Meet the changing needs of the contemporary reader with this current and comprehensive new readers' advisory resource. A Few Good Books will help you... build a solid foundation in the theory and practice of readers' advisory and learn how exciting new Library 2.0 technologies, including tags, clouds, e-books virtual RA, and other digital formats will enhance your programs. A uniquely helpful section on RA for readers with disabilities, patrons who are non-native speakers of English, and adult new readers will enable your RA for under-served populations. There are strategies and tools for working directly with readers and keeping current about books and authors, along with detailed coverage across a variety of book genres including: popular fiction, literary fiction, adventure, suspense, thrillers, and mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, topical fiction. Each genre is accompanied by a sample book list, and additional chapters titled List Culture, Book Awards & Award Winning Books, Books Clubs Old & New, Reading Events - A Celebration of Reading, Books and Authors, and Reflections on the Future of Reading and Readers' Advisory comprise an important guide to developing a comprehensive understanding of reader interests and needs. Maatta also includes real-life examples of successful RA transactions, sample scripts, and extensive appendices with important print and electronic resources. A Few Good Books will empower you with everything you'll need to serve your readers with their own definition of a "good read."

Drama / 14m, 1f / Int. This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on... stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover up of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial. "Enormously entertaining."-N.Y. Daily News "Plenty of wise cracking humor and suspense."-Time Magazine "Fresh and adroitly updated and conditioned to our time and socio-political climate."-NY Post

Why do some people succeed in their careers while others struggle? As a business school professor, Jim Muncy studied that question for years. The... answers he found were simple yet profound. What makes people succeed in their careers are the exact same things that make them succeed in anything else. There are a few keys to all success. Applying these keys will make us more successful in our careers. But that's not all. They will give us better health, more money, and better marriages. They can make us better athletes and better parents. They help us enjoy life more because they can improve every area of our lives. When Dr. Muncy began teaching these keys to his students, he immediately began to see lives change. In A Few Keys to All Success, Dr. Muncy shares the success keys that have impacted countless students. This book is a must-read for anyone with high aspirations. It's a practical, interesting, and easy to read explanation of what it takes to really succeed in life.

These vivid and compelling tales, many set in Africa and Asia, are about immigrants and others facing change and dislocation. The science is never... pedantic; indeed the language of biology and natural history is used to great lyrical effect. The stories are accomplished and seasoned, remarkably so given that this is the author’s first book. Murray is adept at holding together a complex narrative and creating characters who reach out emotionally to the reader upon first meeting. Global in scope, classical in form, evocative of place, and deeply emotional, this collection marks the beginning of what promises to be an illustrious career.

This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and... properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.

KEY BENEFIT: Through the presentation of the Ten Fundamental Principles of Personal Finance, this text empowers readers with the knowledge they need... to successfully make and carry out a plan for their own financial future.   FINANCIAL PLANNING; MANAGING YOUR MONEY; PROTECTING YOURSELF WITH INSRUANCE; MANAGING YOUR INVESTMENTS; LIFE CYCLE ISSUES   MARKET: This text’s easy-to-read and relatable pop-culture references make it a must have for those who want to master their own finances.

KEY BENEFIT: Through the presentation of the Ten Fundamental Principles of Personal Finance, this text empowers readers with the knowledge they need... to successfully make and carry out a plan for their own financial future.   FINANCIAL PLANNING; MANAGING YOUR MONEY; PROTECTING YOURSELF WITH INSRUANCE; MANAGING YOUR INVESTMENTS; LIFE CYCLE ISSUES   MARKET: This text’s easy-to-read and relatable pop-culture references make it a must have for those who want to master their own finances.

This volume presents a major reassessment of the tumultuous culture of politics on the national stage during America's earliest years, when Jefferson,... Burr, Hamilton, and other national leaders struggled to define themselves and their role in the new nation. Joanne Freeman shows how the rituals and rhetoric of honour provided ground rules for political combat; how gossip, print warfare, and duelling became accepted political weapons; and how the founders jostled for political power in the nascent republic.

These two volumes are the first presentation of his comprehensive theory in book form as it has developed since 1994.In 1994 Allan Schore published his... groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional development. Since then he has expanded his regulation theory in more than two dozen articles and essays covering multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment, and trauma. Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self contains writings on developmental affective neuroscience and developmental neuropsychiatry. Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self contains chapters on neuropsychoanalysis and developmentally oriented psychotherapy. Absolutely essential reading for all clinicians, researchers, and general readers interested in normal and abnormal human development.

An action-oriented text, the Sixth Edition of Affecting Change continues to provide new ideas and strategies to help students become better advocates... for their future clients. Updated to reflect advances in technology and changes in social welfare policy, this revision shows students how to develop political action skills. This practical, step-by-step guide focuses on advocacy as the central mission of social work practice. New material and personal scenarios involving social workers who have made a difference--senators, representatives, and officials in the political arena--serve to inspire students. Revised and expanded chapters show how social work skills can be most effective, whether by impacting the political arena as a social worker or running for office.

Updated to reflect advances in a changing political arena of Obama’s administration, this revision shows students how to develop political action... skills and to take advantage of the opportunity of change. This practical, step-by-step guide focuses on advocacy as the central mission of social work practice. New material and 17 new personal scenarios involving social workers who have made a difference–senators, representatives, and officials in the political arena–serve to inspire students. Revised chapters show how social work skills can be most effective, whether by impacting the political arena as a social worker or running for office.

Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has been severely criticized, its adherents claim that competing models have failed to... offer a more scientific model of political decisionmaking. This measured but provocative book offers precisely that: an alternative way of understanding political behavior based on cognitive research.The authors draw on research in neuroscience, physiology, and experimental psychology to conceptualize habit and reason as two mental states that interact in a delicate, highly functional balance controlled by emotion. Applying this approach to more than fifteen years of election results, they shed light on a wide range of political behavior, including party identification, symbolic politics, and negative campaigning.Remarkably accessible, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment urges social scientists to move beyond the idealistic notion of the purely rational citizen to form a more complete, realistic model that includes the emotional side of human judgment.