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New Reference Book: International Relations, International Security, and Comparative Politics: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources

Lura Sanborn — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:00:13 +0000

International Relations, International Security, and Comparative Politics: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources by Chad M. Kahl, Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 016.32 K12I

A reference book about reference books!

This volume identifies and describes research sources related to politics/policy the world over, including international law, organizations, security, leaders and political parties and philosophy.

Examples include:
•   Statistical sources related to American and Caribbean Politics
•   Yearbooks related to International Law and Treaties
•   Chronologies related to International Security
•   Guides and Handbooks related to Middle Eastern Politics
•   Dictionaries and Encyclopedias related to Women in Politics

Helpful for: Global Studies, Politics, Economics, Model UN, Humanities

New Reference Book: Encyclopedia of Human Rights

Lura Sanborn — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:00:58 +0000

Encyclopedia of Human Rights edited by David P. Forsythe, Oxford, 2009.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 323 Ox2h

This five volume set presents articles related to the ideas, progress, people, politics and policies related to, created for and influencing human rights.

Examples: Simone de Beauvoir, Convention on the Rights of a Child, Peacebuilding, Sisterhood is Global, Universality

Helpful for: Global Studies, Humanities, Humanities V Research Paper, Social Justice Club, Model U.N., Literature of Witness

New Reference Book: Encyclopedia of the United Nations

Lura Sanborn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:24 +0000

Encyclopedia of the United Nations 2nd ed., by Jerry Pubantz and John Allphin Moore, Jr., Facts on File, 2008.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 341.23 M78U

Two volumes of essays related to the U.N. including topics about and related to:

International law
Disarmament W
Women
Sustainable development
Human rights and more

A variety of appendixes conclude the second volume including:

Charter of the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations Member States and year of admission
Statute of the International Court of Justice
Important United Nations Resolutions
Selected U.N. Conventions and Declarations
United Nations web sites
United Nations Chronology.

Helpful for: Humanities IV, Model U.N., Global Awareness, Humanities IV.