{"id":889,"date":"2015-03-02T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=889"},"modified":"2015-03-02T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:04:56","slug":"new-books-for-social-and-political-science-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2015\/03\/02\/new-books-for-social-and-political-science-february-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New books for Social and Political Science: February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/using-library\/request-resources\/recommend-books\" target=\"_blank\">recommendations<\/a>\u00a0from members of staff and requests via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/using-library\/request-resources\/recommend-books\/book-recs-student\" target=\"_blank\">RAB<\/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&#8217;s collections in February 2015 for\u00a0<strong><em>Social and Political Science<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2015\/02\/industrializing_organisms_book_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-894\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2015\/02\/industrializing_organisms_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"industrializing_organisms_book_cover\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Industrializing organisms : introducing evolutionary history<\/em>\u00a0edited by Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton (shelfmark:\u00a0S494.5.B563 Ind.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=2329857\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alcohol and moral regulation : public attitudes, spirited measures and Victorian hangovers<\/em> by Henry Yeomans (e-book)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mind Change : how digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains<\/em> by Susan Greenfield (shelfmark: BF311 Gre.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=2326773\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Handbook of Accounting and Development<\/em>\u00a0edited by Trevor Hopper,\u00a0Mathew Tsamenyi,\u00a0Shahzad Uddin and\u00a0Danture Wickramasinghe (e-book)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2015\/02\/transient_workspaces_book_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2015\/02\/transient_workspaces_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"transient_workspaces_book_cover\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Interpreting global security<\/em> edited by Mark Bevir, Oliver Daddow and Ian Hall (shelfmark: UA10.5 Int. <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=2317676\" target=\"_blank\">Also available as e-book<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Transient workspaces : technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe<\/em> by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (shelfmark: GN645 Mav.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Darfur and the crisis of governance in Sudan : a critical reader<\/em> edited by Salah M. Hassan, Carina E. Ray (shelfmark: DT159.6.D27 Dar.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=2316166\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Uneven development : nature, capital, and the production of space<\/em>\u00a0by Neil Smith (e-book)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Arms Control in the 21st Century : between coercion and cooperation<\/em> edited by Oliver Meier and Christopher Daase (shelfmark: JZ5625 Arm. <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=2316204\" target=\"_blank\">Also available as e-book<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2015\/02\/virtual_economies_book_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-898\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2015\/02\/virtual_economies_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"virtual_economies_book_cover\" width=\"149\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Virtual Economies : design and analysis<\/em> by Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova (shelfmark: GV1469.15 Leh.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Under New Public Management : institutional ethnographies of changing front-line work<\/em> edited by Alison I. Griffith and Dorothy E. Smith (shelfmark: HV40 Und.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=2326983\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Creativity, innovation and the cultural economy<\/em>\u00a0edited by Andy C. Pratt and Paul Jeffcutt (e-book)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/searchBasic?sk=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Library Catalogue<\/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<p>You may find some of these books in the\u00a0<strong>New 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<p><em>Caroline Stirling &#8211; Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to\u00a0recommendations\u00a0from members of staff and requests via\u00a0RAB\u00a0from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. 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