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Sheila Heen, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, will be at Fuqua to discuss her book on June 3rd, 10:00 am-12:00 pm in Geneen Auditorium.

Ten copies of this book are available in Ford Library. Click on the title or covers below to place a hold or check the availability. For more book choices, see the list below or please check out our Special Features section in the reading room.

Difficult Conversations, Conflict Management, & Negotiation:

• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone, and Bruce Patton
• The Art of Managing Everyday Conflict: Understanding Emotions and Power Struggles by Erik A. Fisher and Steven W. Sharp
• Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them without Joining Them by Ronald M. Shapiro & Mark A. Jankowski with James Dale
• The 7 Triggers to Yes: The New Science Behind Influencing People’s Decisionsby Russell H. Granger
• 3D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Dealsby David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius
• Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro
• Head and Heart Management: Managing Attitudes, Beliefs, Behaviors and Emotions at Work by Adrian Furnham
• The Results-Driven Manager: Dealing with Difficult People by Harvard Business School Press
• 30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About by Bruce L. Katcher with Adam Snyder
• Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict by Peter J. Frost
• Problematic Relationships in the Workplaceedited by Janie M. Harden Fritz & Becky L. Omdahl
• Resolving Conflicts At Work: A Complete Guide for Everyone on the Jobby Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith

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Are you interested in attending the Duke MBA Leadership Experience conference (Building World-Class Leadership Teams) developed and hosted by the Leadership Development Initiative (LDI)?

Well here are some new titles available at the Ford Library to help get you in the “swing of things”. Click on any title below to check availability or to place a hold.

Leadership Experience:

• When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance by Thomas J. Delong, John J. Garbano and Robert J. Lees
• George Washington and the Art of Business: Leadership Principles of America’s First Commander-in-Chief by Mark McNeilly
• Leadership: Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations by Robert P. Vecchio (Ed.)
• Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed by Robert L. Dilenschneider
• The Dynamic Path: Access the Secrets of Champions to Achieve Greatness Through Mental Toughness, Inspired Leadership and Personal Transformation by James M. Citrin
• The Leaders We Need and What Makes Us Follow by Michael Maccoby
• What Really Matters: Service, Leadership, People, and Values by John Pepper

Team Building and Collaboration:

• Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy—and Others Don’t by Lynda Gratton
• X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
• Leading Teams- Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges: Harvard Business School Press Pocket Mentor by Was Rahman and Priya Kurien
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Audiobook) by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

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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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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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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

Couldn’t make it to the MBA Media and Entertainment Conference in New York?

Well the Ford Library can get you up to date on the subjects of media, entertainment, and sports businesses with these new titles. Click on any of these book links to place holds or check availability:

• Branded entertainment : product placement & brand strategy in the entertainment business by Jean-Marc Lehu
• Coming attractions? : Hollywood, high tech, and the future of entertainment by Philip E. Meza
• Asper nation : Canada’s most dangerous media company by Marc Edge
• The new influencers : a marketer’s guide to the new social media by Paul Gillin
• Team sports marketing by Kirk L. Wakefield
• Brand NFL : making and selling America’s favorite sport by Michael Oriard
• Shopping as an entertainment experience by Mark Moss
• The new rules of marketing and PR : how to use news releases, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing and online media to reach your buyers directly by David Meerman Scott
• International perspectives on the management of sport edited by Milena M. Parent and Trevor Slack
• Econospinning : how to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers by Gene Epstein
• Film business : a handbook for producers edited by Tom Jeffrey; with new chapters by Damien Parer

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The Ford Library adds new books every month. Here is just a sample from specific categories. Come check out our New Books section for even more choices on a variety of business and related topics. (Click on any of the titles below to check availability or to place a hold.)

“Introduction to” business texts:

• Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative Games (Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical) by Bezalel Peleg
• An Introduction to Corporate Finance: Transactions and Techniques Second Edition by H. Ross Geddes
• Ethics and Business: An Introduction by Kevin Gibson

Web Design & Technology:

• The Design of Sites, 2nd Ed: Patterns for Creating Winning Websites by Douglas K. Van Dyune, James A. Landay, and Jason I. Hong
• Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman, Jr.
• 24/7 How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Jarice Hanson

Psychology and Human Behavior in Business:

• Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: E-bay and Human Behavior by Ken Steiglitz
• Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
• Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (Or Most Expensive Liability) by David Marcum and Stephen Smith
• Spiritual Motivation: New Thinking for Business and Management edited by Jeremy Ramsden, Shuhei Aida, and Andrew Kakabadse

Green Business Strategy:

• Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy by Harvard Business School Press
• Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprintby Andrew J. Hoffman
• The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder

Tourism and Hospitality Industry:

• Managing Tourism and Hospitality Services: Theory and International Applications edited by Brude Prideaux, Gianna Moscardo, and Eric Laws
• Managerial Competence within the Hospitality and Tourism Service Industries: Global Cultural Contextual Analysis by John Saee
• The International Hotel Industry: Sustainable Management by Timothy L. G. Lockyer

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Are you thinking of attending Duke’s Second Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Markets for Technology: Challenges and Opportunities?

Then you may also want to check out any of these excellent books on these subjects available at the Ford Library: (Click on any of the titles below to check availability or to place a hold.)

• Strategic Use of Information Technology for Global Organizations by M. Gordon Hunter and Felix B. Tan
• The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change by Jannis Kallinikos
• Innovate or Perish: Managing the Enduring Technology Company in the Global Market edited by Edward Kahn
• The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
• Information Resources Management: Global Challenges by Wai K. Law
• E-Business Innovation and Process Management edited by In Lee
• Future Thinking, Learning, and Leading: Applying Multiple Intelligences to Success and Innovation by Irving H. Buchen
• 24/7 How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Jarice Hanson
• Blind Men and The Elephant: Demystifying the Global IT Services Industry by Was Rahman and Priya Kurien

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The Ford Library would like to wish you all a very Happy Chinese New Year

Xin Nian Kuai Le (Happy New Year — Mandarin)

Sun Nin Ffy Lok (Happy New Year — Cantonese)

Below is a list of new books in the spirit of this holiday and a tip for using the online catalog to find titles in non-roman scripts. (As usual, you can click on any of the titles below to check availability or to place a hold.) Please also see our Chinese New Year display and special features areas in the library for more information on the holiday and even more titles.

• Asian Business, Customs, and Manners: A Country-by-Country Guide by Mary Murray Bosrock
• Chinese leadership wisdom from the Book of Change by Mun Kin Chok
• Doing Business in Beijing by China Knowledge Press
• The Business and Investment Environment in Taiwan and Mainland China: A Focus on the IT and High-Tech Electronic Industries by by Chen-Min Hsu, Wei-Guo Zhang and Leslie Lok
• Guanxi and Business Strategy: Theory and Implications for Multinational Companies in China by Eike A. Langeberg
• The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth by Barry Naughton
• Harmony versus Conflict in Asian Business: Managing in a Turbulent Era edited by Oliver H.M. and Raymond P.M. Chow
• Debt Capital Markets in China by Jian Gao
• The China Road by Rob Gifford (This is an audiobook.)

Did you know you can search the online catalog for non-roman scripts? Currently, some titles are available in Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Devanagari scripts. Most of the catalog records in non-roman scripts are in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, but there are some in Arabic, Hebrew and Cyrillic, and more of these will be added in the future.

For more information on how to search in Chinese, please contact the librarian for Chinese Studies, Luo Zho

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More new Audiobook titles have been added. Come browse our audiobook section for more choices.

• The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler
• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• State of Denial: Bush at War, Part 2 by Bob Woodward
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
• Living the Truth by Keith R. Ablow
• Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
• From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By Robin Roberts
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
• Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda
• How Doctors Think by Jerome E. Groopman

To browse all of our audiobooks or to search for a specific title, you can visit our audiobook search page.

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