Spring & Summer 2006 Business Books Orders

The following books were recently ordered by the Business Librarian in coordination with the Kennedy Library. The list is arranged by Subject Area. Search PolyCAT to check a title's status. Please note that if a title is not in PolyCAT it may indicate that a record has not been created yet - try checking again in a few days.

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Titles By Area

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Agribusiness

Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine by George Taber

Matt Kramer's New California Wine

The World's Greatest Wine Estates by Robert Parker

The Art and Business of Champagne by Dan Ginsburg

The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass by Jamie Goode

Wine By Design by Sean Stanwick

Planet Wine: A Grape by Grape Visual Guide to the Contemporary Wine World Mitchell Beazley and Stuart Pigott

The Wines of the Northern Rhone by John Livingstone-Learmonth (UC Press)

Sunlight Into Wine: A Handbook for Winegrape Canopy Management by Richard Smart

Chile: The Art of Wine by Sara Matthews

The Complete Handbook of Winemaking by The American Wine Society

Tasting and Grading Wine by Clive Michelsen

Chemical Analysis of Grapes and Wine: Techniques and Concepts by Patrick Iland

Women of Wine: The Rise of Women in the Global Wine Industry by Ann B. Matasar

Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grow by Samuel Fromartz

Wine Production: Vine to Bottle by Keith Grainger

 

Accounting

Dynamics of Profit-Focused Accounting by C. Lynn Northrup

OMB Circular A-123 and Sarbane's Oxley: Management's Responsibility for Internal Control in Federal Agencies by Kearney & Company

 

Economics

Empirical Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth by Andre van Stel

Policy Analysis for Effective Development: Strengthening Transition Economies by Kristin Morse

The Politics of Policies by Ernesto Stein (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies)

From Inside Brazil: Development in a Land of Contrasts by Vinod Thomas

Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free Marketeers by Javier Santiso

Poverty Traps edited by Samuel Bowls

Taking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights by Ellen Dannin

Apart at the Seams: The Collapse of Private Pension and Health Care Protections by Charles Morris (Brookings)

Japan Remolded: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism by Steven Vogel

The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement by Gary Clyde Hufbauer (Institute for International Economics)

Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction by Joachim Von Braun

Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information by Donald Campbell

From Crisis to Opportunity: Financial Globalization and East Asian Capitalism by Jongryn Mo (Stanford University)

The Fable of Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy by Yoshiro Miwa

Mexican Immigrants in the Labor Market by Maria Luisa Amado

The Baby Boomer's Guide to the New Workplace by Richard Fein

Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in Marketplace by Martin Fridson

Broken Promises?: The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy by David Pion-Berlin

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric Beinhocker

Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economics edited by Michael Hutchison

 

Finance

How to Invest in Hedge Funds by Matthew Ridley

The Next Big Investment Boom by Mark Shipman

U.S. National Security and Foreign Direct Invesment by Edward Graham

The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You by Hugh Taylor

SAP Foreign Currency Revaluation: FAS 52 and GAAP Requirements by Susanne Finke

The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders by Leonard Seabrooke

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael Mauboussin

Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective by Barbara Stallings

Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance by X. Sheldon Lin

Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany by Gunnar Trumbull

Global Integration and Technology Transfer by Beata Javorcik

Profit With Honor by Daniel Yankelovich

Pricing and Performance of Initial Public Offerings in the United States by Arvin Gosh

 

Industrial Technology

RFID Strategic Implementation and ROI: A Practical Roadmap to Success by Charles Poirier

Straight to the Bottom Line: An Executive's Roadmap to Worldclass Supply Management by Robert Rudzki

Global Sourcing & Purchasing Post 9/11: New Logistics Compliance Requirements and Best Practices by Michael Assaf

Directing the Flow of Product: A Guide to Improving Supply Chain Planning by Jeffrey Schutt

Supply Chain Vector: Linking Execution of Global Business Models with Financial Performance by Daniel Gardner

Supply Chain Collaboration: How to Implement CPFR and Other Best Collaborative Practices by Rom Ireland

Six Sigma for Small and Mid-Sized Organizations by Terence Burton

Progressive Manufacturing by Soli Engineer

The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road by Jamie Flinchbaugh

 

Management

Exploring and Shaping International Futures by Barry Hughes

Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way? by Sheldon Kamieniecki

The Growth Strategies of Hotel Chains: Best Business Practices by Leading Companies by Onofre Cunill

Leverage: How to Get it and How to Keep it in Any Negotiation by Roger Volkema

Project Management Life Cycle by Jason Westland

The Strategic Planning Workbook by Nevill Lake

Global Account Management by Peter Cheverton

A Business Guide to Information Security by Alan Calder

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Should Know About the Law by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share by Hermann Simon

Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology by Catherine Mann

Blackout: How the Electric Industry Exploits America by Gordon Weil

Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change by Anne Firth Murray

Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China, and Bill Gate's Plan to Win the Road Ahead by Robert Buderi

Digital Rights Management by Joan Van Tassel

Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government -- And How We Can Take It Back by David Sirota

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth by David Audretsch

Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries by Allen Blackman

Living With Globalization by Paul Hopper

Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations by Edward McMillan

The Human Face of Global Mobility edited by Peter Smith

The Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre McCloskey

The New American Workplace by James O'Toole

 

Marketing

Marketing to the New Super Consumer: Mom & Kid by Tim Coffey

Hispanic Marketing Grows Up by Juan Faura

Advertising to Baby Boomers by Chuck Nyren

After Fifty: Marketing to Boomers in Mature Lifestages

Why People Buy Things They Don't Need by Pamela Danziger

Latino Boom! Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Business in the U.S. Hispanic Market by Chiqui Cartegena

A Clear Eye for Branding by Tom Asacker

The Event Marketing Handbook: Beyond Logistics & Planning by Allison Saget

Marketing ROI by James Lenskold

High Performance Marketing by Naras Echambadi

Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America by Katherine Parkin

 

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