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New Titles Tuesday, February 13

February 13, 2018 / scbrouwer

Here is a selection of the 15 new books added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU

ECONOMICS

The Oxford handbook of Christianity and economics /edited by Paul Oslington. This book, edited by a leader in the new interdisciplinary field of economics and religion and with contributions by experts on different aspects of therelationship between economics and Christianity, maps the current state of scholarship and points to new directions for the field. It covers the history of the relationship between economics and Christianity, economic thinking in the main Christian traditions, and the role of religion in economic development, as well as new work on the economics of religious behavior and religious markets and topics of debate between economists and theologians.It is essential reading for economists concerned with the foundations of their discipline, historians, moral philosophers, theologians seeking to engage with economics, and public policy researchers and practitioners.

HISTORY

The power of prophecy: Prince Dipanagara and the end of an old order in Java, 1785-1855 /Peter Carey. National hero, Javanese mystic, pious Muslim and leader of the ‘holy war’ against the Dutch between 1825 and 1830, the Yogyakarta prince, Dipanagara (1785-1855, otherwise known as Diponegoro), is pre-eminent in the pantheon of modern Indonesian historical figures. The Power of Prophecy is a major study which sets Dipanagara’s life history against the context of the turbulent events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century when the full force of European imperialism hit Indonesia propelling the twin forces of Islam and Javanese national identity into a fatal confrontation with the Dutch. The book presents a detailed analysis of Dipanagara’s pre-war visions and aspirations as a Javanese Ratu Adil (‘Just King’) based on extensive reading of his autobiography, the Babad Dipanagara as well as a number of other Javanese sources. Dutch and British records, in particularly the Residency Archives of Yogyakarta and Surakarta currently kept in the Indonesian National Archives, provide the backbone of this scholarly work. The book will be read with profit by all those interested in the rise of Western colonial rule in Indonesia, the fate of indigenous cultures in an age of imperialism and the role of Javanese Islam in modern Indonesian history. Peter Carey is one of Britain’s foremost historians of Southeast Asia.

LINGUISTICS

A grammar of the Bedouin dialects of central and southern Sinai /by Rudolf E. de Jong. de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the present volume. Quoting from his own extensive material and using a total of 95 criteria for comparison, De Jong applies the method of ‘multi-dimensional scaling’ and his own ‘step-method’ to arrive at a subdivision into eight (of which seven are ‘Bedouin’) typological groups in Sinai. An appendix with 68 maps and dialectrometrical plots completes the picture.

LITERATURE

From oral to written: a celebration of Indigenous literature in Canada, 1980-2010 /Tomson Highway. Highway’s From Oral to Written is a catalogue of amazing books that sparked the embers of a dormant voice. From Oral to Written is the story of the Native literary tradition, written – in multiple Aboriginal languages, in French, and in English – by a brave, committed, hard-working, and inspired community of exceptional individuals – from the Haida Nation to the Mi’kmaq of Cape Breton. A leading Aboriginal author, Highway surveys the first wave of Native writers published in Canada, highlighting the most gifted authors and the best stories they have told, offering non-Native readers access to reconciliation and understanding, and at the same time engendering among Native readers pride in a stellar body of work.

PHILOSOPHY

The Cambridge companion to Wittgenstein /edited by Hans Sluga, David G. Stern. In this volume, leading experts chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stages. The essays, which are both expository and original, address central themes in Wittgenstein’s writing on a wide range of topics, particularly his thinking about the mind, language, logic, and mathematics. The contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by focusing on key topics. This revised edition includes a new introduction, five new essays – on Tractarian ethics, Wittgenstein’s development, aspects, the mind, and time and history – and a fully updated comprehensive bibliography.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Origen’s Hexapla and fragments: papers presented at the Rich Seminar on the Hexapla, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, [July] 25th-3rd August 1994 /edited by Alison Salvesen.

Explorations in the anthropology of religion: essays in honour of Jan van Baal /edited by W. E. A. van Beek and J. H. Scherer. In order to arrange the papers around a theme that has never ceased to fascinate van Baal, we have asked the contributors to concentrate on a religious subject. The topics of the three sections by no means represent an exhaustive inventory of all fields van Baal has successfully explored.

Ibn Taymiyya’s theodicy of perpetual optimism /by Jon Hoover. This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya’s (d. 1328) theodicy of perpetual optimism exposits and analyses his writings on God’s justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the modern world /edited by Geoffrey Nash. This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qur’an, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

White like me: reflections on race from a privileged son /Tim Wise. With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is part memoir, part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits, in relative terms, those who are ‘white like him.’ He discusses how racial privilege can harm whites in the long run and make progressive social change less likely. He explores the ways in which whites can challenge their unjust privileges, and explains in clear and convincing language why it is in the best interest of whites themselves to do so. Using anecdotes instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly, analytical and yet accessible.

Your heart is the size of your fist: a doctor reflects on ten years at a refugee clinic /Martina Scholtens, MD. Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees. By turns humorous, distressing, and moving, these stories offer insight into the people seeking a new life in Canada while navigating poverty, language barriers, and Canadian neighbours who aren’t always friendly. This collection is filled with hope and humour, and is a deeply moving portrait of how one doctor attempts to provide quality care and advocacy for patients while remaining culturally sensitive, even as she wrestles with guilt, awareness of her own privilege, and vicarious trauma. Scholtens’ writing explores the transformative moments in which a clinical doctor-patient relationship becomes a profound human-human connection.

New Titles Tuesday, February 6

February 6, 2018 / scbrouwer

Here is a sample of the 31 eBooks added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required

HISTORY

Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and after /edited by Benjamin C. Fortna. This volume explores the ways childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when rapid change placed unprecedented demands on the young.

East and West in the Roman Empire in the fourth century: an end to unity? /edited by Roald Dijkstra, Sanne van Poppel, Daniëlle Slootjes. East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. Despite developments to the contrary, it appears that the Roman Empire remained (to be viewed as) a unity in all strata of society.

Expectations unfulfilled: Norwegian migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940 /Steinar A. Sæther. Scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.

The hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire edited by Umar Ryad. The volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. Viewing this age of empires through the lens of the Hajj puts it into a different perspective, by focusing on how increasing European dominance of the globe in pre-colonial and colonial times was entangled with Muslim religious action, mobility, and agency. The study of Europe’s connections with the Hajj therefore tests the hypothesis that the concept of agency is not limited to isolated parts of the globe. By adopting the “tools of empires,” the Hajj, in itself a global activity, would become part of global and trans-cultural history.

The story of the Canadian people /by David M. Duncan. The aim of this book is to tell the story of our country simply, yet without sacrificing historical content to simplicity. The Story is one of colonisation. It tells of failure and success ; of French failure through the folly of absolutism, monopoly, and feudalism ; of British success through the wisdom of self-government, freedom, and equality. Canada’s past is richly stored with those picturesque incidents which make history fascinating as well as instructive.

POLITICAL STUDIES

Politicizing digital space: theory, the Internet, and renewing democracy /Trevor Garrison Smith. The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of truly democratic politics.

The springs of democracy: national and transnational debates on constitutional reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish parliaments, 1917-1919 /Pasi Ihalainen. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

The gospel of Barnabas /edited and translated from the Italian ms. in the Imperial library at Vienna by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg. Towards the beginning of the eighteenth century the Gospel of Barnabas aroused considerable interest among the learned in England, to whom two different copies of the document were known and, to a certain extent, accessible. Spanish. One of, these was the Italian text, which we now publish for the first time in the ensuing pages.

The Latin New Testament: a guide to its early history, texts, and manuscripts /H.A.G. Houghton. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study.

The Old Testament parables /John MacDougall.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Capital, state, empire: the new American way of digital warfare /Scott Timcke. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies. Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impulse and how the militarization of digital society creates structural injustices and social inequalities. He analyses how new digital communication technologies support American paramountcy and conditions for worldwide capital accumulation. At the same time he demonstrates how the American security state represses activists—such as Black Lives Matter—who resist this emerging security leviathan. The book also critiques the digital positivism behind the algorithmic regulation used to control labour and further diminish prospects for human flourishing for the ‘99%’. Capital, State, Empire contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamics of global capitalism and political power in the early 21st century

China: promise or threat? : a comparison of cultures /by Horst J. Helle. In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries’ orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future.

Islam in a post-secular society: religion, secularity and the antagonism of recalcitrant faith /by Dustin J. Byrd. Islam in the Post-Secular Society critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt School’s critical theory, this book attempts not only to diagnose the current problems stemming from a marginalization of Islam in the secular West, but also to offer a proposal for a Habermasian discourse between the religious and the secular. By highlighting historical examples of Islamic and western rapprochement, and rejecting the ‘clash of civilization’ thesis, the author attempts to find a ‘common language’ between the religious and the secular, which can serve as a vehicle for a future reconciliation.

Knowledge in the age of digital capitalism: an introduction to cognitive materialism /Mariano Zukerfeld. Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism as totality in the present day. Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time.

A new dawn for the second sex: women’s freedom practices in world perspective /Karen Vintges. Drawing on notions of Beauvoir, as well as Michel Foucault, this book outlines a ‘feminism in a new key’ which consists of women’s various freedom practices, each hunting the Hydra of patriarchy in their own key – but with mutual support.

The spectacle 2.0: reading Debord in the context of digital capitalism /edited by Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano. Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord’s theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links through one singular (but contradictory) language and various imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics, finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. All contributions included in this book rework the category of the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies.

Tang Junyi: Confucian philosophy and the challenge of modernity /by Thomas Frohlich. The present study proposes a critical examination of the modern Confucian project developed by the exiled philosopher Tang Junyi (1909-1978). Tang’s comprehensive reinterpretation of Confucianism ranks among the most ambitious philosophical projects in modern Chinese history.

Women’s status and gender relations in post-genocide Rwanda[electronic resource]: focusing on the local and everyday life level /Josephine Mukabera. This study appraises changes related to the women’s status and gender relations in five districts representing five provinces of Rwanda. The main question of this study asks “what changes in gender relations at the local level are going together with the high number of women participating in parliament and government of Rwanda”? This study came up with evidence of changes in gender relations at the grassroots level.

New Titles Tuesday, January 30

January 30, 2018 / scbrouwer

Here is a selection of the 31 items added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

ARTS

Arts of engagement: taking aesthetic action in and beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada /Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, editors. It’s about the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. The essays question the ways in which components of the reconciliation, such as apology and witnessing, have social and political effects for residential-schools survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics.

HISTORY

The Oxford handbook of American Indian history /edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History confronts the erroneous views by presenting an accurate and comprehensive history of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. Thirty-two leading experts, both Native and non-Native, describe the historical developments of the past 500 years in American Indian history, focusing on significant moments of upheaval and change, histories of indigenous occupation, and overviews of Indian community life. The first section of the book charts Indian history from before 1492 to European invasions and settlement, analyzing US expansion and its consequences for Indian survival up to the twenty-first century. A second group of essays consists of regional and tribal histories. The final section illuminates distinctive themes of Indian life, including gender, sexuality and family, spirituality, art, intellectual history, education, public welfare, legal issues, and urban experiences. A much-needed and eye-opening account of American Indians, this Handbook unveils the real history often hidden behind wrong assumptions, offering stimulating ideas and resources for new generations to pursue research on this topic.

LEADERSHIP

Servant empowered leadership: a hands-on guide to transforming you and your organization /Don Page. What sets this book apart from so many other books on leadership in general, and Christian leadership more specifically, is that half of each chapter is devoted to how to make the subject of the chapter a reality in an organization.

MATHEMATICS

The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics /edited by Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall. This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. Because the history of mathematics should interact constructively with other ways of studying the past, the contributors to this book come from a diverse range of intellectual backgrounds in anthropology, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and literature, as well as history of mathematics more traditionally understood. The key mathematical cultures of North America, Europe, the Middle East, India, and China are all represented here as well as areas which are not often treated in mainstream history of mathematics, such as Russia, the Balkans, Vietnam, and South America. A vital reference for graduates and researchers in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.

PHILOSOPHY

The Oxford handbook of medieval philosophy /edited by John Marenbon. This Handbook is intended to show the links between the philosophy written in the Middle Ages and that being done today. Essays by over twenty medieval specialists, who are also familiar with contemporary discussions, explore areas in logic and philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Each topic has been chosen because it is of present philosophical interest, but a more or less similar set of questions was also discussed in the Middle Ages. The eleven chapters constitute the fullest, most wide-ranging and up-to-date chronological survey of medieval philosophy available. All four traditions – Greek, Latin, Islamic and Jewish (in Arabic, and in Hebrew) – are considered, and the Latin tradition is traced from late antiquity through to the seventeenth century and beyond.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Baptist foundations: church government for an anti-institutional age /edited by Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman; foreword by James Leo Garrett. The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church membership, church discipline, and a Baptist approach to the ordinances. Each section explores the pastoral applications of these arguments.

Developing a biblical worldview: seeing things God’s way /C. Fred Smith. Developing a Biblical Worldview equips readers to think biblically about the world in which we live. Four questions that everyone asks, at least implicitly, about life and reality are used as a rubric for analyzing worldviews: Who are we? Where are we? What is wrong? What is the answer? Professor C. Fred Smith answers these questions from a biblical perspective, enabling readers to discern how they have been influenced by false worldviews and where they need to grow in their biblical understanding.

Fifty years in Madagascar [electronic resource]: personal experiences of mission life and work /by James Sibree. Sibree [1836-1929] began his missionary work with the London Missionary Society in Madagascar in 1863 as an architect. He wrote 16 books in English, including this one (his autobiography) on a wide range of subjects.

Perspectives on Israel and the church: 4 views /Chad O. Brand, Tom Pratt Jr., Robert L. Reymond, Robert L. Saucy, Robert L. Thomas ; edited by Chad O. Brand. Perspectives on Israel and the Church brings together respected theologians representing four positions: Traditional covenantal view by Reymond; Traditional dispensational view by Thomas; Progressive dispensational view by Saucy; Progressive covenantal view by Brand and Tom Pratt Jr.

Perspectives on the extent of the atonement: 3 views /Carl R. Trueman, Grant R. Osborne, John S. Hammett ; edited by Andrew David Naselli and Mark A. Snoeberger. Perspectives on the Extent of the Atonement presents a point-counterpoint exchange concerning God’s intention in sending Christ to die on the cross. All three contributors recognize a substitutionary element in the atoning work of Christ, but disagree over the nature and objects of that substitution.

Truth in a culture of doubt: engaging skeptical challenges of the Bible /Andreas J. Köstenberger, Darrell L. Bock, and Josh D. Chatraw. Truth in a Culture of Doubt takes readers on a journey to explain topics such as the Bible’s origins, the copying of the Bible, alleged contradictions in Scripture, and the relationship between God and evil. Responding to skeptical scholars such as Bart Ehrman this book is written for all serious students of Scripture and will enable you to know how to respond to a wide variety of critical arguments raised against the reliability of Scripture and the truthfulness of Christianity.

The problem of Deuteronomy [electronic resource] /by the Rev. J.S. Griffiths. This little book is a revised and enlarged edition of The Historical Truth and Divine Authority of the Book of Deuteronomy. It is mainly an attempt to present as clearly and concisely as possible the chief arguments for and against the Mosaic origin of Deuteronomy, so that the English reader may be able to test them and arrive at a just conclusion on this important and much-debated question.

Worship through the ages: how the great awakenings shape evangelical worship /Elmer L. Towns and Vernon M. Whaley. Narrative for this study is energized by telling’the story’of engaging personalities, influencers and movers and shakers. Emphasis is given to changes in worship practices from the Early Church, Reformation, the Great Awakenings, revival movements, large evangelistic crusades of the 1940s and 1950s, Jesus Movement, and the Praise and Worship movement. A chart tracing the development of worship from Genesis 4 to the twenty-first century is included.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Manual on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for practitioners /lead author: Robert Bos ; contributing authors: David Alves, Carolina Latorre, Neil Macleod, Gérard Payen, Virginia Roaf & Michael Rouse. The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support the progressive realisation of universal access. The Manual introduces a human rights perspective that will add value to informed decision making in the daily routine of operators, managers and regulators. It also encourages its readership to engage actively in national dialogues where the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are translated into national and local policies, laws and regulations.

New Titles Tuesday, January 23

January 23, 2018 / scbrouwer

In the past week, Alloway Library added 30 items to the catalogue. Here is a sample. Click on the title for more information. TWU login may be required

HISTORY

The Cambridge companion to the age of Nero / edited by Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago, Illinois, Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University, Connecticut, Cedric Littlewood, University of Victoria, British Columbia. This volume provides a lively and accessible guide to the various representations and interpretations of the Emperor Nero as well as to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of his eventful reign. The major achievements of the period in the fields of literature, governance, architecture and art are freshly described and analysed, and special attention is paid to the reception of Nero in the Roman and Christian eras of the first centuries AD and beyond. Written by an international team of leading experts, the chapters provide students and non-specialists with clear and comprehensive accounts of the most important trends in the study of Neronian Rome. They also offer numerous original insights into the period, and open new areas of study for scholars to pursue.

LEADERSHIP

Sticky leaders: the secret to lasting change and innovation / Larry Osborne. Respected pastor and author, Larry Osborne, explains a little secret behind change and innovation which can bring both stability and creativity to organizations, especially those with teams of people that focus on innovation, creativity, new ideas, and problem-solving. Using the wisdom and principles found in this book, you will be free to lead dynamically without causing uncertainty or insecurity in your organization.

LITERATURE

Romanticism: a very short introduction / Michael Ferber. Ferber looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on topics, Ferber looks at the ‘Sensibility’ movement, which preceded Romanticism; the rising prestige of the poet; Romanticism as a religious trend; Romantic philosophy and science; Romantic responses to the French Revolution; and the condition of women. Using examples and quotations he presents a clear insight into this very diverse movement, and offers a definition as well as a discussion of the word ‘Romantic’ and where it came from.

PHILOSOPHY

Debating humanity: towards a philosophical sociology / Daniel Chernilo. Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and explicit anthropological arguments put forward by seven leading postwar theorists. Genuinely interdisciplinary and boldly argued, Daniel Chernilo has crafted a novel philosophical sociology that defends a universalistic principle of humanity as vital to any adequate understanding of social life.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Biblical interpretation in the early church / Michael Graves. This volume focuses on how Scripture was interpreted and used for preaching, teaching, apologetics, and worship by early Christian scholars and church leaders. Developed in light of recent patristic scholarship, it provides a representative sampling of theological contributions from both East and West, making it relevant for students in a variety of courses.

Disunity in Christ: uncovering the hidden forces that keep us apart / Christena Cleveland. In this eye-opening book, learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions. With a personal touch and the trained eye of a social psychologist, Cleveland brings to bear the latest studies and research on the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others. The author provides real insight for ministry leaders who have attempted to build bridges across boundaries.Here are the tools we need to understand how we can overcome the hidden forces that divide us.

Thirsty for God: a brief history of Christian spirituality / Bradley P. Holt. This accessible and engaging history provides an excellent primer on the two-millennium quest for union with God, a “thirst” at the center of Christian life and practice. Holt traces the practice of Christian devotion, prayer,and contemplation from the biblical and influential early periods through the diverse insights of the Reformation and modern eras. Globally framed, the book also highlights the contributions of women and people of color. This new edition not only updates all the chapters and features but also adds more material on the spirituality of Jesus, medieval women mystics, and contemporary spirituality. Short excerpts from primary sources, a glossary, a timeline, a bibliography, and a set of spiritual exercises heighten the book’s usefulness.

Wealth and poverty in early Christianity / Helen Rhee. This volume introduces the reader to the broad range of texts that reflect early Christian thoughts and practices on the topic of wealth and poverty Developed in, light of recent patristic scholarship, it provides a representative sampling of theological contributions from both Fast and West, making it relevant for students in a variety of courses.

SCIENCES

Dictionary of invertebrate zoology / compiled and directed by Mary Ann Basinger Maggenti and Armand R. Maggenti ; edited by Scott L. Gardner. An exhaustive dictionary of over 13,000 terms relating to invertebrate zoology, including etymologies, word derivations and taxonomic classification. Entries cover parasitology, nematology, marine invertebrates, insects, and anatomy, biology, and reproductive processes.

The fish doctor: autobiography of a world fish parasitologist / Glenn L. Hoffman, Ph.D ; edited by G. Lyle Hoffman. Described in 1986 as “a living legend,” Glenn Hoffman was one of the world’s foremost authorities on the parasites of fishes. This book narrates his life and 65-year professional career as a scientist, researcher, ambassador, colleague, and family man. He was the author of four major books and more than 100 articles on the causes, spread, and cures of parasite-related diseases in fish, including Parasites of North American Freshwater Fishes (1967, 2nd ed. 1999), called “the bible of American fish parasitology.” His work and his generosity in collaboration developed an international following, and he made many trips abroad to share his expertise and receive the honors earned from his wide-ranging research and publication work. Personal, insightful, and reflective, this autobiography gives a glimpse inside the mind of a American scientist of the first rank.

Governing medical knowledge commons / edited by Brett Frischmann, Michael Madison, Katherine Strandburg. Governing Medical Knowledge Commons makes three claims: first, evidence matters to innovation policymaking; second, evidence shows that self-governing knowledge commons support effective innovation without prioritizing traditional intellectual property rights; and third, knowledge commons can succeed in the critical fields of medicine and health. This book provides fifteen new case studies of knowledge commons in which researchers, medical professionals, and patients generate, improve, and share innovations, offering readers a practical introduction to the knowledge commons framework and a synthesis of conclusions and lessons.

Rocky Mountain birds: birds and birding in the central and northern Rockies / Paul A. Johnsgard. This book is in part based on the author’s earlier Birds of the Rocky Mountains (1986, revised 2009), but over a third of the original text has been eliminated. The rest has been updated, expanded and modified to be less technical and more useful to birders in the field. Bird enthusiasts will find viewing locations and updated contact information for hundreds of sites in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Alberta, and British Columbia.

Sanitation and hygiene in Africa: where do we stand? : analysis from the AfricaSan Conference, Kigali, Rwanda / edited by Piers Cross and Yolande Coombes. This book addresses priorities which have been identified by African countries as the key elements which need to be addressed in order to accelerate progress. This book is essential reading for government staff from Ministries responsible for sanitation, sector stakeholders working in NGOs, CSOs and agencies with a focus on sanitation and hygiene and water and sanitation specialists.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Hopi nation: essays on indigenous art, culture, history and law / edited by Edna Glenn, John R. Wunder, Willard Hughes Rollings, and C.L. Martin. The content is interdisciplinary and presented in the context of both historic and contemporary viewpoints. Also important is attention given to land-use patterns and to environmental systems of human and physical growth and survival as related to the arid regions of the Hopi Reservation. Perhaps most pertinent is the recognized fact that Hopis have existed on their same mesa-lands for over one thousand years. A contemporary challenge exists on the pages of this book: to discover and to define the passion for life which Hopis continue to possess, and which is rooted in times past as well as in 1980, the “Year of the Hopi.” Read this book and enjoy a visual and intellectual celebration of the Hopi Nation.

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