Sample of books received so far this year

About 250 new titles were added to the collection during the 2006-07 academic year: these are a few highlights. In future, I will add a list of new books every 3-4 weeks. A list for October will follow shortly.

Flaxman Gallery, Main Library

PUBLIC POLICY

Albrecht and McIntyre. Spychips: how government and major corporations plan to track your every move with RFID (Nelson, 2005). PUBLIC POLICY TK 7882 ALB.

Baum. Soft news goes to war: public opinion and American foreign policy in the new media age (Princeton, 2003). PUBLIC POLICY PN 4888 BAU.

Bowen. Why the French don’t like headscarves: Islam, the state and public space (Princeton, 2007). PUBLIC POLICY JN 2301 BOW.

Brubaker (et al.). Nationalist politics and everyday ethnicity in a Transylvanian town (Princeton, 2006). PUBLIC POLICY JN 9630 BRU.

De Waal. AIDS and power: why there is no political crisis – yet (Zed Books, 2006). PUBLIC POLICY RA 463 DEW.

Lilleker. The marketing of political parties: political marketing at the 2005 British general election (Manchester UP, 2006). PUBLIC POLICY JN 1121 LIL.

O’Flynn. Deliberative democracy and divided societies (Palgrave, 2006). PUBLIC POLICY JC 423 OFL.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Chandler. Empire in denial: the politics of state-building (Pluto, 2006). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XB 20 CHA.

Honwana. Child soldiers in Africa (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XE 49 HON.

McMahon. Taming ethnic hatred (Syracuse UP, 2007). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XB 20 MCM.

Pedahazur. Root causes of suicide terrorism: the globalization of martyrdom (Routledge, 2006). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XB 30 PED.

Straus. The order of genocide: race power and war in Rwanda (Cornell, 2006). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XE 49 STR.

Wallis. Silent accomplice: the untold story of France’s role in the Rwandan genocide (IB Tauris, 2006). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XE 49 WAL.

Weiss. Humanitarian intervention (Polity, 2007). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XE 10 WEI.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Bilchitz. Poverty and fundamental rights: the justification and enforcement of socio-economic right (OUP, 2007). HUMAN RIGHTS CE 7 CHI.

Jorgensen (ed.). Human rights in the global information society (MIT, 2006). PUBLIC POLICY HC110 JOR.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Bazeley. Doing qualitative data analysis with NVivo, 2nd ed (Sage, 2007). PUBLIC POLICY H 62 BAZ.

Stewart (et al.). Focus groups: theory and practice, 2nd ed (Sage, 2007). PUBLIC POLICY H 62 STE.

BY SCHOOL STAFF

Franchino. The powers of the union: delegation in the EU (Cambridge UP, 2007). PUBLIC POLICY JN 30 FRA.

Meckled-Garcia and Cali. The legalization of human rights (Routledge, 2006). HUMAN RIGHTS A 100 MEC.

Russell. Must politics disappoint? (Fabian Society, 2005). PUBLIC POLICY HX 11 RUS.