New Titles Tuesday, March 12

Here is a selection of print and eBooks recently added to the collection and ready for use

 Sustainability and the philosophy of science /Jeffry L. Ramsey. This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. The book applies perspectives and tools from the philosophy of science to sustainability discourse. It argues that widely held assumptions regarding the meaning of concepts, methods of theorizing and inferential practice, evidential structure, and ethics limit our understanding and practice of sustainability. It offers philosophical alternatives that capture more fully the confusing, wicked nature of sustainability challenges.

 The beginning and end of all things: a biblical theology of creation and new creation /Edward W. Klink, III. Klink presents a holistic understanding of creation, one that is unfolded throughout all of Scripture and is at the core of the gospel itself. Along with offering rich insights about God and his purposes for the world, a biblical theology of creation guides how we engage nature, culture, and life as embodied beings–.

 The Church after innovation: questioning our obsession with work, creativity, and entrepreneurship /Andrew Root. Root delves into the problems of innovation. He explores where innovation and entrepreneurship came from, shows how they break into church circles, and counters the new imaginations like neoliberalism and technology that hold the church captive to modernity. Root reveals the moral visions of the self that innovation and entrepreneurship deliver–they are dependent on workers (and consumers) being obsessed with their selves, which leads to significant faith-formation issues. This focus on innovation also causes us to think we need to be singularly unique instead of made alive in Christ. Root offers a return to mysticism and the poetry of Meister Eckhart as a healthier spiritual alternative. –.

 The end of Eden: wild nature in the age of climate breakdown /Adam Welz. A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems–an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth–.

 The fear of Islam: an introduction to Islamophobia in the West /Todd H. Green. The Fear of Islam investigates the context of Western views of Islam and offers an introduction to the historical roots and contemporary causes of Islamophobia. Green brings the reader up to date, examining the Islamophobic rhetoric of the 2016 US presidential election, the ongoing success of populist movements in Europe, and the rise in anti-Muslim legislation and hate crimes on both sides of the Atlantic.

 The game production toolbox /Heather Maxwell Chandler. The Game Production Toolbox focuses on the nuts and bolts of producing interactive content and how you can organize and support the creative, technical, and business efforts that are all part of interactive game development. This book isn’t going to tell you how to design a game or what technologies to use. Instead it provides techniques for and insights into managing, from concept to release, all the pieces that must come together in order to get a game into the hands of a player.

 The gatherings: reimagining Indigenous-settler relations /Shirley N. Hager ; and Gwen Bear [and 12 others] ; afterword by Frances Hancock. In The Gatherings, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers may come to view one another with new eyes. The many voices represented in The Gatherings offer insights and strategies that can inform change at the individual, group, and systems levels. These voices affirm that authentic relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples – with their attendant anxieties, guilt, anger, embarrassments, and, with time, even laughter and mutual affection – are key to our shared futures here in North America.

 The psychology of sociability: understanding human attachment /edited by Joseph P. Forgas, William Crano, and Klaus Fiedler. With contributions from internationally renowned researchers in areas of social psychology as well as anthropology and evolutionary psychology, this book demonstrates the role of social psychology in explaining how human sociability evolved, how it shapes our mental and emotional lives, and how it influences both large-scale civilizational practices and intimate interpersonal relations.

 The remote work handbook: the definitive guide for operationalizing remote work as a competitive business strategy /Mari Anne Snow. The Remote Work Handbook is for readers seeking to leverage the business benefits of a flexible, remote workforce. It is a practical guide for building and implementing remote work at any size organization. Snow explores the untapped potential of remote teams and lays out the business case for adopting a new, flexible workplace model to build organizational resilience and a competitive edge. It includes down-to-earth professional and personal stories that alert the reader to the top priorities and operational realities they will face as they craft their own implementation plan for operationalizing remote work at their company.

 The road not taken is more beautiful: a collection of prose by Pak Wan So = Mot kabon kil i tŏ arŭmdapta: Pak Wan-sŏ sanmunjip. Autobiographical essays written during the last four years of the author since the publication of Homi.

 The skeletons in God’s closet: the mercy of hell, the surprise of judgment, the hope of holy war /Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons In God’s Closet helps Christians and skeptics wrestle with some of today’s toughest criticisms, deepest doubts and questions on faith.

 Troubling truth and reconciliation in Canadian education: critical perspectives /edited by Sandra D. Styres and Arlo Kempf. Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education offers a series of critical perspectives concerning reconciliation and reconciliatory efforts between Canadian and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars address both theoretical and practical aspects of troubling reconciliation in education across various contexts with significant diversity of thought, approach, and socio-political location. Throughout, the work challenges mainstream reconciliation discourses.

 Unstable properties: Aboriginal title and the claim of British Columbia /Patricia Burke Wood and David A. Rossiter. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach – investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land – to reframe the issue as a history of Crown attempts to solidify claims to Indigenous territory. From the historical-geographic processes through which the BC polity became entrenched in its present territory to key events of the twenty-first century, the authors highlight the unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements. In the process, they demonstrate that only by understanding diverse interpretations of sovereignty, governance, territory, and property can we move toward meaningful reconciliation.–.

 Welcoming the future church: how to reach, teach, and engage young adults /Jonathan JP Pokluda with Luke Friesen. Young adult ministry expert offers practical steps for ministering effectively to Millennials, including success stories and failures and transferable principles for mobilizing a generation toward Jesus.

 Witness to the human rights tribunals: how the system fails Indigenous peoples /Bruce Granville Miller Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals opens the doors to the tribunal, revealing the interactions of lawyers, tribunal members, expert witnesses, and Indigenous litigants. Miller provides an in-depth look at the role of anthropological expertise in the courts, and draws on testimony, ethnographic data, and years of tribunal decisions to show how specific cases are fought and how expert testimony about racialization and discrimination is disregarded. His candid analysis reveals the double-edged nature of the tribunal itself, which re-engages with the trauma and violence of discrimination that suffuses social and legal systems while it attempts to protect human rights. It concludes that any reform must consider the problem of symbolic trauma before Indigenous claimants can receive appropriate justice.–.

 Work as a calling: from meaningful work to good work /Garrett W. Potts. This book provides a novel paradigm for reimagining the idea of ‘work as a calling,’ which serves as a corrective that better supports the individuals’ search for meaning and their contribution to the common good, arguing that the two go hand in hand, and so they cannot be separated. Providing a new perspective on ‘work as a calling’ by examining the issue from the perspective of morality rather than self-actualization, this volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and students in the fields of business ethics, management, leadership, and organizational studies–.