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July 2010

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Academia is YBP's online collection development resource for all academic libraries. Published twelve times per year, Academia includes selection lists of new books, publishing industry news, award-winning titles, and other features to aid collection development in academic libraries of every size and type.

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Questions, Anyone?
By Brian Kennedy, PDS Bibliographer

Upon being selected for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, Laureate Herta Müller (as is required by the Nobel Foundation statutes) delivered a lecture before the Swedish Academy “on a subject relevant to the work for which the prize has been awarded.” Since Müller had been chosen as a writer “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the language of the dispossessed,” it was only fitting that she speak about her own efforts, confronted by the absurdities of an authoritarian system, to cultivate and maintain her sanity and dignity.
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ebrary’s Academic Complete
Libraries can now subscribe to this comprehensive collection of eBooks, which offers simultaneous, multi-user access to nearly 44,000 titles. Subscribe to the entire collection to build an instant eBook library, or to one or more of the 16 subject collections that comprise Academic Complete. For more information, contact your YBP representative, or click here.


Profiler's Picks

Our profilers examine each book in-hand, insuring that every aspect and nuance of a book receives appropriate consideration in the book selection process. These are titles that have, in some way, piqued their interest.

July Picks:

  • Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law
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What We're Reading

Reviews that showcase some of the leisure books YBP employees have been reading, and usually, enjoying.

Latest Reviews:

  • Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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  • Earthscan
    Earthscan is the world’s leading publisher on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology.
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Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology

ELSEVIER SCIENCE
 

Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience

ACADEMIC PRESS
 

Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders

ACADEMIC PRESS
 

Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry

ACADEMIC PRESS
 

Enterprise 2.0: How Technology, eCommerce, and Web 2.0 Are Transforming Business Virtually

PRAEGER
 

Europa World Year Book 2010

ROUTLEDGE
 

The Life of Gluckel of Hameln

JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY
 

Political Parties and Democracy

PRAEGER
 

Religion and Everyday Life and Culture

PRAEGER
 

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