CTE Resources
2020
Economics/Business/Accounting
Creativity on Demand
by Eitan Y. Wilf
Focusing on our obsession with innovation and the value of acceleration in capitalist society, Wilf shows the contradictions in our capitalist age and how “innovation” is formulaic.
Everyday Chaos
by David Weinberger
By embracing Artificial Intelligence and exchanging understanding for data, we can avoid anticipating one linear future and create possibilities.
The Gift of Global Talent
by William R. Kerr
Kerr explores why migration of the best and brightest drives the knowledge economy and how the curation of exceptional migrants is a global competition.
Criminology
Holding On
by Tasseli McKay et al
The failure to recognize incarcerated men’s roles as fathers and partners has helped justify a system that harmfully removes them from families. This study could help influence future public policies to support families.
Vice, Crime, and Poverty
by Dominique Kalifa
Kalifa traces the history of the seedy underworld in the 19th century and, though the underworld of the past has faded away, he shows how social conditions and myths about the underclass still haunt us today.
Handy Forensic Science Answer Book
by Patricia Barnes-Svarney & Thomas Svarney
This book covers the many aspects of a death investigation from the crime scene to the court by explaining the history, facts, and science of criminal investigation.
Shadows of Doubt
by Brendan O’Flaherty & Rajiv Sethi
Offenders, victims, police, judges, and jurors make high-risk decisions with limited information and time. This book explores how stereotypes shape the way crime unfolds and taints the justice system.
What a Body Remembers
by Karen Stefano
Stefano became a lawyer for people accused of crimes similar to the assault she survived. Thirty years later, during a time of crisis, she develops a delayed obsession with her assailant.
Biased
by Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD
Eberhardt exposes racial bias at all levels of society and shows us how we can be vulnerable but not doomed to live under its grip. She offers us tools to address a problem that we all have to solve.
Computer Science/Information Systems & Technology
The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti
by Meryle Secrest
The untold true account of IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War conspiracy to shut down production of the world's first desktop computer designed and developed by Olivetti in the 1950s.
Computational Thinking
by Peter J. Denning & Matti Tedre
The authors explain that humans performed computational thinking (CT) centuries before digital computers. In this book, six dimensions of CT are identified while inflated claims are debunked.
The Artist in the Machine
(Overdrive audiobook)
by Arthur I. Miller
An authority on creativity introduces readers to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. Read by Adam Lofbomm.
Invisible Women
(Also in Overdrive audiobook and eBook)
by Caroline Criado Perez
We live in a world that is 50 percent female and Perez argues that we must start accounting for women in every endeavor in order to better the lives of all of us. Read by the author.
How to Play Video Games
ed by Matthew Thomas Payne & Nina Huntemann
What does Borderlands teach gamers about capitalism or Age of Empires about postcolonialism? These forty original essays on video game culture examine what games mean in broader social and cultural contexts.
SharePoint Online Development, Configuration, and Administration
(EbscoHost eBook)
by Mark Beckner
This guide is intended to give concrete steps to rapidly understand how to configure, develop, and administrate solutions in this new environment.
