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New Tourism Books - week of April 27th

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
NET DG674.2 .D34 2004 Venice, the tourist maze : a cultural critique of the world’s most touristed city / Robert C. Davis and Garry R. Marvin.
SSH DS608.8 .T87 2009 Singapore city guide / Mat Oakley, Joshua Samuel Brown.
NET E183.8.C5 H175 2006 The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876 / John Rogers Haddad.
SSH, IPW G155.A1 T59244 2008 Tourism, recreation, and sustainability : linking culture and the environment / edited by Stephen F. McCool and R. Neil Moisey.
SSH, IPW G155.E8 P65 2007 Policies, Strategies and Tools for the Sustainable Development of Tourism, Almaty, Kazakhstan 26 April 2006.
SSH GV716 .S5 2009 Strategic sport marketing / David Shilbury … [et al.].
IPW, SSH HV9872 .W55 2008 Prison : cultural memory and dark tourism / Jacqueline Z. Wilson.
IPW, SSH TX911.3.M3 R443 2010 Hospitality marketing management / Robert D. Reid, David C. Bojanic.

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New Economics Books - week of April 27th

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH HB3722 .F66 2009 The great financial crisis : causes and consequences / John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff.
SSH HB3722 .I57 2009 Inside the meltdown [videorecording].
SSH HC412 .P766 2009 Productivity, efficiency, and economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region / Jeong-Dong Lee, Almas Heshmati (editors).
NET HD5852 Is informal normal? : towards more and better jobs in developing countries / edited by Johannes P. Jütting and Juan R. de Laiglesia.
NET HD9018.P16 Climate change and the food system.
NET HD9018.P16 The future role of biofuels / Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.
NET HD923 .H83 1985 The peasant economy and social change in North China / Philip C.C. Huang.
SSH HD9738.A8 .A675 AMTIL - the source.
ECO HG3881.5.I58 R65 2008 The role and governance of the IMF : further reflections on reform : panel discussion [Sunday, October 12, 2008] / Stanley Fischer … [et al.].
SSH LC66 .G65 2008 The race between education and technology / Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz.
SSH QA278 .M84 2010 Multivariate data analysis : a global perspective.


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New Tourism Books - week of April 20th

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH DU105.2 .W755 2004 World’s best : Australian beach resorts.
IPW, SSH G155.A8 M398 2008 Maximum return, minimum footprint : an ecotourism case study.
IPW, SSH G156.5.R58 R58 2009 River tourism / edited by Bruce Prideaux and Malcolm Cooper.
SSH GV343.5 .L87 2009 Applied sport management skills / Robert N. Lussier, David C. Kimball.
ARM HD7288.A8 N38 2000 National overview of boarding houses in Australia.
GAT, PSE, IPW, SSH QC981.8.C5 D32 2009 The complete guide to climate change / Brian Dawson and Matt Spannagle.

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New Economics Books - week of April 20th

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH BF448 .S45 2008 Blunder : why smart people make bad decisions / Zachary Shore.
SSH HA155 .B35 2009 Cross-national time-series data archive/ compiled by Arthur S. Banks.
SSH DS701 .R44 The Republic of China yearbook.
NET F2319.2.C3 S39 1966 Oil and steel : processes of Karinya culture in response to industrial development / by Karl H. Schwerin.
SSH HB171 .F7764 2010 Introductory economics for decision makers / Paul Frijters, Uwe Dulleck and Benno Torgler.
SSH HB97.5 .Y864 1997 Economic justice : the market socialist vision / James A. Yunker.
NET HC10 .O423 OECD journal. Economic studies.
NET HC79.E5 OECD regions at a glance, 2009.
PSE HD9506.A2 C76 1998 Inside mining : the economics of the supply and demand of minerals and metals / Phillip Crowson.
NET HE627 .H8 1949 Steamboats on the Western rivers : an economic and technological history / by Louis C. Hunter with the assistance of Beatrice Jones Hunter.
SSH HF1713 .K675 2008 Free trade / Kathiann M. Kowalski.
NET HF3758.Z9 A435 1988 The origins of western economic dominance in the Middle East: mercantilism and the Islamic economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 / Bruce Masters.
SSH HG3881 .W65 2008 Fixing global finance / Martin Wolf.
SSH HG4521 .G743 2007 Pop! : why bubbles are great for the economy / Daniel Gross.
HML, NET RA410.9.A8 H44 2009 Health and community services labour force, 2006.


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New Tourism Books - week of April 6th & Week of April 13th

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Below is a list of new Tourism titles received at the library over the last two weeks. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH DS589.B2 S43 2005 Secrets of Bangkok
NET G155.A1 Journal of tourism consumption and practice.
IPW, SSH GV716 .F86 2008 Consumer behaviour in sport and events : marketing action / Daniel C. Funk.
IPW, SSH HD30.28 .H3758 2010 Hospitality strategic management : concepts and cases / Cathy A. Enz.
SSH HF5686.H75 D673 2009 Study guide to accompany managerial accounting for the hospitality industry / Lea R. Dopson, David K. Hayes.
IPW, SSH HF5686.H75 G85 2009 Accounting essentials for hospitality managers / Chris Guilding.
ARM HT178.A82 S87 1994 The Olympics and housing : a study of six international events and analysis of potential impacts of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. / prepared for Shelter NSW and Housing and Urban Studies Research Group, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur by Gary Cox, Michael Darcy, Michael Bounds.
ARM HV4630.S9 S54 1999 Ready! Set! Go! : one year to go, it’s time for action on housing and homelessness for the 2000 Olympics : a report to the NSW State Government / Shelter NSW.
IPW, SSH RA793.5 .S65 2009 Health and wellness tourism / Melanie Smith, Laszlo Puczko.
IPW, SSH TX911.3.M27 M48 2008 Hospitality and food management / M.C. Metti.

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New Economics Books - week of April 6th & Week of April 13th

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Below is a list of new Economics titles received at the library over the last two weeks. To find out more about a book or journal, click the title.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH BF448 .S45 2008 Blunder : why smart people make bad decisions / Zachary Shore.
SSH HA155 .B35 2009 Cross-national time-series data archive/ compiled by Arthur S. Banks.
SSH HB135 .C657 2009/td> An introduction to mathematical analysis for economic theory and econometrics / Dean Corbae, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, Juraj Zeman.
SSH HB3722 .B37 2009 The cost of capitalism : understanding market mayhem and stabilizing our economic future / Robert J. Barbera.
SSH HB3722 .C37 2009 Capitalism hits the fan : a lecture on the economic meltdown : featuring Richard Wolff / Media Education Foundation, produced & directed by Sut Jhally.
SSH HB501 .F79 2009 In government we trust : market failure and the delusions of privatisation / Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe, Jane Andrew.
SSH HC427.95 .C4557 2008 China’s dilemma : economic growth, the environment, and climate change / Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds.).
SSH HC435.3 S38 2008 India and China : comparing the incomparable / Vishnu Saraf.
SSH HD75 .A24 2009 Introduction to modern economic growth / Daron Acemoglu.
SSH, ECO HG181 .M558 2009 Financial markets and institutions / Frederic S. Mishkin, Stanley G. Eakins.
SSH HG3881 .S428 2009 International finance : theory into practice / Piet Sercu.
NET HD9000.6 Asian economic policy review
SSH HG4572 .W358 2008 Wall Street warriors
SSH HM548 .L59 2008 Living in a material world : economic sociology meets science and technology studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg.
SSH QA279.5 .B56 2009 Rational decisions / Ken Binmore.
SSH RA410 .M658 2009 Challenging health economics / by Gavin Mooney.
HML RA425 .I68 2009 Introduction to public health / editors, Mary Louise Fleming, Elizabeth Parker.
HML RA440.87.U6 M24 2008 Bending science : how special interests corrupt public health research / Thomas O. McGarity, Wendy E. Wagner.
IPW RC967 .E26 2008 TEconomic evaluation of interventions for occupational health and safety : developing good practice / edited by Emile Tompa, Anthony J. Culyer, Roman Dolinschi.
ECO THE20782 The impact of government fuel subsidy reduction on Indonesian household incomes : a structural path analysis/ by Dani Kartika.
ECO THE20783 Factors determining private savings and investment in Indonesia / by Tonny Wahyu Poernomo.
ECO THE20784 The economic [sic] of the videogames industry : how extreme uncertainty shapes consumers demand & firm strategy / by Ruangrit Chanakha.
ECO THE20785 Cost-utility analysis of comprehensive dental checks under Teen Dental Plan, Australia / by Utsana Tonmukayakul.


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Tourism Australia online student data package - Trial

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Tourism Australia
The library has a trial set up to the Tourism Australia Online Student Data Package: Data includes results from the International and National Visitor Surveys and will enable students to research information on visitor demographics and behaviours.

The data is on trial to University of Queensland staff and students until 29th April 2009 - to access it, visit http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1001920.

Please feel free to leave us feedback, as it will only be extended if it proves popular.

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Database trial - “Social Theory”

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Social Theory banner
Social Theory is a new undertaking to provide comprehensive coverage of major social thinkers together with seminal texts from lesser figures.

For many writers, the project represents the first availability of a major scholarly edition of their collected works.

Extensive licensing allows readers to see both the original works and translations, searchable together in a single database for the first time.

Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, anthropology, religion, and literature, the works of many important thinkers in sociology have remained inaccessible until now.

This database is on trial via the UQ Library site until 6th May Access Here. Please feel free to leave us any feedback you like on this resource.

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New Tourism Books - week of March 30th

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

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.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
FRY DK4081 .M23 2008 Strange museums : a journey through Poland / Fiona McGregor.
SSH DS566.2 .C37 2007 Thailand : land of culture & heritage / Maria Grazia Casella.
SSH HD30.28 .M37417 2008 Creating valuable business strategies / Shiv S. Mathur and Alfred Kenyon.
SSH HD30.4 .E265 2008 Management research / Mark Easterby-Smith, Richard Thorpe, Paul R. Jackson.
IPW HF5415.1265 .I57 2009 Internet marketing : strategy, implementation and practice / David Chaffey … [et al.].
IPW HF5718.5 .J64 2008 Writing proposals / Richard Johnson-Sheehan.
FRY HQ76.3.A82 S938 2008 New day dawning : the early years of Sydney’s gay & lesbian Mardi Gras / Gavin Harris, John Witte & Ken Davis.
NET TX335 Promoting consumer education : trends, policies and good practices.

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New Economics Books - week of March 30th

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

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.

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LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH DU117 .A98 no.33 Quarry vision : coal, climate change and the end of the resources boom / Guy Pearse.
SSH GN448 .R47 Dimensions of ritual economy / edited by E. Christian Wells, Patricia A. McAnany.
SSH HA3001.5.2006 .C46 2008 A picture of the nation : the statistician’s report on the 2006 census / Australian Bureau of Statistics.
SSH HB139 .C36 2009 Microeconometrics using Stata / A. Colin Cameron, Pravin K. Trivedi.
SSH HB141 .B42 1999 Bayesian inference in dynamic econometric models / Luc Bauwens, Michel Lubrano, and Jean-Francois Richard.
ECO, SSH HB172.5 .B573 2009 Macroeconomics / Olivier Blanchard.
SSH HC59.72.P6 P672 2000 Poverty and development into the 21st century / edited by Tim Allen and Alan Thomas.
FRY HC60 .W42 1971 Towards survival : a programme for Australia’s overseas aid / J.B. Webb.
ECO, NET HC607.Q4 W24 2008 A regional economy : a case study of Tasmania / prepared by Karen Wade, Leanne Johnson and Carolyn Brennan.
SSH HC681.3.E5 C66 2008 SUP.1 16th annual conference on Pacific Basin Finance Economics Accounting Management / editors: Tim Robinson, Mark Christensen and Angela Fletcher.
NET HD1691 Managing water for all : an OECD perspective on pricing and financing.
SSH HD82 .W37 2009 Economic growth / David N. Weil.
NET HD9000.6 Agricultural policies in emerging economies 2009 [electronic resource] : monitoring and evaluation.
SSH HD9118.F53 M34 2008 Agricultural development and trade liberalisation : implications for a small island state / Renuka Mahadevan and John Asafu-Adjaye.
HML, SSH HD9130.6 .G63 2008 Global efforts to combat smoking : an economic evaluation of smoking control policies / Rajeev K. Goel and Michael A. Nelson.
SSH HF1359 .H575 2009 Globalization in question / Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson and Simon Bromley.
SSH HF5548.4.M523 S44 2008 Learning statistics and Excel in tandem / Saroja Selvanathan and Antony Selvanathan.
SSH HG221 .R536 2009 Principles of money, banking & financial markets / Lawrence S. Ritter, William L. Silber, Gregory F. Udell.
SSH HG3756.U54 B67 2008 Borrowing to live : consumer and mortgage credit revisited / Nicolas P. Retsinas, Eric S. Belsky, editors.
HML RA425 .T85 2009 The new public health / Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova with foreword by John Last.
HML, NET RA427.9 .R48 2008 Review and evaluation of Australian information about primary health care : a focus on general practice / Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.


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