Fully downloadable books are available via Palgrave Connect

Posted by: | July 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Fully downloadable books are available via Palgrave Connect

New full-text, downloadable, academic, business books are being added each month to Palgrave Connect’s 2011 Business & Management Collection. Palgrave employs permissive Digital Rights Management, which allows authorized users to download ebook content without any physical restrictions. Books in this collection can also be downloaded in EPUB format, which is compatible with most reading devices, […]

Palgrave Connect: business and management e-books collections added

Posted by: | January 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Palgrave Connect: business and management e-books collections added

The New Year brings  access to even more electronic books through  Palgrave Connect E-books : Business & Management Collections.  The purchase of business and management titles from 2010 and 1995-2005 has increased our collection from this respected publisher to almost 350 business titles. Over 150 more new e-books will be added and made available through quarterly releases during 2011.    Additional […]

Trial access to the complete collection of Palgrave ebooks

Posted by: | November 26, 2010 | Comments Off on Trial access to the complete collection of Palgrave ebooks

Library users have unlimited trial access from now until December 15th to over 4, 500 electronic titles currently published by Palgrave MacMillan. Visit http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1687/ to explore the complete collection. Palgrave MacMillan publishes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works  in eight subject areas: Business & Management Economics & Finance History Language & Linguistics Literature & […]

April: Newest marketing books in the David Lam Library

Posted by: | April 9, 2010 | Comments Off on April: Newest marketing books in the David Lam Library

Advertising and Chinese society : impacts and issues includes papers on “rising consumerism, consumers’ attitudes towards advertising and reactions to advertising appeals, cultural messages conveyed in advertisements, gender representations, sex appeal, offensive advertising, advertising law and regulation, advertising to children and adolescents, symbolic meanings of advertisements, public service advertising, and new media advertising and its social […]

March : What are people reading?

Posted by: | March 29, 2010 | Comments Off on March : What are people reading?

Some recent finds on our Book Returns Shelf provide insight into what business topics are of current interest to our users:  Creativity, innovation and the cultural economy  is an edited volume which works through a range of international industry specific case studies to explore the interrelationships between creativity and innovation in the cultural industries.  David Starkie’s Aviation markets: […]

March: Two new books about Toyota

Posted by: | March 26, 2010 | Comments Off on March: Two new books about Toyota

The David Lam Library has just received two new books about Toyota’s human resources practices. Jeffrey Liker and Michael Hoseus’s Toyota Culture: the Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way examines how Toyota selects, develops, and motivates its people. Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata :Managing People for Improvement Adaptiveness, and Superior Results draws on on six […]

December – New Books

Posted by: | December 10, 2009 | Comments Off on December – New Books

The following books on sustainable business topics are available at the David Lam Library: Strategy for sustainability : a business manifesto (Harvard Business Press, 2009) The necessary revolution : how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world (Doubleday, 2008) Start your own green business : your step-by-step guide to success (Entrepreneur […]

November – E-Books: we’re getting closer and closer

Posted by: | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off on November – E-Books: we’re getting closer and closer

We have been spending more of our book budgets on e-books lately. Rising campus enrolments make space in short supply, and prompt libraries such as David Lam to send their older, less-used collections to the Automated Storage Retrieval Unit in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, in order to free up space for learning activities. […]

November – New Books

Posted by: | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off on November – New Books

Learning with Cases A practical guide to learning using the case method, aimed at those who are new to this method. Written by faculty members at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Also available at the Robson Square Library. Teaching for Critical Thinking A practical guide for  educators, on how […]

October – New Books

Posted by: | October 30, 2009 | Comments Off on October – New Books

Building design strategy : using design to achieve key business objectives.  Intelligence gathered from  international CEOs and presidents of major design firms, brand managers, and professors of design is combined with case studies from companies like Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Microsoft and Target to illustrate how design relates to corporate strategy.

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