Climate Change Books Reviewed in "Science Express"

In this week's Science Express*, an essay review by philosopher Philip Kitcher highlights eight books about climate change. Kitcher's review is a worthwhile read, as are the actual books themselves, all published in 2009 0r 2010:

• Climate Change Science and Policy, by Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti.
• The climate solutions consensus, by David E. Blockstein and Leo A.W. Wiegman. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: QC903 .B54 2010
• The Lomborg deception : setting the record straight about global warming, by Howard Friel; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: Q175.37 .F75 2010
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming / Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway Erik Conway.
• Politics of climate change, by Anthony Giddens.
• Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate, by Stephen H. Schneider.
• Storms of my grandchildren : the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity, by James Hansen ; illustrations by Makiko Sato. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: QC981.8.G56 H365 2009
• Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, by Mike Hulme. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: QC981.8.C5 H825 2009

The library currently owns four of the books (those with the title hyperlinked to its library catalog record). As for the other four that we don't own, I placed an order for them today. :-)

If you know of any other books that they library should add to its holdings -- on climate change or any topic in the natural sciences -- feel free to place a request or contact me directly.

* Note: Science Express is an online feature of Science Magazine in which the editors of Science select each week several papers for online publication *four to six weeks* before they appear in print. You can access the current week's Science Express articles at the Science Express web page.


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Wiley Interscience to be Replaced by Wiley Online Library

The Library currently has a subscription to Wiley Interscience -- a database that contains articles from about 1200 journals, mainly focusing on the sciences. On Saturday, July 24, the Wiley Interscience interface will be replaced by a new interface, Wiley Online Library.

According to the Wiley Online Library website,
the new interface will be "easier to navigate, more intuitive with a modern design."

For more information about the upcoming change, see the FAQs page, or view screen shots of the interface on the Wiley Online Library Facebook page (!).


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Earth Day and Library Resources

Earth Day seems like an appropriate day to feature a few of the library's many environment-related resources.

1. Environmental Studies Subject Guide. Its main page includes links to thirteen article databases provide coverage of this multidisciplinary topic.
2. Included in this subject guide is the databases Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, and a search for "earth day" results in 102 references, in an interestingly wide array of documents.
3. NewsBank, a newspaper article database with worldwide coverage, now has a "World Environment - Earth Day" special report. It includes current and historic articles covering this year's Earth Day, its history, environmental issues around the world, and other related topics.

Interested in other environmental-related library resources? Contact me at carrie.leatherman@wmich.edu.


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Large Hadron Collider - Basic Resources

Yesterday CERN's Large Hadron Collider began colliding subatomic particles. When the collider began operating, it was the culmination of about sixteen years of planning, construction, and great anticipation.

If you're wondering about the history of this collider project, the science behind it, or what physicists are trying to find out by using the collider, there are resources at the library to satisfy your curiosity.

A library catalog search for the keywords "large hadron collider" retrieves nine items specifically about the collider, ranging from print books to electronic books to government documents on microfiche. These items are a great place to start when researching the Large Hadron Collider project.

Asides from these specific nine, there are many, many more books, articles, and other resources in the library related to the Large Hedron Collider, particle accelerators, and particle physics. For more information on finding these resources, contact the Science Reference Department or me directly.


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