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The Love of Reading (vol. IV)

June 1, 2020 /

The Norma Marion Alloway Library presents our new series The Love of Reading to encourage us to expand our minds.

This week we recognize the importance in standing up and speaking against racism.  We need to educate one another and do the work together to dismantle unjust power structures that oppress BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) communities and work towards justice, love and fellowship (Amos 5:15).

Below is a small selection of ebooks  on the subject, “anti-racism“; click on the link for more information. To find additional titles in this subject area, simply enter the subject term into the Library OneSearch box and then refine your search by selecting “ebooks“. Note, you will need to sign on using your TWU login.

We also encourage you to spend time and become informed of  Black issues and history; see recommended material from Black History Month Must Reads (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, and vol. 4).

Black and White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time /Hadra, Teesha and John Hambrick.
The core message of this title is that racism can be disrupted by relationships, by forging friendships with those who do not look like you, and result in changing the way you see the world. This title provides practical advice, and exploration of the systems of racism to motivate you to consider your own role in change.

Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism /Sullivan, Shannon.
This title argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism and identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that the author sums up as “white middle-class goodness,” an orientation they critique for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege.

New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance: Volume 1 – Anti-Racism and Transgressive Pedagogies /Abdulle, Ayan, Anne Nelun Obeyeskere, and George J. Sefa Dei.
This collection of essays generates important enquiries into the teaching and practice of anti-racism education, presented by a diverse group of women committed to social justice work. Contemporary educational issues are situated within personal-political, historical and philosophical conversations, which work to broach the challenges and possibilities for students, educators, staff, administrators, policy makers, and community members who engage in critical anti-racism education. Be sure to check out the other volumes in this series.

Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism Inside the United Nations /Falcón, Sylvanna M.
This title redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Based on the author’s analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. The author situates contemporary antiracist feminist organizing from the Americas’ specifically the activism of feminists of color from the United States and Canada, and feminists from Mexico and Peru, alongside a critical historical reading of the UN and its agenda against racism.

White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem? /Yancy, George.
This title emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a “good white” is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white privilege and white normative invisibility.

New Titles Tuesday, May 5

May 5, 2020 /

In the past week 55 e-titles were added to the Norma Marion Alloway Library’s collection; below is a sample.

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Check out these new ebooks today!

 

 

 


The book of Revelation: a biography /Timothy Beal.

This title provides a concise cultural history of the book of Revelation and the apocalyptic imaginations it has fueled. The author demonstrates how the book is a multimedia constellation of stories and images that mutate and evolve as they take hold in new contexts, and how Revelation is reinvented in the hearts and minds of each new generation.

The Cross: history, art, and controversy /Robin M. Jensen.
This title examines the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies of this central symbol of Christianity. This title focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest.

Faith and fossils: the Bible, creation, and evolution /Lester L. Grabbe.
This title examines the Bible in its ancient context and explores its meaning in light of emerging scientific evidence and shows how science and faith intersect in questions about human origins.

Ghost dancing with colonialism: decolonization and indigenous rights at the Supreme Court of Canada /Grace Li Xiu Woo.
This title casts explanatory light on ongoing tensions between Canada and Indigenous peoples by assessing that Indigenous peoples continue to argue that they are still being colonized using a binary model that distinguishes colonial from postcolonial legality. The author argues that two legal paradigms governed the expansion of the British Empire, one based on popular consent, the other on conquest and the power to command.

Pagans and Christians in the city: culture wars from the Tiber to the Potomac /Steven D. Smith.
This title argues that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. By examining the historical conflict, the author explores how the same competing ideas continue today.

Potlatch as pedagogy: learning through ceremony /Sara Florence Davidson and Robert Davidson.
Written by the daughter of Haida artist Robert Davidson, this title tells the story of the Haida tradition of the potlatch and how the author saw the traditions of the Haida practiced by her father, holistic, built on relationships, practical, and continuous, could be integrated into contemporary educational practices.

Video game law: everything you need to know about legal and business issues in the game industry /by S. Gregory Boyd, Brian Pyne, Sean F. Kane; foreword by Richard A. Bartle.
This title is aimed at game developers and industry professionals who want to better understand the industry or are in need of expert legal guidance by breaking down the laws and legal concepts such as copyright infringement, piracy and security breaches.

Women and the Society of Biblical Literature /Nicole L. Tilford.
In this volume essays from more than thirty leading women biblical scholars from around the world reflect on the accomplishments and challenges that women have encountered in the Society of Biblical Literature over the last 125 years.

Words have a past: the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools /Jane Griffith.
This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission through an examination of newspapers produced by white settlers, government officials and Indigenous parents.

 

 

 

New Titles Tuesday, April 7

April 7, 2020 /

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.

New Titles Tuesday, March 24

March 24, 2020 /

In the past week 59 titles were added to the Norma Marion Alloway Library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information.

Check out these new ebooks today!

Aesthetic spaces: the place of art in film (ebook) /Brigitte Peucker.
Drawing on the older arts to renew cinema, the films examined deploy paintings as material: Poussin and Bruegel, Rembrandt, Hals and Klimt, and medieval illustrations and modernist abstractions are used to expand our notions of cinematic space. Peucker shows that when different media come together in film, they create effects of dissonance out of which new modes of looking may arise.

Aquinas on transubstantiation: the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist (ebook) /Reinhard Hütter.
This title interprets Aquinas’s teaching as an exercise of “holy teaching” (sacra doctrina) that intends to show theologically and back up philosophically the simple yet profound thesis that “transubstantiation” affirms nothing but the truth of Christ’s words at the Last Supper―”This is my body,” “This is my blood.”

Crafting an indigenous nation: Kiowa expressive culture in the progressive era (ebook) /Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote.
In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, the author reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe’s rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, this title argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement and policymaking.

Divided politics, divided nation: hyperconflict in the Trump era (ebook) /Darrell M. West.
This title analyzes the economic, cultural, and political aspects of polarization. The author argues that societal tensions have metastasized into a dangerous tribalism that seriously threatens U.S. democracy.

How the classics made Shakespeare (ebook) /Jonathan Bate.
This tile offers new readings of a wide array of the plays and poems. At the heart of the book is an argument that Shakespeare’s supreme valuation of the force of imagination was honed by the classical tradition and designed as a defense of poetry and theater in a hostile world of emergent Puritanism.

In a pure Muslim land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East (ebook) /Simon Wolfgang Fuchs.
This title shows how popular Pakistani preachers and scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi’ism, occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic thought. The author argues that its complex religious landscape represents how a local, South Asian Islam may open up space for new intellectual contributions to global Islam.

The life of Saint Teresa of Avila: a biography (ebook) /Carlos Eire.
This title tells the story of this spiritual masterpiece, examining its composition and reception in the 16th century, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. The author Eire demonstrates, Teresa’s confession is a cry from the heart to God and a portrayal of mystical theology as a search for love.

New digital worlds: postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy (ebook) /Roopika Risam.
This title traces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital humanities as fields, identifying how they can intervene in knowledge production in the digital age. The author examines the role of colonial violence in the development of digital archives and the possibilities of postcolonial digital archives for resisting this violence.

Women mobilizing memory (ebook) /edited by Ayşe Gül Altinay [and five others].
This title is a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures.

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