Course Materials

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Following is a listing of course materials for upcoming AIM courses. When making your purchase, please compare ISBN numbers with this list to ensure you are purchasing the correct book and edition.

Business Continuity Planning

• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals by Susan Snedaker. Syngress Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 1597491721 or 978-1597491723. (Required)
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Capstone

Note: You should already have the Creswell text and the APA Manual as they were required for previous courses.

• Research Design: Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches, 3rd Edition by J.W. Creswell. Sage Publications, 2008. ISBN: 1412965578 or 978-1412965576. (Required)
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• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition. American Psychological Association, 2009. ISBN: 1433805626 or 978-1433805622. (Required)
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• The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations and Books by E. Zerubavel. Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0674135865 or 978-0674135864. (Optional)
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Electronic Information and Research

• An electronic reading packet is required for this course. Information on cost and payment deadline will be posted in the FirstClass conference for the course.

Enterprise 2.0 and Business Social Computing

• McAfee, A. P. (2009). Enterprise 2.0: New collaborative tools for your organization's toughest challenges. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. ISBN: 1422125874 or 978-1422125878 (Required)
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Information Design and Communication

• The Information Design Handbook by Jenn and Ken Visocky O'Grady. HOW Books, 2008. ISBN 160061048X or 978-1600610486. (Required)
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• You will need access to a scanner to complete many of the assignments. The fine art of image scanning will not be covered in this course, so please become comfortable scanning images that are high in quality yet bandwidth friendly. For a good primer on scanning and preparing images for the web (which will suffice for this course) check out this article at About.com which is just one item from their collection of information on scanning.
  • Digital camera
  • Dedicated page layout software (e.g., InDesign)
  • A graphics editor (Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, Corel)

Throughout the course, please share various options each of you has figured out to get access to these tools. Post your tips in the FC conference for the course.

Information Visualization

• Few, S. (2009). Now you see it: Simple visualization techniques for quantitative analysis. Oakland, CA: Analytics Press. ISBN: 0970601980 or 978-0970601988. (Required)
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• Tufte E. (2001). The visual display of quantitative information(2nd ed.). Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. ISBN: 0961392142 or 978-0961392147. (Optional)
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• McCandless, D. (2009). The visual miscellaneum. New York, NY: HarperCollins. ISBN: 0061748366 or 978-0061748363. (Optional)
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• Lima, M. (2011). Visual complexity: Mapping patterns of information. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN: 1568989369 or 978-1568989365. (Optional)
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• Yau, N. (2011). Visualize this: The flowingdata guide to design, visualization, and statistics. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley. ISBN: 0470944882 or 978-0470944882. (Optional)
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• Wong, D. (2010). The Wall Street Journal guide to information graphics: The dos and don'ts of presenting data, facts, and figures. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN: 0393072959 or 978-0393072952. (Optional)
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Research Methods

• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 3rd Edition by John W. Creswell. Sage Publishing Co., 2009. ISBN: 1412965578 or 978-1412965576. (Required)
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• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition. American Psychological Association, 2009. ISBN: 1433805626 or 978-1433805622. (Required)
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Sustainability in Business

• The Business Guide to Sustainability, 2nd Edition by Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard. Earthscan, 2009. ISBN: 1844077667 or 978-1844077663. (Required)
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• A required electronic reading packet. You'll find additional information on cost and the deadline for payment posted in the FirstClass conference closer to the start date of the course.

Writing for Research

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition American Psychological Association, 2009. ISBN: 1433805626 or 978-1433805622. (Required)
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• Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide to Working and Leading from a Distance by Darleen DeRosa and Richard Lepsinger. Jossey Bass: 2010. ISBN: 0470532963 or 978-0470532966. (Required)
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More information:

• AIM Used Textbook Market A list of texts used in previous AIM courses that are again being used. Buy and sell such texts here.

Links to Online Booksellers

• The Duck Store, University of Oregon Bookstore
• Powell's Used and New Books
• Barnes & Noble
• Amazon.com
• Nerd Books
• Barnes & Noble Textbook Site

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