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Title:
Kaisa Hoga 2012
Author: Jang, The Economist
Imprint Jang, The Economist, 2012
Subject: Pakistan-Prospects
Location: [available at ready reference main campus]
Pakistan per Khusoosi Mazamin. Hamid Karzai, Nawaz Sharif, Dr. Ishratul Ibad Khan, Shahid Afridi, Marc Grossman, Aung San Suu Kyi, Dilma Vana Rousseff.
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Title:
Research Methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners, 3rd ed.
Author: Kumar, Ranjit
Imprint Sage Publications, 2011
Subject: Research methods
Location: 001.42 K96 - [available at both campuses]
Written specifically for students with no previous experience of research and research methodology, the third edition of Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners integrates various quantitative and qualitative methodologies into eight practice-based steps, providing lots of examples throughout to link theory with practice. The writing style is simple and clear and the author presents this complex subject in a straightforward way that empowers readers to tackle research with confidence.
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Title:
Principles of Programming Languages
Author: Panghal, Enil
Imprint University Science Press, 2010
Subject: Programming language (Electronic computers)
Location: 005.1 P11 - [available at both campuses]
The book Principles of Programming Languages deals with various concepts related to computer programming languages. In this book, the subject matter has been presented in a simple and lucid manner. This book aims to provide its readers with an in-depth knowledge of the concept programming languages. It is designed to meet the needs of beginners as well as advanced learners.
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Title:
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
Author: Sharma, Ashish
Imprint University Science Press, 2011
Subject: Object oriented programming-Java
Location: 005.1 S11 - [available at both campuses]
The book Object-Oriented Programming in Java has been written for the fourth semester B.E./B.Tech. students of Rajasthan Technical University, Kota and other Indian universities. It is also helpful for BCA and MCA students, and other computer professionals.
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Title:
Principles of Distributed Database Systems
Author: Ozsu, M. Tamer
Imprint Pearson Education, 2007
Subject: Distributed databases
Location: 005.75 O8 - [available at both campuses]
This new edition of the best-selling text addresses recent and emerging issues in the field of distributed database systems while maintaining the key features and characteristics of the previous edition. This comprehensive text focuses on concepts and technical issues while exploring the development of distributed database management systems. Principles of Distributed Database Systems presents distributed database systems within the framework of distributed data processing in general, rather than as a problem in isolation.
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Title:
Time Tripper: Book Four: Futureimperfect
Author: Petrucha, Stefan
Imprint Razorbill Penguin, 2007
Subject: Palmistry
Location: 133.6 P44 - [available at both campuses]
In this thrilling and surreal finale to the TimeTripper series, Harry Keller finds himself stuck back at Windfree mental hospital. Harry must confront the enemy that drove him to this end, before more damage is done. When Harry is thrust back into A-Time, he discovers new secrets about the bizarre, time-bending world that go beyond what he ever could have imagined, and even stranger secrets about our own reality.
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Title:
Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior, 11th ed.
Author: Coon, Dennis
Imprint Cengage Learning, 2011
Subject: Psychology
Location: 150 C63 - [available at both campuses]
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: GATEWAYS TO MIND AND BEHAVIOR attracts and holds the attention of even difficult-to-reach students. Updated the proven-effective SQ4R learning system (Survey, Question, Read, Reflect, Review, Recite) by harnessing critical thinking to better help students understand psychology's broad concepts and great diversity of topics. example-laced writing style, cutting-edge coverage of the field's new research findings, and superb new media resources ensure that students will find the study of psychology fascinating, relevant, and above all, accessible.
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Title:
Psychology, 8th ed.
Author: Gleitman, Henry
Imprint W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
Subject: Psychology-Textbooks
Location: 150 G47 - [available at both campuses]
The most intelligent book ever written for the course, reinvented for today's students. The Eighth Edition has been reorganized and streamlined to mirror the organization of today's courses, updated to include extensive coverage of the latest discoveries and research, and reimagined with new pedagogy, figures, and technology.
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Title:
Introduction to Psychology, 7th ed.
Author: Morgan, Clifford T.
Imprint Tata McGraw-Hill, 2011
Subject: Psychology
Location: 150 M821 - [available at both campuses]
In this Seventh Edition, this have attempted to bring readers up-to-date, an ongoing challenge in our rapidly changing discipline. Psychology, like other areas of Knowledge, has its classic theories and studies which form the basis for the much current work. Students should Know about these, too, and we have not neglected them.
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Title:
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology
Author: Bond, Michael Harris ed.
Imprint Tata McGraw-Hill, 2010
Subject: Psychology-Handbook
Location: 155.8 B64 - [available at main campus]
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology is the first book of its kind-- a comprehensive and commanding review of Chinese psychology, covering areas of human functioning with unparalleled sophistication and complexity. In 42 chapters, leading authorities cite and integrate both English and Chinese-language research in topic areas ranging from the socialization of children, mathematics achievement, emotion, bilingualism, and Chinese styles of thinking to Chinese identity, personal relationships, leadership processes, and psychopathology.
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Title:
Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders: How Your Genes Affect Your Work Life
Author: Shane, Scott
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2010
Subject: Behavior genetics, Psychology, Industrial
Location: 158.7 S18 - [available at both campuses]
Are you a born entrepreneur or a born leader, possessing innate characteristics that somehow you better than others at these important business activities? This work discusses how your genes influence your work interests, work values, decision making, risk taking, management style, leadership style, creativity, and more.
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Title:
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Grayling, A. G.
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2001
Subject: Philosophy-British
Location: 192 G791 - [available at both campuses]
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general reader by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.
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Title:
Research Methodologies in the 'South'
Author: Halai, Anjum ed.
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2011
Subject: Research methodologies-Social science
Location: 300.72 H11 - [available at main campus]
This book is the first collection of essays specifically addressing the issue of whether the research methods of the 'North' are appropriate for conducting educational research in the 'South'. It brings together descriptions and critical analyses of research methodologies and methods from a range of contexts, written by experts from a range of geographical and cultural contexts, and will be useful to anyone who is involved in conducting, or supporting those engaged in, social enquiry.
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Title:
Journalistic Fraud: How the New York Times Distorts the News and why it can no longer be trusted
Author: Kohn, Bob
Imprint WND Books, 2003
Subject: Journalism-Objectivity
Location: 302.23 K79 - [available at main campus]
Kohn shows point by point the methods by which the Times' mission has been subverted by the present management-routinely slanting the presentation of the facts in leads, headlines, and placement; utilizing polls, labels, and loaded language to convey particular views, not genuine news; and staffing the newsroom with hacks who manipulate information to further a leftist agenda. Kohn shows how such fraudulence directly corrupts hundreds of news agencies across the world; and by revealing all their methods of manipulation, he teaches readers how to decipher the slants in even the subtlest of cases, providing an entertaining and enlightening lesson in fraud-busting.
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Title:
Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies
Author: Blankson, Isaac A. ed.
Imprint State University of New York Press, 2007
Subject: Mass media-Social aspects-Case studies
Location: 302.2309 B59 - [available at main campus]
Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.
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Title:
Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Author: Brown, Mark B.
Imprint The MIT Press, 2009
Subject: Science-Political aspects
Location: 320.01 B814 - [available at main campus]
An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies--from Machiavelli to Latour--for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.
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Title:
Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden
Author: Euben, Roxanne L. ed.
Imprint Princeton University Press, 2009
Subject: Religion and politics-Islamic countries
Location: 320.557 E16 - [available at main campus]
This anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to Islamist political thought from the early twentieth century to the present, and serves as an invaluable guide through the storm of polemic, fear, and confusion that swirls around Islamism today. Roxanne Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman gather a broad selection of texts from influential Islamist thinkers and place these figures and their writings in their multifaceted political and historical contexts.
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Title:
New Developments in the Economics of Population Ageing
Author: Creedy, John ed.
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007
Subject: Economic development, Fiscal policy
Location: 330.9 G86 - [available at main campus]
This volume provides an important collection of recent papers on the macroeconomic effects of population ageing. The articles are focused into three categories which cover the main channels through which population ageing affects national living standards: productivity and growth; consumption and saving; and labour market and fiscal effects. The papers have been selected for their clear and valuable contributions to this field of study. The book will be an essential reference volume for academic and public sector economists, policy makers and demographers.
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Title:
Human Development Report 2010: The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, 20th Anniversary Edition
Author: United Nations Development Programme
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Subject: Human capital-Management
Location: RP.UNDP330.9 U1 - [available at main campus]
The Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways to human development show that there is no single formula for sustainable progress and that impressive gains can be achieved even without consistent economic growth.
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Title:
Monetary Economics: Institutions, Theory and Policy
Author: Gupta, Suraj B.
Imprint S. Chand & Company, 2011
Subject: Money, Banks and banking
Location: 332.4 G92 - [available at both campuses]
This is a textbook on monetary economics which combines within its folds a systematic discussion of institutions theory & policy concerning money & credit in india.
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Title:
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 7th ed.
Author: Hull, John C.
Imprint Pearson, 2010
Subject: Derivatives
Location: 332.64 H86 - [available at both campuses]
Updated and revised to reflect the most current information, this introduction to futures and options markets is ideal for those with a limited background in mathematics. Based on Hull's Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, one of the best-selling books on Wall Street, this book presents an accessible overview of the topic without the use of calculus. Packed with numerical samples and accounts of real-life situations, the Fifth Edition effectively guides readers through the material while providing them with a host of tangible examples. For professionals with a career in futures and options markets, financial engineering and/or risk management.
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Title:
Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means to You
Author: Makansi, Jason
Imprint John Wiley & Sons, 2007
Subject: Electric utilities-United States
Location: 333.793 M11 - [available at main campus]
This book enables even the novice to understand clearly the multifaceted issues facing an electricity-thirsty world. This book lays the foundation for understanding how complex power generation and delivery truly is, and is a clarion call to citizens and consumers worldwide alike to become more informed and more involved.
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Title:
The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data
Author: Minniti, Maria ed.
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2011
Subject: Entrepreneurship
Location: 338.04 M666 - [available at both campuses]
Unlike its sister fields of accounting, marketing, finance, organizational behavior and strategic management, entrepreneurship is rather poorly explained by academics. Scott Shane resolves this by considering the nexus of enterprising individuals and valuable opportunities and by using that nexus to understand the processes of discovery and exploitation of opportunities, the acquisition of resources, entrepreneurial strategy and the organi.
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Title:
A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus
Author: Shane, Scott
Imprint Edward Elgar, 2005
Subject: Entrepreneurship
Location: 338.04 S18 - [available at both campuses]
Unlike its sister fields of accounting, marketing, finance, organizational behavior and strategic management, entrepreneurship is rather poorly explained by academics. Scott Shane resolves this by considering the nexus of enterprising individuals and valuable opportunities and by using that nexus to understand the processes of discovery and exploitation of opportunities, the acquisition of resources, entrepreneurial strategy and the organi.
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Title:
Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use, 2nd ed.
Author: Norton, George W.
Imprint Routledge, 2010
Subject: Agriculture-Economic aspects
Location: 338.1 N821 - [available at both campuses]
This new edition of the essential textbook in the field builds on the 2006 original and reflects the following developments: the increased impact of climate change issues affecting agricultural markets such as bio-fuels, the rise in farm prices and energy costs the move to higher valued agricultural products The book contains a wealth of real world case studies and is now accompanied by a website that includes powerpoint lectures, a photo bank and a large set of discussion and exam questions.
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Title:
Industrial Policy and Development: The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation
Author: Cimoli, Mario ed.
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2009
Subject: Economic development
Location: 338.9 C49 - [available at main campus]
This book provides an in-depth exploration of which industrial policies have been successful, the trade-offs associated with these microeconomic approaches to growth and development, and the opportunities and constraints associated with the current organization of international economic relations.
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Title:
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Author: Cohen, Jessica
Imprint Brookings Institution Press, 2009
Subject: Economic development, Development economics
Location: 338.9 C66 - [available at main campus]
The contributors, including many of the world's most respected economic development analysts, focus on the ongoing debate over which paths to development truly maximize results. Should we emphasize a big-picture approach - focusing on the role of institutions, macroeconomic policies, growth strategies, and other country-level factors? Or is a more grassroots approach the way to go, with the focus on particular microeconomic interventions such as conditional cash transfers, bed nets, and other microlevel improvements in service delivery on the ground?
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Title:
Global Financial Stability Report: Grappling with Crisis Legacies
Author: International Monetary Fund
Imprint International Monetary Fund, September 2011
Subject: Capital markets-Developing countries-Periodicals
Location: RP.IMF339.5 I8- [available at main campus]
The September 2011 Global Financial Stability Report cautions that the risks to global financial stability have increased substantially in recent months during which heavy public debt burdens and weak growth prospects in many advanced economies combined with a series of shocks to the global financial system. The Report examines how the ongoing low interest rate environment and high uncertainty are driving the asset allocation of long-term, real-money institutional investors.
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Title:
Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
Author: Fisher III, William W.
Imprint Stanford Law and Politics, 2004
Subject: Journalism-Objectivity
Location: 346.73 F53 - [available at main campus]
During the past fifteen years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals—each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models—for how we could get out of it.
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Title:
A Treatise of the Civil Service of Pakistan: The Structural-Functional History (1601-2011)
Author: Khurshid, Kiran
Imprint Pak TM Printers, 2011
Subject: Civil services
Location: GP352.63 K11 - [available at both campuses]
The book covers a span of more than 4 centuries. There are more than 300 pictures in this book. Around 85 career profiles of eminent civil servants and historical personalities and the Chief Secretaries of the provinces as well as the ACS FATA & CS AJK. Around 45 tables depicting vital data.
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Title:
Reducing Poverty, Building Peace
Author: Bryant, Coralie
Imprint Kumarian Press, Inc., 2005
Subject: Poverty
Location: 362.5 B841 - [available at main campus]
Draws attention to the global nature of poverty and its link to conflict* Looks at poverty as a universal problelm, focusing on all nations both rich and poor* Multidisciplinary and wide-ranging, targeted for a broad audience, including NGOs, community and citizen based advocacy groups, students in international development programs and practitioners. Poverty and peace, and the relationships between them, are the central challenges for our times.
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Title:
Calculus, 7
th ed.
Author: Anton, Howard
Imprint John Wiley & Sons, 2007
Subject: Calculus
Location: 515 A88 - [available at both campuses]
The primary goal of this edition is to foster conceptual understanding and an appreciation of the applicability of the subject matter. This edition has built in flexibility that is designed to serve a broad spectrum of calculus philosophies from traditional to reform. Technology can be emphasized or not and the order of many topics can be permuted freely to accommodate the instructors specific needs.
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Title:
Financial Management: A Planning and Control Approach
Author: Rastogi, M. K.
Imprint: University Science Press , 2010
Subject: Financial management
Location: 658.1511 R183 - [available at both campuses]
The book Financial Management has been written for the students of MBA, M.Com., BBA, BHMCT, BMS etc. It will also be helpful for the finance executives, who want to update their knowledge. To cater the needs of both students and executives, the subject matter has been discussed in a conceptual-cum-analytical manner. It is the aim of the book to help the reader develop a skill to understand analyse and interpret financial problems and data to make good financial decisions.
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Title:
Innovation: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Dodgson, Mark
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2010
Subject: Organizational change, Innovation
Location: 658.4063 D664 - [available at both campuses]
What is innovation? How can it be used? Why is failure so common in the process of innovation? This title looks at what innovation is, what it has done for us, and why it has been so important in the last 150 years.
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Title:
Information Technology in Business Management
Author: Dhunna, Mukesh
Imprint University Science Press, 2010
Subject: Information technology
Location: 658.4093 D54 - [available at both campuses]
The Book motivates the unmotivated students. Covers the basics of computer that every manager should know. Focuses on the technological changes and trends that are revolutionizing the various areas under IT and Business Management. Readers do not require computer experience backgrounds. Covers detailed theory supplemented with appropriate figures, tables and examples. Contents of the book include basics of Computer, Information Technology, Problem Solving Methodology, Data Representation, Hardware, The Central Processing Unit, Software Concepts, Multimedia, DOS, Windows XP, Linux, Microsoft Office 2007, DBMS, SQL, Networks and Communications, The Internet and Management Information Systems. Covers adequate number of exercises and review questions of all types. Provides reader friendly approach.
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Title:
Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 11th ed.
Author: Armstrong, Michael
Imprint Kogan Page, 2009
Subject: Personnel management—Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Location: 658.3 A57 - [available at main campus]
Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is a classic text for students and practitioners of HRM. Providing a complete resource for understanding and implementing HR in relation to the needs of the business as a whole, it includes in-depth coverage of all the key areas essential to the HR function. It covers major developments in the theory and practice of human resource management in the last three years.
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Title:
Career Development and Planning: A Comprehensive Approach, 3
rd ed.
Author: Reardon, Robert C.
Imprint Cengage Learning, 2009
Subject: Personal effectiveness, Professional development
Location: 658.4093 R233 - [available at both campuses]
This comprehensive career text combines an innovative theory-based approach with practical knowledge developed during the authors' combined 100 years of providing career services to college students.
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Title:
Exploring Entrepreneurship: Practices and Perspectives
Author: Blundel, Richard
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2011
Subject: New business enterprises
Location: 658.421 B624 - [available at both campuses]
Exploring Entrepreneurship examines the nature of entrepreneurial activity in the 21st century, and aims to help students develop the skills and knowledge required by commercial and social entrepreneurs. Readers of this text will gain a deeper insight into the activities of entrepreneurs in both the commercial and social sectors and be able to reflect critically on the nature of entrepreneurship and its role in the creation of new commercial and social ventures.
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Title:
Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm
Author: Chesbrough, Henry ed.
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2008
Subject: Innovation-Management
Location: 658.514 C41 - [available at both campuses]
Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. Offering theoretical explanations for the use (and limits) of open innovation, the book examines the applicability of the concept, implications for the boundaries of firms, the potential of open innovation to prove successful, and implications for intellectual property policies and practices.The book will be key reading for academics, researchers, and graduate students of innovation and technology management.
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Title:
Advertising: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Fletcher, Winston
Imprint Oxford University Press, 2010
Subject: Advertising
Location: 659.1 F62 - [available at both campuses]
In this Very Short Introduction, Winston Fletcher, a seasoned advertising veteran with extensive inside knowledge, offers an illuminating look at this billion-dollar business, dispelling some of the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the industry. Fletcher offers a short history of advertising and explains how the industry works and how each of the parties--the advertisers, the media, and the agencies--contribute to the process. He also looks at the financial side of advertising and asks how today's Wanamakers know if they have been successful, or whether their money has in fact been wasted.
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Title:
The Handbook to Literary Research
Author: Correa, Delia da Sousa
Imprint Routledge, 2010
Subject: Literature-Education
Location: 807.2 C81 - [available at both campuses]
The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the differences between countries and institutions, and providing a range of key examples.
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Title:
Night Trains: A Supernatural, Alternate Reality War Thriller
Author: Chrenkoff, Arthur
Imprint Cold Spring Press, 2006
Subject: Supernatural
Location: 808.3085 C46 - [available at both campuses]
Chrenkoff debuts with an impressive first novel. A grim fantasy that oscillates between early 21st century Brisbane and Occupied Europe during World War 2. Standard fantasy fare often invokes some imaginary evil element, against which the protagonists struggle. But Night Trains deals with the all too real historical evil of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
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Title:
Potter springs: A novel
Author: Coleman, Britta
Imprint Center Street, 2006
Subject: Clergy-Fiction
Location: 813 C674 - [available at Main Campus]
Britta Coleman's Texan background proves an asset in her first novel, infusing the language with a home-grown twang as she wittily and charmingly captures the larger-than-life characters and communities in urban and rural Texas.
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Title:
Poolside
Author: Melcher Media, Inc.
Imprint Melcher Media, Inc., 2007
Subject: Short stories, American
Location: 813.54 A41 - [available at main campus]
This is a waterproof book, full of aquatic tales - a must-have for the beach, pool or bath! A housewife surprises her family with Olympic ambitions. A party guest embarks on a fanciful tour of his neighbours' backyard pools. Amorous waterlogged youths make first contact in a shadowy swimming pond. Submerge yourself in fourteen fantastic reads about the satisfactions and tribulations of learning to swim, from bestselling authors, including John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike and Amy Bloom who show how swimming has an uncanny way of causing submerged passions to surface and transform even the most stubborn personalities! Printed on a waterproof, tear and stain-resistant material, designed to withstand any watery environment, pop it in your bag along with your costume, towel, and flip-flops - it's the perfect companion for a day of sun, sand and swimming.
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Title:
Just a Couple of Days
Author: Vigorito, Tony
Imprint Harcourt, Inc., 2001
Subject: Biological weapons-Fiction
Location: 813.6 V818 - [available at both campuses]
A witty, satirical look at the apocalypse focuses on Blip Korterly, who kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass only to find himself arrested, while his friend, molecular biologist Dr. Flake Fountain, becomes enmeshed in a shadow-government project conducting experiments on an unwitting human populace.
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Title:
The English Literature Companion
Author: Wolfreys, Julian
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Subject: English Literature-History
Location: 820.9 W83 - [available at both campuses]
- A wide-ranging introduction to the nature, breadth and key components of the study of English Literature - Essays by experts in the field on key topics, periods and critical approaches - A glossary of critical terms and a chronology of literary history - Guidance about study skills, from using your time effectively to the practical mechanics of writing essays - Extensive signposting to wider reading and further sources of information - Advice on key decisions taken during a degree and on subsequent career direction and further study.
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Title:
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire
Author: McAnany, Patricia A. ed.
Imprint Cambridge University Press, 2010
Subject: Civilization-History
Location: 930.1 M11 - [available at main campus]
Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of iconic events
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Title:
India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
Author: Wolpert, Stanley
Imprint University of California Press, 2010
Subject: Pakistan-Foreign relations-India Pakistan-Military relations-India
Location: 954.04 W14 - [available at both campuses]
Stanley Wolpert concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their disputes, and assessing the dominant political leaders. While the tragic Partition left many urgent problems, none has been more difficult than the problem over Kashmir, claimed by both India and Pakistan. In addition to providing a comprehensive perspective on the origin and nature of this urgent conflict, Wolpert examines all the proposed solutions and concludes with a road map for a brighter future for South Asia.
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