Book Announcement

A new book on traditional Iranian music explores the consequences of an oral tradition of music on the concepts of improvisation, originality and musical freedom. The book also touches on the physicality of making music, challenging our everyday notions of music and music education, which are grounded in the Western literal tradition.

Author says groups working with Indigenous communities in Central America must have trusted partner, perseverance.

- University of Leicester paleontologists publish new book on technofossils

- Offers a glimpse of how today’s technology will become the fossils of the future

- Scientists suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future palaeontologists

“Natural Disasters and Local Resiliency,” co-written by Binghamton University's Komla Dzigbede, revolves around the increase in number, strength and frequency of natural disasters globally; the authors interview local government managers — many who may be the next to experience a disaster — to examine the lessons that they can use as they attempt to prevent, prepare, respond and recover from these events. The book’s major goal is to serve as a resource for practitioners at the local level leading government services and programs.

A new edition of the bestselling book “Criminal Law in Canada: Cases, Questions, and the Code”, co-authored by associate professor David MacAlister and the late professor emeritus Simon Verdun-Jones recently hit the bookshelves. This latest version brings readers up to date with the latest developments in the criminal area, featuring expanded discussion on sentencing, partial defences, bail reform, and more.

The book has long served as the standard text for second-year undergraduate criminology and criminal justice course on criminal law in various colleges and universities across Canada. MacAlister undertook the task of updating the material by reviewing five years' worth of cases and incorporating some fresh pedagogical features that were missing from previous editions.

A new book Mining and Financial Imperialism: The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its post-colonial legacies in the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Daniel G. Graham joined the authors of “Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide” for the book’s second edition.

A new book by UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist and visual artist Nia Imara debuts on Feburary 25 that explains the universe and traces how art has blended with science throughout human history.

RE-HUMANIZE: How to Build Human-Centric Organizations in the Age of Algorithms offers a compelling guide to designing organizations that harmonize digital efficiency with human-centric values, ensuring that both productivity and meaningful work coexist.

Researchers from the University of Vaasa, Finland, and Kent Business School, UK, have gathered insights on innovation policy, its current status and future perspectives in their new book “The Evolving Innovation Space”. The book offers research-based insights on how innovation can best be used to drive economic change and to find solutions to global problems.

 

In his new book Being We, Professor Dan Zahavi shares the results of five years of research into communal experience. He argues that being part of a we requires an experiential anchoring; an identification with the group that affects one’s own self-identity.