The EQ Interview: Finding Employees with High Emotional Intelligence

By Adele B. Lynn

Emotional Intelligence is one of the key indicators of success, so it makes sense to choose your employees based on their EQ. But how? The EQ Interview shows you how to assess the emotional intelligence of candidates and ensure that they’re the right fit for the job. This practical guide explains the five areas of emotional intelligence and how they enhance job performance, and then arms you with more than 250 behavior-based questions specially formulated to help you predict future performance and avoid costly hiring mistakes. You’ll learn how to analyze and interpret answers, and even spot “EQ frauds.” Filled with insightful examples, this book gives you the tools and information you need to factor emotional intelligence into the hiring process. Call Number HF5549.5 .S38 L96 2008

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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By David Sedaris

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life’s most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris’s sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated. Call Number PS3569 .E314 .W2008

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Super Review: English Language

by Research & Education Association

Call# PE1114 .E64 2000

Product Description
REA’s Super Reviews help students brush up on tough subjects. They are more thorough than ordinary subject reviews but less complex than voluminous study guides. Numerous solved problems accompany the review and bring it to life. The English Language Super Review includes an extensive review of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. A glossary of usage is also included. Exercises and quizzes enable students to check whether they have learned what they need to know, whether they understand the subject and have command of it.

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Crash and Learn: 600+ road tested tips to keep audiences fired up and engaged

By Jim Smith

How does a good speaker hold the attention of any audience, large or small? What are the common, but often overlooked, mistakes speakers make? Jim Smith, Jr., an acclaimed motivational speaker, presents the mistakes and then provides tips and pointers to eliminate and avoid them through his Jim’s Gems. The book gently instructs and positively inspires. Jim Smith and his Gems will help any speaker or facilitator become more polished and powerful–painlessly. (Description from barnesandnoble.com) Call number: HF5718.22 .S645 2006

Plagiarism

by Heidi Williams

Call Number: PN167 .P532 2008

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Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean

By Michael Erard

Call Number: P37.5 .S67 E73 2007

This original, entertaining, and surprising book investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we’ve come to judge them.

Um… is about how you really speak, and why it’s normal for your everyday speech to be filled with errors—about one in every ten words. In this charming, engaging account of language in the wild, linguist and writer Michael Erard also explains why our attention to some blunders rises and falls. Where did the Freudian slip come from? Why do we prize “umlessness” in speaking—and should we? And how do we explain the American presidents who are famous for their verbal stumbles? Full of entertaining examples, Um… is essential reading for talkers and listeners of all stripes.

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Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read a Poem and Why with CD

by Josephine Hart

Call Number: PR1221 .C34 2008

Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by an 80-minute CD recorded live at the British Library: Ralph Fiennes reading Auden, Edward Fox reading Eliot, Roger Moore reading Kipling, Harold Pinter reading Larkin, and more.

Whether you believe (like Robert Frost, who inspired the title) that poetry is a way of “taking life by the throat” or (like T. S. Eliot) that it “is one person talking to another,” nobody does it better than the poets featured in this book. For a novice discovering the rich heritage of English-language verse or a seasoned poetry reader, Catching Life by the Throat is an extraordinary introduction to eight iconic poets. 8 illustrations. (Description by BarnesandNobles.com)

Violence in the Media

By Jodie Lynn Boduch (Editor)

Call Number: P96 .V5 V564 2008

Throughout history people have engaged in heated debates over controversial issues. Each title in The History of Issues series shows how the arguments have both changed and remained constant over time, proving the old adage that “the more things change the more they stay the same.” Each anthology in the series contains a wide range of primary documents-including speeches, court cases, personal reflections, and newspaper accounts-that brings controversies from previous eras to life. Essays by historians and modern scholars add background and insight. An annotated table of contents, chronology of key events, and thorough index facilitate quick reference. An extensive bibliography and list of organizations to contact offer avenues for further research. All of these features combine to provide a unique historical perspective on issues that continue to spark intense debate.

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Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy: Birth Through Kindergarten

By Carol Vukelich, James F. Christie, and Billie F. Enz

Call Number: LB1140.5 .L3 V85 2008

Emphasizing diversity, this book provides instructional assessment guidelines, teaching strategies, and classroom management suggestions designed to facilitate reading, writing, speaking, and listening development for children between the ages of two and five. Case studies give concrete illustration to major points. Appendixes feature reading lists and Internet resources. The authors teach education, curriculum, and instruction at American universities.

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How to Write for a General Audience: A Guide for Academics Who Want to Share Their Knowledge with the World and Have Fun Doing It

By Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Call Number: PN145 .K38 2007

This work shows academics how to communicate their ideas effectively to a wider audience. With humor and personal anecdotes, she provides practical information on coming up with ideas for articles and books, beating procrastination, and writing effective, jargon-free prose. Most academics know little about the business end of publishing. In this book, they’ll find helpful tips on locating a publisher, pitching an idea, working with editors, negotiating a book contract, and promoting one’s finished product.

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