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Happy Fall!

In case you find some free time this semester and need a good book to read, please check out some of the newly acquired titles in the social sciences below that are available at Falvey Memorial Library. Be sure to check out the full list, too, for more new and unique titles.

Americans against the city : Anti-urbanism in the twentieth century
by Steven Conn
Oxford University Press, 2014

 

Cognitive media theory
by Ted Nannicelli & Paul Taberham
Routledge, 2014

 

Disability incarcerated : imprisonment and disability in the United States and Canada
by Liat Ben-Moshe & Liat and Allison C. Carey
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

 

Doing a successful research project : using qualitative or quantitative methods
By Martin Davies & Nathan Hughes
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

 

EXPLORING GREEN CRIMINOLOGY : TOWARD A GREEN CRIMINOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
by Michael J. Lynch
Ashgate, 2014

 

Imaginative methodologies in the social sciences : creativity, poetics and rhetoric in social research
by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S. Drake, Kieran Keohane, & Anders Petersen
Ashgate, 2014

 

Mainstreaming torture : ethical approaches in the post-9/11 United States
by Rebecca Gordon
Oxford, 2014

 

The social media handbook
by Jeremy Hunsinger and Theresa M. Senft
Routledge, 2014

 

I’d also love to hear from you! Please feel free to recommend other texts you feel are useful for your courses by email (alexander.williams@villanova.edu) or by telephone (ext. 8845).


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New Books in Criminology

New books of particular interest to faculty and students studying criminology. Preview select titles below or browse the entire list of latest arrivals in criminology.

femaleprisonersFemale Prisoners, AIDS, and Peer Programs: How Female Offenders Transform Their Lives
by Kimberly Collica
Springer
Online
2013

mythmartyrdomThe Myth of Martyrdom: What Really Drives Suicide Bombers, Rampage Shooters, and Other Self-Destructive Killers
by Adam Lankford
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

'grooming'

‘Grooming’ and the Sexual Abuse of Children: Institutional, Internet, and Familial Dimensions
by Anne-Marie McAlinden
Oxford University Press
2012

spssstepbystepSPSS Step by Step: Essentials for Social and Political Science
by Cole Davis
Policy Press
2013


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New Books in Criminology

Check out these new books in criminology. Or, see the full list.

disruptingschoolprisonpipelineDisrupting the school-to-prison pipeline
edited by Sophia Bahena
Harvard Educational Review
2012

Alalcoholviolencecohol and violence: The nature of the relationship and the promise of prevention
by Robert Nash Parker and Kevin J. McCaffree
Lexington Books
2013

oxhndbkcrimthryOxford Handbook of Criminological Theory
edited by Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox
Oxford University Press
2013

understandingparricideUnderstanding parricide: When sons and daughters kill parents
by Kathleen M. Heide
Oxford University Press
2013


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