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April is Earth Month at Duke. Also, the 8th Annual MBA International Retreat will be held on Energy & the Environment (May 31st-June 1st).

See these new titles at the Ford Library on energy, the environment, and sustainability issues. As always, you can click on any title below to check availability or to place a hold.

• Saving Energy, Growing Jobs: How Environmental Protection Promotes Economic Growth, Profitability, Innovation and Competition by David. B. Goldstein
• Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint by Andrew J. Hoffman
• Terra Incognita:A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders by Christopher E.H. Ross and Lane E. Sloan
• Managing Green Issues by Tom Curtin
• Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy by Harvard Business School Press
• Markets and the Environment by Nathaniel O. Keohane and Sheila M. Olmstead
• The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth, 2nd Edition by by Peter G. Brown
• Sustainability in Manufacturing: Recovery of Resources in Product and Material Cycles edited by Gunther Seliger
• Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics, and Portfolios by Bill Paul
• Green Seduction: Money, Business, and the Environment by Bill Streever
• Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future (Basic Ethics in Action)by Joseph R. Des Jardins
• Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability edited by Kenny Tang and Ruth Yeoh
• Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions edited by Sanjay Sharma, Mark Starik and Bryan Husted

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Duke’s factiva.com home page is changing because some content is no longer available.

The Chicago Tribune and the LA Times formerly appeared in the default “factiva news” page Newsstand column. Users who clicked on articles under those papers would get a “not authorized” message.

This message appeared because those papers’, and any other Tribune Company newspapers’ content is no longer available to academic subscribers in factiva.

Consequently, we’ve worked with the factiva support vendor to design a “Group News” page for Duke that no longer offers users this unavailable content. The new “Duke’s factiva News Page” also includes a new quick search box and open web resource links along the page’s left column.

You can connect to factiva HERE and see the new page, or view a comparison of the old and new home pages HERE.

Comments or questions?: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

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Ariely, Dan. Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions.
HarperCollins, 2008.

Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks, currently at #5 for hardcover nonfiction. David Berreby has published an excellent book review of the book in the March 16^th Sunday NY Times.

You can also stop by the Ford Library and see our new display on behavioral economics. Check out Dan’s book or the others that are highlighted there.

Comments or questions?: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

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Hanson, Jarice. 24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play. Praeger, 2007.

Media guru Marshall McLuhan had a famous slogan in the 1960’s, “The medium is message”. He meant that communication media had a meaning separate from the content. At the time, he was talking about television and film. But the slogan still applies. Technology changes the culture and the way people relate to each other. Every generation has a particular communication technology that helps to define their worldview and their way of communicating.

Author Jarice Hanson claims that in their short histories, cell phones and the internet have sparked significant changes to traditional attitudes, values and behaviors. Perceptions of time and space are altering. Public and private activities are blurring.

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Have you ever wondered why people act the way that they do?

Fuqua’s own Professor Dan Ariely has and he wrote a book about this subject. The Ford Library has a number of copies of this book as well as more great titles on the subject of human behavior (and business). (If you would like more information on Predictably Irrational, please see Dan Ariely’s blog.) As always, you can click on any title below to check availability or to place a hold.

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• Stumbling on Happiness: Think You Know What Makes You Happy? by Daniel Gilbert
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
• Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: E-bay and Human Behavior by Ken Steiglitz
• Gimme! The Human Nature of Successful Marketing by John Hallward
• Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (Or Most Expensive Liability) by David Marcum and Stephen Smith
• Behavioral Economics and Its Applications edited by Peter Diamond, Hannu Vartiainen
• Global Consumer Behavior edited by Chantal Ammi
• Explaining Consumer Choice by Gordon R. Foxall
• Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field by Mandred F.R. Kets de Vries, Randel S. Carlock, and Elizabeth Florrent-Treacy
• Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
• Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap by Mathew Hayward
• Alpha Male Syndromeby Kate Ludeman & Eddie Erlandson

UPDATE: This database subscription was canceled in December 2010 due to cost and licensing issues. Contact a reference librarian for help identifying alternative resources.

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