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• The Great Battles in History Podcast

  Great Battles in History explores some of the most famous battles in world history. Each three- to four-hour episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes.
• CRSP Talk Podcast Episode 1: Exploring Podcast Options for Knowledge Mobilization

  In this podcast episode, we discuss the advantages of using podcasting as a way of sharing research findings. Because there is a diverse range of podcasting formats, selecting the one most appropriate for communicating your research stories can be difficult. To make choosing the right format a little easier, we explore the characteristics of four popular podcasting styles.
• The One Market Podcast

  The One Market podcast was launched in March 2020 as a way to help keep the Laurier Brantford community connected as we worked, learned, and taught remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of one year, it aired 35 episodes featuring 111 guests, 43 of whom were students or alumni, 37 were staff, and 31 were faculty or librarians. The podcast featured a special episode focused on Homecoming, produced with Development & Alumni Relations, as well as a series of special episodes featuring segments produced by fourth-year capstone students in the Digital Media and Journalism program. Between 2020 and 2021, the podcast was downloaded more than 3,200 times by about 1,700 unique listeners. It received a Minister’s Award of Excellence from the Ontario Ministry of College and Universities in October 2020, one of 39 recipients selected from more than 260 submissions in the areas of digital transformation and community impact for its work in keeping the Laurier Brantford community connected.
• Sharing Like We Mean It Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors

  A hybrid co-op primer and research report, Sharing Like We Mean It: Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors is based on a survey of more than 100 co-operatives in Canada, the UK, and the US. It offers a snapshot of the co-op landscape in creative industries, explores what co-operative work can look like in practice, and features profiles of several worker co-ops.
• Schoolyards Count

  Schoolyards Count is a collaboration between a Laurier researcher and Ophea, Ontario's Healthy Schools organization. We undertook a citizen-science project to understand schoolyard quality across Ontario, with a focus on promotion of physical activity, environmental opportunities, and the impact of community wealth.
• Rewriting the Narrative on Homelessness in Mid-Sized Canadian Cities

  How do we define security? Does security mean increased surveillance and weaponization? Is it the feeling of home and belonging? This research consisted of a qualitative case study analysis that sought to address the contentious issues surrounding homelessness and public safety in a mid-size urban community in British Columbia, Canada. The goal of the project was twofold: to create a fact-based counter-narrative on the experiences of homelessness and community sasfety and security, and to think about strategies to address these demographc and social changes while fostering community resilience.
• Marx's Capital

  Social Theory Audio is a site for audiobooks intended as teaching aids for high school social studies and university theory courses. Marx's Capital explains Marx's three-volume work Capital for an undergraduate audience.
• Connecting Children with Classics

  This children's literature guide focuses on children's reading needs and "the classics" to better engage with young readers and encourage lifelong reading. This unique readers' advisory and collection development guide for librarians and others who work with children focuses on readers and their needs, rather than simply categorizing books by their characteristics and features as traditional literature guides do. Taking this unusual perspective brings forth powerful new tools and curricular ideas on how to promote the classics, and how to best engage with young readers and meet their personal and emotional needs to boost interest. The guide identifies reader-driven appeals essential to a successful readers' advisory: Awakening new perspectives Providing models for identity Offering reassurance, comfort, strength, and confirmation of self-worth Connecting with others Giving courage to make a change Facilitating acceptance Building a disinterested understanding of the world.
• Engaging International Alumni as Strategic Partners

  Every international educator knows the value international students bring to campus, but few have tapped their institution’s international alumni to their full potential. In Engaging International Alumni as Strategic Partners, experts on international alumni relations describe how higher education institutions can develop international alumni networks—and keep alumni connected to their alma mater by nurturing two-way relationships.
• From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits

  From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits is a practical primer on the ways of understanding, building, designing and innovating an effective digital fundraising program. With a strong foundation, there’s no limit to what you will be able to build.
• Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience For Any Group

  Design to Engage is a “how to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events.
• Librarian’s Guide to Games and Gamers: From Collection Development to Advisory Services

  As games grow ever-more ubiquitous in our culture and communities, they have become popular staples in public library collections and are increasing in prominence in academic ones. Many librarians, especially those who are not themselves gamers or are only acquainted with a handful of games, are ill-prepared to successfully advise patrons who use games. This book provides the tools to help adult and youth services librarians to better understand the gaming landscape and better serve gamers in discovery of new games.
• Unlocking the Potential of Puzzle-based Learning: Designing Escape Rooms and Games for the Classroom

  Discover the educational power of puzzle-based learning with escape games! Understand the principles of effective game design, the power of well-crafted narratives and how different game mechanics can support varied learning objectives. Applying escape room concepts to the classroom, this book offers practical advice on how to create immersive, collaborative learning experiences for your students without the need for expensive resources and tools. Packed with examples, including a full sample puzzle game for you to use with your students, this book is a primer for classroom teachers on designing robust learning activities using problem-solving principles.
• Intermediate Accounting
• Numerical Methods: Basics and Coding in MATLAB

  This book teaches the basics of numerical methods and how to code them in MATLAB. This book has been written by four authors from different universities: Foad Ghasemi (Laurier, Canada), Ahmad Ghasemi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA), Hamed Ghasemi (Shiraz University, Iran) and Hamed Aderang (Hormozgan Regional Water Company, Iran).
• Positive Psychology Arts Activities: Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision

  This book contains a wealth of practical arts activities that creatively bring positive psychology concepts to life. It gives overviews of different positive psychology concepts, with accompanying arts activities and case illustrations.
• Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation

  The second edition of this defining handbook provides an up-to-date reference on approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration. It includes the origins, development, and prospects of electronic negotiation, as well as on-line or computer-based arbitration. It constitutes a comprehensive guide to how traditional issues in negotiation, such as knowledge, language, strategy, fairness and justice, have been transformed by technology.
• Field Guide to Solid State Physics

  This Field Guide provides an overview of the basic principles of solid state physics, focusing on the practical aspects and device applications. Topics include crystal structures and dynamics, band structures, quantum structures, semiconductors, superconductors, and magnetism. Essential equations and simple diagrams efficiently convey the concepts that form the core of this field.
• Linear Algebra

  This book is intended as a textbook for a one-term undergraduate second linear algebra course, which prepares students for both applied mathematics and pure mathematics, in particular, for Galois Theory.
• Group Dynamics in Sport

  Group Dynamics in Sport, 5th edition, provides readers with the most current theories and practices of group dynamics in sport teams. In this updated edition, each chapter identifies and discusses key theoretical concepts of group dynamics and offers extensive and relevant examples that reinforce the principles covered.
• Globalization and Diversity in Education: What Does it Mean for Teacher Education?

  This book is the result of a biannual working conference of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education. Education researchers from across Canada met to critically analyze and discuss the impact of diversity and globalization on teacher education.
• Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches

  Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain.
• The Oxford Handbook on Music and Medievalism

  The Handbook provides a snapshot of the growing field of medievalism—broadly construed as the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages—in music, bringing together scholars to explore a wide variety of past and present genres in which medievalism is present. Thirty-four essays by international scholars writing on subjects from nineteenth-century opera to contemporary video game music. Co-edited with American, Stephen C. Meyer.
• Relationship Completion in Palliative Care Music Therapy

  Relationship Completion in Palliative Care Music Therapy provides foundational information on relationships, relationship completion in end-of-life care, locations of care, and the scope of the continuum of music experiences.