Master of Public Affairs: Books & E-books
This guide introduces students and faculty to information resources and services available to support the Master of Public Affairs Program at the University of Iowa
Tools
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Research Guides and TutorialsTutorials and guides from the University of Iowa Libraries.
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GIS Instructional Lab243 JH
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Writing CenterUniversity of Iowa Writing Center helps all in the University community improve their writing.
Google Books Search
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E-Book Databases
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ProQuest Ebook CentralA highly interactive eBook database from ebrary that covers all academic subject areas and includes more than 30,000 titles.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window a tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
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Springer E-Book Collection This link opens in a new windowA large package of E-books from Springer Verlag, published between 2005 through the present (with selected pre-2005 content).
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Wiley E-Books This link opens in a new windowWiley/Blackwell purchase includes over 2000 books for years 2007-2009
Featured Book Titles
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Research and Debates in Primary Geography by
ISBN: 9781138899896Publication Date: 2015-05-28This book brings together recent papers which make important contributions to understanding and developing primary geography. It considers primary teachers' and trainee teachers' knowledge of geography; how the primary curriculum uses geography; teachers' planning of geography teaching; the way in which aspects of geography are taught; what high quality geography might look like; and children's geographical understanding and voices. -
American Geography and Geographers by
ISBN: 9780195336023Publication Date: 2015-02-20"The rise of American geography as a distinctive science in the United States straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, extending from the post-Civil war period to 1970. American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographic Science is the first book to thoroughly and richly explicate this history."