{"id":1064,"date":"2015-07-14T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T07:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T07:53:24","slug":"new-books-for-social-and-political-science-may-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2015\/07\/14\/new-books-for-social-and-political-science-may-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New books for Social and Political Science: May-June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0recommendations<\/a>\u00a0from members of staff and requests via\u00a0RAB<\/a>\u00a0from 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\u2019s collections in May and June 2015 for\u00a0Social and Political Science <\/em><\/strong>and these demonstrate the wide range of subjects being studied and researched within School.<\/p>\n

\"government_next_door_book_cover\"<\/a>The\u00a0government\u00a0next\u00a0door: neighborhood politics in urban China<\/em> by Luigi Tomba (shelfmark: HT147.C48 Tom.)<\/p>\n

George\u00a0Padmore\u00a0and\u00a0decolonization\u00a0from\u00a0below: pan-Africanism, the Cold War,\u00a0and\u00a0the end of empire<\/em> by Leslie James (shelfmark: DT30 Jam.\u00a0Also available as e-book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The self<\/em> by Constantine\u00a0Sedikides and\u00a0Steven Spencer (e-book)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Land and Desire in Early Zionism<\/em> by Boaz Neumann (shelfmark: DS149 Neu. Also available as e-book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"why_things_matter_book_cover\"<\/a>Why\u00a0things\u00a0matter\u00a0to\u00a0people: social science, values and ethical life<\/em> by Andrew Sayer (shelfmark: HM681 Say.)<\/p>\n

Writing\u00a0culture\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0life\u00a0of\u00a0anthropology<\/em> by Orin Starn (e-book)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Refashioning\u00a0secularisms\u00a0in\u00a0France\u00a0and\u00a0Turkey: the case of the headscarf ban<\/em> by Ame\u0301lie Barras (shelfmark: KJC5156 Bar.)<\/p>\n

Mixed\u00a0methods\u00a0social\u00a0networks\u00a0research\u00a0design and applications<\/em> by Silvia Domi\u0301nguez and Betina Hollstein (e-book)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"urban_politics_climate_change_book_cover\"<\/a>The\u00a0spirit\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0laws\u00a0in\u00a0Mozambique<\/em> by Juan Obarrio (shelfmark: DT3389 Oba.)<\/p>\n

An\u00a0urban\u00a0politics\u00a0of\u00a0climate\u00a0change: experimentation and the governing\u00a0of\u00a0socio-technical transitions<\/em> by Harriet Bulkeley (shelfmark: HT241 Bul. Also available as e-book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Palestine\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Gulf\u00a0States:\u00a0the\u00a0presence at\u00a0the\u00a0table<\/em> by Rosemarie Said Zahlan (e-book)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Local\u00a0government\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0United\u00a0Kingdom<\/em> (5th<\/sup> edition) by David J. Wilson (shelfmark: JS3111 Wil.)<\/p>\n

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Check DiscoverEd<\/a>\u00a0for 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.<\/p>\n

You may find some of these books in the\u00a0New Books<\/strong>\u00a0display 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.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science.<\/em><\/p>\n

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