Personal Development for Smart People

Pavlina asserts that smart people are conscious and deliberate in their desire to grow as human beings. He focuses on seven principles behind successful growth, and offers practical methods for improving relationships, your career, your finances, your health, and other aspects of your life. This easily readable book is filled with personal anecdotes, and many, many tips and suggestions about how to start making small or large changes in your life today.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
Steve Pavlina
BF 637 .S4 P385 2008

Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design

In recent years, there has been considerable success at repopulating urban centers. However, scholars have questioned whether these upscale environments and often isolated cultural developments are sustainable. This collection intends to provide analytical tools and practical methods that can be used to develop sustainable, long-term solutions for the management of responsive, lively, and safe urban environments. This book brings together views and approaches to urban development from across Europe, focusing on practical, sustainable solutions rather than quick-fix interventions.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:

Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces
ed by Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice, and Mark Greaves
HT 166 .U7453 2007

The Search for Al Qaeda

If the first rule in war is to know your enemy, the United States is failing. Al Qaeda is the most complex enemy this country has ever faced. It is a network whose mission is to drive Americans out of the Muslim world, destroy Israel, and to create a jihadist superstate. Riedel illuminates how Al Qaeda is accomplishing this mission by profiling many of its senior leaders--notably Osama bin Ladin, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musaib al Zarqawi. He also analyzes the origins, ideology, strategies, tactics, and vulnerabilities of Al Qaeda, demonstrating how these were used to attack the World Trade Center on 9/11, and how they continue to be adapted to fight the war in Afghanistan and Iraq today.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:

The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future
Bruce Riedel
HV 6432.5 .Q2 R54 2008