New CTE Resources – Fall 2017

Economics/Business/Accounting

/ An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became a Big Business and How You Can Take it Back
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
This work takes researches as well as consumers inside the medical industry, showing them not only what is wrong with the system, but also offers solutions to our healthcare woes. / / A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
by T. R. Reid
The author describes longstanding issues with theU.S. Tax Code and presents ways to solve our current tax system issues with examples from the international community. For readers with or without a background in economics.
/ The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu
Wu provides a history and examination of businessesand how they will gain the attention of consumers through ingenious and oftentimesunsettling methods. / / The Airbnb Story
by Leigh Gallagher
A detailed, entertaining history of the success of lodgings provider Airbnb, without omitting the upheaval this multi-billion dollar entity has caused to the worldwide hotel industry.

Criminology

/ Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
by Barry Friedman
Unwarranted is filled with stories of ordinary people whose lives were sundered by policing gone awry, and how there is a need to reform the system and make policing work for people, not against them. / / Police Brutality
edited by Michael Ruth
This title addresses controversies related to police brutality: Are police using excessive force? Is it a widespread problem in the United States? How can it be stopped? What is the US government's response to police brutality?
/ Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
by Kevin Davis
Davis uses the perplexing story of the Weinstein murder to present a riveting, deeply researched exploration of the intersection of neuroscience and criminal justice. / / Policing the Black Man
edited by Angela J. Davis
Highly informative and revealingessays written by leading scholars and experts in a variety of fieldswhich analyzethe treatment of African American males of all ages by our criminal justice system, including possible solutions to the challenges currently faced.
/ Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Gram
Oklahoma, 1920s; a shocking number of mysterious deaths occur among wealthy Osage Native American tribespeople. Read about the initial dreadfullymishandled treatment of the investigation,to a series of resolutions by a group that would be the predecessor to the FBI. / / Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America
by Jeff Pegues
News correspondent Pegues goes in-depth to speak to a wide range of individuals from officers to activists to provide readers with genuine observations on the issue of race and law enforcement.

Computer Science/Information Systems & Technology

/ Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World
by Asi Burak and Laura Parker
The authors explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. / / Megatech: Technology in 2050
edited by Daniel Franklin
The writers predict the vast changes that technology will bring to everything from impact on jobs to food production to health care, energy output, manufacturing and the military balance.
/ Adapt: How Humans are Tapping into Nature’s Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
by Amina Khan
Adapt shares the weird and wonderful ways that nature has been working smarter and not harder, and how we can too, to make billion dollar cross-industrial advances in the very near future. / / Learn to Code with Games
by John Quick
Structured as a series of challenges that help you learn to code by creating a video game, each chapter expands and builds your knowledge while providing guidelines and hints to solving eachchallenge.
/ JavaScript & JQuery: Interactive Front-end Web Development
by Jon Duckett
This book enables you to use and customize thousands of scripts, JavaScript APIs, and jQuery plugins that are freely available on the web as well as create your own scripts from scratch. / / Future Crimes
by Marc Goodman
Goodman has dedicated most of his career to discovering the potentially infinite ways that technology can be used to further criminal activities; and this book tells us how we can prepare ourselves.
/ Everybody Lies
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The Internet has certainly beenthe place to get information this century, but there are an infinite number of ways that information voluntarily given on the Internet, contrary to what we share in person, is revealing who we really are. / / Geek Girl Rising
by Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens
Inspiring profiles of some of the most successful women in technologywho rose to the top, sharing their wisdom in tech and business, and encouraging other “geek girls” to follow their dreams.
/ World Without Mind
by Franklin Foer
Big tech, the author writes, is homogenizing our thoughts and shattering our ability to be creative self-thinkers. Hecalls on us to begin to reclaim our individuality and ourlives. / / Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners
by Adrian W. West
Concise chapters with clear goals filled with examples and easy-to-follow steps forusing HTML and CSS to make your website site shine, no matter your skill level in web design.

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