gaming magazines published in Britain in the 1980s to provide the first serious history of the bedroom coding culture that produced some of the most important video games ever played.

The formation of the ‘Book’ of Psalms: reconsidering the transmission and canonization of Psalmody in light of material culture and the poetics of anthologies / David Willgren. By conceptualizing the ‘Book’ of Psalms as an anthology, and by inquiring into its poetics by means of paratextuality, Willgren provides a fresh reconstruction of its formation and concludes that it preserves a selection of psalms that is best seen not as a book of psalms, but as a canon of psalms.

The great flood / retold by David Bouchard ; art by Michael Lonechild.

 The hunt / Robert Cutting ; art by Francesco Francavilla. Grandfather shares his wisdom with Ethan. to help Ethan understand that hunting was important to their ancestors. Grandfather teaches Ethan that wisdom can be passed down from one generation to another.

 The judgment of love: an investigation of salvific judgment in Christian eschatology / James M. Matarazzo Jr. This book seeks to explore the concept of divine judgment in Christian eschatology. It contends that this judgment is salvific rather than destructive. The book concludes by proposing that we may approach divine judgment with faith, hope, and love–not only for ourselves, but for the human race as a whole.

 The kingdom of God in Africa: a history of African Christianity / by Mark Shaw and Wanjiru M. Gitau. Shaw and Gitau trace the development and spread of African Christianity through its two-thousand year history, demonstrating how the African church has faithfully testified to the power and diversity of God’s kingdom.

 The market as god / Harvey Cox. The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox’s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world’s problems–widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty–are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its divine status can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity.

 The one who watches over / Eileen Marthiensen and Ella Nasogaluak-Brown ; illustrations by Anne Marie-Bougeois. A retelling by two Inuvialuit authors that introduces readers to significant figures in Inuit culture, including the good and selfless Kublualuk and the beautiful and selfish Sedna.  The book concludes with Reflecting on the Story and Turtle Island Circle, features that provide additional information and prompt reflection and extension.

 The promise of paradise: utopian communities in British Columbia / Andrew Scott. With careful research and engaging first-person accounts, Scott sifts through the wreckage of the utopia-seekers’ dreams and delves into the practices and philosophies of contemporary intentional communities. This book is a compendium of astounding misadventures as well as an intriguing analysis of what moves people to search for paradise.

 The reason you walk / Wab Kinew. When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him.. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts.

 The resurrection of Jesus Christ: exploring its theological significance and ongoing relevance / W. Ross Hastings. Reveals the hidden depth of the significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for our being, our salvation, Christian life, ethics, and our future hope.

 The Routledge companion to Jane Austen / edited by Cheryl A. Wilson and Maria H. Frawley. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship on as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. Includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen .

 The secular as methodology: a Christian view of the benefits and dangers of secularization. / Robert L. Montgomery.  I propose that the secular be viewed primarily as a methodology in various areas of life, beginning most clearly with science, but extending to many other areas of thought and activity. When this is done I believe people then have the clear option to apply their faith to all of their thought and action and at the same time to allow for correction and improvement to their thought and action. These corrections and improvements will be debated, but in the end, for Christians, they are dependent on interpretations of the Bible. Furthermore, I believe the broad result for all people is to clarify the choice to believe in God or rather that we are chosen by God revealed in the Bible who is seeking to have fellowship with us.

 The well-played game: a player’s philosophy / Bernard De Koven. De Koven’s classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and player modification. De Koven explains that when players congratulate each other on a well-played game, they are expressing a unique and profound synthesis that combines the concepts of play (with its associations of playfulness and fun) and game (with its associations of rule-following). This, he tells us, yields a larger concept: the experience and expression of excellence. His book belongs on the bookshelves of players who want to find a game in which they can play well, who are looking for others with whom they can play well, and who have discovered the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.

 The white deer / David Bouchard. The White Deer is a traditional Aboriginal tale told by peoples from the Eastern Woodlands of Turtle Island to the Plains and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The story tells of a hunter’s tragic mistake and of the origin of the Aboriginal value never to take more from nature than you need.

 There for you / Robyn Michaud-Turgeon ; Series editors: David Bouchard and Robert Cutting. There for You is a book that brings out issues that young Aboriginal youth face growing up in rural and urban settings. This book provides the reader an understanding of teamwork, healthy competition, perseverance and healthy role models. An excellent resource for traditions such as storytelling, legends which link Elders to young Aboriginal teens.

  Thinkertoys: a handbook of creative-thinking techniques / Michael Michalko. A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.

 This place: 150 years retold / foreword by Alicia Elliott ; stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, et al. Explores the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this graphic novel anthology. These stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.

 True north: leading authentically in today’s workplace / Bill George and Zach Clayton ; foreword by David Gergen. This leadership classic enables you to discover your True North: the internal compass that guides you successfully through life. The third edition offers a concrete and comprehensive guide for becoming an authentic leader and reveals how you can chart your path to success. Updated stories and examples throughout, including a new lead story for the chapters on self-awareness and values.

 Using power well: Bob Williams and the making of British Columbia / Bob Williams, with Benjamin Isitt and Thomas Bevan. In Using Power Well, former provincial politician Bob Williams tells his atypical life story: beginning with his childhood in the working-class east end of Vancouver, Williams goes on to describe his early years as a planner in Delta, BC, his political life on Vancouver City Council and in the BC Legislature–including a major impact on the first NDP government in the 1970s. Williams’s legacy is dotted across the physical and political landscape of BC–from the Whistler Town Centre and Robson Square to the Agricultural Land Reserve, the Insurance Corporation of BC and many projects in between.

 Viola Desmond won’t be budged! / Jody Nyasha Warner ; pictures by Richard Rudnicki.

 What has Jerusalem to do with Beijing?: biblical interpretation from a Chinese perspective / K.K. Yeo. This book, a twentieth-anniversary revised and expanded edition, includes studies that range from exploration of the philosophical structure of Eastern culture to present-day sociopolitical realities in Malaysia and China–all in support of cross-cultural methods of reading the Bible culturally and reading the cultures biblically.