Finding Books in the Library Catalog
There are many different strategies for searching the Cornell University Library Catalog , which includes records for books/eBooks, computer files, government documents, manuscripts and archives,maps, musical scores, periodicals, serials, sound recordings, and visual materials held within all Ithaca campus libraries.
One very useful strategy is to search by subject heading.
Navigating to the Library Catalog
Searching the Library Catalog by Subject Heading
Once inside the Library Catalog, you can of course search by keyword, title, author, etc. Another useful way to search the catalog is by using Library of Congress Subject Headings. To limit your search to LC Subject Headings, select "Subject" from the drop-down menu. (Some useful Subject Headings are provided to the right.)
After that, use your filters to narrow your results by format,publication year, language, library location, etc.
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Living with the Enemy by ISBN: 0893814806Publication Date: 2005-06-15This critically acclaimed, graphic report on family violence reveals the lives of ordinary women--and the men who batter them. "Hits you hard both viscerally and emotionally... She's a powerful reporter; her photos are as alarming and as memorable as a scream in the night. --Vince Aletti, The Village Voice Living with the Enemy is both harrowing and moving. With their shocking immediacy, these photographs offer the kind of urgent call to action provided by all great documentary photographs. --Charles Hagen, The New York Times
Useful LC Subject Headings
- Abused children
- Abused children > Services for.
- Abused husbands
- Abused men
- Abused women
- Abused women > Counseling of
- Abused women > Housing
- Abused women > United States > Life skills guides.
- Abused women > Services for.
- Abusive men
- Abusive women
- Adult child abuse victims
- Adult child abuse victims > Psychology.
- Adult Survivors of Child Abuse > psychology.
- African American women > Abuse of > Case studies.
- Battered woman syndrome
- Battered women
- Child development.
- Children and violence > Psychological aspects.
- Children of abused wives.
- Coercion.
- Domestic Violence.
- Domestic Violence > psychology.
- Elder abuse
- Family Relations.
- Family social work > United States.
- Family Therapy > methods.
- Family violence.
- Family violence > Case studies.
- Family violence > Law and legislation > United States.
- Family violence > Prevention.
- Family violence > Psychology.
- Family violence > United States.
- Husband abuse
- Intimate partner violence.
- Intimate partner violence > Psychological aspects.
- Marital violence.
- Psychic trauma in children > Treatment.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder in children > Treatment.
- Same-sex partner abuse
- Spousal abuse.
- United States > Social policy.
- Victims of family violence > Health and hygiene
- Victims of family violence > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
- Victims of family violence > Mental health
- Victims of family violence > Services for.
- Wife abuse
- Women > psychology.
- Women > Violence against
Books by Lundy Bancroft
Library of Congress Call Number Ranges
Print collections related to domestic violence can be found primarily in Mann and Olin Libraries.
HV1443.5 -1445 Women's shelters
HV6626-6626.23 Family violence. Domestic violence. Conjugal violence
HV6626.5-.54 Child abuse
RC569.5.F3 Family violence. Wife beating
New Books
Mothering Babies in Domestic Violence: Beyond Attachment Theory by ISBN: 9781138187665Publication Date: 2017-10-26
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives by ISBN: 9780415739450Publication Date: 2015-10-07
Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence by ISBN: 9781138692268Publication Date: 2017-04-17
