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 September 26/25)

New print books in the Laurier collection

Waterloo

A phenomenology of the alien : encounters with the weird and inscrutable other / edited by Aaron B. Daniels.

Absolute ethical life : Aristotle, Hegel and Marx / Michael Lazarus.

Access : inside the abortion underground and the sixty-year battle for reproductive freedom / Rebecca Grant.

Adorno's gamble : harnessing German ideology / Mikko Immanen.

After the human : a philosophy for the future / Mark C. Taylor.

Against morality / Rosanna McLaughlin.

Against symbolic liberalism : a plea for dialogical sociology.

Alive : our bodies and the richness and brevity of existence / Gabriel Weston.

Animals, robots, gods : adventures in the moral imagination / Webb Keane.

Before we were trans : a new history of gender / Kit Heyam.

Betrayal U : the politics of belonging in higher education / edited by Rebecca G. Martínez and Monica J. Casper.

Can we trust technology? / Sarah Pink and Emma Quilty.

Chester Brown / Frederik Byrn Køhlert.

Civil war and intrastate armed conflict : changing dynamics in international perspective / Karl DeRouen, Edward Newman, Paul Bellamy.

Comics art in Korea / John A. Lent ; [Collaborators: Kwon Jae-woong, Suh HaeLim, Yu Kie-un]

Confucian feminism : a practical ethic for life / Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee.

Cosmetics, fashion, and the exploitation of women / Mary-Alice Waters, Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed.

Counterculture : the story of America from bohemia to hip-hop / Alex Zamalin.

Crumb : a cartoonist's life / Dan Nadel.

Cultural policy beyond the economy : work, value, and the social / Deborah Stevenson.

Cultural teachings : First Nations protocols and methodologies.

Cyborg rights : extending cognition, ethics, and the law / S. Orestis Palermos.

Descartes and the non-human / Emma Gilby, University of Cambridge.

Dialogues with classical Chinese philosophy / edited by Aleksandar Stamatov.

Digital degrowth : radically rethinking our digital futures / Neil Selwyn.

Direct action as conceptual art? : an examination of the role of the communiqué for ecodefense.

Doing cultural studies : the story of the Sony Walkman / Paul Du Gay [and five others].

Double crossed : Black female intersectionality in Hollywood / Frederick W. Gooding Jr.

Double crossover : gender, media, and politics in global basketball / Courtney M. Cox.

Driven to their knees : humiliation in contemporary politics / Roxanne L. Euben.

Empathy and ethics / edited by Magnus Englander and Susi Ferrarello.

Engendering Blackness : slavery and the ontology of sexual violence / Patrice D. Douglass.

Feminist Heidegger : sex, gender, and the politics of birth / Jill Drouillard.

Foucault today : new perspectives in philosophy and cultural studies / Marita Rainsborough ; translated from German by Alison Fry and Dominic Rainsborough.

Foundations of Black epistemology : knowledge discourse in Africana philosophy / Adebayo Oluwayomi.

Frantz Fanon : gender, torture and the biopolitics of colonialism / Azzedine Haddour.

Global indigenous horror / edited by Naomi Simone Borwein.

Graphic : trauma and meaning in our online lives / Alexa Koenig, Andrea Lampros.

Heat / Nick James.

Heidegger on Ethics / Mahon O'Brien.

Heidegger on technology's danger and promise in the age of AI / Iain D. Thomson.

Hopeful pessimism / Mara van der Lugt.

Horizontal development : shifting power and privilege in aid / Shonali Banerjee, Anne-Meike Fechter and Thabani Mutambasere.

Horror comics and religion : essays on framing the monstrous and the divine / edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead ; foreword by Clay McLeod Chapman.

How to think like Socrates : ancient philosophy as a way of life in the modern world / Donald J. Robertson.

Imagining alternative worlds : far-right fiction and the power of cultural imaginaries / Christoffer Kølvraa and Bernhard Forchtner.

In praise of philosophy / Alain Badiou, translated by Susan Spitzer and Kenneth Reinhard.

Informatics of domination / edited by Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee ; with an afterword by Donna J. Haraway.

Introducing Chinese philosophy : from the Warring States to the 21st century / Douglas L. Berger.

Introduction to the ethics of emerging technologies / Wessel Reijers, Mark Thomas Young, Mark Coeckelbergh.

Irrationality / Ema Sullivan-Bissett.

It takes more than a candidate : why women don't run for office / Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox.

Jewish ethics : the basics / Geoffrey D. Claussen.

Kant on marriage / Charlotte Sabourin.

Kant's ideas of reason / Katharina T. Kraus.

Levinas, ethics, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Norman K. Swazo.

Looking at movies : an introduction to film / Dave Monahan & Richard Barsam.

Mangal Pandey to Lakshmibai : a story of the Indian mutiny 1857 / by Mohan Mishra.

Marcuse / Jacob McNulty.

Meaning is everywhere : language, artificial intelligence, society / Prashant Parikh.

Medium hot : images in the age of heat / Hito Steyerl.

Memorializing violence : transnational feminist reflections / edited by Alison Crosby and Heather Evans.

Monsters vs. patriarchy : toxic imagination in global horror cinema / Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini.

Mothers of invention : the feminist roots of contemporary art / Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott.

Music of the Josquin Era, 1460-1560 : studies in honor of Joshua Rifkin / edited by Mitchell P. Brauner, David Fallows, and Jesse Rodin.

Neo-Aristotelian metaphysics / Phil Corkum, University of Alberta.

Nietzsche's earthbound wisdom : the philosopher, the poet, and the sage / Keith Ansell-Pearson.

No human involved : the serial murder of Black women and girls and the deadly cost of police indifference / Cheryl L. Neely.

Off the spectrum : why the science of Autism has failed women and girls / Gina Rippon.

On Black bandes dessinées and transcolonial power / Michelle Bumatay.

On my own publications / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Scott M. Campbell.

Out of the gutters : obscenity, censorship, and transgression in American comics / edited by Jorge J. Santos Jr. and Patrick S. Lawrence.

Overcoming objectification : a carnal ethics / Ann J. Cahill.

Pink-pilled : women and the far right / Lois Shearing.

Posthuman knowledge & the critical posthumanities / by Rosi Braidotti.

Prosthetic immortalities : biology, transhumanism, and the search for indefinite life / Adam R. Rosenthal ; foreword by David Wills.

Raising hare : a memoir / Chloe Dalton.

Rethinking death in and after Heidegger / Iain D. Thomson, University of New Mexico.

Secular Muslim feminism : an alternative voice in the war of ideas / Hind Elhinnawy.

Some like it hot.

Stop the machines : the rise of anti-technology extremism / Mauro Lubrano.

Strangers and intimates : the rise and fall of private life.

Success at a price : women of color students at a white university / Lisa C. Huebner, Samantha Jeune, and Odette Kolenky.

Technocreep and the politics of things not seen / edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin.

The archivability of television : essays on preservation and perseverance / edited by Lauren Bratslavsky and Elizabeth Peterson.

The craft of criticism : critical media studies in practice / edited by Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney.

The essentials of Chinese Buddhist philosophy / Fang Litian.

The neuroscience of language / Jonathan E. Peelle.

The power of feminist theory : domination, resistance, solidarity / Amy Allen.

The pregnancy police : conceiving crime, arresting personhood / Grace E. Howard.

The Routledge introduction to American comics / Andrew J. Kunka and Rachel R. Miller.

The T in LGBT : everything you need to know about being trans / Jamie Raines.

The Vienna circle : the story of logical empiricism / Sahotra Sarkar.

The years of theory : postwar French thought to the present / Fredric Jameson ; edited by Carson Welch.

Unlawful advances : how feminists transformed Title IX / Celene Reynolds.

Unmasking authentic Black female identity : the power of self-defining and shattering stereotypes / Idrissa N. Snider.

Unsilenced : women musicians, gender-based violence, and the popular music industry / by Rosemary Lucy Hill, Bianca Fileborn, and Catherine Strong.

Video games and gender assemblages : understanding #Gamergate and beyond / Sian Tomkinson.

Walter Benjamin and the post-Kantian tradition / Phillip Homburg.

Walzer and justice : spheres of justice in the 2020s.

Women's rights in liberal states : patriarchy, liberalism, religion and the chimera of rights / Gila Stopler.

New electronic books in the Laurier collection

A concise business guide to climate change : what managers, executives, and students need to know / Gunnar Trumbull.

A philosophical enquiry into the sublime and beautiful / Edmund Burke ; edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

Acts / Robert P. Menzies and Craig S. Keener.

AI and UX : why artificial intelligence needs user experience / Gavin Lew, Robert M. Schumacher Jr.

All the work you shouldn't do : how to succeed at university / Ruby Cline.

Autism : a social and medical history / by Mitzi Waltz.

Beyond neural correlates of consciousness / edited by Morten Overgaard, Jesper Mogensen, Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup.

Braiding sweetgrass : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Christianity and agroecology / Matthew Philipp Whelan.

Communicating disability : expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in health communication and mass media / edited by Erin Willis and Chad Painter.

Data-driven fault diagnosis : a machine learning approach for industrial components / Govind Vashishtha.

Deal making : the secrets of successful negotiations / Marc Helmold.

Distancing : how great leaders reframe to make better decisions / L. David Marquet, Michael A. Gillespie.

Down in the bottom of the bottom of the box / JonArno Lawson; Paper cuts by Alec Dempster.

Ethics, law and the business of being human : against nine to five philosophy / Charles Foster.

Gender and diversity policy in AI : strategies, metrics and case studies / Arif Ahmed Sekh, Dilip K. Prasad.

Generative AI for software development : building software faster and more effectively.

God and technology / Heidi A. Campbell.

Grief in the Margins : Grief, Loss, and Resistance for the Invisible Majority / Michelle L. Williams.

Group Dynamics in Exercise and Sport Psychology : New Perspectives / Edited by Mark R. Beauchamp and Mark Eys.

Handbook of education policy research / edited by Lora Cohen-Vogel, Peter Youngs, and Janelle Scott.

Home invasion horrors : a history and analysis of cinematic break-ins / Ryan Izay.

Human(e) : A Radical Reimagining of Grief, Loss and Learning to Live Without / Rachelle Bensoussan.

Introduction to documentary / Bill Nichols with Jaimie Baron.

Jesus and the Law of Moses : the Gospels and the Restoration of Israel within First-Century Judaism / Paul T. Sloan.

Kant on social suffering / Nuria Sánchez Madrid.

Late Star Trek : the final frontier in the franchise era / Adam Kotsko.

Law, Technology and Governance / Roger Brownsword.

Leading meaningful change / Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Francesca Grippa.

Leading organizational transformation : embracing liberation, vitality, and expression to build a success-capable organization / Alejandro Reyes.

Leading the sustainable organization : the quest for ethical brands and a culture of sustainable innovation / Peter McAteer.

Me Artsy / compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor.

Microbiology and horror cinema / Larrie Dudenhoeffer.

Oroonoko, and other writings / Aphra Behn ; edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Salzman.

Out of poverty : sweatshops in the global economy / Benjamin Powell.

Radical listening : the art of true connection / Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener.

Reading the Bible : a literary guide to Scripture / Dr. Bill Creasy.

Romans : an interpretation Bible commentary / Susan G. Eastman.

Sound and horror in the giallo film / Damien Pollard.

Teacher believed in me : the science and heart of making a difference in students' positive well-being / David K. Hatch, Muriel Thomas Summers.

The Bible, disability, and the church : a new vision of the people of God / Amos Yong.

The Buddha : biography of a myth / Donald S. Lopez Jr.

The castle of Otranto : a gothic story / Horace Walpole ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nick Groom.

The cultural politics of digital user experience writing / Lara Portmann.

The cybernetic society : how humans and machines will shape the future together / Amir Husain.

The Disabled God : Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability / Nancy L. Eiesland.

The Earth intoxicated on imagination / Annabelle Dufourcq.

The interesting narrative / Olaudah Equiano ; edited with an introduction and notes by Brycchan Carey.

The logic of theoretical sociology : an historical assessment / David Willer, Pamela Emanuelson.

The Lord bless you : Numbers 6 for the life of the church / Stephen B. Chapman.

The neuroscience of human relationships : attachment and the developing social brain / Louis Cozolino.

The new workplace : employee alignment in remote-first, office-forward, and hybrid work organizations / Radostina Purvanova, Alanah Mitchell.

The Politics of Gun Control / Robert J. Spitzer.

The Regulated Internet : Europe's Quest for Digital Sovereignty / by Vittorio Bertola, Stefano Quintarelli.

The relevance of financial literacy : theory, research, and metrics / Edoardo Lanciano.

The science of leadership : nine ways to expand your impact / Jeffrey Hull and Margaret Moore.

The stoic capitalist : advice for the exceptionally ambitious / Robert Rosenkranz.

Traditional ecological knowledge : learning from indigenous practices for environmental sustainability / edited by Melissa K. Nelson, Daniel Shilling.