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Selected New New Titles Selected RecentAdditions the to Library Collection January 2020 January Spotlight on: ProQuest databases ……… p. 3 2 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT January 2020 Contents Legislative Library News .................................................................................................... 3 Librarian’s Picks ................................................................................................................ 4 The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator ................................................ 4 Brewed in the north : a history of Labatt’s ....................................................................... 4 Decolonizing education : nourishing the learning spirit ..................................................... 5 Coach your team ........................................................................................................... 5 The triumph of seeds : how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history ................................................................... 6 New titles to borrow for January 2020 ................................................................................ 7 Agriculture & Food ...................................................................................................... 7 Biography .................................................................................................................. 7 Economics, Finance & Taxation ................................................................................... 7 Education & Training .................................................................................................. 7 Government ............................................................................................................... 7 Health ........................................................................................................................ 8 Heritage & History ...................................................................................................... 8 Indigenous Issues ...................................................................................................... 8 International Issues .................................................................................................... 9 Law & Justice ............................................................................................................. 9 Management & Leadership .......................................................................................... 9 Media & Communication ........................................................................................... 10 Politics ..................................................................................................................... 10 Social Issues ............................................................................................................ 10 Transportation .......................................................................................................... 11 Urban Issues ............................................................................................................ 11 Manitoba Heritage titles for January 2020 ........................................................................ 12 Biography ................................................................................................................ 12 Culture, Sports & Tourism ......................................................................................... 12 Economics, Finance & Taxation ................................................................................. 13 Education & Training ................................................................................................ 13 Environment ............................................................................................................. 13 Health ...................................................................................................................... 14 Heritage & History .................................................................................................... 14 Immigration ............................................................................................................. 16 Indigenous Issues .................................................................................................... 16 International Issues .................................................................................................. 16 Labour & Employment .............................................................................................. 16 Law & Justice ........................................................................................................... 17 Manitoba Fiction & Literature ..................................................................................... 17 Media & Communication ........................................................................................... 17 Social Issues ............................................................................................................ 17 Urban Issues ............................................................................................................ 18 Request form for Selected New Titles January 2020 .......................................................... 19 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT January 2020 3 Legislative Library News Spotlight on: ProQuest databases The Manitoba Legislative Library is pleased to offer desktop access and in-library use of two major Canadian databases by ProQuest. All employees of the Government of Manitoba and Legislative Assembly have access to the following databases with the use of their library card barcode: • Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Database is Canada’s most comprehensive and diverse full-text online database that combines content from four focused databases: Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference. CBCA provides high-quality indexing for over 1,800 publications and full text for more than 700. Broad coverage from a Canadian perspective spans agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and many more subject areas. • Canadian Major Dailies provides access to current content and significant back files from more than 20 of Canada’s top national and regional newspapers in full-text format, including The Globe and Mail. Issues of the Winnipeg Free Press are available from 2006 to the present. A full title list is available. With same day access to many publications, Canadian Major Dailies provides users with thorough and timely coverage of national and regional events. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform. Please contact the library at [email protected] to request a library card. 4 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT January 2020 Librarian’s Picks domination? What has know, or think we know, protected the lives of popes would be completely for millennia? Why did unrecognizable. Scotland surrender its Driven by surprising insights sovereignty to England? and fast-paced storytelling, What was George The Mosquito is the Washington's secret weapon extraordinary untold story of during the American the mosquito’s reign through Revolution? human history and her The answer to all these indelible impact on our questions, and many more, is modern world order. the mosquito. The mosquito : a […] The mosquito has human history of our determined the fates of deadliest predator / empires and nations, razed Timothy C. Winegard. and crippled economies, and Toronto : Allen Lane, 2019. decided the outcome of x, 486 pages. pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the From the publisher: way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated A pioneering and ground- 52 billion people from a total breaking work of narrative of 108 billion throughout our nonfiction that offers a relatively brief existence. As dramatic new perspective on the greatest purveyor of the history of humankind, extermination we have ever Brewed in the north : a showing how through known, she has played a millennia, the mosquito has history of Labatt’s / greater role in shaping our been the single most Matthew J. Bellamy. Montreal human story than any other powerful force in determining : McGill-Queen’s University living thing with which we humanity’s fate. Press, 2019. 452 pages. share our global village. Why was gin and tonic the From the publisher: Imagine for a moment a cocktail of choice for British world without deadly Opening a window into colonists in India and Africa? mosquitoes, or any Canada's complicated What does Starbucks have to mosquitoes, for that matter? relationship with beer, thank for its global Our history and the world we Matthew Bellamy examines MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT January 2020 5 the strategic decisions taken chance to flourish, create by a long line of Labatt and innovate while being family members and happy and more resilient. It professional managers from draws on cutting-edge, the 1840s, when John Kinder evidence-based techniques in Labatt entered the business coaching that focus on of brewing in the Upper developing mindfulness and Canadian town of London, to compassion in leaders, their the globalization of the employees and throughout industry in the 1990s. their organisation with case Spotlighting the challenges studies of best practice from involved as Labatt executives around the