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Editorial Irving E. Rockwood Parting Reflections To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose, and here at Choice the time has come for me to say farewell. On or about the end of June, I will take my final leave of the editor and publisher’s corner office. Nearly eighteen years after I first came to Choice in the summer of 1995, the time has come to move on.
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CHOICE E-Collection Continues to Grow The Choice E-Collection (CEC) is the first collection of e-books made up exclusively of titles reviewed by Choice. Currently consisting of several hundred titles spanning the entire liberal arts and sciences curriculum, the CEC recently added Choice-reviewed titles from the University Press of Mississippi and Wesleyan University Press to its list of participating publishers, which includes M.E. Sharpe, McFarland, and Vanderbilt University Press, among others. The CEC can be accessed at www.choicenewbooks.com.
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CRO3—Coming Soon
We are making final preparations to launch the new version of Choice Reviews Online—CRO3. The full database is not available at this time, but you may browse the current issue of CRO3 and view the brief bibliographic records and extracts. Please do not register at this time. For full access to CRO content, please continue to use CRO2 (www.cro2.org). Once CRO3 is available and customer data has been migrated to the CRO3 platform, we will notify account managers, all profile/password users, and vendors. Messages will also be posted on the CRO2 site when CRO3 is fully accessible.We thank you for your patience, and we look forward to sharing CRO3 with you!
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Globalization: A Selection of Significant Choice Reviews
Choice’s interdisciplinary feature, published annually in June, reprints Choice reviews of titles on an interdisciplinary subject. Since its inception in 2002, the feature has taken on important topics--in order of appearance, the post-9/11 world, environmental studies, law and society, urban studies, politics and religion, technology and society, ethics, youth and society, ecostudies, new media, and the presidency. This year we tackle globalization.
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Forthcoming Globalization Publications, 2013–2014 A companion to this issue's special feature, "Globalization: A Selection of Significant Choice Reviews," this listing highlights new and soon-to-be published works on a topic of widespread interest—globalization. This selected list is designed to provide information about publications that may support academic curricula and library collections, particularly at the undergraduate level.
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Understanding the Air Age
In 1946, William Ogburn published The Social Effects of Aviation in which he suggested a need to consider aeronautics' impact on society. Aside from occasional articles, few in the English-speaking realm followed through on this topic. This essay will explore the subject further.
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Faculty Picks: 5 Great Books on Gay Marriage
Each month Choice faculty reviewers pick their favorites ... books every undergraduate should read!
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Recent Bibliographic Essays
Click on the link below to see a linked list of bibliographic essays from recent issues of Choice.
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Publisher's Choice Online (PCO) Exceeds 3,000 Titles The Publisher’s Choice Online (PCO) e-book program provides the opportunity for Choice Reviews Online users to browse the full text of titles that have been reviewed by Choice. More than 150 publishers are now offering the full-text version of selected titles--more than 3,000 titles in all.
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USING CRO--DID YOU KNOW?
======================================================== Checking titles against your catalog: if you want to know if a title is available in your library, click on the hyperlinked ISBN in the bibliographic record, which will take you to Worldcat.org. On the WorldCat page, fill in the "Enter Your Location" box that appears below the tabs and click on "Find Libraries" to view whether your library has a record for that title.
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To highlight the wide range of publications reviewed in Choice, each month Choice editors feature some noteworthy reviews from the current issue. Arthington, Angela H. Environmental flows: saving rivers in the third millennium. California, 2012. 406p bibl index afp (Freshwater ecology series, 4); ISBN 9780520273696, $75.00. 50-5602 QH541 2012-12445 CIP
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Syria Cooke, Miriam. Dissident Syria: making oppositional arts official. Duke University, 2007. 196p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780822340164, $74.95; ISBN 9780822340355 pbk, $21.95. Reviewed in 2008apr CHOICE. 45-4207 DS94 2007-3444 CIP
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Visit Choice at the ALA Conference, booth #432, in Chicago, June 28-July 2. Ask for a demo of Choice Reviews Online 3 (CRO3) and enter a raffle for an iPad Mini.
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July 2013
The Evolution of Computers: Key Resources
Forthcoming Arts & Mass Media Titles
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