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 August 28/25)
New print books in the Laurier collection
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Baboon : a novel / David Jones.
Chicken soup with rice : a book of months / Maurice Sendak.
Comics of the Anthropocene : graphic narrative at the end of nature / JoseÌ Alaniz.
Communicative AI : a critical introduction to large language models.
Conservation in the anthropocene : reshaping interaction with nature / Fred Van Dyke.
Dante the Theologian / Pierre Mandonnet ; edited & translated by George Corbett & Patricia Kelly.
Days to remember / by Robert Gott.
Decolonising my body : a radical exploration of rituals and beauty / Afua Hirsch.
Digital financial inclusion : towards inclusive and sustainable finance for all / Peter Goldfinch.
Ecological and social healing : multicultural women's voices / edited by Jeanine M. Canty.
Ămile Zola : a determined life / Robert Lethbridge.
Federalism and ethnic conflict in Nigeria / by Rotimi T. Suberu.
Geocomputation with Python / Michael Dorman, Anita Graser, Jakub Nowosad and Robin Lovelace.
Geographic thought : a critical introduction / Tim Cresswell.
Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India : the Hijra, c.1850-1900 / Jessica Hinchy.
Hollow land : Israel's architecture of occupation / Eyal Weizman.
Human at work : arm yourself to thrive in a fast-changing workplace / Richard Lobo.
Ice geographies : the colonial politics of race and indigeneity in the Arctic / Jen Rose Smith.
Impact investing at a crossroads : a pathway forward / John J. Forrer and Terry R. Gray.
Isaiah Berlin in the twenty-first century : liberal pluralism for troubled times / George Crowder.
Learning by designing : Pacific Northwest Coast native Indian art / by Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark.
Lecture on radium / LoiÌe Fuller.
Measures and meanings of spatial capital : contributions to a theory of land / Lars Marcus.
Nasty nature / Nick Arnold ; illustrated by Tony De Saulles.
No less strange or wonderful : essays in curiosity / written and illuminated by A. Kendra Greene.
Operations research : an introducton / Hamdy A. Taha, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Performing the news : identity, authority, and the myth of neutrality / Elia Powers.
Psyche running : selected poems, 2005-2022 / Durs GruÌnbein ; translated by Karen Leeder.
Queer & Christian : reclaiming the Bible, our faith, and our place at the table / Brandan Robertson.
Rethinking literary naturalism : Proust and Quignard after life / Ian James.
Riddles of the Sphinx / Kimberly Lamm.
Ritual energy and social life : the importance of mutuality / Andrew Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart.
Say her name : centering Black feminism and Black women in sport / Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown.
She falls again / poetry by Rosanna Deerchild ; illustrations by Mary Mooswa.
The book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin / Geoffrey Hill ; edited by Kenneth Haynes.
The care economy / Tim Jackson.
The essentials of world religions : an underlying harmony / Trilochan Sastry.
The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian elections : a performance in politics / Catherine Charrett.
The gift of not belonging : how outsiders thrive in a world of joiners / Dr. Rami Kaminski.
The global cryosphere : past, present and future / Roger G Barry, Thian Yew Gan.
The Growth of the Liberal Soul : with a new introduction / David Walsh.
The gym of leadership : insights to help you build your leadership muscles / Anil K. Khandelwal.
The mind electric : a neurologist on the strangeness and wonder of our brains / Pria Anand.
The mindful qualitative researcher / Laura L. Lemon.
The poetry business school / Deborah Alma, Mark Constantine OBE, with Kate Downey-Evans CPsychol.
The politics of feeling : populism, progressivism, liberalism.
Them! / Harry Josephine Giles.
Tightrope to the moon : how mega founders win the startup war / Rahul Chandra.
Trans hirstory in 99 objects / edited by David Evans Frantz, Christina Linden, Chris E. Vargas.
Trans technologies / Oliver L. Haimson.
(Un)doing history : thinking with the European Middle Ages / Vanita Seth.
Watchmen / Alan Moore, writer ; Dave Gibbons, illustrator/letterer ; John Higgins, colorist
New electronic books in the Laurier collection
A Flood of Pictures : The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States / Michael Leja.
A Genocide Foretold : Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine / Chris Hedges.
A philosophical history of documentary, 1960-1990 / Dan Geva.
A pirate's life no more : the pardoned pirates of the Bahamas / Steven C. Hahn.
Acts : An Interpretation Bible Commentary / Matthew L. Skinner.
After accountability : a critical genealogy of a concept / Pinko Collective.
After Mass Media : Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century / Amanda D. Lotz
AI and ML for coders in Pytorch : a coder's guide to generative AI and machine learning.
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.
Amazing worlds of science fiction and science fact / Keith Cooper.
Arctic state identity : geography, history, and geopolitical relations / Ingrid A. Medby.
Augustine and Gender / edited by Kim Paffenroth and Maggie Ann Labinski.
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.
Beyond the gender binary / Alok Vaid-Menon.
Birthright citizens : a history of race and rights in antebellum America / Martha S. Jones.
Blowing up everything is beautiful : Israel's extermination of Gaza / James Robins.
Bright lights, big city : a novel / by Jay McInerney.
British Children's Literature of the 19th Century : A Companion / Patrick C. Fleming.
Bumidom (1963-1982) and its afterlives : literature, memory and migration / Antonia Wimbush.
Chasing chaos : my decade in and out of humanitarian aid / Jessica Alexander.
Child and family practice : a relational perspective / Shelley Cohen Konrad.
Child-adolescent behaviour : a psychological perspective / Veena Nandagiri.
Children's Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth / Tara M. Collins.
Christian Atheism : How to Be a Real Materialist / Slavoj ZÌizÌek.
Chuck Palahniuk : Fight club, Invisible monsters, Choke / edited by Francisco Collado-Rodriguez.
Classicism and other phobias / Dan-el Padilla Peralta.
Climate risks in the banking industry : theories, regulations and practices / Gianluca Santilli.
Critical design in context : history, theory, and practices / Matt Malpass.
Critical Perspectives on Esports / edited by Annette R. Hofmann and Pascal Mamudou Camara.
Cross-Examined : Reading the Bible in Times of Division.
Cryptogaming : Blockchain and the Financialization of Videogames / Ben Egliston.
Dante in the workplace : how leaders can avoid the seven deadly sins / Santiago InÌiguez.
Debating new approaches to history / edited by Marek Tamm and Peter Burke.
Design Strategy : Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory / Nancy C. Roberts.
Design, empathy, interpretation : toward interpretive design research / Ilpo Koskinen.
Digital assets : a portfolio perspective / Henrique Schneider.
Digital Culture Shock : Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters / Katharina Reinecke.
Digital technology for humans : the myth of AI, human dignity, and neo-luddism / Robert Hanna.
Disgraced : a play / Ayad Akhtar.
Divine motivation and humanity / Jordan Wessling, Ross Parker.
Ecological spirituality / Diarmuid O'Murchu.
Fight Club : a novel / by Chuck Palahniuk.
For the Warming of the Earth : Music, Faith, and Ecological Crisis / Mark Porter.
Frontsoldaten : The German Soldier in World War II / Stephen G. Fritz.
Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church : A New History / Ian Forrest
Gender, Genocide, Gaza and the Book of Esther : Engaging Texts of Terror(ism) / Sarojini Nadar.
Global governance : critical perspectives / edited by Rorden Wilkinson and Steve Hughes.
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.
HBR guide to retaining your best people / Harvard Business Review Press.
Hooked : art and attachment / Rita Felski.
How Music Changed YouTube / Guillaume Heuguet.
How news coverage of misinformation shapes perceptions and trust / Emily Thorson.
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.
How violence works : an introduction to ReneÌ Girard's mimetic theory / John Babak Ebrahimian.
In Covid's wake : how our politics failed us / Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee.
Inner-City Blues : Black Theology and Black Poverty in the United States / Darvin Anton Adams.
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.
Interpreting Jesus / Dale C. Allison Jr.
Invisible Rivals : How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World / Jonathan R. Goodman.
Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) : Antigone : æč / Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho).
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.
Language is gesture / David McNeill.
Living in Wonder : Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age / Rod Dreher.
Making it happen : lessons from the frontline of strategy execution / Rebecca Stephens.
Managing and preventing pandemics : lessons from COVID-19 / Roberto De Vogli.
Margaret Bonds : the Montgomery variations and Du Bois Credo / John Michael Cooper.
Medieval Spaces in Comics : Affect and Ideology / Elizabeth Allyn Woock.
Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy : A Critique of Subjectivation Processes / Maddalena Cerrato.
Music therapy handbook / edited by Michael Viega, Andeline dos Santos, Barbara L. Wheeler.
Native America : the story of the first peoples / Kenneth L. Feder.
Natural approaches to optimal wellness : integrating ecowellness into counseling / Ryan F. Reese.
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.
Nicaea and the Future of Christianity / George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou, editors.
No More Napoleons : How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One / Andrew Lambert.
Norm contestation in EU foreign policy / Diego Badell.
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong.
On not being someone else : tales of our unled lives / Andrew H. Miller.
Opening doors : orchestras, opera companies and community engagement / Emily Dollman.
Paul Through the Eyes of the Reformers : Living under Grace / Stephen J. Chester.
Paul, Apostle of Grace / Frank Thielman.
Perfect Victims : And the Politics of Appeal / Mohammed El-Kurd.
Personhood : The New Civil War over Reproduction / Mary Ziegler.
Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity / edited by Catherine M. Robb, Alfred Archer, and Matthew Dennis.
Pirates : the complete history from 1300 BC to the present day / Angus Konstam.
Podcasting in a Platform Age : From an Amateur to a Professional Medium / John L. Sullivan.
Political technology : the globalisation of political manipulation / Andrew Wilson.
Prophets Beyond Activism : Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice / Julia M. O'Brien.
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.
Quicksand / Nella Larasen ; Introduction by Asali Soloman.
Reconciling history : a story of Canada / Jody Wilson-Raybould & Roshan Danesh.
Remnants of refusal : feminist affect, national trauma / Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf.
Rethinking motivation and reward management : what we know and do not know / Zheni Wang.
Rethinking the sociology of ageing : towards a sociology of later life / Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard.
Revolutionary Backlash : Women and Politics in the Early American Republic / Rosemarie Zagarri.
Ruth and Esther / Marcia Y. Riggs.
Sartre, Existentialism, and the New Age of Nausea / Stuart Sim.
Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV / Amy Richards Franzini
Seduced by story : the use and abuse of narrative / Peter Brooks.
Self and Affect : Philosophical Intersections / Stefan Lang, Maik Niemeck, editors.
Shalom and the community of creation : an indigenous vision / Randy S. Woodley.
Shamanism : The Timeless Religion / Manvir Singh.
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.
Sweet and deadly : how Coca-Cola spreads disinformation and makes us sick / Murray Carpenter
T&T Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts / Edited by Stephen M. Garrett & Imogen Adkins.
Technology ethics : responsible innovation and design strategies / Steven Umbrello.
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 bluest eye : a novel / Toni Morrison ; [with a foreword by the author].
The body is not an apology : the power of radical self-love / Sonya Renee Taylor.
The Book of Alchemy : A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life / Suleika Jaouad.
The Cambridge companion to composition / edited by Toby Young.
The Cambridge companion to the electric guitar / edited by Jan-Peter Herbst, Steve Waksman.
The Cambridge companion to the Magic Flute / edited by Jessica Waldoff.
The Cambridge companion to women and Islam / edited by Masooda Bano.
The Christological dimension of the Trinity : a tale of hypostatical existence / Anna Zhyrkova.
The core of the Christian faith : living the Gospel for the sake of the world / Michael W. Goheen.
The crooked timber of democracy in Israel : promise unfulfilled / Dahlia Scheindlin.
The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino : Understanding the Roman Games / Jerry Toner.
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 ethics of documentary film : new approaches / edited Agnieszka Piotroska.
The family dynamic : a journey into the mystery of sibling success / Susan Dominus.
The final days : a lenten journey through the Gospels / Matt Rawle.
The genius myth : a curious history of a dangerous idea / Helen Lewis.
The global solution to AI : risks, rhetoric, ideology, and psychoanalysis / Robert Samuels.
The idealized mind : from model-based science to cognitive science / Michael D. Kirchhoff.
The information animal : humans, technology and the competition for reality / Alicia Wanless.
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 neural mind : how brains think / George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan.
The New Science of Momentum : How the Best Coaches and Leaders Build a Fire from a Single Spark.
The Oxford handbook of queer and trans music therapy / edited by Colin Andrew Lee.
The Perils of Social Media : Cyberbullying Shame and Fame / Merve Basdogan.
The Poisoned Chalice of US Democracy : Studies from the Horn of Africa / John Young.
The politics of the wretched : race, reason, and ressentiment / Zahi Zalloua.
The postmodern slasher film / Steve Jones.
The power trap : how leadership changes people, and what to do about it / Nik Kinley.
The sacred force of Star Wars Jedi / William Sims Bainbridge.
The secret history / Donna Tartt.
The shape of things unseen : a new science of imagination / Adam Zeman.
The SHINE framework : fostering resilience and growth in the face of adversity / Samuel M.Y. Ho.
The Spirit of Justice : True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance / Jemar Tisby.
The use of self in therapy / edited by MichĂšle Baldwin.
The witchcraft sourcebook / edited by Brian P. Levack.
The writer's lot : culture and revolution in eighteenth-century France / Robert Darnton.
There are trans people here / H. Melt.
They poisoned the world : life and death in the age of forever chemicals / Mariah Blake.
Trade in war : economic cooperation across enemy lines / Mariya Grinberg.
Trains, buses, people : an opinionated atlas of US and Canadian transit / Christof Spieler.
Two Applications of Logic to Mathematics / Gaisi Takeuti.
(Un)explainable Technology / Hendrik Kempt.
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.
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.
What Is Free Speech? : The History of a Dangerous Idea / Fara Dabhoiwala
What to Expect When You're Dead : An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife / Robert Garland.
Women's health and corporate marketing : our bodies, their business / edited by Mary Hunter.
Working on a song : the lyrics of Hadestown / AnaiÌs Mitchell.