New Books

Profiles in Entrepreneurship: Leaving More than Footprints

by David C. Nelson (Editor), James D. Bell (Editor), Samuel Barshop (Afterword)

Profiles in Entrepreneurship showcases success through the experiences of 29 highly successful entrepreneurs in their own words. Learn about topics like opportunity recognition, risk assessment, leadership, and how to compensate for limited resources from the first-hand accounts of leaders like Herb Kelleher, Red McCombs, and Katie Brickman Harvey. Each profile includes a look at their driving motivation, tactics, and strategies, highlights of their professional experiences, and a question and answer session. (From publisher)

Insurance Coding and Electronic Claims for the Medical Office

by Shelley Safian

This text is structured to reflect a day in the life of an insurance coding and billing specialist. Using a "layered learning" concept, the student will move through the book in a logical progression, building upon each element learned at each stage of the reimbursement process. Students will learn to carefully glean pertinent data to code accurately from review and analysis of: a.) Super bills, b.) Provider's notes, c.) Referral authorization forms, and d.) New patient information forms. (From the publisher)
 

Business Ethics: A Real World Approach

by Andrew W. Ghillyer

Business Ethics equips students with the materials and tolls to help them resolve the ethical challenges they will face as employees in the corporate world. This text takes a "ground level" approach by focusing on the daily work lives of employees instead of only explaining abstract concepts and philosophical arguments at the treetop level. Students can examine issues and scenarios that relate directly to realistic work environments. (From publisher)

Book of the Month

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness.

In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture.

Tender Is the Night is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate. (From publisher)