In the News is on maternity leave, and coincidentally, so is its author, Maris Hayashi. This weekly bibliography of hot topic books will return with the new year.
Author: Maris Hayashi
Mergent Online – October Database of the Month
Mergent Online delivers a comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information with the accuracy, timeliness and transparency required in today’s marketplace. Mergent Online includes current financial information for public U.S. and international companies in addition to providing annual reports. Mergent Online offers a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in “as-reported” form and in native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information. Read More>>
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In the News: Third Party Politics
Week of September 15, 2008
News Item: Although presidential elections have traditionally pitted Democrats against Republicans, many third party candidates have played important roles in drawing attention to some issues that are overlooked by the major parties. Current and former third party presidential candidates include Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Ron Paul, and Ralph Nader.
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America’s Three Regimes: A new Political History
By Morton Keller. Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number: E183 .K48 2007
Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism, 1970-1992
By Timothy Evans. Berghahn Books, 1996
Call Number: JN1129 .C7 E93 1996
The Life of the Parties: A History of American Political Parties
By A. James Reichley. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
Call Number: JK2261 .R33 2000
Multiparty Politics in America: Prospects and Performance
Edited by Paul S. Herrnson and John C. Green. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
Call Number: JK2261 .M85 2002
Political Parties and the State: The American Historical Experience
By Martin Shefter. Princeton University Press, 1994
Call Number: JK2261 .S45 1994 (Also available at Jupiter and online through NetLibrary)
Politics at the Periphery Third Parties in Two-Party America
By J. David Gillespie. University of South Carolina Press, 1993
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
By Brian Doherty. PublicAffairs, 2007
Call Number: JC599 .U5 D64 2007 (Also available at Jupiter)
Third Parties in America: Citizen Response to Major Party Failure
By Steven J. Rosenstone et al. Princeton University Press, 1996
Call Number: JK2261 .R67 1996
True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S.
By Eric Thomas Chester. Pluto Press, 2004
Call Number: JK2265 .C46 2004
Two Parties-Or More?: The American Party System
By John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel. Westview Press, 2003
Call Number: JK2261 .B493 2003
Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America
By John H. Aldrich. The University of Chicago Press, 1995
Call Number: JK2261 .A46 1995
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: September Database of the Month
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family is a new electronic resource that allows students and researchers to immerse themselves in the values and behaviors of Americans of the past. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. The collection currently contains 19,367 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. Read More >>
In the News: Presidential Campaigns
Week of September 8, 2008
News Item: The presidential campaigning season is in full swing. Candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States have been officially nominated by their respective parties. Now, they will travel the country and present their platforms before voters head to the polls on November 4th.
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The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote
By James. E. Campbell. Texas A&M University Press, 2000
Call Number: JK528 .C36 2000
American Presidential Campaigns and Elections
Edited by William G. Shade et al. Sharpe, 2003
Call Number: JK1965 .A57 2003
Divided States of America: The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election
Edited by Larry J. Sabato. Pearson/Longman, 2006
Call Number: JK526 2004 .D58 2005
Encyclopedia of Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms
By Robert North Roberts and Scott John Hammond. Greenwood Press, 2004
Call Number: E176.1 .R6 2004 (In Reference)
In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns
By John G. Geer. University of Chicago Press, 2006
Call Number: JK2281 .G44 2006
Mediating the Vote: The Changing Media Landscape in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
By Michael Pfau et al. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Call Number: JK2281 .P43 2006
Notable Speeches in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns
By Robert V. Friedenberg. Praeger, 2002
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
By. Paul F. Boller, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: E176.1 .B683 2004
The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004
By Daron R. Shaw. University of Chicago Press, 2006
Call Number: JK1976 .S53 2006
Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns, 1960-2000
By Jeremy D. Mayer. Random House, 2002
Call Number: E839.5 .M39 2002
Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows
By Alexandra Pelosi. Free Press, 2005
Call Number: JK526 2004 .P45 2005
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
By Mark Halperin and Jon F. Harris. Random House, 2006
Call Number: JK526 2008 .H35 2006
Welfare for Politicians?: Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns
Edited by John Samples. Cato Institute, 2005
Call Number: JK1991 .W45 2005
Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns: Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising
By Lynda Lee Kaid and Anne Johnston. Praeger, 2001
Call Number: JK2281 .K26 2000
In the News: Hurricane Katrina – Three Years Later
Week of August 25, 2008
News Item: Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005 and caused severe destruction in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama as a Category 5 storm. Thousands perished, and homes and businesses were destroyed in what would become the costliest U.S. Atlantic hurricane. Three years later, the city of New Orleans is slowly recovering from Katrina’s effects, but many other survivors are still struggling with housing, education, and other basic social needs.
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
By Jed Horne. Random House, 2006
Call Number: HV636 2005 .N4 H66 2006
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina
By Jenni Bergal et al. Louisiana State University Press, 2007
Call Number: HV636 2005 .N4 C58 2007
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
By Michael Eric Dyson. Basic Civitas, 2006
Call Number: HV636 2005 .G87 D97 2006
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Refworks Enhancements
Refworks has added some new features to help organize and retrieve your citations. Especially useful is the Global Edit, a new feature that allows you to add, move, or delete information from the entire database or a selected list. (What is Refworks?)
Detailed information about the new features and enhancements for the August release is available at: http://info.csa.com/refworks/feature-release/august2008.shtml.
General New Features & Enhancements
· Enhanced Global Edit
· Linking Authors to COS Scholar UniverseTM
· Non-English and Multi-Language Bibliographies
· New Fields for PubMed ID and PubMed Central ID
· Advanced Searching Enhancement
· Attachment File Size Increased
· Additional User Definable Fields
· Duplicate Detection Auto-Selection Made Optional
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In the News: Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Week of August 11, 2008
News Item: Last week marked the 63rd anniversaries of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to Democracy Now!, approximately 14,000 people were instantly killed or died within a few months of the bombings after the Hiroshima attack, and about 80,000 were killed after the attack on Nagasaki.
The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden. M.E. Sharpe, 1989
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 A87 1989
Beclouded Visions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness
By Kyo Maclear. SUNY Press, 1999
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb
By Michael Kort. Columbia University Press, 2007
Call Number: D767.25 .H K68 2007 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL
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ISI Web of Knowledge – Enhancements & Online Training
ISI Web of KnowledgeSM has been enhanced
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Collaborate and share material easier with EndNote® • Designate read/write access for shared EndNote Web folders. Link to the full text of articles directly from EndNote Web records.
Web of Science® Coverage Expanded!
700 regional journals have been added to Web of Science as part of an ongoing effort to enhance the breadth of regional coverage.
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Mapping and Other Enhancements
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In the News: 2008 Summer Olympics
Week of August 4, 2008
News Item: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin this week in Beijing and will run through August 24th. A few of the recent problems associated with the event include the following: at least 20,000 people have cleaned up algal blooms along the coastlines of Qingdao where sailing events will be held; poor air quality plagues Beijing and nearby cities; the past and current treatment of Tibetans by the Chinese government prompted Students for a Free Tibet to disrupt the Olympic torch relay this past spring. Included here are titles related to the social history of the Olympics and its past games.
Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China
By Susan Brownell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Call Number: GV722 2008 .B76 2008
Berlin games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream
By Guy Walters. William Morrow, 2006
Call Number: GV722 1936 .W35 2006
The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000
By Helen Lenskyj. State University of New York Press, 2002
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
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