New E-books
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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 The following e-books were published in 2010 and 2011 and recently added to the New Jersey State Library's e-book collection. To preview any items of interest, just click on the title.
If you have questions about our electronic book collection, or require assistance, please call or email Reference Services: 609-278-2640 ext 103.
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Current Topics
Business and Management
- Ads, Fads and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
- Bite-sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian
- Boom & Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity
- Creating a Successful Leadership Style
- Entertainment Industry Economics: a Guide for Financial Analysis
- Fall of the House of Credit: What Went Wrong with Banking and What Can Be Done to Repair the Damage
- Hiring,Training and Supervising Library Shelvers
- Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
- International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy: Banks, Bonds and Bail-outs
- Mastering Book-keeping: a Complete Guide to Principals and Practice of Business Accounting
- Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment
- Moving Forward: the Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance
- Packaging the Brand: the Relationship between Packaging Design and Brand Identity
- Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics
- Practical Cost Accounting: Modern Methods and Techniques
- Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottomline Management for Book Publishers
- Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad: Breakthrough Ideas for Keeping Your Best Workers
- Sales Management
- Stepping into Administration: How to Succeed in Making the Move
- Strategic Management
Careers
- 15-Minute Cover Letter: Write and Effective Cover Letter Right Now, 2nd ed.
- 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality, 2nd ed.
- 2011 Career Plan: the Best Moves Now for a Solid Future
- Beginner's Guide to Day Trading Online
- Career Coward's Guide to Career Advancement: Sensible Strategies for Overcoming Career Fears
- Creating Effective Presentations: Staff Development with Impact
- Eliminated! Now What? Finding Your Way from Job-loss Crisis to Career Resilience
- Expert Resumes for Computer and Web Jobs
- Find a Job Through Social Networking: Use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and More to Advance Your Career, 2nd ed.
- First 60 Seconds: Win the Job Interview before It Begins
- I Found a Job!: Career Advice from Job Hunters Who Landed on Their Feet
- Overnight Career Choice: Discover Your Ideal Job in Just a Few Hours, 2nd ed
- Powered by Happy: How to Get and Stay Happy at Work
- Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Organization
- Suviving a Layoff: a Week by Week Guide to Getting Your Life Back Together
- Tell Me about Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel Your Career
- Top 100 Health-care Careers: Your Complete Guidebook to Training and Jobs in Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine and More, 3rd ed.
- What Can I Do Now? Animal Careers
Education
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
- Big-time Sports in America's Universities
- Challenges and Opportunities for Education about Dual Issues in the Life Sciences
- Classroom Manager: Procedures and Practices to Improve Instruction
- Everyday Engagement: Making Students and Parents Your Parnters in Learning
- Finding, Preparing and Supporting School Leaders: Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
- First Time in the College Classroom: a Guide for Teaching Assistants, Instructors and New Professors at All Colleges and Universities
- Guided Instruction: How to Develop Confident and Successful Learners
- How to Be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher
- How to Keep Good Teachers and Principals: Practical Solutions to Today's Classroom Problems
- Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought
- Inviting Students to Learn: 100 Tips for Talking Effectively with Your Students
- Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom
- Learning for Keeps: Teaching the Strategies Essential for Creating Independent Learners
- Leaving Johnny Behind: Overcoming Barriers to Literacyand Reclaiming At-risk Readers, 2nd. ed.
- Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on K-12 Education
- Practical Statistics for Educators, 4th ed
- School Administrators and Technology: Meeting the Standards
- Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools
- Standards for K-12 Engineering Education
- Student Loan Scam: the Most Oppressive Debt in US History and How We Can Fight Back
- Thinking Teacher's Toolkit: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, and Global Perspectives
- Toolkit for Action Research
- Transformational Teaching in the Information Age: Making Why and How We Teach Relevant to Students
- True American: Language, Identity and Education of Immigrant Children
- Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System is Failing and What We Can Do about It
Green Living
- America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?
- Blowout in the Gulf: the BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
- Changing Ecosystems: Effects of Global Warming
- Environmental Engineering: Designing a Sustainable Future
- Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability
- Renewable Energy: Sources and Methods
- Rising Waters: the Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States
Health and Medicine
- Arthritis: Your Comprehensive Guide to Pain Management, Medication, Diet, Exercise, Surgery, and Physical Therapies
- Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: a Guide to Successful Stress Management
- Birth Partner Handbook: Eveything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Positive Birth Experience
- By Any Greens Necessary: a Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Fantastic
- Depression Answer Book: Professional Answers to More Than 275 Critical Questions About Medication, Therapy, Support, & More
- Drug Information for Teens, 3rd ed.
- Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management, 5th ed.
- Essentials of Personality Disorders
- Heal Your Back: Your Complete Prescription for Prenventing, Treating and Eliminating Back Pain
- Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter Along the Path to Hope and Healing
- Living with Learning Disabilites, Dying with Cancer: Thirteen Personal Stories
- Making the Transition of LPN to RN
- More Health, Less Care: How to Take Charge of Your Medical Care and Write Your Own Personal Prescription for Lifelong Health
- Multiple Sclerosis: Answers at Your Finger Tips, 2nd ed.
- Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across Life
- Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes on When You Go Under
- Over- the- counter Natural Cures: Take Charge of Your Health in 30 Days with 10 Lifesaving Supplements for Under $10
- Psychiatry in Prisons: a Comprehensive Handbook
- Rights, Risk and Restraint-free Care of Older People: Person-centred Approaches in Health and Social Care
- Science of Drinking: How Alcohol Affects Your Body and Mind
- Stem Cell Research: Medical Applications and Ethical Controversies, rev. ed.
- Strategies for Protecting Child's Immune System: Tools for Parents and Parents-to-be
- Substituting Ingredients: the A to Z Kitchen Reference
- Vaccine Answer Book: 200 Essential Answers to Help You Make the Right Decisions for Your Child
- Voices of Bipolar Disorder: the Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength
- Yoga Tips for People with Multiple Sclerosis: Quick and Simple Techniques to Improve Posture and Mobility
Humanities
- Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Routes of American Popular Music
- Blues Music in the Sixties: a Story of Black and White, rev. ed.
- Common Ground: Islam, Christianity and Religious Pluralism
- In the Heart of the Beat: the Poetry of Rap
- Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought
- Making Music and Having a Blast!: a Guide for All Music Students
- Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape
- Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet
- No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
- Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919: from Greenwich Village Follies to the Toxic Avenger
- Reel Men of War: Masculinity and the American War Film
- Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicts, Visions, Contested Boundaries
- True American: Language, Identity and the Education of Immigrant Children
- Thug Life: Race, Gender and Hip-hop
- What Was African American Literature?
Information and Technology
- Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology, Architecture, Applications
- Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008
- Learning Science through Computer Games and Simulations
- Network Security: a Decision and Game-theoretic Approach
- Transformational Teaching in the Information Age
- Young and Digital: What the Migration to Social-network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
Law & Criminal Justice
- America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present
- Arrested: What to Do When Your Loved One's in Jail
- Complete Landlord & Property Manger's Legal Survival Kit, 1st ed.
- Court of Remorse: Inside the Intenational Tribunal of Rwanda
- From Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Lawsuites That Have Changed Our Nation
- Gender of Crime
- Last Place You'd Look: True Stories of Missing Persons and the People Who Search for Them
- Law 101: an Essential Reference for Your Everyday Legal Questions, update and expanded version
- Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants
- Psychiatry in Prisons: a Comprehensive Handbook
Military and Homeland Security
- Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11
- Desert Duty: On the Line with the US Border Patrol
- War: From Ancient Egypt to Iraq
- When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home Again: How All of US Can Help Veterans
New Jersey
Personal Development
- 10 Ways to Change the World in Your 20s
- Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America
- Bride's Thank You Guide: Thank You Writing Made Easy, 2nd ed.
- Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times
- Powered by Happy: How to Get and Stay Happy at Work
- Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, 2nd ed.
- Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Organization
- Surviving a Layoff: a Week by Week Guide to Getting Your Life Back Together
- What is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
- World's 200 Hardest Brain Teasers: Mind-boggling Puzzles, Problems, and Curious Questions to Sharpen Your Brain
- Your Next Career: Do What You Always Wanted to Do, 2nd ed.
Personal Finance
- Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity
- Instant Bargains: 600 + Ways to Shrink Your Grocery Bills and Eat Well for Less
- Personal Bankruptcy Answer Book: Practical Answers to More Than 175 Questions on Bankruptcy
Politics and Government
- Boosting Paychecks: the Politics of Supporting America's Working Poor
- Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination and Homeland Security Since 9/11
- Government's Place in the Market
- My Fellow Citizens: Tthe Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, 1789-2009
- Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward
- What is a Palestinian State Worth?
- Wiki Government; How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Reference
- All Aboard: The Complete North American Travel Guide, 3rd ed.
- Brief History of India, 2nd ed.
- Brief History of Mexico, 4th ed.
- Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology
- Cambridge Handbook of Earth Science Data
- Comprehensive Dictionary of Science, rev. ed.
- Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions
- Handy Law Answer Book
- Handy Philosophy Answer Book
- Handy Physics Answer Book
- Handy Psychology Answer Book
- Handy Weather Answer Book, 2nd ed.
- Historical Dictionary of African American Theatre
- Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
- Introductory Horticulture
- Med Notes: Nurse's Pocket Pharmacology Guide, 3rd ed.
- Medical Terminology Simplified: A Programmed Learning Approach by Body System, 4th ed.
- MMA Encyclopedia
Science and Mathematics
- Architectual Design
- Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound
- Changing Ecosystems: Effects of Global Warming
- Davis' s Basic Math Review for Nurses: With Step-by step Solutions
- Environmental Engineering: Designing a Sustainable Future
- Food, Security and Sustainability
- Learning Science through Computer Games and Simulations
- Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction
- Renewable Energy: Sources and Methods
- Technological Nature: Adaption and Future of Human Life
Small Businesses
- 101 Internet Businesses You Can Start From Home: How to Choose and Build Your Own Successful Internet Business, 4th ed.
- 101 Ways to Promote Your Website: Filled with Proven Internet Marketing Tips, Tools, Techniques, and Resources to Increase Your Web Site Traffic, 8th ed.
- 9-to-5 Cure: Work on Your Own Terms and Reinvent Your Life
- Accounting for Non-accountants: The Fast and Easy Way to Learn the Basics, 2nd ed.
- HR for Small Business: An Essential Guide for Mangers, Human Resource Professionals, and Small Business Owners, 2nd ed.
- Second Chance Revolution: Becoming Your Own Boss after 50
- Social Media for Business: 101 Ways to Grow Your Business without Wasting Your Time
Social Sciences
- 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocolypse
- Apserger Couple's Workbook: Practical Advice and Activities for Couples and Counselors
- China in 2020: A New Type of Superpower
- Class War?: What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality
- Culture After the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast
- Deep Secrets: Boys, Friendships, and the Crisis of Connection
- Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech
- Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty, 2nd ed.
- Facing Age: Women Growing Older in Anti-aging Culture
- Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
- First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower, an Intimate Portrait of the Women Who Shaped America
- Game, Set, Match:Billie Jean King and the Revolution of Women's Sports
- Genocide by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide Theory and Practice
- Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
- Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Trafficking in Dubai
- How Racism Takes Place
- I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
- Inequality in Living Standards Since 1980: Income Tells Only a Small Part of the Story
- Jamestown Experiment: The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America
- King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History Since 1945
- Long Shadows of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects Across the Life Cycle
- Mass Atrocity Crimes: Preventing Future Outrages
- Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- My Fellow Citizens: The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, 1789-2009
- Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You, 3rd ed
- Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
- Orthodox Jews in America
- Rebuilding Lives After Domestic Violence: Understanding Long-term Outcomes
- Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
- Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
- Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
- Stuck in the Middle: Is Fiscal Policy Failing the Middle Class?
- Substance Misuse: The Implications of Research, Policy, and Practice
- This is China: The First 5000 Years
- Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values From West Hollywood to Western China
- Walt Before Mickey: Disney's Early Years 1919-1928
- War Machine and Global Health: A Critical Medical Anthropoligical Examination of the Human Costs of Armed Conflict and the International Violence Industry
- Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter
- When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-sex Marriage
- Why Evolution Works
- Witchcraft in Early North America
- Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
- Women Heros of WW II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
- Workers Unite!: The American Labor Movement
- Working with Disney: Interviews With Animators, Producers and Artists
- Young and Digital: What the Migration to Social-network Sites, Games,and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
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