Books

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology has just published 'Performance Management Transformation: Lessons Learned and Next Steps,' edited by Elaine Pulakos and Mariangela Battista. This volume uses case studies of global marquee companies to integrate performance management practice and research and offers concrete guidance for building more effective performance management systems for today's work environment and into the future. Companies studied include Patagonia, AbbVie, Medtronic, Toyota, and GoGo Inflight, among others.

This spring, American residents throughout the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands partake in the critical decennial tradition of completing a Census questionnaire. The results of this nationwide count influence the US government and economy for the following decade. As author Teresa A. Sullivan articulates succinctly in Census 2020: Understanding the Issues, 'everybody counts'.

Political Development in Hong Kong offers readers probably the most comprehensive and up to date accounts of Hong Kong's trends of politics, economic developments and social changes. It examines issues of modern governance in response to people's changing demands and values, especially those of the younger generations.

The Cambridge World History of Violence will be published by Cambridge University Press in the UK as a four-volume set on March 26, 2020. Publication in North America will follow in May. Volume I: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds is co-edited by Mark Hudson, a researcher with the Eurasia3angle Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH).

The first volume of the new book series Diabetes: Current and Future Developments presents comprehensive information on diabetes in conditions of kidney disease.

Geared to ages 2-11, 'Bees are the Best,' created by conservation biologist Joseph Wilson and illustrator Jonny VanOrman, introduces the wide diversity of bee species. Main character 'Honey,' a honey bee, thinks all bees are like her, until she ventures beyond her hive, discovering her neighbors' diverse skills and their contributions to a global ecosystem. The book concludes with a non-fiction section, with facts and actual images of bee species mentioned in the story, paired with their illustrated characters.

By the Director for the Centre of Death Studies, a book about death which takes the reader on a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the modern medical machinery deployed expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead.

University of Vermont sociologist Nikki Khanna used social media to solicit 30 original essays by Asian-American women on the pain that colorism -- prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a darker skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group - has caused them. Khanna says this topic is not talked about among Asian Americans and hopes her book will spur a healing dialog.

Bob Pepperman Taylor presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David Thoreau's thought in Walden and Civil Disobedience. As Taylor says in his introduction 'Walden is a central American text for addressing two of the central crises of our time: the increasingly alarming threats we now face to democratic norms, practices, and political institutions, and the perhaps even more alarming environmental dangers confronting us.'

A new book presents 40 years of research into the root causes of criminal behavior.