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 April 9/26)
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
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
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
Education
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
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
Indigenous Studies
Kinesiology and Physical Education
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
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.
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.
Religion and Culture
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
Sociology
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
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.
Archaeology and Heritage Studies
No new print books
Chemistry
No new print books
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.
Cultural Studies
No new print books
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.
Geography
Global Studies
History
No new print books
Human and Social Sciences
No new print books
Indigenous Studies
Kinesiology and Physical Education
No new print books
Martin Luther University College
Mathematics
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.
Music
No new print books
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
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.
Religion and Culture
Social Work
Society and Environmental Justice
No new print books
Sociology
No new print books