TEST NEW BOOKS 1
Course Number: AB100
Subject: Interdisciplinary
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 April 8)
New Electronic Books in the Laurier Collection
Anthropology
Anatomy of resettlement : ethnographic accounts and stories in retrospect / Mohammad Zaman.
Anthropology and AI / edited by Lora Koycheva, Angela K. VandenBroek and Matt Artz.
Invisible illness : a history, from hysteria to Long COVID / Emily Mendenhall.
Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat : Food Choice in an Age of Abundance / Michelle Mart.
Unscripting the present : the security panic of queer youth sexuality / Timothy Gitzen.
Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Excavating ancient Egypt : fifty years of archaeological memories / Jeffrey Spencer.
Greek To Us : The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World.
Biology
Business
Investing for Programmers [electronic resource].
Leadership and rhetoric : the nature and role of words in leadership / M. Todd Bates.
Leveling up As a Tech Lead : Growing As a Technical, Project, and People Leader.
Organizational stigma / Bryant Ashley Hudson, Karen D.W. Patterson, Lin Dong.
Swiftynomics : how women mastermind and redefine our economy / Misty L. Heggeness.
The Transformation Economy : Guiding Customers to Achieve Their Aspirations.
Chemistry
Statistics in environmental monitoring and assessment / Shin'ichi Okamoto and Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh.
Communication Studies
De Gruyter handbook of media and social change in the global South / edited by Kehbuma Langmia.
Fighting polarisation : shared communicative spaces in divided democracies / Cherian George.
Media Subimperialisms and the Rise of Global South / edited by Farooq Sulehria.
News, Inc : Brand and Advocacy Journalism Across Media.
Slow media : sensibility, process, and technology / edited by Mary P. Erickson.
The Digital Frontier : Platforms, Conflicts, and Diplomacy / Alessandra Massa.
The newsmongers : a history of tabloid journalism / Terry Kirby.
TikTok and youth cultures / Crystal Abidin.
Today's facts : understanding the current evolution of information / James W. Cortada.
Understanding academic freedom / Henry Reichman.
Understanding propaganda : a study of media in contemporary India / Arani Basu.
Criminology
A Thousand Miracles : from surviving the Holocaust to judging genocide / Theodor Meron.
A darker shade of blue : a police officer's memoir / Keith Merith.
Advocacy, Inc : INGOs and the business of "modern slavery" / Stephanie A. Limoncelli.
Anatomy of a Cover-Up : The Truth about the RCMP and the Nova Scotia Massacres / Paul Palango.
Catch a fire : the blaze and bust of the Canadian cannabis industry / Ben Kaplan.
Citizenship : new trajectories in law / Engin Isin.
Eastern and western conceptions of human rights : reaching a world consensus / Sanja Ivic.
Environmental law in Canada / Jamie Benidickson.
Environmental personhood : new trajectories in law / Francine Rochford.
Federal Canadian correctional officer training : an ethnographic analysis / Rosemary Ricciardelli.
Forensic investigation of smart digital devices : a hands-on guide / Farkhund Iqbal.
Graham on statutory interpretation / Randal NM Graham.
Hard Road : Bernie Guindon and the Reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club.
Intellectual Property Law in Canada / Mistrale Goudreau.
International law and the regulation of protest / edited by Azadeh Dastyari and Maria O'Sullivan.
Neuroscience in Criminal Law : An Overestimated Source of Evidence / by Carole Sénéchal.
Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide / Julian Koch.
Polar law : an introduction / Yoshifumi Tanaka.
Policing and politicising organised crime / Monique Mann.
Prison Homicide : Killing and Dying in Prison Today / Joshua S. Long
Responsibilities : a critical legal defence of human rights / Ian Turner.
Restorative Justice and Contemporary Political Theory : Critical Encounters / Giuseppe Maglione
Restorative Justice and Family Violence : Peacemaking / Joan Pennell.
Sexual Offenders and the Criminal System : Perceptions, Beliefs, and Science / Barry Maletzky.
Shadows into light : a generation of former child soldiers comes of age / Theresa S. Betancourt.
The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK / edited by Paul Andell, John Pitts.
The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of human rights / edited by Jessie Tomalty and Kerri Woods.
The Rule of Law in International Development : Paradox and Practice / Michael C. Leach.
The Rule of Law under Fire : Will It Survive? / Raymond Wacks.
The Warehouse : A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration / James Kilgore and Vic Liu.
The concept of legal personhood : what the mind reveals about law / Claudio Novelli.
The human rights principle of indivisibility / Dorothea Anthony.
The language of cyber attacks : a rhetoric of deception / Aaron Mauro.
Through the Distorted Lens : Constructing Truth and Reality with Legal Narratives / Fiona C. Hum.
Cultural Studies
The Cambridge companion to global rap / edited by Richard Bramwell, Alex de Lacey.
The look of the 1960s : Barbarella and pulp pop comics / Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey.
Education
The Classroom of Choice : 100+ Strategies to Reach and Teach Every Learner / Jonathan C. Erwin.
English
African American film noir and philosophy : racing shadow and light / Dan Flory.
Disability and rurality in American literature : ecosomatic pastoralism / Matthew J.C. Cella.
John Ford at work : production histories 1927-1939 / Lea Jacobs.
Judith Butler and film / Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz.
Martial arts ecology : aesthetics, philosophy and cinematic mediation / Wayne Wong.
Meatfiction : the treatment of animals in the contemporary American novel / Jamie Redgate.
Posthumanism, cognition and cyborg spectatorship : amalgamated cinema / Anna Batori.
Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction : Future Pasts / Isiah Lavender.
Realism after the individual : women, desire, and the modern American novel / Rafael Walker.
Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives / Ademola Adesola.
S(p)lasher flicks : the swimming pool in horror cinema / Cullen Wade.
Stolen goods in British detective fiction / Lisa Hopkins.
The Asian American Renaissance : Literary Encounters Across Time / Mai Wang.
The biopolitical turn in World cinema : visual landscapes of social power / Luca Barattoni.
Violence and the Brontës : language, reception, afterlives / Sophie Franklin.
Geography
Ecotourism Impacts on Indigenous Peoples / edited by Wayne A. Babchuk and Robert K. Hitchcock.
Food, environmental degradation and injustices / Simon Sneddon.
Indicators of Climate Change / Edited by Trevor M. Letcher.
The death and life of gentrification : a new map of a persistent idea / Japonica Brown-Saracino.
The invention of the future : a history of cities in the modern world / Bruno Carvalho
Unfrozen : the fight for the future of the Arctic / Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds.
Waste wars : the wild afterlife of your trash / Alexander Clapp.
Global Studies
Community-Based Inclusive Development : An Introduction / edited by Jörg Weber, Shaun Grech.
History
Advance Britannia : The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 / Allan Allport.
From gray to blue : galvanized Yankees in the American Civil War / Patrick H. Garrow.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans : Critical Theories of Decolonization / Nikita Dhawan.
Sorry, Not Sorry : An Unapologetic Look at What Makes Canada Worth Fighting For / Mark Critch.
Human and Social Sciences
Design thinking : theory and practice / edited by Eujin Pei and Kurt Becker.
Sentido : finding sense and purpose in design leadership / Alison Rand ; foreword by John Maeda.
Teaching User Experience : A Process Approach / Edited by Heather Noel Turner and Emma J. Rose.
Indigenous Studies
Ghost Dances in ivory towers : from the frontier of Indigenous studies / Tina Bly.
Global Perspectives on Indigenous Oral Traditions / Candido Mukuni.
Living Indigenous archives / Kirsten Thorpe.
Kinesiology and Physical Education
Fair game : trans athletes and the future of sports / Ellie Roscher & Dr. Anna Baeth.
Martin Luther University College
Love Goes First : Reaching Others in an Age of Anxiety and Division / Andrew Forrest.
Remembering the Body : Preaching That Affirms Sexuality / Sarah Travis.
The Gospel of John : a biography / Kim Haines-Eitzen.
The sermon on the Mount : reflections for the church / edited by Victor Lee Austin.
To heal or harm : scripture's use as poison or medicine for abuse survivors / Steven R. Tracy.
Torah Encounters : Deuteronomy.
Undaunted Joy : The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight / Shemaiah Gonzalez.
Mathematics
Approximation algorithms for traveling salesman problems / Vera Traub, Jens Vygen.
Mathematical Mysteries In The Natural World : Why the Small Outnumbers the Big / Alex Ely Kossovsky.
Measuring and Managing Information Risk : A FAIR Approach / Jack Jones, Jack Freund.
Medieval and Medievalism Studies
Aquinas and the ethics of happiness / Joseph Stenberg.
Ask of old paths : medieval virtues and vices for a whole and holy life / Grace Hamman.
Bad Medievalism and the modernity problem / Kathy Lavezzo.
Bloody crowns : a new history of the Hundred Years War / Michael Livingston..
Introducing Medieval animal names / Ben Parsons.
Living in a Carolingian world / edited by Valerie L. Garver.
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death / Jessica Barr.
Medievalism in English Canadian identity and literature / by M.J. Toswell.
Medievalism in Theory & Politics / edited by Karl Fugelso.
Queer making : on artists and desire in medieval Europe / Karl Whittington.
The many Joans of Arc : embodying global medievalism / by Ellie Crookes.
Wounded Knights : Violence, Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love / by Alfred Thomas.
Music
Music and Dementia : Theory and Implications for Music Use in Dementia Care / Sandra Garrido.
Philosophy
The rest is silence : enlightenment philosophers facing death / Joanna Stalnaker.
Physics
Clockwork game design / Keith Burgun.
Deep Learning Crash Course [electronic resource].
Infodynamics, economics, energy, and life : an interdisciplinary approach / Klaus Jaffe.
Laws of physics / Eddy Keming Chen, University of California, San Diego.
Physicalizing data : design approaches for human-data interaction / Giorgia Burzio, Venere Ferraro.
Quantum 2. 0 : The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology.
Systematic security : building quantum security : preparing for Q-Day and beyond / Timur Qader.
The AI paradox : how to make sense of a complex future / Virginia Dignum.
The art of AI product development : delivering business value / Dr. Janna Lipenkova.
The dharma of AI : timeless wisdom for digital ethics / Alok R. Chaturvedi.
Political Science
Critical Thinking in Public Policy and Management.
De Gruyter handbook of political parties of the Global South / edited by Lise Storm.
Making and unmaking global citizenship: lived experiences of precarious migration / Vicki Squire.
The Left in Power : Bob Rae's NDP and the Working Class / Steven High.
The breach : Iran-Contra and the assault on American democracy / Alan McPherson.
Psychology
Marginality [electronic resource] : Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change.
Religion and Culture
Digital initiation rites : joining Anonymous in Britain / Vita Peacock.
Gay Mormon dad / written by Chad Anderson ; art by Remy Burke.
Social Work
Applying social policy in social work practice / Laura Mullen.
Contemporary philosophy of autism / edited by Jami L. Anderson and Simon Cushing.
Counterterrorism and public diplomacy : cognitive warfare / by Emrah Aydemir.
Finding blindness : international constructions and deconstructions / edited by David Bolt.
Human collaboration at work : challenge and potential in creative relationships / David N. Berg.
Indigenous Knowledge and Practices on Disability in Latin America / Michelle Lapierre, editor.
Interpretive policy analysis : social meaning in policy processes / edited by Frank Fischer et al.
Law for social workers : Understanding to praxis / Sanjoy Roy.
Music, music therapy and refugees : aspects of trauma / Sami Alanne.
Ordinary magic : resilience in development / Ann S. Masten.
Poor relief : why giving people money is not the answer to global poverty / Heath Henderson.
Power and compassion : on moral force ethics and historical change / Bennett Gilbert.
Public-private partnership and policy uncertainty / Weijie Luo.
Spare the child : ending childhood corporal punishment / Ailsa M. Watkinson.
The friend machine : on the trail of AI companionship / Victoria Hetherington.
The killing age : how violence made the modern world / Clifton Crais.
Society and Environmental Justice
Creating Sustainable Cities Through Pedestrian Urbanism / Hyesun Jeong.
Sociology
The anti-social state : care, visibility and the transformation of need / Stavros Pantazopoulos.
Toward a generative AI turn in translation and interpreting studies / Łukasz Bogucki.
Women and Gender Studies
Female Detectives on Post-Network Television : Mother, Maiden, Cop. / Alison Wielgus
Feminist gothic : ghost stories by Victorian women writers / Anne DeLong.
Feminist theologies : the basics / Susan M. Shaw and Grace Ji-Sun Kim.
Gender with sexuality : situations of psychoanalytic learning / Oren Gozlan.
Missing Voices in Economics : Addressing the Gender Gap / edited by Veronika Dolar, Teresa Perry.
Rhetorics of Fairness and the Politics of Trans Exclusion / Dakota Park-Ozee & Jason Jordon.
Translation and gender : translating in the 'era of feminism' / Luise von Flotow.
New Print Books in the Laurier Collection (Waterloo library)
Anthropology
Ethnography : the basics / Susan Wardell.
Folklore : a journey through the past and present / Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook.
Human societies : a brief introduction / Mark Q. Sutton.
The omnivore's deception : what we get wrong about meat, animals, and ourselves / John Sanbonmatsu.
Refusing sustainability : race and environmentalism in a changing Europe / Elana Resnick.
Doing ethnography / Jessica Smartt Gullion, Susan Harper.
Biology
The forest fights back : a global movement for the rights of nature / Jessica den Outer.
Business
Tightrope to the moon : how mega founders win the startup war / Rahul Chandra.
Communication Studies
Manipulation : what it is, why it's bad, what to do about it / Cass R. Sunstein.
Digital dominance : winning in a socially networked world / James Jay Carafano.
Ideal Subjects : The Abstract People of AI / Olga Goriunova.
Negative media : erasure and the limits of retention / Ella Klik.
Debating authenticity : authorship, aesthetics and embodiment in trans media / Paige Macintosh.
Dictating reality : the global battle to control the news / Martin Moore and Thomas Colley.
The Impossible Women : Television, Feminism, and the Future / Kristen Hoerl.
Enshittification : why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it / Cory Doctorow.
Misguided : where misinformation starts, how it spreads, and what to do about it / Matthew Facciani.
Criminology
Cannabis Laws of Canada / Donald J. Bourgeois, Craig Slater.
Provincial Offences : Essential Tools for Law Enforcement / Charles Lawrence.
Artificial intelligence and public policy / Fernando Filgueiras.
Condominium law in Ontario : a contemporary guide / Robert Mullin.
Psychology of gang involvement / Edited by Jane L. Wood, Jaimee S. Mallion, and Sarah Frisby-Osman.
Education
Brown is beautiful / words by Supriya Kelkar ; pictures by Noor Sofi.
Eyes that kiss in the corners / by Joanna Ho ; illustrated by Dung Ho.
Eyes that speak to the stars / by Joanna Ho ; illustrated by Dung Ho.
Love / Matt de la Peña ; [illustrated] Loren Long.
The Katha Chest / Radhiah Chowdhury ; illustrated by Lavanya Naidu.
Where three oceans meet / by Rajani LaRocca ; illustrated by Archana Sreenivasan.
I am every good thing / Derrick Barnes ; illustrated by Gordon C. James.
Skin again / by bell hooks ; illustrated by Chris Raschka.
Outfoxed / Elise McMullen-Ciotti.
Thunder Boy Jr. / a guide for the book by Sherman Alexie ; Great Works author: Tom Schiele.
Thunder Boy Jr. / by Sherman Alexie ; illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
English
Comebacks : the return of the aging film star / edited by Gloria Monti and Martin Shingler.
Strikingly similar : plagarism and appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots / Roger Kreuz.
The Slicks : On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Switft / Maggie Nelson.
The tiger and the cosmonaut / Eddy Boudel Tan.
Imagining health : medicine, social protest, and modern American literature / Ira Halpern.
Dilwale dulhania le jayenge / Anupama Chopra.
The female playback in Bombay cinema : voice, body, technology / Shikha Jhingan.
Kinflix : adoption and assisted reproductive technologies in film / Marina Fedosik.
Wellwater : poems / Karen Solie.
Geography
Thirst : the global quest to solve the water crisis / Filippo Menga.
Feeding the future : restoring the planet and healing ourselves / Nicole Negowetti.
Global Studies
Martialling peace : how the peacekeeping myth legitimises warfare / Nicole Wegner.
Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa and Asia / Edited by Dip Kapoor.
Plots and deeds : agrarian annihilation and the fight for land justice in Palestine / Paul Kohlbry.
Indigenous Studies
Traitor : The Life & Assassination of John Dun Hunter, American Radical / Chris Doolen.
We survived the night / Julian Brave NoiseCat.
Martin Luther University College
Art cure : the science of how the arts save lives / Daisy Fancourt.
Mathematics
Data visualisation : a handbook for data driven design / Andy Kirk.
Game Theory Explained : A Mathematical Introduction to Optimization / Christopher Griffin.
Medieval and Medievalism Studies
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing / Edited by Sebastin Sobecki.
King Arthur : medieval British literature and modern critical tradition / Andrew Breeze.
The joy of love : a medieval literary history / Lucie Kaempfer.
Tasting religious thought and experience in late-medieval English literature / Caleb D. Molstad.
Tribal medievalisms / edited by Karl Fugelso.
Philosophy
Kant : A revolution in thinking / Marcus Willaschek ; translated by Peter Lewis.
Love In Time : An Ethical Inquiry / Fannie Bialek.
Sensing qualia : solving the hard problem of consciousness / Paul G. Skokowski.
Kant on Pleasure and Judgment : A Developmental and Interpretive Account / Alexander Rueger.
Cruelty : a cultural history / Wolfgang Müller-Funk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
Following nature's lead : ancient ways of living in a dying world / M. D. Usher.
Physics
Silicon empires: the fight for the future of AI / Nick Srnicek.
One hundred physics visualizations using MATLAB to USASH / Dan Green.
Fundamentals of software architecture : a modern engineering approach / Mark Richards and Neal Ford.
Political Science
Libertarianism : the basics / Jessica Flanigan and Christopher Freiman.
Human rights around the world : a reference handbook / Yvonne Vissing.
Democracy and social rights : a path toward equality? / Larry Patriquin.
What are the Olympics for? / Jules Boykoff.
Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war / Andrew Monaghan.
Securing the prize : presidential metaphor and US intervention in the Persian Gulf / Randall Fowler.
Psychology
How to be real : a survival guide in challenging times / Stephen Frosh.
Religion and Culture
Social Work
And housing for all : the fight to end homelessness in America / Maria Foscarinis.
Doing a literature review : releasing the research imagination / Chris Hart.
Women and Gender Studies
Can feminism be African? : A Transformative Vision of Feminism / Minna Salami.
Intimate borders : feminist migration ethics / Amy Reed-Sandoval.