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 grouped into related categories or collections and sorted alphabetically..
We highly encourage everyone to check out these books.
A full list of new acquisitions can be found in the New Acquisitions LibGuide. The Music Library has its own physical new books display as well, so please check it out when you can!
It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.
A collection of riveting stories about creatures great and small from Ernest Thompson Seton, the creator of realistic wild-animal fiction. Includes a foreword by Sir David Attenborough and an introduction by David L. Witt.
This book examines the development of the study of education in the UK in its broader educational, social, and political context since its early beginnings in the first part of the 20th century. By providing a historical analysis of the contested growth of the field this book examines the significant contribution that has been made by institutions of higher education, journals, text books, conferences, centers, and academic societies. It discusses the problems and opportunities of the field, and its prospects for survival and adaptation to current changes in the decades ahead.
Poetry is back on the map, thanks to Amanda Gorman's poetry explosion at Joe Biden's inauguration, yet many teachers do not know how to teach it. Many teachers say they don't have time for or don't know how to teach poetry. This book shows how a single poem can ignite an endless number of literacy lessons if you know what to look for.
Prepare your students for a future where AI literacy is crucial. Artificial intelligence (AI) is here and seems on the brink of transforming education. As teachers, we know that AI will not diminish the need for students to learn essential skills. It will, however, change how we teach and will require us to develop new skill sets for instruction and assessment.
This book details how to set up an effective writing program that focuses on process rather than product. Includes detailed lessons that focus on personal narrative, nonfiction and story writing. With book lists of the best children's books to anchor, support and extend lessons, student examples help illustrate how the strategies work in real classrooms.
This book aims to prepare mainstream educators to work effectively with diverse learners. Though not an exhaustive review of what is required for mastery of culturally informed instruction, this approach does equip educators with content knowledge, pedagogical skills, and professional dispositions necessary to provide diverse learners with equitable educational opportunities.
A critical biography of one of the eighteenth century's most provocative and inventive artists, Henry Fuseli (1741-1825). He is best known for his painting "The Nightmare", which channeled a new form of gothic imagery for the Romantic age. This engaging study of the artist's career unveils Fuseli's complexities, navigating contradictions between literary and painted works, sacred and secular themes, and traditional patronage versus competitive exhibitions.
This book traces the remarkable reshaping of the Canadian art landscape during the 1960s. It offers a captivating insider's perspective on how a surge of artists, galleries, collectors, and critics propelled Canadian art into the global spotlight. It identifies the catalysts that ignited this artistic renaissance, including an outpouring of pride in the country linked to Canada's Centennial, Expos '67, and the Toronto City Hall. With rich anecdotes and insights, the book paints a comprehensive portrait of the era, while showcasing over twenty portraits of influential Canadian artists.
Raw, unprettified and decried in conservative circles as "gutter art": Käthe Kollwitz employed her art uncompromisingly as a political voice for the social and human misery of her time. Her focus always lay on the dignity of humankind. This book provides a wide-ranging insight into the commitment and creative work of the artist, whose achievements are more topical than ever. It covers the entire spectrum of Kollwitz' creative work with the world-famous cycles of graphic works A Weavers' Revolt and Peasants' War, rare proofs and moving drawings and sculptures, thereby showing all facets of her masterful skills.
The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement reinvented the concept of North America as a cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental unity lay a paradox. While art was mobilized to frame the new narrative, culture itself was explicitly excluded from the agreements that implemented this vision. This book brings culture to the fore by examining how artworks, exhibitions, and museum programs from the 1980s to 2010 mediated North American free trade, from government-supported cultural diplomacy initiatives to activist art that confronted impending US hegemony.
Plan effective patient care using standardized interprofessional clinical problems and a concept-based approach! This book shows you how to identify clinical problems, determine expected outcomes, and choose interventions - all grounded in a logical, concept-based framework. The focus on concepts gives you the big picture, helping you recognize similarities in nursing care based on physiologic concepts, as well as differences based on the needs of individuals.
This book integrates essential maternity info into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. It uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making.
Prepare for Canadian nursing practice with a solid understanding of pathophysiology and disease! This book covers the basic concepts of pathophysiology and disease processes from a Canadian perspective. Clear descriptions and vibrant illustrations make it easier to understand body systems and the mechanisms of disease, and online resources bring pathophysiology concepts to life.
Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or "lifestyle" risks such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public reactions sometimes seem bizarre. To the public, the behavior of those supposedly "in charge" can seem no less odd. Trust is currently at a premium. This book covers the theoretical and research background, and presents a wide range of contemporary case studies and the learning experiences from these, as well as the political, institutional and organizational issues they raise. It concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and gives pointers for the future.
At the end of the 5th century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of 30 Athenians abolished the democratic institutions that for a century had governed the political life of the city and precipitated a year-long civil war. By autumn 403 BC, democracy was restored. Inspired by the model of the ancient chorus, this book interprets a crucial moment in classical history through the prism of 10 remarkable individuals and the shifting groups which formed around them. What leads a community to tear itself apart, even disintegrate, then rebuild itself? This question, explored through profound reflection on the past, echoes our tormented present.
This book examines 20th-century exploration in the Canadian North. Modern exploration helped Southerners establish and maintain distinctive kinds of colonial and settler colonial power over northern Indigenous homelands. Who explored the North between 1918 and 1965? What forms did exploration take? What did it mean to explorers and others affected by it?
A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as the nation looks ahead to another tumultuous presidential election in 2024. It analyses the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington, DC's Capitol Building on that fateful day: January 6th, 2021. Going far beyond mere journalistic accounts, it delves into structural trends within the United States, providing a broader and deeper context for comprehending the magnitude of the uprising.
"I write in a state of raging anger and shame about what I saw. A fraud was perpetrated on the entire world. A weak and defenseless nation was invaded and occupied by the greatest superpower in history on a pretext that is a transparent deception, a lie. This should bother someone. My friend Bassim and his whole family were killed. This bothers me." A classical scholar and one of the few journalists to have interviewed Saddam Hussein, Canadian reporter Paul William Roberts knows Iraq better than most. And he was in Baghdad when the bombs started falling. This is his expose of the politics behind the recent war-and the brutal reality on the ground.
This book uses reporters' images of Treaty 11 anniversary events to explore how Dene people and non-Indigenous people understand the treaty. It draws on thousands of photos taken by Native Communications Society reporters at 100th-anniversary Treaty 11 gatherings along the Mackenzie River during the summer of 2021. In telling the story of those events, Andrew and Scott say the book explores the deeper meaning of the oral version of the treaty to Dene people and the way in which that clashes with the written version as understood by non-Indigenous people.
This book provides guidelines to help writers, editors, and publishers produce material that reflects Indigenous people in an appropriate and respectful manner.
Noble Tiger Lily of the Piccaninny Tribe is young and beautiful ... but behind those almond-shaped eyes, she harbors a deep sadness. But when Captain Hook comes to Neverland hunting Peter Pan and takes Tiger Lily as his prisoner, things will never be the same for her. Tiger Lily finds it deep within herself to move past the heartache and live her life as the Creator planned. Yet fate is not on her side. Captain Hook's return takes what Tiger Lily cherishes most in this world-and forces her to make difficult decisions that will affect her entire tribe.
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations--until 15-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit - a person in a unique relationship with a dragon.
The most accessible and practical guide to research methods written especially for politics and international relations students. This book discusses how to conduct research in a step-by-step manner to support students through the entire research process. It also discusses key debates of methodology, philosophy, and theory of social science.
For many citizens, politics is depressing. How has this come to be the norm? And, how is it influencing democracy? From rising polarization to climate change, today's politics are leaving many Western democracies in the throes of malaise. This book explains how politics is depressing, why this matters, and what we can do about it. Integrating insights from political science, sociology, psychology, and other fields, it exposes the unhappy underbelly of contemporary politics and offers fresh ideas to strengthen democracy and help citizens cope with the stress of politics.
This book spans the entire research process, from data collection to analysis and interpretation. It provides a mix of theoretical and applied assessments of topics, and includes a range of new case studies and data sets that exemplify the methodological approaches.
This book covers the history of the 1850s Vancouver Island treaties, offering new interpretations based on a fresh, exhaustive, and multidisciplinary critical analysis of relevant evidence. It explores the evolving concepts and principles of Indigenous title from the first Dutch and English treaties with Indigenous North Americans in the 1620s to the increasingly detailed articulations fuelled by debates and crises in Australia and New Zealand in the 1830s and 1840s.
Working-class Canadians are often overlooked by politicians, policymakers, and political scientists. However, the working class accounts for a substantial share of Canada's population, and class differences have enduring relevance for how people relate to politics. This book argues that changing labor-market patterns, shifting electoral alignments, and increased socio-economic inequality make it essential to revisit the political importance of class.
In this three-part novel that moves between parallel worlds, an unnamed male narrator falls in love. In the "real," urban world he meets a mysterious girl at a writing contest. Their friendship deepens as they exchange passionate letters where she fantasizes about a wondrous world beyond their own, one where they can abandon their shadowy selves. As the narrator is drawn into these imaginative stories, the otherworld becomes tantalizingly real to them. But when the girl suddenly vanishes, the boy must grapple with this loss. Meanwhile, an alternate version of the narrator and the girl also exists in the otherworld, where he works as a Dream Reader and interacts with an array of fantastical creatures. Soon, the narrator discovers that the boundaries between these worlds may be more fragile than he initially understood.
Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend scolds him, "What have you done to your head? I don't want to be with a prisoner from a concentration camp!" He is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection Threadsuns by Paul Celan, but he can't manage to get past the first question on the registration form: "What is your nationality?" Then at a café (or in the memory of being at a café?), he meets a mysterious stranger. The man's name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik...
From Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit, from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to 20th century poets confused searching, this book brings us the profound and soul-nourishing experience of great poetry. The poems here reflect the genius of 6 centuries of poets.
This book follows nine teenage girls as they warm up for their indoor soccer games. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. As the teammates warm up in sync, a symphony of overlapping dialogue spills out their concerns. By season's and play's end, amidst the wins and losses, rivalries and tragedies, they are tested and ready--they are The Wolves.
Providing case studies that highlight the diverse gendered voices and stories of people who have ecstatic religious experiences, this book brings together chapters on ecstasy, transformations of the mind and body and interactions between the living and spirits. Focusing on ecstatic contexts across North and South America, Africa, Japan and beyond, this book utilises intersection analysis to uncover the links among racial, social, and gendered political margins. Using a wealth of research from both past and present, the authors interrogate institutional contexts of possession, intoxication and exorcism, uncovering group interactions between people and gods, saints, angels, or demons.
Gravitational lensing is a consequence of general relativity, where the gravitational force due to a massive object bends the paths of light originating from distant objects lying behind it. Using very little general relativity and no higher level mathematics, this book presents the basics of gravitational lensing, focusing on the equations needed to understand the phenomena. It then applies them to a diverse set of topics. This approach allows undergraduate students and others to get quickly up to speed on the basics and the important issues.
An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories--and how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thrive. This book introduces the science of human memory, revealing how our recollections of the past are constantly adapting and changing, and why a faulty memory isn't always a bad thing. Blending engaging storytelling with the latest science, the authors demonstrate how our continuous reconstruction of the past makes us who we are, helps us to interpret our experiences, and explains why no two trips down memory lane are ever quite the same.
This book features lively and informative descriptions of 46 religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and other cultures of Latin America. They are mined from indigenous religious texts, like the Popol Vuh, and from chronicles, both real and fictional, of the Spanish conquest by Diego Durán, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and Fernando de Zarzamora, among others. In the spirit of imaginative invention, even the bibliography is a mixture of authentic and concocted material.
An exploration of human connection to the aurora, the Milky Way, and the wonder of the universe above us, with gorgeous photographs by a master photographer. In this book, Travis Novitsky's photographs portray these marvels, while astrophysicist Annette S. Lee discusses how Western science and Indigenous knowledge can work together to provide a deeper understanding of our place in the universe.
As the Soviet threat to North America evolved in the early Cold War, the world was watching. What was the view from Ottawa? This book begins to tell that story. Alan Barnes, a 25-year veteran of the Canadian intelligence community, draws on recently declassified archival sources to offer a wholly new perspective on Canada's policies for the defense of North America from 1946 to 1964.