Grocery supply, fashion design, consumer law, biological psychology - and other new books

19 August 2008

Added to the library recently were books on grocery supply, fashion design, consumer law, biological psychology and several other topics.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

  

Selected titles added to Riccarton Library include Foundations of economics, by Andrew Gillespie, and International economic law, by Andreas F. Lowenfeld.

 

Added to the library at Galashiels was a copy of The fashion designer survival guide: start and run your own fashion business, by Mary Gehlhar.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian


Contemporary Issues eBook collection added to the Library

12 August 2008

40 eBooks from the NetLibrary Contemporary Issues collection have been added to the Library.

Selected titles include: Arab Storm: Politics and Diplomacy Behind the Gulf War,  by Alan Munro, Gay TV and Straight America, by Ron Becker, and Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America, by Roger Howard.

For off campus access to these titles an Athens username and password is required.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
 


International Business eBook collection added to the Library

12 August 2008

24 eBooks from the NetLibrary International Business collection have been added to the Library.

Selected titles include - International Business: A Global Perspective, by Marios I Katsioloudes, Japan On the Upswing: Why the Bubble Burst and Japan’s Economic Renewal, by Goro Gotemba, and The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, by Barry Naughton.

For off campus access to these titles an Athens username and password is required.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
 


New eBooks in the Library - 6th August

6 August 2008

A number of new eBooks are available from the Library:

Managing with Microsoft Project 2002, by Lisa A. Bucki and Gary Chefetz 

Language interrupted: signs of non-native acquisition in standard language grammars, by John McWhorter 

The changing languages of Europe, by Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva.

Expression in speech: analysis and synthesis, by Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton

Constructions at work: the nature of generalization in language, by Adele E. Goldberg.

The multilingual Internet: language, culture, and communication online, edited by Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring

Mind as machine: a history of cognitive science, by Margaret A. Boden

Fighting over words: language and civil law cases, by Roger W. Shuy

For on and off campus access to these titles an Athens username and password is required.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
 


New books in the Library - 31 July

31 July 2008

Added to the library recently were books on innovation management, market research, numerical earth models and several other topics.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

 

Added to Riccarton Library were two more copies of the 4th edition of Innovation management and new product development, by Paul Trott.  You can search inside this book at Amazon.

Added to the library at Galashiels was a copy of Market research in practice: a guide to the basics, by Paul Hague, Nick Hague & Carol-Ann Morgan.  You can search inside this book  at Amazon.

Added to the Petroleum Engineering Library were two titles, Numerical earth models, by J.-L. Mallet, and Arabian plate sequence stratigraphy, by Peter R. Sharland and others

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian


New eBooks in the Library - 23 June

23 June 2008

A number of new eBooks are available from the Library:


Global industrial relations, edited by Michael J. Morley, Patrick Gunnigle and David G. Collings.


Write great essays!: a guide to reading and essay writing for undergraduates and taught postgraduates, by Peter Levin.


Sail through exams!: preparing for traditional exams for undergraduates and taught postgraduates, by Peter Levin.


Racialized boundaries: race, nation, gender, colour and class and the anti-racist struggle, by Floya Anthias, Nira Yuval-Davis and Harriet Cain.


Principles of retailing, by John Fernie, Christopher Moore, and Suzanne Fernie.


Marketing across cultures, by Jean-Claude Usunier and Julie Anne Lee.
4th ed.


Managing change: a strategic approach to organisational dynamics, by Bernard Burnes.
4th ed.


Logistics and supply chain management: creating value-added networks, by Martin Christopher. 
3rd ed.


Logistics and retail management: insights into current practice and trends from leading experts, edited by John Fernie and Leigh Sparks. 2nd ed.


Living supply chains: how to mobilize the enterprise around delivering what your customers want, by John Gattorna.


Global strategic management, by Philippe Lasserre. 


Financial and management accounting: an introduction. by Pauline Weetman. 


International business: themes and issues in the modern global economy, by Debra Johnson and Colin Turner.


The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy: an economist examines the markets, power and politics of world trade, by Pietra Rivoli.

For on and off campus access to these titles an Athens username and password is required.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
 


New books in the Library - 12th June

12 June 2008

Added to the library recently were books on environmental sociology, surveying, wave propagation, petroleum geostatistics and several other topics.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Key concepts in e-commerce, by Alan Charlesworth., and Managing project risk: best practices for architects and related professionals, by James B. Atkins and Grant A. Simpson.  You can search inside this book at Amazon.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian


New books in the Library - 6th June

6 June 2008

Added to the library recently were books on European politics, string cosmology, fibre optic communications and several other topics.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Tourism and hospitality marketing: a global perspective, by Simon Hudson.  Two copies of this book are on 3 hour loan.  Also added to Riccarton Library was a copy of The history of the theory of structures: from arch analysis to computational mechanics, by Karl-Eugen Kurrer

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian


New eBooks in the Library - 2nd June

2 June 2008

New eBooks available from the Library are:

Economics, 6th edition, by John Sloman.

Economics: Student workbook, 6th edition, by John Sloman and Peter Smith.

 

 

Economics, 6th edition, by Michael Parkin, Melanie Powell, and Kent Matthews. 

 

For on and off campus access to these titles an Athens username and password is required.

 

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian


New books in the Library - 22 May

22 May 2008

Added to the library recently were books on new urbanism, shipping, maritime economics, management accounting and several other topics.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Invisible city: poverty, housing and new urbanism, by John Ingram Gilderbloom, and Modern transport geography, edited by Brian Hoyle and Richard Knowles. You can search inside this book at Amazon. Both books are on standard loan.

A further copy of the 5th edition of Operations management, by Bigel Slack, Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston has also been added to Riccarton Library.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian