Month: October 2024

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

 Angela’s ashes: a memoir /Frank McCourt. McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. imbued on every page with astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.

 Becoming an emotionally focused therapist: the workbook /James L. Furrow and Susan M. Johnson ; [with 7 others].  This second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook has been fully revised  as a companion volume to The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy or as a standalone learning tool. Iit provides an easy road-map toward mastering the in’s and out’s of EFT with practice exercises, review questions, and compelling clinical examples.

  Can you just sit with me?: healthy grieving for the losses of life /Natasha Smith.  Smith invites us into a reflection on grief and how to cling to hope even in our darkest moments. With practical tools and prayers, this book creates space for us to grieve, learn, and heal in healthy ways–.

 Chinese Collection: Jiao hui chong tu de chu li yu chong jian = Managing church conflicts /You Hongxiang, Qiu Qingping he zhu.

 Chinese Collection: Ren shi xin xing jiao hui = Becoming conversant with emerging church  認識新興教會 = 卡森(D.A. Carson)著 ; 潘秋松等譯i.  An exploration and evaluation of the emergent church and how it relates to more traditional forms of worship and theology.

Chinese Collection:Gong jian jian kang jiao hui : yi jia ting xi tong li lun chu li jiao hui chong tu = Creating a healthier church : family systems theory, leadership, and congregational life= 共建健康教會 : 以家庭系統理論處理教會衝突 /Lichaxun (Ronald W. Richardson) ; Ruan Yayu, Huang Jiehui yi ; Chen Su Chenying shen ding.

 Christian influence: the subcultural narratives of evangelical celebrities on Instagram /Zachary Sheldon.  Christian Influence examines how understudied evangelical media celebrities use Instagram to cultivate religious authority and to convey distinctive subcultural narratives about evangelical values and culture today. The book explores the way that discrete kinds of evangelical celebrities–Celebrity Pastors, Women’s Ministry Leaders, Christian-Media Celebrities, and Secular-Media Celebrity Christians–all used Instagram across 2020-2021 to perform specific subcultural narratives to their followers. Detailing these narratives gives unique insights into how the authority of celebrities and the affordances of social media are combining to challenge the strictures of authority within evangelicalism and raises questions about celebrity power in the contemporary shaping and reshaping of evangelical culture.

 Christians in the city of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia’s world city /Tobias Brandner.  Christians in the City of Hong Kong tells the story of a multi-faceted, constantly evolving Christianity in a vibrant metropolis that has always been China’s gateway to the wider world. Brandner offers an interplay of local and global perspectives assessing the growth, variation, and present course of Hong Kong’s diverse Christian communities. Tracing how Christianity has extended into all parts of society, including arts, politics, and academia, Brandner presents key theological insights into the dynamics of a community at the cultural intersection of China and the West.

 Dementia and the church: memory, care, and inclusion /Mary McDaniel Cail. Cail calls upon extensive personal and professional experience to offer insight, context, and concrete guidance for congregations and leaders seeking to better serve the growing percentage of the population that is experiencing life with dementia.  Cail pairs poignant stories with practical advice for developing holistic’memory ministry. Dementia and the Church includes lesson plans, advice on programming, and a rich trove of resources in addition to pragmatic information about dementia.

 Disarming leviathan: loving your Christian nationalist neighbor /Caleb E. Campbell.  Introducing the basics of Christian nationalism and its talking points, Campbell equips Christians to confront these claims with compassion and the truth of the good news of Jesus

 Fiction from Tegel Prison /Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; translated from the German edition, Edited by Renate Bethge and Ilse Tödt ; English edition, Edited by Clifford J. Green ; translated by Nancy Lukens.  Richly annotated by German editors Bethge and Tödt and by Green, the writings in this book disclose a great deal of Bonhoeffer’s family context, social world, and cultural milieu.  This newly translated volume is complete and authoritative and contains much material not found in the previous edition.

 Friends and enemies: essays in Canada’s foreign relations /J.L. Granatstein. The essays cover a period primarily from the Second World War through to the early 2000s and examine policy under the prime ministers of the era. These essays are not theoretical; instead, they are narrative accounts based on interviews and extensive research in archives across Canada, the United States, and Britain. The collection addresses important topics such as peacekeeping and Canada-US relations, as well as multiculturalism and foreign policy, the Cold War, and Canada-Soviet relations. Written over many years, the essays reveal how Granatstein’s views shifted as he reacted to altered conditions in Canada, Canadian alliances, and the world situation.

 Friendship: the forgotten spiritual discipline /Pamela Baker Powell ; foreword by Crystal L. Downing.  This book is an exploration of Christian friendship. This book maintains that friendship isn’t just a passing luxury.

 Guiding God’s marriage: faith and social change in premarital counseling /Courtney Ann Irby The book explores how religious communities attempt to intervene to emotionally socialize couples into a vision of a covenant marriage which they view as distinct from what they view as the contractual approach in secular society.

 Identity and belonging among Chinese Canadian youth: racialized habitus in school, family, and media /Dan Cui.  Identity and Belonging amongst Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, within family and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media. Utilizing rich interview data, the author explores how the contemporary forms of racism, multiculturalism, immigration and transnationalism affect the identity construction of second-generation Chinese immigrant youth in Canada, as well as their negotiation of belonging at social institutions through schools and mainstream media in Canada.

 Jackie Robinson: a spiritual biography:  the faith of a boundary-breaking hero /Michael G. Long and Chris Lamb.  Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography explores the faith that Robinson said carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement..

 Judaism and its Bible: a people and their book /Frederick E. Greenspahn.  Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep yet complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible, describing the extraordinary two-and-a-half-millennia journey of a people and its book that has changed the world.

 Past and future heritage in the pipelines corridor: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey /Paul Michael Taylor … [et al.] Published by the Smithsonian’s Asian Cultural History Program, this full-color, bilingual monograph (in English-Azerbaijani) presents research summarizing and interpreting the archaeological finds uncovered by teams of Azerbaijani, Georgian, Turkish, British, and American archaeologists during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan   and adjacent South Caucasus pipelines, from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.

 Pélagie: the return to Acadie /Antonine Maillet ; translated by Philip Stratford. The funny, lyrical tale of how a valiant widow leads her people out of exile twenty years  thei expulsion in  1755 when  British soldiers had forced them off their land and sent them as far from Acadia as possible. The scattered Cormiers and LeBlancs, Landrys and Poiriers, Maillets and Legers find their way to Pelagie’s ox-cart caravan and head for home.  En route,Pelagie embraces a runaway slave, a gruff midwife, a giant, a fool, and a hundred-year-old patriarch who strikes a daring bargain with Death. Through fair weather and foul, over mountains and rivers, Pelagie commands a ten-year odyssey up the Atlantic coast from Georgia to Acadie

  So we and our children may live: following Jesus in confronting the climate crisis /Sarah Augustine and Sheri Hostetler.  This book offers hope for a better future alongside concrete actions for joining with Indigenous Peoples to protect life and negotiate with decision-makers for sustainable change that follows Jesus. In these pages, readers are called to confront climate change and choose life for our children and the future of our planet–.

 Splendors of Punjab heritage: art from the Khanuja family collection /with essays by Dr. Parvinderjit Singh Khanuja ; edited with an introduction by Dr. Paul Michael Taylor.  This volume is a lasting record of the remarkable collection of Punjabi artworks and historical memorabilia assembled by Khanuja and his family. Khanuja has added his personal perspectives on the historical importance of these objects resulting  in a sourcebook of Punjabi history and art that will be useful to scholars in many fields

 Studies on First Clement /William Wrede ; edited and translated by Jacob N. Cerone ; foreword by Clare K. Rothschild.  Wrede investigates the ecclesiastical structure of the early church as well as the significance and function of the Old Testament in 1 Clement. Wrede’s work on 1 Clement served as a tempered and solid basis for later investigations of the letter, even when those investigations part ways with Wrede’s conclusions.

 Supporting student parents in the academic library: designing spaces, policies, and services /Kelsey Keyes & Ellie Dworak.  Supporting Student Parents is a guide to engaging with and aiding the student parents in your libraries and leading the charge in making your institutions more family friendly.

   Teaching with AI: a practical guide to a new era of human learning /José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson.  In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool. Bowen and Watson present emerging and powerful research on the seismic changes AI is already creating in schools and the workplace, providing invaluable insights into what AI can accomplish in the classroom and beyond.  From interactive learning techniques to advanced assignment and assessment strategies, this comprehensive guide offers practical suggestions for integrating AI effectively into teaching and learning environments. Bowen and Watson tackle crucial questions related to academic integrity, cheating, and other emerging issues.

  The Dead Sea scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English translations. Volume 5A, Thanksgiving hymns and related documents /edited by James H. Charlesworth and Henry W. Morisada Rietz et al  The Thanksgiving Hymns have been labeled the mystical gems among the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume includes all fragments and all portions of the manuscripts of this superb witness to Jewish poetry and thought before 70 CE and the end of early Judaism. Charlesworth spent over fifty years studying the witnesses to The Thanksgiving Hymns and completed the work.

 The engaged library: high-impact educational practices in academic libraries /edited by Joan D. Ruelle.  The Engaged Library provides case studies, examples, and discussion of how academic libraries can create successful partnerships to contribute to the integration of high-impact practices on their campuses, and ways to execute these practices well.

 The future restoration of Israel: a response to supersessionism /edited by Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner. This volume is s a major set of collected essays from a wide range of scholars on the question of the promises of God to Israel. These essays put forward the position that unconditional promises were given to Israel, which have not been fulfilled in the church or any other entity. At the consummation, there will be a continuing role for the Jews, realized through their national and territorial hope of a restored-redeemed Israel.

 The Jesus revolution: a transformative theology of the New Testament /James M. Scott. TWU AUTHOR This introduction to a biblical theology of the New Testament seeks to revitalize our engagement with the Scriptures for the twenty-first century by showing not only how the assemblage of ancient writings consisting of both Old and New Testaments is intrinsically relevant, but also how we can remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the organizing principle of those writings, in the process. The book is an invitation to all people of goodwill–believers and unbelievers, liberals and conservatives–to put aside their differences in order to cooperate in the revolution that Jesus inaugurated, the creation of a new and better world in the here and now as an anticipation of the eschatological finale.

  The many faces of Jesus Christ: intercultural Christology /Volker Küster. The author is taking us on a daring scholarly journey that captures multiple liberating Christological sites around the globe. The work takes us beyond traditional Christological boundaries and brilliantly highlights the ways in which theologians from different parts of the world have critically reflected on who Jesus Christ is in their concrete cultural and sociopolitical contexts of oppression.

  The meaning of singleness: retrieving an eschatological vision for the contemporary church /Danielle Treweek ; foreword by Kutter Callaway.  Treweek offers biblical, historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a theology of singleness for the church today. Drawing upon both ancient and contemporary theologians, she contends not only that singleness has served an important role throughout the church’s history, but that single Christians present the church with a foretaste of the eschatological reality that awaits all of God’s people.

 The politics of God: Christian theologies and social justice /Kathryn Tanner.  Tanner addresses the changes in the social and political situation that have accumulated in the decades since the book’s publication and resituates her argument for a new generation of theologians and activists.

Uncovering the pearl: the hidden story of Christianity in Asia /edited by Amos Yong and Mark A. Lamport, with Timothy T.N. Lim. Here is a fresh new exploration and interpretation of the history of Christianity in Asia from a team of authors comprising both budding as well as established scholars. This volume reflects on Asian Christianity from three major perspectives — history, contexts, and issues facing Christian communities. This is a fine summary of Christianity in Asia, its origin, development, challenges, and issues.

  Union Zindabad!: South Asian Canadian labour history in British Columbia /Donna Sacuta, Bailey Garden, Dr. Anushay Malik.  Union Zindabad focuses on the history of South Asian immigrants as workers, and their relationship to the labour movement in BC. It also explores the evolving attitudes of unions towards South Asian immigrant labour.

  We believe in the Holy Spirit /edited by Henco van der Westhuizen ; foreword by Graham Ward.  We believe in the Holy Spirit is a collection of articles reflecting some of the most important ideas in pneumatology in recent years.

  Work out your salvation: a theology of markets and moral formation /D. Glenn Butner, Jr.  Butner demonstrates that participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. He argues that the nature of such formation varies based on the design of the market and the nature of our interactions within it.

Here is a selection of titles recently added to the collection and ready for use.

 Jesus tradition, early Christian memory, and gospel writing: the long search for the authentic source /Alan Kirk. Using cutting-edge scholarship on orality, memory, and tradition formation, Kirk shows how the origins of the gospels may be found in the memory practices of the earliest Jesus communities. This book is an essential resource for scholars and students looking to better understand this complex and rapidly changing field.

  No rules rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention /Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer.  Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind Netflix. Hastings and Meyer dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company

 Sacred consumption: the religions of Christianity and consumerism in America /Peter Mundey.  This book explores the quasi-religious nature of consumerism and how American Christianity interacts with consumerism. The author uses mixed methods to unpack the nexus between the Christian faith and consumption and how habitual discretionary consumption functions as a pseudo-faith in America

 Salvation in African Christianity /general editors, Rodney L. Reed and David K. Ngaruiya.  African theologians articulate their understanding of salvation – and its widespread implications for life and practice – in conversation with Scripture and the rich diversity of an African cultural context. Salvation is examined from historical, philosophical, and theological lenses, and scholars address topics as wide-ranging as conversion, ethnicity, fertility, poverty, prosperity, the Trinity, exclusivism, African Pentecostalism, rural community, eschatology, wholeness, and atonement. It is a powerful exploration of the holistic nature of salvation as articulated in Scripture and understood by the African church. —

 The annotated Book of Mormon /edited, introduced, and annotated by Grant Hardy. This is the first fully annotated, academic edition of the Book of Mormon in its 200-year history. It provides readers with the information they need to understand this classic text of American religious history. This edition reformats the complete scriptural text in the manner of modern Bible translations with paragraphs, quotation marks, poetic stanzas, and section headings, all of which clarify the book’s complicated narrative structure. Annotations explain the meaning and context of specific passages, delineate extended arguments, identify rhetorical patterns, explore theological implications, highlight ancient and modern parallels, and point out intertextual connections, particularly with the Bible.

 The billionaire Raj: a journey through India’s new gilded age /James Crabtree.  A colorful and revealing portrait of India’s new billionaire class, in a nation torn by radical inequality. The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation–and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.

 The coming wave: technology, power, and the twenty-first century’s greatest dilemma /Mustafa Suleyman ; with Michael Bhaskar.  The coming decade, Suleyman argues, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes  the containment problem -the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies-as the essential challenge of our age.

 The four horsemen: the conversation that sparked an atheist revolution /Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett ; foreword by Stephen Fry.  At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as  the four horsemen—Hitchen, Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett–sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. Now, this landmark event is being published for the first time. The living participants, Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett, have all contributed new material to mark the evolution of their own thinking and highlight particularly resonant aspects of this epic exchange. Each of these men contends with the most fundamental questions of human existence as they challenge each other to articulate their own stance on god and religion, cultural criticism, spirituality without religion, debate with people of faith, and living an ethical life.

 The linearization of affixes: evidence from Nuu-chah-nulth /by Rachel Wojdak. The linearization of syntactic constructs stands at the forefront of current research on the syntax-phonology interface. This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The driving proposal of this book is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement that linguistic outputs be linearized. This hypothesis is tested against extensive original data from Nuu-chah-nulth (a oeNootkaa; Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language remarkable for its complex morphology. This volume introduces typologically rare affixation effects to current theoretical debates surrounding the division of labour between the modules of the grammar.

 The mosaic myth: the social integration of newcomers to Canada /Domenic Diamante.  The Mosaic Myth deconstructs the theory of the cultural mosaic to expose those flaws and warn how its implementation will be at best useless and at worst harmful. Diamante, drafted this book 40 years ago. Today, with the mosaic model having failed, Diamante brings his work to the public stage in its original form to show what was wrong with the mosaic and why it matters.

 The pillar. TWU Content. The Pillar has been TWU’s award-winning yearbook since 1963.  It is a TWU student managed yearbook, showcasing all that happened around campus in  2023-2024

The prince  the turbulent reign of Justin Trudeau /Stephen Maher. The first comprehensive biography of Justin Trudeau as prime minister his government’s triumphs and failures, based on interviews with over 200 insiders and Trudeau himself.   The Prince takes readers behind the curtain as the government goes from triumph to embarrassment and back again, revealing the people, the conflicts, and the struggles both in the government and on the opposition benches. Above all, it traces why this ambitious government led by a global media darling is now so unpopular it is in danger of imminent collapse.

 The rise and fall of the neoliberal order: America and the world in the free market era /Gary Gerstle. The author argues in this history, these negative uses of “neoliberal”  fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview exerted such persuasive hold on both the left and right for three decades.

Theology and Tolkien: practical theology /edited by Douglas Estes.In Theology and Tolkien, an international group of scholars consider what Tolkien’s works (and Jackson’s film interpretations) can teach us about living out our theology in the world. From essays on Tolkien’s insights into community, what we can learn about our spiritual senses from encounters with the Nazgûl, the pastoral wisdom of Treebeard, to the theological value of food–including second breakfasts–we invite you to journey with us through Middle-earth as we engage the applicability of Tolkien’s works for theology and our world.

 This is how they tell me the world ends: the cyber-weapons arms race /Nicole Perlroth.  Perlroth reports on the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-sponsored market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is the urgent and alarming discovery of one of the world’s most extreme threats.

 The future of the professions: how technology will transform the work of human experts /Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind.  This book predicts the decline of today’s professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to  the Susskinds, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions explains how increasingly capable technologies, from telepresence to artificial intelligence, will place the ‘practical expertise’ of the finest specialists at the fingertips of everyone, often at no or low cost and without face-to-face interaction. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose five new models for producing and distributing expertise in society. The book raises profound policy issues, not least about employment, about control over online expertise, in an era when machines become more capable than human beings at most tasks

 Trust & inspire: how truly great leaders unleash greatness in others / Stephen M. R. Covey, with David Kasperson, McKinlee Covey, and Gary T. Judd. Covey makes the compelling argument that even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Covey’s solution is simple, yet bold: a shift to a leadership style of  trust and inspire.  .

 Wayfaring: a Christian approach to mental health care /Warren Kinghorn.  A theologically and scientifically engaged exploration of modern mental health care Kinghorn shares a Christian vision of accompanying those facing mental health challenges. Kinghorn reviews the successes and limitations of modern mental health care before offering an alternative paradigm of healing, based in the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Drawing on theological wisdom and scientific evidence, Kinghorn reframes our understanding of mental health care from fixing machines to attending fellow wayfarers on the way to the Lord’s feast.

 Who chose the books of the New Testament? /Charles E. Hill ; edited by D.A. Carson.   Hill examines the ancient evidence behind the formation of the New Testament. Hill retraces the origins of the canon and why certain books were privileged and others neglected. He concludes that the New Testament was inherited, not chosen.

 Women and the gender of God /Amy Peeler.  A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male. Through a deep reading of the incarnation narratives of the New Testament and other relevant scriptural texts, Peeler shows how the Bible depicts a God beyond gender and a savior who, while embodied as a man, is the unification in one person of the image of God that resides in both male and female. Peeler begins with a study of Mary and her response to the annunciation, through which it becomes clear that God empowers women and honors their agency.  While acknowledging the significance of the Bible’s frequent use of Father language to represent God as a caring parent, Peeler goes beneath the surface of this metaphor to show how God is never sexualized by biblical writers or described as being physically involved in procreation–making the concept of a masculine God dubious, at best. From these doctrinal centers of Christianity, Peeler leads the way in reasserting the value of women in the church and prophetically speaking out against the idolatry of masculinity.

After a nine-month process of  transferring over 7,000 books between the CanIL Harvest Centre and Alloway Library,  Assistant Librarian Caroline Ahn announced “I’m calling the project officially DONE. ”

The project entailed multiple steps and involved the entire library staff in creating space then, vetting, stamping, repairing, cataloguing and shelving 5,131  books, journals, and media items.  Since July of last year staff at Alloway and CanIL libraries have been working together to transfer the material with minimal disruption to library users.  Library staff needed to create capacity on our existing shelves to add over 190 full shelves of material.  By January of this year, the first CanIL book was added to Alloway Library’s catalogue and placed on the shelf and as of today just few titles remain to be catalogued or repaired by Alloway Library staff.  Prior to the start of the project, Alloway Library’s language and linguistics books sat on 119 shelves. Now,  some 210 shelves hold material with that classification. About 2,000 books were duplicates of items already in the collection and will be disbursed by CanIL to interested users.

For researchers in linguistics and other fields, the benefits of integrating the collections have been many: CanIL’s linguistic resources will be shelved along with existing resources in Alloway Library so scholars, by accessing a single online catalogue, will find a wide array of resources including print books, eBooks and journals to support their research. As the CanIL material is now included in  Alloway Library’s catalogue the resources will be much more discoverable and accessible for holds and renewals.

Some titles of interest from the CanIL collection include:

• Books on sign language
• Many of the Blackwell, Cambridge and Oxford Linguistic Handbook series
• Many of the Yearbook of Morphology series
• Missions resources and missionary biographies
• Most recent edition of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary
• Most recent edition of The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible
• Summer Institute of Linguistics  print and audio-visual materials
• The Blackwell Companion to Phonology ( 5 volumes)
• The Journal of the Linguistic Society of America)
• The Journal of West African Languages

Here is a selection of eBooks and  Chinese Collection print books recenlty added to the collection.

 Academic librarianship: anchoring the profession in contribution, scholarship, and service /Marcy Simons.  This book is needed now as a response to how much has changed in academic librarianship as a profession (from the smallest academic libraries to large research libraries). Topics covered include: state of the profession of librarianship today, status of librarians, how are librarians conducting research, and more.

 All the kingdoms of the world: on radical religious alternatives to liberalism /Kevin Vallier. Vallier explores new doctrines, not as lurid oddities but as though they might be true. The anti-liberal doctrine known as Catholic integralism serves as Vallier’s test case. Yet his approach naturally extends to similar ideologies within Chinese Confucianism and Sunni Islam. Vallier treats anti-liberal thinkers with respect that liberals seldom afford them and offers more moderate skeptics of liberalism a clear account of the alternatives. Vallier invites all his readers on a unique intellectual adventure, encouraging them to explore unfamiliar ideals through the lenses of theology, philosophy, politics, economics, and history.

 An invitation to joy: the divine journey to human flourishing /Daniel J. Denk.  Denk invites readers to cast off hopelessness and rediscover joy. Yet, as Denk reminds us, “we don’t find joy by pursuing joy; we find it by pursuing something else,” namely, the kingdom of God. Throughout his reflections, Denk approaches the topic of Christian joy with sensitivity and nuance, supporting his argument with Scripture and theological scholarship.

 Bad blood: secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup /John Carreyrou. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.   A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

 Bad faith: race and the rise of the religious right /Randall Balmer.  A history of the origins of the Religious Right that challenges the commonly held misconception that abortion was its original galvanizing issue.

 Chinese Collection: Chuan guo zhen yan de luo tuo:   Lu jia fu yin   dui fu ren de jing gao yu quan dao = The camel through the eye of a needle: Luke’s warning and persuasion of the rich /Yang yan zhu. 

Chinese Collection: Jian pu sheng huo zhen di = Freedom of simplicity /(Richard Foster.)Fu shi de, zhou tian he.

 Chinese Collection: Sheng ming de xi lian = Celebration of discipline /Fu shi de (Richard J. Foster);Zhou tian. |

 Coming to faith through Dawkins: 12 essays on the pathway from new atheism to Christianity /Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath, editors.  Twelve essays written by twelve  authors from five different countries who all have one thing in common: they were once atheists or agnostics but then came to Christian faith through engaging with the thinking of the New Atheist Richard Dawkins. The authors include academics, journalists, a civil servant, a church pastor, an engineering manager, a counselor, a graphic designer, and others. Despite this great range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writing of the New Atheists, but when they looked closer became disillusioned, eventually turning instead to Christian faith, which they find intellectually more convincing. Readers will have their minds stretched to see how, on one hand, the intellectual case for atheism is far weaker than the New Atheists claim, and on the other hand just how very varied the pathways to Christian faith may be in the lives of people coming from such diverse backgrounds

 Decolonization and the remaking of Christianity /edited by Elizabeth A. Foster and Udi Greenberg Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity charts the metamorphosis of Christian practice and institutions across five continents throughout the pivotal years of decolonization. The essays in this collection illustrate the diverse new ideas, rituals, and organizations created in the wake of Western imperialism’s formal collapse and investigate how religious leaders, politicians, theologians, and lay people debated and shaped a new Christianity for a postcolonial world. Contributors argue that the collapse of colonialism and broader cultural challenges to Western power fostered new organizations, theologies, and political engagements across the world, ultimately setting Christianity on its current trajectory away from its colonial heritage..

 Disorder: hard times in the 21st century /Helen Thompson.  Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century is a long history of this present political moment. It recounts three histories – one about geopolitics, one about the world economy, and one about western democracies – and explains how in the years of political disorder prior to the pandemic the disruption in each became one big story. It shows how much of this turbulence originated in problems generated by fossil-fuel energies, and it explains why, as the green transition takes place, the long-standing predicaments energy invariably shapes will remain in place. The Afterword brings these geopolitical, economic, and political crises up to date by reflecting on the development and impact of the war in Ukraine.

 Eastern Christianity: a reader /edited by J. Edward Walters.  A collection of significant Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic Christian texts in English translation, along with informative introductions

 Empire of pain: the secret history of the Sackler dynasty /Patrick Radden Keefe. Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.

 Encountering mystery: religious experience in a secular age /Dale C. Allison, Jr.  Allison makes the argument that stories of religious experience are meaningful and not to be marginalized in the church. Through a close look at phenomena such as moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death experiences of the afterlife, encounters with angels, heavenly voices, and premonitions, Allison shows how the ordinary practice of faith is not necessarily at odds with individual religious experience-and is, in many ways, theologically compatible with it. Above all, he enjoins Christians to be honest about the persistence of religious experience in a secular age and to make space in the church for people who encounter mystery in their lives

 Generation dread: finding purpose in an age of climate crisis /Britt Wray, PhD ; with a foreword by Adam McKay.  An impassioned generational perspective on why climate anxiety is completely natural and necessary, and how we can be stronger for it.  Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge with emotional insight to show how these complicated feelings are a sign of our humanity, and acknowledging and valuing them is key to making it through present and future crises. Britt explores her own fears about starting a family when evidence of dangerous environmental shifts creates an especially bleak picture of what lies ahead. Weaving in valuable insights from climate-aware therapists, reflections on the emotional impact of ecological catastrophes, critical perspectives on the role of race and privilege in this crisis, ideas about the future of mental health innovation, and creative coping strategies to foster connection, meaning and resilience, Generation Dread brilliantly illuminates how we can learn from the past, from our own emotions, and from each other to survive–and even thrive–in a changing world.

 How music got free: a story of obsession and invention /Stephen Witt.   How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store. Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet. Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online, when, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available for free.

 I judge no one: a political life of Jesus /David Lloyd Dusenbury. I Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs, or  gospels,  that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First, that human judgements are pervasive and deceptive; and second, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love.

 Innovation and experiential learning in academic libraries: meeting the needs of today’s students /edited by Sarah Nagle and Elías Tzoc Innovation and Experiential Learning in Academic Libraries addresses the multitude of ways that academic librarians are collaborating with faculty and helping students develop these enduring skills by developing and integrating active and experiential learning approaches into teaching activities.

 Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman’s Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt’s Garbage Slums /Makary, Marty  The inspiring authorized biography of Maggie Gobran, the “Mother Teresa of Egypt.”  Makary and Ellen Vaughn chronicle Mama Maggie’s surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God’s call to change. The book also spotlights the people she serves: the men, women, and children who prove every day what a little bit of help and a lot of love can do.