New Books

AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future
Matt Miller, 2023
MMA Call Number:  LB 1028.43 .M55 2023

Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity. It's bound to change education. (It already has.) But how? This book is a readable guide for educators.

Amazon:  How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce, 2nd ed.
Natalie Berg & Miya Knights, 2022
MMA Call Number:  HF 5548.32 .B457 2022

The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer engagement strategies to ensure they survive. Amazon offers unique insight into the company's persistent dissatisfaction with the status quo and innovation and how it has fundamentally changed the ways in which we shop.

The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup, 3rd ed.
Mervin E. Fingas, 2013
MMA Call Number:  TD 427 .P4 F55 2013

Reflecting upon the rapid progress in cleanup technology since the previous edition, this revised and expanded third edition of The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup covers current cleanup techniques, how oil spills are measured and detected, and the properties of the oil and its long-term fate in the environment. It also deals with why, how often, and where oil spills occur as well as the chemical composition and physical properties of various oil types.

The Boston Massacre:  A Family History
Serena R. Zabin, 2020. 
MMA Call Number:  E 215.4 .Z33 2020
The story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.

The Crooked Path to Abolition:  Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution, 1st ed.
James Oakes, 2021
MMA Call Number: E 449 .o1145 2021

Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery.

Cybercrime and Digital Forensics:  An Introduction, 3rd ed.
Thomas J. Holt, et al., 2022
MMA Call Number:  HV 6773 .H648 2022

This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime. It provides an authoritative synthesis of the disparate literature on the various types of cybercrime, the global investigation and detection of cybercrime and the role of digital information, and the wider role of technology as a facilitator for social relationships between deviants and criminals.

Data and Analytics Strategy for Business:  Unlock Data Assets and Increase Innovations With a Results-Driven Data Strategy
Simon Asplen-Taylor, 2022
MMA Call Number:  HD 30.215 .A87 2022

For many organizations data is a by-product, but for the smarter ones it is the heartbeat of their business. Most businesses have a wealth of data buried in their systems which, if used effectively, could increase revenue, reduce costs and risk and improve customer satisfaction and employee experience.

The Deepest Map:  The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans, 1st ed.
Laura Trethewey, 2023.  
MMA Call Number:  GC 87 .T74 2023

Five oceans—the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Southern—cover approximately 70 percent of the earth. Yet we know little about what lies beneath them. By the early 2020s, less than twenty-five percent of the ocean’s floor has been charted, most close to shorelines, and over three quarters of the ocean lies in what is called the Deep Sea, depths below a thousand meters. Now, the race is on to completely map the ocean’s floor by 2030—an epic project involving scientists, investors, militaries, and private explorers who are cooperating and competing to get an accurate reading of this vast terrain and understand its contours and environment.

Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis
Quassim Cassam, 2022
MMA Call Number: HN 49 .R33 C367 2021

In this much-needed and lucid book, Quassim Cassam identifies three types of extremism – ideological; methods; and psychological extremism – and discusses the following fundamental topics and issues: What is extremism? What are the methods adopted by extremists? Is there an extremist ‘mindset’ and if so, what is it? What role do ideas of purity, victimhood and humiliation play in understanding extremism? How does extremism differ from fanaticism and fundamentalism? How does one become an extremist and how should we understand deradicalization?

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, 1st ed.
Alastair Gee & Dani Aguiano, 2020.
MMA Call Number:  F 868 .S13 G44 2020

There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. The catastrophe seared the American imagination, taking the front page of every major national newspaper and top billing on the news networks. It displaced tens of thousands of people, yielding a refugee crisis that continues to unfold.

A Furious Sky:  The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes, 1st ed.
Eric Jay Dolin, 2020.
MMA Call Number:  QC 945 .D65 2020

With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes.  Yet after centuries of study and despite remarkable leaps in scientific knowledge and technological prowess, there are still limits on our ability to predict exactly when and where hurricanes will strike, and we remain terribly vulnerable to the greatest storms on earth.

Hazardous Seas:  A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning
Louise K. Comfort & Harkunti P. Rahayu, 2023.
MMA Call Number:  GC 223 .H39 2023

Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialize with little warning, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Now, a groundbreaking new approach to tsunami detection and warning, which relies on low-cost underwater sensors and networks of smartphone communication, has changed the equation.

Impacts of Oil Spill Disasters on Marine Habitats and Fisheries in North America
John Brian Alford, et al., 2015.
MMA Call Number:  SH 222 .A4 I55 2015

At an increasingly global scale, aquatic scientists are heavily entrenched in understanding the fate of marine ecosystems in the face of human-altered environments. Oil spill disasters, especially large-scale ones like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon tragedy, have left uncertain and indelible marks on marine ecosystems.　

Interrelationships Between Corals and Fisheries
Stephen A. Bortone, 2014.
MMA Call Number:  QE 565 .I58 2014

This book is derived from a workshop held by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council in Tampa, Florida in May 2013, where world authorities came together to discuss the current problems in managing tropical fisheries and offered suggestions for future directions for both researchers and environmental resource managers. This book addresses current and emerging threats as well as challenges and opportunities for managing corals and associated fisheries. It provides an information baseline toward a better understanding of how corals and the consequences of coral condition influence fish populations, especially as they relate to management of those populations.

Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing
Thomas G. Wong, 2022
MMA Call Number:  QA 76.889 .W66 2022

This book is for students who want to learn quantum computing beyond a conceptual level, but who lack advanced training in mathematics. The only prerequisite is trigonometry, and mathematics beyond that will be covered, including linear algebra.

Literature and the War on Terror:  Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation

Sk Sagir Ali, 2023
MMA Call Number:  PN 56 .W326 L53 2023

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture.  It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of ‘martyrs’, the languages of grief, religionisation of terrorism, islamophobia, religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror.

The Marine Environment and Biodiversity
Michael Kent, 2022.
MMA Call Number:  QH 541.5 .S53 K46 2022

Written primarily for 16-19 year old students, this primer introduces the key features of the marine environment and explores definitions of marine biodiversity at different levels of biological organization: genetic, species, ecosystem, and functional.  It also discusses how changes in ocean features due to human activities are having a negative impact on marine biological diversity. The primer aims to extend students' knowledge and inspire them to take their school-level learning further.

Quantum Supremacy:  How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything, 1st ed.
Michio Kaku, 2023.
MMA Call Number: QA 76.889 .K36 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, and eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science, by the bestselling author of The God Equation. • “Expertly describes and rectifies common misconceptions about quantum computing." —Science

Science Communication in a Crisis:  An Insider’s Guide
Christopher M. Reddy, 2023
MMA Call Number: Q 223 .R43 2023

Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider’s Guide identifies the principal challenges that scientists face when communicating with different stakeholder groups and offers advice on how to navigate the maze of competing interests and deliver actionable science when the clock is ticking.

Terror in Transition:  Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations
Tricia Bacon & Elizabeth Grimm, 2022.
MMA Call Number:  HV 6431 .B324 2022

What is the role of founding leaders in shaping terrorist organizations? What follows the loss of this formative leader? These questions are especially important to religious terrorist groups, in which leaders are particularly revered.  This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of how religious terrorist groups manage and adapt to major shifts in leadership.