{"id":1220,"date":"2016-03-21T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2016-03-21T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:58:07","slug":"whats-new-in-the-library-for-social-and-political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2016\/03\/21\/whats-new-in-the-library-for-social-and-political-science\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s new in the Library for Social and Political Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0recommendations<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from members of staff and requests via\u00a0RAB<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from 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\u2019s collections since the beginning of January for the School of\u00a0Social and Political Science<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>and these demonstrate the wide range of subjects being taught, studied and researched within School. Find even more via DiscoverEd<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0great\u00a0transition\u00a0:\u00a0shifting\u00a0from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy<\/em><\/strong> by Lester R. Brown with Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams (shelfmark: TJ808 Bro.)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0secret\u00a0of\u00a0our\u00a0success: how culture is driving human evolution, domesticating\u00a0our\u00a0species, and making us smarter<\/em><\/strong> by Joseph Henrich (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

\"secret_success_bookcover\"<\/a>“Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species’ genetic evolution and shaped our biology”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The\u00a0Routledge\u00a0handbook\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0welfare\u00a0state<\/em><\/strong> by Bent Greve (shelfmark: HV31 Rou. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Human\u00a0rights\u00a0in\u00a0international\u00a0politics: an introduction<\/em> <\/strong>by Franke Wilmer (shelfmark: JC571 Wil.)<\/p>\n

Getting\u00a0Lost:\u00a0Feminist\u00a0Efforts\u00a0toward a Double(d) Science<\/em><\/strong> by Patti Lather (shelfmark: HQ1190 Lat.<\/span> Also available as<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0politics\u00a0of\u00a0evidence\u00a0and\u00a0results\u00a0in\u00a0international\u00a0development: playing the game to change the rules?<\/em> <\/strong>Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Irene Guijt, Chris Roche\u00a0and\u00a0Cathy Shutt (shelfmark: HF1359 Pol.)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0spectacular\u00a0favela: violence\u00a0in\u00a0modern\u00a0Brazil<\/em><\/strong> by Erika Robb Larkins (shelfmark: HN290.R5 Rob. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"spectacular_favela_bookcover\"<\/a>“…\u00a0offers a rich ethnographic examination of the political economy of spectacular violence in Rocinha, Rio’s largest favela. Based on more than two years of residence in the community, the book explores how entangled forms of violence shape everyday life and how that violence is, in turn, connected to the market economy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How\u00a0to\u00a0be\u00a0a\u00a0minister:\u00a0a\u00a021st century guide<\/em><\/strong> by John Hutton and Leigh Lewis (shelfmark: JN405 Hut.)<\/p>\n

Sustainable\u00a0urban\u00a0energy\u00a0policy: heat and the city<\/em><\/strong> by David Hawkey, Janette Webb, Heather Lovell, David McCrone, Margaret Tingey and Mark Winskel (shelfmark: HT169.G7 Haw. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Handbook\u00a0of\u00a0International\u00a0Negotiation: Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplomatic Perspectives<\/em><\/strong> by Mauro Galluccio (e-book)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0politics\u00a0of\u00a0immigration:\u00a0contradictions\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0liberal\u00a0state<\/em><\/strong> by James Hampshire (shelfmark: JV6255 Ham.)<\/p>\n

Understanding\u00a0Children’s\u00a0Personal\u00a0Lives\u00a0and\u00a0Relationships<\/em><\/strong> by Hayley Davies (e-book)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unhitched:\u00a0love,\u00a0marriage,\u00a0and\u00a0family\u00a0values\u00a0from West Hollywood to western China<\/em><\/strong> by Judith Stacey (shelfmark: HQ75.27 Sta.)<\/p>\n

\"unhitched_bookcover\"<\/a>“Countering the one-size-fits-all vision of family values, Stacey offers readers a lively, in-person introduction to these less familiar varieties of intimacy and family and to the social, political, and economic conditions that buttress and batter them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a><\/strong>. E-books are only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

You may find some of the print books listed 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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