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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
— Italo Calvino

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Managing in Turbulent Times by Peter Drucker

Peter F. Drucker was considered one of management's top thinkers. As the author of more than 35 books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation.

His book "Managing in Turbulent Times" is particularly relevant as we attempt to understand our present economic situation. Drucker points out that executives today need to understand what they are managing. They must understand the facts, not the illusions and half truths of spreadsheets and stock prices.

According to Drucker "in turbulent times" the first task of management is to make sure of the organizations capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strength and soundness, its capacity to survive a blow, to adapt to sudden change and to avail itself of new opportunities. HD31 .D7734

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Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology,
edited by Guruprasad Madhavan, Barbara Oakley and Luis Kun.

This book provides a roadmap to careers in bioengineering, biotechnology, and related fields. Professionals lay out career paths related to academia, industry, government and regulatory affairs, healthcare, law, marketing, entrepreneurship, and more. The contributors experience and wisdom is shared, enabling you to look inside the various opportunities in the biotechnology and bioengineering fields. TA164 .C37 2008

What U.S. President refused to use the telephone while in office?

Answer:

Calvin Coolidge refused to use the telephone while he was President. A man of few words, he once said, "If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

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Do you need help deciding on a regression project? Jackson library staff have created class guide that will help you find statistical information sources for your project. Look at the class guides for resources before you decide on your project. You can also find Class Guides and Research Guides on the Jackson Library home page. Click on the the guides to find out how easy researching can be.

May We Kindle Your Interest?

Have you ever wondered if you would like reading an e-book? Are you looking for an easy way to take lots of books when you travel? Or do you just like checking out the latest cool gadgets?

Jackson Library has purchased one of the Amazon Kindle e-book readers and is making it available for people to try out. There are currently 5 books available on our Kindle – The Post American World by Fareed Zaharia, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Made to Stick by Chip Heath, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Mark Reiter. We will be loaning the Kindle for a two-week period and this will give you an opportunity to check out the technology and see if it might work for you.

Popular Business Book Shelf

Read the latest business books from the New York Times and Business Week best sellers list. New titles are added monthly. This month's additions:

Inside Steve’s Brain by Leander Kahney, news editor for Wired.com, attempts to unravel the seeming contradictions of the genius Steve Jobs, who revolutionized computers in the 70s and 80s, animated movies with Pixar in the 90s and has triumphed in the world of digital music today. Jobs is a Buddhist with a temper, an elitist who dismisses the masses yet tailors gadgets to them, an anti-materialist who promotes his products aggressively with advertising. Take a peek inside the brain of one of the creative giants of Silicon Valley. HD9696.2.U62 J636 2008

Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and The Race To Own Las Vegas by Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley, recounts the struggles between three contemporary business leaders to control America’s "Sin City." Thanks to their ambitions, Las Vegas is no longer just a gambling resort but is home to top flight restaurants run by world-class chefs, entertainment venues headlined by Hollywood stars, galleries housing priceless art, and extravagant resorts and spas. These men want to make sure that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas -- especially your money. HV6711.B524 2008

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Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, turns eastward in What Does China Think?, to try and understand the forces behind the world-historical event of the rise of modern China. Arguing we know almost nothing about thinkers in China who are shaping their country’s future, Leonard tries to understand the dynamics within a nation that supplies half the world’s clothes and footwear. The author offers some perspective on the debates raging within the world’s largest country, and shows us how radically China’s continued rise will change the nature of our world. DS706.L455 2008

Awakening The Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber (The E-Myth Revisited) creates the Dreaming Room, a place where future entrepreneurs come to discover how to make their dreams reality. The reader is invited into the Dreaming Room, a mental space where the author attempts to shape dreams into a viable, successful companies. Building on his experience as a coach and trainer of over 50,000 small businesses, Gerber talks about how to dream, vision, purpose and create mission. HB615.G467 2008

New additions to Business Web Sites

Each month we review business websites and add the best to our Business Web sites. This month's additions are:

FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) is a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

Doing Company Research is a site that contains listings, descriptions, and contact/purchase information for dozens of print, online, and web-based company directories. Consider this site if you want to find out what directories provide which kind of information on companies, and where to locate the directories.

Global Wind Energy Council site provides support for the wind energy industry. Read about business opportunities as well as the latest news and information about this important source of renewable electricity.

Jack's Favorite Quote of the Month

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

~Abraham Lincoln ~
American President and Politician
(February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)

Send your comments, questions, suggestions to Jan Driscoll.

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