Category: Environmental studies (Page 2 of 8)

In the past week 120 e-titles were added to the Norma Marion Alloway Library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information.

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Biodiversity and climate change: transforming the biosphere / edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy & Lee Hannah; foreword by Edward O. Wilson.
This title is an up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change. Leading experts in the field summarize observed changes, assess what the future holds, and offer suggested responses. From extinction risk to ocean acidification, from the future of the Amazon to changes in ecosystem services, and from geoengineering to the power of ecosystem restoration, this title captures the sweep of climate change transformation of the biosphere.

Confronting Old Testament controversies: pressing questions about evolution, sexuality, history, and violence / Tremper Longman III.
This title confronts pressing questions of concern to modern audiences, such as the creation and evolution debate, God-ordained violence, the historicity of people, places and events, and human sexuality.

Department stores and the black freedom movement: workers, consumers, and civil rights from the 1930s to the 1980s / Traci Parker.
In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during the 1930s to the 1980s, this title highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

Feminism for the Americas: the making of an international human rights movement / Katherine M. Marino.
This title introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens.

How the old world ended: the Anglo-Dutch-American revolution, 1500-1800 / Jonathan Scott.
This title is a magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order and made way for the Industrial Revolution.

The Obama legacy / edited by Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige.
This title is composed of twelve essays that examine Barack Obama’s Presidency, from his political choices, operating style, and opportunities taken and missed. The authors analyze Obama’s preferences, tactics, and shortcomings with an eye toward balancing the personal and institutional, all the while considering how resilient or fragile Obama’s legacy will be in the fame of the Trump administration’s eager efforts to dismantle it.

Policy transformation in Canada: is the past prologue? / edited by Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Sophie Borwein, Peter John Loewen, and Andrew Potter.
This title examines Canada’s current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada’s relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada’s role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policy making has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.

Safe enough spaces: a pragmatist’s approach to inclusion, free speech, and political correctness on college campuses / Michael S. Roth.
This title stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. The author offers a sane approach to the noisy debates surrounding affirmative action, political correctness, and free speech, urging us to envision college as a space in which students are empowered to engage with criticism and with a variety of ideas.

Worlds enough: the invention of realism in the Victorian novel / Elaine Freedgood.
This title challenges basic assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Examining criticism of Victorian novels since the 1850s, the author demonstrates that while they were praised for their ability to bring certain social truths to fictional life, these novels were also criticized for their formal failures and compared unfavorably to their French and German counterparts.