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All are welcome: how to build a real workplace culture of inclusion that delivers results /Cynthia Owyoung. Seize the competitive edge and increase innovation-while doing right by people-with a strong culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. In All Are Welcome, Owyoung explains what DEIB is and why it matters, and she delivers the information and insights you need to make DEIB a key element of your company culture. When you deeply understand all the nuances of diversity, equity, inclusiveness, and belonging, you’ll be able to put them all together for a better, more productive, and happier workplace.

 Balanced leadership: making the best use of personal and team leadership in projects /Ralf Müller, Nathalie Drouin, Shankar Sankaran.  This book describes balanced leadership in projects.  Müller, Drouin, and Sankaran state that leadership changes constantly and is not as static as existing literature may suggests. Instead, leadership in projects is dynamically shifted between project managers, individual team members, and subteams, all balanced in situational contingency. Their leadership may be exercised through a vertical, horizontal, shared, or distributed leadership approach. However, it is balanced leadership that ensures the best suitable leadership approach is used in any given situation. For that, the book presents a project-specific leadership approach called horizontal leadership, a theory of balanced leadership, and the five building blocks that enable balanced leadership.

 Bible translation: an introductory course in translation principles /Katharine Barnwell.  Bible Translation: An Introductory Course in Translation Principles continues to provide crucial, practical training for those preparing to translate the Bible or contribute to Bible translation in other ways. The fourth edition of this classic textbook is a leading voice in addressing the new realities in the Bible translation world.

 Business ethics: what everyone needs to know /J.S. Nelson and Lynn A. Stout. This book is a succinct, practical survey that explains what ethical lines are, how not to cross them, and what to do when they are crossed. Written in a question-and-answer format, this resource provides engaging and readable introductions to the basic principles of business ethics and an invaluable guide for dealing with ethical dilemmas.

 Chance, necessity, love: an evolutionary theology of cancer /Leonard M. Hummel, Gayle E. Woloschak; foreword by Deanna Thompson. What exactly is cancer? And where is God and what is love amidst the complex evolutionary development of all cancers? In Chance, Necessity, Love: An Evolutionary Theology of Cancer, Hummel and Woloschak address these questions that arise for many people with cancer and in all who grapple with making meaning of science about cancers.

 Classroom assessment for student learning: doing it right, using it well /Jan Chappuis, Rick Stiggins. This Book helps readers gather accurate information about students’ achievement and use the assessment process and its results effectively to improve achievement. This user-friendly guide is full of practical tips, activities, and real-world examples of what assessment for learning looks like in today’s classrooms.

 Everything and more: a compact history of infinity /David Foster Wallace. In this book Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory.

 

 Influence empire: inside the story of Tencent and China’s tech ambition /Lulu Yilun Chen. In 2017, a Chinese entity called Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world’s fifth-largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft. Yet to many of the two billion-plus people who live just across the Pacific Ocean, it came as no surprise at all. Tencent’s ambition to be an essential part of digital daily life means it holds a dizzyingly diverse range of products – music, gaming, messaging, and film. In this fascinating narrative – crammed with insider interviews, exclusive details about the company’s culture – Chen tells the story of how Tencent is changing the world and asks what the consequences will be for us all.

 Landbridge: life in fragments /Y-Dang Troeung. In 1980, Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to admit. Their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the Prime Minister shaking Troeung’s father’s hand and patting baby Y-Dang’s head. Troeung became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project. She returns to this moment forty years later in her arresting memoir Landbridge, where she explores the tension between that public narrative of happy “arrival,” and the multiple, often hidden truths of what happened to her family. In precise, beautiful prose, Troeung moves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Throughout this brilliant and astonishing book, Troeung looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence and dares to imagine a better future, with love.

 Life on the silent planet: essays on Christian living from C.S. Lewis’s Ransom trilogy /edited by Rhys Laverty. Life on the Silent Planet is a groundbreaking collection of essays, bringing together an accomplished group of scholars and writers to discover and apply the insights of [the Space Trilogy novels–Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength] to Christian living, particularly focusing on the unique vices and challenges of modernity. Fraught topics such as gender, contraception, bureaucracy, and transhumanism, often overlooked or shied away from in contemporary Christian teaching, were diagnosed and anticipated by Lewis with startling clarity in the 1930s and 40s. This volume seeks to bring these insights, woven into the rich imaginative world of the Ransom trilogy, to bear upon the realities of Christian life, enabling Christians to think deeply, live faithfully, and tune themselves again to the music of what Lewis called ‘the great dance’ of creation.

 Lost words and forgotten worlds: rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls /Andrew B. Perrin.The Dead Sea Scrolls are a window into an unfamiliar ancient culture and a mirror that reflects our own strange world back to ourselves. The Scrolls simultaneously challenge and confirm what we thought we knew about the Bible, both its worlds and its very words. Though first recovered in 1947, their story continues to unfurl. In Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls, Perrin reintroduces readers to the Scrolls while correcting common misunderstandings and highlighting overlooked issues. Perrin’s tour spans the traditions of ancient Judaism and extends to the “big business” of modern antiquities trading–and the surprising number of forgeries on display in our museums. Along the way, he debunks popular myths and conspiracies.

 Make college count: a faithful guide to life and learning /Derek Melleby. A national college transition expert engages students with the most pressing questions they will face and encourages them to make the most of their college years.

 Reclaiming our students: why children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever, and what we can do about it /Hannah Beach and Tamara Neufeld Strijack. Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises and behavioral problems, teachers are asking themselves what went wrong. Why have we lost our students? More importantly: How can we get them back? Beach and Strijack, provide a thoughtful guide to restoring the student-teacher relationship and creating the conditions for change. Reclaiming Our Students empowers teachers with relationship-based strategies to restore their leadership role and build emotional safety in the classroom.

  Social aspects of aging in indigenous communities /edited by Jordan P. Lewis and Tuula Heinonen. As the number of older people around the world continues to increase, it is important for families, communities, governments, and nations to have a better understanding of their older adults and their unique contributions, as well as their interests and needs, to ensure that they are able to age with dignity and respect and contribute to the overall health and well-being of their people and environments.

 The fourth civilization: technology, ethics, and society /Richard J. Sutcliffe. The Fourth Civilization: Technology, Ethics and Society, stimulates its readers to consider the ethical and societal consequences of technologies they already use, and others that will become ubiquitous. Its discussions and provocative questions integrate history, science, technology, and ethical and religious beliefs, examining the past and present and preparing for the future. Social changes always follow the adoption of new technologies. The plow drove the transition from hunter-gatherer to agrarian society, and the steam engine began the Industrial Revolution. Computing technology now ushers in an Information Age. What does ethical decision-making look like in a time of rapid transition and beyond?

 The Oxford handbook of Charles S. Peirce /edited by Cornelis de Waal. The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce brings together 35 essays on the American philosopher and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) with the aim of showing how his work is still relevant today. The volume takes its cues from Peirce’s work in phenomenology and normative philosophy-where the latter includes, besides aesthetics and ethics, also logic. Within the domain of logic, attention is given to his work in formal logic as well as his work in graphical or diagrammatic logic. Ample attention is given also to Peirce’s pragmatism and his metaphysics. The volume further includes biographical papers as well as papers on abduction, semiotics, linguistics, physics, biology, religion, history, science, and education.

 To sell is human: the surprising truth about moving others /Daniel H. Pink. An exploration of the power of selling, which each of us does every day–whether we know it or not. Or as Pink puts it, everyone is in the “moving business.” In this provocative book, Pink offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. He shows that sales, whether pushing a product or peddling an idea, isn’t what it used to be. Because of powerful economic changes, the glad-handing, truth-bending form of sales is a relic. In its place is a new approach to moving people that involves three very human qualities and four surprising skills. Pink lays out the science for his counterintuitive insights, offers vivid examples and stories, and provides readers with tools to put the ideas into action.

 We the leader: build a team of equals who all lead and follow to drive creativity and innovation /Jeffrey Spahn. This book represents a seismic shift in the evolution of leadership theory and practice. By implementing this innovative practice built on diversity, equity, inclusion, any organization can drive consistent winning results with ingenuity and speed. Leadership is collective art. That’s the guiding principle behind Jeffrey Spahn’s approach to creating sustained innovation within organizations. Spahn has guided myriad companies toward a more solid leadership foundation, and in this eye-opening guide, he shares his most powerful wisdom and shows you how to apply it to your own business. Moving beyond the traditional model of top-down leadership, Spahn has created a foundation for an organizational culture that benefits from collective energy, curious conviction, and solid, actionable goals.