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New Titles Tuesday, April 24

April 24, 2018 /

Here is a selection of the 86 items added to the catalogue in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU log in may be required.

EDUCATION

Culturally responsive teaching and reflection in higher education: promising practices from the Cultural Literacy Curriculum Institute /by Sharlene Voogd Cochrane, Meenakshi Chhabra, Marjorie A. Jones, and Deborah Spragg.

Planning instruction for adult learners /Patricia Cranton. 

 HEALTH SCIENCES

Complexity leadership: nursing’s role in health care delivery /Diana M. Crowell.

 Spirituality in nursing practice: the basics and beyond /Doreen A. Westera. Written as a practical resource to teach nurses and nursing students, this text explores how to best address spiritual assessment and care. Using a multicultural and client-centered approach, chapters explore the concept of spirituality and its relationship with religion and health to directly place it into a nursing context. Reflection questions throughout the text encourage readers to analyze their own experiences with spirituality within both professional and personal contexts and affirm how a nurse’s own spirituality can influence her or his practice. Thirteen videos, developed by the author and available online, provide the perspectives of nursing and health care professionals, clients, and families to illustrate the main points of the text.

 HISTORY

Art and myth of the ancient Maya /Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos. This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations, identifying key mythical subjects and uncovering their variations in narratives and visual depictions. Highlighting such previously overlooked topics as sexuality and generational struggles, this beautifully illustrated book paves the way for a new understanding of Maya myths and their lavish expression in ancient art.

 An illustrated history of Canada’s Native people: I have lived here since the world began /Arthur J. Ray.  Ray charts the history of Canada’s Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today.

  Postwar Germany and the Holocaust /Caroline Sharples.

 The voyage of the Komagata Maru: the Sikh challenge to Canada’s colour bar /Hugh Johnston.

LITERATURE

 Shakespeare’s creative legacies: artists, writers, performers, readers /edited by Paul Edmondson and Peter Holbrook.

PHILOSOPHY

 Thick evaluation /Simon Kirchin. Philosophers place evaluative concepts into two camps. Thin concepts, such as goodness and badness, and rightness and wrongness have evaluative content, but they supposedly have no or hardly any nonevaluative, descriptive content: they supposedly give little or no specific idea about the character of the person or thing described. In contrast, thick concepts such as kindness, elegance and wisdom supposedly give a more specific idea of people or things. Yet, given typical linguistic conventions, thick concepts also convey evaluation.In this full-length study, Kirchin discusses thin and thick concepts, highlighting key assumptions, questions and arguments, many of which have gone unnoticed. Kirchin focuses in on the debate between ‘separationists’ (those who think that thick concepts can be separated into component parts of evaluative, often very ‘thin’, content and nonevaluative content) and ‘nonseparationists’ (who deny this). Thick Evaluation argues for a version of nonseparationism, and in doing so argues both that many concepts are evaluative and also that evaluation is not exhausted by thin positive and negative stances.

 POLITICAL STUDIES

Brexit and beyond: rethinking the futures of Europe /edited by Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future of Europe and the European Union, adopting an explicitly regional and future-oriented perspective missing from many existing analyses. Drawing on the expertise of 28 leading scholars from a range of disciplines, Brexit and Beyond offers various different perspectives on the future of Europe, charting the likely effects of Brexit across a range of areas, including institutional relations, political economy, law and justice, foreign affairs, democratic governance, and the idea of Europe itself. Whilst the contributors offer divergent predictions for the future of Europe after Brexit, they share the same conviction that careful scholarly analysis is in need – now more than ever – if we are to understand what lies ahead for the EU.

The house of difference: cultural politics and national identity in Canada /Eva Mackey.

 PSYCHOLOGY

A history of psychology: from antiquity to modernity /Thomas Hardy Leahey.

 Internet psychology: the basics /Yair Amichai-Hamburger.

 Psychology of women: a handbook of issues and theories /Florence L. Denmark and Michele A. Paludi, editors. Updated with findings from the latest research, this contributed work on the psychology of women covers global initiatives, theories, and practical applications in various settings. It also addresses best practices of feminist methodologies and teaching psychology of women courses.

 The seven deadly sins of psychology: a manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice /Chris Chambers. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology diagnoses the ills besetting the discipline today and proposes sensible, practical solutions to ensure that it remains a legitimate and reliable science in the years ahead.In this unflinchingly candid manifesto, Chambers draws on his own experiences as a working scientist to reveal a dark side to psychology that few of us ever see. Using the seven deadly sins as a metaphor, he shows how practitioners are vulnerable to powerful biases that undercut the scientific method, how they routinely torture data until it produces outcomes that can be published in prestigious journals, and how studies are much less reliable than advertised. He reveals how a culture of secrecy denies the public and other researchers access to the results of psychology experiments, how fraudulent academics can operate with impunity, and how an obsession with bean counting creates perverse incentives for academics. Left unchecked, these problems threaten the very future of psychology as a science—but help is here.Outlining a core set of best practices that can be applied across the sciences, Chambers demonstrates how all these sins can be corrected by embracing open science, an emerging philosophy that seeks to make research and its outcomes as transparent as possible.

 RELIGIOUS STUDIES

After Evangelicalism: the sixties and the United Church of Canada /Kevin N. Flatt.

 Amor Dei in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /David C. Bellusci. (TWU AUTHOR) Amor Dei, love of God raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God’s love. The work begins with Augustine’s Confessions highlighting his Manichean and Neoplatonic periods before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine’s confrontation with Pelagius anticipates the unresolved disputes concerning God’s love and free will.

Becoming adult, becoming Christian: adult development and Christian faith /James W. Fowler.

 Between heaven and earth: Christian perspectives on environmental protection /Fred Van Dyke.

 Faith, politics, and sexual diversity in Canada and the United States /edited by David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox. In this remarkable comparative study, expert authors explore the tenacity of anti-gay sentiment, as well as the dramatic shifts in public attitudes towards queer groups across all faith communities in both the United States and Canada. They conclude that, despite the ongoing conflict, religious adherence does not invariably entail opposition to the political acknowledgment of queer rights.

 The first urban churches 3: Ephesus /edited by James R. Harrison and L.L. Welborn.

 Ha-Ish Moshe: studies in scriptural interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related literature in honor of Moshe J. Bernstein /edited by Binyamin Goldstein, Michael Segal, George J. Brooke. The eighteen studies in this volume mostly engage with Jewish scriptural interpretation, the principal theme of Bernstein’s own research career. The essays develop a variety of aspects of scriptural interpretation. Although many of them are chiefly concerned with the Dead Sea Scrolls, the significant contribution of the volume as a whole is the way that even those studies are associated with others that consider the broader context of Jewish scriptural interpretation in late antiquity. As a result, a wider frame of reference for scriptural interpretation impacts upon how scripture was read and re-read in the scrolls from Qumran.

 Prophetic identities: indigenous missionaries on British colonial frontiers, 1850-75 /Tolly Bradford.

 Turning Proverbs towards Torah: an analysis of 4Q525 /Elisa Uusimäki. In Turning Proverbs towards Torah, Uusimäki offers the first monograph on the early Jewish wisdom text 4Q525 from Qumran. Following the reconstruction of the fragmentary manuscript, Uusimäki analyses the text with a focus on the reception and renewal of the Proverbs tradition and the ways in which 4Q525 illustrates aspects of Jewish pedagogy in the late Second Temple period. She argues that the author was inspired by Proverbs 1-9 but sought to demonstrate that true wisdom is found in the concept of torah. The author’s intention, Uusimäki argues, is to form the audience spiritually, encouraging it to trust in divine protection and blessings that are bestowed upon the pious.

SCIENCES

 Oxford dictionary of astronomy

TECHNOLOGY & SOCIAL ISSUES

The digital mind: how science is redefining humanity /Arlindo Oliveira. How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds — intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.

 Finding the fountain of youth: the science and controversy behind extending life and cheating death /Aharon W. Zorea.This book addresses the history of movements to remain youthful, from ancient times through the modern era; past medical advances that extended the average lifespan; and our cultural obsession with staying young. It covers basic principles of aging and anti-aging, as well as the science behind the methods, and examines controversial issues and debates related to life extension, such as global overpopulation, length of life vs. quality of life, and socioeconomic concerns.

 Pax technica: how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up /Philip N. Howard. Howard envisions a new world order emerging from thE great transformation in the technologies around us. Howard calls this new era a Pax Technica. He looks to a future of global stability built upon device networks with immense potential for empowering citizens, making government transparent, and broadening information access. He cautions, however, that privacy threats are enormous, as is the potential for social control and political manipulation. Drawing on evidence from around the world, he illustrates how the internet of things can be used to repress and control people. Yet he also demonstrates that if we actively engage with the governments and businesses building the internet of things, we have a chance to build a new kind of internet–and a more open society.

 Posthumanism: a guide for the perplexed /by Peter Mahon. Mahon gives his readers an overview of posthumanism, examining the intoxicating-and often troubling-entanglements of humans, animals and technology in science, society and culture that constitute its field. Mahon not only explores the key scientific advances in information technology and genetics have made us and society posthuman, but also how certain strands in art (such as science fiction and video games) and philosophy (for example, in the work of Andy Clarke and Jacques Derrida) have played-and continue to play-a crucial role in shaping how we understand those advances. Central to Mahon’s analysis of posthumanism is an understanding of technology as a pharmakon-an ancient Greek word for a substance that is both a poison and a cure. In the light of this analysis, Mahon considers our posthuman future, as envisioned by a range of futurists, from Ray Kurzweil to those at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

 Social media: a reference handbook /[edited by] Kelli S. Burns. This book provides a broad and easily understandable discussion of the evolution of social media; related problems and controversies, especially for youth; key people and organizations; and useful social media data.

 Social media and your brain: web-based communication is changing how we think and express ourselves /C.G. Prado, PhD, FRSC, editor.

 The social turn in moral psychology /Mark Fedyk. Fedyk offers a novel analysis of the relationship between moral psychology and allied fields in the social sciences. He shows how the social sciences can be integrated with moral philosophy, argues for the benefits of such an integration, and offers a new ethical theory that can be used to bridge research between the two.

 We are data: algorithms and the making of our digital selves /John Cheney-Lippold. What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it .Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who want to wrest back some freedom in our increasingly surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world.

 Who do we choose to be?: facing reality, claiming leadership, restoring sanity /Margaret J. Wheatley. Written from the author’s desire to summon us to be leaders for this time as things fall apart, this book explains the need to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil.

New Titles Tuesday, April 13

April 10, 2018 /

Here is a selection of the 14 items added to the catalogue in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required

Colonial caring: a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins. Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity.

Feminism and the politics of childhood: friends or foes? /edited by Rachel Rosen & Katherine Twamley. Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps, care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education. Together the contributions offer new ways to conceptualise relations between women and children, and to address injustices faced by both groups.

Lectures in America /Gertrude Stein. Introduces the American reader to the whole field of modern European art – ranging widely throughout painting, literature, and music.

Maria Petyt: a Carmelite mystic in wartime /edited by Joseph Chalmers, Elisabeth Hense, Veronie Meeuwsen, Esther van de Vate. Based on the discovery of a previously unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt – A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt  who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine. The book contains a transcription of the manuscript, an English translation of it, and several articles opening up new horizons concerning the life and spirituality of Maria Petyt and her historical and religious backgrounds. The authors characterize Maria Petyt as a self-confident spiritual daughter with a strong political mission, a zealous figure fighting side by side with Louis XIV for the catholic victory during the Dutch War, and as one who lived and profoundly understood the spirituality of Teresa of Avila.

Nepal and the gospel of God [electronic resource] /by Jonathan Lindell for the United Mission to Nepal. The rate of church growth in Nepal is one of the fastest in the world. This growth is not primarily due to the presence of foreign missionary agencies that have been present in the country since the 1950s. Rather it has been through the evangelistic efforts of the Nepali people themselves, reaching out despite the risk of imprisonment for proselytising. This book tells the story of the church in Nepal up to 1979.

The Oxford handbook of political theory /edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips. his Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recentpast, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory’s edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.

Resistance and renewal: surviving the Indian residential school /Celia Haig-Brown. Presents Native perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School and a general overview of the evolution of Native education.

Revolutionizing a world: from small states to universalism in the pre-Islamic Near East /Mark Altaweel and Andrea Squitieri. This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries.

 

New Titles Tuesday, April 3

April 3, 2018 /

Here is a selection of the thirteen items added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

#IDLENOMORE and the remaking of Canada /Ken Coates. In #IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada, author Ken Coates reflects on how the movement’s legacy lives on through a new generation of empowered First Nations youth.

Ethics and biblical narrative: a literary and discourse-analytical approach to the story of Josiah /S. Min Chun. (TWU AUTHOR) This book proposes a methodological framework for an ethical reading of Old Testament narrative and demonstrates its benefits and validity by providing an exemplary reading of the story of Josiah in Kings. Through the ethical commentary of the story of Josiah, the theme of contingency in life can be noticed to prevail in the story.

Head-hunters about themselves: an ethnographic report from Irian Jaya, Indonesia /J.H.M.C. Boelaars. “Every book has its own personal story and my book on the Jaqaj people is no exception. I collected my initial data at the time when the Dutch government was responsible for what is now lrian Jaya, a province of Indonesia.”

Introduction to algorithms /Thomas H. Cormen [and others]. This edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes some new chapters. It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms as well as a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks.

Moral distress in the health professions /Connie M. Ulrich, Christine Grady, editors. This is the first book on the market or within academia dedicated solely to moral distress among health professionals. It aims to bring conceptual clarity about moral distress and distinguish it from related concepts. Explicit attention is given to the voices and experiences of health care professionals from multiple disciplines and many parts of the world.  Contributors explain the evolution of the concept of moral distress, sources of moral distress including those that arise at the unit/team and organization/system level, and possible solutions to address moral distress at every level. A liberal use of case studies will make the phenomenon palpable to readers.

Semantics, pragmatics and meaning revisited: the case of conditionals /Magdalena Sztencel. This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly inferential account of meaning – one which foregrounds a reasoning subject’s individual state of mind. The topics discussed in the book include conceptual content, internalism and externalism, the semantics-pragmatics distinction, meaning holism and explicit versus implicit communication.

Veiled intent: dissenting women’s aesthetic approach to biblical interpretation /Natasha Duquette ; foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Veiled Intent traces the pattern of tactical moves and counter-moves deployed by Anna Barbauld, Phillis Wheatley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, and Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. These female poets and philosophers veiled provocative hermeneutical claims and calls for social action within aesthetic forms of discourse viewed as more acceptably feminine forms of expression. In between the lines of their published hymns, sonnets, devotional texts for children, and works of aesthetic theory, the perceptive reader finds striking theological insights shared from a particularly female perspective. These women were not only courageously interjecting their individual viewpoints into a predominantly male domain of formal study-biblical hermeneutics-but also intentionally supporting each other in doing so. Their publications reveal they were drawn to biblical imagery of embodiment and birth, to stories of the apparently weak vanquishing the tyrannical on behalf of the oppressed, and to the metaphor of Christ as strengthening rock.

 

New Titles Tuesday, March 27

March 27, 2018 /

Here are the 12 items added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

The centenary volume of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, 1799-1899 [electronic resource] The centenary volume of the Church Missionary Society covers the years 1799-1899. It lists the many services of commemoration, both in the UK and overseas.

Dutch Atlantic connections, 1680-1800: linking empires, bridging borders /edited by Gert Oostindie, Jessica V. Roitman. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.

Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java: colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800-1942 /by Alexander Claver. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, and the relationships between the participants involved.

Handbook of research on competency-based education in university settings /Karen Rasmussen, Pamela Northrup, and Robin Colson, editors. This book is a pivotal reference source for the latest academic research on the use of competency-based testing in higher education institutions, focusing on innovative practices, strategies, and real-world scenarios.

Julian of Norwich’s legacy: medieval mysticism and post-medieval reception /edited by Sarah Salih and Denise N. Baker. This detailed study is the first to outline Julian of Norwich’s reception throughout history, from the extant manuscripts to the present day.

Large-scale land acquisitions: focus on South-East Asia /edited by Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Peter Messerli. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs’ negative consequences.

Lucifer’s legacy: the meaning of asymmetry /Frank Close. This thought-provoking work by a physicist and popular science writer explores the origins of asymmetry from the molecular level to that of the universe at large. Close takes the readers on a tour of asymmetry that ranges from the development of human embryos to the mysterious Higgs boson, or God particle, and ongoing research at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory.

Performances of peace: Utrecht 1713 /edited by Renger E. de Bruin, Cornelis van der Haven, Lotte Jensen and David Onnekink. Performances of Peace aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. By studying the political as well as the cultural aspects of this peace (and its concomitant paradoxes) from a broader perspective, this volume aims to shed new light on the relation between diplomacy and performative culture in the public sphere.

 Philo of Alexandria: an annotated bibliography 1997-2006 with addenda for 1987-1996 /by David T. Runia ; in collaboration with the International Philo Bibliography Project. This volume is a further continuation of the annotated bibliographies on the writings and thought of the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria prepared by Roberto Radice and David Runia for the years 1937–1986 published in 1988 and by David Runia for the years 1987–1996 published in 2000. Prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, it contains a complete listing of all scholarly writings on Philo for the period 1997 to 2006.

Reliability and availability of cloud computing /Eric Bauer, Randee Adams. The book is intended for IS/IT system and solution architects, developers and engineers, as well as technical sales, product management, and quality management professionals.

A thousand hills: Rwanda’s rebirth and the man who dreamed it /Stephen Kinzer. A Thousand Hillst is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.

Time distortions in mind: temporal processing in clinical populations /edited by A. Vatakis , M.J. Allman. Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on aspects of temporal processing in clinical populations, in the ultimate hope of elucidating the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. This collection of current knowledge on temporal processing in clinical populations is an excellent reference for the student and scientist interested in the topic, but it also serves as the stepping-stone to share ideas and push forward the advancement in understanding how distorted timing can lead to a disturbed brain and mind or vice versa.

 

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