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July 2012

New to our collection

The following books were recently added to our library collection. Scroll down or click on the category links to view the list.

Business, Finance, & Careers
Children & Adolescents
Communication
Criminal Justice
Education
Employee Performance
Energy & Environment

General/Miscellaneous
Healthcare & Medicine
Law
Leadership & Management
Libraries & Archives
Military & Veterans
Politics & Government

Psychology
Science
Self-Improvement
Society & Citizenship
Technology
Tourism
Transportation

Want to know more about a book or to borrow it? Click on the book jacket or title below and link to our library catalog.

Business, Finance & Careers

General/Miscellaneous

Psychology

Book cover - Collaborate of Perish

Collaborate or Perish!: Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World by William Bratton, Zachary Tumin

Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company by Kevin Cope

The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society by Daniel Marschall

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy by William Poundstone

Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad by Kate Tulenko

Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America by Richard Greenwald and Daniel Katz

Book cover - That's Why I'm Here: The Chris & Stefanie Spielman Story

That's Why I'm Here: The Chris & Stefanie Spielman Story by Chris Spielman

 

Healthcare & Medicine

Book cover - First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety edited by Ross Koppel and Suzanne Gordon

Book cover - Asylum on the Hill

Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape by Katherine K. Ziff

 

Science

 

Book cover - From Here to Infinity

From Here to Infinity: A Vision for the Future of Science by Martin Rees

Children & Adolescents

Law

Self-Improvement

Book cover for Teen Gambling

Teen Gambling: Understanding a Growing Epidemic by Jeffrey Derevensky

Book cover - Law for Architects: What You Need to Know

Law for Architects: What You Need to Know by Robert F. Herrmann, Menaker & Herrmann LLP Attorneys

Book cover - Fitness for Geeks

Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health by Bruce W. Perry

Communication

Leadership & Management

Society & Citizenship

Book cover for Living Proof

Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference: Essential Skills for Advocates and Spokespersons by John Capecci and Timothy Cage
 

Criminal Justice

book cover for Encylopedia of Community Corrections

Encyclopedia of Community Corrections edited by Shannon M. Barton-Bellessa

Book cover - Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy C. Edmondson

Speaking As a Leader: How to Lead Every Time You Speak... From Boardrooms to Meeting Rooms, from Town Halls to Phone Calls by Judith Humphrey

Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael S. Hyatt

Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government by Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson

The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth by Steven S. Little

Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do: A Manager's Guide to the Social Web by Euan Semple

Book cover - The Price of Inequality

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby

 

Education

Libraries & Archives

Technology

 

Book cover - Bullying: A Guide to Research, Intervention, and Prevention

Bullying: A Guide to Research, Intervention, and Prevention by Faye Mishn

Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning by Susan B. Barnes

The Comprehensive Guide to Special Education Law: Over 400 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers Every Educator Needs to Know about the Legal Rights of Exceptional Children and their Parents by George A. Giuliani

The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling by Judith Kafka

Book cover - Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections

Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections by Aaron D. Purcell

Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings by Vanda Broughton

Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin: Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents by Elizabeth H. Dow

Evaluating Teen Services and Programs: A Yalsa Guide by Sarah Flowers

Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries by Miriam B. Kahn

Book cover - Knowledge Automation: How to Implement Decision Managemetn in Business Processes

Knowledge Automation: How to Implement Decision Management in Business Processes by Alan N. Fish

The Social Media Strategist: Build a Successful Program from the Inside Out by Christopher Barger

Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks, and Knowledge Resources edited by Stefan Bruggemann, Claudia D'amato

The Neighborhood in the Internet: Design Research Projects in Community Informatics by John M. Carroll

The New Knowledge Workers by Dariusz Jemielniak

Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction Through Web 2.0 Technologies edited by Kathryn Kloby and Maria J. D'Agostino

Comptia Ctt+ Certified Technical Trainer: All-in-one Exam Guide by Joseph Phillips

IT Best Practices: Management, Teams, Quality, Performance and Projects by Tom C. Witt

Networked: The New Social Operating System by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman

Employee Performance

Military & Veterans

Tourism

Book cover - Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success

Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. Delong

Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees by Diane Arthur

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy by Masaaki Imai

Breakthrough Problem Solving With Action Learning: Concepts and Cases by Michael J. Marquardt and Roland K. Yeo

Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy

Book cover - The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans

The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans by Janelle Hill, Cheryl Lawhorne,  Don Philpott

Serving Military Families in the 21st Century by Karen Rose Blaisure et al.

War Trauma in Veterans and Their Families: Diagnosis and Management of PTSD, TBI and Comorbidities of Combat Trauma: From Pharmacotherapy to a 12-Step Self-Help Program for Combat Veterans edited by Jamshid A. Marvasti, M.D.

Book cover - Selling the Amish: The tourism of Nostalgia

Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia by Susan L. Trollinger

 

 

Transportation

Book cover - Aging America and Transportation

Aging America and Transportation: Personal Choices and Public Policy edited by Joseph F. Coughlin and Lisa A. D'Ambrosio

Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won by Perry Bush

Energy & Environment

Politics & Government

 

Book cover - Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes

Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes by Bill McGuire

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz

Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Navigating an Uncertain Future edited by Thomas Dietz and David Bidwell

America's Other Audubon by Joy M. Kiser

Governing the Air: The Dynamics of Science, Policy, and Citizen Interaction edited by Rolf Lidskog and Goran Sundqvist

An Interactive History of the Clean Air Act: Scientific and Policy Perspectives by Jonathan Davidson and Joseph M Norbeck

Book cover - Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval by Kenneth Feinberg

Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well by Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards

The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents by Linda Killian

E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence, and Social Change edited by Celia Romm Livermore

Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Margin of Victory: How Technologists Help Politicians Win Elections by Nathaniel Pearlman

The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures: The Effects of Institutions and Politics by Lynda W. Powell

Return On Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing by Mark W. Schaefer

The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers? by Edward N. Wolff