UDM Libraries Book of the Week

Undergraduate Education in Psychology: A Blueprint for the Future of the Discipline by Diane F. Halpern This title examines what our students need to know to be psychologically literate citizens of the contemporary world, caring family members, and productive workers who can meet today’s challenges. It contains the expert opinions of a leading group on the topic, creates a powerful new model for educating psychologically literate citizens and provides a handbook of evidence-based practical pedagogy with substantive resource materials applicable...

Vanishing newspaper : saving journalism in the information age, 2nd edition by Philip Meyer Five years ago in “The Vanishing Newspaper”, Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volume, taking current declines in circulation and the number of dailies into consideration and offering a greater variety of ways to save...

The safe hiring audit : the employer’s guide to implementing a safe hiring program by Lester S. Rosen The  Safe Hiring Audit does not preach the need to screen potential employees . . . there are already numerous titles that address that need. This book empowers managers with a step-by-step action plan to evaluate current hiring practices and make changes to strengthen their businesses and avoid potential problems. The tools and implementation guidelines provided are essential for the small business...

The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion by Barbara Alice Mann The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an issue that continues to haunt U.S.-Native American relations. Barbara Alice Mann’s The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion offers riveting accounts of four specific incidents: The 1763 smallpox epidemic among native peoples in Ohio during the...