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    • Corporate Finance - A Focused Approach - 4th Edition (2010) 

      Ehrhardt, Michael C.; Brigham, Eugene F. (South-Western College, 2010)
      Focus on the financial concepts, skills, and technological applications that are most critical for MBA students in today's workplace with Ehrhardt/Brigham's CORPORATE FINANCE: A FOCUSED APPROACH, 4E. This lean text provides ...

    • Contemporary Auditing: Real Issues and Cases 

      Knapp, Michael C. (South-Western College, 2010)
      Knapp's CONTEMPORARY AUDITING: REAL ISSUES AND CASES, Eighth Edition, uses real-world cases to acquaint you with the work environment of auditors. It also helps you recognize the red flags that often accompany problem ...

    • Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 

      Goldman, Arnold J.; Sigismond, William D. (South-Western College, 2010)
      Current, jargon free, and filled with many examples, the 8th Edition of BUSINESS LAW: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES covers legal rights and responsibilities in both the public and private sectors. Co-authored by Arnold J. ...

    • Multiple Correspondence Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) 

      Roux, Brigitte Le; Rouanet,Henry (Sage Publications, 2010)
      Requiring no prior knowledge of correspondence analysis, this text provides a nontechnical introduction to Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) as a method in its own right. The authors, Brigitte LeRoux and Henry Rouanet, ...

    • Winning Strategies for Business (Response Books) 

      Baisya, Rajat K (Sage Publications, 2010)
      This is a comprehensive strategic management resource that brings together all the business tools that managers need for surviving business challenges and succeeding in the dynamic economic environment of today. The recent ...

    • The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate 

      Ashkanasy, Neal; Wilderom, Celeste P. M.; Peterson, Mark F. (Sage Publications, 2010)
      In The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate: Second Edition, a team of leading international scholars presents the state-of-the-art in the field, ten years after the publication of the award-winning First Edition. ...

    • Let's pretend this never happened : (a mostly true memoir) 

      Lawson, Jenny (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012)
      In an illustrated memoir, the creator of the Bloggess blog shares humorous stories from her life, including her awkward upbringing in Texas and her relationship with her husband. I was a three-year-old arsonist My childhood: ...

    • Potboiler 

      Kellerman, Jesse (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012)
      Arthur Pfefferkorn, is a middle-aged college professor with long dead literary aspirations. When his oldest friend, successful thriller writer William de Vallee, is lost at sea, Pfefferkorn is torn between envy and grief, ...

    • Night vision 

      White, Randy Wayne (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011)
      I learned long ago, whether writing fiction or nonfiction, an author loses credibility if he’s caught in a factual error. Because of this, I do exten­sive research before starting a new Doc Ford novel, and Night Visionis ...

    • The sentry 

      Crais, Robert (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011)
      Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle ...

    • The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991 

      Malia, Martin E (Free Press, 2014)
      The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written ...

    • False Flags: Template for Terror 

      Piper, Michael Collins (Free Press, 2013)
      Falseflag(or blackflag) describes covert military or paramilitary operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities, groups ornations than those ...

    • Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences 

      Young, Rebecca M. Jordan (Harvard University Press, 2010)
      Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before birth. That’s taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books. And these hardwired differences ...

    • Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners 

      Erard, Michael (Free Press, 2012)
      In the tradition of the bestsellers Word Freak and The Language Instinct comes a fascinating exploration of linguistic superlearners whose abilities shed light on the intellectual potential in us all. What do an Italian ...

    • Collins Bird Guide 

      Svensson, Lars (HarperCollins ebooks, 2010)
      Following on from its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide - the ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts now enters its second edition. With expanded text and additional colour illustrations, the second ...

    • Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius 

      Schweber, Silvan S. (Harvard University Press, 2010)
      I really enjoyed this book - it dives in to the two scientists personal beliefs on many different levels and contrasts their personalities. This is admittedly probably not for someone who has never read a physics biography ...

    • The Arthasastra: selections from the classic Indian work on statecraft 

      McClish, Mark; Olivelle, Patrick (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012)
      The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian political thought, it also provides a comprehensive and unparalleled panoramic ...

    • The lord of the rings 

      J., Tolkien (HarperCollins ebooks, 2010)
      J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes. The first volume, The Fellowship ...

    • A Student Handbook of Greek and English Grammar 

      Mondi, Robert; Corrigan, Peter L. (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2013)
      The study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that emphasized precisely ...

    • Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction With Texts and Commentary: An Introduction With Texts and Commentary 

      McKirahan, Richard D (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2010)
      Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy. It provides a wide survey of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political ...