Here is a selection of new titles added to the collection in the past week. 

 A tempest: based on Shakespeare’s The tempest,  adaptation for a Black theatre /Aimé Césaire ; translated from the French by Richard Miller. A troupe of black  actors perform their own Tempest . Cesaire’s rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism and their lasting effects.

 Ancient African kingdoms: from the Kingdom of Kush to the Mali Empire, discover the history of classical African civilizations /Jim Barrow. In this book, the author will take you on a journey through ancient Africa, focusing on the six major African kingdoms. From their beginnings to their fall, the influence they had on the world, and the myths that’ll live forever, these kingdoms are worth the exploration!

 Cambridge University Press Journals – A collection of peer-reviewed, leading journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.  In addition, as part of our agreement with Cambridge, TWU authors will be able to publish an unlimited number of their articles as open access without processing fees in all Cambridge hybrid and gold journals for the duration of the agreement (2022-2024).

 Canadian Major Dailies – Included are national and leading regional papers such as National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times-Colonist. Coverage: 1985 – current, but often with a one day embargo. Please note that the database is text-only, with no photographs.

 Caring for critters: one year at a wildlife rescue centre /Nicholas Read. For over three decades, Critter Care, the wildlife rehabilitation centre in Langley, has rescued and cared for sick, injured, and orphaned animals. Read spent one year volunteering at Critter Care, helping to take care of the animals and recording the stories. Full of information, compassion, and a strong dose of social awareness, Caring for Critters is a month-by-month account of Read’s experience.

 Chemistry for breakfast: the amazing science of everyday life /Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim ; translated by Sarah Pybus ; illustrations by Claire Lenkova.  In this quirky and endlessly surprising book, scientist and award-winning Nguyen-Kim tells us about the amazing science behind everyday things (like drinking water,) and not-so-everyday things (like space travel and baby dinosaurs). Told over the course of a single day: Mai shows the scientific reactions that occur from morning to bedtime. Quirky illustrations: break up the text and help readers visualize scientific reactions.

 Data structures and algorithms interview questions you’ll most likely be asked /Vibrant publishers. This book includes only the information required immediately for an ongoing job search for an I.T career. This book provides a compact yet comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms in Java that will help job aspirants give targeted, clear answers.  Dozens of example responses to interview questions  and proven strategies to give specific, impressive, answers that help nail interviews.

 Design like nature: biomimicry for a healthy planet /Megan Clendenan, Kim Ryall Woolcock. An appealing resource sure to spark an interest in biomimicry, from casual readers to budding scientists.

 Do you know where the animals live?: discovering the incredible creatures all around us /Peter Wohlleben ; translated by Shelley Tanaka. Uses a thoughtful, easy-to-understand approach to teach children information about the various species of animals that share our planet, including where they live, what they eat, how they interact with their families, how they communicate, and what they think and feel. Includes quizzes and suggested activities.

 Finding home: the journey of immigrants and refugees /Jen Sookfong Lee ; illustrated by Drew Shannon. A look at how human migration has changed the world. For middle-grade readers, with photographs and illustrations throughout.

 Girlhood: teens around the world in their own voices /Masuma Ahuja. Journalist Ahuja introduces us to 31 teenage girls from 29 countries. Through diary entries and photographs, they share their own stories of growing up and show what ordinary girlhood is like all over the world.

 Journal of a homecoming: Cahier d’un retour au pays natal /Aimé Césaire ; translated by N. Gregson Davis ; introduction, commentary, and notes by F. Abiola Irele. Originally published in 1939, Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Négritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Césaire’s surrealist masterpiece.

 Journal of Chinese Theology, Designed to meet the growing demand for the studies of Christianity as an academic discipline in the Chinese context. Being international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed, the journal publishes articles in the areas of Biblical Studies, Church History, Systematic Theology, Practical Theology and Comparative Religions. JCT also features articles exploring wider issues in church and society.

 Leo Frobenius on African history, art and culture: an anthology /edited by Eike Haberland ; with a foreword by Léopold Sédar Senghor. Frobenius’ pivotal works on African culture represented a landmark in ethnography. His writings, when discovered by young African intellectuals in the early 1900s, reverberated through the community of Africans in search of cultural legitimacy. Frobenius was credited with giving Black Africa back its soul and its identity

 Make just one change: teach students to ask their own questions /Dan Rothstein, Luz Santana. The authors argue that formulating one’s own questions is “the single most essential skill for learning”–and one that should be taught to all students. They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible.

 Materialism from Hobbes to Locke /Stewart Duncan. This book explores a pivotal debate in seventeenth-century European philosophy about the nature of human beings–whether they are purely material things, or whether they have an immaterial soul that thinks and can survive the death of the body. It traces this debate from the work of the materialist philosopher Thomas Hobbes, through the responses of three of his critics–the Platonists Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and the materialist Margaret Cavendish–to the discussion of materialism in John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding.

 Measure what matters: how Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation rock the world with OKRs /John Doerr. Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth–and how it can help any organization thrive.

 Phyllis’s orange shirt /written by Phyllis Webstad ; illustrated by Brock Nicol When Phyllis Webstad turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shirt. It is also the story of Orange Shirt Day.

 Plagues, pandemics and viruses: from the plague of Athens to COVID-19 /Heather E. Quinlan.From the plague of Athens to the Covid-19 pandemic, Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world’s biggest pandemics as well as several modern diseases of note and those that are making a comeback.

 Solar system /written by Anne Jankéliowitch ; illustrated by Annabelle Buxton ; reviewed & edited by Dr. Carie Cardamone, PhD. A glow-in-the-dark, interactive guide to the Solar System, carefully crafted to make complex STEM concepts like astronomy, physics and chemistry understandable for children aged 8-12.

 The eschatological person: Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue /Andrew T.J. Kaethler ; foreword by D. Vincent Twomey. Schmemann and Ratzinger insist that the human person remains shrouded in mystery without God’s self-disclosure in the person of Jesus Christ. Like us, Jesus lived in a particular time and location, and therefore time and temporality must be part of the ontological question of what it means to be a human person.

 The salmon bears: giants of the Great Bear Rainforest /Ian McAllister & Nicholas Read ; photographs by Ian McAllister ; [Heiltsuk artwork by Martin Campbell]. Provides facts about the grizzly, black, and spirit bears of the Great Bear Rainforest on British Columbia’s central coast, and examines their relationship with the salmon population.

 The sea wolves: living wild in the Great Bear Rainforest /Ian McAllister & Nicholas Read ; photographs by Ian McAllister. Discusses the coastal wolf, a genetically distinct strain that swims and fishes and inhabits the Great Bear Rainforest on British Columbia’s rugged west coast.

 SpringerLink  SpringerLink Journals provides access to online peer-reviewed science, technology, and medicine content. Springer is the world’s second largest publisher in the STM sector with a focus on science, medicine, engineering, economics, architecture, construction and transport. The subscription includes access to over 1,900 Springer e-journals. Access generally begins in 1997.

 The tragedy of King Christophe: a play /Aimé Césaire ; translated and with an introduction by Paul Breslin and Rachel Ney. Aime Cesaire’s greatest play. Set in the period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, it follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who rose to become a general. Christophe declared himself king in 1811 and ruled the northern part of Haiti until 1820. Cesaire employs Shakespearean plotting and revels in the inexhaustible possibilities of language to convey the tragedy of Christophe’s transformation from a charismatic leader sensitive to the oppression of his people to an oppressor himself.