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Global Communist and Socialist Movements

We are running a trial to this unique archive from Gale. It is a collection of first-hand narratives chronicling, socialist and far-left groups in terms of how figures saw themselves and the world around them during the major political and social events that occurred in the twentieth century.

The resource features primary sources from various different collections including:

Radical Left Political Movements and Social Issues: American Old Left
Source at the University of California, Davis

Senate House Library, University of London Collections

Rose Pastor Stokes Papers at Yale University

Anna Strunsky Walling Papers at Yale University

Papers of Walter Lippmann at Yale University

Alger Hiss Defense Collection at Harvard Law School Library

Alger Hiss Collection at New York University

Anti-Socialist Organisations in Britain at the British Library

FBI American Legion Contact Program at the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Archives of the Independent Labour Party

Socialist and Labour Thought in Britain Since 1884

FBI File on J. Robert Oppenheimer

Full details on the Gale website

There are approximately 868,000 pages made up of correspondence, periodicals, manuscripts, books, personal papers, organisational records, letters and newsletters, pamphlets dating from 1766-2004 (however most are dated between 1880-1950)

You can access this resource via Library Search. The trial will run until 18th April 2024.

We are keen to hear any feedback on this resource – please contact us by commenting below or by emailing your Liaison Librarian (libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk)

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Books added to the Library by students in GPS (Semester One 2023/24)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

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In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 33 requests in GPS totalling just over £2206.

A Story of Ruins: presence and absence in Chinese art and visual culture
African Sexualities: A Reader
Against borders: the case for abolition
An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalism
Architecting Systems. Concepts, Principles and Practice
Border abolitionism Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue
Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
Chihera in Zimbabwe: A Radical African Feminist Principle
Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
Culturally Responsive Methodologies
Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Dynamics of African feminism: The Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures
Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape
Family matters: Feminist concepts in African philosophy of culture
Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools: The No Outsiders Project
Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa
Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging
Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3
Monumental lies: culture wars and the truth about the past 
Nintendo: Playing with Power
On the boundary of two worlds Vol. 30:  (Forgotten Pages in Baltic History: Diversity and Inclusion)
Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities
Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
Riga’s monuments and decorative sculptures 
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments
The image of the soldier in German culture 1871-1933
The law of force : the violent heart of Indian politics
The Marketisation of English Higher Education: A Policy Analysis of a Risk-Based System (Great Debates in Higher Education)
The Reconstruction of Berlin Palace: Facade, Architecture and Sculpture
The Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Christianity
The Transformation of Strategic Affairs
The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations
University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
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Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester One 2023/24)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

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In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 32 requests in ECLS totalling just over £2706.

Attachment in the Classroom: The Links Between Children’s Early Experience, Emotional Well-Being and Performance in School
Authentic Assessment and Evaluation Approaches and Practices in a Digital Era
Child Development Theories: Critical Perspectives
Closing the reading gap Alex Quigley author. 2020
Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy
Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
Growth Mindset for Teachers: Growing Learners in the Classroom…
Handbook for Working with Children and Youth Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts
Hooked on Books: Transforming the Teaching of Reading
Making Every RE Lesson Count: Six principles to support religious education teaching
Mastering Modern Psychological Testing
Medical and Healthcare Interactions Members’ Competence and Socialization
Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts
Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts Towards Education Justice
Natural Language Acquisition on the Autism Spectrum: The Journey from Echolalia to Self-Generated Language.
Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice
Reconstructing Educational Psychology 
Simple Writing Activities (Oxford Basics)
Teacher Man
Teaching L2 Composition Purpose, Process, and Practice
Teamwork Interactive tasks to get students talking
Tests & Us – A Collection of Real Stories
The Growth Mindset Classroom-Ready Resource Book (Growth Mindset for Teachers): A Teacher\’s Toolkit for Encouraging Grit and Resilience in All
The PMLD ambiguity: articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities
The Psychology of Belonging
The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
Touch in Social Interaction, Touch , Lnaguage and Body
Transforming Professional Practice in Education: Psychology, Dialogue and the Practice of Becoming Human
Transit
Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions
Vygotsky and the social formation of mind
Working with Global Aphasia. Theory and Practice
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Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester One 2023/24)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

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In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 16 requests in NUBS totalling just over £1851.

A Guide to Port Sunlight Village: Third edition
Adaptive Cloud Enterprise Architecture
From Attention to Meaning: Explorations in Semiotics, Linguistics, and Rhetoric
Guidebook – Port Sunlight
Inside the Video Game Industry: Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play
Irresistible: the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked.
Managing the Customer Experience: Turning Customers Into Advocates
Narratives We Organize By
Parkrun: An Organised Running Revolution
Parkrun: Much More Than Just a Run in the Park
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
The better Angels Of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative, And Moral Identity Among Men Of The American Upper Class
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Kindness of Strangers: Philanthropy and Higher Education
The Pornography of Meat
Virtuous Giving: Philanthropy, Voluntary Service, and Caring
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Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester One 2023/24)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

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In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 55 requests in SAPL totalling just over £3800.

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume V : Proceedings of the International Conference on Disaster Management, November 24-27, 2021, New Delhi, India
Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore
Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, 3rd Edition
Beyond Foucault New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon
Boundaries 13 Tiny Houses Self-built – Off the Grid
Building with Paper: The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings: 2
Citizens of no place
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below
Colloquial Swahili
Compassionate Cities: public health and end-of-life care
Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings Around the World
Concrete Hong Kong: Build Your Own Modernist Metropolis
Crack in the wall : life and death in Kowloon walled city
Deserts Are Not Empty
Design For More-Than-Human Futures Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding
Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Project
Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities Sustenance and Sustainability
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Documenta11: Platform4: Under Siege: Four African Cities: Freetown, Johannesburg, Lagos, Kinshasa
Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities
Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985
Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings
Ethics and Organizational Practice Questioning the Moral Foundations of Management
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
Historical Muscat : an Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer.
Imperial Ascent: Mountaineering, Masculinity, and Empire
Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects
Longing for the Future: Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
Medieval modern : art out of time
Moderns abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
Mogadishu through the Eyes of an Architect
Mogadishu: Lost Moderns
Multimodal Conversation Analysis and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis A Methodological Framework for Researching Translanguaging in Multilingual Classrooms
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Planning in a Failing State: Reforming Spatial Governance in England
Railway
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and Its Birds
Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson
Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London
Resilient and Sustainable Cities Research, Policy and Practice
RIBA Job Book / 10th
Sir Titus Salt and Sons – A Farming Legacy
Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research (Architectural Design)
Studies in Organic: Kengo Kuma and Associates
Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable?
Sustainable Cities: Local Solutions in the Global South
The Epic of Mount Everest
The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology
The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
The making of modern Ethiopia: 1896–1974
The people’s property? power, politics, and the public
Wearable Sensors (Second Edition): Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications
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Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

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In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in SAPL totalling just over £916.

Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts
Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide
Cliff Railways, Lifts and Funiculars
Good Practice Guide: Making Successful Planning Applications
Heidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being
Homo Prospectus
Multiple Regression and Beyond An Introduction to Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling
Public Space in Metropolitan Barcelona: Interventions and Conversations
Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods FIFTH EDITION
Sagrada Familia: Behind the Scaffolding
The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space
Woods go urban – Three Landscape Laboratories in Scandinavia
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Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

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In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in ECLS totalling just over £748

Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual
Best Practices in Writing Instruction
Essentials of Critical-constructivist Grounded Theory Research
Hegde’s Pocket Guide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology
How to create Autonomous Learners
Introducing Global Englishes
Linguistic Ethnography Interdisciplinary Explorations
Psychology of Gender
Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators And Improving Schools
The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for learning
Working with Emergent Language
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Books added to the Library by students in GPS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in GPS totalling just over £1293

ACCA Strategic Business Leader (SBL) Study Text
Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea: Evolving Disputes, Expanding Options
Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism
Geopolitics and International Relations
Heterarchy in World Politics
Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability
Managing Crisis
New Economies for Sustainability: Limits and Potentials for Possible Futures
Our Psychiatric Future: the politics of mental health
Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed
We have never been middle-class
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Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 10 requests in NUBS totalling just over £1293

Culture Place and Health: Critical Geographies
Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management.
Fundraising and Institutional Advancement: Theory, Practice, and New Paradigms
Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
International Handbook of Diversity Management at Work. Country Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment
Japanese Management Tradition and Transition
Loved : how to rethink marketing for tech products
Philanthropy in Education: Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education

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Policy Commons

After a successful trial in October 2023, we are delighted we have managed to secure a subscription to Policy Commons. We received some great feedback from academics about how the platform would fit in with teaching and learning in Schools including :

“This is an absolute treasure, especially for my research. I am also sure it will be an invaluable teaching resource for the environmental law module starting next semester.”

“There are huge amounts of so-called ‘grey’ policy literature that students working and being taught policy-oriented skills and modules cannot access because it is fragmented, hosted by various institutions and the organisations which commissioned such reports. Policy Commons makes the universe of policy-relevant literature, which is often the cutting edge of a field and more up-to-date than academic literature, accessible to students through just one easily searchable source. This is a highly recommended resource, which improves student skills, research and their written work”.

So if you aren’t familiar already, the database is one resource to locate publications from policy experts, NGO’s and think tanks. Publications include :
-The Council of Europe
-Environmental Law Institute
-European Parliamentary Research Service
-Center for Security Studies
-OECD
-World Bank Group
-United Nations
-International Institute for Environment and Development

This short video from Policy Commons tells you a little bit more

To access Policy Commons follow this link via Library Search