Previous Entries
The old "New for Journalism, Politics, and Sociology" blog, is still available from here.
The old "New for Journalism, Politics, and Sociology" blog, is still available from here.
Gale/Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.
Provides brief biographical and career details on more than 20,000 contemporary African Americans, including leaders from sports, the arts, business, religion, etc. (19th edition, 2006)
Links will be maintained in Annie and on several Leyburn Library Web site pages, including here.
Pew Global Attitudes Project
Available online.
A survey of 14,000 individuals in 13 countries reveals that "most Muslims and Westerners are convinced that relations between them are generally bad these days. Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy - as well as violent and fanatical."
A link is maintained on this Leyburn Library page.
Freedom House Europe.
Available online. Printed copy ordered.
"A comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study measuring progress and setbacks in democratization in 27 countries from Central Europe to the Eurasian region of the Former Soviet Union."
Links will be maintained on several Leyburn Library pages, including here.
American Society of International Law.
Available online.
"Designed to be used by students, teachers, practitioners and researchers as a self-guided tour of relevant, quality, up-to-date online resources covering important areas of international law," including human rights and environmental law.
Links will be maintained on several Leyburn Library pages, including this one.
Leyburn Library subscribes to Project Muse, a database containing the complete texts of articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. A list of the journals is here.
You now can receive automatic updates -- with complete online access to all articles -- whenever new issues of journals of your choosing are available. For example: Journal of Democracy.
These updates are delivered by RSS feeds, which you can view in your own "RSS Reader," which saves all your chosen updates in a database, completely separate from e-mail.
An RSS reader also can used to receive automatic updates from various sections of the New York Times, some government agencies, and from lots of other Web sites.
Please let me know if you have questions or if you would like me to help you set up an RSS reader.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.
Available online. Print copy ordered. Previous edition (1998) is available in the library collection.
Online copy of the revised edition (2005) examines issues relating to the involvement of women in parliamentary bodies -- obstacles to participation, possible solutions (including electoral system changes), and strategies for influencing policies.
A link will be maintained on this Leyburn Library page.
Urban Institute.
Available online. Print copy ordered for collection.
This paper explores how government programs in housing assistance, unemployment benefits, health care, and welfare fared under the extreme conditions of the storm and its aftermath.
A link will be maintained on this Leyburn Library page.
St. thomas University School of Law
Available online only.
Tracks hundreds of "diplomacy-related" web sites (heads of state, foreign ministries, etc.) and provides "newly issued communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, and news releases."
Links will be maintained in several locations on our site, including here.
U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute.
Available online. Print copy to be added to the Leyburn Libray collection.
"The U.S. approach to ‘culture’ traditionally has been to blur the differences and seek commonality... The author examines the ideological threats confronting the United States and America’s lack of cultural savvy, along with its implications, proposing a new outlook for policy leaders and strategists."
A link will be maintained on this Leyburn Library page.
National Urban League.
Shelved in the Reference collection: REF E 185.5.N317 2006
Annual overview of the "issues central to Black America in the current year, covering such issues as healthcare disparities, jobs, homeownership, children's issues, and the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Significant statistical data is also included. Abstracts of the articles are available online, from this page.
This page contains all entries posted to New for Politics test in July 2006. They are listed from oldest to newest.
August 2006 is the next archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.