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Elgar Advanced Introductions Law Collection

Elgar Advanced Introductions Law Collection

These titles are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in Law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the issues associated with discrete subject areas.

The aims of the series are two-fold; to pinpoint essential principles of a particular field, and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking. By distilling the vast amount of information available on the subject area into a concise and meaningful form, the volumes serve as accessible introductions for undergraduate and graduate students coming to the subject for the first time. Importantly, they also develop well-informed, nuanced critiques of the field that will challenge and extend the understanding of advanced students, scholars and policy-makers. – Publisher

Al-Ba’ath

Al-Ba’ath

Al-Ba’ath was founded in 1948 as an organ of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. Functioning initially as an opposition newspaper to the Nasserist government, Al-Ba’ath became the government organ of Syria following the Ba’athist coup in 1963. Al-Ba’ath propagates the viewpoint of the Ba’ath Party through opinion columns and news coverage, while also including coverage of popular culture—including sports and music.

Al-Ba’ath is perhaps best known for its coverage of the 1966 split between the Syrian and Iraq-based branches of the original Ba’ath Party, the rise to power of the Assad family (starting in 1970), as well as the 1980 Iran-Iraq war (in which Syria supported Iran).

Al-Ba’ath Digital Archive is a valuable resource for scholars of history, Middle East and North African studies, military science, and politics. – Publisher

Alt-HealthWatch

Alt-HealthWatch

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. – Publisher

Ethnic Diversity Source

Ethnic Diversity Source

Ethnic Diversity Source supports the study of African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Multiracial Americans, and Native Americans, among others, with respect to their cultures, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences. Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, historical documents, and biographies are complemented by primary sources, such as speeches and interviews. – Publisher

Southern African Public Law

Southern African Public Law

SAPL aims to provide academics and intellectuals from Southern Africa and Africa in general a forum for discursive deliberation and debate on matters relating to public law. The journal welcomes contributions dealing with topics in constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy, legal and constitutional theory, law and government law and closely related fields. – Publisher

Project Muse Latin American Ebooks Collection

Northwestern University Libraries now have access to 655 Latin American ebooks via the Project Muse platform.   Access by title via NUsearch or through Project Muse.

A list of title is available here: Project Muse Latin American Ebooks Collection 2024

This curated Northwestern-specific collection focuses on those books published within the fields of History, Social Sciences, and Arts/Literature within the last 10 years (2014-present), from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico – countries which touch on the greatest cross-section of faculty interests in both Andean Studies, the Southern Cone, and Mexican Studies.

Academic e-books from Latin America have rarely been available for purchase until now; this collection was developed in consultation with the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials Electronic Resources Subcommittee, co-chaired by Jill Baron, Latin American Studies Librarian at Dartmouth Libraries, and Socrates Silva Reyes, Latin American Studies Librarian at Cornell University.

The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice

The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice

This handbook represents the collective wisdom of more than 40 leading voices across positionalities and perspectives, geographies and generations, meta-theories and methods, and issues and identities. Each of the 32 chapters presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of a brief history, key concepts, contemporary debates and dialogues, and future directions. – Publisher

ProQuest History Vault: Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, John A. Ryan Papers, 1892-1945

Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, John A. Ryan Papers, 1892-1945

The Francis J. Haas Collection documents Haas’s lifelong dedication to the Catholic Church and workers’ welfare. The collection includes materials from his family, his time as a seminary student in the early 1900s, and his role as an educator and cleric from the 1920s until his death in 1953. The materials focus most heavily, however, on his role as a public servant in New Deal agencies and as a labor arbitrator in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes materials on Haas’s positions in New Deal agencies, as a labor arbitrator, his role as chair of Fair Employment Practices Committee and his contributions to academia and religious studies at The Catholic University of America. – Publisher

CFC Intersections

CFC Intersections

CFC Intersections is an exciting new companion journal which builds on the success of highly regarded Contemporary French Civilization (CFC). CFC Intersections aims to provide a new publishing outlet for scholarship related to intersectionality and the broader associated notion of intersections in French and Francophone studies.

The journal’s interests focus on intersectionality and how it has come to inform the lives of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), the working class, LGBTQ communities, people with disabilities, and those in other marginalised and minoritised groups, including among others Africana and Black studies, anthropology, cultural studies as well as gender, sexuality and queer studies, literary studies, sociology, and social work. – Publisher

 

 

The Science Teacher

The Science Teacher

The Science Teacher is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners’ journal for grade 9-12 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science supervisors and leaders. We seek manuscripts that detail innovative, classroom-tested high school science activities and strategies that demonstrate current research regarding the teaching and learning of science as in the Framework for K–12 Science Education as well as manuscripts that focus on specific science teaching strategies, e.g. social justice, equity, etc. – Publisher

Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957

Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957

Race against Empire tells the poignant story of a popular movement and its precipitate decline with the onset of the Cold War. Von Eschen documents the efforts of African-American political leaders, intellectuals, and journalists who forcefully promoted anti-colonial politics and critiqued U.S. foreign policy. The eclipse of anti-colonial politics—which Von Eschen traces through African-American responses to the early Cold War, U.S. government prosecution of black American anti-colonial activists, and State Department initiatives in Africa—marked a change in the very meaning of race and racism in America from historical and international issues to psychological and domestic ones. – Publisher