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Suggested Titles: November, 2015 For Library Collection Development (arranged alphabetically by subject) 1 Suggested Titles List November, 2015 Table of Contents Accounting .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Art ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Biology ................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Business Administration & Marketing .................................................................................................................................. 18 Child Study ............................................................................................................................................................................ 29 Computer Information Systems/Mathematics ..................................................................................................................... 33 Criminal Justice ..................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Economics ............................................................................................................................................................................. 43 Education .............................................................................................................................................................................. 50 English ................................................................................................................................................................................... 59 Health Administration ........................................................................................................................................................... 70 History ................................................................................................................................................................................... 76 Hospitality & Tourism Management ..................................................................................................................................... 88 Human Services ..................................................................................................................................................................... 92 Journalism & New Media Studies ....................................................................................................................................... 100 Modern Languages.............................................................................................................................................................. 106 Music ................................................................................................................................................................................... 109 Natural Sciences: Chemistry/Physics .................................................................................................................................. 119 Nursing ................................................................................................................................................................................ 124 Organizational Management .............................................................................................................................................. 132 Philosophy ........................................................................................................................................................................... 137 Political Science ................................................................................................................................................................... 145 Psychology .......................................................................................................................................................................... 159 Recreation ........................................................................................................................................................................... 162 Religious Studies ................................................................................................................................................................. 165 Sociology & Human Relations ............................................................................................................................................. 176 Speech & Communications ................................................................................................................................................. 182 2 Suggested Titles List November, 2015 Accounting Faculty Member: Greco, Albert N. The economics of the publishing and information industries: the search Click here to enter text. for yield in a disintermediated world. Routledge,2014. 319p bibl index afp ISBN 9780805855494 cloth, $200.00; ISBN9781138824799 pbk, $59.95 ☐ Required As Greco (marketing, Fordham Univ.) explains in his account of his book's purpose, this is not a traditional history, economics, or mass communications book. Instead, it draws ☐ Recommended upon eclectic disciplines and quantitative and qualitative methodologies in order to comprehend—in the author's words—“the people, trends, events, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by the publishing and information industries and the financial service sector in the last few years.” Chapters encompass subjects such as the legal and economic foundation of intellectual property and copyrights; other chapters discuss the economics of the newspaper, magazine, and book publishing industries. In his final chapter, the author considers the impact of recent US Supreme Court decisions on the publishing industry, especially concerning revisions in the copyright law that reflect the new digital landscape. Replete with statistical tables, extensive footnotes, and appendixes, Greco's study makes one think. The book is filled with fascinating information that makes readers aware that the publishing and information industry is exceedingly profitable. An extensive, alphabetical, enumerative bibliography is followed by a helpful index. Highly recommended for all those interested in learning about the publishing and information sectors. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Philipsen, Dirk. The little big number: how GDP came to rule the world and what to do Click here to enter text. about it. Princeton, 2015. 398p bibl index afp ISBN9780691166520 cloth, $29.95 ☐ Required Philipsen (senior fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics; Duke Univ.) has two goals in this book. The first is to describe how gross domestic product (GDP) came into existence. He ☐ Recommended achieves this goal in a fascinating and well-researched story about how Simon Kuznets led a team charged by Congress in 1933 with creating the first national income and product accounts. The Great Depression caused enormous economic dislocation, but the US had no means by which to track its progression; GDP and related measures helped policy makers understand the depth of the crisis. Philipsen’s second goal is to convince readers that many social and environmental ills can be traced back to the US fixation with increasing GDP rather than societal well-being. This argument is unpersuasive. Economists are aware that GDP increases because of socially undesirable activities such as divorce and natural disasters while socially productive activities, such as volunteer work, go uncounted. Philipsen’s discussion of other, more holistic measures of societal well-being is valuable and instructive; however, it strains credibility to argue that society is so focused on increasing GDP that it neglects other socially valuable, economically uncounted activities. There’s more complexity to human behavior. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty 3 Suggested Titles List November, 2015 Art Faculty Member: MacCarthy, Fiona. Anarchy & beauty: William Morris and his legacy, 1860– Click here to enter text. 1960. Yale, 2014. 183p index ISBN 9780300209464 cloth, $50.00 ☐ Required This handsome book with a spine of William Morris's Willow Bough wallpaper and fabric design was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National ☐ Recommended Portrait Gallery, London. The primary interest for most readers will be Morris’s works in various media, including wallpaper, fabric, graphic art, and architecture, reproduced here mostly in color. However, the work goes beyond to include drawings, paintings, and photographs of people and architecture influenced by Morris for the next 100 years, including C. R. Ashbee, Dorothy Elmhirst, C. F. A. Voysey, Hugh Casson, Eric Gill, Abram Games, and Terence Conran. Alas, dates are often omitted. There are excellent chapters on Morris and the Red House circle, sexual politics and libertarianism, the meaning of the handmade object, the garden city movement, and interwar artistic commentaries and the Festival of Britain. Also included