Mercer Library staff have been enjoying serving summer session students and faculty, as well as Prince William Campus staff members.  Let staff members know if there is anything they can do to better serve the Prince William community at George Mason University!

Many new items have been received at Mercer over the last few weeks.  Below, you'll find featured titles and databases, chosen by the liaison librarians.  Enjoy! 

Mercer Library Hours
SUMMER
 

May 17th - August 1st
Monday - Thursday	8:00am - 8:00pm
Friday	8:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday	9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday	Noon - 5:00pm

 

Summer/Fall Intersession hours will begin on August 2nd, and follow the schedule below.
 

Mercer Library Hours
SUMMER INTERSESSION
 

August 2nd - 29th
Monday - Friday	8:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday	Closed
Sunday	Closed

 

Not sure how to find and use library information resources?  Schedule a drop-in appointment to get acquainted with the basic elements of the research process and be introduced to the GMU library system, available electronic resources, and how to organize and evaluate information.

Sessions are held in the Mercer (Prince William Campus) Library, Occoquan (PWI) Bldg. Rm. 104J.  Please call 993-8348 to arrange an individual appointment.
 

• Administration of Justice
• Biological Sciences
• Education
• Health and Fitness
• Information Technology and Engineering
• Tourism

Batt, Marissa N.
"Ready for the people" : my most chilling cases as a prosecutor.
New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
KF373.B346 A3 2004
 

Corlett, J. Angelo.
Terrorism : a philosophical analysis.
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6431.C665 2003
 

Kraska, Peter B., editor.
Theorizing criminal justice : eight essential orientations.
Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV7405.T486 2004
 

Krienert, Jessie L. and Mark S. Fleisher, editors.
Crime and employment : critical issues in crime reduction for corrections.
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2004
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV9304.C73 2004
 

McEvoy, Kieran and Tim Newburn, editors.
Criminology, conflict resolution and restorative justice.
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8688.C75 2003
 

Urbina, Martin G.
Capital punishment and Latino offenders : racial and ethnic differences in death sentences.
New York : LFB Scholarly, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8699.U5 U73 2003
 

Amaratunga, Dhammika and Javier Cabrera.
Exploration and analysis of DNA microarray and protein array data.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP624.5.D726 A45 2004
 

Boss, Martha J. and Dennis W. Day, editors.
Biological risk engineering handbook : infection control and decontamination.
Boca Raton, Fla. : Lewis Pub., c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR48.B487 2003
 

Ellison, George, Melissa Parker, and Catherine Campbell, editors.
Learning from HIV and AIDS.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA643.8.L437 2003
 

Koehler, Theresa M.
Anthrax.
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR1.E6 v.271
 

Luo, Dan and W. Mark Saltzman.
Synthetic DNA delivery systems.
Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience ; Austin, Tex. : Eurekah.com ; New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH443.S96 2003
 

Ninfa, Alexander J. and David P. Ballou.
Fundamental laboratory approaches for biochemistry and biotechnology.
Bethesda, Md. : Fitzgerald Science Press, c1998.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP519.N55 1998
 

Salemi, Marco and Anne-Mieke Vandamme, editors.
The phylogenetic handbook : a practical approach to DNA and protein phylogeny.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QP624.P485 2003
 

Ashley, Martin and John Lee.
Women teaching boys : caring and working in the primary school.
Stoke on Trent : Trentham, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC1390.A84 2003
 

Cowley, Sue.
Guerilla guide to teaching.
London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1025.3.C69 2003
 

Gold, Elizabeth.
Brief intervals of horrible sanity : one season in a progressive school.
New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC4093.J33 G65 2003
 

Henson, Kenneth T.
Constructivist methods for teaching in diverse middle-level classrooms.
Boston : Pearson/A and B, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1623.5.H46 2004
 

Smitherman, Geneva and Victor Villanueva, editors.
Language diversity in the classroom : from intention to practice.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
PE1405.U6 L36 2003
 

Sullivan, Keith, Mark Cleary and Ginny Sullivan.
Bullying in secondary schools : what it looks like and how to manage it.
London : Paul Chapman ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB3013.3.S85 2004
 

Cyr, Nellie M.
Health promotion, disease prevention, and exercise epidemiology.
New York : University Press of America, Inc., 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA427.8.C97 2003
 

Delaney, Kevin J. and Rick Eckstein.
Public dollars, private stadiums : the battle over building sports stadiums.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV413.D45 2003
 

Hartmann, Douglas.
Race, culture and the revolt of the black athlete : the 1968 Olympic protests and their aftermath.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV722 1968.H37 2003
 

Laker, Anthony, editor.
The future of physical education : building a new pedagogy.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV341.F88 2003
 

Lashley, Congrad and Darren Lee-Ross.
Organization behaviour for leisure services.
Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV188.3.U6 L37 2003
 

Womack, Mari.
Sport as symbol : images of the athlete in art, literature and song.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
NX650.S83 W66 2003
 

Norris, Mark and Steve Pretty.
Designing the total area network : intranets, VPN's, and enterprise networks explained.
Chichester ; New York : John Wiley, c2000.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.87.N67 2000 c.2
 

Prosise, Chris and Kevin Mandia.
Incident response and computer forensics.
New York, New York : McGraw-Hill/Osborne, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.9.P7661 2003 c.2
 

Rodgers, Nancy.
Learning to reason : an introduction to logic, sets and relations.
New York : Wiley, 2000.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA9.R7264 2000
 

Bouncken, Ricarda B. and Sungsoo Pyo, editors.
Knowledge management in hospitality and tourism.
New York : Haworth Hospitality Press, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TX911.3.M27 K62 2002
 

Fennell, David A.
Ecotourism : an introduction.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G156.5.E26 F465 2003
 

Hayes, David K. and Jack D. Ninemeier.
Hotel operations management.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TX911.3.M27 H39 2004
 

Hoffman, Lily M., Susan S. Fainstein and Dennis R. Judd, editors.
Cities and visitors : regulating people, markets, and city space.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 C487 2003 c.2
 

Kerr, William Revill.
Tourism public policy, and the strategic managemetn of failure.
Oxford ; Boston : Pergamon, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1G7.K47 2003
 

Leisuretourism.com database now available!

The Leisuretourism.com database from CABI Publishing is now accessible via the University Libraries ‘Databases’ page starting in the month of June.  Leisuretourism.com brings together an archive of worldwide information for all those interested in the research and strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services. Comprising over 50,000 international bibliographic references originally published in Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts, the database backfile extends back to 1976 and features published research from 1974 to the present.
Leisuretourism.com abstracts over 400 publications in the above-referenced subject areas each year, including journal articles, research papers, books, and conferences, and then adds indexing terms from a classified thesaurus and special codes to aid retrieval. The database aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and the cultural industries, including:

• Leisure and tourism policies
• Tourism and leisure industries
• Travel and transport
• Facility management and planning
• Recreation, cultural, entertainment and sporting activities
• Urban regeneration
• Sociology and behavior
• Education and training
• Community development
• Ecotourism, natural resources and the environment

Don't forget to take advantage of this wonderful resource in the fields of recreation, leisure, and tourism!