August 26th, 2008 by Cristina Ghiculescu
Welcome to the library blog for staff and students of the Business, Tourism, and Economics Schools at UQ. This blog is written by the Business, Tourism and Economics Liaison Librarians at UQ (St Lucia, Gatton and Ipswich) and its aim is to share information and generate discussion about new library resources and facilities, library searching tips, and other information pertinent to business, tourism and economics staff and students.
Please feel free to comment on any of our posts. We would love to hear from you!
Your Business, Tourism and Economics librarians are:
St Lucia
Karen Borchardt - email: k.borchardt@library.uq.edu.au ; phone: 3346 4331
Jennifer Creese - email: j.creese@library.uq.edu.au; phone: 3346 3679
Anne Draper - email: a.draper@library.uq.edu.au; phone: 3346 4381
Dale Drysdale - email: d.drysdale@library.uq.edu.au; phone: 3365 4860
Ipswich
Miranda Newell - email: m.newell@library.uq.edu.au; phone: 3381 1292
Margaret Sloan-McDonald - email: m.sloan-mcdonald@library.uq.edu.au; phone: 3381 1383
Gatton
Jacky Cribb - email: j.cribb@library.uq.edu.au; phone: 5460 1736
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November 19th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Tourism titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

| LOCATION |
CALL NUMBER |
TITLE |
| NET |
BL580 |
Sacred natural sites : guidelines for protected area managers / Robert Wild and Christopher McLeod, editors Peter Valentine, series editor. |
| IPW, SSH |
D105 .W47 2009 |
Lonely Planet: Western Europe. |
| IPW, SSH |
D974 .M44 2009 |
Lonely Planet: Mediterranean Europe. |
| IPW, SSH |
DJK9 .E27 2009 |
Lonely Planet: Eastern Europe. |
| IPW, SSH |
DS566.2 .C85 2009 |
Lonely Planet: Thailand. |
| IPW, SSH |
DT1717 .S68 2009 |
Lonely Planet: South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland. |
| IPW, SSH |
DU17 .S68 2009 |
Lonely Planet: South Pacific. |
| IPW, SSH |
DU622 .B46 2009 |
Lonely Planet: Hawaii / Jeff Campbell et al. |
| IPW, SSH |
G155.A1 B69 2009 |
Contemporary tourist behaviour : yourself and others and tourists / David Bowen and Jackie Clarke. |
| IPW, SSH, GAT |
G155.A1 S473 2009 |
Tourism development and the environment : beyond sustainability? / Richard Sharpley. |
| SSH |
G155.M46 C85 2009 |
Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities / edited by Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang, Penny Travlou. |
| IPW, SSH |
G156.5.V64 H65 2009 |
Managing volunteers in tourism : attractions, destinations and events / Kirsten Holmes and Karen Smith. |
| SSH |
GV181.35 .T43 2009 SUP 1 |
Technical skills for adventure programming: a curriculum guide / Mark Wagstaff, Aram Attarian, editors. |
| SSH, IPW |
GV713 .S6773 2009 |
Sport management / edited by Karen Bill. |
| SSH |
HE9868.25.T87 K69 2008 |
Rising above the clouds : the story of Turkish Airlines’ transformation / Cem Kozlu. |
| SSH |
QH75 .B57 2008 |
Biodiversity : my hotel in action : a guide to sustainable use of biological resources. |
| SSH |
TX911.3.M27 L9776 2009 |
Start your own restaurant and more : pizzeria, coffeehouse, deli, bakery, catering business / Entrepreneur Press and Jacquelyn Lynn. |
If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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November 19th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Economics titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

| LOCATION |
CALL NUMBER |
TITLE |
| SSH |
GV716 .J679 2009 |
Global sports : cultures, markets and organizations / Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. |
| SSH |
HB98 .H395 2008 |
The fortunes of liberalism : essays on Austrian economics and the ideal of freedom / F.A. Hayek edited by Peter G. Klein. |
| SSH |
HB139 .R46 2009 |
The practice of econometric theory : an examination of the characteristics of econometric computation / Charles G. Renfro. |
| SSH |
HB145 .B3189 2009 |
The equilibrium manifold : postmodern developments in the theory of general economic equilibrium / Yves Balasko. |
| SSH |
HB171 .O35 2009 |
Everyday economics : honest answers to tough questions / Lawrence H. Officer.
|
| SSH |
HB171.5 .H46 2010 SUP.1 |
Study guide, The economic way of thinking, 12e, Paul Heyne, Peter J. Boettke, David L. Prychitko / David Prychitko. |
| SSH |
HB172 .M398 2010 |
Microeconomics / Doug McTaggart, Christopher Findlay and Michael Parkin. |
| SSH |
HB172.5 .M4 2010 |
Macroeconomics / Douglas McTaggart, Christopher Findlay and Michael Parkin.
|
| SSH |
HB501 .H439 2009 |
Capitalism, institutions and economic development / Michael G. Heller. |
| SSH |
HB3731 .F69 2009 |
The myth of the rational market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street / Justin Fox. |
| SSH |
HC427.95 .E36 2009 |
Economic policies and social welfare in the 21st century : challenges and responses for China and Thailand / edited by Peter Wilson. |
| SSH |
HD7287.3 .P65 2009 |
The politics of housing booms and busts / edited by Herman M. Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke. |
| SSH |
HF1017 .A97 2010 |
Australasian business statistics / Ken Black et al |
| SSH |
HF1359 .S543 2009 |
Rules for the global economy / Horst Siebert
|
| SSH |
HG1573 .M55 2009 |
The fall of the house of credit : what went wrong in banking and what can be done to repair the damage? / Alistair Milne. |
| SSH |
HG3821 .T48 2010 |
The theory and empirics of exchange rates / Imad A. Moosa, Razzaque H. Bhatti. |
| SSH |
HG5750.6.A5 .M64 2009 |
Bond markets in Malaysia & Singapore / Mohamed Ariff, Cheng Fan Fah, Neoh Vee Heng. |
| SSH |
JZ4972 .S76 2009 |
The UN and development : from aid to cooperation / Olav Stokke. |
| SSH |
RA410 .H37 2009 |
Health and growth / edited by Michael Spence and Maureen Lewis. |
| SSH |
RA441 .G558 2009 |
Global health governance : crisis, institutions and political economy / edited by Adrian Kay, Owain David Williams. |
If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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November 16th, 2009 by Jane Warnick
Below is a list of new Business titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

| LOCATION |
CALL NUMBER |
TITLE |
| SSH |
HB615 .E6267 2009 |
Entrepreneurship and its economic significance, behavior and effects / Maria V. Bradshaw and Patricia T. Carrington. |
| SSH |
HB3722 .D55 2009 |
Keep it simple : policy responses to the financial crisis / Carmine Di Noia and Stefano Micossi with Jacopo Carmassi and Fabrizia Peirce. |
| SSH |
HB3722 .M34 2009 |
A colossal failure of common sense : the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers / Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson. |
| SSH |
HB3722 .T87 2008 |
The credit crunch : housing bubbles, globalisation and the worldwide economic crisis / Graham Turner. |
| SSH |
HD30.23 .V476 2009 |
Business intelligence : data mining and optimization for decision making / Carlo Vercellis. |
| SSH |
HD30.4 .L425 2008 |
Doing business research : a guide to theory and practice / Nick Lee with Ian Lings. |
| SSH |
HD30.4 .M94 2009 |
Qualitative research in business and management / Michael D. Myers. |
| SSH |
HD30.55 .E34 2010 |
Global comparative management : a functional approach / Ralph B. Edfelt. |
| SSH |
HD38.7 .I536 2008 |
Tapping into unstructured data : integrating unstructured data and textual analytics into business intelligence / William H. Inmon, Anthony Nesavich. |
| SSH |
HD42 .D65 2006 |
Workplaces that work : a guide to conflict management in union and non-union work environments / Blaine Donais. |
| SSH |
HD45 .R392 2009 |
Reshaping your business with Web 2.0 : using the new collaborative technologies to lead business transformation / Vince Casarez … [et al.]. |
| SSH |
HD57.7 .C6665 2009 |
Contemporary leadership and intercultural competence : exploring the cross-cultural dynamics within organizations / Michael A. Moodian, editor. |
| SSH |
HD58.9 .Z48 2009 |
Quantitative models for performance evaluation and benchmarking : data envelopment analysis with spreadsheets / Joe Zhu. |
| SSH |
HD2741 .M583 2009 |
The modern firm, corporate governance and investment / edited by Per-Olof Bjuggren, Dennis C. Mueller. |
| SSH, ECO |
HD2741 .T685 2009 |
Corporate governance : principles, policies, and practices / Bob Tricker. |
| SSH |
HD6971 .P62 2009 |
Industrial relations : origins and patterns of national diversity. |
| SSH |
HD9710.J34 T595 2008 |
Harvard business review on manufacturing excellence at Toyota. |
| SSH |
HF5387 .B534 2008 |
Positively responsible : how business can save the planet / Erik Bichard and Cary L. Cooper. |
| SSH |
HF5387 .D392 2009 |
An introduction to business ethics / Joseph DesJardins. |
| SSH |
HF5387 .H4645 2009 |
Business ethics : a case study approach / Stephen K. Henn. |
| SSH |
HF5387 .H69 2009 |
The ethical executive : avoiding the traps of the unethical workplace / Robert Hoyk, Paul Hersey. |
| SSH |
HF5415 .B42887 2009 |
Sustainability marketing : a global perspective / Frank Belz and Ken Peattie. |
| SSH |
HF5415.1255 .S35 2009 |
The international brand valuation manual : a complete overview and analysis of brand valuation techniques, methodologies and applications / Gabriela Salinas. |
| SSH |
HF5415.127 .C53 2009 |
Boomer marketing : selling to a recession resistant market / Ian Chaston. |
| SSH |
HF5429 .R457 2009 |
Retail supply chain management : quantitative models and empirical studies / Narendra Agrawal, Stephen A. Smith, editors foreword by Hau L. Lee |
| SSH |
HF5548.32 .P78 2009 |
Proliferation of the Internet economy : e-commerce for global adoption, resistance, and cultural evolution / Mahmud Akhter Shareef … [et al.]. |
| SSH |
HF5548.34 .M625 2009 |
Mobile and ubiquitous commerce : advanced E-business methods / [edited by] Milena Head and Eldon Y. Li. |
| SSH |
HF5548.37 .L33 2009 |
Managing the human factor in information security : how to win over staff and influence business managers / David Lacey. |
| SSH |
HF5625 .S36 2009 |
Financial accounting theory / William R. Scott. |
| SSH |
HF5635 .L684 2009 |
Accounting in context / Bradley N. Potter … [et al.]. |
| SSH |
HF5657.4 .H548 2008 |
Cost management : strategies for business decisions / Ronald W. Hilton, Michael W. Maher, Frank H. Selto. |
| SSH |
HF5718 .F67 2008 |
The art of successful business communication / Patrick Forsyth with Frances Kay. |
| SSH |
HF6146.I58 L438 2009 |
The truth about pay-per-click search advertising / Kevin Lee. |
| SSH |
HG101 .T55 2009 |
Financial Darwinism : create value or self-destruct in a world of risk / Leo M. Tilman. |
| SSH |
HG172.A2 A43 2009 |
Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world / Liaquat Ahamed. |
| SSH |
HG173 .F27 2009 |
Finance : capital markets, financial management, and investment management / Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake. |
| SSH |
HG173 .T346 2009 |
Risk management in finance : six sigma and other next-generation techniques / Anthony Tarantino, Deborah Cernauskas. |
| SSH |
HG173 .U65 2009 |
Unified financial analysis : the missing links of finance / W. Brammertz … [et al.]. |
| SSH |
HG186.A2 H33 2009 |
European financial markets and institutions / Jakob de Haan, Sander Oosterloo, Dirk Schoenmaker. |
| SSH |
HG3751.5 .L364 2008 |
The rating agencies and their credit ratings : what they are, how they work and why they are relevant / Herwig M. Langohr and Patricia T. Langohr. |
| SSH |
HG3851 .C437 2009 |
Essentials of foreign exchange trading / James Chen. |
| SSH |
HG3881 .B436 2009 |
International financial management / Geert Bekaert, Robert J. Hodrick. |
| SSH |
HG3881 .E655 2009 |
International financial management / Cheol S. Eun, Bruce G . Resnick. |
| SSH |
HG4015.5 .B78 2010 |
Case studies in finance : managing for corporate value creation / Robert F. Bruner, Kenneth M. Eades, Michael J. Schill. |
| SSH |
HG4027.7 .H355 2009 |
The handbook of financing growth : strategies, capital structure, and M&A transactions / Kenneth H. Marks … [et al.]. |
| SSH |
HG4521 .S847 2008 |
Sustainable investing : the art of long-term performance / edited by Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins. |
| SSH |
HG4530 .B66 2007 |
A demon of our own design : markets, hedge funds, and the perils of financial innovation / Richard Bookstaber. |
| SSH |
HG4530 .Y365 2009 |
Enhanced indexing strategies : utilizing futures and options to achieve higher performance / Tristan Yates. |
| SSH |
HG4751 .L34 2009 |
The private equity edge : how private equity players and the world’s top companies build value and wealth / Arthur B. Laffer, William J. Hass, Shepherd G. Pryor. |
| SSH |
HG6024.U6 T48 2009 |
Fool’s gold : how the bold dream of a small tribe at J.P. Morgan was corrupted by Wall Street greed and unleashed a catastrophe / Gillian Tett. |
| SSH |
HM1221 .S63 2009 |
Public relations and social theory [electronic resource] : key figures and concepts / edited by Øyvind Ihlen, Betteke van Ruler, Magnus Fredriksson. |
| SSH |
KU885 .P43 2009 |
Financial services law and compliance in Australia / Gail Pearson. |
| SSH |
NA6218 .A485 2009 |
21st century retail centers : context, culture and community / Ronald A. Altoon. |
| SSH |
P96.I5 I4848 2010 |
International communication : a reader / edited by Daya Kishan Thussu. |
| SSH |
TS156 .B433 2009 |
Implementing Six Sigma and Lean : a practical guide to tools and techniques / Ron Basu. |
| SSH |
TS157.4 .K83 2009 |
Proportional optimization and fairness / Wieslaw Kubiak. |
If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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November 12th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Tourism titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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November 12th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Economics titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

| LOCATION |
CALL NUMBER |
TITLE |
| SSH |
HA32 .S6722 2009 |
An introduction to Stata programming / Christopher F. Baum. |
| SSH |
HB103.H47 M37 2008 |
Markets, money and capital : Hicksian economics for the twenty-first century / edited by Roberto Scazzieri, Amartya K. Sen and Stefano Zamagni. |
| SSH |
HB131 .D536 2009 |
Toolbox for economic design / Dimitrios Diamantaras with Emina I. Cardamone, Karen A. Campbell, Scott Deacle, and Lisa A. Delgado. |
| SSH |
HB139 .A326 2008 |
Using Stata for principles of econometrics / Lee C. Adkins, R. Carter Hill.
|
| SSH |
HB3722 .D55 2009 |
Keep it simple : policy responses to the financial crisis / Carmine Di Noia and Stefano Micossi with Jacopo Carmassi and Fabrizia Peirce. |
| SSH |
HB3722 .M34 2009 |
A colossal failure of common sense : the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers / Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson. |
| SSH |
HB3722 .T87 2008 |
The credit crunch : housing bubbles, globalisation and the worldwide economic crisis / Graham Turner. |
| SSH |
HB615 .E6267 2009 |
Entrepreneurship and its economic significance, behavior and effects / Maria V. Bradshaw and Patricia T. Carrington. |
| SSH, NET |
RA395.A8 A297 2009 |
Building a 21st century primary health care system : a draft of Australia’s first national primary health care strategy. |
| SSH |
HC79.A4 U93 2003 |
Economic theory and global warming / Hirofumi Uzawa. |
| GAT |
HC79.E5 C59 2009 |
Climate change and sustainable development : new challenges for poverty reduction / edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih. |
| SSH |
HD1691 .C67 2005 |
Cost-benefit analysis and water resources management / edited by Roy Brouwer and David Pearce. |
| SSH |
HD9000.6 .F659 2005 |
Food war [videorecording] |
| SSH |
HG172.A2 A43 2009 |
Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world / Liaquat Ahamed. |
| SSH |
HG1811 .L39 2009 |
Central bank independence, accountability, and transparency : a global perspective / Bernard J. Laurens, Marco Arnone, Jean-François Segalotto. |
| SSH |
HG4523 .D535 2009 |
The microstructure of financial markets / Frank de Jong and Barbara Rindi. |
| SSH |
HG9979.3 .C55 2008 |
Climate change : financial risks / U.S.Government Accountability Office. |
| SSH |
JC359 .C35 2009 |
Imperialism and global political economy / Alex Callinicos. |
| SSH, HML |
QA276.4 .H235 2009 |
Statistics with Stata : updated for version 10 / Lawrence C. Hamilton. |
| SSH |
QA276.4 .K63 2009 |
Data analysis using stata / Ulrich Kohler, Frauke Kreuter. |
| SSH, HML |
QA276.4 .L66 2009 |
The workflow of data analysis using Stata / J. Scott Long. |
If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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November 5th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Tourism titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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November 5th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Economics titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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October 29th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Tourism titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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October 29th, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Economics titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

| LOCATION |
CALL NUMBER |
TITLE |
| SSH |
CB358 .M37 2008 |
Reinventing knowledge : from Alexandria to the Internet / Ian F. McNeely & Lisa Wolverton. |
| SSH |
HB171 .E35 no.58 |
Economic challenges faced by small island economies : an overview / by Clem Tisdell. |
| SSH |
HB3717.1929 .W54 2009 |
Lessons from the Great Depression for dummies / by Steve Wiegand. |
| SSH |
HC435.3 .E336 2009 |
Economic reforms in India and China : emerging issues and challenges / edited by B. Sudhakara Reddy. |
| SSH, ECO |
HF1017 .B38 2010 |
Basic business statistics : concepts and applications / Berenson et al.
|
| SSH, ECO |
HG1615 .K625 2010 |
Bank management / Timothy W. Koch, S. Scott MacDonald. |
| ECO, NET |
HG221 .B5 no.285 |
From turmoil to crisis : dislocations in the FX swap market before and after the failure of Lehman Brothers / by Naohiko Baba and Frank Packer. |
| SSH |
HG4930.5 .K45 2009 |
Street fighters : the last 72 hours of Bear Stearns, the toughest firm on Wall Street / Kate Kelly. |
| SSH |
HV636.2005.N4 N38 2009 |
Natural disasters and public health : Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma / edited by Virginia M. Brennan. |
| SSH |
QA269 .G373 2009 |
Games, groups, and the global good / Simon A. Levin, editor. |
If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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October 22nd, 2009 by Jennifer Creese
Below is a list of new Tourism titles received at the library over the last week. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

If you have any queries about these or other titles, or would like to suggest something for purchase, please feel free to leave us a comment!
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