Winter 2007 - Business Book Purchases

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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Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Own Books, Pay Your Taxes and Stay Out of Trouble! by Bernard Kamoroff

Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Reform by J.C. Sharman

Last Rights: Liquidating a Company by Ben Branch

Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy edited by Richard Just

Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives edited by Susette Biber-Klem (Oxford University Press)

Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture: A New Social Contract by Charles Francis

Environmental Technology Development in Liberal and Coordinated Market Economies: Tweaking Institutions by Shiu-Fai Wong

Land Use Law For Sustainable Development (Cambridge University Press)

Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry by Warren Belasco

The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies by Vincenzo Galasso (MIT Press)

Pensions Panorama: Retirement-Income Systems in 53 Countries by Edward Whitehouse

Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Policies for Developed and Developing Countries by Theodore Moran (Brookings)

Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods by Barry Eichengreen

Building Prosperity: Why Ronald Reagan and the Founding Fathers Were Right on the Economy by Gene Heck

Government Failure Versus Market Failure by Clifford Winston (Brookings)

Wealth Accumulation & Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues

The Law-Growth Nexus: The Rule of Law and Economic Development by Kenneth Dam (Brookings)

The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond by Barry Eichengreen

American Guestwokers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market by David Griffith

Rescuing the World Bank: A CGD Working Group Report and Selected Essays (Brookings)

Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-Wage Workers by Sheldon Danziner

Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility by Christopher Simon

You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy by Hocholas Sullivan

Methods for Applied Macroeconomic Research by Fabio Canova

Business and the State in Southern Africa by Scott Taylor

Natural Resources, Neither Curse Nor Destiny edited by Daniel Lederman

African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors by Todd Moss

When Insurers Go Bust: An Economic Analysis of the Role and Design of Prudent Regulation by Guillaume Plantin

International Economic Indicators and Central Banks by Anne Dolganos Picker

The Hedge Fund Compliance and Risk Management Guide by Armelle Guizot

Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Principles and Practice (World Bank)

China's Financial Markets: An Insider's Guide to how the Markets Work

Energy Companies and Market Reform: How Deregulation Went Wrong by Jeremiah Lambert

Living With Debt: How to Limit the Risks of Sovereign Finance by Eduardo Borensztein

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisi of 1914 and the Origin of America's Monetary Supremacy by William Silber

Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance by Rawi Abdelal

Custom Kanban: Designing the System to Meet the Needs of Your Environment by Raymond Louis

Lean Sigma: A Practitioner's Guide by Ian Wedgwood

Process Improvement Essentials by James Persse

Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts by Loon-Ching Tang

Commercializing Great Products With Design for Six Sigma by Randy Perry

Strategic Management of Technological Innovation by Melissa Schilling

Modeling the Supply Chain by Jeremy Shapiro

Six Sigma for Technical Processes by Clyde Creveling

System-In-Package RF Design and Applications by Michael Gaynor

Micro and Nanomanufacturing by Mark Jackson

Optimal Production Planning for PCB Assembly by William Ho

Six Sigma Business Scorecard by Praveen Gupta

Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools: What Tool? When? by Ron Moore

Logistics: Principles and Applications by John Langford

Stream of Variation Modeling and Analysis for Multistage Manufacturing Processes by Jianjun Shi

The New Social Entrepreneurship: What Awaits Social Entrepreneurial Ventures? edited by Francesco Perrini

Global Sourcing Logistics: How to Manage Risk and Gain Competitive Advantage in a Worldwide Marketplace by Thomas Cook

Retiring the Generation Gap: How Employees Young and Old Can Find Common Ground by Jennifer Deal

Supervision as Proactive Leadership by John Daresh

Without Excuses: Unleash the Power of Diversity to Build Your Business by Joe Watson

The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World by Carl Schramm

The Power of Principles: Ethics for the New Corporate Culture by William Byron

Business & Legal Primer for Game Development edited by Gregory Boyd

Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace by Linda Beamer

Growing Local Value: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community by Laury Hammel

In Focus: Strategies for Business Writers by Myra Shulman

Human Resource Management: Contemporary Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities edited by Ronald Sims

Written Communications That Inform and Influence (Harvard Business School Press)

The Global Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Value Creation edited by Riad Ajami (International Business Press)

Making M&A Deals Happen by Robert Stefanowski

The Future of Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management edited by Elizabeth Toth

How to Manage a Successful Press Conference by Ralf Leinemann

The Pursuit of New Product Development: The Business Development Process by Marc Annacchino

Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation by Marc Fisher

Thomas Jefferson on Wine by John Hailman

Handbook of Enology - Volume 1: The Microbiology of Wine and Vinifications. Volume 2: The Chemistry of Wine Stabilization and Treatments

Understanding Wine by David Bird

Adventurous Wine Architecture text by Michael Webb

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