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Mobile, Alabama's oldest city from the period of European settlement, was founded in 1702 by French naval officer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. Mobile:The New History of Alabama's First City traces the history of Mobile during the last three centuries. Mobile rescues the city's forgotten citizens from historical obscurity. Sugar-white gulf beaches, banana docks, Mardi Gras, Admiral Raphael Semmes, Fort Conde', John LeFlore, Bienville Square, Choctaw and Creek Indians, The USS Alabama they're all here. Published to coincide with the tricentennial celebrations, this historical reference book is for Library viewing only.

Your success depends on your attitude! Gain control of your life by gaining control of your attitude. Attitude: The Choice Is Yours helps you to tap into your personal attitudes to better understand, analyze, adjust, and maintain the right frame of mind at work and at home. Designed in the self-study format, Attitude demonstrates practical ways to communicate positive attitudes and learn to deal with other people's difficult attitudes. Learn how certain attitudes create specific actions and results. BF327 .Y36 1996 This title is a part of the Consideration of Others (CO2) collection.

Make positive assertiveness a productive force in your life. Let Developing Positive Assertiveness help you examine your posture, language, and attitude while learning to deal openly with others. Discover how to:

Find your natural style of communication

Use assertive words appropriately

Take charge of your life

BF575 .A85 L56 1995

Every day, individuals and teams face dozens of problems that must be solved. How can they make decisions quickly and effectively? That's No Problem! A Problem-Free Approach to Problem Solving offers an easy-to-follow six-step process that can help you make a variety of business and personal decisions when working alone or with a group. HD 30.23 .C37 1997

According to the authors of Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, the "disease" of self-deception (acting in a manner contrary to what you know is right) is the underpinning of all leadership problems in today's organizations. People who are in self-deception typically live their lives as though trapped in a box. Blind to the reality around them, they undermine both their performance as well as the performance of others. Being in the box, prevents them from seeing that they undermine performance. Consequently, they don't change, and neither do their results; however well intentioned they may be. Leadership and Self-Deception identifies self-deception, how people get trapped in it, how it kills organizational performance, and how to solve it. Breaking out of these destructive patterns lead to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership. HD 57.7 .L4315 2000

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CITING INTERNET SOURCES

With the increasing use of electronic journals, texts and other online resources in preparing technical reports, research and conference papers, questions often arise concerning the proper methodologies for citing these resources. There are numerous websites that offer guidelines for citing internet sources. My two favorites are listed here:

Columbia University Press Style Sheet. This style sheet offers guidelines for basic citing of electronic sources, whether using the humanities style such as MLA or Chicago or scientific style such as APA or CBE. Recommendations for citing electronic sources from the Internet, Email, Discussion Lists and Newsgroups, FTP, Telenet, Electronic Publications, Online Reference Sources, Software Programs and Video Games all appear in this instructional style sheet from Columbia University Press.

Style Sheet for Citing Print & Electronic Resources. This style sheet offers guidelines for citing both print and electronic resources. Examples are of APA, MCA, Chicago & Turabian styles. Also contains a section about plagiarism and how to avoid it. This site is sponsored by UC Berkeley Library.

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