Category: new books (Page 1 of 12)

Here is a selection of recently added titles to our collection.

AI and the future of education: teaching in the age of artificial intelligence /Priten Shah. This book is a timely response to the challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence presents to educators. After offering an overview of AI, the author shows teachers how to evaluate and use AI in lesson design and to automate their administrative tasks. Readers will come to see that AI is not a threat to teaching and learning but a tool to make teaching and learning more engaging. Shah also discusses ethical implications generative AI has on achievement gaps, special education, English learners.

 Lead smart: how to build and lead highly productive teams /Dermot Crowley. Are you too busy to lead your team effectively? The simple truth is that leaders have never felt so distracted, so overwhelmed and so unable to find the time they need to make a real impact. In Lead Smart, productivity expert Crowley delivers proven strategies for cutting through the busyness and working and leading more effectively, maximising productivity for you and your team. Lead Smart is the book you need to upgrade how you use your time, energy and focus to better thrive and inspire as a leader.

Army of liars: how digital media and artificial intelligence are corrupting truth and endangering humanity /Andrew V. Edwards.The author explores how digital media and artificial intelligence are corrupting the nature of truth and endangering the future of humanity.

 Christ, the Logos of creation: ban essay in analogical metaphysics /John R. Betz.Betz seeks to recover a Christ-centered, analogical metaphysics and to establish the indispensability of such metaphysics for Christian theology and the Christian vision of reality.

 Culture fix: how to create a great place to work /Colin D Ellis. Culture is a daily topic of conversation in every kind of business, from schools to prisons, from start-ups to large corporates and from barber shops to championship-winning sports teams. Despite this, there is still no ‘handbook’ for creating team and organization cultures that are truly unique for their people. Most people simply don’t know where to start, or attempt to transform culture with restructures, office fit outs, off-site meetings, strategy days or changes in personnel – none of which are proven to work. This book provides the information to solve these culture problems.

 Directing actors: creating memorable performances for film and television /Judith Weston. Directing film or television is a high-stakes occupation. It captures your full attention at every moment, calling on you to commit every resource and stretch yourself to the limit; it’s the white-water rafting of entertainment jobs. But for many directors, the excitement they feel about a new project tightens into anxiety when it comes to working with actors. In the years since the original edition of Directing Actors was published, the technical side of filmmaking has become much more easily accessible. Directors tell me that dealing with actors is the last frontier-the scariest part and the part they long for-the human part, the place where connection happens.

 Film editing: theory and practice /Christopher Llewellyn Reed. Designed for the novice or for a course in film editing, the book is the perfect introductory text. Editing is the art of using the building blocks supplied by the writer and director to create a structurally sound and brilliant piece of cinematic dazzle. As the word is to the sentence, so the shot is to the scene, and the editor must “write” coherently. This book teaches the aspiring editor how to speak the inspiring language of images.

 Humanizing education for immigrant and refugee youth: 20 strategies for the classroom and beyond /Monisha Bajaj, Daniel Walsh, Lesley Bartlett, Gabriela Martinez. This important book offers strategies, models, and concrete ideas for better serving newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in U.S. schools, with a focus on grades 6-12. The authors present 20 strategies grouped under three categories: (1) classroom and instructional design, (2) school design, and (3) extracurricular, community, and alumni partnerships. Each chapter provides research-based information, classroom examples, tips for implementing each strategy, and additional resources. Readers will find engaging profiles of schools, students, and alumni interspersed throughout the book, offering both varied perspectives and practical advice.

 Introduction to determinants of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples’ health in Canada /edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Roberta Stout, Roseann Larstone, and Julie Sutherland. This critical new volume to the field of health studies offers an introductory overview of the determinants of health for Indigenous Peoples in Canada, while cultivating an understanding of the presence of coloniality in health care and how it determines First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples’ health and well-being.

 Leading at a distance: practical lessons for virtual success /James M. Citrin, Darleen DeRosa. Working remotely will likely become a more common factor for leaders guiding teams and organizations in the future. In this context, leaders must master virtual work environments to keep geographically dispersed team members aligned, connected, engaged, and performing. Leaders are aware that leading virtual teams and geographically dispersed employees can be very challenging. It is more difficult to hold employees accountable, build trust and strong relationships, as well as coach from a distance. Yet, organizations need to adapt to a virtual way of working as virtual leadership plays an increasingly important role in driving overall organizational effectiveness and performance.

 Leading from the middle: a playbook for managers to influence up, down, and across the organization /Scott Mautz. Leading from the Middle takes the lessons of Dale Carnegie’s “How To Win Friends and Influence People” and John C. Maxwell’s “360 Leadership” and distills them into an accessible handbook designed for daily reference.  Designed to help the middle manager be more effective in in managing up, down, and across his or her organization. This book will provide actionable, step-by-step instruction for the daily challenges a middle manager may face, including: extracting more resources from management; better communicating corporate initiatives to direct reports; influencing peers and colleagues; navigating times of changes; and much more.

 Leading while female: a culturally proficient response for gender equity /Trudy T. Arriaga, Stacie L. Stanley, Delores B. Lindsey ; foreword by Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana. First, just to be clear: ‘Leading While Female’ is not a book about how to get a leadership job. Nor is it about ‘fixing’ or transforming women to have the mindsets of male managers. Instead, the bigger ambition is to help both female and male educational leaders confront and close the gender equity gap–a gap that currently denies highly qualified women of all colors the opportunity to better serve our millions of public school students. If we look at the data, we can safely say women are doing the work of classroom teaching while, disproportionately, men are making administrative and leadership decisions. Here at last is a resource for breaking down the barriers and leading the way for future generations of women leaders.

 The carbon tax question: clarifying Canada’s most consequential policy debate /Thomas F. Pedersen. A timely and insightful exploration of the implementation and impact of British Columbia’s carbon tax, delving into the political and economic considerations behind the tax, and addressing misconceptions. Carbon taxation has become a political, social and economic hot potato in Canada (and beyond) and a major election issue.

 The effective manager /Mark Horstman, Kate Braun, Sarah Sentes. An effective manager is one who achieves results and retention. Can you get the job done — whether it be sales, or engineering, or marketing, or operations, or logistics, or software development? And can you do so in a way that not just attracts but also retains your team of professionals? Will you keep your people while you climb the mountain, or will you burn them out in hopes of getting promoted and being able to do the same thing to a different team? The Effective Manager is written for every manager, at every level. It focuses on what you can do now, today, with your team members, to improve their performance and get better results and retention.

The power of virtual distance: a guide to productivity and happiness in the age of remote work /Karen Sobel Lojeski, Ph.D., Richard R. Reilly, Ph.D. Today, almost all organizations are struggling with the impact that virtualization is having on the workplace. Yet, a full comprehension of what the costs of virtualization are, is lacking. This book introduces the concept of virtual distance to show businesses what they have felt has been occurring all along, that there are definite costs to doing work in a virtual environment. It then goes a step further and offers proven methods for measuring these costs and guidance on managing them.

 The problem of twelve: when a few financial institutions control everything /John Coates. The problem of twelve arises when a small number of actors acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.

 Thriving in academia: building a career at a teaching-focused institution /Pamela I. Ansburg, Mark E. Basham & Regan A. R. Gurung. Veteran professors distill their decades of expertise into simple, practical advice for building rewarding careers as undergraduate instructors at teaching-focused institutions. They guide readers through the entire career trajectory: finding and applying to positions, developing essential knowledge and skills, seeking tenure and promotions, and continuing to thrive in the mid- to late-career stages.