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New Books: Arts & Sciences

New E-Books: Arts and Sciences

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New Books: Art & Design @SHU Library

New Books: Art and Design

Fierce Poise by Alexander Nemerov
Call Number: ND237.F675 N46 2021
One of Vogue's Best Books to Read of 2021 A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars; Kurt Kohlstedt
Call Number: POPULAR
In the 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World & of Everyday Design, Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs.
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity by James C. Kaufman (Editor); Robert J. Sternberg (Editor)
This second edition of the renowned Cambridge Handbook of Creativity expands on the first edition with over two thirds new material reaching across psychology, business, entrepreneurship, education, and neuroscience. It introduces creativity scholarship by summarising its history, major theories and assessments, how creativity develops across the lifespan, and suggestions for improving creativity.

New Books - Biology @SHU Library

New Books: Biology

Molecular Aspects of Neurodegeneration, Neuroprotection, and Regeneration in Neurological Disorders by Akhlaq A. Farooqui
Molecular Aspects of Neurodegeneration, Neuroprotection, and Regeneration in Neurological Disorders presents readers with comprehensive and cutting-edge information on the neurochemical mechanisms of various types of neurological disorders.
Bioinformatics for Everyone by Mohammad Yaseen Sofi; Afshana Shafi; Khalid Z. Masoodi
Bioinformatics for Everyone provides a brief overview on currently used technologies in the field of bioinformatics--interpreted as the application of information science to biology-- including various online and offline bioinformatics tools and softwares.
Advanced Methods in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology by Khalid Z. Masoodi; Sameena Maqbool Lone; Rovidha Saba Rasool
Advanced Methods in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: A Practical Lab Manual is a concise reference on common protocols and techniques for advanced molecular biology and biotechnology experimentation.
Wound Healing, Fibrosis, and the Myofibroblast by Giulio Gabbiani; Matteo Coen; Fabio Zampieri
Wound Healing, and the Myofibroblast: A Historical and Biological Perspective is the fruit of an interdisciplinary and international collaboration involving a historian of medicine (Dr. Zampieri), a physician (Dr. Coen), and a researcher (Prof. Gabbiani, world-renowned for his discovery of the myofibroblast). This book aims to draw a concise yet complete description of the conceptual evolution of wound healing, fibrosis and fibrosis-related pathologies from antiquity to present time, as well as commenting on the role of the myofibroblast and the key cell type essential for tissue repair and fibrosis (from its identification in 1971 throughout its 50-years-old history).

New Books: Broadcast Journalism and Media Production

Multimedia Reporting: how digital tools can improve journalism storytelling by Richard Scott Dunham
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9789811361630
Strategic Communication and its Role in Conflict news by Marc Jungblut
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9783658291228
The Infographic by Murray Dick
An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism.
Media, Journalism, and "Fake News" by Amy M. Damico
This volume summarizes the evolution of news and information in the United States as it has been shaped by technology (penny press, radio, TV, cable, the internet) and form development (investigative journalism, tabloid TV, talk radio, social media).

New Books: Communication and Media Arts @SHU Library

New Books: Communication and Media Arts

Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps by Jeremy Wade Morris (Editor); Sarah Murray (Editor)
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This book is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity and the everyday.
Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture by Amanda Nell Edgar
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This book presents an innovative approach to studying the spoken voice in media, showing how racial and gendered oppression bubble beneath the surface of American culture's most recognized speaking voices, spreading invisible messages about which kinds of vocal identities are privileged and which kinds should be silenced.
How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation by N. J. Enfield
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An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why "huh" is a universal word.
The View from Somewhere by Lewis Raven Wallace
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The author dives deep into the history of "objectivity" in journalism and how its been used to gatekeep and silence marginalized writers.

New Books: Criminal Justice @SHU Library

New Books: Criminal Justice

Evaluating Police Uses of Force by Seth W. Stoughton; Jeffrey J. Noble; Geoffrey P. Alpert
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Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force.
Metamorphosis: How to Transform Punishment in America by Robert A. Ferguson
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Bolstered by insights from hundreds of letters written by prisoners, the author makes the case for an entirely new concept of prisons and their purpose: an "inner architectonics of reform" that will provide better education for all involved in prisons, more imaginative and careful use of technology, more sophisticated surveillance systems, and better accountability.

New Books: Government @SHU Library

New Books: Government

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America by Lee Drutman
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Weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge political science research, the author tells the story of how American politics became so toxic, why the country is trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare, and why it is destroying the shared sense of fairness and legitimacy on which democracy depends.
Building the Compensatory State: An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform by Robert Durant
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This book analyzes administrative reform in empirical and theoretical ways, taking a multidisciplinary approach and incorporating recent developments in cognate research fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Policing Problem Places by Anthony A. Braga; David L. Weisburd
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This book argues that it is time for police departments to shift away from a focus on catching criminal offenders and move towards dealing with crime at problem places as a central crime prevention strategy.
A Seat at the Table by Kira Sanbonmatsu; Kelly Dittmar; Susan J. Carroll
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Drawing on personal interviews with over three-quarters of the women serving in the 114th Congress, the authors analyze how these women navigate today's stark partisan divisions, and whether they feel effective in their jobs.
Who Wants to Run?: How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization by Andrew B. Hall
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If we want to reduce the ideological gulf in our legislatures, we must first understand what has caused it to widen so much over the past forty years. The author argues that we have missed one of the most important reasons for this ideological gulf: the increasing reluctance of moderate citizens to run for office.
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar
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Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states.

New Books: History @SHU Library

New Books: History

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz (Contribution by)
Call Number: ONLINE and in print: E184 .S75 O79 2018
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United Statesis a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it.
Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South by Paul E. Teed; Melissa Ladd Teed
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This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation.
The Evening Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great Washington Newspaper by Faye HASKINS
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The story of the 129-year history of one of the preeminent newspapers in journalism history, when city newspapers across the country were at the height of their power and influence.
The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity by Thomas Ward
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This work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: it begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European colonialism--and then moves on to the sixteenth-century Spanish arrival and its impact
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
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Captures the essence of life in great civilizations of the past. Each volume in this series examines a single civilization, and covers everything from landmark events and monumental achievements to geography and everyday life.
How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher
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“’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”—Wall Street Journal
The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 by Ryan Dominic Crewe
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This book examines the political and economic history of Mexico, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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Since it was first published in 2010, this bestselling award-winning book has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads, while also spawning a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists.
Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War by Cody Marrs
The author reveals how Civil War narratives evolved over time and why they acquired such lasting power.
Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals by H. Gelber
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This book questions the universal belief that England's 1840-42 war with China was an 'Opium War'.
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic Period by Emmanuel; Nantet (Editor)
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Insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world, using modern scientific knowledge and Hellenistic sources.
Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service by Philip F. Rubio
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Rubio revives the Postal Service's 1970 strike story and connects it to today's postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions.
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware
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This book profiles nineteen women--some famous, many unknown--who worked tirelessly out of the spotlight protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship.
Women's War by Stephanie McCurry
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The author challenges the idea that women are outside of war by revealing their transformative and long-neglected role in the Civil War.

New Books - Languages and Literatures @SHU Library

New Books: Languages and Literatures

1984 by George Orwell
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One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell's cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.
Authoring Autism by Melanie Yergeau
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Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity--neuroqueerness--rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, she notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity. She also critiques early intensive behavioral interventions--which have much in common with gay conversion therapy.
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
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Toklas, Alice B Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca
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Federico Garcia Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros, provincia de Granada, 5 de junio de 1898-entre Viznar y Alfacar, 18 de agosto de 1936). Espana.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Sixty years after its originally publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by various
An anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars.
Irish Literature in Transition: 1980-2020 by Eric Falci (Editor)
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Irish Literature in Transition, 1980-2020 elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century's long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major writers and texts, and providing path-making accounts of its emergent figures. Over the past forty years, life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been transformed by new material conditions in each polity and by ideological shifts in the way people understand themselves and their relation to the world.
Language Unlimited by David Adger
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The author takes the reader on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand.
The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West
An insightful, witty novel set in early twentieth-century black Boston by the Harlem Renaissance's youngest member.
Los de Abajo (Spanish Edition) by Mariano Azuela
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Trata sobre la revuelta de la Revolucion Mexicana. La inspiración de Mariano se da por que el estaba en las filas de Francisco Villa.
The New Irish Studies by Paige Reynolds (Editor)
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This collection tracks how Irish writers have represented the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland, the consequences of the Celtic Tiger economic boom in the Republic, the waning influence of Catholicism, the increased authority of diverse voices, and an altered relationship with Europe. The essays acknowledge the distinctiveness of contemporary Irish literature, reflecting a sense that the local can shed light on the global, even as they reach beyond the limited tropes that have long identified Irish literature.
When Fiction Feels Real by Elaine Auyoung
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This book provides literary studies with new tools for thinking about the phenomenology of reading by bringing narrative techniques into conversation with psychological research on reading and cognition.
Wordsworth's Fun by Matthew Bevis
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The author argues in his radical new reading of the poet that Wordsworth owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy.

New Books: Mathematics @SHU Library

New Books: Mathematics

100 Years of Math Milestones by Stephan Ramon Garcia; Steven J. Miller
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This book is an outgrowth of a collection of 100 problems chosen to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the undergraduate math honor society Pi Mu Epsilon.
Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis by WOLFGANG HARDLE
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Focusing on high-dimensional applications, this 4th edition presents the tools and concepts used in multivariate data analysis in a style that is also accessible for non-mathematicians and practitioners. All chapters include practical exercises that highlight applications in different multivariate data analysis fields. All of the examples involve high to ultra-high dimensions and represent a number of major fields in big data analysis.
Critical Statistics by Robert de Vries
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This accessible and entertaining new textbook provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the barrage of numbers encountered in their everyday lives and studies.
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by William Poundstone
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A look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe.
Extremal Problems for Finite Sets by P. Frankl; Norihide Tokushige
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This book is aimed at mathematically mature undergraduates, and highlights the elegance and power of this field of study.
Mathematical Theory of Scattering Resonances by Semyon Dyatlov; Maciej Zworski
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This book concentrates mostly on the simplest case of scattering by compactly supported potentials, but provides pointers to modern literature where more general cases are studied. It also presents a recent approach to the study of resonances on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
Operator-Adapted Wavelets, Fast Solvers, and Numerical Homogenization by Houman Owhadi; Clint Scovel
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This book explores the common purpose of making estimations with partial information from a game and decision theoretic perspective, showing how they constitute a pathway to developing simple and general methods for solving fundamental problems in both areas.

New Books: Music @SHU Library

New Books: Music

Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen
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This book paints a vivid picture of Ellington's life and times, illuminating his constantly evolving approach to composition, performance, and the music business, as well as issues of race, equality and religion.
Musical Emotions Explained by Patrik N. Juslin
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Based on ground-breaking research, this book takes a close look at how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments.
A Natural History of the Piano by Stuart Isacoff
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A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.
Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film by Kevin Whitehead
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Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points.

New Books: Philosophy and Religious Studies @SHU Library

New Books: Philosophy and Religious Studies

Bioethics: A Primer for Christians by Gilbert Meilaender
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In this fourth edition, Meilaender updates much of the data referenced in the book and responds directly to recent developments, such as the CRISPR/Cas9 method of gene editing, with circumspect writing and an ability to address the nuances of each issue while maintaining strong and clearly stated moral convictions.
Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History [2 Volumes] by Susan de-Gaia (Editor)
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This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. * Offers nearly 300 reference articles by international scholars of religion, women, and history * Provides an overview of the religious experiences of women across time, faiths, and cultures
Expanding Public Employee Religious Accommodation and Its Threat to Administrative Legitimacy by James N. Szymalak
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This book draws attention to the threat to effective government that proposed expansions to religious accommodation laws can create.
Fear Itself: The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America by Ann Gordon; L. Edward Day; Christopher D. Bader; Joseph O. Baker
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Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears--which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears--this book offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives.
Gospels Before the Book by Matthew Larsen
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The author challenges several subtle yet problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at work in early Christian studies.
Physical Intelligence: by Scott Grafton: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life
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Through the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience, the author brilliantly accounts for the design and workings of the action-oriented brain in synchronicity with the body in the natural world, and he shows how physical intelligence is inherent in all of us--and always in problem-solving mode.
The Risk of a Lifetime: How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible by Rivka Weinberg
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This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible.
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Jane Brox
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Through her evocative, intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, the author illuminates the many ways silence is more complex than any absolute, and how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society.
The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science by Theodore Sider
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In this book, the author identifies how the shift from modal to "postmodal" conceptual tools in recent years has affected the metaphysics of science and mathematics.
Was America founded as a Christian nation? : a historical introduction by John Fea
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John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the titles question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past.
When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible by Lisa Tessman
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Drawing on philosophy, empirical psychology, and evolutionary theory, this book explores how and why human beings have constructed moral requirements to be binding even when they are impossible to fulfill.
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
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Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, the author delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

New Books: Psychology @SHU Library

New Books: Psychology

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
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This book explores the consequences of extreme personal and cultural differences between parents and children.
Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Foundations and Guidelines for Animal-Assisted Interventions by Aubrey H. Fine (Editor)
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This book will help therapists discover the benefits of incorporating animal-assisted therapy into their practice, how to design and implement animal-assisted interventions, and the efficacy of animal-assisted therapy with different disorders and patient populations.
Moral Development by Elizabeth C. Vozzola
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This class-tested text provides a comprehensive overview of the classical and current theories of moral development and applications of these theories in various counseling and educational settings.
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, this book draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction.
Our Minds, Our Selves: A Brief History of Psychology by Keith Oatley
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An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made them.
A Research Guide to Psychology by Deborah Dolan
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This authoritative research guide uses a problem-solving approach to presenting print and electronic resources.

New Books: Public Administration @SHU LIbrary

New Books: Public Administration

Building the Compensatory State by Robert F. Durant
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"This book analyzes American administrative reform, taking a multidisciplinary approach, challenging existing notions of the nature, scope, and power of the American state and, with these, important aspects of today's conventional wisdom in public administration"-- Provided by publisher.
Expanding public employee religious accommodation and its threat to administrative legitimacy by James N. Szymalak
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Employee rights -- United States | Religion and state -- United States | Civil service | LAW -- Constitutional | LAW -- Public | Civil service |

New Books: Social Work @SHU Library

New Books: Social Work

Advocacy Practice for Social Justice by Richard Hoefer
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A clear, comprehensive, and practical resource for social work courses in advocacy, community practice, and macro practice.
Case Management by Arthur J. Frankel; Sheldon R. Gelman; Diane K. Pastor
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This book approaches case management as both an art and a science by providing students and practitioners with the basics of case management theory, skills, and applications.
Environmental Justice As Social Work Practice by Christina L. Erickson
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This book places the natural environment as central to social work practice.
Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education by Özlem Sensoy; Robin DiAngelo; James A. Banks (Series edited by); Özlem Sensoy
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Based on the authors' extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice.
The Opposite of Hate by Sally Kohn
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"Brilliantly illustrates the immense and disarming power of changing course and driving not toward division, but toward civility and mutual respect."
--Ms. magazine
Shadows of Doubt by Rajiv Sethi; Brendan O'Flaherty
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Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort our interactions, shape crime, and deform the criminal justice system.
Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science: Stories of Making a Difference in Social Work with Adults by Elaine James; Rob Mitchell; Hannah Morgan; Ian Burgess
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This book tells stories of just how powerful social work can be, from frontline practice, ranging from first interviews through to complex decision-making.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

New Books: Sociology / Women's Studies@SHU LIbrary

New Books: Sociology and Women's Studies

Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair by Kimberley Hockings (Editor); Robin Dunbar (Editor)
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This multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding.
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America by George Yancy; Linda Martin Alcoff (Foreword by)
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The author offers the theoretical framework for understanding the violence perpetrated against the Black body.
Ireland and the Climate Crisis by Dave Robbins
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of Ireland’s response to the climate crisis. The contributions, written by leading scholars across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities and beyond, shed light on diverse aspects of the climate crisis, the factors shaping Ireland’s response, and prospects for the future.
Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care by Jill B. Delston
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This book argues that denying patients access to hormonal birth control prescription refills violates a variety of legal and moral standards, including medical malpractice, informed consent, and human rights.
The Queering of Corporate America by Carlos A. Ball
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Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the overlooked story of how LGBTQ activism aimed at corporations since the Stonewall riots helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly hostile toward sexual minorities and transgender individuals into reliable and powerful allies of the movement for queer equality.
Race Against Empire by Penny M. Von Eschen
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During World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence movements in Africa and Asia were inextricably linked to political, economic, and civil rights struggles in the United States. Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, the author offers a vivid portrayal of the African diaspora in its international heyday, from the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress to early cooperation with the United Nations.
There's No Crying in Newsrooms by Kristin Grady Gilger; Julia Wallace; Campbell Brown (Foreword by)
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This book tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades.
Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman
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In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished transcendence theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, exploration, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

New Books: Sports Communication and Media @SHU Library

New Books: Sports Communication and Media

Sports Journalism: An Introduction to Reporting and Writing by Kathryn T. Stofer; James R. Schaffer; Brian A. Rosenthal
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The second edition has passed the test of time, been used in classrooms internationally, received approval and praise from professors and students, and now it, too, has moved into the new environment of sports media.
Sports Journalism and Coming Out Stories by William P. Cassidy
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This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam.
The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules by Mike Milne
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This book examines how developments in technology, broadcasting rights, and regulation combine to determine what sport we see on television, where we can see it, and what the final output looks and sounds like.

New Books: Theater Arts @SHU Library

New Books: Theater Arts

Acts of Poetry: American Poets' Theater and the Politics of Performance by Heidi R. Bean
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This book shines a spotlight on poets' theater's key groups, practitioners, influencers, and inheritors.
The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives by Selby Wynn Schwartz
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This book explores the politics of gender in motion, from drag ballerinas to faux queens, butch divas to the club mothers of modern dance.
Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage by Melinda Powers
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This volume investigates a cross-section of theatrical productions on the contemporary American stage that have reimagined Greek tragedy in order to address the political and social concerns of minority communities.
Equus by Peter Shaffer
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An exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion, this play delves into the darkest recesses of human existence.
From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater by Carey Purcell
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The author traces the evolution of important feminist artists and their productions over several centuries.
Sophocles: Antigone and Other Tragedies by Oliver Taplin (Editor)
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These tragedies portray the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths into supreme works of poetry and dramatic action.
Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher by Anthony P. Pennino
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This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks
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The author continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Performed across the globe by some of the world's most iconic performers, this play remains an unwavering testament of what it means to be human.