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Suggest a Title for Purchase: Up Against the Wall Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggest a Title for Purchase
Title: Up Against the Wall Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border
Author: Casey, Edward; Watkins, Mary
Publisher & where & when published: Univ. of Texas Press, to be published in Sept.2014, ISBN 9780292759381
Where you saw this item mentioned: http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/casupa
Your affiliation: SFU Staff

Suggest a Title for Purchase: Reconceptualizing mathematics for elementary school teachers

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggest a Title for Purchase
Title: Reconceptualizing mathematics for elementary school teachers
Author: Judith Sowder, Larry Sowder, Susan Nickerson, San Diego State University.
Publisher & where & when published: 2014
Where you saw this item mentioned: MATH190 course material
Your affiliation: SFU Undergraduate Student

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Useful, usable, desirable : applying user experience design to your library

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggestion for New Title Purchase
Title: Useful, usable, desirable : applying user experience design to your library
Author: Aaron Schmidt and Amanda Etches.
Publisher & where & when published: Amer Library Association, 2014
Where you saw this item mentioned: Amazon
Your affiliation: SFU Staff

A: Thanks for the great suggestion.
I have ordered a copy for the library and asked that you be notified when it is ready for you to pick it up.

Patty

Book Series: Asking, We Walk: South as New Political Imaginary

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: ... a nonprofit called Vimochana (In India) and its founder, Corinne Kumar has written a series of 4 books called Asking, We Walk: South as New Political Imaginary. It is an anthology of essays challenging the dominant discourses and worldviews and offering alternative visions and lived realities. It contains writing from Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Obioma Nnaemeka, Grada Kilomba, Samar Farage, Mohamed Adhikari, Walter D. Mignolo, Majid

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: CISSP & CSSLP Exams ExamFOCUS Study Notes & Review Questions 2014

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggestion for New Title Purchase
Title: CISSP & CSSLP Exams ExamFOCUS Study Notes & Review Questions 2014
Publisher & where & when published: examreview
Where you saw this item mentioned: amazon,, ISBN 1493674005
Your affiliation: SFU Alumna/Alumnus

A: Thank you for your request. Unfortunately the title you suggested falls outside of our Collection Development scope.
Please check your local public library for availability.

Best,
Megan

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Protean Selves: First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French a Francophone Narrativesnd

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggestion for New Title Purchase
Author: Adrienne Angelo and Erika Fülöp
Title: Protean Selves: First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Narratives
Publisher & where & when published: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 212 pp., ISBN 978-1-4438-6015-4 (Hardcover) London
Where you saw this item mentioned: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/protean-selves
Your affiliation: SFU Faculty

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggestion for New Title Purchase
Title: Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age
Author: Weiss, Brad (editor)
Publisher & where & when published: Brill, 2004
Where you saw this item mentioned: Academic papers
Your affiliation: SFU Faculty

A: Thank you for your request. We will order a copy of this title for you and you will be notified via email when it is ready to be picked up.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Best,
Megan

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Theology after the birth of God : atheist conceptions in cognition and culture

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggestion for New Title Purchase
Title: Theology after the birth of God : atheist conceptions in cognition and culture
Author: Shults, LeRon
Publisher & where & when published: 2014 (just published)
Where you saw this item mentioned: http://www.amazon.com/Theology-after-Birth-God-Conceptions/dp/1137364548
Your affiliation: SFU Staff

A: Thanks for your suggestion. An order has been placed and you will get an email from the Library when it's available.

Regards,
Mike McIntosh
Library Liaison for Philosophy

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Graphene : carbon in two dimensions

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Suggestion for New Title Purchase.
Title: Graphene : carbon in two dimensions
Publisher & where & when published: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012
Where you saw this item mentioned: Physical Review Letters 112, 116604 (2014); arXiv:1407.7284v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A: Thanks for taking the time to suggest that the Library add Graphene: Carbon in Two Dimensions to our collection. I've just placed an order for this book, and you will be notified by email when it is ready for you to borrow.