New Books: September 2015
Business/Commerce
The Real-Life MBA
The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for […]
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The art of work : a proven path to discovering what you were meant to do
The search begins with passion but does not end there. Only when our interests connect with the needs of the world do we begin living […]
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The digital revolution in higher education
The digital revolution in higher education : how and why the internet of everything is changing everything “This book provides an optimistic vision through a […]
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Assessment in online and blended learning environments
“Online and blended learning require the reconstruction of instructor and learner roles, relations, and practices. Assessment becomes an important issue in a non-traditional learning environment. […]
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Qualitative Research from Start to Finish
This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research—whether they want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it. All the […]
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Getting things done
Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity A new practice for a new reality — Getting control of your life : the five […]
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Doing good better
Doing good better : how effective altruism can help you make a difference Introduction: worms and water pumps: how can you do the most good? […]
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Case Study Research
Getting started: how to know whether and when to use the case study as a research method — Designing case studies: identifying your case(s) and […]
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The book of doing and being
The book of doing and being : rediscovering creativity in life, love, and work “With clarity, humor, and insight, award-winning filmmaker Barnet Bain guides readers […]
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The Wright Brothers
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the […]
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Washington’s Revolution
Presents a portrait of the formative years that shaped the first American President and offers detailed psychological insights into his beliefs, passions and patriotism. ~ […]
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Sherman’s Ghosts
Sherman’s Ghosts opens with an epic retelling of General Sherman’s fateful decision to turn his sights on the South’s civilian population in order to break […]
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Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery
A house divided — The Slave Power — The Age of Revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free […]
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Disaster profiteers
Disaster profiteers : how natural disasters make the rich richer and the poor even poorer In The Disaster Profiteers, John Mutter argues that when no […]
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