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Library Acquisitions January 2009

By Cecile Dubuis, on 17 February 2009

 New Books added to library stock during January included:

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Collier, John, 1913-1992.
Visual anthropology : photography as a research method / John Collier, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1986.
ANTHROPOLOGY A 9 COL

Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948-
Chimpanzee politics : power and sex among apes / Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings. New York : Harper & Row, c1982.
ANTHROPOLOGY B 24 WAA
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New Encyclopedia in the Anthropology Collection

By Cecile Dubuis, on 16 February 2009

The library recently acquired two newly published encyclopedias 

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The 2 volumes Encyclopedia of Gender and Society

Edited by Jodi O’Brien (Sage, 2009)
Available for reference at : ANTHROPOLOGY D 47 OBR

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The 3 volumes LGBTQ America Today: an Encyclopedia

Edited by John C. Hawley (Greenwood Press, 2009)
Available for reference at :ANTHROPOLOGY U 23 HAW

British Periodicals Online

By Cecile Dubuis, on 16 February 2009

The Library now has access to British Periodicals Online, which provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

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Among the periodicals included are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures – Aubrey Beardsley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson,and W. M. Rossetti to name but a few.

A wide variety of different types of periodical are represented, including art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated magazines. The collection forms an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

All the titles in British Periodicals appear individually in UCL’s ejournals list.

S21 Film screening and discussion

By Cecile Dubuis, on 4 February 2009

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents

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Saturday 7th February 2pm – 6pm Birkbeck Cinema
S21: – Film screening and discussion with the film’s director, Rithy Panh

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