New Titles Tuesday, May 7

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

 Academic library services for graduate students: supporting future academics and professionals /Carrie Forbes and Peggy Keeran, editors. Providing practical and theoretical chapters on academic library services for graduate students, this volume helps information professionals support this often-overlooked campus population to address their multiple roles and identities as students and as future faculty members or professionals.

 Better than brunch: missional churches in Cascadia /Jason Byassee and Ross A. Lockhart ; foreword by Darrell L. Guder. Across the Pacific Northwest the authors discovered deeply rooted missional communities worshiping God and serving their neighborhoods, offering evidence of unexpected Cascadian treasure in clay jars. Join the authors on a treasure hunt throughout the region as they identify new patterns of post-Christendom Christianity that will inspire and challenge your understanding of church.

 C.S. Lewis on higher education: the pedagogy of pleasure /Stewart Goetz. Explores Lewis’ views on the purpose of higher education and his distinctive answer: to experience pleasure.

 Christian friendship: engaging the tradition, transforming the culture /John P. Bequette Christian Friendship proposes a recovery of friendship as new way of re-establishing the interpersonal communion that characterizes the human person created in the image of God. The author seeks to recover a genuine understanding of friendship by exploring ancient philosophy and the Catholic theological tradition. By examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Anselm, and others, Christian Friendship proposes a new way for Catholics to address the cultural issues besetting the Christian community today.

 Christian Zionism and the restoration of Israel: how should we interpret the scriptures? /Colin Chapman. This book discusses the key texts about the restoration of Israel, questioning the Christian Zionist interpretation and offering an alternative. This is followed by a detailed study of two important Old Testament texts dealing with the future of Israel,  understanding them in their original context and exploring how they are interpreted in the New Testament.

 Colossians: an eco-stoic reading /Vicky Balabanski. Balabanski analyses Colossians as a co-authored letter, written during Paul’s Roman imprisonment by Timothy with the input of Epaphras, and sent with Paul’s introductory and concluding greetings. Balabanski sees remarkable resonances between the cosmology of this letter and that of Stoic thought, the most widely held philosophy in first century Asia Minor. She argues that the Logos of Christ – the Gospel – was welcomed by small groups of people shaped by Stoic thought, and they experienced Christ as the visible expression of the One God who permeates reality. This Eco-Stoic reading brings contemporary ecological questions into dialogue with the distinctive Christology and cosmology of the letter.

 Concussed: sport’s uncomfortable truth /Sam Peters. The definitive account of sport’s concussion crisis, how its ‘dirty secret’ was finally made public and what sport must now do to save itself. Concussed reveals Peters’ attempts to blow the whistle on a mounting head injury crisis. Including exclusive interviews with bereaved families whose stories have never been told before, as well as high-profile administrators, medics, current and past players, coaches, lawyers and media figures, Peters recounts the countless battles he fought and the threats he faced in a sport whose macho culture masked the urgent need to radically overhaul player welfare standards. Expanding his research from rugby to football, NFL and cricket, Peters brings an unparalleled breadth of experience and depth of knowledge to a subject he has written about and campaigned over for almost a decade

 Decolonizing and indigenizing visions of educational leadership: global perspectives in charting the course /edited by Njoki N. Wane, Kimberly L. Todd, Coly Chau, and Heather Watts. This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education. This anthology is centred around themes of schooling, community building, liberatory praxis and decolonial movements, and Indigenous governance..

 Disability and the church: a vision for diversity and inclusion /Lamar Hardwick. Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. It prompted a difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in the church. Disability and the Church is a practical and theological reconsideration of the church’s responsibilities to the disabled community. He insists that the good news of Jesus affirms God’s image in all people, and he offers practical steps and strategies to build stronger, truly inclusive communities of faith.

 Ecclesiastes: an earth Bible commentary : Qoheleth’s eternal earth /by Marie Turner. Turner examines the writings of Qoheleth in the book of Ecclesiastes and provides an ecological reading of the text that gives readers clear insights into how biblical wisdom literature can be used to respond to the challenges facing the environment in the present day, as well as advancing the field of ecological hermeneutics. In this commentary Turner looks at the concept of Qoheleth’s ‘eternal earth’, moving through the chapters of Ecclesiastes with an ear attuned to the voice of the Earth as it struggles to be heard against the voice of the economy. Illustrating how a biblical framework for environmentally responsible living may be generated, Turner’s analysis is invaluable both to those studying Qoheleth and those invested in the Bible and ecology.

 Finding grace in caregiving /Bradley C. Hanson Finding Grace in Caregiving arises out of Hanson’s quest for grace in caregiving his wife, Marion, who has Alzheimer’s Disease. The heart of the book is reflection on the qualities that St. Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, and gentleness. Drawing also on his personal interviews with others, Hanson gives caregivers encouragement, guidance, and hope.

 From the lost and found department: new and selected poems /Joy Kogawa ; introduction by Brandon Shimoda. A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature and beyond. Elegant, sharp, moving, and beautifully crafted–here is brand new work from the celebrated novelist and poet Joy Kogawa whose contributions to Canadian literature are unparalleled. This essential volume brings together new work with selected poems earlier publications.

 Game of edges: the analytics revolution and the future of professional sports /Bruce Schoenfeld. The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of professional sports. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the most systematically productive companies around. Drawing on extensive interviews with franchise owners, general managers, executives, and players, Schoenfeld introduces dynamic leaders who are radically reimagining the operations of decades-old teams-and producing mind-boggling valuations. Essential reading for anyone interested in sports, business, or technology, Game of Edges explores a world where winning the game is only the beginning.

 Green education in nursing /Sameh Elhabashy. With an environmental approach at its core, Green Education in Nursing encourages nurses to spearhead sustainability initiatives within healthcare and confront the challenges posed by single-use items. It advocates for a holistic socio-ecological model in nursing education, underscoring the profound influence of environmental factors on healthcare outcomes. This essential guide provides a roadmap for curriculum integration and the creation of specialized green nursing courses, ultimately empowering nurses to shape a greener, more sustainable future for healthcare.

 Hebrews: an Earth Bible commentary : a city that cannot be shaken /Jeffrey S. Lamp. In this ecological commentary upon the Letter to the Hebrews, Lamp makes use of the approaches developed in the relatively new field of Ecological Hermeneutics to shed light upon the connection of Hebrews with the Earth. Lamp uses a model of ‘suspicion-identification-retrieval’ in the light of ecojustice principles in his reading.

 Hockey priest: Father David Bauer and the spirit of the Canadian game /Matt Hoven. Hockey Priest looks past understanding Bauer as simply a do-gooder or hockey innovator. It shows how he attempted to create a different stream of hockey that could better support youth and so build up the nation. Archival research for the book uncovered Bauer-written hockey reports, speeches, and notes that detail his thinking about the game and his politicking to bring about change in it.

 John: an Earth Bible commentary : supposing him to be the gardener /Margaret Daly-Denton. This volume in the Earth Bible Commentary series shows how John’s Gospel might motivate and resource a Christian response to the ecological crisis. Daly-Denton reads the gospel with sensitivity to the role of the more-than-human world in the narrative and with particular attention to the scriptural underlay that repeatedly brings this world into the foreground. Each chapter concludes by asking how believers might do God’s work in today’s ecologically damaged world and by offering practical suggestions indicative of the reflection that readers of the commentary will be able to do in their own settings.

 Prepare, succeed, advance: a guidebook for getting a PhD in Biblical studies and beyond /Nijay K. Gupta. From theory to practice, you will find discussions and answers to the most pertinent and pressing questions that prospective and current doctoral students are faced with.

 Promise and prayer: the biblical writings in the light of speech-act theory /Anthony C. Thiselton. This book considers biblical examples of divine promise, from both Old and New Testaments. All speech acts depend upon institutional facts, and Thiselton argues that in the biblical writings Divine promises are based on the prior institution of God’s covenant. That same covenant forms the institutional context of prayer. Thiselton shows how different kinds of prayer–blessing, thanksgiving and praise, petition and intercession–count as speech acts in different ways and to different degrees.

 Shakespeare on salvation: crossing the Reformation divide /David Anonby (TWU AUTHOR) ; foreword by Gary Kuchar. Anonby explores Shakespeare’s negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation. The author explores how the language and concepts of faith, grace, charity, the sacraments, election, free will, justification, sanctification, and atonement find expression in Shakespeare’s plays. In doing so, this book contributes to the recovery of a greater understanding of the relationship between early modern religion and Shakespearean drama. Throughout this study, the author’s hermeneutic is to read Shakespeare through the lens of early modern theological controversy and to read early modern theology through the lens of Shakespeare.

 Skating on thin ice: professional hockey, rape culture, & violence against women /Walter S. DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, Martin D. Schwartz ; foreword by Heather Mallick ; afterword by Jack Todd. The book examines the abusive, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic behaviours found in professional hockey and explains the larger societal forces that perpetuate and legitimate these harms. Confirming a recent federal government inquiry into Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual assault allegations, the book reveals that young men enter the NHL and other revenue-generating hockey leagues already trained and primed to treat women as objects–and often to commit violent acts against them. Rooted in the authors’ work in the sports world as well as their work with activists and governments, Skating on Thin Ice doesn’t just highlight the problem of hockey and rape culture, it also provides collaborative solutions for fixing it.

  Teaching where you are: weaving Indigenous and slow principles and pedagogies /Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller. Teaching Where You Are offers a guide for non-Indigenous educators to work in good ways with Indigenous students and provides resources across curricular areas to support all students. Bringing forth the ways in which colonialism and cognitive imperialism have shaped Canadian curriculum and consciousness, the book offers avenues for the development of decolonial literacy to support the work of Indigenizing education. In considering the importance of engaging in decolonizing and Indigenizing approaches to education through slow and Indigenous pedagogies using the lens of place-based and land-based education, Teaching Where You Are presents a text useful for teachers and educators grappling with the ongoing impacts of colonialism and the soul-work of how to decolonize and rehumanize education in meaningful ways..

 The gospel and religious freedom: historical studies in evangelicalism and political engagement /David W. Bebbington. Essays exploring trajectories and case studies of evangelical stances toward and advocacy for religious freedom across the globe.

 The Greek verb revisited: a fresh approach for biblical exegesis /Steven E. Runge (TWU AUTHOR) & Christopher J. Fresch, editors. For the past 25 years, debate regarding the nature of tense and aspect in the Koine Greek verb has held New Testament studies at an impasse. The Greek Verb Revisited accounts for existing debate but also examines recent developments from linguistics, which may dramatically shift the direction of this discussion. The papers included in this collection represent the culmination of scholarly collaboration. The outcome is a practical and accessible overview of the Greek verb that moves beyond the current impasse by taking into account the latest scholarship from the fields of linguistics, classics, and New Testament studies.

 The Routledge handbook of memory and place /edited by Sarah De Nardi, Hilary Orange, Steven High, and Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto. This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies, place, and identity. This collection provides insights into the significant and diverse role memory plays in our understanding of the world around us, in a variety of spaces and temporalities, and through a variety of disciplinary and professional lenses. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore place-making, its significance in everyday lives, and its loss. This is a multi- and intra-disciplinary collection of the latest, most influential approaches to the interwoven and dynamic issues of place and memory

 The sociology of sports: an introduction /Tim Delaney and Tim Madigan. The Sociology of Sports represents a fresh approach to the study of sport in society. It provides a straightforward presentation of key sociological concepts and issues that pertain to the study and analysis of sport in contemporary society.  Incorporated into this edition is the impact of a global pandemic that impacted sports at all levels and in all sorts of ways and the social movements of Black Lives Matter and Me Too that impacted sports and became of paramount importance from a sociological perspective.

 We have a dream /written by Mya-Rose Craig ; illustrated by Sabrena Khadija. Indigenous people and people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet often aren’t heard in global conversations. In this book, British Bangladeshi environmentalist and campaigner for equal rights Dr. Mya-Rose Craig profiles 30 young environmental activists who are Indigenous people or people of color, from communities on the frontline of global climate change. Each speaks to the diverse set of issues they are fighting for, from water conservation, to deforestation, to indigenous rights, and shares their dream.

 Work matters: connecting Sunday worship to Monday work /Tom Nelson.  Work Matters engages the theological basis of God’s plan for everyday work.  Nelson explains how the fall has impacted vocation, how God’s redemption touches every sphere of our lives including our work, and how what we do now is connected to what we will do forever. As Nelson connects Sunday worship to Monday morning, he gives readers practical tools for understanding their own gifts, so that they may better live in accord with God’s design for work.