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A spotlight on some recently acquired physical and electronic 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.

New print books in the Laurier collection

Brantford 

Detention and arrest / Steve Coughlan, Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Glen Luther, Associate Professor, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan.

Indigenous peoples in the international arena : the global movement for self-determination / Elsa Stamatopoulou.

McMillan's Consumer Protection Act (Ontario) / Daniel G. Edmonstone.

Philosophies of adoption : perspectives and reflections / edited by Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz.

Sentencing and penal policy in Canada : cases, materials and commentary / [edited by] Allan Manson, Dale Ives, Julian Roberts, Patrick Healy, Gary Trotter, Adelina Iftene.

The Seven Nations of Canada, 1660-1860 : solidarity, vision and independence in the St. Lawrence Valley / Jean-Pierre Sawaya ; translated by Katherine Hastings.

Water confidential : witnessing justice denied-- the fight for safe drinking water in Indigenous and rural communities in Canada / Susan Blacklin.

Waterloo  

A physical education : on bullying, discipline & other lessons.

Agents in the long game of AI : computational cognitive modeling for trustworthy, hybrid AI / Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, and Jesse English.

Algorithms of anxiety : fear in the digital age / Anthony Elliott

All heathens / Marianne Chan.

Basketball beyond paper : insights into the game's analytics revolution / Dean Oliver.

Beyond Language : Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality / Demet Arpacik.

Blues mamas and Broadway belters : black women, voice, and the musical stage / Masi Asare.

Blush : faces of shame / Elspeth Probyn.

Change the record : punk women music politics / M.I. Franklin.

Childhood and youth in African history / S.E. Duff.

Conditions of violence.

Conscious : a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind / Annaka Harris.

Crushed wild mint : poems  / Jess Housty.

Disagreeing despite the data : the destruction of the factual commons / David Apgar.

Ethical, legal, and professional issues in counseling / Theodore P. Remley, Jr., Barbara Herlihy.

Fantasies of Nina Simone / Jordan Alexander Stein.

Feminist philosophy of science / Anke Bueter, Aarhus University.

Geopolitics, trade blocks, and the fragmentation of world commerce / Uri Dadush.

Hayek and post-war Chinese liberalism : beyond the enlightenment and national salvation.

How to read Wittgenstein / Ray Monk.

Imperfect solidarities / Aruna D'Souza.

Institutions, goals, policies and analytics in economic development / Solomon I Cohen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Learning the art of helping : building blocks and techniques / Mark E. Young, Professor Emeritus, University of Central Florida.

Nationalism : a world history / Eric Storm.

Nations, states and empires / John A. Hall.

Natural law liberalism and the malaise of modernity / Stephen Boulter.

Panic now? : tools for humanizing / Ira J. Allen.

Planet aqua : rethinking our home in the universe / Jeremy Rifkin.

Prairie edge : a novel / Conor Kerr.

Psychocinema.

Public sector innovation / Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Carleton University ; David B. Audretsch, Indiana University.

Richard Hakluyt : a bibliography 1580-1588 : with essays on The suppression of the voyage to Cadiz in Hakluyt's "Principal navigations" and Hakluyt and the East India Company / Anthony Payne.

Searching for feminist superheroes : gender, sexuality, and race in Marvel Comics / Sam Langsdale.

Sovereignty in the 21st century : political theology in an age of neoliberalism and populism.

Staging sovereignty : theory, theater, thaumaturgy / Arthur Bradley.

Stasio : a novel in three parts / Tamas Dobozy.

Stinking philosophy! : smell perception, cognition, and consciousness / Benjamin D. Young.

Superpower Europe : the European Union's silent revolution / Marc de Vos.

The darkened light of faith : race, democracy, and freedom in African American political thought / Melvin L. Rogers.

The eclipse of Christianity : and why it matters / Rupert Shortt.

The message / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The patriarchal political order : the making and unraveling of the gendered participation gap in India / Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University.

The rebirth of suspense : slowness and atmosphere in cinema / Rick Warner.

The safekeep : a novel / Yael van der Wouden.

The unpredictable past? : reshaping Russian, Ukrainian and East European studies / edited by Volodymyr Kravchenko and Marko Robert Stech.

Utilitarianism ; for and against / J.J.C. Smart, Bernard Williams.

Wetzel's limnology : lake and river ecosystems / edited by Ian D. Jones, John P. Smol.

What I know about you.

What I mean to say : remaking conversation in our time.

 

New electronic books in the Laurier collection

A history of Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni.

A liberation for the earth : race, climate and cross / A. M. Ranawana.

All You Need to Know about the Music Business / Donald S. Passman ; illustrations by Randy Glass.

And the roots of rhythm remain : a journey through global music / Joe Boyd.

Antiracist Leadership : A Spiritual Approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion / by Douglas J. Cremer.

Archaeology of Body and Thought : From the Neolithic to the Beginning of the Middle Ages / Tomasz Gralak.

Art History for Comics : Past, Present and Potential Futures / Ian Horton, Maggie Gray.

Artificial intelligence in the movies : a history / David Huckvale.

Artificial Intelligence in Workplace Health and Safety : Data-Driven Technologies, Tools and Techniques / Mohammad Yazdi.

Authoritarianism, national populism and fascism / by Gino Germani.

Blackbird : How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-- And Sang Back to Them Ever After / Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith.

Broadcasting Fidelity : German Radio and the Rise of Early Electronic Music / Myles W. Jackson.

Build a large language model (from scratch) / Sebastian Raschka.

Canadian Readings of Jewish History : From Knowledge to Interpretive Transmission / edited by Daniel Maoz and Esti Mayer.

Caribbean contextual theology : an introduction / Carlton Turner.

Changed Men : Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II / Erin Lee Mock.

Cloud Native Go : building reliable services in unreliable environments / Matthew A. Titmus.

Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets : Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973 / Oz Frankel.

Communication in History : Stone Age Symbols to Social Media / edited by Peter Urquhart and Paul Heyer.

Communities of Kinship : Retrieving Christian Practices of Solidarity with Lepers As a Paradigm for Overcoming Exclusion of Older People / Carlo Calleja.

Cultural Christians in the Early Church : A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World / Nadya Williams.

Deconstructing whiteness, empire and mission / edited by Anthony G Reddie and Carol Troupe.

Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East : deception, disinformation and social media / Marc Owen Jones.

Dirt, Shame, Status : Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World / Thomas Kazen ; foreword by William Loader.

Divine Generosity : The Scope of Salvation in Reformed Theology / Richard J. Mouw.

Ecotheology : a New Approach / Jaroslaw Babiński.

Emancipation : The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom / Peter Kolchin.

Ethics of the Algorithm : Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory / Todd Presner with contributions by Anna Bonazzi [and 5 others).

Expanding the Music Theory Canon : Inclusive Examples for Analysis from the Common Practice Period / Paula Maust.

Feminist fandom : media fandom, digital feminisms, and Tumblr / Briony Hannell.

Final Verdict : The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century.

Forgiveness after trauma : a path to find healing and empowerment / Susannah Griffith.

From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond : Visualizations in Archaeology / Donald H. Sanders.

Galatians / Nijay K. Gupta.

Gaming democracy : how Silicon Valley leveled up the Far Right / Adrienne L. Massanari.

Generative AI and Digital Forensics / Ravindra Das.

Genesis 1-11 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary / Ronald Hendel.

Globalisation and second language identity : opportunities, challenges, and the importance of morality / Manfred Man-fat Wu.

God's Ghostwriters : Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible / Candida Moss.

Greening Philosophy of Religion : Process, Ecology, and Ethics / edited by .Jea Sophia Oh and John Quiring.

Habitable Exoplanets for Extra-Terrestrials / C.R. Kitchin.

Herod the Great : Jewish King in a Roman World / Martin Goodman.

Hit girls  : women of punk in the USA, 1975-1983 / Jen B. Larson.

Hitler's People : The Faces of the Third Reich / Richard J. Evans.

Hope for a Tree : Artistic Afterlives of Job / Philip S. Thomas.

Horror in Classical Literature : On a Profound and Elementary Principle / Edmund P. Cueva.

How do I conduct ethnographic research? / Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo, and Jean-Luc Moriceau.

How the World Made the West : A 4,000 Year History / Josephine Quinn.

How to be queer : an ancient guide to sexuality : Sappho, Plato, and other lovers / selected, translated, and introduced by Sarah Nooter.

How to Get over a Breakup : An Ancient Guide to Moving On / Ovid ; translated and introduced by Michael Fontaine.

Iconoclastic Sex : Christian Sexual Ethics and Human Trafficking / Henry Walter Spaulding III.

Imitating Christ : The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship / Luke Timothy Johnson.

Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice / edited by Andria Bianchi, Janet A. Vogt.

Interactions : Stability and Organization in Biological and Artificial Intelligent Organisms / Bicky A. Marquez.

Invisible rulers : the people who turn lies into reality / Renee DiResta

Judaism : history, belief and practice / Dan Cohn-Sherbok.

Keeping Women in Their Digital Place : The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online / Ruth Tsuria.

Keywords for American cultural studies / edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler.

Languages and Automata : Gagta Book 3 / edited by Benjamin Steinberg.

Latin America's pink tide : breakthroughs and shortcomings / edited by Steve Ellner ; foreword by Boaventura de Sousa Sanots.

Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming / Leo Porter and Daniel Zingaro.

Living Space : John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital / Michael E. Veal.

Lloyd Axworthy : My Life in Politics.

Machine Learning in Elixir.

Making a Mindful Nation : Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-First Century / Joanna Cook.

Masculinities in the Gospel of Matthew : Joseph, John, Peter, and Judas / Kendra A. Mohn.

Medievalism and Reception / edited by Ellie Crookes and Ika Willis.

Memory Spaces : Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives / Victoria Aarons.

Mission to Mao : US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II / Sara B. Castro.

Mozart, Genius, and the Possibilities of Art / Edmund J. Goehring.

National and transnational memories of the kindertransport : exhibitions, memorials, and commemorations / Amy Williams and Bill Niven.

New Deal Law and Order : How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State / Anthony Gregory.

Not so sorry : abusers, false apologies, and the limits of forgiveness / Kaya Oakes.

Numbers / Jay Sklar ; Tremper Longman III & Scott McKnight, general editors.

On Rhetoric and Black Music / Earl H. Brooks.

Out of One, Many : Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture / Jennifer T. Roberts.

Paul and Imperial Divine Honors : Christ, Caesar, and the Gospel / D. Clint Burnett ; [foreword by Pheme Perkins].

Philosophy of Jazz / Daniel Martin Feige ; translated by Nathan Ross ; foreword by Alessandro Bertinetto.

Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture : Theology Through Exegesis / Andrew D. Thrasher and Matthew William Brake.

Prehistories of the War on Terror : a critical genealogy / edited by A. J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller.

Progressive community organizing : transformative practice in a globalizing world / Loretta Pyles.

Prophetic Wisdom : Engaged Buddhism's Struggle for Social Justice and Complete Liberation.

Queens of Afrobeat : Women, Play, and Fela Kuti's Music Rebellion / Dotun Ayobade.

Queer-Affirming Pastoral Care / Kerstin Söderblom.

Queering Contemplation : Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality / Cassidy Hall.

Reading in these times : purposes and practices of minoritized biblical criticism / edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia.

Reading the First Five Books [electronic resource] : The Invitation of the Pentateuch's Stories / Rachel Toombs.

Reinforcement learning for finance : a Python-based introduction / Yves Hilpisch.

Reinventing World War II : Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State / Barbara A. Biesecker.

Research for universal health coverage.

Rethinking merger analysis / Louis Kaplow.

Romans / Sam Storms.

Shattered Grief : How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America / Natasha L. Mikles.

Sources and methods in Indigenous studies / edited by Chris Andersen and Jean M. O'Brien.

Taking Back Control? : States and State Systems after Globalism / Wolfgang Streeck ; translated by Ben Fowkes and Joshua Rahtz.

Teaching a Dark Chapter : History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys / Daniela R.P. Weiner.

Tech agnostic : how technology became the world's most powerful religion, and why it desperately needs a reformation / Greg M. Epstein.

The art of preaching Old Testament poetry / Steven D. Mathewson [electronic resource].

The Bible : a global history / Bruce Gordon.

The Books of Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah / Leslie C. Allen.

The British administrative system : principles versus practice / Grant Jordan.

The Dragon from Chicago : The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany / Pamela D. Toler.

The Forever War : America's Unending Conflict with Itself / Nick Bryant.

The God of Wild Places : Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors / Tony Jones.

The Habits of Race and Faith in a Religiously Diverse World / Mara Brecht.

The Hidden Victims : Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars / Cormac Ó Gráda.

The human in superhuman : the power of the sidekick in popular culture / edited by Sandra Eckard and Alex Romagnoli.

The Interbellum Constitution : Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms / Alison L. LaCroix.

The Kramer Method of Art Therapy : Exploring the Third Hand / by David R. Henley, Ph.D., ATR ; with a foreword by Judith A. Rubin.

The Language of Trauma in the Psalms / Danilo Verde.

The Message / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Monster and the Mirror : Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell / K.J. Aiello.

The Naked Truth : Reclaiming Sexual Freedom in a Culture of Lies / Cynthia Garrett.

The Old Testament As Literature : Foundations for Christian Interpretation / Tremper Longman III.

The paradox of democracy in Latin America : ten country studies of division and resilience / written and edited by Katherine Isbester.

The People's Revolution Of 1789 / Micah Alpaugh.

The philosophy of translation / Damion Searls.

The Play of Goodness : Creation, Phenomenology, and Culture / Jacob Benjamins.

The positive relationships classroom activity book : teaching children age 7-11 about friendship, family and respectful relationships / Vanessa Rogers.

The revolution will be Spotified : music as a rhetorical mode of resistance / Triauna Carey.

Tiberius and His Age : Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power / Edward Champlin ; edited by Robert A. Kaster.

Topics in Infinite Group Theory : Nielsen Methods, Covering Spaces, and Hyperbolic Groups.

Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics : Change and Continuity / edited by Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A. Djupe.

Truth and power in American archaeology / Alice Beck Kehoe.

U. S. democracy in danger : the American political system under assault / Adebowale Akande, editor.

U2's Songs of Trauma and Hope : "Between the Midnight and the Dawning" / Ingunn Røysland and Charles I. Armstrong.

Ukraine not 'the' Ukraine / Marta Dyczok, Western University.

Understanding imperiled earth : how archaeology and human history inform a sustainable future / Todd J. Braje.

Van Gogh has a broken heart : what art teaches us about the wonder and struggle of being alive / Russ Ramsey.

Who really wrote the Bible : the story of the scribes / William M. Schniedewind.

Why Hell? : Three Christian Views Critically Examined. Steve Gregg

Wide Awake : The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War , Jon Grinspan.

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