Must-read books before graduation (Martlet, March 6, 2025)

Titles from the Martlet's Must-read books before graduation (March 6, 2025) held by UVic Libraries.

Updated March 21, 2025
University of Victoria Libraries  Tina Bebbington, Anthropology and Newspaper Librarian, UVic Libraries
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Algorithms of oppression : how search engines reinforce racism
Noble, Safiya Umoja
Paper Book
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "Black girls"--what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you...
Algorithms of oppression : how search engines reinforce racism
Noble, Safiya Umoja
Ebook
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Blue bear woman
Pšm̌apǒ Bordeleau, Virginia
Ebook
The compassionate imagination : how the arts are central to a functioning democracy
Wyman, Max
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
Truss, Lynne.
Paper Book
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor...
Eats, shoots & leaves : why, commas really do make a difference!
Truss, Lynne.
Paper Book
Punctuation play is at its finest in this New York Times #1 bestseller! Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can...
A mind spread out on the ground
Elliott, Alicia
Paper Book
In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She...
Blue bear woman
Pšm̌apǒ Bordeleau, Virginia
Ebook

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