New books in the collection

A row of books on a shelf

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 January 1/26)

New print books in the Laurier collection

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Bodypedia : a brief compendium of human anatomical curiosities / Adam Taor ; illustrations by Nathalie Garcia.

Dangerous miracle : the astonishing rise and looming disaster of antibiotics / Liam Shaw.

Decolonizing sport / edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips.

Dictionary of Native American mythology / Sam D. Gill, Irene F. Sullivan.

Dictionary of statistics & methodology : a nontechnical guide for the social sciences / W. Paul Vogt.

Elementary statistics in social research / Jack Levin, James Alan Fox, David R. Forde.

Expert knowledge : first world peoples, consultancy and anthropology / edited by Barry Morris and Rohan Bastin.

Fundamentals of software engineering : from coder to engineer / Nathaniel Schutta and Dan Vega.

Fusion fashion : culture beyond orientalism and occidentalism / Gertrud Lehnert/Gabriele Mentges (eds.).

Girl work / Zefyr Lisowski.

Inequalities of platform publishing : the promise and peril of self-publishing in the digital book era / Claire Parnell.

Kaagaz ke phool : (paper flowers) / Lalitha Gopalan.

Kantian ethics and environmental philosophy : pursuing the good in an age of crisis / Fiacha D. Heneghan.

Music in orbit : satellite radio in the streaming space age / Brian Fauteux.

Never let a serious crisis go to waste : how neoliberalism survived the financial meltdown / Philip Mirowski.

Phenomena : an infographic guide to almost everything / Camille Juzeau, The Shelf Studio ; [translated from the French by Matthew Clarke and Jill Phythian].

Responsible Software Engineering : With Real-World Case Studies from Google / Daniel J. Barrett.

Revisioning women and drug use : gender, power and the body / Elizabeth Ettorre.

Symbolic wounds; : puberty rites and the envious male / Bruno Bettelheim.

The art of tennis / Nicholas Fox Weber.

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

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics : a history of Canada's Central Statistical Office and its antecedents, 1841-1972 / David A. Worton.

The joy of stats : a short guide to introductory statistics in the social sciences / Roberta Garner.

The moral foundation of right / Paul Guyer, Brown University (emeritus), University of Pennsylvania (emeritus).

The Routledge dictionary of Judaism / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck.

Thinking through statistics / John Levi Martin.

What is intelligence? : lessons from AI about evolution, computing, and minds / Blaise Agüera y Arcas.

New electronic books in the Laurier collection

1-2 Peter, Jude / Craig S. Keener.

A basic guide to biblical theology : nine themes that unite the Old and New Testaments / Alan J. Thompson.

A concise introduction to machine learning / A.C. Faul.

A history of pain : trauma in modern Chinese literature and film / Michael Berry.

A sense of space : a local's guide to a flat Earth, the edge of the cosmos, and other curious places / John Edward Huth.

A theology of authority : rethinking leadership in the church / Christa L. McKirland.

Adolescent victimization and delinquent behavior / Erika Harrell.

Advanced calculus for mathematical modeling in engineering and physics : with discrete and numerical analogies / David Stapleton.

Advances in Partitioning Techniques : A Prospective Towards Artificial Intelligence / Shankru Guggari, Umadevi V, and Vijaya Kumar Kadappa.

Aesthetic Action / Florian Klinger.

AI for the rest of us : an illustrated introduction / Sairam Sundaresan.

All in on AI : how smart companies win big with artificial intelligence / Thomas H. Davenport, Nitin Mittal.

Amazons in the Digital Era : The Reception of the Warrior Woman Image / Edited by Arturo Sánchez Sanz.

An introduction to data analysis using IBM SPSS / Lokesh Jasrai.

An introduction to the method of fundamental solutions / Alexander H.-D. Cheng, C.S. Chen, Andreas Karageorghis.

Analysis of variance designs : a conceptual and computational approach with SPSS and SAS / Glenn Gamst, Lawrence S. Meyers, A.J. Guarino.

Anger in politics : an analysis of anger from Aristotle to today / Andrew Hertzoff.

Anthropology’s Philosophy : How Anthropology Makes Concepts its Own / edited by Nigel Rapport.

Appendices to the Septuagint Book of Daniel.

Archaeological structuration : a critical engagement for the twenty-first century / Michael T. Searcy.

Artificial Intelligence for Business : Innovation, Tools and Practices / Ana Landeta Echeberria, editor.

As we have always done : Indigenous freedom through radical resistance / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Bayesian A/B decision models / J. Christopher Westland.

Bayesian Models : A Statistical Primer for Ecologists / N. Thompson Hobbs and Mevin B. Hooten.

Being a crisis chaplain : delivering help and healing in critical scenarios / Sidney Dekker, Lance Mergard.

Bioethics and Social Ethics in The Modern World : The Environmental and Social Sustainability Context(s) / Editors, Ivan Pavić, Nikša Alfirević, Suzana Vuletić.

Building unstoppable teams : business lessons inspired by the world's toughest cycling race / Sébastien Sasseville and Gabriel Renaud.

Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? : Policy and Practice on Four Continents / edited by N. Hornberger.

Carbon Removal / Howard J. Herzog and Niall Mac Dowell.

Cardboard Ghosts : Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems / Amabel Holland

Chemistry Calculations for Beginners / John Obimakinde, Samuel Obimakinde, Ebenezer Obimakinde, Fredrick Akinbolade.

Civilizing contention : international aid in Syria's war / Rana B. Khoury.

Closing the gap in a generation : health equity through action on the social determinants of health : Commission on Social Determinants of Health final report.

Community-based participatory research for health : from process to outcomes / Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein, editors.

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography” : Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations / By Matthew H. Edney.

Confronting the Climate Crisis : Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics / Daniel Binns, Rebecca Najdowski, editors.

Contemporary Aristotelian ethics : Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Spaemann / Arthur Madigan, S.J.

Contextual theological interpretation : an integrated model for reading the Bible / Bo H. Lim.

CRISPR Handbook : Applications, Tools, and Resources / Zhi-Yan Du.

Culture design : how to build a high-performing, resilient organization with purpose / James D. White, Krista White.

Culture, trauma, and conflict : cultural studies perspectives on war / edited by Nico Carpentier.

Debiasing AI : Rethinking the Intersection of Innovation and Sustainability / Donghee Shin.

Decontamination of Subsurface Water Resources System Using Contemporary Technologies / edited by Deepak Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Gupta, Bhupender Singh, Swati Verma.

Deep change : creating space for meaningful transformation / Kees Dorst.

Deep Learning in Action : Image and Video Processing for Practical Use / Abdussalam Elhanashi, Sergio Saponara.

Deep learning in quantitative trading / Zihao Zhang, Stefan Zohren.

Demilitarizing the Future / Edited by Darcie DeAngelo, Rebecca Kastleman, Joshua Reno, and Leah Zani.

Designer Poultry Eggs : Innovations, Applications, and Future Outlook / Edited by Arup Giri, Andrew Magnuson, Sahil Kalia.

Dynamic modelling of time-to-event processes / Gangaram S. Ladde, Emmanuel A. Appiah, Jay G. Ladde

Earth Wise : A Guide to Today's Environmental Issues / Thomas G. Spiro and Helen H. Spiro with Alexandra Soldatova.

Effective writing skills for public relations [electronic resource] / John Foster.

Elite hockey defense : skills and strategies for the modern game / Dave Cameron.

Empathy in politics and leadership : the key to transforming our world / Claire Yorke.

Emulsions : From Single Interfaces to Applications / Edited by Reinhard Miller and Eduardo Guzmán-Solís.

Environment : an Interdisciplinary anthology / selected, edited, and with Introductions by Glenn Adelson, James Engell, Brent Ranalli,.K. P. Van Anglen.

Essentials of software engineering / Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Barbara Bernal.

Every molecule matters / Simon Cotton.

Fat Studies: The Basics / May Friedman.

Fiscal federalism : principles and practices of multiorder governance / Robin Boadway, Anwar Shah.

Forces for good : the six practices of high-impact nonprofits / Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant ; foreword by Steve Case.

Foul bodies : cleanliness in early America / Kathleen M. Brown.

Frontlash/backlash / Jeffrey C. Alexander.

Game On : How Sports Media Grew up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans / David Bockino.

Gender and justice : new concepts and approaches / edited by Frances Heidensohn.

Gender Equity in Mathematics Education / Lutfi Incikabi [editor].

Generative AI and the future of the humanities : reading, writing, teaching, labor / Dana J. Gavin.

Generative AI design patterns : solutions to common challenges when building GenAI agents and applications / Valliappa Lakshmanan and Hannes Hapke.

Genetic algorithms and genetic programming : modern concepts and practical applications / Michael Affenzeller. [and others].

Global human rights institutions : between remedy and ritual / Gerd Oberleitner.

Global policymaking : the patchwork of global governance / Vincent Pouliot, Jean-Philippe Thérien.

Governing the machine : how to navigate the risks of AI and unlock its true potential / Ray Eitel-Porter, Paul Dongha & Miriam Vogel ; with a foreword by Andrew Ng.

Green Crime : Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them / Julia Shaw.

Growing Up in England : The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 / Anthony Fletcher.

Handbook for practice learning in social work and social care / edited by Joyce Lishman.

Handbook of individual differences in social behavior / edited by Mark R. Leary, Rick H. Hoyle.

Haunted by the Civil War : cultural testimony in the nineteenth-century United States / Shirley Samuels.

Health and physical education in primary schools : EveryBody Counts / Kirsten Petrie [and six others].

Healthy ageing : the role of nutrition and lifestyle : the report of a British Nutrition Foundation task force / chaired by John C. Mathers ; edited by Sara Stanner, Rachel Thompson, Judith L. Buttriss.

How to Change a Memory [electronic resource] : One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past.

Immunity to change : how to overcome it and unlock potential in yourself and your organization / Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey.

Introduction to special functions for applied mathematics / Daniele Ritelli.

Investigating Babyn Yar : shadows from the valley of death / Martin C. Dean.

Journalism in the Generation Z age / D. Jasun Carr, Mitchell T Bard.

Key issues in criminal career research : new analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development / Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington, Alfred Blumstein.

Leadership is worthless...but leading is priceless : what I learned from 9/11, the NFL, and Ukraine / Thom Mayer, MD.

Learner-oriented teaching and assessment in youth sport / edited by Cláudio Farias and Isabel Mesquita.

Legal English through the ages : a corpus-based investigation of change and continuity / Vanessa Leonardi, Patrizia Giampieri.

Let's Change the World : How to Work Within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference / Emiliana Vegas Shatro ; foreword by Noam Angrist.

Machine learning and AI beyond the basics : advanced questions and answers on machine learning and AI / by Sebastian Raschka.

Male mental illness in contemporary culture : Anglo-American representations, 2010 to present / Christina Wilkins.

Marvelous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale / Jessica Tiffin.

Mathematics emerging : a sourcebook 1540-1900 / Jacqueline Stedall.

Mathematics in India / Kim Plofker.

Mathematics of Tabletop Games / Aaron Montgomery.

Media sociology and journalism : studies in truth and democracy / Greg M. Nielsen.

Medieval Iberia : changing societies and cultures in contact and transition / edited by Ivy A. Corfis, Ray Harris-Northall.

Methods of mathematical modeling : advances and applications / edited by Hemen Dutta..

Mindful by nature : the inner work of being outdoors / Tim Drake and Jason Hamilton.

Mourning on mobile media : everyday affective witnessing / Larissa Hjorth.

Muslim women in science, past and present / Elmira Akhmetova.

Navigating the Math Major : Charting Your Course / Carrie Diaz Eaton, Allison Henrich, Steven Klee, Jennifer Townsend.

Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa : Contestations from the Embattled Continent / by J. Mensah.

Numbers and narratives : a feminist genealogy of automathographies / Maria Tamboukou.

Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis / Peter H. Russell, Lorne Sossin.

Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome : Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses / Mohammad Yaseen Mir, Saima Hamid, Javid Ahmad Parray, Munagala S. Reddy, Dilfuza Egamberdieva.

Pharma-ecology : the occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment / Patrick K. Jjemba.

Photochemical Splitting of Water : Fundamentals to Applications / Edited by Soney C. George, Luís P.M. Santos, Sajith Kurian.

Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics / Jeremy Gray.

Positive Autoethnography : An Introduction to Theory and Practice / By Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky and Claude-Helene Mayer.

Precarious secrets : a history of the Latin American Political Thriller/ Fabricio Tocco.

Probabilistic data-driven modeling / Tomaso Aste.

Programmable Decisions for Business Organizations : An Actor-Network Approach to AI-Driven Innovation / Egbert Steyn, Merwe Oberholzer, Matthew Mullarkey, Pieter Buys.

Prompt Engineering in the Enterprise, An Introduction : Competitive Advantages through Generative AI and Large Language Models / Daniel Koch, Andreas Kohne, Nils Brechbühler.

Psychiatrists' analysis of politician's mental health : the ethics of public commentary / Keith Rasmussen.

Psychology's quiet conservatism : how a supposedly woke science promotes capitalism and protects privilege / Brian M. Hughes.

Publishing as a creative industry / Stevie Marsden.

Python 3 : using ChatGPT / GPT-4 / Oswald Campesato.

Radical cartography : visual argument in the age of data / William Rankin.

Read this when things fall apart : letters to activists in crisis / edited by Kelly Hayes.

Reading the room : lessons on pedagogy and curriculum from the gender and sexuality studies classroom / edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe.

Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance : Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice / Wendy Godek and Gabriela Kütting.

Redeeming Eden : how women in the Bible advance the story of salvation / Ingrid Faro ; with Joyce Koo Dalrymple.

Rendering History : The Women of ACM-W / Childress Townsend Gloria, editor.

Research software engineering : a guide to the open source ecosystem / Mattias Bannert.

Resexualising Later Life : Performances of Older Sexual Citizenship / Edited by Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield ; With a foreword by Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto.

Rethinking media economics / Alan Albarran (Professor Emeritus, University of North Texas, US).

Rewilding and ecological justice : the ethics and politics of wildlife regeneration / Cristian Moyano-Fernández.

Robots that love : artificial amours in myth, folklore, literature, popular culture and the real world / Judith A. Markowitz.

Robust small area estimation : methods, theory, applications, and open problems / Jiming Jiang and J. Sunil Rao.

Rumor Mills : The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend / Gary Alan Fine, Veronique Campion-Vincent, Chip Heath, editors.

Science competes : informing policy in a time of distrust, fracture, and chaos / Barry Bozeman.

Scribal practices and approaches reflected in the texts found in the Judean desert : material culture and writing practices in modern research / edited by Emanuel Tov.

Sensors, Circuits, and systems for scientific instruments : fundamentals and front-ends / Soumyajit Mandal.

Sex is a spectrum : the biological limits of the binary / Agustín Fuentes.

Sharing our stories of survival : native women surviving violence / edited by Sarah Deer [and three others].

Software engineering for absolute beginners : your guide to creating software products / Nico Loubser.

Southern powers and global development : responsible but different / Laura Trajber Waisbich.

Standing for Nature : Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice / Dana Zartner, Fabian Cardenas, Mohammad Golam Sarwar.

Streaming sounds : musical listening in the digital age / Michael James Walsh.

Strong family and low fertility : a paradox? : new perspectives in interpreting contemporary family and reproductive behaviour / edited by Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna and Giuseppe A. Micheli.

Taking Video Out of the Game : A Game Developer's Guide to Total Blind Accessibility / Brandon Cole.

Teenage Time : Coming of Age Disruptively in Literature, Culture and Film 1945-2024 / Pamela Thurschwell.

The AI Pocketbook.

The AI revolution : what creativity could look like in 2035 / Daniel Vargas-Gomez.

The art of narrative analogy : identifying and interpreting parallel passages in the Bible / Seth D. Postell.

The Bridgerton paradox in artificial intelligence : balancing diversity, authenticity, and responsible innovation / Somendra Narayan.

The case for community in online spaces : taking back connection / Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell.

The Collected Dialogues of Plato : Including The Letters / Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns ; With a new foreword by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.

The computer always wins : a playful introduction to algorithms through puzzles and strategy games / Elliot Lichtman.

The Diversity of Morals / Steven Lukes.

The emergent mind : how intelligence arises in people and machines / Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland.

The evolution of political ideology : a natural and civil history / Steven Charles Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre.

The great resignation : the new refusal of work / Francesca Coin.

The Hypocrisy Trap : How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives / Michael Hallsworth.

The insubordinate and the noncompliant : case studies of Canadian mutiny and disobedience, 1920 to present / edited by Howard G. Coombs ; foreword by P.R. Hussey.

The lizard people don't want you to read this : essays on conspiracy theory in popular culture / edited by Robert Spinelli.

The means of prediction : how AI really works (and who benefits) / Kasy Maximilian.

The Nicene Creed in minimal English : why Christianity needs universal human concepts / Anna Wierzbicka.

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy / edited by Jacob Klein and Nathan Powers.

The platinum workforce : how to train and hire for the 21st century's industrial transitions / Trond Arne Undheim.

The practitioner's handbook : a guide for counsellors, psychotherapists and counselling psychologists / edited by Stephen Palmer and Robert Bor.

The red earth : a Vietnamese memoir of life on a colonial rubber plantation / by Tran Tu Binh as told to Ha An ; translated by John Spragens, Jr. ; edited and introduced by David G. Marr.

The rising sea : foundations of algebraic geometry / Ravi Vakil.

The Routledge handbook of gender and security / edited by Caron E. Gentry, Laura J. Shepherd and Laura Sjoberg.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication / Edited by Natasha N. Jones, Laura Gonzales, Angela M. Haas, and Miriam F. Williams.

The sacred and film : Darren Aronofsky's transcendent cinema / Marcin Ke̜piński.

The secret lives of dinosaurs : unearthing the real behaviors of prehistoric animals / Dean R. Lomax ; illustrated by Bob Nicholls.

The Six Secrets of Change : What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive

The Torah mosaic : introducing the Pentateuch in its complex unity / Tracy J. McKenzie.

The Travels of Ibn Batūta : in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 / translated and edited by Rev. Samuel Lee.

The trees are speaking : dispatches from the salmon forests / Lynda V. Mapes.

The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands / David Thomas, Sallie Burrough, Nicholas Drake, Marion Meyer, Troy Sternberg.

The world atlas of trees and forests : exploring Earth's forest ecosystems / Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave.

Things of the past : a modern yearning / Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen.

To the Limit : The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas.

TransForming gender : transgender practices of identity, intimacy and care / Sally Hines.

Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution / Susan Stryker.

Tribal : how the cultural instincts that divide us can help bring us together / Michael Morris.

Unbottled : The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice / Daniel Jaffee.

Uncompete : rejecting competition to unlock success / Ruchika T. Malhotra.

Understanding the politics of artificial intelligence / Pascal D. Koenig (Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

Unequal : The Math of When Things Do and Don't Add Up / Eugenia Cheng.

Victory girls, khaki-wackies, and patriotutes : the regulation of female sexuality during World War II / Marilyn E. Hegarty.

Visualizing generative AI : how AI paints, writes, and assists.

We dig ammonites : fact, folklore, and history / Jodi Summers.

What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering / Phillip A. Laplante and Mohamad Kassab.

What we all long for : a novel / Dionne Brand.

When gay people get married : what happens when societies legalize same-sex marriage / M.V. Lee Badgett.

Who gave you the epsilon? : and other tales of mathematical history / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.

Women's Roles in Times of War and Political Violence : Reclaiming Herstory / Inga B. Kuźma and Edyta B. Pietrzak ; Translated by Joel Henderson