{"id":1300,"date":"2016-05-09T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:18:17","slug":"new-to-the-library-for-social-and-political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2016\/05\/09\/new-to-the-library-for-social-and-political-science\/","title":{"rendered":"New to 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 in April 2016<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

–> Find these and more via DiscoverEd<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Capitalism: competition,\u00a0conflict,\u00a0crises<\/em> by Anwar Shaikh (shelfmark: HB501 Sha. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Theories\u00a0of\u00a0international\u00a0politics\u00a0and\u00a0zombies<\/em> by Daniel W. Drezner (shelfmark: JZ1305 Dre.\u00a0Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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“What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner’s groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from international relations might be applied to a war with zombies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u00a0is:\u00a0the\u00a0event\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0finitude\u00a0of\u00a0appearing<\/em> by Claude Romano ; translated by Michael B. Smith (shelfmark: B2433.R663 Rom.)<\/p>\n

Europe’s\u00a0long\u00a0energy\u00a0journey: towards an\u00a0energy\u00a0union?<\/em> by David Buchan and Malcolm Keay (shelfmark: HD9502.E852 Buc.)<\/p>\n

Fragile\u00a0elite:\u00a0the\u00a0dilemmas\u00a0of\u00a0China’s\u00a0top\u00a0university students<\/em> by Susanne Bregnbaek (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0passion\u00a0for\u00a0music: a sociology of mediation<\/em> by Antoine Hennion ; translated by Margaret Rigaud and Peter Collier (shelfmark: ML3845 Hen.)<\/p>\n

Game\u00a0theory\u00a0and\u00a0exercises<\/em> by Gise\u0300le Umbhauer (shelfmark: HB144 Umb. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Pax\u00a0technica: how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up<\/em> by Philip N. Howard (shelfmark: HM851 How.)<\/p>\n

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“Should we fear or welcome the internet’s evolution? The “internet of things” is the rapidly growing network of everyday objects–eyeglasses, cars, thermostats–made smart with sensors and internet addresses…Drawing on evidence from around the world, Howard illustrates how the internet of things can be used to repress and control people. Yet he also demonstrates that if we actively engage with the governments and businesses building the internet of things, we have a chance to build a new kind of internet–and a more open society.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomsbury\u00a0encyclopedia\u00a0of\u00a0utilitarianism<\/em> edited by James E. Crimmins (shelfmark: Ref. B843 Blo.)<\/p>\n

Trafficking\u00a0and\u00a0prostitution\u00a0reconsidered: new perspectives on migration, sex work,\u00a0and\u00a0human rights edited by Kamala Kempadoo with Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0guide\u00a0to\u00a0therapeutic\u00a0child\u00a0care\u00a0: what you need\u00a0to\u00a0know\u00a0to\u00a0create\u00a0a\u00a0healing home<\/em> by Ruth Emond, Laura Steckley and Autumn Roesch-Marsh (shelfmark: RJ506.P66 Emo.)<\/p>\n

Digital\u00a0militarism:\u00a0Israel’s\u00a0occupation\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0social\u00a0media\u00a0age<\/em> by Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein (shelfmark: DS119.76 Kun. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Women,\u00a0land\u00a0and\u00a0justice\u00a0in\u00a0Tanzania<\/em> by Helen Dancer (shelfmark: KTT66.3 Dan.)<\/p>\n

A\u00a0very\u00a0old\u00a0machine: the many origins of the cinema in India<\/em> by Sudhir Mahadevan (shelfmark: PN1993.5.I8 Mah.)<\/p>\n

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“Sudhir Mahadevan argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sugar\u00a0and\u00a0modernity\u00a0in\u00a0Latin\u00a0America<\/em> by Per Bendix Jeppesen (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Architecture\u00a0as\u00a0cultural\u00a0and\u00a0political\u00a0discourse: case studies of conceptual norms\u00a0and\u00a0aesthetic practices<\/em> by Daniel Grinceri (shelfmark: NA2543.S6 Gri.)<\/p>\n

Orientalists,\u00a0propagandists,\u00a0and\u00a0ilustrados\u00a0: Filipino scholarship\u00a0and\u00a0the end of Spanish colonialism<\/em> by Megan C. Thomas (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\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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