New Books at PEOSTA

Reviewed: CHE 14 July 2017 (new books);TLS 17 Nov. 2017 p. 3

Reviewed: NPR 13 Feb. 2017 Fresh Air ("Aisles Have Eyes Warns That Brick-And-Mortar Stores Are Watching You").

Holdings: Copy held by Calmar; call no. 338.52 Bau

Reviewed: CHE 7 Apr. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: CHE 10 Mar. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: FA 96(3) May/June 2017 p. 157; CHE 21 May 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: CHE 28 Apr. 2017 (new books)
Description: Finding a job used to be simple. You’d show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you’d see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you’d call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy. And once you got a job, you would stay—often for decades. Now . . . well, it’s complicated.

Reviewed: NPR (31 Mar. 2017: "Empire Of Things Surveys How, What And Why We Consume"); NYRB 25 May 2017 p. 42

Reviewed: Economist 20 May 2017 p. 76; FA 96(6) Nov/Dec 2017 p. 155.

Reviewed: CHE 31 Mar. 2017 (new books)
Description: Drawing on the groundbreaking U.S. Financial Diaries project, which follows the lives of 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigate through a year, the authors challenge popular assumptions about how Americans earn, spend, borrow, and save — and they identify the true causes of distress and inequality for many working Americans.

Reviewed: CHE 5 May 2017 (new books)

Note: No previous editions at NICC.

Reviewed: NYT/BR 30 Apr. 2017 p. 19
Description: An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. (publ.)

Reviewed: NYT/BR 30 Apr. 2017 p. 11

Reviewed: CHE 14 Oct. 2016

Reviewed: NYRB 27 Oct. 2016 p. 33

Reviewed: Choice Jul 2017 vol. 54 no. 11 (Highly Recommend-ed; Top 75 Books Recommended for Community College Libraries)
Description: One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don’t have to clean. That doesn’t, however, mean the work disappears when were not looking; someone else is doing it. … David Brody introduces us to those people: the housekeepers whose labor keeps the rooms clean and the guests happy. Through unprecedented access to staff at several hotels, Brody shows us just how much work goes on behind the scenes, and how much management goes out of its way to make sure that labor stays hidden. (publ.)

Reviewed: WSJ 19-20 Nov. 2016 p. C11

Reviewed: FA Mar./Apr. 2017 p. 169; Economist 22 Oct. 2017 p. 60.

Reviewed: CHE 7 Apr. 2017 (new books); TLS 20 Oct. 2017 p. 35.

Reviewed: WSJ 24 May 2017 p. A17; CHE 14 July 2017 (new books); Choice Nov 2017 vol. 55 no. 3 (Recommended for community college libraries)

Reviewed: NYT 23 April 2017 p. SR4 (author op/ed); TLS 17 Nov. 2017 p. 3.

Note: TLS book of the year (2016).

Description: Classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. The author was a co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 1974 and was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.

Reviewed: Choice Dec 2016 vol. 54 no. 4 (Essential; Recommended for Community College Libraries)

Reviewed: Choice Jun 2016 vol. 53 no. 10 (Highly Recommended; Top 75 Books for Community Colleges; Outstanding Academic Title).

Contents: How to lose an empire without really trying : British imperial policy in North America -- Establish, disestablish, repeat : the first and second banks of the United States -- The great hunger : famine in Ireland, 1846-1852 -- The Krauts will pay : German reparations after World War I -- Shackled with golden fetters : Britain's return to the gold standard, 1925-1931 -- Trading down : the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 1930 -- Why didn't anyone pull the Andon cord? Japan's lost decade -- The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression : the subprime meltdown -- I'm ok. Euro not ok? -- What have we learned? Where do we go from here?