Here is a selection of titles recently added to the collection.

 Agents of God: boundaries and authority in Muslim and Christian schools /by Jeffrey Guhin. Guhin describes his year and a half spent in two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools in the New York City area. At first, these four schools could not seem more different, yet they are linked by much: these are all schools with conservative thoughts on gender and sexuality, with a hostility to the theory of evolution, and with a deep suspicion of secularism. And they are all also hopeful that America will be a place in which their children can excel, even if they also fear the nation’s many temptations might lead their children astray. Guhin shows how these school communities use boundaries of politics, gender, and sexuality to distinguish themselves from the outside world. Drawing on extensive classroom observation, community participation, and hundreds of interviews with students, teachers, and staff, this book makes an original contribution to religious studies, sociology, and education.

 Always pack a candle: a nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin /Marion McKinnon Crook. The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. At twenty-two, a naïve yet enthusiastic Marion relied entirely on her academic knowledge and her common sense. She doled out birth control and parenting advice to women who had far more life experience than she. She routinely dealt with condescending doctors and dismissive or openly belligerent patients. She immunized school children en masse and made home visits to impoverished communities. She drove out into the vast countryside in freezing temperatures, with only a candle, antifreeze, chains, and chocolate bars as emergency equipment. In one year, Marion received a more rigorous education in the field than she had at university. She helped countless people, made many mistakes, learned to recognize systemic injustice, and even managed to get into a couple of romantic entanglements. Always Pack a Candle is an unforgettable and eye-opening memoir of one frontline worker’s courage, humility, and compassion.

Bible doctrine: essential teachings of the Christian faith /Wayne Grudem, edited by Alexander Grudem. Abridged from the second edition of Grudem’s Systematic Theology, Bible Doctrine covers the same essentials of the faith, giving you a firm grasp on key topics. This new edition includes new, thoughtful critiques of open theism, the new perspective on Paul, Molinism (or middle knowledge), Free Grace theology, and the preterist view of Christ’s second coming

 Bounds of their habitation: race and religion in American history /Paul Harvey.  Bounds of Their Habitationconcisely surveys the evolution and interconnection of race and religion throughout American history. Harvey pierces through the often overly academic treatments afforded these essential topics to accessibly delineate a narrative between our nation’s revolutionary racial and religious beginnings, and our increasingly contested and pluralistic future.

 Figuring racism in Medieval Christianity /M. Lindsay Kaplan. Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed through exegetical readings of Biblical figures in canon law, this discourse produces a racial status of hereditary inferiority that justifies the subordination not only of Jews, but of Muslims and Africans as well.

 Global plant invasions /David R. Clements, Mahesh K. Upadhyaya, Srijana Joshi, Anil Shrestha, editors. TWU AUTHOR A number of books on invasive plants and invasive species in general have been published in recent years, but none explicitly provides global coverage, perhaps because it is only recently that the full geographical, economic and environmental implications of widespread spread and adaptive nature of these particular invasive plants have been recognized.

 God’s glory in Baptist history: a memorial volume for Terry Wolever /edited by Michael A.G. Haykin. This volume was written to honor Wolever’s legacy, but ultimately, as he would certainly have it, was written to honor and glorify His Lord.

 Historical dictionary of Canada /Stephen Azzi, Barry M. Gough. Contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. It includes over 700 cross-referenced entries on a wide range of topics, covering the broad sweep of Canadian history from long before European contact until the present day.

 Identity excellence: a theory of moral expertise for higher education /Perry L. Glanzer. Excellence: sets forth a multi-disciplinary theory of moral expertise for fostering moral excellence in an array of important identities. To this end, it teases apart the essential elements of what it means to be excellent in an identity before discussing the philosophical, sociological, psychological, and educational processes necessary for students to internalize traditions of identity excellence as part of their own moral identities. Overall, the emergent theory exposes the shortcomings in contemporary general education, professional ethics, and co-curricular education.Finally, this book sets forth a bold but compelling vision for a more hopeful future for American higher education.

 Naming the powers: the language of power in the New Testament /Walter Wink. Thoroughly examines the use for the terms of power in all the relevant New Testament and cognate literature. He hypothesizes that “principalities and powers” are neither demonic nor other-worldy spirits; rather they are the inter- dependent inner and outer poles of any given manifestation of power.

 Recovered roots: collective memory and the making of Israeli national tradition /Yael Zerubavel. Drawing on a broad range of official and popular sources and original interviews, Zerubavel shows that the construction of a new national tradition is not necessarily the product of government policy but a creative collaboration between politicians, writers, and educators. Her discussion of the politics of commemoration demonstrates how rival groups can turn the past into an arena of conflict as they posit competing interpretations of history and opposing moral claims on the use of the past. A fascinating examination of the interplay between history and memory, this book will appeal to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and folklorists, as well as to scholars of cultural studies, literature, and communication.

  Son of God: reflections on a tradition /Christopher Bryan. In this study of the phrase ‘son of God’ as applied to Jesus of Nazareth,  Bryan examines the testimony of various New Testament witnesses who used this expression to speak of him, and asks where they got it, what they meant by it, and how it might have been understood. In Bryan’s view, any attempt to address these questions stands self-condemned if it does not point to both the words and works of Jesus himself in the memory of early Christians, and the Torah of Israel as then understood, centering on Israel’s Scriptures.  Bryan argues that whereas’Lord’ (another expression frequently used in the New Testament ) reflects believers’sense of Jesus’relationship to them, ‘son of God’ reflects their sense of his relationship to God.

 Spirits of the coast: orcas in science, art and history /edited by Martha Black, Lorne Hammond and Gavin Hanke, with Nikki Sanchez. An insightful collection exploring the plight, past and promise of the orca, apex predator of all oceans. Spirits of the Coast brings together the work of marine biologists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, artists and storytellers, united by their enchantment with the orca.

 The birds of Vancouver Island’s west coast /Adrian Dorst. The Birds of Vancouver Island’s West Coast presents accounts of all of the species thus far recorded as occurring in the region – 360 in total.

 The cause of freedom: a concise history of African Americans /Jonathan Scott Holloway.  Holloway has penned the perfect short history of African Americans, beginning his sweeping narrative with the arrival of Africans on the shore of Jamestown in 1619 and ending with the emergence of Black Lives Matter. Throughout this compelling history, Holloway challenges the reader to consider what it means to be an American, a citizen, and, most importantly, a human being. The Cause of Freedom is both a wonderful introduction to African American history for those new to the topic and a handy reference for those who are well-versed in the field.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

 The Company: the rise and fall of the Hudson’s Bay empire /Stephen R. Bown. A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins. The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail. Bown has a scholar’s profound knowledge and understanding of the Company’s history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.

 The Palgrave handbook of Canada in international affairs /edited by Robert W. Murray, Paul Gecelovsky, editors. This book argues that Canada and its international policies are at a crossroads as US hegemony is increasingly challenged and a new international order is emerging. The contributors look at how Canada has been adjusting to this new environment and resetting priorities to meet its international policy objectives in a number of different fields.

 The past is a foreign country – revisited /David Lowenthal.A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man’s attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture.

 Theology, music, and modernity: struggles for freedom /edited by Jeremy Begbie, Daniel K. L. Chua and Markus Rathey. This book seeks to demonstrate that the making and hearing of music, and the discourses surrounding music, can bear their own particular kind of witness to the theological dynamics that have characterized and shaped modernity, and especially with respect to modernity’s ambivalent relation to the God of the Christian faith. The guiding theme of the book is freedom: one of the most critical issues of the modern era. And the overall theological perspective is provided by the theme of New Creation, a central and pervasive current in Christian Scripture.