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New Tourism Books - week of August 24th

Thursday, August 27th, 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.

Sustainable Australian travel for dummies'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH, IPW DA650 .G6775 2009 Lonely Planet: Great Britain / David Else et al.
SSH DS654 .P47 2009 Lonely Planet: Philippines / Greg Bloom et al.
SSH DT365.17 .F58 2009 Lonely Planet: East Africa / Mary Fitzpatrick, Tim Bewer, Matthew D. Firestone.
FRY DU278.1 .B69 200- Brisbane : Australia’s fastest growing capital city and one stop meetings shop.
SSH DU95 .C46 2009 Lonely Planet: Central Australia : Adelaide to Darwin / Charles Rawlings-Way et al.
SSH G153.4 .H84 2009 Frommer’s 500 places to see before they disappear / by Holly Hughes with Larry West.
SSH G155.A1 R543 2009 Crisis and disaster management for tourism / Brent W. Ritchie.
SSH G155.A1 W685 2009 World tourism cities : developing tourism off the beaten track / edited by Robert Maitland and Peter Newman.
SSH G155.A8 G75 2009 Sustainable Australian travel for dummies / by Michael Grosvenor.
SSH G155.G7 M37 2009 Managing regional tourism : a case study of Yorkshire, England / edited by Rhodri Thomas.
SSH, IPW G155.G7 R55 2008 Travel & tourism : case studies / Stephen Rickerby.
SSH G156.5.E26 E353 2009 Ecotourism and environmental sustainability : principles and practice / by Jennifer Hill and Tim Gale.
SSH GE70 .R47 2008 Researching education and the environment : retrospect and prospect / edited by Alan Reid and William Scott.
SSH, IPW GT3405 .C65 2009 The event manager’s bible : the complete guide to planning and organising a voluntary or publice event / D.G. Conway.
SSH, IPW GT4905 .Y44 2008 Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown / Chiou-ling Yeh.
SSH, IPW GV429 .M85 2009 Recreation facility management : design, development, operations, and utilization / Richard F. Mull, Brent A. Beggs, Mick Renneisen.

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!

New Economics Books - week of August 24th

Thursday, August 27th, 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.

Cover of new book 'Running regressions'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH BF575.H27 G55 2007 Stumbling on happiness / Daniel Gilbert.
SSH G535 .L44 2009 The invisible hook : the hidden economics of pirates / Peter T. Leeson.
SSH HB103.K47 D6713 2007 Keynes and his battles / Gilles Dostaler.
SSH HB139 .B34 2009 Running regressions : a practical guide to quantitative research in economics, finance and development studies / Michelle Baddeley, Diana Barrowclough.
SSH HB62 .B57 2009 Essential economics : an A-Z guide / Matthew Bishop.
NET HC800.A1 African economic outlook: 2009
SSH HD69.S5 N4 2009 Increasing returns and economic efficiency / Yew-Kwang Ng.
SSH HF1017 .N48 2010 Statistics for business and economics / Paul Newbold, William L. Carlson, Betty M. Thorne.
ECO, SSH HF1359 .M376 2009 Meltdown : the end of the age of greed / Paul Mason.
SSH HF1385 .M75 2009 Africa and the World Trade Organization / Richard E. Mshomba.
SSH HG106 .R63 2009 Elementary calculus of financial mathematics / A.J. Roberts.
SSH HG2998.B35 A97 2007 Baring Brothers and the birth of modern finance / Peter E. Austin.
SSH HG3851.3 .R38 2009 The determinants of currency crises : a political-economy approach / Bjorn Rother.
SSH HG3881 .F56 2009 Financial markets and the banking sector : roles and responsibilities in a global world / edited by Elisabeth Paulet.
SSH HG3881 .L455 2009 International finance / Maurice D. Levi.
SSH HG3968 .E946 2009 Exchange rates, currency crisis and monetary cooperation in Asia / written and edited by Ramkishen S. Rajan.
SSH RA410 .P48 2010 Health economics / Charles E. Phelps.
HML, MAT RA441 .C663 2010 Comparative health systems : global perspectives / edited by James Johnson & Carleen Stoskopf.


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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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New Tourism Books - week of August 17th

Thursday, August 20th, 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.

Cover of new book 'Theme park'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
FRY DU278 .S66 1940 A souvenir of picturesque Brisbane, 1940.
SSH, IPW G155.A1 M56 2009 How to brand nations, cities and destinations : a planning book for place branding / Teemu Moilanen and Seppo Rainisto.
SSH, IPW G155.A1 P7496 2009 Resort destinations : evolution, management and development / Bruce Prideaux.
SSH G155.S6 C56 2007 Cine, imaginario y turismo : estrategias de seducción / Antonia del Rey-Reguillo, ed.
FRY GV1025.A85 Q44 1925 Queensland motor tours : where to go and how to get there (1925) : motor tours with speedometer charts, descriptive and scenic references.
SSH GV1851.A35 L83 2008 Theme park / Scott A. Lukas.

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New Economics Books - week of August 17th

Thursday, August 20th, 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.

Cover of new book 'Population ageing, pensions and growth'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH HB141 .K644 2009 Analysis of economic data / by Gary Koop.
PSE HB199 .W595 2009 Engineering economy / William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, C. Patrick Koelling.
SSH HC79.E5 W66 no.157 The sustainability of cotton production in China and in Australia : comparative economic and environmental issues / by Xufu Zhao and Clem Tisdell.
SSH HD7105.3 .C75 2009 Population ageing, pensions and growth : intertemporal trade-offs and consumption planning / J. Creedy, R. Guest.
SSH HD82 .B5543 2009 Local economic development : analysis, practices, and globalization / John P. Blair, Michael C. Carroll.
SSH HN49.C6 B883 2005 Outside the gates : development processes for the real world [videorecording] / Martin Butcher.


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New Tourism Books - week of August 10th

Thursday, August 13th, 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.

Cover of new book 'The business of tourism'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
NET G155.A1 Tourism and destination branding report / Hugh Wlkins, Bill Merrilees, Carmel Herington.
SSH, IPW G155.A1 H65 2009 The business of tourism / J. Christopher Holloway with Claire Humphreys and Rob Davidson.
SSH G155.I7 C52 2009 Brand new Ireland? : tourism, development and national identity in the Irish republic / by Michael Clancy.
SSH, IPW GT3405 .D45 2009 Creating special events / Lee J. deLisle.
SSH, IPW GT3405 .P46 2009 People and work in events and conventions : a research perspective / edited by Thomas Baum et al.
SSH, IPW TX911 .T56 2009 Tourism and the lodging sector / Dallen J. Timothy and Victor B. Teye.

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New Economics Books - week of August 10th

Thursday, August 13th, 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.

Cover of new book 'Analysis of multivariate social science data'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH HA29 .A5824 2008 Analysis of multivariate social science data / David J. Bartholomew et al.
SSH HB171.5 .K78 2009 Economics / Paul Krugman, Robin Wells.
SSH HC106.7 .P52 2009 Bad money : reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism / Kevin Phillips.
SSH HG1325 .M375 2005 The monetary geography of Africa / Paul R. Masson, Catherine Pattillo.
SSH HG171 .F472 2009 The ascent of money [videorecording].
SSH HG353 .M75 MRI bankers’ guide to foreign currency.
SSH HG4910 .W285 2009 The Wall Street Journal guide to the end of Wall Street as we know it : what you need to know about the greatest financial crisis of our time– and how to survive it / Dave Kansas.
SSH, ECO RA410 .H45 2009 Health economics & policy / James W. Henderson.


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Refworks Training on Demand

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Refworks is an online program designed to help you store the references which you have located in your research, and then cite those references in the essay, paper, thesis or book which you are writing. It can be used anywhere online or offline, shared with others, and integrated into Microsoft Word easily.

Refworks classes are available to Business, Tourism and Economics students on-demand: if you are interested in finding out more about Refworks, try it out at http://www.library.uq.edu.au/infoskil/refworks.html. If you are interested in some training in how to best use this resource, contact trainer Jennifer Creese by email, once there is a group of 6 participants or more a time will be set that suits all involved.

New Tourism Books - week of August 3rd

Thursday, August 6th, 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.

Cover of new book 'The global airline industry

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH BL1210 .O94 2009 The Oxford India Hinduism reader / edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron.
SSH, IPW DS712 .S25 2009 Lonely Planet: China / Damian Harper et al.
SSH GV1311.S56 B54 2009 The biggest winner [videorecording]
SSH, IPW HE9776 .G66 2009 The global airline industry / edited by Peter Belobaba, Amedeo Odoni, Cynthia Barnhart.
SSH HF5415.5 .M1714 2008 Building a customer service culture : the seven ServiceElements of customer success / by Mario Martinez, Bob Hobbi.
FRY N3952 .A95 Art+events+ideas / Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
NET THE Ambushers or true sponsors : an examination of sponsorship linked advertising / Sarah Jane Kelly.

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!

New Economics Books - week of August 3rd

Thursday, August 6th, 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.

Cover of new book 'When bubbles burst'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH HB135 .E28 2009 Economic models : methods, theory and applications / editor, Dipak Basu.
SSH HB172 .K78 2009 Microeconomics / Paul Krugman, Robin Wells.
SSH HB3722 .C34 2009 When bubbles burst : surviving the financial fallout / John P. Calverley.
SSH HC427.9 .C52175 2008 Transition and development in China : towards shared growth / Yun Chen.
SSH HG187.C6 C4354 2009 China’s emerging financial markets : challenges and global impact / editors-in-chief, Zhu Min, Cai Jinqing, Martha Avery.
SSH HG195 .D476 2009 Developing essential financial markets in smaller economies : stylized facts and policy options / Herve Ferhani et al.
SSH HG2040.5.U6 R57 2009 The rise and fall of the U.S. mortgage and credit markets : a comprehensive analysis of the market meltdown / James R. Barth et al.
SSH HJ2950.6 .M68 2008 Fiscal management of the Malaysian economy / Dawood Ali M. Mithani, Abdul Razak Chik, Juhary Ali.
SSH LB2335.3 .H54 2009 Higher education on the move : new developments in global mobility / edited by Rajika Bhandari and Shepherd Laughlin.
SSH, ECO RA410 .S26 2010 Health economics : theories, insights, and industry studies / Rexford E. Santerre, Stephen P. Neun.


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