New E-Resources at Northwestern

Northwestern University Library now has access to the following Elsevier Publishing e-books.

Access through the publisher’s website and via library catalog.

• Advanced Water Injection for Low Permeability Reservoirs : Theory and Practice

• Agronomy and Economy of Turmeric and Ginger, The : The Invaluable Medicinal Spice Crops

• Analysis of Turbulent Flows with Computer Programs (Third Edition)

• Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid

• Atlas of Drosophila Morphology : Wild-type and Classical Mutants

• Biofabrication : Micro- and Nano-fabrication, Printing, Patterning and Assemblies

• Biorefinery in the Pulp and Paper Industry

• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to Work : Trend Report

• Building the Most Complex Structure on Earth : An Epigenetic Narrative of Development and Evolution of Animals

• Business Continuity (Second Edition)

• Characterization of Biomaterials

• The Compliance Response to Misconduct Allegations (Second Edition)

• Compressibility, Turbulence and High Speed Flow (Second Edition)

• Context Effects on Embodied Representation of Language Concepts

• Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna

• Crisis Management at the Speed of the Internet : Trend Report

• Credit Insurance

• Designer’s Guide to the Cortex-M Processor Family, The : A Tutorial Approach

• Digital Outcasts : Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind

• Domestic Violence Spills Over into the Workplace : Proven Practices

• Earthquake-Resistant Structures : Design, Build, and Retrofit

• Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics

• Engineered Nanopores for Bioanalytical Applications

• Establishing the Value of All-Hazards Risk Mitigation : Proven Practices

• Financial Whirlpools : A Systems Story of the Great Global Recession

• Foodborne Infections and Intoxications (Fourth Edition)

• Forensic Fraud

• Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover (Third Edition)

• From One Winning Career to the Next (Second Edition)

• Green and Sustainable Computing: Part II

• Heavy Oil Production Processes

• Individual Differences and Personality (Second Edition)

• International Security Programs Benchmark Report : Research Report

• Low-Abundance Proteome Discovery : State of the Art and Protocols

• Managing Data in Motion

• Managing Risks in Business : Proven Practices

• Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

• Memory Reconsolidation

• MSP430-based Robot Applications : A Guide to Developing Embedded Systems

• Multi-criteria Decision Analysis for Supporting the Selection of Engineering Materials in Product Design

• Nanoalloys : from fundamentals to emergent applications

• Nine Practices of the Successful Security Leader : Research Report

• Plasma Engineering : Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology

• Polyvinyl Fluoride

• Powering Biomedical Devices

• Rabies (Third Edition)

• Real World Multicore Embedded Systems

• Role of Catalysis for the Sustainable Production of Bio-fuels and Bio-chemicals

• Safety Design for Space Operations

• Success in Innovation : Improving the Odds by Understanding the Factors for Unsuccess

• Synthetic Biology : Tools and Applications

• Visual Usability : Principles and Practices for Designing Digital Applications

• Volatile Biomarkers : Non-Invasive Diagnosis in Physiology and Medicine

• Windows 2012 Server Network Security : Securing Your Windows Network Systems and Infrastructure

• Writing for Interaction

LGBT Thought and Culture

(also known as Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture)

LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and, in future releases, archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection includes materials ranging from seminal texts, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community. It features select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers and is seeking to represent the major winners of both the Stonewall Book Awards and Lambda Literary Awards, many of which are no longer in print.

At completion, the collection will offer 500 hours of high quality video content and 150,000 pages of printed works and archival materials essential to students and scholars of cultural studies, history, women’s and gender studies, political science, psychology, anthropology, American studies, social theory, sociology, and literature.

Northwestern University Library now has access to the following Elsevier Publishing e-books.

Access through the publisher’s website and via library catalog.

• Accurate results in the clinical laboratory : a guide to error detection and correction

• Analyzing the Social Web

• Atlas of Hematopathology

• Biological Research on Addiction

• Blackhatonomics

• Brainstorming and Beyond

• Characterization of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Nanostructures (Second Edition)

• Computation and Storage in the Cloud : Understanding the Trade-Offs

• Digital Signal Processing (Second Edition)

• Electric Motors and Drives (Fourth Edition)

• The Elements of Polymer Science & Engineering (Third Edition)

• Energy Efficiency : Towards the End of Demand Growth

• Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells (Second Edition)

• Engineering Design, Planning, and Management

• Flow Networks

• Food Industry Wastes

• Fun in Fusion Research

• Geomaterials Under the Microscope

• Guide to Essential Math (Second Edition)

• Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides (Second Edition)

• Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexuality

• Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, Volume 2

• Handbook of Molded Part Shrinkage and Warpage

• Human Behavior in Hazardous Situations

• Human-Computer Interaction : An Empirical Research Perspective

• Immunoassay Handbook (Fourth Edition)

• In Situ Molecular Pathology and Co-Expression Analyses

• Individual Case Formulation

• Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming

• Intelligent Systems for Security Informatics

• Interventions for Addiction

• Introduction to Criminal Justice (Seventh Edition)

• Introduction to Naval Architecture (Fifth Edition)

• Killing Public Higher Education

• Ligand Efficiency Indices for Drug Discovery

• Liquid Chromatography – Fundamentals and Instrumentation

• Liquid Chromatography – Applications

• Manufacturing Process Selection Handbook

• Mathematical Modeling (Fourth Edition)

• Mechanisms of Morphogenesis (Second Edition)

• Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Skeletal Regeneration

• Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures

• Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics (Second Edition)

• Microfluidic Cell Culture Systems

• Mimo Wireless Networks (Second Edition)

• Mineral Exploration

• Nanochemistry (Second Edition)

• Neutron and X-ray Optics

• Nonclinical Study Contracting and Monitoring : A Practical Guide

• Nutritional Management of Renal Disease

• Monitoring Water Quality

• Paks, Rac/Cdc42 (p21)-activated Kinases

• PEM Fuel Cell Testing and Diagnosis

• Perfume Engineering : Design, Performance & Classification

• Pharmacogenomics

• Practical Aviation Security (Second Edition)

• Principles of Addiction

• Product Performance Evaluation with CAD/CAE

• Profiling and Serial Crime (Third Edition)

• Quantitative Data Processing in Scanning Probe Microscopy

• Radiative Heat Transfer (Third Edition)

• Raising Entrepreneurial Capital (Second Edition)

• Ready: Renewable Energy Action on Deployment

• Security and Loss Prevention (Sixth Edition)

• Security Science

• Solution Focused Anxiety Management

• Space Groups for Solid State Scientists (Third Edition)

• Strategic Intelligence Management

• Therapist’s Guide to Pediatric Affect and Behavior Regulation

• Treating Worker Dissatisfaction During Economic Change

• Understanding Automotive Electronics (Seventh Edition)

• Volcanic Reservoirs in Petroleum Exploration

• Web Services, Service-oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing (Second Edition)

• When Culture Impacts Health

Dictionary of African Biography

From the pharaohs to Frantz Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa’s history.  Subjects are drawn from all walks of life, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people. – Publisher.

Issues in Environmental Science and Technology

A series of e-books on environmental science and technology.  See website for individual titles.

The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media

The volume showcases new research at the cutting edge of media and communication practice and theory, offering genuinely novel insights into the complex set of relations that exists between gender, sex, sexualities, and the media. – Publisher.

The International Encyclopedia of Ethics

The International Encyclopedia of Ethics is the a 9-volume reference work, presented in A-Z format. It comprises over 700 entries, ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 words in length, written by an international cast of subject experts and provides clear definitions and explanations of all areas of ethics including the topics, movements, arguments, and key figures in Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Practical Ethics. – Publisher.

Stalin Digital Archive

Individual registration required for access.

The result of years of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) provides access to primary source materials from Stalin’s personal papers and insightful monographs on communism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students to interact with this content and collaborate. The SDA collections include:

RGASPI documents from Stalin’s personal papers will eventually number over 400,000 pages. Highlights include: foreign policy with Germany before World War II; communications during the Great Purges; relations with Western intellectuals and leaders; and private notations on many Soviet leaders.

The Annals of Communism series contains 25 volumes of scholarly commentary, annotation, and interpretation of documents from state and party archives selected by teams of Western and Russian editors. These volumes span the history of Soviet and international communism. – Publisher.

Key Terms in Literary Theory

This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and an extensive bibliography. – Publisher.

The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang

In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli introduces a significant corpus of Chinese Buddhist poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts celebrating Mount Wutai. They offer important literary evidence for the transformation of the mountain into the earthly paradise of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī by the Tang dynasty. – Publisher.