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by Michael Lind
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
For nearly a decade, Michael Lind worked closely as a writer and editor with the intellectual leaders of American conservatism. Slowly, he came to believe that the many prominent intellectuals he worked with were not the leaders of the conservative movement but the followers and apologists for an...
The Libertarian Reader
Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The first collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, The Libertarian Reader links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuries-old commitment to freedom, self-determination, and opposition to intrusive government. A movement that...
If Only We Knew What We Know
The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practi
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
While companies search the world over to benchmark best practices, vast treasure troves of knowledge and know-how remain hidden right under their noses: in the minds of their own employees, in the often unique structure of their operations, and in the written history of their organizations. Now, acclaimed...
SIMSOC: Simulated Society, Participant's Manual
Fifth Edition (Participant's Manual)
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.
In SIMSOC, players confront issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity,...
Omnipreneurship
An Organized Approach to Living A Life of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
An omnipreneur takes an entrepreneurial approach to every aspect of life—work, family, community, health, finances, spirituality, and more. CEO, past government official, and philanthropist Amr Al-Dabbagh shares his leadership model for using omnipreneurship to improve our lives and our world.
Moral Dimension
Toward a New Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary...
by Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
This bookis an introduction to Max Weber’s ambitious comparative study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order.
In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical methods of sociology and, at the same time,...
by James E. Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position...
Profit Beyond Measure
Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Waste has plagued almost every industrial-age firm for the past century. In this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking, experts H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert that any company can avoid the waste that is generated through excessive operating costs in the...
Profiting from Innovation
The Report of the Three-Year Study from the National Academy of Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
American industry is renowned for its scientific and technical breakthroughs -- and equally famous for its visible failures in commercializing its own technology. Drawing on many examples of successful innovation management, an elite panel of the nation's most accomplished technical managers demonstrates...
The Purchasing Machine
How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2001
Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealized savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery...
Networth
Successful Investing in the Companies* That Will Prevail through Internet Booms and Busts *(They're not always the ones you expect)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
For the millions who are looking for buying opportunities in the lucrative Internet market but are worried about the risks -- or wonder if the best times have now passed them by -- NetWorth provides indispensable advice supported by the world's most trusted business publication, The Wall Street Journal.
There's...
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's...