Here is a selction of books added to the collection in the past week
A billion black Anthropocenes or none /Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, this book examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. The author initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.
A geography of the Hutterites in North America /Simon M. Evans. Evans analyzes the German-speaking Anabaptist community, focusing on their history of expansion, their patterns of population growth, the additions they make to the cultural landscape of the northern plains, and their contributions to the agricultural and light manufacturing economies of their home states and provinces.
A theology of international development /Thia Cooper. This book offers a Christian theology of development, with practical solutions to bridge the gap and return to truly faith-based policies and practices. In applying theological thinking to development, the author argues that aid agencies need to address the entrenchment of unequal power relations, and embrace a holistic notion of development, defined by the needs of those most marginalized.
Arthur Miller’s adaptation of An enemy of the people /by Henrik Ibsen. Dr. Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother, the mayor, conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story, Stockmann appeals to the public meeting–only to be shouted down and reviled as ‘an enemy of the people’.
Augustine and contemporary social issues /edited by Paul L. Allen. This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent, 21st century socio-political issues. Drawing together Augustinian ideas such as concupiscence, virtue, vice, habit and sin through social and textual analysis, it provides fresh Augustinian perspectives on new – yet somehow familiar – quandaries. The volume addresses the themes of fallenness, politics, race and desire. It includes contributions from theology, philosophy and political science.
Bats of British Columbia /Cori Lausen. A full-colour, fully updated field guide to identifying British Columbia’s bats, with new material on acoustic identification.. Since 1993, when the first edition of Bats of British Columbia was published, an explosion in field studies of the province’s bat fauna has produced a wealth of new knowledge, applying modern tools such as genetic techniques and acoustic bat detectors. This fully updated second edition includes new colour photographs throughout, with new material on acoustic identification.
Biblical servant leadership: an exploration of leadership for the contemporary context /Steven Crowther. This book explores the concepts from scripture for servant leadership and compare these findings with contemporary models of servant leadership. It is an examination of Christian leadership for the contemporary world in its global and increasing secular context. The author uses examples from both the Old and New Testament to establish a new shepherd model of leadership that moves beyond the servant mode to the mode of caring direction.
Braided learning: illuminating Indigenous presence through art and story /Susan D. Dion. Lenape-Potawatomi scholar and educator Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to address challenging topics including treaties, the Indian Act, the Sixties Scoop, land claims, resurgence, the drive for self-determination, and government policies that undermine language, culture, and traditional knowledge systems. Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge and world views to explain perspectives that are often missing from the national narrative. An invaluable resource for Canadians trying to make sense of a difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present, and work toward a more equitable future.
Brief history of paradigm shifts in Christian education /Vic Wiens. With consideration of the role of the family patriarch in every cultural paradigm and the triad of family, church, and Christian school, this book seeks to impart: the understanding of the mandate to pass on our Christian faith to the next generation ; the understanding of the current level of cultural change and the understanding of the best practices for passing on our faith through historical cultural changes.
Canada at a crossroads: boundaries, bridges, and laissez-faire racism in indigenous-settler relations /Jeffrey S. Denis. Drawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards decolonization. After tracing settlers’ sense of group superiority and entitlement to historical and ongoing colonial processes, Denis illustrates how contemporary Indigenous and settler residents think about and relate to one another. Denis then critically assesses the promise and pitfalls of commonly proposed solutions, including intergroup contact, education, apologies, and collective action, and concludes that genuine reconciliation will require radically restructuring Canadian society and perpetually fulfilling treaty responsibilities.
Canada at war: conscription, diplomacy, and politics /J.L. Granatstein. In this collection of his previously-published essays on the two world wars, Granatstein brings together research from archives in Canada and abroad, illuminating Canada’s political transition from the British to American sphere of influence in the first half of the twentieth century. Canada at War examines the impact of both world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, acting as the book’s central figure.
Canada’s indigenous constitution /John Borrows. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country.
Drawing out law: a spirit’s guide /John Borrows (Kegedonce). In Drawing Out Law, John Borrows (Kegedonce) skillfully juxtaposes Canadian legal policy and practice with the more broadly defined Anishinabek perception of law as it applies to community life, nature, and individuals. This innovative work combines fictional and non-fictional elements in a series of connected short stories that symbolize different ways of Anishinabek engagement with the world. Drawing on oral traditions, pictographic scrolls, dreams, common law case analysis, and philosophical reflection, Borrows’ narrative explores issues of pressing importance to the future of indigenous law and offers readers new ways to think about the direction of Canadian law. This is a major work by one of Canada’s leading legal scholars, and an essential companion to Canada’s Indigenous Constitution.
Driven by difference: how great companies fuel innovation through diversity /David Livermore. Drawing on success stories from Google, Alibaba, Novartis, and other groundbreaking companies, this book identifies the management practices necessary to guide multicultural teams to innovation, including how to: create an optimal environment; build trust; fuse differing perspectives; align goals and expectations; generate fresh ideas; consider various audiences when selecting and selling an idea; design and test for different users.
Experimental games: critique, play, and design in the age of gamification /Patrick Jagoda. Jagoda shows that games need not be synonymous with gamification and reveals the ways in which experimental games can disrupt the logic of gamification itself. Addressing game designers and new media artists as well as the growing field of game studies, Jagoda ranges over many genres including single-player, multi-player, and networked real-time strategy, platformers, simulators, first-person shooters, role-playing games, and puzzle games. The result is a game-changing book on the sociopolitical potential of this form of mass entertainment.
Faithful economics: 25 short insights /Daniel K. Finn. Faithful Economics is the ideal guide for navigating this complex arena and coming to a deeper understanding of how our faith and our economic lives intersect.
Games of empire: global capitalism and video games /Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter. Video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary m.
Geography of British Columbia: people and landscapes in transition /Brett McGillivray. From the beginning of time, physical and human processes have altered BC’s landscape. Geographers seek to understand these processes, and this text provides students with the basic tools and techniques of their craft. Written with a minimum of jargon and with key terms explained in a glossary, Geography of British Columbia provides students with the tools, techniques, and knowledge they’ll need..
Harper’s world: the politicization of Canadian foreign policy, 2006-2015 /edited by Peter McKenna. In examining the nuts and bolts of former prime minister Stephen Harper’s foreign policy universe between 2006-2015, Harper’s World turns to key foreign policy experts to break down and evaluate Harper’s international policies–from relations with China to his engagement with Canada’s Arctic region. This book argues that the policy decisions of Harper’s Conservative government were primarily shaped and motivated by domestic, regional, and, most importantly, electoral calculations.
House of mirrors: Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy /Yves Engler. Engler outlines how Trudeau’s government has expanded the military while ignoring international efforts to restrict nuclear weapons proliferation. In the Western Hemisphere the Liberals have launched an unprecedented, multi-pronged, effort to overthrow Venezuela’s government while siding with an assortment of reactionary governments. They continued to enable Israeli violence against Palestinians, cozied up to repressive Middle East monarchies and emboldened far-right militarists in Ukraine. Flouting their climate commitments, the Trudeau government also failed to follow through on its promise to rein in Canada’s controversial international mining sector. Notwithstanding the rhetoric, House of Mirrors shows that Trudeau largely continued Harper’s foreign policy..
How God becomes real: kindling the presence of invisible others /T.M. Luhrmann. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort-by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others-helps to explain the enduring power of faith.
Information: a historical companion /edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from analog/digital to World Wide Web..
Medicine unbundled: a journey through the minefields of Indigenous health care /Gary Geddes. An investigative exploration of the separate Indian hospitals that existed in Canada for many decades, told through memoir, archival research, and interviews with survivors.
Negotiating with giants: get what you want against the odds /Peter D. Johnston. In this book, Johnston surprises us with answers to far-flung questions, laying out unique strategies and concrete steps we can all use to handle the growing number of giants in our personal and professional lives. As readers, we travel across time–through riveting, real-life stories–uncovering the secrets of successful smaller players so we, too, can get what we want against the odds.
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 for the first time to bring together all the major components of ancient, extra-biblical Jewish literature into a single collection. The editors have brought together these diverse works in order to highlight what has often been neglected; their common Jewish background. This three-volume set of translations, introductions, and detailed commentaries is a must for scholars, students, and anyone interested in this great body of ancient Jewish writings.
Playing nature: ecology in video games /Alenda Y. Chang. A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games. Chang offers groundbreaking methods for exploring this vital overlap. Arguing that games need to be understood as part of a cultural response to the growing ecological crisis, Playing Nature seeds conversations around key environmental science concepts and terms. Chang suggests several ways to rethink existing game taxonomies and theories of agency while revealing surprising fundamental similarities between game play and scientific work. Chang puts her surprising ideas into conversation with leading media studies and environmental humanities scholars, ultimately exploring manifold ecological futures—not all of them dystopian.
Positive body image for kids: a strengths-based curriculum for children aged 7-11 /Ruth MacConville. This 16-session curriculum aims to provide children with the information and understanding they need in order to maintain and celebrate a healthy self-perception.
Ready player two: women gamers and designed identity /Shira Chess. In Ready Player Two, Chess uses the concept of Player Two–The industry idealization of the female gamer — to examine assumptions implicit in video games designed for women and their impact on gaming culture and the larger society. With Player Two, the video game industry has designed specifically for the feminine ideal: white, middle class, heterosexual, cisgendered, and abled. Drawing on categories from time management and caregiving to social networking, consumptions, and bodies, Chess examines how games have been engineered to shape normative ideas about women and leisure.
Right here, right now: politics and leadership in the age of disruption /Stephen J. Harper Right Here, Right Now sets out a forward-looking vision by analyzing how economic, social, and public policy trends have affected our economies, communities, and governments. Harper contends that Donald Trump’s surprise election victory and governing agenda clearly signal that political, economic, and social institutions must be more responsive to legitimate concerns about market policies, trade, globalization, and immigration. Analyzing international trade, market regulation, immigration, technology, and the role of government in the digital economy, Harper lays out the case for pragmatic conservative leadership as a proven solution to the uncertainty and risk that businesses and governments face today.
Selected plays: Sheppey, The sacred flame, The circle, The constant wife, Our betters /W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham’s unerring hold over audiences and readers is amply demonstrated by the five plays in this selection. Sheppey, his last and one of his very best, is the comedy of a Cockney barber who wins a sweepstake. The Sacred Flame gives an unusual note of noir-ish suspense to a moving drama of protective maternal love. The Circle, widely regarded as Maugham’s masterpiece, deals wittily with the dilemma of a woman intent on leaving her pompous husband. In The Constant Wife, an abrasive, war-between-the-sexes comedy, his heroine is an early feminist. And, Our Betters, whose London opening was delayed through fear of lawsuits, exposes the amoral society of an English aristocracy funded by American heiresses.
Surprised by Jack: a poetic response to C. S. Lewis, and a handful of quietness, poems inspired by the Blue Mountains /Peter Stiles. These lovingly crafted poems are about people and places, memories and emotions, and the art of poetry which understands the importance of the well-loved pen from which words and metaphors flow. They are also deeply Christian, though never intrusively so…Peter Stiles has a beautifully deft and gentle way with words and rhythms
The Bloomsbury handbook of religion and migration /[edited by] Rubina Ramji and Alison Marshall. TWU AUTHOR: Michael Wilkinson The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration gives attention to minorities, marginal groups and communities. Contributors present the story of religion and migration predominantly through non-Christian experiences and mainly those of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, and Buddhists. Intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation are considered throughout.
The cultural intelligence difference: master the one skill you can’t do without in today’s global economy /David Livermore. The Cultural Intelligence Difference gives readers a scientifically validated instrument for measuring their personal CQ score and customized strategies for improving interactions with people from diverse cultures.
The end of adolescence: the lost art of delaying adulthood /Nancy E. Hill, Alexis Redding. Hill and Redding contest the accusation that today’s young people are coddled and immature. Unearthing studies of college students five decades ago, the authors show that the behaviors now decried as markers of stalled development have long been typical of adolescents. Hill and Redding’s advice for adults? Judge less, nurture more.
The fox: a play /by Allan Miller. Two English women in their 30’s are struggling to run an isolated farm, but the hens have stopped laying and the hen house is being raided by a fox. Enter a young soldier who is such an engaging and capable fellow that he is invited to stay on as a hired hand. Who is this mysterious man who eventually dominates life on the farm?
The ideas of René Girard: an anthropology of violence and religion /edited by David Cayley ; featuring Sandor Goodhart, James Alison, Gil Bailie, Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Paul Dumouchel.. In 2001, Cayley spent several days with Girard recording the interviews in this volume. Their conversations explore Girard’s entire body of work, from literature and anthropology to the way Biblical revelation has shaped modernity. Cayley also speaks with Girard’s students, friends, and admirers about the contagiousness of his intellectual achievements and his extraordinary spirit.
The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins /Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
The racial mosaic: a pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism /Daniel R. Meister. In this groundbreaking study of the pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism, Meister shows how the philosophy of cultural pluralism normalized racism and the entrenchment of whiteness. The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how early ideas about cultural diversity in Canada were founded upon, and coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism, despite the apparent tolerance of a variety of immigrant peoples and their cultures. On the fiftieth anniversary of Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism, The Racial Mosaic represents the first serious and sustained attempt to detail the policy’s historical antecedents, compelling readers to consider how racism has structured Canada’s settler-colonial society.
The shoe boy: a trapline memoir / Duncan McCue. McCue takes us on an evocative journey that explores the hopeful confusion of his teenage years, entwined with the challenges and culture shock of coming from an urban mixed-race family and moving to the unfamiliar North. As he reflects on his search for his own personal identity, he illustrates the relationship Indigenous peoples have with their lands, and the challenges urban Indigenous people face when they seek to reconnect to traditional lifestyles. The result is a contemplative, honest, and unexpected coming-of-age memoir set in the context of the Cree struggle to protect their way of life.
The story of sacrifice: ritual and narrative in the Priestly source /Liane M. Feldman. Bringing together insights from the fields of ritual theory and narratology, the author argues that the ritual materials in Leviticus should be understood and analyzed as literature. At the core of her study is the assertion that these sacrificial instructions and purity laws form the backbone of the Priestly story world, and that when these materials are read within their broader narrative context, the Priestly narrative is first and foremost a story about the origins and purpose of sacrifice.
You’re paid what you’re worth /Jake Rosenfeld. A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis. Acording to power struggles legitimize pay for particular jobs, and organizational inertia makes that pay seem natural. Mimicry encourages employers to do what peers are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that seem unfair. Rosenfeld shows us how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge economics, original survey data, and a journalistic eye for compelling stories and revealing details.
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