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.

Further information about Recommend a book.

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

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.

Further information about Recommend a book.

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

Resource Trial a + t Architecture Online Library

We are trialling the a + t Online Library from 29th January. The trial will give us access to:

  • a+t magazine from issue 29 (to view a demo of the platform follow the link here)
  • a+t e-books (to view a demo follow the link here)
  • Online packs of cards, including urban floor plans and urban blocks (to view a demo follow the link here)
  • a+t Index

To access the collection both on and off campus follow the link here via our catalogue, Library Search and authenticate using your Newcastle University ID and password

The trial ends on 29th February 2024 To help us evaluate it, please email us your feedback, or leave a reply on this blog.

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

Resource trial – Policy Commons

We are trialling Policy Commons in October 2023. The database is a one stop shop to locate publications from leading policy experts, NGO’s and think tanks. Useful for students, staff and researchers across all disciplines it includes publications from across the globe including:
-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
To find out more see video below.

To access Policy Commons follow this link via Library Search

To send us your comments or feedback please add to this post or email us.

Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester Two 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 Two, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 50 requests in SAPL totalling £3832.

A New Environmental Ethics The Next Millennium for Life on Earth
A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature Healing the Planet through Belonging
Ambedkar in London
Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics
Annihilation of Caste
Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926: Architecture, Ideology, and Politics
Arkkitehti Elissa Aalto / Architect Elissa Aalto
Being Brahmin, Being Modern
Black men in Britain: an ethnographic portrait of the post-Windrush generation
Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Building Theories – Architecture as the Art of Building
Collective Action!: The Power of Collaboration and Co-Design in Architecture
Colonial Modernities Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
Construed Heritage: Narratives and Collectable Experiences
Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City
Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of Social Media
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
Food Deserts and Food insecurity in the UK
Food rule : An Eater’s Manual
Gaudi Unseen: Completing the Sagrada Familia: Completing the Sagrada Família
Interview Techniques for UX Practitioners
Kuwait City Parks A Critical Review of their Design, Facilities, Programs and Management
Laughing at Architecture: Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit
Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design
Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future
Meat, Modernity and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse
Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe
On the Street: In-Between Architecture
Planting Design / 2nd
Plastic Emotions
Routledge handbook of urban forestry
Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture
Spaces for Children The Built Environment and Child Development
Temple Sagrada Familia
The architectural detail
The essential Gaudí
The Persian Garden Echoes of Paradise
The Politics of Oil
Twenty Minutes In Manhattan
Urban Ecosystems Understanding the Human Environment
Urban Jungle: Wilding The City
Urban Nature Enriching Belonging, Wellbeing and Bioculture
User Research A Practical Guide to Designing Better Products and Services
Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials
Waste Material Recylcing in the Circular Economy
Water Always Wins Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
Water: A Critical Introduction
Why Cities Need Large Parks

Oxford Bibliographies Online

After trialling on several occasions we have recently been able to purchase the Oxford Bibliographies Online collection which gives staff and students access to a comprehensive collection of articles published and reviewed by academics covering a wide range of subject areas. Users can personalise their experience by saving citations and articles to their own profile.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Subject areas covered (click on subject to link to resource via Library Search)

Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions

In the library we love these short guides from OUP who provide a variety of great concise books on lots of different topics.

We’ve recently updated this collection so it includes to most recent publications from OUP published in 2022 and 2023.

This series offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects—from artificial intelligence to folk music to medical ethics—in 35,000 words or less.

Each one of these big little books provides intelligent and serious introductions written by experts who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make even the most challenging topics highly readable.

On our catalogue, Library Search you can search by keywords like in the screenshot below so “very short introduction” and browse through or add in Oxford to add in results for that publisher. Re-sort your results to “newest” if you’d like to browse through the latest ones added to our collection.

Or visit the OUP Very Short Introductions website directly and then filter using the subject categories. OUP have arranged the titles under headings such as Medicine and Health, Arts and Humanities, Law, Social Sciences

if you are accessing off campus then once you’re on the OUP site please click “sign in” (on the left hand menu and select Newcastle University from the list to enter your Campus ID and password.)

Oxford University Press also have a podcast you can subscribe to about titles and topics in this collection.

Art and Architecture Archive

We are delighted we now have access to Art and Architecture Archive (parts 1 and now 2 after a sucessful trial) from Proquest.

This is a full-text archive of consumer and trade magazines comprising of key research materials in subjects relating to art, architecture, architectural history, art history, cultural history, fine art, industrial design, photography, social history and visual arts.

Coverage is from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The issues are scanned as full colour images with each article indexed so you can quickly find the topic you are looking for.

We think these are an invaluable source, as a historical record of the art and architecture industries. Through reviews, advertisements, exhibition listings, and awards, you can investigate the careers of major artists and architects, as well as the history of the commercialization and marketing of art/architecture.

You can search across both collections looking for individuals, topics, movements, industry news items, interviews with major artists, or features about technological developments, as well as photographs / illustrations, architectural plans, statistics, and reviews.

You can search or browse the archive in various ways (use Advanced Search to see all search options), and retrieve many types of content.

You also might want to browse by publication so check out Building Design, Architects’ journal or The Architectural Review. Click on publications on the Proqest website and you’ll see an A-Z list.

Screenshot of front cover of Building Design
Screenshoot of front cover of The Architectural Review

Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester One 2022/23)

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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 One, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 19 requests from 15 students (3 PGR,  6 PGT and 6 UGT) in SAPL totalling just over £580.00

China contemporary : architectuur, kunst, beeldcultuur = architecture, art, visual culture.

Coffeeland: A History

Design and Science

Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

Ending the Anthropocene – Essays on Activism in the Age of Collapse (Reflect, 12)

Let’s Go! Poekhali! Textbook 1.1

LO–TEK Design by Radical Indigenism

Louise Bourgeois’ Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing

Material Misuse: Kennedy and Violich Architecture: No. 4 (Architecture Landscape Urbanism S.)

Mixed Reality In Architecture, Design, And Construction

Nomad Century: how to survive the climate upheaval

Posthuman Knowledge

Richard Serra Props, Films, Early Works

Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World

The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir

The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe

Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics

Unbounded Practices: women,landscape architecture and early twentieth century

Yarn from Wild Nettles: A Practical Guide