Alkek Library News

Books to Help with Your New Year's Resolutions

New Year's Resolutions are coming up. Are you ready?

Here are our books on personal change. Get some help on making those resolutions stick!

Learn how to change an attitude, behavior, or belief. Set goals and achieve them.

It's time!

 

Books and E-Books on Personal Finance and Debt

Just in time for the holidays! These books will show you how to balance your budget and get out of debt.

Sample Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to Beating Debt

Understand what the fine print means, how credit works and compounds, what to pay off first, how to find a better deal, and strategies for not getting in over your head.

Cookbooks for the Holidays

Here's a link to our books on recipes for the holidays. Tamales and more for everyone!

 

Finding Odd International Economic Stats @ Alkek (video)

Where do you find the purchasing power parity of GDP for Argentina? Estimate foreign reserves for Thailand? How about the savings rate in Italy, national spending on research and development, consumption of energy, the minimum wages, rates of foreign investment and average housing costs for just about anywhere you want?

Datamonitor360 and Passport GMID of course.

 

Suggested Database: Oxford Music Online

Click here for Oxford Music Online. FeaturesThe New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), & The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, (2002). Includes access to the Oxford Companion to Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 

Lengthy, informative, authoritative entries on musical styles, history of music, instruments, music theory, and individual musicians. Beautifully written and as technical (or basic) as you want to get!