Featured Titles Tuesday- September 9, 2025

Here is a selection of print and ebooks recently added to our collection.

  Creative teaching strategies for the nurse educator /Judith W. Herrman.  This book provides practical, easy-to implement, thought-provoking, and meaningful exercises and activities for nurse educators to consider, adapt, and use to augment current teaching. Individuals, organizations, and the nursing education community as a whole need this meaningful, planned, and purposeful change to prepare the future cohorts of nurses. The text seeks to capture the art of innovative teaching with active learning and creative strategies intended to motivate learners and learning. The goal of this book is to increase learning and retention by making teaching more enjoyable and effective. In doing so, it should enhance future nurses’ clinical judgment, encourage teamwork, foster a sense of lifelong learning, facilitate problem-solving, and stimulate active learning-thereby increasing the number of intelligent, skilled, and high-quality nurses in the workforce.

  Critical sustainability sciences: intercultural and emancipatory perspectives /edited by Stephan Rist, Patrick Bottazzi and Johanna Jacobi.  This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues. It builds on a highly novel integration of elements from relational ontologies, critical theory, political ecology, and intercultural philosophy in support of emancipatory perspectives on sustainability and development. The book Critical Sustainability Sciences begins by uncovering the weaknesses of mainstream sustainability science and debates on sustainable development. The new field of Critical Sustainability Sciences has grown out of a deep engagement with relational ontologies, which helps to overcome the dualist ontology underlying mainstream notions of sustainability and development. Dualist ontologies reinforce problematic anthropocentric divisions, for example, between humans and nature, subjects and objects, mind and matter, body and soul, etc. Examples from indigenous peoples in Bolivia, India, and Ghana – as well as integrative movements in Chile, Brazil, and Europe – show that relational conceptions of life, rooted in ecosophy and cosmosophy, can provide an intercultural philosophical foundation for Critical Sustainability Sciences. The book concludes by describing three key topics for exploration in Critical Sustainability Sciences: societal reorganization in view of emancipatory, existential, and cognitive self-determination; living labor and commons; and the development of new comprehensive relational scientific paradigms. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of emancipatory and intercultural approaches to sustainability and development.

 Digital Victorians: from nineteenth-century media to digital humanities /Paul Fyfe.  Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the nineteenth century confronted the consequences of its media shifts in ways that still define contemporary responses. In this authoritative new work, Fyfe argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. Among its unexpected legacies are what we call digital humanities, characterized by the self-reflexiveness, disciplinary reconfigurations, and debates that have made us digital Victorians, so to speak, struggling again to resituate humanities practices amid another technological revolution. Engaging with writers such as Thomas De Quincey, George Eliot, George du Maurier, Henry James, and Robert Louis Stevenson who confronted the new media of their day, Fyfe shows how we have inherited Victorian anxieties about quantitative and machine-driven reading, professional obsolescence in the face of new technology, and more-telling a longer history of how writers, readers, and scholars adapt to dramatically changing media ecologies, then and now. The result is a predigital history for the digital humanities through nineteenth-century encounters with telecommunication networks, privacy intrusions, quantitative reading methods, remediation, and their effects on literary professionals. As Fyfe demonstrates, well before computers, the Victorians were already digital.

  Disability studies: an interdisciplinary introduction /Dan Goodley.  What if disability isn’t a problem but a resource? This updated edition of a classic text in the field of disability studies interrogates the commonly held view that disability is something that needs to be ‘cured’ or ‘eradicated’. It shows us how disability can challenge our thinking and help us to imagine a more socially just society, offering an engaging introduction to a diverse and globally expanding subject. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this text will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers across the social sciences. Making the case that disability is much more than just impairment, this book uncovers the ways in which disabled people are challenging discrimination and marginalisation. Ranging across topics such as health, activism and education, this book asks questions about the ways in which society tends to understand disability and offers alternative explanations that are more exciting, radical and transformative.

Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics /Andy Field.   With its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Field animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities. Features: Flexible coverage to support students across disciplines and degree programs to support classroom or lab learning and assessment.  Analysis of real data with opportunities to practice statistical skills and highlights common misconceptions and errors. Also includes revamped online resource that uses video, case studies, datasets, testbanks and more to help students negotiate project work, master data management techniques, and apply key writing and employability skills. Now fully up to date with latest versions of IBM SPSS Statistics©. All the online resources above (video, case studies, datasets, testbanks) can be easily integrated into your institution’s virtual learning environment or learning management system. This allows you to customize and curate content for use in module preparation, delivery and assessment.  .

  Good nature: why seeing, smelling, hearing and touching plants is good for our health /Katherine Willis. A ground-breaking investigation into newly discovered evidence showing that remarkable things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses connect with the natural world. We all take for granted the idea that being in nature makes us feel better. But if you were a skeptical scientist—or indeed any kind of sceptic—who wanted hard scientific evidence for this idea, where would you look? And how would that evidence be gathered? It wasn’t until Dr. Willis was asked to contribute to an international project looking for the societal benefits we gain from plants that she stumbled across a study that radically changed the way she saw the natural world. In the study there was clear proof that patients recovering from gall bladder operations recovered more quickly if they were looking at trees. In fact, in the last decade there has been an explosion of “proof’ that incredible things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses interact with the natural world. In Good Nature, Willis takes the reader on a journey with her to dig out all the experiments around the world that are looking for this evidence—experiments made easier by the new kinds of data being collected from satellites and big-data biobanks. Having a vase of roses on your desk or a green wall in your office makes a measurable difference to your wellbeing; certain scents in room diffusers genuinely can boost your immune system; and, in a chapter that Kathy calls ‘Hidden Sense’ we learn that touching organic soil has a significant effect on the healthiness of your microbiome. What is remarkable about this book is how its revelations should to be commonsense– schools should let children play in nature to improve their health and concentration; urban streets should have trees—and yet it reveals just how difficult it is to prove this to businesses and governments. As Willis says in her narrative, ‘We now know enough to self-prescribe in our homes, offices or working spaces, gardens, and when out walking. However small these individual actions might be, overall they have the potential to provide a large number of health benefits. And we need to be encouraging others to do the same. Nature is far more than just something that is useful for our health. It is not a dispensable commodity. It is an inherent part of us”.

 James:  a commentary /Joel B. Green.  Examines the Letter of James from a variety of angles-its social and cultural contexts, its relationship to Israel’s Scriptures and to the teaching of Jesus, the development of its message, and its significance theologically.

  Key concepts and issues in nursing ethics /P. Anne Scott, Shane M. Scott, editors.  This second edition of Key concepts and issues in nursing ethics offers updates, new topics, and new short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensuring that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practice that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care. The reader is assisted to explore the ethical dimension of nursing practice: what it is and how it can be portrayed, discussed, and analyzed within a variety of practice and theoretical contexts. One of the unique contributions of this book is to consider nursing not only in the context of the individual nurse-patient relationship but also as a social good that is of necessity limited, due to the ultimate limits on the nursing and health care resource. This book will help the reader consider what good nursing looks like, both within the context of limitations on resources, during crises situations, and under conditions of scarcity. Indeed, any discussion of ethical issues in nursing should be well grounded in a conceptualization of nursing that nursing students and practicing nursing can recognize, accept and engage with. Nursing, like medicine, social work and teaching has a clear moral aim — to do good. In the case of nursing to do good for the patient. However, in the pressurized, constrained , post-COVID-19 pandemic health service of the 21st century, it is vital that we help nurses explore what this might mean for nursing practice and what can reasonably be expected of the individual nurse, and the nursing profession, in terms of good nursing care.

  Language in the mission of God /Micheal Greed, general editor ; Allen Yeh, foreword. Whether spoken, written, signed, or thought, language is part of everything we do. How often do we reflect on the role of language in God’s kingdom? The world’s 7,000 languages are not merely obstacles to be overcome; they are part of God’s beautiful plan. Language in the Mission of God will deepen your understanding of the role of language in your faith and practice. Through 22 contributing authors from around the globe, this collection of writings will challenge Christian leaders to engage in ministry across linguistic and cultural boundaries.

Love’s braided dance: hope in a time of crisis /Norman Wirzba. A moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles.   In this series of meditations, Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to prevent pain and trouble, but as something people do. Hope evaporates in conditions of abandonment and abuse. It grows in contexts of nurture and belonging. Hope ignites when people join in what Wendell Berry calls “love’s braided dance”–a commitment to care for one another and our world.   Through personal narratives and historical examples, Wirzba explores what sustains hope and why it so often seems absent from our vision of the future. The vitality of hope, he maintains, depends on a collective commitment to care for the physical world (its soils and waters, plants and animals, homes and neighborhoods) and to promote the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual ideals that affirm life as good, beautiful, and sacred.   Engaging with such contemporary topics as climate change, AI and social media, and the intensifying refugee crises and drawing on the wisdom of James Baldwin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martha Graham, and others, Wirzba offers a powerful argument for hope as a way of life in which people are intimately and practically joined with all the living.

Milestone documents of Christianity:  exploring the essential primary sources /Joseph T. Stuart, editor in chief. From iconic Biblical texts to influential essays and papal opinions, this collection explores primary sources about the world’s largest religion. It pairs the text of each document (in English or English translation) with in-depth scholarly commentary and analysis, guiding readers to a better understanding of the document’s historical context. Entries are arranged chronologically by year, and divided into 3 main sections: Fact Box, Commentary and Analysis, and Document Text.

  Rhetorical democracy: how communication shapes political culture /Robert Danisch. This book addresses the characteristics of communication systems and communication practices that inhibit or enhance democratic life and how both can be altered to make democracy thrive.

  The researcher’s guide to influencing policy /Mark S. Reed.  Designed to help researchers navigate the complex and ethical challenges of working with policy to effect change that is both deep and wide, this must-read book provides guidance on how to negotiate complex power dynamics, learn informing and influencing strategies and the different roles researchers can take within policy networks. Readers are invited to interrogate the assumption that evidence-based policy is either possible or desirable, question why they do the research they do and learn how they can use their power to give voice to those who are rarely heard. Based on two decades of Professor Reed’s peer-reviewed work on research impact as well as his experience using his environmental research to influence policy around the world, this guide covers the crucial, tried and tested practical skills needed to communicate research effectively to policy audiences and collect evidence of policy impacts. Applicable to all disciplines and career stages, The Researcher’s Guide to Influencing Policy provides the confidence needed to start engaging with policy safely, responsibly, and effectively. It is time to get out of the echo chamber of research and policy elites and to start getting our hands dirty with the messy reality of real-world policy.

  The Routledge international handbook of intersectionality studies /edited by Kathy Davis and Helma Lutz. Intersectionality is one of the most popular theoretical paradigms in gender studies and feminist theory today. Initially developed to explore how gender and race interact in the experiences of US women of colour, it has since been taken up in different disciplines and national contexts, where it is used to investigate a wide range of intersecting social identities and experiences of exclusion and subordination. This volume explores intersectionality studies as a burgeoning international field with a growing body of research, which is increasingly drawn upon in policy, political interventions, and social activism. Bringing together contributors from different disciplines and locations, The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies maps the history and travels of intersectionality between continents and countries and takes up debates surrounding the privileged role of race in intersectional analysis, the ways in which intersectional analysis should or should not be carried out, and the political implications of thinking intersectional analysis and thought. Opening up new avenues of enquiry for a future generation of scholars and practitioners, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, politics, and cultural studies with interests in feminist thought, social identity, social exclusion, and social inequality.