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Featured eBooks (August 9, 2024)

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EBSCO eBooks are available in PDF and ePub formats. You can read them online from your computer and download them to many devices using the EBSCO mobile app.

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To borrow any of these books from us, simply click on the title, and use your State Library borrower’s card to request the book directly through the Library’s catalog using the Electronic Access link. eBook access is restricted to New Jersey State employees and Thomas Edison State University staff and students.

Our first featured eBook is Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data. In Joyful Infographics, one of the leading graphic designers of recent times shows how a judicious use of humor can make infographics more understandable. Written in non-academic, easy to understand language, and with historical and contemporary visual examples presented throughout, this small book provides a short history of light-hearted graphics; it outlines eight clear ways to make graphics more understandable; it explores the importance of the audience; it shows you how to make information come alive during presentations through live-action ‘performance’ graphics; it discusses why joy and smiling are good for you; and it shows you how not to overdo it. Even if a subject is delicate, controversial, or taboo, being graphically friendly to the audience is the right way to explain it. If you can get readers to smile – the smile of recognition when they understand the graphic – you are more than halfway towards getting them to continue reading, and understanding, the intention of the piece. Joyful Infographics teaches you how to do just that.

Our second featured eBook is The Problem With Science: The Reproducibility Crisis and What to Do About It. The primary purpose of this book is to provide guidance to practicing and aspiring scientists regarding how (a) to change the way in which science has historically been both conducted and reported in order to avoid producing false positive, irreproducible results in their own work and (b) ultimately to change those institutional practices (primarily but not exclusively involving the traditional journal publishing process and the academic reward system) that have unwittingly contributed to the present crisis. The author believes what is actually needed is nothing less than a change in the scientific culture itself. A culture which will prioritize conducting research correctly in order to get things right rather than simply getting published. Hopefully this book can make a small contribution to that end.

Our third featured eBook is Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines. Imagining AI draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines and their potential significance for the research, regulation, and implementation of AI.

Our fourth featured eBook is Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. This volume continues to fill the need for a reference book for people working in the field of forensic molecular biology testing and research as well as individuals investigating and adjudicating cases involving DNA evidence, whether they be civil or criminal cases. DNA techniques have greatly impacted obvious traditional forensic areas, but such advances have also positively affected myriad new areas of research and inquiry. It is possible today to think about solving forensic problems that were simply unheard of even a few years ago. As such, the book pulls all relevant research and applied science together into a detailed and comprehensive collection.

Our fifth featured eBook is Furthering Fair Housing: Prospects for Racial Justice in America’s Neighborhoods. The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal effort to increase equality of access to place-based resources and opportunities, such as high-performing schools or access to jobs, since the 1968 Fair Housing Act. However, the Trump administration repealed the rule in 2020, leaving its future in doubt. Furthering Fair Housing analyzes multiple dimensions of this rule, identifying failures of past efforts to increase housing choice, exploring how the AFFH Rule was crafted, measuring the initial effects of the rule before its rescission, and examining its interaction with other contemporary housing issues, such as affordability, gentrification, anti-displacement, and zoning policies.

Our sixth featured eBook is White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation’s founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate. During the buildup to the Civil War, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated blacks. In the twentieth century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. Most recently, evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation. White evangelicals today, cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership. The author believes that Evangelicalism’s racial history plays a significant role in American society and we would all benefit from a deeper understanding of this history.

Our seventh featured eBook is Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted. Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, grappling with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. It is also an attempt to explain why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme feelings–why it seems like Israel is the answer to “what is wrong with the world” for half the people in it, and “what is right with the world” for the other half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent, educated, and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held convictions, and about which they actually know so little? Complete with engaging illustrations by Christopher Noxon, Can We Talk About Israel? is an easy-to-read yet penetrating and original look at the history and basic contours of one of the most complicated conflicts in the world.

Our eighth featured eBook is AI for Absolute Beginners: A Clear Guide to Tomorrow. Embark on a journey through AI with our beginner-friendly book, empowering you to understand and ethically apply AI, shaping the future of technology and innovation. This book is ideal for enthusiasts and professionals eager to understand AI from the ground up. No prior knowledge is required, making this book perfect for those looking to get acquainted with AI concepts and their applications across various industries.

Our ninth featured eBook is Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State. An expansive study of the problems encountered by educational leaders in pursuit of reform, and how these issues cyclically translate into future topics of reform. With a particular focus on policymakers in the spaces between legislation and implementation, such as the countless school superintendents and district leaders tasked with developing new policies in the unique context of their district or schools, the authors identify common problems that arise when trying to operationalize ambitious reform ideas. They provide a general explanation for problems facing social policy reforms in federalist systems (including healthcare) and offer pathways forward for education policy in particular.

Our last featured eBook is
A History of Fake Things on the Internet. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true. Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT. Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather, stem from human behavior, demonstrating our capacity for both creativity and destruction.

eBook access is restricted to New Jersey State employees and Thomas Edison State University staff and students.

Still have questions? You can send an email to Reference Services at refdesk@njstatelib.org

Featured eBooks (April 23, 2024)

Edith Beckett

EBSCO eBooks are available in PDF and ePub formats. You can read them online from your computer and download them to many devices using the EBSCO mobile app.

You can find the EBSCO mobile app in your device’s app store.
This EBSCO Mobile App Quick Start Guide can help you get started.
You may also find this tutorial from EBSCO on configuring and using the app to be helpful.

Our first featured eBook is The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. Drawing upon 25 years of experience representing black youth in Washington D.C.’s juvenile court, Kris Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of Black youth and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. She explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and details the long-term consequences of racism and trauma Black youth experience at the hands of police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike white youth who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to white America and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools, and the depth of policing-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth is an essential book for our moment.

Our second featured eBook is Legal Research Explained. Based upon the legal research section of Bouchoux’s highly successful Legal Research and Writing for Paralegals, the material in this text has been modified, condensed and updated to fit courses covering only legal research. This engaging text helps students develop both knowledge and confidence using a building-block approach, which is instrumental in ensuring that students master the critical skills of legal research. Bouchoux discusses conventional print legal research sources, computer-assisted and electronic sources.

Our third featured eBook is Handbook for the New Legal Writer The Handbook for the New Legal Writer teaches the concepts and skills covered in the first-year legal writing and research course in a way that meets the needs of today’s law students. The course book’s focus is on showing, not telling, students how to write effective legal documents using numerous examples and step-by-step instruction. The authors provide practical lessons on the basic writing and research tasks attorneys perform daily and include annotated examples written by judges, practitioners, and the authors. The text covers objective writing, persuasive writing, legal research, and citation using a “handbook’ format, allowing easy access to key information. It also provides the option of using the book as a reference tool later in law practice.

Our fourth featured eBook is Breastfeeding for Public Health: A Resource for Community Healthcare Professionals. Breastfeeding a child improves the lifelong health of a population, and promoting breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice. Breastfeeding for Public Health incorporates the voices of community healthcare professionals, mothers and fathers to give insight into common practical challenges faced and suggestions for overcoming or working around them. Presenting up-to-date research, it explores the practical skills needed by community healthcare professionals to support mothers with breastfeeding; how to develop the communication skills and self-awareness necessary to build successful and trusting relationships with women and their families; why breastfeeding is so important for babies’ and mothers’ health and psychological attachment, closeness and long-term mental health; what we know about the content of breastmilk and the positive effect it has on the baby’s gut microbiome, which in turn benefits the infant’s long-term health and helps to protect against non-communicable diseases; the role of the father and grandparents in successfully initiating and sustaining breastfeeding; and how cultural awareness and sensitivity can influence practice for the better.

Our fifth featured eBook is A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration. As of 2021, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached historically unprecedented levels, higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years. Worldwide efforts to reduce emissions by creating a more efficient, carbon-free energy system may not be enough to stabilize the climate and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. This report builds on previous work from the National Academies to assess what is currently known about the benefits, risks, and potential for responsible scale-up of six specific ocean-based CDR strategies as identified by the sponsor, ClimateWorks Foundation. It describes the research needed to advance understanding of those approaches and address knowledge gaps. The resulting research agenda is meant to provide an improved and unbiased knowledge base for the public, stakeholders, and policymakers to make informed decisions on the next steps for ocean CDR, as part of a larger climate mitigation strategy; it is not meant to lock in or advocate for any particular approach.

Our sixth featured eBook is Addiction Therapy and Treatment: A Systems Approach. Addiction is a national mental and medical health crisis, responsible for untold costs to society and severe suffering to innumerable people. This book presents a radically different addiction treatment paradigm, based on science, evidence and best practices, and has a success rate approaching 100% when followed closely. This model should profoundly upend the current addiction treatment industry. Nearly every addict lives in a social system—a family, workplace or community—that enables and supports, often unconsciously, the addict’s addiction. Instead of the current addict-focused approach, this model extends treatment to the entire support system, starting treatment with the concerned family members. This model also proposes a single provider, the family recovery therapist, who manages treatment for the addict and the family from the first phone call through the first year of continuous sobriety. This book offers simple recommendations to both addiction treatment providers and family members impacted by this disease. It serves as a beacon of hope for families.

Our seventh featured eBook is Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Tips for Good Sleep Health. Kick Poor Sleep Hygiene Out of Bed! Dr. Kristen Casey, TikTok’s “Insomnia Doc,” brings her sleep solutions right to you, so you can get the restful sleep you deserve! We all have sleep issues and you’re not alone. Whether you suffer from acute insomnia, sleep maintenance insomnia, or even depression insomnia, we all have experienced sleeplessness brought on by poor sleep hygiene, emotional factors, or physical barriers that keep us just out of reach of a healthy sleep schedule. But don’t fret, you can learn the tools to help you sleep well every night!

Our eighth featured eBook is Nothing But the Tooth: the Insider’s Guide to Dental Health. Nothing But the Tooth is a ready guide to dental health that answers all your questions, including the ones you didn’t even know to ask. It begins with the most important question: how to choose a competent and ethical dentist – and ends with a discussion about technological advances in the dental field. Topics such as the cost of dental treatment, pediatric and geriatric dental needs, and the link between sleep apnea and your mouth are covered. Most importantly, it guides readers to a better understanding of the link between dental and overall health.

Our ninth featured eBook is “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education. In “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It,” president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform, even as institutions face serious challenges to their financial and educational models. A lively insider’s account, the book pinpoints factors that hinder the ability of U.S. colleges and universities to be creative and entrepreneurial amid calls to improve affordability, access, and equity for students. Through pithy personal stories of divisive town hall meetings, multiyear college governance battles, and attempts at curricular reform, Rosenberg illustrates internal and external dynamics that impede institutional evolution. Pressures such as declining enrollment, escalating costs, and an oversupply of PhDs in academia have long signaled a grave need for reform within a profession that, as Rosenberg ruefully acknowledges, lacks organizational flexibility, depends greatly on reputation and ranking, and retains traditions, from the academic calendar to grading systems, that have remained essentially the same for decades. This thought-provoking work offers ample evidence for presidents, chancellors, deans, provosts, and faculty to consider as they plan their missions to achieve institutional transformation.

Our last featured eBook is
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars’ insistence that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

eBook access is restricted to New Jersey State employees and Thomas Edison State University staff and students.

Still have questions? You can send an email to Reference Services at refdesk@njstatelib.org

Featured eBooks (March 15, 2024)

July 17, 2024New Books Blog Research Library No Comments

Edith Beckett

EBSCO eBooks are available in PDF and ePub formats. You can read them online from your computer and download them to many devices using the EBSCO mobile app.

You can find the EBSCO mobile app in your device’s app store.
This EBSCO Mobile App Quick Start Guide can help you get started.
You may also find this tutorial from EBSCO on configuring and using the app to be helpful.

Our first featured eBook is Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket, worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were making heaps of money on something he–despite a degree in economics–didn’t entirely understand. In Easy Money, McKenzie enlists the help of journalist Jacob Silverman for an investigative adventure into crypto and its remarkable crash. Weaving together stories of average traders and victims, colorful crypto “visionaries,” Hollywood’s biggest true believers, anti-crypto whistleblowers, and government operatives, Easy Money is an on-the-ground look at a perfect storm of irresponsibility and criminal fraud.

Our second featured eBook is The Routledge Atlas of African American History. Now in its second edition, The Routledge Atlas of African American History traces the epic journey of African Americans’ four hundred years in North America. With more than 75 full-color maps, charts, and illustrations, this volume illuminates the myriad of contributions from Black Americans to the nation’s political, economic, cultural, and social history. Jonathan Earle begins the sweeping story with the African roots of Black America and moves through important developments such as the Underground Railroad, Emancipation and the Civil War, African Americas in the U.S. Armed Forces, the spread of Jim Crow Laws, and the long Civil Rights Movement. This updated edition also introduces new essays on Black Seminoles, the National Women’s Club Movement, Black political realignment and the rise of Barack Obama, and Black Lives Matter protests.

Our third featured eBook is Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age? In Techlash, Tom Wheeler connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised. Warning that today is not the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.

Our fourth featured eBook is Phosphorus: Past and Future. An oft-neglected element supports all life on Earth and holds a key to our future. Across the world, social, political, and economic pressures influence the biogeochemical cycle of phosphorus, the 11th most abundant element of the Earth’s crust. Phosphorus is essential to produce our food, but it triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands. An understanding of this essential resource and how we have used and misused it over the years is crucial to the sustainability of our well-being on our planet. In this book, world authorities on phosphorus sustainability, Jim Elser and Phil Haygarth explain this element’s involvement in biology, human health and nutrition, food production, ecosystem function, and environmental sustainability.

Our fifth featured eBook is Successful Black Entrepreneurs: Hidden Histories, Inspirational Stories, and Extraordinary Business Achievements, Case Studies by Harvard Business School. This book is an insightful collection of Harvard Business School case studies about Black entrepreneurs succeeding in a variety of industries and through different routes, including start-ups, franchising, and acquisitions. The book also recognizes and celebrates Black entrepreneurial excellence, as it takes the reader through the stages of entrepreneurship, including ideation, raising capital, growing the company, and taking it public. In addition to identifying the positive aspects of Black entrepreneurship, the book also uses data, research, and anecdotes to highlight the challenges faced by Black entrepreneurs.

Our sixth featured eBook is We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons From the Last 2,000 Years. From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality. Celebrated economist Stephen D. King–one of the few to warn ahead of time about the latest inflationary upheaval–identifies key lessons from the history of inflation that policy makers chose not to heed. From ancient Rome through the American Civil War and up to the asset bubbles of today, inflation stems from policy error, sovereign greed, and a collective loss of faith in currencies. We Need to Talk About Inflation cuts through centuries of bad judgment and misunderstanding, offering a means to intervene now–so we can begin to tackle the political and social upheaval unleashed by inflation.

Our seventh featured eBook is Election Law in the American Political System. The third edition of Election Law in the American Political System pivots to place front and center the profound challenges to American democracy posed by the emergence of a political environment in which repeated, partisan attempts to undermine longstanding democratic processes have become a new norm of political contestation. Like prior editions, it offers an easy to teach, student-friendly, intellectually rich casebook with comprehensive coverage of the legal rules and doctrines that shape democratic participation in the 21st century American political system.

Our eighth featured eBook is Environmental Oncology: Theory and Impact. This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors. Chapters explore the importance of acknowledging and dealing with the societal implications of anthropogenic climate change, a wider appreciation of the many ways that human industry and activity is changing the environment and contributing to human disease is imperative. In addition to how particular exposures relate to certain malignancies, the book explores historical events that led to the development of cancers in order to help policy makers and patient advocates understand where we have been when considering future initiatives. It also discusses the disparities involved in environmental toxin exposure and look at these cancers in light of the need to reduce cancer disparities. Given the ongoing ecological crisis from climate change and expanding human population and industrialization, this book examines pollution and ecological change to impacts and where human disease can be prevented.

Our ninth featured eBook is Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors. In recent decades, there has been an exponential growth in their output and much Asian American literature has now achieved new levels of popular success and critical acclaim. Nurtured by rich and long literary traditions from the vast continent of Asia, this literature is poised between the ancient and the modern, between the East and West, and between the oral and the written. The Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater covers the activities in this burgeoning field. First, its history is traced year by year from 1887 to the present in a chronology. This is followed by the dictionary, which provides over 600 substantial and cross-referenced entries on authors, books, and genres as well as more general ones describing the historical background, cultural features, techniques and major theatres and clubs.

Our last featured eBook is
Event Project Management: Principles, Technology and Innovation. This text provides a unique lens for studying event project management in the era of sustainability, digital transformation, smart cities and rapid development in technology. It discusses and explains how to manage events utilising the sustainable project management model adapted to the specific context of event management. Part of the Event Management Theory and Methods Series. This series examines the extent to which mainstream theory is being employed to develop event-specific theory, and to influence the very core practices of event management and event tourism. They introduce the theory, show how it is being used in the events sector through a literature review, incorporate examples and case studies written by researchers and/or practitioners, and contain methods that can be used effectively in the real world.

eBook access is restricted to New Jersey State employees and Thomas Edison State University staff and students.

Still have questions? You can send an email to Reference Services at refdesk@njstatelib.org

Featured eBooks (November 3, 2023)

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Edith Beckett

EBSCO eBooks are available in PDF and ePub formats. You can read them online from your computer and download them to many devices using the EBSCO mobile app.

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This EBSCO Mobile App Quick Start Guide can help you get started.
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To view these titles, and other titles in this collection, start with the New eBooks Research Guide.

Our first featured eBook is Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World. Charles Sabel and David Victor explain why the profound transformations needed for deep cuts in emissions must arise locally, with government and business working together to experiment with new technologies, quickly learn the best solutions, and spread that information globally. Sabel and Victor show how some of the most iconic successes in environmental policy were products of this experimentalist approach to problem solving, such as the Montreal Protocol on the ozone layer, the rise of electric vehicles, and Europe’s success in controlling water pollution. A visionary book that fundamentally reorients our thinking about the climate crisis, Fixing the Climate is a road map to institutional design that can finally lead to self-sustaining reductions in emissions that years of global diplomacy have failed to deliver.

Our second featured eBook is Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources. This new edition has been fully revised and substantially extended to provide up-to-date and essential discussion that will support the needs of the world’s future energy and climate change policies. New sections cover thermal energy storage, tidal storage, sustainability issues in relation to storing energy and impacts on global energy markets. Various systems are discussed, including mechanical/kinetic, thermal, electrochemical and other chemical, as well as other emerging technologies. Incorporating advancements described in the book will help the people of the world further overcome the problems related to future energy and climate change.

Our third featured eBook is Talking Health: A New Way to Communicate About Public Health. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need for health professionals to communicate more clearly about what public health is and why it matters. This book is intended to help public health and allied professionals communicate about public health more effectively – whether they need to reach policymakers, community partners, the media, or the public. It provides practical tools such as tested messaging and effective metaphors to help professionals avoid messages that backfire, answer challenging questions, reframe public health assumptions, and draw on the power of anecdotes while sharing important data. Drawing together leading experts across media and public health, Talking Health is a practical and powerful starting point for those ready to change how public health is viewed and valued in our nation.

Our fourth featured eBook is Tomain’s Energy Law in a Nutshell, 4th. This book addresses the component parts of the energy fuel cycle, as well as the market and government policies that oversee it. This Nutshell describes in detail the country’s traditional energy policy and also discusses the current challenges that confront it. Chapters cover the individual natural resources used to produce energy and the book concludes with the development of a clean energy policy for the future.

Our fifth featured eBook is Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering. Peterson is a recognized leader in transportation planning and engineering, known for her approach that is rooted in racial equity, guided by a process of community engagement, and includes collaboration with other professionals. In Roadways for People, Lynn Peterson draws from her personal experience and interviews with leaders in the field to showcase new possibilities within transportation engineering and planning. The community solutions-based approach moves away from the narrow standards of traditional transportation design and focuses instead on a process that involves consistent feedback, learning loops, and meaningful and regular community engagement. Roadways for People is written to empower professionals and policymakers to create transportation solutions that serve people rather than cars.

Our sixth featured eBook is Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It. Traffication develops a bold new idea: that the trillions of miles of driving we do each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. The problem is not simply one of roadkill; the impacts of roads are far more pervasive, and they impact our wildlife in many subtle and unpredictable ways. Using the latest research, the book reveals how road traffic shatters essential biological processes, affecting how animals communicate, move around, feed, reproduce and die.

Our seventh featured eBook is Project: Leadership. Project: Leadership explains the core features of leadership for project managers, enabling them to develop a leadership style that is authentic and transparent, informed by a perspective of psychological understanding and personal growth. This book enables both potential and prominent leaders to dig deeper into the meaning of leadership, fostering personal growth which enables professional development.

Our eighth featured eBook is School Violence: Causes, Prevention and Safety Measures. School violence is defined as the threat or use of force with the intention of causing harm, either at school or during school-related activities. Every year millions of K-12 students experience hostile behaviors including bullying, hate speech, and hate crimes while in school. Hostile behaviors in schools can negatively affect K-12 students’ short- and long-term mental health, education, income, and overall well-being. School-based prevention and intervention programs are designed to address a variety of issues faced by youth today, both within and outside of schools.

Our ninth featured eBook is Futurescan 2022–2027: Health Care Trends and Implications. This highly respected annual guide will help hospital and health system leaders prepare themselves and their organizations for the future. An essential tool for strategic planning, Futurescan 2022–2027 presents articles highlighting the insights of thought leaders on eight key trends: Care transformation, Workforce strategy, Health equity, Finance, Virtual health, Behavioral health, and Emergency preparedness.

Our tenth featured eBook is Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional: A Study Guide to Mastering Project Management for the PMP® Exam. One of the five most prestigious certifications in the world, the PMP® exam is said to be the most difficult non-technical certification exam. With this exam guide, you’ll be able to address the challenges in learning advanced project management concepts. This PMP study guide covers all of the 10 project management knowledge areas, 5 process groups, 49 processes, and aspects of the Agile Practice Guide that you need to tailor your projects. By the end of this PMP® exam prep book, you’ll have a solid understanding of everything you need to pass the PMP® certification exam, and be able to use this handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to overcome challenges in project management.

Our eleventh featured eBook is Agile Project Management, Assurance and Auditing : A Practical Guide for Auditors, Reviewers and Project Teams. This guide provides an overview of Agile for auditors, reviewers and project teams This guide covers: Agile project management audit objectives; The risks covered by each objective; What controls to expect and how these can be audited; Case studies illustrating Agile project initiation and high-level requirements; and Hints and tips for performing an audit review. For experienced auditors and project management teams, this guide demonstrates how they can adapt and reuse audit skills that they may have gained during traditional waterfall, CRAMM (CCTA Risk Analysis and Management Method), or PRINCE2® implementation/audits. For those less experienced, it will encourage them to consider these good practices and their application to Agile audits.

Our twelfth featured eBook is The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness. This book offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office. The raw emotion of The Man in the Dog Park will forever change your appreciation for, and understanding of, the homeless life so many deal with outside of the limelight of contemporary society.

Our last featured eBook is Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem. The police are the primary agency tasked with controlling gun violence, yet advocates for gun violence prevention either ignore the police or only reference them as a part of the problem. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence, while engendering support and cooperation from the public? Drawing on fifty years of research and practical experience, Policing Gun Violence argues that it is possible for the police to create greater public safety while respecting the rights of individuals and communities. While gun violence can be attributed to various systemic causes that should remain on the public agenda — from widespread gun availability to poverty and racism — Anthony A. Braga and Philip J. Cook make the case that violence is itself a root cause of social disparity and future violence.

eBook access is restricted to New Jersey State employees and Thomas Edison State University staff and students.

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Featured eBooks (October 27, 2023)

July 17, 2024New Books Blog Research Library No Comments

Edith Beckett

EBSCO eBooks are available in PDF and ePub formats. You can read them online from your computer and download them to many devices using the EBSCO mobile app.

You can find the EBSCO mobile app in your device’s app store.
This EBSCO Mobile App Quick Start Guide can help you get started.
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Our first featured eBook is Researching the Law: Finding What You Need When You Need It. This book guides students through a decidedly contemporary approach to legal research. Widely respected author Amy E. Sloan presents legal research as a process of efficiently filtering a vast quantity of available information. Simply put, students learn how to locate and identify the most pertinent and authoritative information available with the greatest possible expedience. Sloan’s clear, concise explanations of essential research sources are presented in a context that speaks to the way lawyers do research today, with a flexible approach that works in a rapidly changing research environment. Sloan looks at research as a process of filtering the available information, rather than as a process that requires first choosing the right source of authority to solve a legal problem.

Our second featured eBook is The Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought a broad range of ethical problems to the forefront, raising fundamental questions about the role of government in response to such outbreaks, the scarcity and allocation of health care resources, the unequal distribution of health risks and economic impacts, and the extent to which individual freedom can be restricted. In this clear introduction to the topic Iwao Hirose explores these ethical questions and analyzes the central issues in the ethics of pandemic response and preparedness.

Our third featured eBook is The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even As They Aspire to Do Good). Economists are the guardians of the world’s economies and financial systems. The applications of economic theory can alleviate poverty, reduce disease, and promote sustainability. While this narrative has been successfully propagated by economists, it belies a more challenging truth: economic interventions, including those economists deem successful, also cause harm. Sometimes the harm is manageable and short-lived. But just as often the harm is deep, enduring, and even irreparable. And too often the harm falls on those least able to survive it.

Our fourth featured eBook is Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors’ ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels – and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some ‘temporary’ homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.

Our fifth featured eBook is Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems. Calling for ecologically and economically sound wastewater treatment systems, the authors of Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems explore the use of wetlands, sprinkler or deep irrigation, groundwater recharge, and other natural systems as sustainable methods for the treatment and management of wastewater.

Our sixth featured eBook is Hybrid Power: Generation, Storage, and Grids. Hybrid energy systems integrate multiple sources of power generation, storage, and transport mechanisms and can facilitate increased usage of cleaner, renewable, and more efficient energy sources. Hybrid Power: Generation, Storage, and Grids discusses hybrid energy systems from fundamentals through applications and discusses generation, storage, and grids. This book is aimed at advanced students and researchers in academia, government, and industry, seeking a comprehensive overview of the basics, technologies, and applications of hybrid energy systems.

Our seventh featured eBook is The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy. The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts. In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization.

Our eighth featured eBook is The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems–and What to Do About It. Microstress doesn’t trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, it embeds itself in our minds and accumulates daily, one microstress on top of the other. The long-term impact can be debilitating. Unregistered microstress weighs us down, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our well-being. What’s more, microstress is baked into our lives. The source is seldom a classic antagonist, such as a demanding client or a jerk boss. Instead, it comes from the people with whom we are closest: our friends, family, and colleagues. The good news is that once you understand microstress, you can fight back. Drawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon explain the science behind the phenomenon. They also share the secrets of a small set of people who’ve endured their share of microstress but have still managed to cultivate relationships that enable them to thrive both at work and in life. Compelling interviews with these high achievers bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress and ultimately how to find purpose—purpose that helps you break free from this quietly invasive force that’s stealing your life.

Our ninth featured eBook is Talking Cure : An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society. Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature and culture and her decades of experience as a teacher and critic, Cohen argues that we learn to converse in our families and then carry that knowledge into a broader world where we encounter diverse opinions and sensibilities. She discusses the role of food in encouraging conversation, the challenges of writing dialogue in fiction, the pros and cons of Zoom, the relationship of conversation to vaudeville acts, and the educational value of a good college seminar where students learn to talk about ideas.

Our tenth featured eBook is Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work. Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognizing and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. This collection, the first book-length treatment of this approach in libraries, gathers contributors from across the field to demonstrate how cultural humility can change the way we work and make lasting impacts on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries.

Our eleventh featured eBook is The Constitution of Knowledge : A Defense of Truth. Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge,” our social system for turning disagreement into truth. By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do, and how they can do it.

Our last featured eBook is To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick–and How We Can Fight Back. In this book, Wicker reveals how clothing manufacturers have successfully swept consumers’ concerns under the rug for more than 150 years, and why synthetic fashion and dyes made from fossil fuels are so deeply intertwined with the rise of autoimmune disease, infertility, asthma, eczema, and more. In fact, there’s little to no regulation of the clothes and textiles we wear each day—from uniforms to fast fashion, outdoor gear, and even the face masks that have become ubiquitous in recent years. Wicker explains how we got here, what the stakes are, and what all of us can do in the fight for a safe and healthy wardrobe for all.

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Featured eBooks (September 6, 2023)

July 17, 2024New Books Blog Research Library No Comments

Edith Beckett

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Our first featured eBook is Introduction to Project Management: A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics. This book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format. It is targeted principally at those who are learning or desiring to learn project management as well as those who are already taking project management as a course of study or as a profession. It covers all the basic aspects of project management including the core areas prescribed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) sixth edition. The sections of the book are arranged in order of Project Management Processes as they fall within the respective Project Management Knowledge Areas. Experienced project manager, Davies Igberaese, presents all the basic content of traditional project management in a straightforward practical sequence as a typical project manager would go about the processes of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing a project without losing sight of the iterative nature of project management. Introduction to Project Management: A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics can serve as a core textbook for academic courses in project management, for preparing for PMP and CAPM Certification exams, as an excellent resource for new project managers, as well as a handy reference book for project sponsors.

Our second featured eBook is Lean and Agile Project Management: How to Make Any Project Better, Faster, and More Cost Effective, Second Edition. When project managers are faced with budget cuts and fewer resources, waste elimination becomes a priority in maintaining effectiveness. This does not mean shortening or abandoning traditional project cycles. In fact, fast results on critical assignments can only be completed with strong plans and a detailed work breakdown structure. Lean and agile, as covered in this book, are meant to enhance traditional project management, not replace the science. A strong foundation in traditional project management is necessary to appreciate the benefits of adopting the lean and agile approach. Essentially, the Author believes traditional project management can benefit from adding lean and agile concepts, and she has simplified the model for greater efficiency.

Our third featured eBook is Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns Through Clean Power. For decades, we’ve heard that local, renewable power is on the horizon, and cheaper technologies will one day revolutionize our energy system. Michelle Moore has spent her career proving this opportunity is already here—and any community, no matter how small, can build their own clean energy future. Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns Through Clean Power is the inspiring and practical guide to igniting this transition today. Moore argues we don’t have to wait for new legislation or technologies to begin our work. From the White House to her hometown in rural Georgia, Moore has gathered the tools needed to bring the far-reaching benefits of clean power to small communities, particularly in rural America. Rural Renaissance offers a vision of thriving rural communities where clean power is the spark that leads to greater investment, vitality, and equity. We can start today—and this book provides the toolbox.

Our fourth featured eBook is Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries—including mining, disposal, and more—does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another? In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving ‘the battery problem’ is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create—sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice—the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume: lithium, graphite, nickel, and other specialized materials. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.

Our fifth featured eBook is Armed Citizens : The Road From Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment. Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era. America has long been a heavily armed, and racially divided, society, yet few citizens understand either why militias appealed to the founding fathers or the role that militias played in North American rebellions, in which they often functioned as repressive—and racist—domestic forces. In Armed Citizens, Noah Shusterman explains what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state. Suggesting that the question was never whether there was a right to bear arms, but rather, who had the right to bear arms, Shusterman begins with the lessons that the founding generation took from the history of Ancient Rome and Machiavelli’s reinterpretation of those myths during the Renaissance. He traces the evolution of these ideas to the eighteenth century, and shows how these ideas led the authors of the Constitution to place their trust in citizen soldiers and a ‘well-regulated militia,’ an idea that persists to this day.

Our sixth featured eBook is Clinician’s Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care: Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare. Strive for health equity and surmount institutional oppression when treating marginalized populations with this distinct resource! This unique text provides a framework for delivering culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA+ populations filtered through the lens of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. It focuses strongly on the social context in which we live, one where multiple historical processes of oppression continue to manifest as injustices in the health care setting and beyond. Encompassing the shared experiences of a diverse group of expert health care practitioners, this book offers abundant examples, case studies, recommendations, and the most up-to-date guidelines available for treating LGBTQIA+ patient populations.

Our seventh featured eBook is Effective Data Storytelling: How to Drive Change with Data, Narrative and Visuals. Master the art and science of data storytelling—with frameworks and techniques to help you craft compelling stories with data. The ability to effectively communicate with data is no longer a luxury in today’s economy; it is a necessity. Transforming data into visual communication is only one part of the picture. It is equally important to engage your audience with a narrative—to tell a story with the numbers. This book can teach you the essential skills necessary to communicate your insights through persuasive and memorable data stories. Narratives are more powerful than raw statistics, more enduring than pretty charts. When done correctly, data stories can influence decisions and drive change. Effective Data Storytelling: How to Drive Change with Data, Narrative and Visuals is a resource for anyone who communicates regularly with data, including business professionals, analysts, marketers, salespeople, financial managers, and educators.

Our eighth featured eBook is How to Manage Projects: Essential Project Management Skills to Deliver On-time, On-budget Results. Are you overwhelmed by project management jargon? Interested in developing a project management career, but bewildered by the plethora of costly courses and qualifications? Then this is the book for you. How to Manage Projects explains the fundamentals of this essential skill in a clear, practical and accessible way, making it the perfect introduction to managing better projects in your current role, or even that first step to developing a professional career as a project manager. This new 2nd edition features practical exercises and top tips, and takes you through successfully and confidently managing a project from conception to completion. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to manage their own projects well without all the unnecessary jargon.

Our ninth featured eBook is The Big Myth : How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America’s most tenacious–and destructive–false ideas: the myth of the ‘free market.’ In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with “big government” and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names; recount the libertarian roots of the Little House on the Prairie books; and tune into the General Electric-sponsored TV show that beamed free-market doctrine to millions and launched Ronald Reagan’s political career. By the 1970s, this propaganda was succeeding. Free market ideology would define the next half-century across Republican and Democratic administrations, giving us a housing crisis, the opioid scourge, climate destruction, and a baleful response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve, not stifle, democracy.

Our tenth featured eBook is Volcanoes and Wine: From Pompeii to Napa. There’s a reason we pay top dollar for champagne and that bottles of wine from prestige vineyards cost as much as a car: a place’s distinct geographical attributes, known as terroir to wine buffs, determine the unique profile of a wine—and some rarer locales produce wines that are particularly coveted. In Volcanoes and Wine, geologist Charles Frankel introduces us to the volcanoes that are among the most dramatic and ideal landscapes for wine making. Traveling across regions wellknown to wine lovers like Sicily, Oregon, and California, as well as the less familiar places, such as the Canary Islands, Frankel gives an in-depth account of famous volcanoes and the wines that spring from their idiosyncratic soils. This illuminating guide will be indispensable for wine lovers looking to learn more about volcanic terroirs, as well as anyone curious about how cultural heritage can survive and thrive in the shadow of geological danger.

Our eleventh featured eBook is Vegan Recipes From the Middle East. Enjoyment, hospitality, tradition, creativity, sustainability and joy of life—these starting points were the inspiration for this book. The cooking of vegetables is treated with reverence in the lands that make up the rich and varied tapestry of the Middle East. The people depend on the grains and pulses, nuts, vegetables and fruits of the region for their daily food and Parvin Razavi has taken the fresh and varied cuisines of Iran, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey to create a beautiful vegan cookbook. Whether as a main course or for the traditional mezze, this book contains dishes that blend natural culinary delights from the various food cultures and combines them with contemporary approaches. Here are warm and spicy stuffed vegetables, cool and fragrant soups, delicate preserves, pilafs, breads, pickles, relishes and pastries. The varied cuisines of the Middle East provide a wealth of vegan recipes.

Our last featured eBook is Cannabis for Canines. Dogs are wo-man’s best friend. Dogs are family. We love them and they loves us back—unconditionally. Like we humans, dogs get ailments. They may experience anxieties and stress. As they age, dogs suffer aches and pains, just like we do. So we take our canine friend to the local veterinarian to tend to their ailment. Often, the Vet prescribes medication—a powerful pharmaceutical, which is usually effective, although not always. Now a safer alternative is emerging—cannabis for canines. There is much to suggest that cannabis may benefit dogs. Many dog-moms and dads are giving cannabis potions to their pooches—with good results. Cannabis for Canines explains cannabis therapeutics: how they can soothe many physical and psychological conditions and be used in conjunction with pharmaceutical medications, as well as preventatively. Readers learn the importance of close observation and how to track conditions as a way to check for effectiveness of the treatment and the importance of keeping their Vet in the loop, especially if the dog is taking a pharmaceutical. This book is a fun, informative read of interest to dog owners and canine professionals.

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The National Consumer Law Center Digital Library can help you Know Your Rights

July 17, 2024Research Library Spotlight No Comments

Cynthia Lambert

Eviction, Foreclosure, Repossession, Utility Shut Off, Student Loans, Bankruptcy:

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
As the pandemic grinds on, many of the protections against eviction, foreclosure, and utility shut off are coming to an end. Often when faced with these situations, consumers struggle to understand their rights, responsibilities, and options. Luckily, the New Jersey State Library has a powerful tool—The National Consumer Law Center Digital Library–that can help people to understand these complex issues. The database is available to anyone on-site and to NJ State Employees remotely using your NJ State Library (NJSL) card.

The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) is a non-profit organization with expertise in consumer law. They are dedicated to “work for consumer justice and economic security for low-income and other disadvantaged people in the United States”. The NCLC Digital Library is a database of clear, easily understood articles on a variety of consumer law topics including Debtor Rights, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Credit & Banking, Deception & Warranties, and Consumer Litigation.

These articles introduce the topic, provide instruction on how to use the treatise, and then present an in-depth discussion of the topic and related issues. Each treatise contains a clear table-of-contents so you can easily find the section that best meets your needs. All sections contain active links to help you find more information or move to a related area.

For example, when a vehicle is repossessed, what happens to the personal property that was in the vehicle? The Repossessions treatise, Chapter 7 “Unsecured Personal Property Taken During Repossession” will help you to understand what to do and how to retrieve your property.

Looking to prevent repossession? Chapter 8 discusses the use of bankruptcy to prevent repossession. Lease your vehicle? Chapter 14 covers vehicle leases of all types, including Rent to Own.

Every topic is followed by links for Companion Materials such as Pleadings & Discovery, Practice Tools, and Primary Sources.

In addition to discussion of many topics, there is an excellent eBook available called “Surviving Debt, Expert Advice for Getting Out of Financial Trouble”. The resource covers all types of debt including medical debts, education loans, criminal justice debt, and credit cards. Topics include borrowing to pay off debt, responding to debt collectors, and “choices to avoid at all costs”. This book is fully updated for 2021 and, as with all the offerings, there are links throughout the book that help you get to the topics you are specifically interested in quickly.

If your focus is on COVID specific information, simply place the word COVID in the search box at the top of the page in the blue banner toward the right side of the screen and hit enter. This information is continuously updated as things change at both the Federal and state level. When reviewing COVID related information regularly, you can easily screen for new content by using the navigation tools on the far left of the page.

Finally, using the Home button (located at the top of the page in the blue banner just to the right of the database name), you will see blurbs on the latest updates and information available and a Quick Start Guide to help you navigate the database. There is also a section containing tips on searching the database. In addition, we offer a number of NCLC published companion volumes in print which can be checked out using your NJSL Library Card. Our staff Librarians will be happy to help you navigate this powerful database and find the companion books.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us via email at reflaw@njstatelib.org