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Books: Core Collections & Much MoreThe best business books from the academy and from expert practitioners; from those who have mastered their craft and the ability to express it. Business Books: Core Collections & Much More comprise more than eighty individual core collections on subjects ranging from Accounting, Advertising, Business Biography, Business Classics, Business Ethics, Business History, Consulting, Economics, Entrepreneurship and Finance to Human Resources, Globalization, International Business, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Real Estate, Taxation, the US Economy, Venture Capital, the World Economy and more. These individual core collections are enhanced with additional selections to add quality, depth and breadth. Many titles are eBooks form Books24x7, netLibrary and the World Bank e-Library When I walk through the book stacks at the University of Florida Libraries, browsing our titles on any subject, I must wend my way through many aisles since we shelve our books by Library of Congress Call Number and the books I've selected fall across a variety of call number ranges. You may visualize each collection as books in a bookcase. For example, the collection of Leadership Books currently numbers about 150 titles. A standard library bookcase measures three feet wide by six feet tall. A hundred books fit on about three shelves with between 30-35 books to a shelf. So our Leadership Book Collection fills five shelves. Each year we add a selection of new titles. We may remove older editions and weed out some books that are no longer relevant. It is my hope that you will find these bibliographies useful as reading lists, selection aids, guides to the literature, collection evaluation tools – whatever your purpose. The goal is to provide enhanced core collections in a broad cross section of business subjects. You can find out more about individual titles by using an online bookseller (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Fatbrain, etc.) or by visiting the Business Book Publishers’ Websites. The collections are ongoing. My intention is to update each collection once or twice a year. They serve as the foundation for the more extensive business and economics research collections at the University of Florida Libraries. The New Business Books list shows the newly published titles added to the core collections during the current year. These core collections are being used across the U.S. and all over the world – in France and Germany, Austria, the UK, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Japan. They are bookmarked and revisited by students, faculty, practitioners and others in universities, government agencies and public and private companies. Scope and Selection Guidelines The collections are expansive lists (generous selections) encompassing a broadly conceived idea of business reading. The titles are drawn from a database of more than 8,000 business books that I have been carefully collecting for many years. They were originally developed as a basic business book collection for the American Center at the Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) as part of a United States Information Agency grant. Today, you’ll find a well-rounded and up-to-date list of readings on all the major aspects of business. The estimated cost is $400,000 ($50 x 8,000). Books are selected to provide both the essentials and the breadth of each discipline and field of study. There are introductory works, textbooks, and handbooks that survey the subject; works that provide the historical development of the subject and influential ideas; contemporary readings that explore different facets as well as international perspectives and cross-cultural, ethical, legal, comparative and public policy aspects. The goal is to offer a well-rounded selection of books that anyone — student, scholar, practitioner, librarian, any interested reader — can use to become well-informed about the subject and use to identify authors and sources for further reading. You will find the best business authors, but not necessarily the most popular or best selling at the moment. The authors share their expertise and represent a variety of viewpoints - many voices, many views. An attempt is made to include works that place the subject in its historical development to show how the field developed, what influences shaped the dominant paradigm as well as important alternative views, and include the history of ideas. Titles covering more than one subject appear in each relevant collection. The notes and bibliographies found in the books provide an additional avenue for further study. Each book entry contains full bibliographic information, ISBN and pricing information when available. The call numbers and locations at the University of Florida are provided. I have recently added title and author indexes. You may now see complete lists of all titles and authors by linking to the Business Book Authors and Business Book Titles pages. These are very large files that are slow to load unless you have fast Internet access as there are more than 8,000 titles and thousands of authors. There are also lists of included business books published in 2004, 2003 and 2002. Business is a dynamic field. Thousands of new business titles are published every year. New fields emerge. Scholars and practitioners write a steady stream of new works. New core collections will be added. Your suggestions are most welcome. Peter Z. McKay |
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