New Books: December 2019
Business/Commerce
Shut Up and Listen! Hard Business Truths That Will Help You Succeed
For entrepreneurs ready to reach the next level of success, small business owner turned multibillionaire Tilman Fertitta shares the commonsense principles that have rocketed his […]
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Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work
Dr. Katzman presents 52 actions you can take immediately to create a deeply rewarding work life by connecting to yourself, your organization, and the world […]
Read MoreDisabilities
Traveling with service animals: by air, road, rail, and ship across North America
The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people […]
Read MoreEducation
How to raise a reader
Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
The Workplace Violence Prevention Handbook
Workplace violence can occur anywhere: schools, office buildings, hospitals, or late-night convenience stores. It can occur day or night, inside or outside of the workplace, […]
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Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
Wendy Wood draws on three decades of original research to explain the fascinating science of how we form habits, and offers the key to unlocking […]
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Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection
In Face to Face, Brian Grazer takes you around the world and behind the scenes of some of his most iconic movies and television shows, […]
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Couples that work: how dual-career couples can thrive in love and work
Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn’t easy–but it’s possible. The majority of couples today are two-career couples. As anyone who’s part of such […]
Read MoreHealth/Wellness/Medicine
Volume Control: Hearing In A Deafening World
Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a […]
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and […]
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Finishing Our Story: Preparing For The End Of Life
Death is the destiny we all share, and this will not change. Yet the way we die, which had remained the same for many generations, […]
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Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women’s Health
Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part […]
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The Body: A Guide For Occupants
Bill Bryson takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is […]
Read MoreHistory
From Garfield to Harding: The Success of Midwestern Front Porch Campaigns
In 1880, James Garfield faced an important question as a presidential candidate–should he stump for office and stay quiet like most 19th Century contestants, or […]
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Fire In the Big House: America’s Deadliest Prison Disaster
On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary’s dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked […]
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The Birth of the FBI: Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and thevFight Over America’s Premier Law Enforcement Agency
Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
The twenty-six words that created the Internet
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content […]
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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive — and why it doesn’t […]
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Is America safe? Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Emergency Preparedness
This second edition provides the knowledge and skills needed to understand terrorist strategies, which, in turn, allow each of us to contribute to disrupting the […]
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Information Technology Protection and Homeland Security
Although Information Technology Protection and Homeland Security was written to serve information technology (IT) personnel, project designers, communications technicians, and all computer operators who have […]
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Financial Services Sector Protection and Homeland Security
The financial services sector is critical to the economy and represents a vital component of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Financial Services Sector Protection and Homeland […]
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Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law: A Practical Handbook
When a loved one with mental illness comes into contact with the law, trying to advocate for them can be an overwhelming and frustrating endeavor. […]
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The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property
This engaging and accessible study looks at the origins, evolution, purpose, and limitations of intellectual property. Detailing how intellectual property affects industry, politics, cultural expression, […]
Read MoreManagement/Leadership
Talk is Chief: Leadership, Communication, and Credibility in a High-Stakes World
With compelling stories and strategies, Talk is Chief inspires leaders to treat their daily communication practices as seriously as their fiscal, operational, value creation, deal […]
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Stress-less leadership: how to lead in business and in life
Say “goodbye” to stress-induced migraines, insomnia, and overall unhappiness. Stress is not a necessary evil. It is not a badge of honor. It is not […]
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The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best self–Every Day
You can be the leader you want to be–today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do […]
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The busy leader’s handbook: how to lead people and places that thrive
After spending the last 30 years helping organizations and leaders reach peak performance, Quint Studer has pulled together his best practices, tools, tips and tactics […]
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Building the best: 8 proven leadership principles to elevate others to success
Boost staff performance, improve retention, and build a great 21st Century team culture-popular Follow My Lead podcaster John Eades provides everything you need to be […]
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Building better ideas: how constructive debate inspires courage, collaboration, and breakthrough solutions
Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant Kim Barnes’s unique process of Constructive Debate shows how teams can create […]
Read MoreMilitary/Veterans
A guide to defense contracting: principles and practices
Dan Lindner provides in one volume, a succinct yet thorough treatment of defense contracting requirements and regulations. The Department of Defense is the largest buyer […]
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