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New Titles Tuesday, March 1

Here’s a selection of material added to the catalouge in the last week

 Ask for help /written by Izzi Howell ; illustrated by David Broadbent. Find out about the power of working in a team, and how getting the help you need to overcome obstacles gives you a happier, healthier mindset.

Better together: creating community in an uncertain world /Nikki Tate. Explores the different types of communities people create to meet their need for companionship. Includes glossary.

 Build resilience /written by Alice Harman ; illustrated by David Broadbent. Learn all about building resilience in fun ways to help you take on big challenges and recover from disappointments with a healthier, happier mindset.

Designing your life: how to build a well-lived, joyful life /Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

 Don’t panic /written by Alice Harman ; illustrated by David Broadbent Discover how to manage your worries in fun ways that will help you take on big challenges and daily tasks with a healthier, happier mindset.

 Epic migrations by air /Natalie Hyde. Read about extraordinary animal migrations by air, from the incredible migration of the godwit between Alaska and New Zealand to the long-lasting journey of the monarch butterfly across North America. Interesting facts and obstacles are highlighted, and a sidebar details how humans impact each migration.

 In the shadow of the steeple: the vital role of the smaller church in a megachurch world /Gene Williams.  Williams gives practical advice and uplifting insight for smaller church pastors, reminding them of the unique opportunities and advantages they have to reach the people who would never feel comfortable in a mega-church.

 Selected letters of John Keats /edited by Grant F. Scott ; based on the texts of Hyder Edward Rollins. This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet’s’trifles’as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. It also offers a revealing look at his’posthumous existence,’the period of Keats’s illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats’s deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

 The constitution of society /Edward Shils ; with a new introduction by the author. Shils’s attempt to work out a macrosociological theory which does justice  to the spiritual and intellectual dispositions and powers of the mind and to the reality of the larger society is an enterprise that has spanned several decades. In his steps toward the development of this theory he has not proceeded deductively; rather he has worked from his own concrete observations of Western, Asian, and African societies. Thus, despite the inevitable abstractness of marcrosociological theory, the papers in this volume have a quality of vivid substantiality that makes the theoretical statements they present easier to comprehend.

 The nativity cycle /directed by Fergus McDonell ; produced by Julian Biggs ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal). The Christmas story, presented in the form of a medieval York mystery, or miracle play, by a cast of junior school children. Between acts a children’s angel choir sings familiar Christmas carols to introduce each scene.

 Think positive /written by Alice Harman ; illustrated by David Broadbent. Discover fun ways to learn to think positive that will help you take on big challenges and daily tasks with a healthier, happier mindset.

 Vitamin T: threads & textiles in contemporary art /commissioning editor, Rebecca Morrill ; project editors, Louisa Elderton and Catalina Imizcoz. A global survey of more than 100 artists, chosen by art-world professionals for their work with threads, stitching, and textiles. Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, stitching, textiles, knitting, and knotting as used by visual artists worldwide, Vitamin T is the latest in the celebrated series in which leading curators, critics, and art professionals nominate living artists for inclusion.

 Work smarter /written by Alice Harman ; illustrated by David Broadbent. Discover how to work smarter in fun ways that will help you take on big challenges and daily tasks with a healthier, happier mindset.

New Titles Tuesday, February 22

Here’s a selection of new books and streaming media added to the collection in the past week.

 A dramatic Pentecostal/Charismatic anti-theodicy: improvising on a divine performance of lament /Stephen C. Torr ; foreword by David Cheetham. This study, drawing on Kevin Vanhoozer’s dramatic approach to theology, argues that the way God calls us to perform as we seek to communicate with him is to lament, and to do so with the aid of the Holy Spirit. This book seeks to show how a performance of lament is conducive to such theology and practice while acting as a much-needed corrective to certain aspects of it. What is provided here is therefore relevant reading for both scholars and pastors alike, particularly of Pentecostal/Charismatic church tradition, who grapple with the realities of suffering and the questions such realities produce.

A dynamic reading of the Holy Spirit in Revelation: a theological reflection on the functional role of the Holy Spirit in the narrative /Hee Youl Lee. A Dynamic Reading of the Holy Spirit in Revelation attempts to read the book of Revelation in a new way as a narrative, embracing literary elements such as plot, point of view, narrative voice, character, and story structure to help readers discover its meanings by tracing the story anew. Lee’s unique narrative perspective offers readers a bird’s-eye view to experience four levels of the story: heaven, earth, abyss, and the lake of fire. Lee develops a theological account of John’s pneumatology and surely extends Christian pneumatology, a doctrine inseparable from the life of the church. Lee portrays the book of Revelation as a mission-oriented book that tells how the kingdom of God will be built in this world through spiritual warfare, rather than as a book of eschatology

Borderlands: the art and scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney : with selections from Guiney’s poetry, essays, and letters /edited by Jonathan Nauman and Holly Faith Nelson. (TWU Author) The first edited collection of original essays ever published on Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920), Irish American poet, essayist, editor, literary critic, and epistolist, and the first volume to anthologise a selection of both her poetry and prose.

 Down to earth: Christian hope and climate change /Richard A. Floyd. Jurgen Moltmann and Sallie McFague offer two contemporary possibilities for an ecological eschatology. Floyd critiques both of these theological visions and traces an alternative that is both humble and hopeful, arguing that a down-to-earth hope is grounded finally in beauty: the beauty of the other that draws out the self, the beauty of the redeemed self, coming out to meet the other, and the beauty of God that lures forth ever-new possibilities and gathers up all the beautiful and broken creatures into the deepest possible harmony.

 Esther and her elusive God: how a secular story functions as Scripture /John Anthony Dunne ; with a foreword by Ronald W. Pierce. Esther and Her Elusive God calls Christians to avoid the common attempts to make Esther more palatable and theological, and to reclaim this secular story as Scripture. Readers will be encouraged to see in Esther a profound message of God’s grace and faithfulness to his wayward people.

Exile: a myth unearthed /directed by: Ilan Ziv ; produced by: Amit Breuer, Serge Gordey, Christine Camdessus, Colette Loumède, Ilan Ziv It has been depicted in artwork and lamented in poetry and prayer for nearly 2,000 years: the exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in the first century AD, following the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. But what if the exile never happened? That is the central, provocative question of Exile: A Myth Unearthed, a documentary that looks at the exile through the lenses of archaeology, history, myth and religion, asking what it means for our understanding of history and the contemporary struggle over land in the Middle East. Since 1985, teams of archaeologists have been painstakingly unearthing artifacts from the ancient town of Sepphoris, in Galilee. Their findings are revolutionizing our knowledge of Jewish history. Exile travels from Sepphoris to Masada, from Jerusalem to the catacombs of Rome, and features interviews with leading historians and archaeologists. Throughout the film we also follow a group of tourists visiting sites in the Holy Land and hear the traditional interpretation of events such as the siege of Masada–an interpretation which stands in sharp contrast to recent evidence. The issues raised in Exile are of more than passing historical interest. The myth of exile is an essential narrative in Middle Eastern and European history, and of critical importance to both Christian and Jewish theology. And the possibility that many Jews, such as those of Sepphoris, simply remained where they lived, raises uncomfortable questions. Could some Palestinians actually be their descendants?

 Fierce light: when spirit meets action /directed by: Velcrow Ripper ; produced by: Cherilyn K. Hawrysh, Gerry Flahive, Mark Achbar, Betsy Carson, Silva Basmajian Fueled by the belief that another world is possible, acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper takes us on a global journey tracing spiritual activism’s historical roots and capturing the powerful personalities that are igniting a new wave of spiritual action around the globe. Martin Luther King called it love in action Gandhi called it soul force Featuring Visionary Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hahn; Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Alice Walker; Famed Tree-Sitter, Julia Butterfly Hill; and Hollywood celebrity turned activist, Daryl Hannah

 For I was hungry and you gave me food: pragmatics of food access in the Gospel of Matthew /Carol Bakker Wilson ; foreword by Warren Carter. rovides a pragmatic lens and a new descriptive paradigm of food access in the first century. The perspective and model are useful for analyzing passages concerned with life-and-death issues of the Matthean community–or situations for any other Christian community, past or present. Should not every person have enough food to sustain physical life?

 Gertie /directed by: Winsor McCay ; produced by: Michael Fukushima, Marcel Jean, Donald Crafton, Marco de Blois, David L. Nathan ; production agencies: La Cinémathèque québécoise (Montreal), National Film Board of Canada (Montreal). GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (1914) is considered the first-ever character animation film, created by pioneering American cartoonist, animator, and impresario, Winsor McCay. In the film, Gertie interacts with her surroundings but also with her creator, McCay, who stands on stage in front of the screen.

 Gossiping Jesus: the oral processing of Jesus in John’s gospel /John W. Daniels, Jr. This innovative study of John’s Gospel looks at the text through the lens of a routinely misunderstood mode of speech, namely, gossip. Focusing on talk about Jesus in John, the author unpacks the intricate relationship between gossip and various social dynamics of Jesus’world, demonstrating how they collude to construct Jesus’identity. Ultimately, it is suggested that John presents a Jesus whose identity is elusive to both outsiders like the Pharisees and insiders like his disciples, and thus models the importance, if not the sheer necessity, of the ongoing public discourse around the question ‘Who is Jesus?’

 Letters from Pyongyang /National Film Board of Canada. Canadian-Korean filmmaker Jason Lee tells his father’s emotional story of a family torn apart by the Korean War. Together, father and son make a rare journey to the North Korean capital in search of long-lost relatives. Combining exclusive, never-before-seen footage from the North, archival images and family photographs, this deeply personal film brings to light the tragic subject of families divided by the political conflict in the two Koreas.

 Liang A-fa: China’s first preacher, 1789-1855 /George Hunter McNeur ; introduced and edited by Jonathan A. Seitz. Liang Fa holds a unique place in the history of Christianity in China. Baptized and ordained by the first Protestant missionaries to China, Liang aided the first two generations of missionaries and conducted his own work as an evangelist and writer. His most famous tract is believed to have influenced the Taiping Rebellion. While McNeur’s biography of Liang has been republished regularly in Chinese, this is the first republication in English since the 1930s. It remains the best work on an influential but little-studied figure. Annotated and with a critical introduction, this work seeks to revive scholarship on Liang as we approach the two-hundredth anniversary of his baptism.

 Literature of Luther: receptions of the Reformer /edited by A. Edward Wesley & J. Christopher Edwards. This collection of essays, which began as conference papers on the literature of Luther, seeks to initiate conversations on the many and varied receptions of the reformer. Most of the essays are interdisciplinary, crossing boundaries between literature, history, and theology. Both Catholic and Protestant voices are well represented.

 Pentecostal and Holiness statements on war and peace /edited by Jay Beaman and Brian K. Pipkin ; foreword by Titus Peachy. We have catalogued Holiness and Pentecostal denominational statements on war and peace.  This antiwar collection gives us an almost uniform picture of the early Pentecostal movement as largely pacifist in orientation. The commonality of these statements across both Holiness and Pentecostal movements is evidence they are a continuous group and not two separate movements. While their early doctrines opposed killing, many named in this book are now widely considered to be stalwarts of the Religious Right, or at least staunch supporters of Christian participation in war. Our hope is that this book will frame the official position of early Pentecostals on war and peace, and encourage Pentecostals today to reflect on their antiwar heritage.

 Perfecting the art of longing /directed by Kitra Cahana ; produced by Kat Baulu, Ariel Nasr, Annette Clarke ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal). You perfect the art of longing by knowing where your soul is intended to be, says Rabbi Cahana in Perfecting the Art of Longing, acclaimed filmmaker Kitra Cahana’s powerful collaboration with her father. In 2011, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana suffered a devastating brainstem stroke that left him locked in, only able to communicate through the blinking of his eyes. When the pandemic lockdown hit, he found himself completely isolated and cut off from his loved ones, connecting only through screens. Using footage from security cameras, video calls and home-video archives, this experimental short film leads us on a journey through memory, family and faith, exploring the nature of connection and distance.

 Polemical preacher of joy: an anti-apocalpytic genre for Qoheleth’s message of joy /Jerome N. Douglas. This book will propose that the author of Ecclesiastes utilizes a hybrid genre in his work–an’anti-apocalyptic genre’–in order to further his message of joy. Jerome Douglas explores how recognizing the presence of an anti-apocalyptic genre within the tapestry of Ecclesiastes assists the interpreter in understanding the book.

 Reverberations of the Exodus in Scripture /edited by R. Michael This volume examines how a central and paradigmatic biblical event–the exodus from Egypt–resurfaces time and again in both testaments. Furthermore, the collaborative nature of this project has allowed specialists to construct each chapter. Readers of Reverberations of the Exodus in Scripture will gain a better understanding of the role of the exodus throughout the biblical canon and a deeper appreciation for its place in biblical theology.

 Ryan Reynolds: I’m a laureate? /directed by Christopher Auchter ; produced by Nicholas Klassen, Robert McLaughlin ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal). Ryan Reynolds reflects on his childhood, family, and career — punctuated by diversions into the charitable side of Twitter to appeal to his Canadian sense of self.

 Sense and spirituality: the arts and spiritual formation /James McCullough. This book provides a modest step forward in the conversation between theological aesthetics and practical theology. Understanding aesthetics as ‘the realm of sense perception’ and spiritual formation as ‘growing capacities to participate in God’s purposes,’ McCullough suggests how these dynamics can mutually enhance each other, with the arts as an effective catalyst for this relationship. McCullough proposes an analysis of artistic communication and explores exciting examples from music, poetry, and painting, which render theoretical proposals in concrete terms.

 Starlight & other sounds /directed by Josephine Anderson ; produced by Shirley Vercruysse, Shirley Vercruysse ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal). Documentary profile film for Governor General’s 2021 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award recipient and composer, Alexina Louie.

 The battle of the Châteauguay /National Film Board of Canada. The Battle of Châteauguay, fought in 1813 to push back American troops invading Canada, is recounted in this dramatic film by the hero of the battle, Lt-Col. Charles-Michel de Salaberry. Recreated battle scenes illustrate his military strategy. Animation is used to relate the events leading up to this important battle (the French and American revolutions, the reign of Napoleon, the naval battles between the English and the Americans, and Yankee expansionist policies). A lively history film, it provides an unusual look at the War of 1812.

 The blessing of Abraham, the Spirit, and justification in Galatians: their relationship and significance for understanding Paul’s theology /Chee-Chiew Lee. This book challenges the common assumption that the Abrahamic blessing and the Spirit are equated in Gal 3:14 and points out how an accurate understanding of the relationship between these two motifs contributes significantly to appreciating Paul’s overall argument in Galatians and his theology of justification.  Given the renewed interest in Pauline justification, this book contributes to this important aspect of the Spirit’s role in future justification, which needs to be developed further in Pauline and New Testament theology.

 The essential Hayek /by Donald J. Boudreaux. While countless works have discussed the importance of Hayek and his ideas, none have focused on making his core ideas accessible to average people. This volume highlights and explains Hayek’s basic insights in plain language to ensure that his critical ideas about the nature of society are both accessible and enduring.

 The forbidden reel /directed by: Ariel Nasr ; produced by: Sergeo Kirby, Kat Baulu, Sergeo Kirby, Annette Clarke, Jane Jankovic, Linda Fong, Ariel Nasr, Stacey Tenenbaum, Fiona Lawson Baker Driven to create amidst war and chaos, Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema. Driven to destroy, Taliban extremists set out to torch that legacy. Marvelling in the beauty and fragile power of movies, Afghan-Canadian director Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan.

 The oneness and simplicity of God /Barry D. Smith. Smith reaches the conclusion that there is no basis for ascribing simplicity to God. The simplicity doctrine is not found in Scripture and the traditional arguments used to establish it are unconvincing.

 The Semitic background of the term mystery in the New Testament /by Raymond E. Brown. Examining the concept of mystery in the Old Testament, the Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, the author concludes that the meaning of mystery can be explained on the basis of Semitic backgrounds. In the course of his investigations he sheds light not only on the meaning of mystery but also on the whole understanding of God’s redemptive purpose that lies behind Paul’s use of the word.

 The storm /directed by: Monica Kidd ; produced by: Annette Clarke, Annette Clarke ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal) A doctor as well as a filmmaker, Monica Kidd finds signs of hope in an uncertain pandemic universe. With The Storm, she collaborates with animator Duncan Major, employing sparsely elegant imagery to reflect on what it means to bring a baby into a world gripped by a global health crisis…

 Theology in the present age: essays in honor of John D. Castelein /edited by Christopher Ben Simpson and Steven D. Cone. This volume of essays centers on the theme of doing Christian theology in the present postmodern context, a consistent theme of the teaching of Castelein. The essays range over such topics as theological reflections on the postmodern philosophical themes, the relations between Christian theology and culture, the contributions of philosophical hermeneutics for Christian theology, and the challenges of engaging in ministry in a postmodern context.

 Theology, ethics, and technology in the work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio: a nascent theological tradition /Michael Morelli. TWU Author This book examines biographical and textual connections between sociologist-theologian Jacques Ellul and philosopher-phenomenologist Paul Virilio. Through an examination of Ellul and Virilio’s embeddedness in the socio-historical context of postwar France, the book identifies a relationship between these critics of technology which constitutes a nascent theological tradition. The author shows from various vantage points how Ellul and Virilio’s nascent tradition exposes technology as modernity’s primary idol; and, how it uses multiple disciplines-including history, sociology, philosophy, phenomenology, theology, and ethics-to resist the perilous consequences of the modern world’s worship of power and the kinds of technologies this misdirected worship produces.

 Trapped in a human zoo /directed by: Guilhem Rondot ; produced by: Roch Brunette ; production agency: Pix3 Films (gatineau). A forgotten diary helps one woman uncover the incredible journey and the mysterious disappearance of a group of Inuit, trapped in the world of human zoos of the 19th century. The only known written testimony of an era that humanity would rather forget, Abraham’s diary is an inversion of the colonial gaze. An estimated 35000 indigenous people from around the world were recruited in these zoos, to entertain the masses and foster scientific experiments.

New Titles Tuesday, December 21

Here is a selection of new titles added to collection in the past week.

 Abide and go: missional theosis in the Gospel of John /Michael J. Gorman. In this book for both the academy and the church, Gorman argues that John has a profound spirituality that is robustly missional, and that it can be summarized in the paradoxical phrase Abide and go, from John 15. This spirituality, argues Gorman, can be called missional theosis.

Asian healing traditions in counseling and psychotherapy /edited by Roy Moodley, Ted Lo, Na Zhu. Explores the various healing approaches and practices in the East and bridges them with those in the West to show counselors how to provide culturally sensitive services to distinct populations. The Editors  bring together leading scholars across Asia to demystify and critically analyze traditional Far East Asian healing practices—such as Chinese Taoist Healing practices, Morita Therapy, Naikan Therapy, Mindfulness and Existential Therapy, Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy—in relation to health and mental health in the West. The book will not only show counselors how to apply Eastern and Western approaches to their practices but will also shape the direction of counseling and psychotherapy research for many years to come.

 Dorothy L. Sayers: a biography: death, Dante, and Lord Peter Wimsey /Colin Duriez. Drawing on material often difficult to access, particularly her collected letters, Duriez reassesses Sayers’ life, her writings, her studies, and her faith to present a rich and captivating portrait of this formidable character.

Good questions: a year of open-ended math problems for grades 2-4 /Carole Fullerton. A problem-a-day resource that includes rich tasks ideal for grades 2, 3 and 4. Organized by topic and structured in problem sets of 5, this simple to use teacher resource includes 200 mathematically important questions to engage your students in deep thinking.

 Incomplete and random acts of kindness  /David Eldridge. The play moves between dream story and real lives to tell an intricate, complex story of a young man dealing with the break up of his family and the legacy of race responsibility.

Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity: an introduction to worldview issues, philosophical foundations, and models of integration /David N. Entwistle. Entwistle’s book elucidates historical, philosophical, and practical issues in the integration of psychology and Christianity. The current edition considers recent advances in both Catholic and Protestant thinking on integration, including contemporary questions about what evangelicalism is (and is not) that shape evangelical reactions to the integration debate. New content ranges from information about the contrasting views of Tertullian and Augustine, to insights from contemporary psychology about factors that adversely affect the quality and reliability of human thinking, to how conflict over COVID-19 has entered contemporary religious debate.

 Mammal bones and teeth: an introductory guide to methods of identification /Simon Hillson. This guide is designed as an introduction to the basic methods for identifying mammal bones and teeth. It is intended to highlight for beginners the main points on which identifications can be made on the bulk of bones and teeth from a small range of common Old World mammals.

 Noah: a play /by Andre Obey ; English text by Arthur Wilmurt Noah, his wife, his three sons and three of the neighbors’ girls embark with the animals on God’s ark. When the rain ends, the grand beauty of the great waters fills them with rejoicing and they dance around the deck in the dawn of a golden age. But Noah becomes the story of a kindly old man who grows lonely in his faith, and who is rudely deserted by the young folks the moment they touch foot to land.

 Royal Court Theatre presents Mother Teresa is dead /by Helen Edmundson. SMark arrives in a village near Madras to try and find his wife. He does not understand what has driven her to abandon her young son. Jane cannot explain why she needed to escape or how she ended up looking after children in India or what is in the bag she’s been holding on to. It is hot, dusty and poor, and a long way from their comfortable life in London.

 Shalom and the community of creation: an Indigenous vision /Randy Woodley. Woodley offers an answer: learn more about the Native American ‘Harmony Way, ‘ a concept that closely parallels biblical shalom. Doing so can bring reconciliation between Euro-Westerners and indigenous peoples, a new connectedness with the Creator and creation, an end to imperial warfare, the ability to live in the moment, justice, restoration — and a more biblically authentic spirituality. Rooted in redemptive correction, this book calls for true partnership through the co-creation of new theological systems that foster wholeness and peace.

 Standoff: why reconciliation fails Indigenous people and how to fix it /Bruce McIvor. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it. McIvor’s essays are honest and heartfelt. In clear, plain language he explains the historical and social forces that underpin the development of Indigenous law, criticizes the current legal shortcomings and charts a practical, principled way forward. His writing covers many of the most important issues that have become part of a national dialogue, including systemic racism, treaty rights, violence against Indigenous people, Métis identity, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) and the duty to consult.

 The believing primate: scientific, philosophical, and theological reflections on the origin of religion /edited by Jeffrey Schloss and Michael J. Murray. This book draws on the expertise of scientists, philosophers, and theologians, from across a wide spectrum of debate, to describe and discuss current scientific accounts or religion.

 The Cambridge companion to ancient Athens /edited by Jenifer Neils, Dylan K. Rogers. This Companion is a comprehensive introduction the city, its topography and monuments, inhabitants and cultural institutions, religious rituals and politics. Chapters link the religious, cultural, and political institutions of Athens to the physical locales in which they took place. Discussion of the urban plan, with its streets, gates, walls, and public and private buildings, provide readers with a thorough understanding of how the city operated and what people saw, heard, smelled, and tasted as they flowed through it. Drawing on the latest scholarship, as well as excavation discoveries at the Agora, sanctuaries, and cemeteries, the Companion explores how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman city.

 The Cambridge companion to British fiction: 1980-2018 /edited by Peter Boxall. This collection brings together some of the most penetrating critics of the contemporary, to explore the role that the British novel has had in shaping the cultural landscape of our time, at a moment, in the wake of the EU referendum of 2016, when the question of what it means to be British has become newly urgent.

 The Cambridge companion to British literature of the 1930s /edited by James Smith. This Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade’s literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade’s pressing social and political contexts.

 The Cambridge companion to Canadian literature /edited by Eva-Marie Kröller. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women and the emergence of urban writing. Areas of research that have expanded since the first edition include environmental concerns and questions of sexuality which are freshly explored across several different chapters.

 The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century thought /edited by Frans De Bruyn. The Cambridge Companion is designed to provide an overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on currents of thought in the English-speaking world as it was then constituted, encompassing Britain, Ireland, and Anglophone North America. The essays in this volume survey themes, intellectual movements, and major thinkers who contributed significantly to an expanding intellectual conversation.

 The Cambridge companion to environmental humanities /edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote. This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis – its antecedents, current forms, and future trajectories – as well as possible responses to it. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities, shows why that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topics, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considers the topic’s global implications, especially those that involve environmental justice issues.

 The Cambridge companion to human rights and literature /edited by Crystal Parikh. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researchers, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities.

 The Cambridge companion to Irish poets /edited by Gerald Dawe. The Cambridge offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of poets, including household names, such as Jonathan Swift, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. The book is comprised of thirty chapters written by critics, leading scholars and poets, who bring an authoritative and accessible understanding to their subjects. Each chapter gives an overview of a poet’s work and guides the general reader through the wider cultural, historical and comparative contexts. It is a book that will help and guide general readers through the many achievements of Irish poets.

 The Cambridge companion to J.M. Coetzee /edited by Jarad Zimbler. Provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee’s works. All of Coetzee’s published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed at length, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee’s undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power and intensity.

 The Cambridge companion to literature and disability /edited by Clare Barker, University of Leeds ; Stuart Murray, University of Leeds. This Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. With contributions from major figures in literary disability studies, The Cambridge Companion covers a wide range of impairments, including cognitive difference, neurobehavioral conditions, and mental and chronic illnesses. This book shows how disability demands innovation in literary form and aesthetics, challenges the notion of a human ‘norm’ in the writing of character, and redraws the ways in which writing makes meaning of the broad spectrum of humanity.

 The Cambridge companion to literature and food /edited by J. Michelle Coghlan. This Companion provides an  overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an illuminating introduction to cookbooks as literature. Bringing together sixteen original essays by leading scholars, the collection rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, critical race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children’s literature. Topics covered include mealtime decorum in Chaucer, Milton’s culinary metaphors, early American taste, Romantic gastronomy, Victorian eating, African-American women’s culinary writing, modernist food experiments, Julia Child and cold war cooking, industrialized food in children’s literature, agricultural horror and farmworker activism, queer cookbooks, hunger as protest and postcolonial legacy, and ‘dude food’ in contemporary food blogs.

 The Cambridge companion to literature and religion /edited by Susan M. Felch. Each essay in this Companion examines one or more literary texts and a religious tradition to illustrate how we can understand both literature and religion better by looking at them in tandem. The Cambridge Companion offers an accessible treatment of both Dharmic and Abrahamic traditions. It provides close readings of texts rather than surveys of large topics, making it an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of literature and religion.

 The Cambridge companion to literature and the Anthropocene /edited by John Parham. Offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms – from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as ‘cli-fi’, experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and ‘new’ nature writing. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literature might yet help us imagine a better world.

 The Cambridge companion to literature and the posthuman /edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen scholars from six different countries address the historical and aesthetic dimensions of posthuman figures alongside posthumanism as a new paradigm in the critical humanities. The three parts and their chapters trace the history of the posthuman in literature and other media, including film and video games; and identifies major political, philosophical, and techno-scientific issues raised in the literary and cinematic narratives of the posthuman and posthumanist discourses.

 The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood /edited by Coral Ann Howells. Exploring Atwood in our contemporary context, this edition discusses the relationship between her Canadian identity and her role as an international literary celebrity and spokesperson on global issues, ranging from environmentalism to women’s rights to digital technology. As well as providing novel insights into Atwood’s recent dystopias and classic texts, this edition highlights a significant dimension in the reception of Atwood’s work, with new material on the striking television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale.

 The Cambridge companion to medieval British manuscripts /edited by Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne. This Cambridge Companion orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600-1500. Accessible explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the major methodologies and explain why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage. Chapters by leading specialists in manuscript studies range from explaining how manuscripts were stored, to revealing the complex networks of readers and writers which can be understood through manuscripts, to an in depth discussion on the Wycliffe Bible.

 The Cambridge companion to Nineteen eighty-four /edited by Nathan Waddell.  This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel’s reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters.  Established concerns (e.g. Orwell’s attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell’s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

 The Cambridge companion to postcolonial poetry /edited by Jahan Ramazani. The Cambridge Companion is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. The comparative essays analyze poetry from across the postcolonial anglophone world in relation to postcolonialism and modernism, fixed and free forms, experimentation, oral performance and creole languages, protest poetry, the poetic mapping of urban and rural spaces, poetic embodiments of sexuality and gender, poetry and publishing history, and poetry’s response to, and reimagining of, globalization.

 The Cambridge companion to postcolonial travel writing  /edited by Robert Clarke, University of Tasmania. Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.

 The Cambridge companion to queer studies /edited by Siobhan B. Somerville, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies, a wide ranging and porous area of study that has been especially generative for the larger interdisciplinary field of queer studies over the last three decades.

 The Cambridge companion to Rabindranath Tagore /edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri. This volume brings together eminent Tagore scholars to create a comprehensive book that sits very well within the Cambridge Companions to Literature series. The volume editor, Emeritus Professor Chaudhuri, is a stalwart in Tagore studies and is renowned globally for his scholarship. This volume is a first of its kind attempt to initiate and continue a discussion of Tagore studies globally.

 The Cambridge companion to Sappho /edited by P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly. Provides an up-to-date survey of this remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years thanks to the discovery of new papyrus sources. Containing an introduction, prologue and thirty-three chapters, the book examines Sappho’s historical, social, and literary contexts, the nature of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss, and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece. All Greek is translated, making the volume accessible to everyone interested in one of the most significant creative artists of all time.

 The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and race /edited by Ayanna Thompson. The Cambridge Companion shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare’s plays, including the comedies and histories. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a nonspecialist, student audience.

 The Cambridge companion to ‘The Canterbury tales’ /edited by Frank Grady. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem’s diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters’ fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.

 The Cambridge companion to the graphic novel /edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick. The Cambridge Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form both in America and around the world. This Companion also explores the diverse subgenres often associated with it, such as journalism, fiction, historical fiction, autobiography, biography, science fiction and fantasy. Leading scholars offer insights into graphic novel adaptations of prose works and the adaptation of graphic novels to films; analyses of outstanding graphic novels, like Maus and The Walking Man; an overview which distinguishes the international graphic novel from its American counterpart; and analyses of how the form works and what it teaches, making this book a key resource for scholars, graduate students and undergraduate students alike.

 The Cambridge companion to the literature of Berlin /edited by Andrew J. Webber, University of Cambridge. This collection of essays by international specialists in the literature of Berlin provides a lively and stimulating account of writing in and about the city in the modern period. The first eight chapters chart key chronological developments from 1750 to the present day, while subsequent chapters focus on Berlin drama and poetry in the twentieth. Each chapter provides an informative overview along with closer readings of exemplary texts. The volume is designed to be accessible for readers seeking an introduction to the literature of Berlin, while also providing new perspectives for those already familiar with the topic..

 The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American Renaissance /edited by Christopher N. Phillips. This companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. This volume uses the best of current literary studies to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.

 The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades /edited by Anthony Bale. This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary Medievalism in which crusading is a potent image of holy war and jihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders’ imagery, from the chansons de geste to Walter Scott, from Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom.

 The Cambridge companion to the novel /edited by Eric Bulson.  This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre with a 2,000-year history.

The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar /edited by Luca Grillo, Christopher B. Krebs. With twenty-three chapters written by renowned scholars, this Companion provides an accessible introduction to Caesar as an intellectual along with a scholarly assessment of his multiple literary accomplishments and new insights into their literary value. The Commentarii and Caesar’s lost works are presented in their historical and literary context. The various chapters explore their main features, the connection between literature, state religion and politics, Caesar’s debt to previous Greek and Latin authors, and his legacy within and outside of Latin literature.

 The Cambridge companion to theatre and science /edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr. The Cambridge Companion gives readers a sense of this dynamic field, using detailed analyses of plays and performances covering a wide range of areas including climate change and the environment, technology, animal studies, disease and contagion, mental health, and performance and cognition. Identifying historical tendencies that have dominated theatre’s relationship with science, the volume traces many periods of theatre history across a wide geographical range

 The Cambridge companion to twenty-first century American fiction /edited by Joshua L. Miller. The Cambridge Companion offers state-of-the-field analyses of contemporary narrative studies that set the terms of current and future research and teaching. Individual chapters illuminate critical engagements with emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, speculative fiction, digital fiction, alternative temporalities, Afro-Futurism, ecocriticism, transgender/queer studies, anti-carceral fiction, precarity, and post-9/11 fiction.

 The Cambridge companion to twenty-first-century American poetry /Timothy Yu. This collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American poetry today. Essays on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Native American poetries respond to the centrality of issues of race and indigeneity in contemporary American discourse. Other essays explore poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, and queer poetics. The environment, capitalism, and war emerge as poetic preoccupations, alongside a range of styles from spoken word to the avant-garde, and an examination of poetry’s place in the creative writing era.

 The Cambridge companion to William Carlos Williams /edited by Christopher MacGowan, College of William & Mary. This Companion contains thirteen new essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works – including Paterson, In the American Grain, and the Stecher trilogy. Authors examine Williams’s relationships with figures such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and H.D. and Marianne Moore, and illustrate the importance of his legacy for Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Robert Lowell, and numerous contemporary poets. Featuring a chronology and an up-to-date bibliography of the writer.

 The kingship of Jesus in the Gospel of John /Kim Sehyun ; foreword by Peter G. Bolt. This book studies kingship with reference to the Johannine Jesus.

The new Cambridge companion to T.S. Eliot /edited by Jason Harding. Drawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Companion opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot’s poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were previously untreated, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his at times controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot’s life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography.

 The Routledge handbook of translation studies /edited by Carmen Millán and Francesca Bartrina. The Routledge Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including: the current status of the field and its interdisciplinary nature the problematic definition of the object of study the various theoretical frameworks the research methodologies available. The handbook also includes discussion of the most recent theoretical, descriptive and applied research, as well as glimpses of future directions within the field and an extensive up-to-date bibliography.

 The universe next door: a basic worldview catalog /James W. Sire ; foreword to the sixth edition by Jim Hoover. For more than forty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for an introduction to worldviews. This sixth edition uses James Sire’s widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions to examine prominent worldviews that have shaped the Western world, critiquing each worldview within its own frame of reference and in comparison to others.

 The York Nativity play: the traditional Christmas play /from the York cycle of Mystery plays performed from about 1300 to 1580 ; adapted by Tony Gray. This ‘new’ play is about 700 years old. It was first written down about 1340 A.D. when it was part of The York Cycle of Mystery plays. Thereafter it was performed every year for 300 years.

 There shall be no night /by Robert E. Sherwood.  The play is set in Finland between 1938 and 1940 and concerns a Finnish scientist and his American-born wife  both of whom are reluctant to believe that the Russians will invade their beloved Finland. But with the final advent of Finland’s Winter War with the Soviets, their son Erik joins the Finnish army, and the scientist joins its medical corps.

Three Spanish sacramental plays: For our sake, by Lope de Vega. The bandit queen, by Josef de Valdivielso. King Belshazzar’s feast, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Translated and with an introd. by R. G. Barnes.

New Titles Tuesday, December 7

 A subversive gospel: Flannery O’Connor and the reimagining of beauty, goodness, and truth  /Michael Mears Bruner. Exploring the theological aesthetic of American author Flannery O’Connor, Bruner argues that her fiction reveals what discipleship to Jesus Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness.

Analytical essays on music by women composers: secular & sacred music to 1900 /edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft. This collection of in-depth analytical essays celebrates music by female composers from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. The essays, written by leading music theorists and musicologists, examine select compositions in detail, collectively establishing a foundation for new scholarly research into outstanding compositions created by women.

 Art and faith: a theology of making /Makoto Fujimura ; foreword by N. T. Wright. This is Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of making. What he does in the studio, he asserts, is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how, unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives.

 Being you: a new science of consciousness /Anil Seth. Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness. Seth’s  radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness.

 Biblical and theological studies: a student’s guide /Michael J. Wilkins & Erik Thoennes. In this book, a New Testament scholar and a theologian team up to offer readers a robust introduction to biblical and theological studies. This readable guide outlines a distinctly evangelical approach to studying the Bible and theology, highlighting the proper methods for understanding and synthesizing the teachings of the Bible, leading to deeper knowledge of God, ourselves, and how we are to meaningfully apply his Word to our lives.

 Bringing leadership to life in health: LEADS in a caring environment : putting LEADS to work /Graham Dickson, Bill Tholl, editors. This book shows why better leadership helps meet the challenges facing health care. The focus is on the Canadian-developed LEADS in a Caring Environment framework: what it does, how it was developed and how LEADS can be a model to envision and plan change.

 Chart a new course: a guide to teaching essential skills for tomorrow’s world /Rachelle Dene Poth. In researching the top skills students need to succeed in the future, author Rachelle Dene Poth identified the following: ability to communicate, work in teams, think creatively, problem-solve and design. This book shows educators how to help students develop these essential skills through authentic, real-world learning experiences, building a pathway for the future of learning and work.

 Closing the gap: digital equity strategies for teacher prep programs /Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, Regina Schaffer. This book discusses the historical placement of digital equity content in teacher education programs; research- and evidence-based vignettes from teacher educators, higher education deans, and department coordinators demonstrating best practices; examples of ISTE Standards in action; practical tips for preparing future teachers to navigate the process; positive applications of digital equity; and a hypothesis for the future direction of digital equity in teacher education.

 Come back to the 5 & dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: a comedy-drama /by Ed Graczyk.In a small town dime store in West Texas, the “Disciples of James Dean” gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived with Dean during the shoot. The ladies’ congenial reminiscences mingle with flash backs to their youth; then the arrival of a stunning but familiar stranger.

Compact, contract, covenant: Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada /J.R. Miller. Renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller’s explores and explains more than four centuries of treaty-making.

 Dark of the moon /by Howard Richardson and William Berney. Set in the Appalachian Mountains and written in an Appalachian dialect, the play centers on the character of John, a witch boy who seeks to become human after falling in love with a human girl, Barbara Allen.

Dearly: new poems /Margaret Atwood. In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and – zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.

 Encyclopedia of video games: the culture, technology, and art of gaming /Mark J.P. Wolf, editor. This three-volume encyclopedia covers all things video games, including the games themselves, the companies that make them, and the people who play them. Written by scholars who are exceptionally knowledgeable in the field of video game studies, it notes genres, institutions, important concepts, theoretical concerns, and more and is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of video games of its kind, covering video games throughout all periods of their existence and geographically around the world. This set is a vital resource for scholars and video game aficionados alike.–Provided by publisher.

 Erasmus of Rotterdam: the spirit of a scholar /William Barker. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.

 Flawed precedent: the St. Catherine’s case and Aboriginal title /Kent McNeil. Preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil provides a compelling account of a contentious case. He begins by delving into the historical and ideological context of the 1880s. He then examines the trial in detail, demonstrating how prejudicial attitudes towards Indigenous peoples influenced the decision. He further discusses the effects that St. Catherine’s had on law and policy until the 1970s when its authority was finally questioned in Calder, then in Delgamuukw, Marshall/Bernard, Tsilhqot’in, and in other key rulings. He also provides an informative analysis of the current judicial understanding of Aboriginal title in Canada, now driven by evidence of Indigenous law and land use rather than the discarded prejudicial assumptions of a bygone era.

 God in the modern wing: viewing art with eyes of faith /edited by Cameron J. Anderson, G. Walter Hansen.? This volume gathers the reflections of artists, art historians, and theologians who collectively offer a narrative of the history of modern art and its place in the Christian life. Readers will find insights on the work and faith of artists like Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and more.

 Greek genres and Jewish authors: negotiating literary culture in the Greco-Roman era /Sean A. Adams. Examines how Second Temple Jewish writings appropriated and adapted Hellenistic generic conventions.

In defence of the human being: foundational questions of an embodied anthropology /Thomas Fuchs. This book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to current scientific, technological and cultural developments.

 Inventing Eleanor: the medieval and post-medieval image of Eleanor of Aquitaine /Michael R. Evans. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have been embellished–and even obscured–by myths that have grown up over eight centuries. This process began in her own lifetime, as chroniclers reported rumours of her scandalous conduct on crusade, and has continued ever since. She has been variously viewed as an adulterous queen, a monstrous mother and a jealous murderess, but also as a patron of literature, champion of courtly love and proto-femin.

 Jamaica ladies: female slaveholders and the creation of Britain’s Atlantic empire /Christine Walker. Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. As slavery’s beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception.

 Making math meaningful to Canadian students, K-8 /Marian Small, University of New Brunswick. Making Math Meaningful supports mathematics teaching by providing insight into how to make mathematics make sense to students and how to capture their interest.

Management and leadership skills for medical faculty and healthcare executives: a practical handbook /Anthony J. Viera, Rob Kramer, editors. This handy, practical title offers a comprehensive roadmap and range of solutions to common challenges in the complex and changing Academic Medical Center (AMC) and health care organization. With critical insights and strategies for both aspiring and seasoned academicians and health executives, Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty and Healthcare Executives: A Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition is a must-have resource for faculty in AMCs and for anyone with a role in healthcare leadership.

 Modern and ancient literary criticism of the gospels: continuing the debate on gospel genre(s) /edited by Robert Matthew Calhoun, David P. Moessner, and Tobias Nicklas. TWU AUTHOR. In this volume, the ongoing debate regarding the genre of the Gospels is given new impetus through contributions from diverse methodological perspectives, which disclose new stirrings and sightings of broader, more heuristically promising literary, rhetorical, and cultural registers which intersect in ancient narrative. Includes Intertextual Transformations of Jesus: John as Mnemomyth by Professor Tom Hatina

 Noise: a flaw in human judgment /Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein. Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of noise–variables that can cause bias in decision making–and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.

 Outside the Bible: ancient Jewish writings related to Scripture /edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman. Outside the Bible seeks, gathers portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the biblical apocrypha, and pseudepigrapha, and the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Josephus. The editors have brought together these diverse works in order to highlight their common Jewish background. The commentaries that accompany the texts devote special attention to their references to Hebrew Scripture and to issues of halakhah (Jewish law), their allusions to motifs and themes known from later Rabbinic writings in Talmud and Midrash, their evocation of recent or distant events in Jewish history, and their references to other texts in this collection. Outside the Bible offers new insights into the development of Judaism and early Christianity.

 Paradox and contradiction in the biblical traditions: the two ways of the world /Brayton Polka. The principal thesis that the author advances in this book is that paradox and contradiction constitute the two ways of the world. The author distinguishes the paradoxical way of the world from the contradictory way of the world through the examination of principal texts of four of the most significant early modern, European thinkers from the later sixteenth century to the earlier eighteenth century: Montaigne, Descartes, Spinoza, and Vico. He shows that each of these authors, in distinctive yet fundamentally interrelated fashion, provides us with profound insight into how absolutely different the paradoxical way of the world as biblical is from the contradictory way of the world as found, primarily and specifically, in Greek and Roman antiquity.

 Perspectives on arts education research in Canada. Volume 1, Surveying the landscape /edited by Bernard W. Andrews. This peer-reviewed book, the first of two volumes, captures some of the exciting developments in Canada. Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape provides a wide spectrum of current research Contributors  including Kathryn Ricketts, Pauline Sameshima, and Sean Wiebe.

 Phonological word and grammatical word: a cross linguistic typology /edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon and Nathan M. White. (TWU AUTHOR) This volume examines the concept of ‘word’ as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.

 Plagiarism in higher education: tackling tough topics in academic integrity /Sarah Elaine Eaton. This candid treatment of plagiarism in higher education identifies causes of academic dishonesty and offers practical solutions.

Pornography and public health /Emily F. Rothman. Throughout history repressive forces have inflated the charges against sexually explicit material in order to advance a morality-based agenda. Nevertheless, a public health approach and tried public health practices, such as harm reduction and coalition-building, will be instrumental to addressing the emergence mainstream, internet pornography.

 Religion and the American Revolution: an imperial history /Katherine Carté. Carté argues that British imperial Protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.

 Resurgence and reconciliation: indigenous-settler relations and earth teachings /edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully. Resurgence and Reconciliation is a multi-disciplinary, critical, and constructive analysis of the two major schools of thought in Indigenous-Settler relationships today: the reformist narrative of reconciliation and the more revolutionary resurgence school.

 Roots of entanglement: essays in the history of native-newcomer relations /edited by Myra Rutherdale, Kerry Abel, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada.

Talking back to the Indian Act: critical readings in settler colonial histories /Mary-Ellen Kelm and Keith D. Smith. Through an analysis of thirty-five sources pertaining to the Indian Act-addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land-the authors provide readers with a much better understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics involved in its creation and maintenance.

 The American pilot /David Greig. A spy plane crash-lands in a remote valley in a distant country. The local villagers take in the wounded pilot and argue his fate. The American Pilot explores the way the world sees America and the way America sees the world.

 The immersive classroom: create customized learning experiences with AR/VR /Jaime Donally. This book helps educators discover the possibilities of immersive technology to deepen student engagement; activate learning through hunts, breakouts and labs; and explore global collaboration.

 The mad scientist’s guide to composition*: (a somewhat cheeky but exceedingly useful introduction to academic writing) : *now with 100% more monsters! /Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Considering the composition classroom as a ‘mad scientist’s laboratory,’ this guide introduces different kinds of writing as ‘experiments.’ This loose theme lends coherence to the approach to composition, while encouraging students to have fun with writing. The Guide covers the kinds of writing most often required on college campuses, while also addressing important steps and activities frequently overlooked in composition guides, such as revision and peer reviewing. Actual examples of student writing are included throughout, as are helpful reminders and tips to help students polish their skills. First and foremost, the Mad Scientist’s Guide seeks to make writing fun.

 The Precariat: the new dangerous class /Guy Standing. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly…these are The Precariat.  Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists.  By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.

 The Routledge handbook of translation studies and linguistics /edited by Kirsten Malmkjær. This Routledge Handbook  explores the interrelationships between translation studies and linguistics in six sections of state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading specialists from around the world.  With an introduction by the editor and an extensive bibliography, this handbook is an indispensable resource for advanced students of translation studies, interpreting studies and applied linguistics.

 Thriving as an online K-12 educator: essential practices from the field /edited by Jody Peerless Green. Thriving as an Online K-12 Educator is the perfect all-in-one guide to taking your K-12 class online. This concise, accessible book collects time-tested strategies and fresh perspectives from experienced educators to help you smooth out even the most abrupt shift to technology-enhanced teaching and learning.

 We all go back to the land: the who, why, and how of land acknowledgements /Suzanne Keeptwo. Métis artist and educator Suzanne Keeptwo sees the Land Acknowledgement as an opportunity for Indigenous people in Canada to communicate their worldview to non-Indigenous Canadians–a worldview founded upon Age Old Wisdom about how to sustain the land we all want to call home. For Keeptwo, the Land Acknowledgement is a way to teach and a way to learn: a living, evolving record of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit people in Canada and the land that for millennia they. This is an indispensable guide to getting the contemporary Land Acknowledgement right.

 Welcome family and friends to our bighouse and our Kwakwa̲ka̲’wakw potlatch /written by Nella Nelson ; illustrated by Karin Clark. This contemporary story is told through the voice of a 12-year-old Kwakwaka’wakw girl named Gana, who lives in ‘Yalis (Alert Bay, BC). From the time she is little, Gana attends Potlatches and ceremonies in the Bighouse. The regalia she wears–a button blanket, dancing apron and masks–were designed and made for her based on her family origins or clans. The ancient cultural teachings she learns in the Bighouse are useful to Gana in her everyday life and continue to have value in the 21st century.

 Wired youth: the online social world of adolescence /Ilan Talmud and Gustavo Mesch. This book presents an up-to-date review of the literature on youth sociability, relationship formation, and online communication, examining the way young people use the internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. The core of the book investigates the motivations for online relationship formation and the use of online communication for relationship maintenance. The final part of the book focuses on the consequences, both positive and negative, of the use of online communication, such as increased social capital and online bullying.

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