Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a small number of the books that have been added to the Library’s collections in November 2014 for Social and Political Science.
Why we harm by Lois Presser (shelfmark: HV6025 Pre. Also available as e-book).
Toxic aid : economic collapse and recovery in Tanzania by Sebastian Edwards (shelfmark: HC885 Edw. Also available as e-book).
Sounds of the citizens : dancehall and community in Jamaica by Anne M. Galvin (shelfmark: ML3532 Gal.)
Culturing Life : how cells became technologies by Hannah Landecker (shelfmark: QH585.2 Lan.)
Understanding Naval Warfare by Ian Speller (shelfmark: V103 Spe. Also available as e-book).
Intersectionality : a foundations and frontiers reader edited by Patrick R. Grzanka (shelfmark: HM571 Int.)
Narratives of Citizenship : indigenous and diasporic peoples unsettle the nation-state edited by Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale, and Cody McCarroll (shelfmark: HM1271 Nar.)
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict by Matt (Mads) Qvortrup (shelfmark: JF491 Qvo.)
Christian Pluralism in the United States : the Indian immigrant experience by Raymond Brady Williams (shelfmark: BR563.E27 Wil.)
How real is race? : a sourcebook on race, culture, and biology by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses (shelfmark: HT1521 Muk. Also available as e-book).
Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis edited by Adele E. Clarke and Kathy Charmaz (shelfmark: H61.24 Gro.)
Pastoralism and development in Africa : dynamic change at the margins edited by Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind and Ian Scoones (shelfmark: GN650 Pas. Also available as e-book).
Check the Library Catalogue for full details of the books including number of copies, location and availability. Access to e-books is only available to students and staff of University of Edinburgh.
You may find some of these books in the New Books display on the 1st floor of the Main Library, where a selection of new books from all subjects across the University are held. Books on these display shelves can be borrowed as normal.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science.