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February 2008 - Posts
By Wauwatosa Public Library
Wednesday, Feb 13 2008, 10:31 AM
The Business Center is a specialized library with the Wauwatosa Public Library.
If you’re looking for a job, the Business Center contains books on careers, job outlook, test preparation and how to write resumes and cover letters.
If you own your own business or want to start a business, the collection has books on business start-up, business plans, management, marketing, advertising and selling.
If you’re looking for personal finance and investment information, the library has books and databases (S&P, Morningstar and ValueLine) you can utilize to help you make sound financial decisions and investments.
Selling your house, redesigning your office, coping with a difficult boss or co-worker? Take a look at what the Business Center can do for you.
Speaking of investments, if you just can’t “bear” it anymore, here are some new additions to the
Business Center to help get you through:
Active value investing: making money in range-bound markets by Vitaliy Katsenelson
Anatomy of the bear: lessons from Wall Street’s four great bottoms by Russell Napier
Bull in China: investing profitably in the world's greatest market by Jim Rogers
Chindia: how China and India are revolutionizing global business
ed. by Pete Engardio
Complete guide to currency trading & investing: how to earn high rates
of return safely and take control of your investments byJamaine Burrell
Complete turtletrader: the legend, the lessons, the results
by Michael Covel
Entries & exits: visits to sixteen trading rooms by Alexander Elder
Forex patterns & probabilities: trading strategies for trending and range-bound markets
by Ed Ponsi
Full of bull: do what Wall Street does, not what it says, to make money in the market
by Stephen McClellan
Stock Traders Almanac 2008
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By Wauwatosa Public Library
Friday, Feb 1 2008, 10:38 AM
 2008 is the Year of the Rat, the first animal in the 12 year lunar cycle of the Chinese calendar. The cycle starts with the rat, followed by the ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. According to one legend, the Jade Emperor invited all the animals to participate in a race; twelve showed up, and the signs of the Chinese zodiac were named for each animal in the order they finished the race. Are you a rat? If you were born in 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 or 2008, you are, but that’s not a bad thing because in Chinese philosophy, the rat is associated with material success, cleverness, hard work, discipline and a passionate nature.
Chinese New Year
The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month – in 2008 it falls on February 7th – and continues until the fifteenth day and the Festival of the Lanterns. In China, the New Year is a time to celebrate families and new beginnings. People prepare for weeks ahead, cleaning their homes from top to bottom, repairing and repainting, settling debts and clearing away traces of the old year to bring good luck for the New Year. Fire, which according to legend can drive away bad luck, is symbolized by red clothes, red decorations and fireworks.
Take a look at the Chinese New Year display in the Adult Library. Chinese books, pictures, chopsticks, foo dogs, jade jewelry and other treasures will be on display throughout the month of February.
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By Wauwatosa Public Library
Friday, Feb 1 2008, 09:38 AM
 Little Red Riding Hood is as timely in the information age as it was in 1697, when Charles Perrault published the first written version. Children of today would heed well its message, “Don’t give strangers personal information and addresses.” Perrault’s version differs greatly from the other well-known tales about a little girl with a red hood or cap. It ends abruptly without the wolf receiving just punishment. He eats the grandmother, waits in bed for Little Red Riding Hood and after playing the “Oh what big…” game with her, “he sprang out of bed and gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood.” This ending makes Perrault’s tale a cautionary one instead of a true fairy tale because it does not satisfy a child’s need for justice to prevail. Perrault’s fairy tales were written to amuse the French aristocracy and to caution young ladies about their behavior.
The Brothers Grimm’s version, Little Red Cap as it was originally known, is a true fairy tale because in spite of Little Red Cap’s disobedience, the tale ends happily. Little Red Cap dallies to pick flowers, thus offering the wolf an opportunity to meet her. Then she thoughtlessly gives him information about where her grandmother lives. The wolf eats the grandmother and Little Red Cap; however, a hunter arrives, guesses what happened, cuts open the wolf and rescues Little Red Cap and her grandmother. This account is gory and violent, but the happy ending reassures small children. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Trina Schart Hyman, Josephine Evetts-Secker have written adaptations that closely follow the Grimm’s tale. Cooper Edens selected a version in which Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are not saved, but justice is served. Little Red Riding Hood’s father and his friends find the wolf “and killed him with axes, so that he was punished for his cruelty.”
The most frequently translated version is the one by the Brothers Grimm. Caperucita Roja is a Spanish translation. Lon Po Po: a Red Riding Hood Story from China tells about three good little sisters and a tricky wolf dressed up like their grandmother. Pretty Salma: a Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa is about a girl who fails to heed Granny’s warning about talking to strangers. Ruby by Michel Emberly, Little Red Cowboy Hat by Susan Lowell, and Little Red: a Fizzling Good Yarn by Lynn Roberts are just a few among the many fractured fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood.
“Little Red’s Most Unusual Day” is a fractured adaptation for opera that will be performed by the Florentine Opera Company at the Wauwatosa Civic Center on Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 1:30 – 2:15 pm. This children’s opera is best for students in Kindergarten through 8th grades, but everyone is welcome. Please register at the Children’s Reference Desk or call: 414-471-8486.
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By Wauwatosa Public Library
Friday, Feb 1 2008, 09:38 AM
Books
Best of Wodehouse: an Anthology by P. G. Wodehouse
Charley Wilson’s War: the Extraordinary Story of the Covert Operation That Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile
Color Your Life: How To Design Your Home With Colors From Your Heart
by Elaine Ryan
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
Curly Lambeau: Building the Green Bay Packers by Stuart Stotts
Good Dog. Stay by Anna Quindlen
Hot Drinks: Cider, Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocolate, Spiced Punch, Spirits by Mary Lou Heiss
Marvels of Engineering/National Geographic Society
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Shooters by W.E.B. Griffin
Audiobooks
Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
Star Wars. Legacy of the Force. Inferno by Troy Denning
DVDs
Invisible
Nanny Diaries
Once
Simon Schama’s Power of Art
Simpsons Movie
Music on CD
Best of Quartet West/Charlie Haden
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love/Trisha Yearwood
Mothership/Led Zeppelin
No More Night: David Phelps Live in Birmingham/David Phelps
Since the Last Time/Arrested Development
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