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		Auditing Your Human Resources Department: A Step-by-Step Guide to Assessing the Key Areas of Your Program, Second Edition by John H. McConnell AMACOM © 2011 (308 pages) ISBN: 9780814416617 Including questionnaires, checklists, and forms, this comprehensive guide walks you step by step through the process of gathering key information, scoring answers, analyzing data, and fixing problem spots, while scrutinizing 11 essential functions.
		Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader by Dianna Booher Booher Consultants, Inc. © 2011 (217 pages) ISBN: 9781609940119 Detailing how body language, manners, and even your surroundings enhance credibility and build rapport, this book teaches you how to think strategically, organize ideas coherently, and convey to others genuine interest, integrity, respect, and reliability.
		How to Win Any Argument: Without Raising Your Voice, Losing Your Cool, or Coming to Blows, Revised Edition by Robert Mayer Career Press © 2011 (256 pages) ISBN: 9781601631817 By teaching you how to make, manage, and move arguments without offending or embarrassing anyone, including yourself, this book shows how you can win arguments using the "gentle way" rather than through angry confrontation.
		How to Work for an Idiot: Revised and Expanded with More Idiots, More Insanity, and More Incompetency: Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss by John Hoover Career Press © 2011 (288 pages) ISBN: 9781601631916 Containing real answers to real issues, this witty, caustic book explains how to live out the rest of your career with a sense of peace and contentment that comes from accepting and skillfully playing the hand you've been dealt.
		Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, Second Edition by The Arbinger Institute Berrett-Koehler Publishers © 2010 (241 pages) ISBN: 9781576759776 Explaining how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns, this book demonstrates how doing so leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.
		Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication by Laurie K. Lewis Blackwell LTD © 2011 (312 pages) ISBN: 9781405191906 Integrating major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings, this book explores how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation.
		Smashing Logo Design: The Art of Creating Visual Identities by Gareth Hardy John Wiley & Sons © 2011 (304 pages) ISBN: 9781119993322 By explaining the design theory and techniques needed to build great-looking logos, this innovative book examines the challenges of designing a logo while detailing best practices for producing a successful project.

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		.NET Performance Testing and Optimization: The Complete Guide by Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell Red Gate © 2010 (416 pages) ISBN: 9781906434403 Providing all you need to help you make the most of your .NET code, this detailed and comprehensive guide describes why you should test, the steps of setting up your test environment, how to actually run and record tests, and what you should be looking for.
		Character Development in Blender 2.6 by Jonathan Williamson Cengage Learning © 2012 (502 pages) ISBN: 9781435456259 Providing both the how and why behind each new tool or skill presented, this step-by-step book offers an understanding of how the Blender interface works and how you can manipulate objects in 3D space, as well as how to customize your Blender experience.
		Getting Started with the Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and JPA 2.0 by Daniel Haischt et al. IBM Redbooks © 2010 (296 pages) ISBN: 9780738434964 This IBM Redbook introduces OSGi applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 technology and describes their implementation in the Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and JPA 2.0 for WebSphere Application Server 7.0.
		Macs For Dummies, 11th Edition by Edward C. Baig John Wiley & Sons © 2011 (456 pages) ISBN: 9780470878682 New to Macs? Making the PC-to-Mac switch? Adding a Mac to your existing network? This straightforward book makes it easy and fun to set up e-mail, browse the Web, navigate iLife, buy songs with iTunes, and much more.
		Oracle Database 11g R2: New and Advanced Features For Developers by Sideris Courseware Corporation Sideris © 2011 (507 pages) ISBN: 9781936930036 Geared toward senior application developers, this courseware training guide presents some of the most advanced new features available in order to extend the capabilities and flexibility of business applications.
		Oracle Embedded Programming and Application Development by Lakshman Bulusu Auerbach Publications © 2011 (372 pages) ISBN: 9781439816448 Focusing on tried and true best practice techniques in cross-technology based Oracle embedded programming, this book provides authoritative guidance for improving your code compilation and execution.
		Process-Centric Architecture for Enterprise Software Systems by Parameswaran Seshan Auerbach Publications © 2010 (334 pages) ISBN: 9781439816288 Explaining how to architect enterprise systems using a BPMS technology platform, J2EE components, and Web services, this forward-looking book will empower you to create systems centered on business processes and make today’s enterprise processes successful and agile.
		Secure Semantic Service-Oriented Systems by Bhavani Thuraisingham Auerbach Publications © 2011 (464 pages) ISBN: 9781420073317 By describing the various aspects of secure service-oriented information systems, this book focuses on confidentiality, privacy, trust, and integrity management for Web services, and demonstrates the breadth and depth of applications of these technologies in multiple domains.
		Taking Your Mac OS X Lion to the Max by Michael Grothaus, Steve Sande and Dave Caolo Apress © 2011 (255 pages) ISBN: 9781430236689 The Mac has come a long way, and OS X Lion is the best version yet of Apple's desktop and laptop operating system. This book walks you through the awesome features and apps standard on the Mac and the new OS X 10.7 Lion to help you become a true power user.
		Tera-Tom on Teradata Physical Implementation V12/V13, Third Edition by Tom Coffing Coffing Data Warehousing © 2011 (505 pages) ISBN: 9780983336327 Preparing you to be a Teradata expert and get you ready for Teradata certification, this book will take you inside the Teradata engine and allow you to understand all aspects of Teradata.
		Tera-Tom on Teradata Utilities V12-V13 by Tom Coffing Coffing Data Warehousing © 2011 (423 pages) ISBN: 9780983336341 By making an extremely difficult subject relatively easy, the building block style of this guide will prepare you to be a Teradata Utilities expert and get you ready for utilities questions on all of the Teradata certification tests.
		Testing Complex and Embedded Systems by Kim H. Pries and Jon M. Quigley Auerbach Publications © 2011 (320 pages) ISBN: 9781439821404 Presenting combinatorial approaches for improving test coverage, this book details techniques to help you streamline testing and identify problems before they occur—including turbocharged testing using Six Sigma and exploratory testing methods.
		VMware Certified Professional VCP Study Guide by Rob Schmidt McGraw-Hill/Osborne © 2010 (415 pages) ISBN: 9780071633680 With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know in order to prepare for and pass the challenging VCP VMware exam.
		Working with NHibernate 3.0 by Benjamin Perkins Wrox Press © 2011 (230 pages) ISBN: 9781118112571 Providing examples using the IQuery, ICriteria, QueryOver, and LINQ to NHibernate API’s within the context of an example Guitar Store inventory program, this book walks readers through the steps required to configure and use the many features available contained within NHibernate 3.2.

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Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter 12 by Rhoda Grossman Draws Cengage Learning © 2012 (256 pages) ISBN: 9781435459885 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist who wants to apply your skills to the digital medium, this book will help you get the hang of Painter 12's tools and features, as well as hone and perfect your painting and drawing fundamentals, skills that can be applied in any art medium.