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New Tourism Books - week of October 27th

Thursday, October 29th, 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 'How to run a great hotel'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
NET G155.A1 I56 2007 The impact of international tourism on the economic development of the developing countries.
NET G155.A2 S97 2009 Sustainable tourism management at world heritage sites: enhancing inter-agency and stakeholder coordination for joint action, International Conference, Huangshan, China, 24-27 March 2008.
SSH G155.C55 S8 2009 The politics of heritage tourism in China : a view from Lijiang / Xiaobo Su and Peggy Teo.
SSH GV722.2008 .B76 2008 Beijing’s games : what the Olympics mean to China / Susan Brownell.
SSH HF5430.3 .A88 2000 Attracting tourists to shopping centers / International Council of Shopping Centers.
GAT QL76.5.A82 M65 2008 Monarto Zoo : a conservation ark for rare and endangered species / Geoff Brooks.
GAT TD885.5.C3 G65 2008 Going carbon neutral: Castlemaine State Festival : a carbon neutral festival case study.
SSH TX911.3.M27 L37 2009 How to run a great hotel : everything you need to achieve excellence in the hotel industry / Enda M. Larkin.

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New Economics Books - week of October 27th

Thursday, October 29th, 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 'Street Fighters'

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.


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New Tourism Books - week of October 19th

Thursday, October 22nd, 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 Cover of new book 'This restless life'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
IPW, SSH BD435 .D45 2009 This restless life : churning through love, work and play / Brigid Delaney.
SSH BL1202 .J53 2009 Rethinking Hindu identity / Dwijendra Narayan Jha.
SSH D16.14 .I58 2009 Intangible heritage embodied / D. Fairchild Ruggles, Helaine Silverman, editors.
SSH D568.3 .R46 2009 The ANZAC walk : Gallipoli in a day / written by Richard Reid, edited by Courtney Page-Allen, designed by Rosanna Horn
SSH DA969 .C67 2009 Coach fellas : heritage and tourism in Ireland / Kelli Ann Costa.
IPW, SSH GV944.M35 A76 2008 Global and local football : politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU / by Gary Armstrong and Jon P. Mitchell.
HML HV6025 .N544 2009 Nightlife and crime : social order and governance in international perspective / edited by Phil Hadfield.
SSH, IPW TX911.3.M27 M335 1997 The spirit to serve : Marriott’s way / by J.W. Marriott, Jr. and Kathi Ann Brown.

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New Economics Books - week of October 19th

Thursday, October 22nd, 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 'Framing Finance'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH, ECO HB172.5 .M357 2010 Macroeconomics / N. Gregory Mankiw.
SSH HC79.E5 S86435 2009 The economics of sustainable development : the case of India / Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi.
SSH, ECO HC79.P55 L39 2009 Global carbon trading : a framework for reducing emissions / Mark Lazarowicz.
SSH HD5827.A6 L34 2009 Laggards and leaders in labour market reform : comparing Japan and Australia / edited by Jenny Corbett et al.
SSH, FRY HD8844 .L24 2009 Labour history in the new century / editor Bobbie Oliver.
SSH HD30.28 .S643 2009 Economics and management of competitive strategy / Daniel F. Spulber.
SSH HG101 .P74 2009 Framing finance : the boundaries of markets and modern capitalism / Alex Preda.
SSH QA279.5 .H64 2009 A first course in Bayesian statistical methods / by Peter D. Hoff.
IPW, MAT RA393 .G38 2009 The new health policy / Robin Gauld.


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New Tourism Books - week of October 12th

Thursday, October 15th, 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 Cover of new book 'Explorations in Thai tourism'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
IPW, SSH DD16 .G47 2007 Lonely Planet Germany / Andrea Schulte-Peevers et al.
NET G155.A1 Journal of tourism.
IPW, SSH G155.A1 H3493 2009 Understanding and managing tourism impacts : an integrated approach / C. Michael Hall and Alan A. Lew.
NET G155.S5 Annual report on tourism statistics.
IPW, SSH G155.T5 C64 2008 Explorations in Thai tourism : collected case studies / Erik Cohen.
IPW, SSH G156.5.E58 T68 2009 Tourism enterprises and sustainable development : international perspectives on responses to the sustainability agenda / edited by David Leslie.
NET G188.3.U6 Leisure market research handbook.
SSH GV200.5 .M31 2009 Australia’s wild places / Roger McDonald.
SSH KU983.2.T6 P75 2009 Price advertising and the travel industry / Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.
NET THE Consumer evaluations of sponsor brand associations / Pi-Hsuan Monica Chien.
SSH TX911.3.M27 O74 2009 Operations management: a case study of a hotel.
SSH, IPW TX911.3.M27 S575 2009 Sustainability in the hospitality industry : principles of sustainable operations / Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, Joseph S. Chen.
NET TX911.3.M3 The restaurant and foodservice market research handbook.
NET TX911.3.M3 Restaurant, food & beverage market research handbook.

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New Economics Books - week of October 12th

Thursday, October 15th, 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 'Why Iceland?'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH HB144 .D59 2009 Games of strategy / Avinash Dixit, Susan Skeath, David Reiley.
NET HB3722 The financial crisis : reform and exit strategies.
SSH HB3722 .J66 2009 Why Iceland? / Ásgeir Jónsson.
SSH HB3722 .T39 2009 Getting off track : how government actions and interventions caused, prolonged, and worsened the financial crisis / by John B. Taylor.
NET HC60 Policy ownership and aid conditionality in the light of the financial crisis : a critical review / by Andrew Mold.
SSH HC427.95 .R573 2009 The rise of China and India : a new Asian drama / edited by Lam Peng Er, Lim Tai Wei.
NET HC430.E5 China’s new place in a world in crisis : economic geopolitical and environmental dimensions / Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song, Wing Thye Woo (eds).
SSH HC910 .G66 2008 Zimbabwe’s casino economy : extraordinary measures for extraordinary challenges / Gideon Gono.
SSH HD30.28 .S643 2009 Economics and management of competitive strategy / Daniel F. Spulber.
SSH HG221 .B455 2009 Monetary economics in globalised financial markets / Ansgar Belke, Thorsten Polleit.
SSH JF60 .P44 2010 Politics and culture in the developing world the impact of globalization / Richard J. Payne, Jamal R. Nassar.
NET QC903 The economics of climate change mitigation : policies and options for global action beyond 2012.
SSH, ECO RA410 .Z9413 2009 Health economics / Peter Zweifel, Friedrich Breyer, Mathias Kifmann.


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New Tourism Books - week of October 5th

Thursday, October 8th, 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 Cover of new book 'Exploring traditional Chinese festivals in China'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
IPW, SSH DU185.3 .M33 2008 Lonely Planet Tasmania / Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Gabi Mocatta.
FRY DU278 .B7625 1999 Brisbane : official visitors guide.
FRY DU278.A4 B75 2000 Brisbane River experience guide : inner city reaches.
FRY DU280.B73 O877 2009 Treasures of Bribie / by Warick Outram.
SSH G155.A1 A283 2010 Advances in tourism destination marketing / edited by Metin Kozak, Juergen Gnoth and Luisa Andreu.
SSH G155.F5 N37 2009 An econometric model of tourism demand and a computable general equilibrium analysis of the impact of tourism : the case of the Fiji islands / Paresh Kumar Narayan.
SSH GT4883.A2 G4 2009 Exploring traditional Chinese festivals in China / Gai Guoliang.
SSH, IPW GV742.3 .B55 2008 Olympic media : inside the biggest show on television / Andrew C. Billings.
SSH PL4200.5 .D36 2008 Imagining Siam : a travellers’ literary guide to Thailand / Caron Eastgate Dann.
BIO, NET QC981.8.C5 I4895 2009 Implications of climate change for Australia’s world heritage properties : a preliminary assessment / a report to the Department of Climate Change, and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, prepared by the Australian National University.

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New Economics Books - week of October 5th

Thursday, October 8th, 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 'Bailout Nation'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH HB135 .J32 2009 Mathematics for economics and business / Ian Jacques.
SSH HB145 .S89 2009 General equilibrium analysis of production and increasing returns / Takashi Suzuki.
SSH HB3722 .R58 2009 Bailout nation : how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy / Barry Ritholtz with Aaron Task.
SSH HB3816.5 .H45 2009 Destructive creativity of Wall Street and the East Asian response / by Michael Heng Siam-Heng and Lim Tai Wei.
SSH HC59.7 .A736 2009 Advances in development economics / editor, Dipak Basu.
SSH HC800 .G54 2008 The trouble with aid : why less could mean more for Africa / Jonathan Glennie.
NET HD87 .D577 Macroeconomic effects of financial shocks / Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini.
NET HD87 .D577 The crisis in the foreign exchange market / Michael Melvin and Mark P. Taylor.
SSH HG1975 .B33 2009 Beyond the development banks : Washington politics, world poverty, and the wealth of nations / Sarah Babb.
SSH HG226 .F55 2009 Financial markets and the macroeconomy : a Keynesian perspective / Carl Chiarella et al.
SSH HG3881.5.I58 U537 2009 Unholy trinity : the IMF, World Bank and WTO / Richard Peet.
SSH HG4523 .M257 2006 The (mis)behavior of markets : a fractal view of financial turbulence / Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson.
SSH HG930.5 .G674 2009 Economics of monetary union / Paul De Grauwe.
SSH RA425 .S6 2009 Social inequality and public health / edited by Salvatore J. Babones.


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New Tourism Books - week of September 28th

Thursday, October 1st, 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 'Tourism and entrepreneurship'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
IPW, SSH DC16 .F63 2009 Lonely Planet France / Nicola Williams et al.
IPW, SSH DG416 .G44 2008 Lonely Planet Italy / Damien Simonis et al.
IPW, SSH DR416 .B76 2009 Lonely Planet Turkey / James Bainbridge et al.
IPW, SSH DS896.38 .R68 2008 Lonely Planet Tokyo : city guide / Matthew D Firestone, Timothy N Hornyak.
SSH, IPW DU178.A4 O27 2008 Lonely Planet Sydney : city guide / Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll.
SSH, IPW DU228.A4 M232 2008 Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria : city guide / Donna Wheeler et al.
SSH, IPW DU255 .F56 2008 Lonely Planet Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef / Alan Murphy et al.
SSH, IPW F128.18 .G695 2008 Lonely Planet New York City : city guide / Ginger Adams Otis et al.
SSH, IPW F1209 .R53 2008 Lonely Planet Mexico / John Noble et al.
SSH G155.A1 T589155 2009 Tourism and entrepreneurship : international perspectives / edited by Jovo Ateljevic and Stephen J. Page.
SSH GT3406.U6 U67 2009 Ultimate access: New Year’s Eve, New York [videorecording]
BIO GV443 .P42 1998 Physical activity and active lifestyle of children and youth / Roland Naul et al, editors.
BIO GV709.2 .P496 2002 Physical fitness, sporting lifestyles and Olympic ideals : cross-cultural studies on youth sport in Europe / Risto Telama et al.
BIO GV713 .A86 2003 Aspects of sport governance / edited by Darlene Kluka, William Stier & Guido Schilling.

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New Economics Books - week of September 28th

Thursday, October 1st, 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 'The hidden millions'

LOCATION CALL NUMBER TITLE
SSH H62 .H24547 2009 The handbook of pluralist economics education / edited by Jack Reardon.
SSH HB74.P65 P658 2008 Political economy research focus / Walter R. Levin, editor.
SSH HB74.P8 C68 2009 Create your own economy : the path to prosperity in a disordered world / Tyler Cowen.
SSH HB501 .G565 2009 Globalisation is good [videorecording].
SSH HC106.3 .C714 v.69 International trade in services and intangibles in the era of globalization / edited by Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew Slaughter.
SSH HC441 .G557 2009 Global financial crisis : implications for ASEAN.
NET,SSH HC610.C3 A67 2009 Annual review of regulatory burdens on business : social and economic infrastructure services.
SSH HC681 .F44 2009 The millennium development goals and beyond : international assistance to the Asia-Pacific / Simon Feeny and Matthew Clarke.
SSH HD2755.5 .P563 2009 International business and global climate change / Jonatan Pinkse and Ans Kolk.
SSH HF1359 .S753 2007 Making globalization work / Joseph Stiglitz.
ECO, NET HG221 .B5 no.284 Towards an operational framework for financial stability : fuzzy measurement and its consequences / by Claudio Borio and Mathias Drehmann.
SSH HG4515.2 .P66 2009/td> Two essays on the probability of informed trading / Marius Popescu.
SSH HV4493 .T57 2009 The hidden millions : homelessness in developing countries / Graham Tipple and Suzanne Speak.
HML RA425 .O9 2009 Oxford textbook of public health / edited by Roger Detels et al.
SSH SH329.O94 N67 2009 Not enough fish in the sea: the over exploitation of the ocean.[videorecording]


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