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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. (Updated Jan. 8/25)

New print books in the Laurier collection

Waterloo  

3 women / Justin Wyatt.

A delicate choreography : kinship practices and incest discourses in the West since the Renaissance / David Warren Sabean.

A history of dinosaurs in 50 fossils / Paul M. Barrett.

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

A victim's shoe, a broken watch, and marbles : desire objects and human rights / Lea David.

All our ordinary stories : a multigenerational family odyssey / Teresa Wong.

Becoming the Buddha : the ritual of image consecration in Thailand / Donald K. Swearer.

Being a researcher.

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

Bong Joon Ho / Joseph Jonghyun Jeon.

Cartoonists against racism : the secret Jewish war on bigotry / Rafael Medoff, Craig Yoe ; foreword by Susannah Heschel ; produced by Clizia Gussoni.

Cocoa / Kristy Leissle.

Coffee / Gavin Fridell.

Communication in history : stone age symbols to social media / edited by Peter Urquhart and Paul Heyer.

Conditions of violence / Christian Gerlach.

Cotton / Adam Sneyd.

Curiosities : a novel / Anne Fleming.

Dancing on our turtle's back : stories of Nishnaabeg re-creation, resurgence and a new emergence / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Diamonds / Ian Smillie.

Ethical espionage : ethics and the intelligence cycle / Jan Goldman.

Everything to play for : how videogames are changing the world / by Marijam Did.

Food / Jennifer Clapp.

From sensing to sentience : how feeling emerges from the brain / Todd E. Feinberg.

Functional analysis revisited : an essay on completeness / Adam Bobrowski, Lublin University of Technology, Poland.

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

George Cukor's people : acting for a master director / Joseph McBride.

Giant / Mollie Ray.

Gold / Michael John Bloomfield and Roy Maconachie.

Hayek and post-war Chinese liberalism : beyond the enlightenment and national salvation / Chor-yung Cheung.

Heavyweight : a family story of the Holocaust, empire, and memory / Solomon J. Brager.

How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters : challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics / Kostas Kampourakis.

Ignorance and bliss : on wanting not to know / Mark Lilla.

Labor / Andrew Herod.

Linguistic Counter-Standardization : Exploring Liberatory Language Practices around "Japanese" / Edited by Neriko Musha Doerr.

Machine learning algorithms in depth.

Memory work : white ignorance and Black resistance in popular magazines, 1900-1910 / Mary E. Triece.

Nationalism : a world history / Eric Storm.

Natural gas / Michael Bradshaw and Tim Boersma.

Never lead alone : 10 shifts from leadership to teamship / Keith Ferrazzi ; with Paul Hill.

Oil / Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon.

One in a millennial : on friendship, feelings, fangirls, and fitting in / Kate Kennedy.

Podcast journalism : the promise and perils of audio reporting / David O. Dowling.

Political ecology : a critical introduction / Professor Paul Robbins, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Prairie edge : a novel / Conor Kerr.

Psychocinema / Helen Rollins.

Refusing ecocide : from fossil capitalism to a liveable world / William K. Carroll.

Rethinking media research for changing societies / edited by Matthew Powers, University of Washington, Adrienne Russell, University of Washington.

Sovereignty in the 21st Century : Political Theology in an Age of Neoliberalism and Populism / Carl Raschke.

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

Sugar / Ben Richardson.

The Canadian Charter of Rights : annotated / Editorial Board : John B. Laskin, Edward L. Greenspan, J. Bruce Dunlop ; consulting editor : Horace Krever.

The message / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The power of where : a geographic approach to the world's greatest challenges.

The rhetoric of outrage : why social media is making us angry / Jeff Rice.

Transmedia geographies : decoloniality, democratization, cultural citizenship, and media convergence / Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples.

Uranium / Anthony Burke.

What I know about you / Eric Chacour ; translated by Pablo Strauss.

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

Why people do what they do : and how to get them to change.

World of the right : radical conservatism and global order / Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa, Jean-François Drolet, Queen Mary University of London, Michael C. Williams, University of Ottawa, Srdjan Vucetic, University of Ottawa, Karin Narita, Queen Mary University of London, Alexandra Gheciu, University of Ottawa.

New electronic books in the Laurier collection

Adult transgender care : an interdisciplinary approach for training mental health professionals / edited by Michael R. Kauth and Jillian C. Shipherd.

Advancements in Cyber Crime Investigations and Modern Data Analytics / Edited by Shishir Kumar Shandilya, Devangana Sujay and V.B. Gupta.

Affirmative Mental Health Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth : A Clinical Guide / edited by Aron Janssen, Scott Leibowitz.

AI changing the arc of educational leadership / Karen Moran Jackson, Rosemary Papa.

All about love : new visions bell hooks

All Things Are Full of Gods : The Mysteries of Mind and Life./ David Bentley Hart

Altered states of consciousness in the movies : portrayals of hypnosis, brainwashing, spirit possession, dreams and visions since the 1940s / John C. Stephens.

Anatomy of a train wreck : the rise and fall of priming research / Ruth Leys.

Another way : living & leading change on purpose / Stephen Lewis, Matthew Wesley Williams, Dori Grinenko Baker ; foreword by Parker J. Palmer.

Attachment : 60 trauma-informed assessment and treatment interventions across the lifespan / Christina Reese.

Balancing a sauropod : the physiology of a dinosaur / Brant E. Isakson.

Being and nothingness : an essay on phenomenological ontology / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Sarah Richmond.

Between Class and Market Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies / Bruce Western.

Beyond the evangelical gender roles gridlock : reimagining Paul's views on women, marriage, and ministry / Paul J. Palma.

Camera Geologica : An Elemental History of Photography / Siobhan Angus.

Capital structure and firm performance : global financing decisions among listed companies / Ewelina Sokołowska and Milad Zargartalebi.

Cinematic homelands : the cultural and gendered imaginaries of Iranian diasporic women’s filmmaking / Mara Antic.

Competition Law and Democracy : Markets As Institutions of Antipower / Elias Deutscher.

Congregational leadership in anxious times : being calm and courageous no matter what / Peter L. Steinke.

Conscious change : how to navigate differences and foster inclusion in everyday relationships / Jean Kantambu Latting [and 3 others].

Corporate accountability and liability for climate change / edited by Elbert de Jong (Professor of Private Law, Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands).

Cosmic Connections : Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment / Charles Taylor

Creativity loops-based decision making : a systems thinking approach / Hassan Qudrat-Ullah.

Criminal justice in divided America : police, punishment, and the future of our democracy / David A. Sklansky.

Crowdfunding for environmental sustainability and the circular economy : empowered strategies for sustainable growth / Filippo Corsini, Marco Frey.

Daily practices of inclusive leaders : a guide to building a culture of belonging / Eddie Pate and Jonathan Stutz.

Debates, Controversies, and Prizes : Philosophy in the German Enlightenment / edited by Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Christian Leduc.

Democratic delusions : how the media hollows out democracy and what we can do about it / Natalie Fenton.

Empire of purity : the history of Americans' global war on prostitution / Eva Payne.

Empire of the senses : the sensual culture reader / edited by David Howes.

Erotics of deconstruction : auto-affection after Derrida / edited by Lynn Turner.

Fantasy and science fiction medievalisms : from Isaac Asimov to a Game of Thrones / edited by Helen Young.

Feeding the machine : the hidden human labor powering A.I. / James Muldoon, Mark Graham, and Callum Cant.

Flamboyant fictions : the failed art of passing / Ian Fleishman.

Gender, race, and power : examining IR through an intersectional lens / Joyce P. Kaufman, Kristen P. Williams.

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Ethics : Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices / Loveleen Gaur, University of South Pacific, Fiji & Taylor's University, Malaysia.

Grace abounds : God's abundance against the fear of scarcity / Walter Brueggemann.

Green public ethics : adopting ethical reasoning in policy processes / Jan Olsson.

Halfbreed / Maria Campbell.

Healthy congregations : a systems approach / Peter L. Steinke.

High-impact design for online courses : blueprinting quality digital learning in eight practical steps / Bethany Simunich, Andrea Gregg, Penny Ralston-Berg.

How to be the line manager you never had : managing people, performance & wellbeing in a hybrid world / Zofia Bajorek, Stephen Bevan, Cary L. Cooper.

Indigenous ecocinema : decolonizing media environments / Salma Monani.

Just practice : a social justice approach to social work / Janet L. Finn, University of Montana.

Justin Trudeau on the Ropes : Governing in Troubled Times / Paul Wells.

Kant and the Feeling of Life : Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment / Edited and with an introduction by Jennifer Mensch

Lamentations : a commentary based on the text in Codex Vaticanus / by Antje Labahn.

Land As Relation : Teaching and Learning Through Place, People, and Practices / edited by Margaret Kress and Kahente Horn-Miller.

Le 1% le plus riche : L'exception quebecoise / Nicolas Zorn ; preface de Pierre Fortin.

Man's search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; foreword by Harold S. Kushner ; afterword by William J. Winslade ; selected letters, speeches, and essays translated by Helen Pisano.

Medieval women / Michelle Rosenberg.

Mental health issues in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities / edited by Billy E. Jones, Marjorie J. Hill.

Metal Value Recovery from Industrial Waste Using Advanced Physicochemical Treatment Technologies. / edited by Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis, Papita Das, Parimal Pal, Jayato Nayak, Sankha Chakrabortty

Metal-Organic Framework Derived Materials : Design Strategies and Applications./ Gomathi Nageswaran, Varsha M V, Arun Kumar Rajasekaran and M Shashank Rao

More than pretty boxes : how the rise of professional organizing shows us the way we work isn't working / Carrie M. Lane.

Now you are God's people : reflections on 1 Peter for God's church in God's world / Justin Welby, Jennifer Strawbridge and Abigail Harries Martin.

Out of the shadows : preaching the women of the bible. Volume 2 / Kate Bruce and Liz Shercliff.

People, performance, and succeeding as a manager / Harvard Business Review.

Perfection : 400 years of women's quest for beauty / Margarette Lincoln.

Politics and medievalism (studies). III / edited by Karl Fugelso.

Postcapitalist desire : the final lectures / Mark Fisher ; edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun.

Postmodern children's ministry : ministry to children in the 21st century / Ivy Beckwith.

Powerful Python : patterns and strategies with moderny Python / Aaron Maxwell.

Preaching and social issues : tools and tactics for empowering your prophetic voice / Leah D. Schade ; foreword by Lisa L. Thompson.

Psychological safety / Amy C. Edmondson, Daisy Auger-Dominguez, Erica Keswin, Ron Carucci

Queer slashers / Peter Marra.

Queer/Muslin/Canadian : identities, experiences and belonging / Momin Rahman, Maryam Khan, editors.

Queering nutrition and dietetics : 2SLGBTQ+ reflections on food through art / edited by Phillip Joy and Megan Aston.

Queering your therapy practice : queer theory, narrative therapy, and imagining new identities / Julie Tilsen.

Religion at ground zero : theological responses to times of crisis / Christopher Craig Brittain.

Sana : poems / Maria Bolaños.

Scarborough / Catherine Hernandez.

Solo travel, tourism and loneliness : a critical sociology / Hugues Séraphin and Maximiliano E. Korstanje.

Teaching online classes / Elina Kallas (Adult Educator and Researcher, Estonia).

Terror in the name of God : why religious militants kill / Jessica Stern.

The 0. 5 Generation : Children Moving from the United States to Mexico.

The 1.5 Generation : Becoming Korean American in Hawaii / Mary Yu Danico.

The Cambridge handbook on the law, policy, and regulation of human-robot interaction / edited by Woodrow Barfield, Duke University, North Carolina; Yueh-Hsuan Weng  Tohoku University, Japan; Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin.

The Central Bank as crisis manager / Patrick Honohan.

The dawn of mind : how matter became conscious and alive / James Cooke, Ph.D.

The economics of singularities of science elucidated with Buddhist thoughts / S. Niggol Seo.

The End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time / Jeffrey D. Sachs.

The enduring enterprise : how family businesses thrive in turbulent conditions / Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg.

The flexibility paradigm : humanizing the workplace for productivity, profitability, and possibility / Manar Sweillam Morales.

The gift of therapy : an open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients / Irvin D. Yalom.

The human shutter : photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images / Robert L. Bowen.

The Influence of Sub-state Actors on National Security : Using Military Bases to Forge Autonomy / Minori Takahashi, Editor.

The Language Animal : The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity / Charles Taylor.

The language of harassment : pragmatic perspectives on language as evidence / Victoria Guillén-Nieto.

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship / edited by Birte Siim, Pauline Stoltz.

The role of BRICS in large-scale armed conflict : building a multi-polar world order / Malte Brosig.

The Routledge handbook of Black Canadian literature / edited by Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders.

The Routledge history of food / edited by Carol Helstosky.

The Security of Iceland and the Arctic 2030 : A Recommendation for Increased Geopolitical Stability / by Robert P. Wheelersburg.

The Serviceberry : Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World./ Robin Wall Kimmerer with illustrations by John Burgoyne

The sustainability class : how to take back our future from lifestyle environmentalists / Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan.

The Timucua language : a text-based reference grammar / George Aaron Broadwell.

Towards a Green Democratic Revolution : Left Populism and the Power of Affects / Chantal Mouffe..

Transforming Gender-Based Healthcare with AI and Machine Learning / Edited by Meenu Gupta, Rakesh Kumar and Zhongyu Lu.

Trauma and recovery : the aftermath of violence, from domestic abuse to political terror / Judith Lewis Herman ; with a new epilogue by the author.

Valuing Hindu women's domestic shrine traditions as reproductive labor / Ashlee Norene Andrews.

We who wrestle with God : perceptions of the divine / Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

When church stops working : a future for your congregation beyond more money, programs, and innovation / Andrew Root and  Blair D. Bertrand.

White Tongue, Brown Skin : The Colonized Woman and Language / Maya Boutaghou.

Women's restorative medievalisms : forgotten pasts and unimagined futures / edited by Suzanne M. Edwards and Matthew X. Vernon.

Word and sacrament : tracing the theological movements of reformed worship / Paul Galbreath.

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