3001, 2014

Practical (eBook) Action

By Victoria Bird|January 30, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Development Studies, Economics, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

For the next 30 days, the Library invites you to trial Practical Action’s eBooks, the well-known publisher that specialises in the area of International Development. Titles available in the trial include Achieving Water Security; Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women’s Lives and Bridging Research and Policy in Development Access is via this link: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://practicalaction.metapress.com/books/ [on or off-campus] During the trial, you can view books online by clicking the cover

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3001, 2014

Africa – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 30, 2014|Africa|0 comments

E-books African History : A Very Short Introduction / Huang, C. T. James China-Africa Development Relations / Dent, Christopher M. Formal Peace and Informal War : Security and Development in Congo / Marriage, Zoë Images and Empires : Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830–1914 / Vandervort, Bruce Books Abuja : the making of a capital city, 1976-2006 / edited by Alkasum Abba. Africa

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3001, 2014

Mapping your statistical information

By Victoria Bird|January 30, 2014|Economics, Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

Want to do something a bit special with your research data? Here are some suggestions of sites that allow you to map it- so you can have a pictorial representation, or cartogram. Cartogrammer: http://cartogrammar.edina.ac.uk An EDINA site, Cartogrammar contains resources (digital images etc), shared on a worldwide basis under the terms of a Creative Commons (CC) licence. You can also create your own cartograms.

2901, 2014

Open access monographs from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Assyrian king hunting lions [Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAssyrian_king_hunting_lions.png ; Attribution: By William C. Morey (Outlines of Greek History, pg. 40) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons] The Oriental Institute Assyriological Monographs (AS) volumes 1-27 (1932-2007) are available on the Oriental Institute website Topics include cuneiform studies (Akkadian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Amorite and Hittite) and studies of the civilizations of Ur, Sumer, Nippur and the Hittites Click here to access the papers    

2901, 2014

Open access journals for History, Religions, and Ancient Near Eastern studies

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

The following open-access titles with content of interest to students of History, Study of Religions and Ancient Near East, Semiitcs and Judaica have recently been announced on the AWOL blog (http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/) Click on the title of each journal to access content MELA Notes (Middle East Librarians Association – MELA advise that users download issues 1-63 (1973-1996) to their own computer’s hard drive. Issues from no.64 (1997) onward can be viewed via

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2301, 2014

Finance and Management – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 23, 2014|Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

Making sense of change management : a complete guide to the models, tools and techniques of organizational change / Esther Cameron and Mike Green. Corporate social entrepreneurship : integrity within / by Christine A. Hemingway. Handbook of research methods on social entrepreneurship / ed. by Richard Seymour. The principles of banking / Moorad Choudhry. The bankers’ new clothes : what’s wrong with banking and what to do about it /

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2201, 2014

Economics – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 22, 2014|Economics|0 comments

Scale and scope : the dynamics of industrial capitalism / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. with the assistance of Takashi Hikino. [Also available as an e-book from ebrary] Women and austerity : the economic crisis and the future for gender equality / edited by Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery. Immigration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality / David Card and Steven Raphael, editors. Further mathematics for economic analysis / Knut Sydsaeter … [et

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2201, 2014

Art and Archaeology – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 22, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

‘Archaeologizing’ heritage? transcultural entanglements between local social practices and global virtual realities / Michael Falser, Monica Juneja, editors. InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia / Parul Dave Mukherji … [et al.]. Things done change : the cultural politics of recent Black artists in Britain / Eddie Chambers. Architecture in Burma : moments in time / Lorie Karnath. The figurative works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) : authentic voices/expanding markets / Tamara Heimarck

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2101, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2014|Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica|

On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans dünyasında değişim : bildiriler = Change in the Byzantine world in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : proceedings / [editörler, Ayla Ödekan, Engin Akyürek, Nevra Necipoğlu]. The rise and fall of human rights : cynicism and politics in occupied Palestine / Lori Allen. Land of progress : Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948 / Jacob Norris. Hüsnüne Aşk Olsun / Selami

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2101, 2014

North Korea in the news

By Victoria Bird|January 21, 2014|Politics and International Relations, South East Asia|0 comments

The British Library is currently trialling NK News (North Korea News).  From 13th January to 12th February 2014 users onsite in British Library reading rooms will be able to access the site from BL computer terminals. User feedback is welcomed and will be used to determine the business case for taking out a subscription to the site, so get yourselves down there if you are interested! Further information can be found

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