CTE Resources

Fall 2018


Economics/Business/Accounting

Ask a Manager

Ask a Manager
by Alison Green

The “Dear Abby” of the work world offers a witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations that may be unavoidable during your career.

We the Corporations

We the Corporations
by Adam Winkler

Winkler shows how America’s most powerful corporations won our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a weapon to impede the regulation of big business.

Cowgirl Power

Cowgirl Power
by Gay Gaddis

The spirited strength of the gutsy cowgirl heroines of the 1920s and '30s is celebrated as a metaphor for the power we all have to achieve far more than we think.

Measure What Matters

Measure What Matters
by John Doerr

Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.

Start with Why

The Common Good
by Robert B. Reich

Reich presents a passionate, clear-eyed discussion of the good we have had in common, what has happened to it, and what we might do to restore America to being a far better functioning society.

Is Capitalism Obsolete?

Is Capitalism Obsolete?
by Giacomo Corneo and Daniel Steuer

Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional argument between a daughter who is indignant about economic injustice and her father, an economics professor.

The CEO Next Door

The CEO Next Door
by Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell

Based on research insights and illustrated by real life stories from CEOs and boardrooms, the authors overturn the myths about what it takes to get to the top and succeed.

 

Reinventing Business Models

Reinventing Business Models
by Henk Wijtze Volberda, F A J van den Bosch, and Kevin Heij

Is it better to replicate existing models or develop new ones? The authors provide new insights into how and when managers can change a firm's business model.

Economics

Economics
by Sean Masaki Flynn

An introduction to microeconomics and macroeconomics that covers inflation, recessions, competition, supply and demand, monopolies, free markets, and other topics.

 


Criminology

Murder in the News

Murder in the News
by Robert H Jordan

An experienced, Chicago news anchor gives a personal look into how one of the busiest newsrooms in the country decide which murder cases to cover and which cases will be ignored.

The Feather Thief

The Feather Thief
by Kirk Wallace Johnson

A fascinating true tale of an American with a unique obsession who becomes the perpetrator a bizarre heist - of hundreds of rare bird specimens - from a natural history museum in England.

The Most Dangerous Man in America

The Most Dangerous Man in America
by Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis

Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and interviews, this book takes the reader on the 28-month global manhunt spearheaded by President Nixon aimed at capturing “The High Priest of LSD” Dr. Timothy Leary.

Murder on Shades Mountain

Murder on Shades Mountain
by Melanie S. Morrison

This riveting narrative tells the gripping and tragic story of the attack, its aftermath, and the courageous predecessors of present-day movements that demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and the criminalization of black men.

The Crime Book

The Crime Book
by Shanna Hogan et al

From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer,The Crime Book is a complete study of international true crime history that unpacks the shocking stories through infographics and in-depth research that lays out every key fact and detail.

Armed in America

Armed in America
by Patrick J. Charles

This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate.

Beneath a Ruthless Sun

Beneath a Ruthless Sun
by Gilbert King

When a woman is raped in her home, journalist Mabel Norris Reese and an inexperienced young lawyer pursue the case, unraveling the unspeakable truths behind a racial conspiracy that shocked a community into silence.

Enhanced Interrogation and Torture

Enhanced Interrogation and Torture
by Gary Wiener

This informative collection of essays explores the radical tactics used by government-sanctioned agencies, and those used by terrorist groups, to ferret out key intelligence from detainees.

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
by John Grisham

This shocking account relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due to the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system.


Computer Science/Information Systems & Technology

This Idea is Brilliant

This Idea is Brilliant
by John Brockman

“What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?” Through essays by prominent minds, Brockman takes readers on a tour of the bold, exciting, and underappreciated scientific concepts that will enrich every mind.

What the Future Looks Like

What the Future Looks Like
by Jim Al-Khalili

Find insight into big picture questions like “Will we find a cure to all diseases?” Al-Khalili and his team of experts draw on their mastery of groundbreaking scientific research to predict what advancements will shape the future.

Programmed Inequality

Programmed Inequality
by Marie Hicks

Hicks shows how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.  Moreover, the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.

The Sentient Machine

The Sentient Machine
by Amir Husain

Acclaimed technologist and inventor Husain explains how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence--and not only survive, but thrive.

Once Upon and Algorithm

Once Upon an Algorithm
by Martin Erwig

Erwig aims to spread an interest in computer science by drawing parallels between processes of computation and the problem-solving stories found in popular culture, including the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, Harry Potter, and the film Groundhog Day.

Broad Band

Broad Band
by Claire L. Evans

Evans shines a light on the bright minds of women who have been at the vanguard of technology and innovation, from Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program in the Victorian Age, to the cyberpunk Web designers of the 1990s.

Data Mining

Data Mining
by M. M. Eboch

Viewpoints in this series of essays debates data mining and whether it's a danger to society or, ultimately, a boon that will only help our technology-driven world grow more efficient.

Privacys Blueprint

Privacy’s Blueprint
by Woodrow Hartzog

Current legal doctrine treats technology as though it were value-neutral. Hartzog argues that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products.

Principles of Programming & Coding

Principles of Programming & Coding
by Donald R. Franceschetti

This new volume has more than 125 entries explaining the fundamental concepts, popular languages, systems, and protocols that go into computer programming and coding.