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 (very) small number of the books that have been added to the Library’s collections in semester one, 2017/18 for the School of Social and Political Science and these demonstrate the wide range of subjects being taught, studied and researched within School.

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Controlling capital: public and private regulation of financial markets edited by Nicholas Dorn (shelfmark: K1066 Con. Also available as e-book).

The rise of the outsiders: how mainstream politics lost its way by Steve Richards (shelfmark: JC423 Ric.)

Energy politics and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana by Naaborle Sackeyfio (e-book).

Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation edited by Faye V. Harrison (shelfmark: GN345 Dec.)

Transforming patriarchy: Chinese families in the twenty-first century edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell (shelfmark: HQ684 Tra. Also available as e-book).

Residential child and youth care in a developing world. 1, Global perspectives 1 edited by Tuhinul Islam and Leon Fulcher (shelfmark: HV862 Res.)

The age of scientific sexism: how evolutionary psychology promotes gender profiling and fans the battle of the sexes by Mari Ruti (e-book).

The SAGE handbook of drug and alcohol studies. Social science approaches edited by Torsten Kolind, Geoffrey Hunt and Betsy Thom (shelfmark: RC564 Sag. Also available as e-book).

Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city by Greg Grandin (shelfmark: F2651.F55 Gra.)

Materialism by Terry Eagleton (shelfmark: B825 Eag.)

Rival claims: ethnic violence and territorial autonomy under Indian federalism by Bethany Lacina (shelfmark: JS7011 Lac. Also available as e-book).

The political sociology of human rights by Kate Nash (shelfmark: JC571 Nas.)

Criminalizing the client: institutional change, gendered ideas and feminist strategies by Josefina Erikson (shelfmark: HQ222 Eri.)

Forest guardians, forest destroyers: the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand by Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker (e-book).

How the market is changing China’s news: the case of Xinhua News Agency by Xin Xin (shelfmark: PN5361.H743 Xin.)

Killing neighbors: webs of violence in Rwanda by Lee Ann Fujii (shelfmark: DT450.435 Fuj. Also available as e-book).

Austerity, community action, and the future of citizenship in Europe edited by Shana Cohen, Christina Fuhr and Jan-Jonathan Bock (e-book).

Afropolis : city media art edited by Kerstin Pinther, Larissa Förster, Christian Hanussek (shelfmark: Folio NX587 Afr.)

The Routledge auto/biography studies reader edited by Ricia Anne Chansky and Emily Hipchen (shelfmark: CT21 Rou.)

Science and public reason by Sheila Jasanoff (shelfmark: Q175.5 Jas. Also available as e-book).

The politics of our selves: power, autonomy, and gender in contemporary critical theory by Amy Allen (e-book).

Camus and Sartre: the story of a friendship and the quarrel that ended it by Ronald Aronson (shelfmark: B2430.C354 Aro.)

We crossed a bridge and it trembled: voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman  (shelfmark: DS98.6 Pea.)

Feminist narrative research: opportunities and challenges edited by Jo Woodiwiss, Kate Smith and Kelly Lockwood (e-book).

Community archives : the shaping of memory edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander (shelfmark: CD971 Bas. Also available as e-book).

How to do things with international law by Ian Hurd (e-book).

You can find all of these books and the many more that are available for supporting teaching, learning and research in Social and Political Science via DiscoverEd.
E-books are only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for School of Social and Political Science