New Books

Career Success: A Lifetime Investment
by Jerry R. Ryan, Roberta Ryan, Roberta Ryan

This engaging book presents a comprehensive approach to career planning and the job search process. Taking a unique lifelong learning approach, it focuses specifically on self-understanding, self-acceptance, career information, and decision-making skills.
Career Success is designed to increase awareness, understanding, and acceptance of personal interests, abilities, personality characteristics, values, and lifestyles. Comprehensive coverage takes the user through an overview of the changing labor force, an understanding of the rapidly changing job market, self-analysis and personal decision making; finding the right career; resumes and interviewing; and ongoing career and personal success. (From the Publisher)
 

Grammar Express Basic
by Margaret Bonner, Marjorie Fuchs

Grammar Express Basic is the fast and practical way for beginning and low-intermediate students to learn or review English grammar. A user-friendly and effective tool, Grammar Express Basic can be used for self- study, as a main text or as a supplement to any course book, or as a convenient reference handbook to help students reach their language goals quickly. (From the publisher)

VIDEOS

Thomson Delmar Learning's Critical Thinking for Medical Assistants DVD Program 5: Insurance and Coding
by Delmar Learning

Focuses on critical thinking skills, such as how to properly respond to realistic but difficult workplace situations, and the “softer” skills such as communication and patient education. DVD, color (From Thomson Delmar Learning)

Book of the Month

Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell

Journalist Gladwell (The Tipping Point) examines the process of snap decision making. Contrary to the model of a rational process involving extensive information gathering and rational analysis, most decisions are made instantaneously and unconsciously. This works well for us much of the time because we learn to "thin-slice"-that is, to ignore extraneous input and concentrate on one or two cues. Sometimes, we don't even consciously know what these cues are, as in Gladwell's anecdote about a tennis coach who can predict when a player is going to make a rare sort of error but doesn't know how he knows. The book also explores how this process can go horribly wrong, as in the Amadou Diallo shooting. Gladwell gets the science facts right and has the journalistic skills to make them utterly engrossing. A big promo campaign is planned; for once a best seller will be more than worthy. (From Library Journal)