CTE Resources
Spring 2018
Economics/Business/Accounting
Start with Why
by Simon Sinek
The greatest leaders, Sinek writes, succeed in influencing others when they understand and communicate the “why” behind their actions. Real-life examples and the author’s insights will inspire readers to find their “why.”
Principles of Business: Finance
by Richard Wilson
This reference volume is composed of dozens of substantial entries in easy-to-understand language aimed at allowing students and researchers to gain a solid understanding of this broad area of business.
Principles of Business: Management
by Richard Wilson
An up-to-date, essential reference work written by experts and scholars in the field covering a multitude of management concepts that will prepare its readers for the changing business world.
The Four
by Scott Galloway
Galloway analyzes the successes of the four most ubiquitous online entities— Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google—and describes how you can apply their winning strategies to your own business or career.
The Power of Little Ideas
by David Robertson
Discover an approach to business innovation centered on small albeit powerful, complimentary changes that many well-known companies and organizations have employed with positive results.
Crushing It
by Gary Vaynerchuk
Vaynerchuk offers new lessons drawn from the experiences of dozens of entrepreneurs who rejected the corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands.
Criminology
Decarcerating America
ed. by Ernest Drucker
An all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to cure America of its epidemic of mass punishment.
Invisible No More
by Andrea Ritchie
Attorney, scholar, and activist Ritchie presents an examination of the treatment of women of color by law enforcement, including detailed stories from the women themselves.
Lady Killers
by Tori Telfer
True crime and feminist history meet in this compilation, where each chapter recounts the unsettling crimes of a largely forgotten female murderer.
Blind Injustice
by Mark Godsey
The author draws upon both psychological research and shocking—yet true—stories from his career to show how investigations go awry and lead to the shockingly routine injustice of false convictions.
Mad City
by Michael Arntfield
A veteran police officer presents a chilling, unflinching exploration of the forgotten campus murders, and how one woman’s diligence kept the killer from slipping through the cracks.
The Rise of Big Data Policing
by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
A must read for anyone concerned with how technology will revolutionize law enforcement and its potential threat to the security, privacy, and constitutional rights of citizens.
Computer Science/Information Systems & Technology
Here Be Dragons
by Olle Haggstrom
While humanity is certain to experience great advances in the sciences this century, Haggstrom encourages readers to anticipate the potential risks and disruptions that new technologies may bring.
WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
by Tim O’Reilly
A leader among Silicon Valley tech intellectuals shares his guidelines for putting new technologies to their utmost uses for the advancement of society, not its deconstruction.
Automating Inequality
by Virginia Eubanks
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination―and how technology affects civil and human rights, and economic equity.
How to Fix the Future
by Andrew Keen
This book vividly depicts what we must do if we are to try to preserve human values in an increasingly digital world and what steps we might take to make the future something we look forward to again.
Soonish
by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
In this exceptional and clever book, the authors examine ten of some of the most talked about emerging technologies with an abundance of practicality, humor, hope, and cartoons.
Surveillance Valley
by Yasha Levine
With deep research, skilled storytelling, and provocative arguments, Levine shows how surveillance wasn't something that suddenly appeared on the internet; it was woven into the fabric of the technology.
