Books for Learning and Personal Development Week

Staff from Organizational Development in HR have generously donated books related to the classes offered during Learning and Personal Development Week.  The books, listed below, will be on display above the new book shelf in the library for the next week or two.  After that, they will be added to our Career and Professional Development Collection, housed in the Graduate School Reading Room.  Many thanks to HR for their generous donation, as well as for the great classes offered this week!

The Arbinger Institute.
Leadership and self-deception : getting out of the box.
2nd ed.
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2010.

Joel Arthur Barker.
Paradigms : the business of discovering the future.
1st ed.
New York, NY : HarperBusiness, 1993.

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
First, break all the rules : what the world’s greatest managers do differently.
New York, NY. : Simon & Schuster, c1999.

Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton.
Now, discover your strengths.
New York : Free Press, c2001.

Kathryn D. Cramer and Hank Wasiak.
Change the way you see everything through asset-based thinking.
Philadelphia : Running Press, c2006.

Kathryn D. Cramer and Hank Wasiak.
Change the way you see yourself : through asset-based thinking.
Philadelphia : Running Press, 2008.

Don & Sheryl Grimme.
The new manager’s tool kit : 21 things you need to know to hit the ground running.
New York : American Management Association, c2009.

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner.
The leadership challenge.
4th ed.
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2007.

Kerry Patterson … [et al.].
Crucial conversations : tools for talking when stakes are high.
2nd ed.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2012.

Price Pritchett.
Making mergers work : a guide to managing mergers and acquisitions.
Homewood, Ill. : Dow Jones-Irwin, c1987.

Tom Rath, Barry Conchie.
Strengths based leadership : great leaders, teams, and why people follow.
New York : Gallup Press, c2008.

Ann Salerno & Lillie Brock.
The change cycle : how people can survive and thrive in organizational change.
1st ed.
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008.

Brad & Geoff Smart ; introduction by Price Pritchett.
Topgrading : how to hire, coach and keep A players.
[Dallas, Tex.] : Pritchett, [2007].

Stem Cell Research News, 2012 January 23

The January 23 issue of Stem Cell Research News has been posted.

New e-books

We have recently added a few new electronic books to our collection:

Establishing and enhancing services for childhood cancer survivors: long-term follow-up program resource guide
Children’s Oncology Group Nursing Discipline Clinical Practice Subcommittee/Survivorship in collaboration with the Late Effects Committee ; editor, Wendy Landier.
[Arcadia, Calif.] : CureSearch Children’s Oncology Group, c2007.
Freely available online: http://www.survivorshipguidelines.org/pdf/
LTFUResourceGuide.pdf.

The laboratory rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, and other rodents
edited by Mark A. Suckow, Karla A. Stevens, Ronald P. Wilson.
Oxford : Academic, 2012.
Full text available to City of Hope users from ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123809209

Molecular biology techniques: a classroom laboratory manual
Susan Carson, Heather Miller, D. Scott Witherow.
3rd ed.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier /Academic Press, c2012.
Full text available to City of Hope users from ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123855442

Stem Cell Research News, 2012 January 9

The January 9, 2012, issue of Stem Cell Research News has been posted.

A batch of new books

We just processed a batch of new books; come check ’em out!

E-books

Moral science: protecting participants in human subjects research
Washington, D.C. : Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 2011.
Full text available free online at http://bioethics.gov/cms/node/558

Palliative care for older people : better practices
edited by Sue Hall … [et al.]
Copenhagen : World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, c2011.
Full text available free online at http://http//www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-publish/abstracts/palliative-care-for-older-people-better-practices

Career & Professional Development Collection

Q 223 B665 1993.
Communicating in science : writing a scientific paper and speaking at scientific meetings.
Vernon Booth.
2nd ed.
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

PE 1421 .W545 2010.
Style : lessons in clarity and grace.
Joseph M. Williams ; revised by Gregory G. Colomb.
10th ed.
Boston : Longman, c2010.

PE 1429 K53w 1991.
Why not say it clearly : a guide to expository writing.
Lester S. King.
2nd ed.
Boston : Little, Brown, 1991.

PN 6728.P533 C57 2002.
Piled higher and deeper : a graduate student comic strip collection.
by Jorge Cham.
Palo Alto, Calif. : Piled Higher and Deeper Pub., c2002.

Q 147 .K83 2012.
Marketing for scientists : how to shine in tough times.
Marc J. Kuchner.
Washington, DC : Island Press, c2012.

Biological Sciences and Oncology

QZ 200 D496 2011.
DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s cancer : principles & practice of oncology.
[edited by] Vincent T. DeVita Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, Steven A. Rosenberg ; associate scientific advisors, Robert A. Weinberg, Ronald A. DePinho ; with 431 contributing authors.
9th ed.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2011.
Electronic access available to City of Hope users at http://www.lwwoncology.com. Username and password required; available at http://cms.coh.org/library/Pages/passwords.aspx (access to password page restricted to City of Hope network).

QZ 202 C365 2011.
Cancer : principles & practice of oncology : primer of the molecular biology of cancer.
editors, Vincent T. DeVita Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, Steven A. Rosenberg ; associate scientific advisors, Robert A. Weinberg, Ronald A. DePinho ; with 73 contributing authors.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2011.
Electronic access available to City of Hope users at http://solution.lww.com/cancermolecularbiology. Username and password required; available at http://cms.coh.org/library/Pages/passwords.aspx (access to password page restricted to City of Hope network).

QZ 266 M36 2012.
Management of cancer in the older patient.
Arash Naeim, David B. Reuben, Patricia A. Ganz.
St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier/Saunders, c2012.
Electronic access available to City of Hope users at http://www.expertconsultbook.com. Username and password required; available at http://cms.coh.org/library/Pages/passwords.aspx (access to password page restricted to City of Hope network).

Medicine and Nursing

WE 17 A8815 2011.
Atlas of head & neck surgery.
[edited by] James I. Cohen, Gary L. Clayman.
Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Saunders, c2011.

WE 250 P953 2008.
Primer on the metabolic bone diseases and disorders of mineral metabolism.
7th ed. / editor-in-chief, Clifford J. Rosen ; senior associate editors, Juliet E. Compston, Jane B. Lian ; associate editors, Roger Bouillon … [et al.].
Washington, D.C. : American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, c2009.

WS 39 M26 2012.
Manual of neonatal care.
editors, John P. Cloherty … [et al.].
7th ed.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2012.

WY 105 N974 2011.
Nursing management : principles and practice.
edited by Mary Magee Gullatte.
2nd ed.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Oncology Nursing Society, c2011.