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Letter from the Editor
February
Irving E. Rockwood
Ah February, the shortest month, and here in New England a month that often overstays its welcome. The “Great Snow of 1717,” for example, blanketed New England in a series of four storms leaving nearly four feet on the ground and drifts up to twenty-five feet high. The Blizzard of 1978 virtually paralyzed the entire Northeast.
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Haiti Earthquake Resources
Choice has reviewed a number of importantWeb sites and books relevant to the earthquake in Haiti, and a few of the more pertinent ones are listed here. Many of the Web sites provide up-to-date information on this unfolding disaster and feature special sections devoted to the earthquake.
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Citizenship Today: Vicissitudes and Promise
The recent “citizenship turn” in the social sciences has yielded a vast and rapidly growing body of literature. This essay divides that literature into four categories or discourses: inclusion, withdrawal, erosion, and expansion. After a general overview of citizenship studies, the essay defines these categories and discusses the most important recent work in each.
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Recent and Forthcoming Titles in African American Studies, 2010
This issue of Choice marks the eighth annual installment of African American studies in the popular “Forthcoming” series. Regularly appearing each year in the February issue, this selected list, like the others in this series, is designed to provide information on new or about-to-be-published books of potential relevance for academic libraries.
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Introducing Publisher’s Choice Online!
Publisher’s Choice Online (PCO) is an exciting new program that allows Choice Reviews Online users to browse the full text of titles that have been reviewed in Choice. More than 30 publishers are now offering the full-text version of over 200 titles.
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HighWire Offers ACRL Publications Online
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, is pleased to welcome four established library publications to its online fold.
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Recent Bibliographic Essays
Click on the link below to see a linked list of bibliographic essays from recent issues of Choice.
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USING CRO–DID YOU KNOW?
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Checking titles against your catalog: if you want to know if a title is available in your library, click on the hyperlinked ISBN in the bibliographic record, which will take you to Worldcat.org. On the WorldCat page, fill in the “Enter Location Information” box that appears below the tabs and click on GO to view whether your library has a record for that title.
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To highlight the wide range of publications reviewed in Choice, each month Choice editors feature some noteworthy reviews from the current issue. Arnold, Edwin T. “What virtue there is in fire”: cultural memory and the lynching of Sam Hose. Georgia, 2009. 242p index afp ISBN 0-8203-2891-X, $28.95; ISBN 9780820328911, $28.95. Reviewed in 2010feb CHOICE.
47-3351 F292 2008-50471 CIP
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Significant Reading on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Chandler, Michael. Countering terrorism: can we meet the threat of global violence?, by Michael Chandler and Rohan Gunaratna. Reaktion Books Ltd, 2007. 240p bibl index ISBN 1-86189-308-6, $22.95; ISBN 9781861893086, $22.95. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2008jan CHOICE.
45-2860 HV6431 Brit. CIP
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Significant Reading on Theory of the Body
Body image: a handbook of theory, research, and clinical practice, ed. by Thomas F. Cash and Thomas Pruzinsky. Guilford, 2002. 530p bibl index afp ISBN 1-57230-777-3, $60.00. Reviewed in 2003feb CHOICE.
40-3703 BF697 2002-6334 CIP
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Understanding the Air Age: Extracting a Culture of Aviation
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