New Books: January 2016
Business/Commerce
Private financing of public transportation infrastructure : utilizing public-private partnerships
Contents: An introduction to private sector financing of transportation infrastructure / Wendell C. Lawther and Lawrence L. Martin — Transportation infrastructure financing public private partnerships […]
Read MoreCorrections/Criminal Justice
A new juvenile justice system : total reform for a broken system
Contents: Introduction : Re-visioning youth justice / Nancy E. Dowd — Child well-being : toward a fair and equitable public safety strategy for the new […]
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Cheap on crime : recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment
Summary: “After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis […]
Read MoreEducation
In the face of inequality : how Black colleges adapt
A quarter of black Americans earn college degrees from black colleges, yet questions about the necessity of black colleges abound. In the Face of Inequality […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
Better must come : exiting homelessness in two global cities
Examining homelessness ethnographically, longitudinally, and comparatively in two global cities, Tokyo and Los Angeles, this study explains how homelessness is created and sustained and outlines […]
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Paid for : my journey through prostitution
Summary: An astonishingly brave memoir of prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life. “The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, […]
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Giving up baby : safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice
“Baby safe haven” laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location—such as a hospital or […]
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Censors at work : how states shaped literature
With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
The U.S. House of Representatives : the fundamentals of American government
Summary: “The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As […]
Read MoreLibraries/Archives
Digitizing your collection : public library success stories
Digitizing your collection is not only a great way to increase access to your materials, it also engages patrons on a whole new level and […]
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Customer-based collection development : an overview
A collection of essays on patron-driven acquisitions (PDA), with special emphasis on e-books. Both positive and negative aspects are addressed. ~ from library catalog
Read MoreManagement/Leadership
Our enduring values revisited : librarianship in an ever-changing world
Summary: In the almost 15 years since Our Enduring Values was published, there has been a sea change in the way much of the world […]
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The Type B manager : leading successfully in a Type A world
Summary: “In The Type B Manager, Victor Lipman offers a unique lens through which to view the challenging problems of management. While management has long […]
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The manager’s phrase book : 3,000+ powerful phrases that put you in command in any situation
“The Manager’s Phrase Book” is a collection of thousands of ready-to-use phrases that will enable you to move into the ranks of today’s most competent […]
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Chief customer officer 2.0 : how to build your customer-driven growth engine
Summary: Chief Customer Officer 2.0 will give you a proven framework that has launched and advanced the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical […]
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Above the line : lessons in leadership and life from a championship season
Summary: In only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah, Florida, and Ohio State, Urban Meyer has […]
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