Book of the Week (February 26, 2007)

On the New Book shelf at the Reference Desk
Call Number: REF HM 425 .B53 2007 (11 volumes)

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Edited by George Ritzer

The BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIOLOGY is arranged across eleven volumes in A-Z format. . .This ground-breaking project will bring together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers. It will provide:- Clear, concise, expert definitions and explanations of the key concepts- An essential reference for expert and newcomer alike, with entries ranging from extended explorations of major topics to short definitions of key terms- Materials that have historically defined the discipline, but also more recent developments, significantly updating the store of sociological knowledge- Introductions to sociological theories and research that have developed outside of the United States and Western Europe- Sophisticated cross-referencing and search facilities- Lexicon by subject area, bibliography, and index.Work on the project has been divided into 32 editorial areas, each of which represents a major area of inquiry within sociology. Each area has a specially selected advisory editor from an international team of eminent scholars.For further details on advisory editors and contributors together with a provisional list of entries, go online to the Encyclopedia website: http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com

Book of the Week (February 19, 2007)

On the New Book Shelf
Call Number: HQ 777 .G37 2006

See Jane Hit: Why girls are growing more violent and what we can do about it.

By James Garbarino

Publisher Description: From one of America's leading authorities on juvenile violence and aggression, a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion in violent behavior by girls: its causes, consequences, and possible solutions... In See Jane Hit, Dr. James Garbarino shows that the rise in girls' violence is the product of many interrelated cultural developments, several of which are largely positive. Girls have learned to express themselves physically in organized sports-thirty years ago, the number of boys playing organized sports was more than ten times greater than the number of girls; now we're almost at 1:1. In a number of other ways, too, the cultural foot binding that has kept girls from embracing their own physical power has been removed, which is largely to be celebrated. But nothing happens in isolation, and there's rarely such a momentous societal shift with absolutely no downside. One problem is that girls aren't being trained to handle their own physical aggression the way boys are: our methods of child-rearing culture include all sorts of mechanisms for socializing boys to express their violence in socially acceptable ways, but with girls we lag very far behind. At the same time, the culture has become more toxic for boys and girls alike, and girls' sexuality is linked with violence in new and disturbing ways. Ultimately, this brilliant, far-reaching examination of physical aggression and the "new" American girl shows us there is much we can do differently. See Jane Hit is not just a powerful wake-up call; it's a clear-eyed, compassionate prescription for real-world solutions.

Book of the Week (February 12, 2007)

On Reserve at the Main Circulation Desk for Communication 374

Call Number: LB 1047.3 .S267 2002

How to Write Research Papers

3rd Edition

A short, concise guide with "easy to follow, practical instruction for high school and college students. Recommended by Liz Fakazis, faculty member in the UW-Stevens Point Communication department.

Book of the Week (February 5, 2007)

In Celebration of Black History Month

On the New Book Shelf
Call Number: E 185.97 .C6 A3

Target Zero: A Life in Writing
By Eldridge Cleaver, edited by Kathleen Cleaver


Publisher Description: Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver's controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year exile, and his religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Target Zero, which brings together previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, is the most significant collection of Eldridge Cleaver's writing since his bestselling book Soul on Ice (1968).