You know your 1st Amendment Rights... What about Corporate Censorship?

Every American grows up having some notion of their 1st Amendment rights.  In our country, our freedom of speech is valued (and often hotly contested among those with differing opinions), and anything that smacks of government censorship is an outrage. However, the current reliance on corporations for information and the potential for censorship abuses from the private sector has not yet raised concerns with most Americans .  (Consider for example, the blind trust most of us have in Google's search algorithms and our ironclad assumptions that our search results are a true representation of what is actually available on the Web.)  Check out Tim Wu's opinion piece, in the Nov 14, 2010 Chronicle of Higher education, titled The Future of Free Speech.  Mr. Wu has just written a book called The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

New Titles in PsycBooks Database

New Additions to PsycBooks!

For anyone unfamiliar with PsycBooks, it it perhaps the most user-friendly and well-designed e-book database that currently exists!  It's on the (beloved!) Ebsco platform, so it's incredibly easy to navigate.  Books (2,037 of them, to date) are searchable by title, and by their individual chapters --  and each book chapter is a PDF that can be printed or emailed.  (Nice, right?)  If you are a psychology student, this is definitely a database to keep in mind.

The subject matter of all of these books is psychology.  For the most part, the titles in PsycBooks are published by APA, and almost any area of psychology, in which APA publishes books could be found here.  (Unfortunately, the APA Publication Manual is NOT included.).  This database contains some classic / landmark psychology titles (read: old), as well as newer APA books.  It's worth noting that PsycBooks includes The APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology, which gives a nice overview to many psychology topics.

Here are the latest additions of recently published books:

 Chaos and its influence on children's development: An ecological

perspective, © 2010 by Evans, Gary W. (Ed.); Wachs, Theodore D. (Ed.).
ISBN: 1-4338-0565-0

Prosocial motives, emotions, and behavior: The better angels of our
nature, © 2010 by Mikulincer, Mario (Ed.); Shaver, Phillip R. (Ed.).  ISBN:
1-4338-0546-4

Strengthening couple relationships for optimal child development: Lessons
from research and intervention, © 2010 by Schulz, Marc S. (Ed.); Pruett,
Marsha Kline (Ed.); Kerig, Patricia K. (Ed.); Parke, Ross D. (Ed.). ISBN:
1-4338-0547-2

A complete list of titles in this database is available.