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2MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARYSNTMarch 2018ContentsLegislative Library News . 3Librarian’s Picks . 4Objectives and key results : driving focus, alignment, and engagement with OKRs . 4When : the scientific secrets of perfect timing. 4Balanced scorecard evolution : a dynamic approach to strategy execution . 5Ingenious : how Canadian innovators made the world smarter, smaller, kinder, safer,healthier, wealthier, and happier . 6Platform capitalism. 6New titles to borrow for March 2018. 7Agriculture & Food . 7Biography . 7Economics, Finance & Taxation . 7Environment. 8Government . 8Health . 8Heritage & History . 9Immigration . 9Indigenous Issues . 9Intergovernmental Issues . 10International Issues . 10Labour & Employment . 11Law & Justice . 11Management & Leadership . 11Media & Communication . 12Natural Resources & Energy . 12Politics . 13Science, Technology & Innovation . 13Security, Policing & the Military . 13Social Issues . 13Urban Issues . 14Manitoba Heritage titles for March 2018 . 15Agriculture & Food . 15Biography . 15Books for Children . 15Culture, Sports & Tourism . 15Education & Training . 16Health . 16Heritage & History . 16Indigenous Issues . 17Law & Justice . 17Transportation . 17Request form for Selected New Titles March 2018 . 18
MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARYSNTMarch 2018Legislative Library NewsSpotlight on: No Quiet PlaceColloquially known as the Kimelmanreport, “No Quiet Place” is the mostsought-after government reportregarding the Sixties Scoop. TheLegislative Library is one of the onlylibraries in the world that has copiesof this very rare document. Toensure everyone has access to thisimportant report, the Library alsohas created a digitized copyavailable through its Catalogue andDigital Collection (Part 1 and Part 2).3
4MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARYSNTMarch 2018Librarian’s PicksObjectives and keyresults : driving focus,alignment, andengagement with OKRs/ Paul R. Niven, BenLamorte.Hoboken : Wiley, 2016. xx,204 pages.From the publisher:Objectives and Key Results isthe first full-fledgedreference guide onObjectives and Key Results, acritical thinking frameworkdesigned to helporganizations create valuethrough focus, alignment,and better communication.Written by two leading OKRsconsultants and researchers,this book provides a one-stopresource for organizationslooking to quantifyqualitative goals and ensureeach team focuses theirefforts to make measureableprogress on their mostimportant goals. [ ] Fromthe basic framework to adetailed dissection of bestpractices, this informativeguide walks you throughreal-world implementationsto help you get the most outof OKRs. [ ]From theframework’s inception in the1980s to its popularity intoday’s hyper-competitiveenvironment, OKRs makework more engaging andfeature frequent feedbackcycles that enable workers tosee the progress they makeat work each and every day.This book shows youeverything you need to knowto implement OKRseffectively. [ ]Objectives and Key Results isyour key resource fordesigning, planning,implementing, andmaintaining your OKRsprogram for sustainablecompany-wide success.When : the scientificsecrets of perfecttiming / Daniel H. Pink.New York : Riverhead Books,2018. 258 pages.Review from PublishersWeekly Reviews:Pink should change manypeople's understanding oftiming with this book, whichprovides insights from littleknown scientific studies in anaccessible way. He quicklypiques readers' interest byintroducing seeminglyinexplicable patterns: whyare prisoners eligible forparole more likely to get afavorable ruling from ajudicial panel earlier in theday? Why are adolescentswho start school before 8
MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARYa.m. at an academicdisadvantage? Why are theremore complications fromanesthesia in the afternoon?The explanations come fromresearch about "the effect ofthe time of day" on people'sthoughts and emotions,which began over a centuryago, and which is beingrefined further now thatsocial media platformsprovide a wealth of data thatcan be analyzed from achronological perspective. Ananalysis of millions of tweetsfrom around the world, forinstance, revealed a patternthat crossed continents andethnic groups: "Tweeters feltactive, engaged, andhopeful" in the morning andearly evening. This is justone of the many findingswith practical implicationsthat Pink lays out in the"Time Hacker's Handbook,"short sections that followeach chapter. By the book'send, readers will be thinkingmuch more carefully abouthow they divide up their daysand organize their routines.SNTMarch 20185planning and the agility toexecute your plan.Balanced ScorecardEvolution: A DynamicApproach to StrategyExecution provides the latestBalanced scorecardevolution : a dynamicapproach to strategyexecution / Paul R. Niven.Hoboken : Wiley, 2014. xvi,352 pages.From the publisher:The future of business hasbecome so unpredictablethat your five-year plan maybe irrelevant next week. Tosucceed in the modernmarket, you must constantlyassess your progress andadapt on the fly. Agility,flexibility, continual learning,and adaptation are the newrules of business success. Adifferentiating strategy iscrucial, but it will only lead tocompetitive advantage if youexecute it flawlessly. You'llsucceed only if you have theright insight for strategictheory and practice fromstrategic planning, changemanagement, and strategyexecution to ensure yourbusiness is flexible, futureready, and primed forexceptional execution. [ ]Making a plan isn't enough.You must actually take stepsto implement your plan, andthis requires excellentleadership skills. Change canbe hard, and yourorganization may beresistant. Balanced ScorecardEvolution: A DynamicApproach to StrategyExecution provideseverything you need to makethings happen.
6MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARYIngenious : howCanadian innovatorsmade the worldsmarter, smaller,kinder, safer, healthier,wealthier, and happier /David Johnston, TomJenkins.Hardcover edition. Toronto :Signal, McClelland & Stewart,2017. xiii, 232 pages.From the publisher:Successful innovation isalways inspired by at leastone of three forces -- insight,necessity, and simple luck.Ingenious moves throughhistory to explore whatcircumstances, incidents,coincidences, andcollaborations motivatedeach great Canadian idea,and what twist of fate thenbrought that idea into publicacceptance. Above all, thebook explores what goes onin the mind of an innovator,and maps the incrediblespectrum of personalitiesthat have struggled toimprove the lot of theirneighbours, their fellowcitizens, and their species.From the marvels ofaboriginal invention such asthe canoe, snowshoe, igloo,dogsled, lifejacket, and bunkSNTMarch 2018bed to the latest pioneeringadvances in medicine,education, philanthropy,science, engineering,community development,business, the arts, and themedia, Canadians haveimprovised and collaboratedtheir way to internationaladmiration. Ingenious tellsyou why they did it and howthey made the world a betterplace.Platform capitalism /Nick Srnicek, Laurent deSutter.Cambridge : Polity, 2017. vi,171 pages.From the publisher:What unites Google andFacebook, Apple andMicrosoft, Siemens and GE,Uber and Airbnb? Across awide range of sectors, thesefirms are transformingthemselves into platforms:businesses that provide thehardware and softwarefoundation for others tooperate on. Thistransformation signals amajor shift in how capitalistfirms operate and how theyinteract with the rest of theeconomy: the emergence of“platform capitalism”.This book critically examinesthese new business forms,tracing their genesis from thelong downturn of the 1970sto the boom and bust of the1990s and the aftershocks ofthe 2008 crisis. It shows howthe fundamental foundationsof the economy are rapidlybeing carved up among asmall number of monopolisticplatforms, and how theplatform introduces newtendencies within capitalismthat pose significantchallenges to any vision of apost-capitalist future. Thisbook will be essential readingfor anyone who wants tounderstand how the mostpowerful tech companies ofour time are transformingthe global economy.
MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARYSNTMarch 20187New titles to borrow for March 2018These items are available to be borrowed by all Members and staff of the LegislativeAssembly and employees of the Manitoba Government.Agriculture & Food1. Grain dust dreams / David W.Tarbet. Albany : Excelsior Editions, animprint of State University of NewYork Press, 2015. xvii, 103 pages.HD 9038 .B9 TarBiography2. Just up the road : growing up inWestern Manitoba / as told by BerylMcLeod ; Ian McLeod, with MornaMcLeod. British Columbia : IanMcLeod, 2013. 79 pages.CT 1 McLeod, Beryl Mcl3. Recollecting : lives of Aboriginalwomen of the Canadiannorthwest and borderlands /edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia A.McCormack. Edmonton : AU Press,2011. ix, 422 pages.E 78 .C2 RecEconomics, Finance & Taxation4. Broken markets : how highfrequency trading and predatorypractices on Wall Street aredestroying investor confidenceand your portfolio / Sal Arnuk,Joseph Saluzzi. Upper Saddle River :FT Press, 2012. xviii, 296 pages.HG 4910 Arn5. The death of homo economicus :work, debt and the myth ofendless accumulation / PeterFleming. London : Pluto Press, 2017.314 pages.HB 72 Fle6. Debt : the first 5,000 years / DavidGraeber. Updated and expandededition. Brooklyn : Melville House,2014. 542 pages.HG 3701 Gra7. Easy prey investors : why brokensafety nets threaten your wealth/ Al Rosen and Mark Rosen. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press,2017. xiv, 383 pages.HV 6771 .C2 Ros8. The growth delusion : wealth,poverty, and the well-being ofnations / David Pilling. First U.S.Edition. New York : Tim DugganBooks, 2018. 291 pages.HD 82 Pil
8MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY9. A world of three zeros : the neweconomics of zero poverty, zerounemployment, and zero netcarbon emissions / MuhammadYunus, with Karl Weber. First edition.New York : PublicAffairs, 2017. vii,288 pages.HD 60 YunEnvironment10. Managing boreal forests in thecontext of climate change :impacts, adaptation and climatechange mitigation / SeppoKellomäki, University of EastmanFinland, School of Forest Sciences,Joensuu, Finland. Boca Raton : CRCPress/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.viii, 357 pages. QH 541.5 .T3 Kel11. Rethinking the oceans : towardsthe blue economy / James AlixMichel. St. Paul : Paragon House,2016. xxii, 227 pages, S16 pages ofplates.GC 1015.2 MicGovernment12. Red tape report card 2018 / CFIBCanadian Federation of IndependentBusiness. Toronto : CanadianFederation of Independent Business,2018. 15 pages.JL 86 .S43 Red13. Too critical to fail : how Canadamanages threats to criticalinfrastructure / Kevin Quigley, BenSNTMarch 2018Bisset, and Bryan Mills. Montreal :McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.xviii, 397 pages.HC 120 .C3 Qui14. The utopia of rules : ontechnology, stupidity, and thesecret joys of bureaucracy / DavidGraeber. Brooklyn : Melville House,2015. 261 pages.HM 806 GraHealth15. 2017 Manitoba cannabis survey.Winnipeg : Liquor and GamingAuthority of Manitoba, 2017. 10pages. Electronic document archivedby the Manitoba Legislative fopener?smd 1&did 25932&md 1Manitoba Liquor & Gaming Auth16. Anesthesia : the gift of oblivionand the mystery of consciousness/ Kate Cole-Adams. Berkeley :Counterpoint, 2017. 408 pages.RD 81 Col17. Insane consequences : how themental health industry fails thementally ill / DJ Jaffe ; foreword byE. Fuller Torrey. Amherst :Prometheus Books, 2017. 363 pages.RC 455 Jaf
MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY18. Interim evaluation of theWinnipeg Regional HealthAuthority's Healing our HealthSystem Plan. Winnipeg : WinnipegRegional Health Authority ; Georgeand Fay Yee Centre for HealthcareInnovation, 2018. 59 pages. Electronicdocument archived by the ManitobaLegislative fopener?smd 1&did 25918&md 1Manitoba SpR 2018 WHRAHeritage & History19. Bison and people on the NorthAmerican Great Plains : a deepenvironmental history / edited byGeoff Cunfer and Bill Waiser ;foreword by Sterling Evans. Firstedition. College Station : Texas A&MUniversity Press, 2016. xiv, 323pages.SK 297 Bis20. Embattled nation : Canada'swartime election of 1917 / PatriceDutil, David MacKenzie. Toronto :Dundurn, 2017. 360 pages.FC 557.5 DutImmigration21. Twenty-first-century immigrationto North America : newcomers inturbulent times / edited by VictoriaM. Esses and Donald E. Abelson.Montreal : McGill-Queen's UniversitySNTMarch 20189Press, 2017. xi, 338 pages.JV 7225.2 TweIndigenous Issues22. Aboriginal people, resilience andthe residential school legacy /prepared for the Aboriginal HealingFoundation by Madeleine Dion Stoutand Gregory Kipling. Ottawa :Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2003.vi, 64 pages.E 96.5 Sto23. Contemporary issues in childwelfare : American Indian andCanadian Aboriginal contexts /edited by J. Dena Ned, PhD, Caren J.Frost, PhD. Vernon : JCharltonPublishing Ltd., 2017. xvi, 215 pages.HV 745 .A6 Con24. Final report of the AboriginalHealing Foundation. Ottawa :Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2006.3 volumes.RA 450.4 .I53 Fin25. The First Peoples Urban Circle :choices for self-determination : areport of Native Council ofCanada, October 1993. Ottawa :The Council, 1993. 10 volumes.E 92 Nat
10MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY26. From truth to reconciliation :transforming the legacy ofresidential schools / prepared forthe Aboriginal Healing Foundation byMarlene Brant Castellano, LindaArchibald, Mike DeGagné. Ottawa :Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2008.xiii, 425 pages.E 96.5 Cas27. The Indian Residential SchoolsSettlement Agreement's commonexperience payment and healing :a qualitative study exploringimpacts on recipients / preparedfor Aboriginal Healing Foundation byprincipal investigator, Gwen Reimer ;co-investigators, Amy Bombay . [etal.]. Ottawa : Aboriginal HealingFoundation, 2010. xvi, 186 pages.E 96.5 Rei28. Lump sum compensationpayments research project : thecircle rechecks itself / prepared forthe Aboriginal Healing Foundation byMadelieine Dion Stout, Rick Harp.Ottawa : Aboriginal HealingFoundation, 2007. xiv, 177 pages.E 96.5 Sto29. The new Trail of Tears : howWashington is destroyingAmerican Indians / Naomi SchaeferRiley. First American ed. New York :Encounter Books, 2016. xlll, 214pages.E 93 Ril30. Response, responsibility andrenewal : Canada's truth andreconciliation journey / edited forSNTMarch 2018the Aboriginal Healing Foundation byGregory Younging, Jonathan Dewar,Mike DeGagné. Ottawa : AboriginalHealing Foundation, 2009. x, 409pages.E 96.5 Res31. Thou shalt do no murder : Inuit,injustice, and the Canadian Arctic/ Kenn Harper. Iqaluit : NunavutArctic College Media, 2017. 416pages, 26 unnumbered pages ofplates.HV 9960 .C2 HarIntergovernmental Issues32. Sir John's echo : the voice for astronger Canada / John Boyko ;foreword by Lawrence Martin. Toronto: Dundurn, 2017. 213 pages.JL 27 BoyInternational Issues33. The Comprehensive Economicand Trade Agreement betweenCanada and the E.U. : anoverview / Xavier Van Overmeire,Nadiya Nychay. Toronto : LexisNexisCanada, 2016. xx, 80 pages.HF 1480.15 .E85 Van34. The future is history : howtotalitarianism reclaimed Russia /Masha Gessen. New York : RiverheadBooks, 2017. xii, 515 pages.DK 510.763 Ges
MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY35. In the shadows of the Americancentury : the rise and decline ofUS global power / Alfred W. McCoy.Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2017.359 pages.JZ 1312 Mcc36. With faith and goodwill : 150years of Canada-U.S. friendship /edited by Arthur H. Milnes. Toronto :Dundurn, 2017. 292 pages.FC 249 WitLabour & Employment37. The careful workplace : seekingpsychological safety at work inthe era of Canada's nationalstandard / Martin Shain. Toronto :Thomson Reuters, 2016. xxii, 137pages.HF 5548.8 Sha38. Fifty million rising : the newgeneration of working womentransforming the Muslim world /Saadia Zahidi. First edition. New York: Nation Books, 2018. 272 pages.HD 6206.5 ZahLaw & Justice39. Boundaries of state, boundariesof rights : human rights, privateactors, and pos
Joseph Saluzzi. Upper Saddle River : FT Press, 2012. xviii, 296 pages. HG 4910 Arn 5. The death of homo economicus : work, debt and the myth of endless accumulation / Peter Fleming. London : Pluto Press, 2017. 314 pages. HB 72 Fle 6. Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber. Updated and expanded edition. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2014. 542 .
Titles of shorter pieces - such as articles, items in periodicals, chapter titles and essays – go in quotation marks. TITLES, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL: Formal titles such as “president,” “chancellor” and “chair” are capitalized only when they precede a name. The same titles are in lowercase after the name or without the name.
African American Literature for Contrastive Analysis Use The following literature titles may be used to support “Linguistic Contrastive Analysis” with African American Standard English Learners (SELs). The selected titles are culturally relevant titles that incorporate African American Language throughout the text.
Current Nook Titles Red Titles are NEW! Older titles can be found in Archives 9/24/2019 David Baldacci The Hit David Baldacci The Target David Baldacci Long Road to Mercy David Baldacci The Fallen David Baldacci Redemption Linwood Barclay A Tap on the Window Nevada Barr Boar Island Fiona Barton The Widow M.C. Beaton Death of a Ghost Glenn Beck Miracles and Massacres Melanie Benjamin The Swans .
Current Nook Titles Red Titles are NEW! Older titles can be found in Archives 10/31/2019 David Baldacci The Hit David Baldacci The Target David Baldacci Long Road to Mercy David Baldacci The Fallen David Baldacci Redemption Linwood Barclay A Tap on the Window Nevada Barr Boar Island Fiona Barton The Widow M.C. Beaton Death of a Ghost Glenn Beck Miracles and Massacres Melanie Benjamin The Swans .
PENGUIN READERS EASYSTARTS – LEVEL 6 302 TITLES Something for Everyone! PENGUIN ACTIVE READING EASYSTARTS – LEVEL 4 85 TITLES Integrating Skills through Reading! PENGUIN KIDS LEVEL 1 – LEVEL 6 32 NEW TITLES 90 TITLES The ‘Happily-Ever-After’ kids!
Robin Readers by Level Ages 1-3 95 titles Ages 4-5 29 titles Ages 6-7 29 titles Ages 7-8 5 titles 3. How Robin Readers are graded? Robin Graded Readers have four levels: Foundation, Easy Start, Beginner and Elementary. With the i-Pen readable function, Robin Graded Readers are designed to nurture a love of reading in children which in turn enrich their vocabulary and consolidate their ability .
publishers have continued to produce a wonderful range of books. This catalogue showcases more than 100 fresh titles from over 30 publishers all in one place. You’ll find titles listed by category: nonfiction, fiction/poetry and children’s/YA. We hope you’ll find just the right titles to make sure your bookshop or library stands apart this Christmas season. Have fun reading! Thank you .
This is an extreme example, admittedly, but it does illustrate the value of creating short titles, or at least titles that make their meaning clear in the first few words. As a rule of thumb, I recommend keeping most of your blog post titles to 70 characters or less. This will result in
