These books are new to the library and can be found in the New Books Display on the main floor by the main staircase. The books are sorted by which faculty they best fall under or which collection they will belong to.
We highly encourage everyone to check out these books.
A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers. For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. This book brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history.
This book demonstrates how the Reagan and Thatcher administrations used innovations in public diplomacy to build back support for their foreign policy agendas at a moment of widespread popular dissent. It also traces how competition between the governments of Reagan and Thatcher, the Anglo-American antinuclear movement, and the Soviet peace offensive sparked a revolution in public diplomacy.
This book examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment. Moving beyond a focus on identifying and categorizing cultural forms, the authors examine Black popular culture to understand how it engages social justice, with attention to anti-Black racism.
This book details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance. It demystifies the genre-specific protocols and vocabularies for stage managers who might be unfamiliar with these fields and discusses common practices.
This book explores the sociocultural context surrounding two forms of traditional Inuit drum dancing in Ulukhaktok, an Inuit settlement in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
This practical and insightful overview is a must-have companion for aspiring and early career professionals in the performing arts, as well as students on a range of Arts courses, including Music Business, Entrepreneurship and Career Skills classes.
This book takes readers step-by-step through the world of music copyright, imparting tools to navigate this intricate system. It demystifies the laws, business practices, and trends that enable--and sometimes frustrate--a rapidly evolving industry and empowers music creators, managers, and entrepreneurs to make informed decisions.
This richly illustrated book features incisive historical essays and case studies that shed light on the many forms of pigments. From cave paintings to contemporary art, it demonstrates how a material understanding of color opens new perspectives on visual culture and the history of art.
By tracing the crooked line that connects the ideals of curative democracy and the political outsider to the populist antipolitics and strongman authoritarian rule in present times, this book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics.
Published for the first time in full, a common woman's writings reveal the startling role she played in England's revolt against the monarchy in 1649.
This book provides a reassessment of global history's most common analytical instruments, metaphors and conceptual foundations. It prompts historians to pause and think about the methodology and premises underpinning their work.
This book helps educators create learning environments where technology and AI are harnessed to enrich human interaction, creativity, and empathy.
This book is a practical, evidence-based guide for educators at all levels on how to assess and to promote student learning, broadening teachers' understanding of assessment. Balancing assessment with the development and promotion of student learning can be a significant challenge for teachers.
This book will aim to provide a comprehensive, practical, and research-informed resource for promoting mental health within educational settings. By offering actionable strategies, bridging research and practice, addressing diverse needs and contexts, and contributing to current research, the book seeks to empower readers to create supportive environments that promote students' mental health and well-being.
This book explores the transformative potential of the ChatGPT tool within education, shedding light on the opportunities that arise through the integration of the ChatGPT tool into various aspects of the learning process. It serves as a platform for the community to share cutting-edge research ideas concerning the use of the ChatGPT tool in digital education.
Drawing insight from the period of significant teacher turnover and burnout both during and beyond COVID-19 school shutdowns in the United States, the authors offer clear guidance for policies and practices that meet the needs of teachers and nourish a robust teaching workforce.
Incorporating Montessori Principles into Your Early Years Environments will allow readers to understand the developing child in their early years setting and how to adapt a Montessori approach to meet their pupils' needs.
Providing a theoretical underpinning for the idea of inclusion within education, this book recognizes the fundamental role political values play in our understanding of inclusion in the classroom, providing a philosophical lens on the inherent tensions that exist within sociological perspectives on social justice, equity and diversity.
This book provides an overview of mental health and mental health disorders from a Canadian classroom perspective. Providing definitions and current understandings of mental health challenges and disorders commonly found in K-12 classrooms, this text equips future educators with a toolbox of strategies and resources that they can use inside the classroom.
Covering the range of pathologies that emergency medicine physicians, hospitalists, and internal medicine physicians see daily, this book helps you easily recognize key ECG patterns, test your diagnostic skills, and quickly identify potentially lethal cardiac conditions.
This book addresses the issue that all nurses eventually face at one time or another in their career, a loss of passion. Supported by research but written from a holistic and personal perspective, the text includes real-life examples, strategies, and exercises that will help readers to identify negative patterns and explore ways to recapture the joy in their work lives.
Written in a calming and encouraging tone, Heal the Healer offers practical advice and actionable exercises to help caregivers, healers, and helpers find more balance in their lives, heal old wounds, decrease stress, and actualize a more joyful future.
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book examines the phenomenon of secondary stress experienced by clinicians on the frontlines of healthcare. Expanding on the first edition, this updated version incorporates new evidence, strategies, and real-world scenario that specifically address the secondary stress faced by physicians, physician assistants, and nurses. It also explores the initiatives of medical and nursing organizations, providing strategies for identifying, reframing, and addressing practice-related challenges.
This book is the first Canadian book to examine intersections of social, ecological, and structural determinants of health as the crucial pathway to tackling growing health inequities in Canada. The text also explores earth-centred policy and governance strategies to lessen and halt extreme inequities.
This book helps students develop clinical reasoning and critical reflection skills, understand the philosophical and ethical considerations necessary to care for clients and reflect on how to provide care that meets the unique needs of clients.
This book is your field guide to optimal learning outcomes through technology. Packed with expert perspectives from across the nursing education spectrum, this comprehensive toolkit walks you through the why and how of using technology to engage and evaluate learners, empowering you to make informed choices and confidently implement them in your course.
This book poses critical questions of the ways in which measurement culture manifests within the field of gender equality, asking how it is measured in different policy areas, how we might improve existing practices, and what is revealed through the examination and critique of the "technical turn" in policies that purport to promote gender equality.
Although a great deal is known about the recognition of states, less is known about the practice of derecognition of states, namely why and how states withdraw the recognition of other contested and partially recognized states. This book offers a global and comparative outlook of this unexplored diplomatic practice. Using original empirical research, it addresses the complex processes, justifications, and consequences of state derecognition.
This book draws on documentary evidence and analysis to foreground lived experiences of displacement and migration policies at the municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal levels. It also provides the tools we need to evaluate information we encounter in the news and from government officials, colleagues, and non-governmental organizations.
This book examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, it maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another.
This book will change the way you think about the politics of speech and its relationship to the future of freedom and democracy in the age of social media. It provides a map for critically grasping these battles as they erupt in university classrooms, debates around the meaning of antisemitism, the "cancelling" of racist comedians and the proliferation of hate speech on social media.
This book shows you how to improve your audio skills, including how to build great sounds that form a professional-sounding mix.