{"id":1552,"date":"2017-05-10T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2017-05-10T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T11:19:43","slug":"new-books-social-and-political-science-may2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2017\/05\/10\/new-books-social-and-political-science-may2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New books in the Library for Social and Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0recommendations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from members of staff and requests via\u00a0RAB<\/strong><\/a>\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 semester two, 2016\/17<\/b>\u00a0for 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

\"\"<\/a>The crisis of the European Union: a response<\/em> by Ju\u0308rgen Habermas ; translated by Ciaran Cronin (shelfmark: JN40 Hab. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Women, work, and politics : the political economy of gender inequality<\/em> by Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth (shelfmark: HQ1236 Ive.)<\/p>\n

The Sage handbook of resistance<\/em> edited by David Courpasson and Steven Vallas (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Gandhi in political theory: truth, law and experiment<\/em> by Anuradha Veeravalli (shelfmark: DS481.G3 Vee. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Traces of the future: an archaeology of medical science in Africa<\/em> edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton and Noe\u0301mi Tousignant ; with special contributions by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Mariele Neudecker (shelfmark: R651 Tra.)<\/p>\n

Digital labor: the Internet as playground and factory<\/em> edited by Trebor Scholz (shelfmark: HM851 Dig. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sports and Christianity: historical and contemporary perspectives<\/em> edited by Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker (e-book).<\/p>\n

Weathered: cultures of climate<\/em> by Mike Hulme (shelfmark: QC981 Hul.)<\/p>\n

The Palgrave handbook of sociocultural perspectives on global mental health<\/em> edited by Ross G. White, Sumeet Jain, David M.R. Orr and Ursula Read (shelfmark: RA790.5 Pal. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Participatory culture, community, and play: learning from reddit<\/em> by Adrienne L. Massanari (shelfmark: HM742 Mas.)<\/p>\n

The political process of policymaking: a pragmatic approach to public policy<\/em> by Philippe Zittoun (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

A man for all markets: beating the odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street<\/em> by Edward O. Thorp (shelfmark: HG4928.5.T54 Tho.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Introduction to policing research: taking lessons from practice<\/em> edited by Mark Brunger, Stephen Tong and Denise Martin (shelfmark: HV7935 Int. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Rules and processes: the cultural logic of dispute in an African context<\/em> by John L. Comaroff and Simon Roberts (shelfmark: KQC499 Com.)<\/p>\n

Katanga 1960-63: mercenaries, spies and the African nation that waged war on the world<\/em> by Christopher Othen (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

An introduction to secondary data analysis with IBM SPSS<\/em> statistics by John MacInnes (shelfmark: HA32 Maci.)<\/p>\n

The prince and the wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE<\/em> by Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and Peter Erde\u0301lyi (shelfmark: BD111 Lat.)<\/p>\n

Leaders of the opposition: from Churchill to Cameron<\/em> edited by Timothy Heppell (shelfmark: JN1121 Lea. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Power sharing: new challenges for divided societies<\/em> edited by Ian O’Flynn and David Russell ; foreword by Donald L. Horowitz (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Tackling child sexual abuse: radical approaches to prevention, protection and support<\/em> by Sarah Nelson (shelfmark: HV6570.4.G7 Nel.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Under the watchful eye : managing presidential campaigns in the television era<\/em> edited by Mathew D. McCubbins (shelfmark: HE8700.76.U6 Und.)<\/p>\n

Seven myths about education<\/em> by Daisy Christodoulou (shelfmark: LB1028 Chr. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Godless communists” : atheism and society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932<\/em> by William B. Husband (shelfmark: BL2765.S65 Hus.)<\/p>\n

Transforming images: screens, affect, futures<\/em> by Rebecca Coleman (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

The Routledge companion to digital ethnography<\/em> edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bell (shelfmark: GN34.3.I53 Rou.)<\/p>\n

Cyberthreats and the decline of the nation-state<\/em> by Susan W. Brenner (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade<\/em> by Adam Minter (shelfmark: HD9975.A2 Min.)<\/p>\n

End of multiculturalism?: terrorism, integration and human rights<\/em> by Derek McGhee (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>.
\nE-books are only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for School of Social and Political Science<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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