Jonathan: 5623 books
Nature's Fortune
How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What is nature worth? The answer to this question-which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms-is revolutionizing the way we do business.
In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that...
Human Institutions
A Theory of Societal Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social...
by Jonathan Kruk
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
The Hudson Highlands launched revolutions of independence, industry and creativity and have long enchanted artists and hikers. Mysteries still thrive in the area. Leni-Lenape legend told of an ancient giant slumbering between Storm King and Breakneck Ridge. During the Revolution, George Washington...
Well Worth Saving
How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris...
The Skeptical Economist
Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Economics is unavoidably central to any attempt to improve our quality of life, but most people do not know why, or how to question its underlying assumptions. The Skeptical Economist rejects the story told by other popular economics books. Responding to Western malaise about quality of life, and...
Ethics in Economics
An Introduction to Moral Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
In Ethics in Economics , Jonathan B. Wight provides an overview of the role that ethical considerations play in economic debates. Whereas much of the field tends to focus on welfare outcomes, Wight calls for a deeper examination of the origin and evolution of our moral norms. He argues that economic...
Category Management in Purchasing
A Strategic Approach to Maximize Business Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Category Management in Purchasing is a comprehensive guide to strategic category management which provides a step-by-step guide to its implementation and use, and enables readers to deliver value and cost savings when sourcing and purchasing. Now in its fourth edition, this text has cemented its place...
Palace Politics
How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Bringing rare interviews and meticulous research to the cloaked world of Mexican politics in the mid-twentieth century, Palace Politics provides a captivating look at the authoritarian Mexican state—one of the longest-lived regimes of its kind in recent history—as well as the origins of political...
by Jonathan M. Ladd
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political behavior?...
The Death of Corporate Reputation
How Integrity Has Been Destroyed on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Why did the financial scandals really happen? Why are they continuing to happen? In The Death of Corporate Reputation, Yale's Jonathan Macey reveals the real, non-intuitive reason, and offers a new path forward. **For over a century law firms, investment banks, accounting firms, credit rating agencies...
The European Union
Politics and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Covering the history, governing institutions, and policies of the European Union, Jonathan Olsen and John McCormick present the EU as one of the world's economic and political superpowers, which has brought far-reaching changes to the lives of Europeans and has helped its member states to take a newly...
Education Is Not an App
The future of university teaching in the Internet age
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Whilst much has been written about the doors that technology can open for students, less has been said about its impact on teachers and professors. Although technology undoubtedly brings with it huge opportunities within higher education, there is also the fear that it will have a negative effect...
The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway
A Travel Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge,...