 | Introduction to Management 3rd ed by Richard Pettinger
Buy used from: £7.96 Extremely useful particulary nearing the exam! (R. Pettinger was my lecturer + tutor by the way, so I know what's good and what's not!)
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.01 A mind-opening read to our stereotyped impressions of what *branding* means and does... as well as an extremely good resource for supporting Ethical Management
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 | Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.94 I read this book 3 months before my revision and came to using it in one of my exams! Unforgettable strategies and concepts by Semler.
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 | Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story by Ernst Malmsten
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 The Internet is seen as one of the biggest risks one would take one's business into after reading this book...
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 | The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer by Judi Bevan
Buy used from: £0.01 Offers great insight (rather too in-depth for my liking esp. the history) but so far it's been enjoyable
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 | Business at the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy (Penguin Business Library) by Bill Gates
Buy new: £9.53 / Used from: £0.01 Yes I know it's about Bill Gates - but doesn't this just want to make you find out even more?! Gives alot of Gates's corporate thinking behind the technologies; though solutions not too practical..
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 | Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, CodeMate Enhanced Edition (International Edition) by John Lewis
Buy used from: £14.50 Essential for all the programming modules in Y1+2.
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 | HTML 4 for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides) by Elizabeth Castro
Buy used from: £0.35 Very handy and offers no-fuss results in no-time.
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 | JavaScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides) by Tom Negrino
Buy used from: £1.83 Must have (along with the HTML for the WWW) for all web-based courses. This offers the nitty-gritty stuff that you will need for your projects.
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 | Java in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by David Flanagan
Buy new: £25.65 / Used from: £2.00 Again, a must-have; I couldn't tell you how useful the reference guide is... esp with the limited things the Lewis & Loftus book offers in the text
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 | Pour Your Heart into it: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
Buy new: £6.83 / Used from: £1.25 Very resourceful esp for case studies - and not just hearing about it from the lecturer or by the documentaries.
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 | Management the Marks & Spencer Way by Marcus Sieff
Buy used from: £0.01 Another insight into one of the most recognisable UK home brands
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 | UML and the Unified Process (Object Technology Series) by Jim Arlow
Buy used from: £1.69 Year 3 Software Engineering: This is the no-nonsense book you'll need if you are unfamiliar with the modelling
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 | Project Management: A Managerial Approach by Jack R. Meredith
Buy used from: £14.21 Year 3 Project Management: Many examples + disk with eval copy of MS-Proj
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 | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01 If you like to read around the subject (like you are always told in this course) you should find this quite a thought-provoking read.
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![Understanding Organizations [Fourth Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DcbOwnboL._SL75_.jpg) | Understanding Organizations [Fourth Edition] by Charles Handy
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £0.01 My copy is filled with post-it tabs full of written tips: tried + tested to be useful throughout your time in this course
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 | Marketing by David Mercer
Buy new: £25.99 / Used from: £0.01 Year 3 Marketing: Quite useful for pulling out tools and mkt-jargons for your coursework
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| Computer Organisation and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (Beta Edition) by Patterson
Buy used from: £1.32 -- Not for those who do not have the Computer Architecture course --
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 | Surviving the Digital Jungle: What Every Executive Needs to Know about Ecommerce & Ebusiness by Jack Shaw
Buy used from: £4.33 Merging the Business vs. Digital and the real uses. Helps to understand technology at an intro level.
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 | C: How to Program by Harvey M. Deitel
Buy used from: £6.39 Hard core engineering book on C, Java, HTML, and comes with the usual ASCII tables, numbering systems and programming basics, leading up to the advanced-end of the spectrum.
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 | Teach Yourself Java by Joseph O'Neil
Buy new: £22.94 / Used from: £3.07 Covers a wide breadth of the Java capability but lacks the depth that is required in exercises. Nevertheless a nice book that gives you lots of mini-projects to practice with, esp Graphics package.
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 | Business Environment 4/e by Adrian Palmer
Buy used from: £4.90 Year 2: Busines In a Competitive Environment: Don't know your EU/EC/EMU? It has the answer for the econ-aspects of I.M. Great for times when you know you should cram up some of those.
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 | Internetworking with TCP/IP: Client-Server Programming and Applications, Linux/Posix Sockets Version v. 3 by Douglas E. Comer
Buy new: £42.74 / Used from: £53.26 Y 3: Networks &Communications - not the ultimate bible but very useful in deciphering the jargons used in lectures
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 | A Dictionary of Economics (Oxford Paperback Reference) by John Black
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 This is a little gem, hidden amongst the biggies, that saves you time and again
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 | Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £0.01 For the conscience mind...
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