New books in the collection

The following are new books added to the Laurier Library. The lists will be updated monthly. The titles below are selections and not a full list of the new titles. (Updated July 25/25)
New print books in the Laurier collection
Waterloo
After spaceship Earth : art, techno-utopia, and other science fictions / Eva Díaz.
American idle : late career job loss in a neoliberal era / Annette Nierobisz and Dana Sawchuk.
Broads, sisters, exes : feminist millennial television / Vincent L. Stephens.
Diva Faustina : coinage and cult in Rome and the provinces / Martin Beckmann.
Dots and lines : hidden networks in social media, AI, and nature / Anthony Bonato.
Faustina the Younger : coinage, portraits, and public image / Martin Beckmann.
Feminism, pedagogy and the studio : reflections across four decades.
Flawed Strategy : why smart leaders make bad decisions / Beatrice Heuser.
Hip hop family tree / Ed Piskor.
Hollow land : Israel's architecture of occupation / Eyal Weizman.
Il était une fois / Pamela Pascal ; illustré par Béatrice Favereau.
Off-white : the truth about antisemitism / Rachel Shabi.
Psyche running : selected poems, 2005-2022.
Queer & Christian : reclaiming the Bible, our faith, and our place at the table / Brandan Robertson.
Racism and 'free speech' / Anshuman A. Mondal.
Scientific marvel : poems / Chimwemwe Undi.
The ecology politic : power, law, and earth in the anthropocene / Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel.
The essentials of world religions : an underlying harmony.
The puffin keeper / Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Benji Davies.
The Sage qualitative research kit / edited by Uwe Flick.
Tightrope to the moon : how mega founders win the startup war.
New electronic books in the Laurier collection
A Calculated Restraint : What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust / Richard Breitman.
A Genocide Foretold : Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine / Chris Hedges.
A pirate's life no more : the pardoned pirates of the Bahamas / Steven C. Hahn.
A Teachable Spirit : The Virtue of Learning from Strangers, Enemies, and Absolutely Anyone.
AI first : the playbook for a future-proof business and brand / Adam Brotman, Andy Sack.
Alcohol at work : tackling workplace drinking to improve wellbeing / Lauren Booker.
Ambicoloniality and War : The Ukrainian-Russian Case / Svitlana Biedarieva.
Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia / Mandy Jui-man Wu, Katheryn M. Linduff.
Arctic predator : the crimes of Edward Horne against children in Canada's North / Kathleen Lippa.
Arctic state identity : geography, history, and geopolitical relations / Ingrid A. Medby.
Artificial Intelligence in Music and Audio Production : Shaping the Sound of Tomorrow.
Bayesian models of the mind / Michael Rescorla.
Beats Not Beatings : The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology / edited by Anthony J. Nocella II.
Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza : a reckoning / Peter Beinart.
Best Canadian Essays 2025 / edited by Emily Urquhart.
Best Canadian Poetry 2025 / selected by Aislinn Hunter, guest editor, Anita Lahey, series editor.
Best Canadian Stories 2025 / edited by Steven W. Beattie.
Birthright citizens : a history of race and rights in antebellum America / Martha S. Jones.
Black social television : how Black Twitter changed television / Sherri Marie Williams.
Blowing up everything is beautiful : Israel's extermination of Gaza / James Robins.
Broken Altars : secularist violence in modern history / Thomas Albert Howard.
Bumidom (1963-1982) and its afterlives : literature, memory and migration / Antonia Wimbush.
Burying the Enemy : The Story of Those Who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars / Tim Grady.
Capitalism and catastrophe : a critical disaster studies manifesto / Raja Swamy.
CAS Professional Standards for Higher Education, Version 11.1 / Léna Crain, Kellie M. Dixon.
Christianity : what you need to know / Russell Dumke.
Climate justice : what rich nations owe the world-and the future / Cass R. Sunstein.
Constructing experience : expectation and attention in perception / Jason Clarke.
Critical design in context : history, theory, and practices / Matt Malpass.
Cross-Examined : Reading the Bible in Times of Division.
Dearly Beloved : Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life.
Design Strategy : Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory / Nancy C. Roberts.
Design, empathy, interpretation : toward interpretive design research / Ilpo Koskinen.
Digital (Dis)Information Operations : Fooling the Five Eyes / edited by Melissa-Ellen Dowling.
Digital assets : a portfolio perspective / Henrique Schneider.
Disgraced : a play / Ayad Akhtar.
Dislocating cultures : identities, traditions, and Third-World feminism / Uma Narayan.
Echoes of trauma : meaning and identity in psychoanalysis / Marilyn Charles.
Elements of Archaeological Wood and Woodworking / Caroline Arbuckle Macleod.
Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI / Karen Hao.
Erasing History : How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future / Jason Stanley.
Evolution in international relations / Jeremy Garlick.
Financial communication : a critical assessment / Keith Butterick.
Fire and flood : extreme events and social change past, present, future / Thomas Princen.
Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church : A New History / Ian Forrest
Genocide and its Threat to Contemporary International Order / by A. Gallagher.
Growing up Trans : In Our Own Words / edited by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry.
Handbook on the social determinants of health / edited by Toba Bryant.
Harmony at the piano : using keyboard harmony to learn advanced piano music / Ken Johansen.
Hooked : art and attachment / Rita Felski.
How the World Turned into a Laboratory : The Long Road to the COVID-19 Pandemic / by Bert De Munck.
How to Pronounce Knife : Stories / Souvankham Thammavongsa.
Identity Studies in Archaeology / Emma Blake.
In Covid's wake : how our politics failed us / Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee.
Instructional Design for Teaching Information Literacy Online : A Student-Centered Approach.
Intercultural communication in virtual exchange / Francesca Helm.
Internalist virtue epistemology : a stoic model / Benjamin W. McCraw.
International development : strategies and legacies of socio-economic development / Anna Lanoszka.
Interpreter of maladies : stories / Jhumpa Lahiri ; foreword by Domenico Starnone.
Introducing analytic theology / Phil Weston.
Introduction to regulation and governance / Martino Maggetti.
Invisible Rivals : How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World / Jonathan R. Goodman.
Iraq after the Invasion : From Fragmentation to Rebirth and Reintegration / Saad N. Jawad.
Islam : A New History from Muhammad to the Present / John Tolan.
Israel and the Gaza Strip : The First Decade 1947-1957 / Arnon Golan.
Israel's military operations in Gaza : telegenic lawfare and warfare / Marouf Hasian, Jr.
John 1-6 : A Critical and Exegetical Commentary / Martinus C. De Boer.
Korean pop culture beyond Asia : race and reception / edited by David C. Oh and Benjamin M. Han.
Let us play : winning the battle for gender diverse athletes / Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne.
Lower Than the Angels : A History of Sex and Christianity / Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Making it happen : lessons from the frontline of strategy execution / Rebecca Stephens.
Managing and preventing pandemics : lessons from COVID-19 / Roberto De Vogli.
Martin Luther, Jews, and Judaism : a re-examination / Isaac Kalimi.
Mass Polarization Across Time and Space / Isaac D. Mehlhaff.
Mechanisms of Change and Creativity in Nature and Culture / Arne Dietrich.
Mediating plureality : technology, perception, and ethics in a divided democracy / Morten Bay.
Medieval Spaces in Comics : Affect and Ideology / Elizabeth Allyn Woock.
Micah : introduction and commentary / Carolyn J. Sharp.
Monotheism and relativism / Bernd Irlenborn.
More than words : how talking sharpens the mind and shapes our world / Maryellen MacDonald.
Music therapy handbook / edited by Michael Viega, Andeline dos Santos, Barbara L. Wheeler.
National Security Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth Five Eyes States / Paul F. Scott.
Nazi Germany : Society, Culture, and Politics / Pamela E. Swett and S. Jonathan Wiesen.
New World Medievalisms : The Middle Ages in the American Cultural Imaginary / Scott Corbet Riley.
Non-aligned movement summits : a history / Jovan Cavoški.
Nuclear Security Summits : A History / Amandeep S. Gill.
On believing and being convinced / Paul Silva Jr.
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong.
On not being someone else : tales of our unled lives / Andrew H. Miller.
One Drum : stories and ceremonies for a planet / Richard Wagamese.
Partisan Hostility and American Democracy : Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter.
Pirates : the complete history from 1300 BC to the present day / Angus Konstam.
Playing through pain : the violent consequences of capitalist sport / Daniel Sailofsky.
Political representation as communicative practice / Fabio Wolkenstein, Christopher Wratil.
Principles of Bitcoin : technology, economics, politics, and philosophy / Vijay Selvam.
Propaganda 2. 1 : Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Age.
Protecting peace? How the UN's protection of civilians contributes to peace processes / Jenna Russo.
Psychopathy unmasked : the rise and fall of a dangerous diagnosis / Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen.
Punching above Our Weight : The Canadian Military at War Since 1867 / David A. Borys.
Race and the Cherokee Nation : sovereignty in the nineteenth century / Fay A. Yarbrough.
Raising AI : an essential guide to parenting our future / De Kai.
Reconciling history : a story of Canada / Jody Wilson-Raybould & Roshan Danesh.
Remembering the Anthropocene : Memorials Beyond the Human / by Clara de Massol de Rebetz.
Remnants of Refusal : Feminist Affect, National Trauma / Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf.
Rethinking foreign policy / edited by Fredrik Bynander, Stefano Guzzini.
Rethinking the sociology of ageing : towards a sociology of later life / Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard.
Retrospective and prospective for scientific provenance studies in archaeology / A.M. Pollard.
Returning to revolution : Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo / Thomas Nail.
Revolutionary Backlash : Women and Politics in the Early American Republic / Rosemarie Zagarri.
Safe Havens for Hate : The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism / Tamar Mitts.
Saudi Arabia : A Modern History / David Commins.
Seduced by story : the use and abuse of narrative / Peter Brooks.
Seven challenges for the science of animal minds / Mike Dacey.
Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok.
Sound tactics : auditory power in political protests / Justin Eckstein.
State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples : Law, Politics, Ethics / Francesca Dominello.
States of war since 9/11 : terrorism, sovereignty and the war on terror / edited by Alex Houen.
Steal like an artist : 10 things nobody told you about being creative / Austin Kleon.
Super agers : an evidence-based approach to longevity / Eric Topol, MD.
Suspended God : Music and a Theology of Doubt / Maeve Louise Heaney.
Territorial imaginaries : beyond the sovereign map / edited by Kären Wigen.
The American mirage : how reality TV upholds the myth of meritocracy / Eunji Kim.
The Audacity of Relevance : Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture / Alex Sarian.
The believing Christian : theology's new opportunities / Lluis Oviedo.
The Book of Alchemy : A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life / Suleika Jaouad.
The core of the Christian faith : living the Gospel for the sake of the world / Michael W. Goheen.
The cost of conviction : how our deepest values lead us astray / Steven Sloman.
The crooked timber of democracy in Israel : promise unfulfilled / Dahlia Scheindlin.
The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the earth / Andreas Malm.
The drive across Canada : the remarkable story of the Trans-Canada Highway / Mark Richardson.
The fantasy and necessity of solidarity / Sarah Schulman.
The final days : a lenten journey through the Gospels / Matt Rawle.
The genius myth : a curious history of a dangerous idea / Helen Lewis.
The Greater Second World War : Global Perspectives / Edited by Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor.
The making of a therapist : a practical guide for the inner journey / Louis Cozolino.
The moving image : a user's manual / Peter B. Kaufman.
The myth of normal : trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture / Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté.
The New Musician : The Art of Entrepreneurship in Today's Music Business / Menzie Pittman.
The New Science of Momentum : How the Best Coaches and Leaders Build a Fire from a Single Spark.
The politics of monotheism / Ragnar M. Bergem.
The postmodern slasher film / Steve Jones.
The queer coming of age film genre / Brad Windhauser.
The Rise of the Algorithms : How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World.
The sacred force of Star Wars Jedi / William Sims Bainbridge.
The use of self in therapy / edited by Michèle Baldwin.
There are trans people here / H. Melt.
There's Nothing Like This : The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift / Kevin Evers.
They poisoned the world : life and death in the age of forever chemicals / Mariah Blake.
Trains, buses, people : an opinionated atlas of US and Canadian transit / Christof Spieler.
Transcend : Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI.
Understanding and coping in social relationships with narcissists / Amy B. Brunell.
Value(s) : building a better world for all / Mark Carney.
Viral pandemics : from smallpox to COVID-19 / Rae-Ellen W. Kavey and Allison B. Kavey.
Visual-vestibular integration in challenging environments / Laurence R. Harris.
War and Peace in Ukraine and in Gaza : A Comparative Analysis / by Robin Luckham.
War on Gaza : consequences on sustainability and global security / Abdo Hassoun, editors.
We Believe : How the Nicene Creed Can Deepen Your Faith.
What is adaptive about adaptive memory? / edited by Bennett L. Schwartz [and three others].
What is ancient history? / Walter Scheidel
Whately's historic doubts about Napoleon's existence and the preliminary question / David Berman.
Why Alanis Morissette Matters / Megan Volpert.
Women & Music : A History / edited by Karin Pendle.
Women's health and corporate marketing : our bodies, their business / edited by Mary Hunter.