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TIBBS Professional Development Library

 

To check out a book or for questions about the TIBBS Lending Library please contact Eileen Hayter at 843-8291 or by email: ehayter@email.unc.edu

The TIBBS library is located in the BBSP/TIMA offices in the back corner by the conference room.

Career Exploration and Non Academic Career Paths

"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius

Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower (Scientific Survival Skills) by Cynthia Robbins-Roth

Careers in Science and Engineering

Nontraditional Careers for Chemists

The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs by Victor A. Bloomfield and Esam E. El-Fakahany

The Medical Science Liaison: An A to Z Guide by Erin Albert and Cathleen Sass

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles by Richard N. Bolles

Academic Careers

A Self-fulfilling Prophecy: Building a Successful Career in Health Research by Simon Stewart

Advice for New Faculty Members by Robert Boice

Building a Successful Career in Scientific Research: A guide for PhD students and Postdocs by Phil Dee

The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong

The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (Second Edition) edited by John M. Darley, Mark P. Zanna, and Henry L. Roediger III

Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis

Teaching

Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty by Elizabeth F. Barkley, K. Patricia Cross, and Clair Howell Major

Handbook of College Science Technology

Just in Time Teaching

Systematic Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Teaching Tips: Innovations in Undergraduate Science Instruction by Marvin Druger, Eleanor D. Siebert, and Linda W. Crow

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments by Derek Bruff

Tools for Teaching (Second Edition) by Barbara Gross Davis

Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham

Mentorship

Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies by Marty Brounstein

Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists by Jo Handelsman, Christine Pfund, Sarah Miller Lauffer, and Christine Pribbenow

Good Mentoring: Fostering Excellent Practice in Higher Education by Jeanne Nakamura, David J. Shernoff and Charles H. Hooker

Translational and Clinical Research

Clinical and Translational Science: Principles of Human Research by David Robertson and Gordon H. Williams

Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, Second Edition by Warren S Browner

Scientific Career Success

A PhD Is Not Enough: A Guide To Survival In Science by Peter J. Feibelman

Career Advice for the Life Scientist

Celebrating Success

Enhancing the Postdoctoral experience for Scientist and Engineers

How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci Gelb

Making the Right Moves (a Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty)

Moving on Managing Career Transitions

Secrets to Success in Industry Careers L. Borbye

Staffing the Lab

The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pitfalls

Transitions a Graduate Student Resource Guide

Winning Job Interviews by Dr. Paul Powers

Leadership

Leadership Theory and Practice Peter Northhouse

Managing a Nonprofit

Managing Human Resources in Human Resources

Moments in Leadership: Case Studies in Public Health Policy and Practice

Profit from the Core

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow them and People will Follow You by John C. Maxwell and Zig Ziglar

The 8th Habit

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni

The Marketing Plan

The Rule Book of Business Plans for Startups

The Tipping Point

The Winning Attitude John Maxwell

Diversity Related

Hispanic Scientists: Ellen Ochoa, Carlos A. Ramirez, Eloy Rodriguez, Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Maria Elena Zavala. (Capstone Short Biographies)

The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School (Graduate Survival Skills) (v. 4) by Alicia Isaac

Women in Science

Extraordinary Women Scientists (Extraordinary People) by Darlene R. Stille

The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed by Sue V. Rosser

The Woman Scientist: Meeting The Challenges For A Successful Career by Clarice M. Yentsch and Carl J. Sindermann

What’s Past is Prologue: The Personal Stories of Women in Science at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine by Eric G. Neilson

Women Don’t Ask

Grant and Scientific Writing

A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers by Deborah Blum

A Handbook of Biological Illustration by Zweifel, Frances

A Short Guide to Writing about Biology by Pechenik, Jan

Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers

Expectations Teaching Writing from the Reader’s Perspective Gopen

Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application by Otto O. Yang

How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper” 6th Edition by Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel

Sin & Syntax

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Williams, Joseph

Successful Scientific Writing by Matthews, Janice, Bowen, John and Matthews, Robert

The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science by Montgomery, Scott

The Elements of Style Strunk and White

The Elements of Teaching Writing by Gottschalk, Hjortshoj

Writing the Doctoral Dissertation by Gordon B. Davis

Presentation Skills

Communicating Science Giving Talks

Dazzle 'Em With Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation by Robert R. H. Anholt

Presentation Skills 201: How to take it to the Next Level as a Confident, Engaging Presenter by William R Steele

Presenting Science to the Public

Speaking about Science: A Manual for Creating Clear Presentations by Scott Morgan and Barrett Whitener

The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid by Michael Alley

Work life Balance

Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life by Robert W. Drago

First Things First

The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques: How to Get More Done Without Driving Yourself Crazy by Pamela Dodd and Doug Sundheim

You Can't Manage Time: But You Can Manage Many Priorities Susan de la Vergne

Stress Management

10 Simple Solutions to Stress: How to Tame Tension and Start Enjoying Your Life by Claire Michaels Wheeler

Stress Reduction for Busy People: Finding Peace in an Anxious World by Dawn Groves

Conflict Resolution and Interpersonal Skills

Collaborative Approach to Resolving Conflict

Please understand me II

The Conflict and Communication Activity Book: 30 High-Impact Training Exercises for Adult Learners by Bill Withers and Keami D. Lewis

The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution by Dudley Weeks

The Feeling Good Handbook

The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home by Gary Harper

Travel

Lonely Planet Venice City Guide

Lonely Planet Paris City Guide

Lonely Planet Rome City Guide

Misc.

Biological Inquiry

Biology: An Exploration of Life

Biology: Concepts and Connections

Biology and Biotechnology

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Death of a Department Chair

Frontiers of Illusion

Manipulation and Expression of Recombinant DNA

Math Smart

Microsoft Project 2000

Protein – Protein Interactions

SAS Enterprise Guide and Logistics Regression

Significant Sequences Genomics for Biology Students

The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Sync

The Geneticist who Played Hoops with my DNA

The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual

The Silhouette Man

The Truth about Hillary

The Ultimate CSS Reference

The World is Flat

Training Workshop Essentials

Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems

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