Author: Raj Patel
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: redefine, democracy, society, market, reshape, value
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 031242924X
ISBN-13: 9780312429249

"A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Opening with Oscar Wilde’s observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced.  He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place.  Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are

Author: Jennifer Robert
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: redefine, recycle, reveal, designs, redux
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-10-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1586857010
ISBN-13: 9781586857011

Redux offers a host of solutions for creating a green home with recycled, reused, and environmentally healthy materials, whether remodeling, redecorating, or building from the ground up. This book combines extensive salvage use with the larger goal of efficiency and environmentalism--and the results are simply stunning.

Author: Blaine Brownell
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: physical, environment, redefine, materials, catalog, transmaterial
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2010-02-03
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1568988931
ISBN-13: 9781568988931

Since the 2006 publication of his best-selling first volume of Transmaterial, author Blaine Brownell has become the undisputed master of new materials, inspiring architects and designers looking to transform the structure, spaces, and surfaces of their projects with the latest high-tech and environmentally friendly products. The third volume in the critically acclaimed series presents over two hundred emergent materials, products, and systems that have significant potential to transform the constructed world. Transmaterial 3 provides a broad synopsis of the state of technological advances in m

Author: Blaine Brownell
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: physical, environment, redefine, materials, catalog, transmaterial
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-01-03
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1568987226
ISBN-13: 9781568987224

As the speed of technological progress continues to accelerate, innovation threatens to outpace architects’ and designers’ working knowledge of materials, thereby limiting their applicability. In order to stay at the cutting edge of design, a knowledge of the uses, properties, and sources of new materials is essential. A sequel to the critically acclaimed and best-selling book Transmaterial, Transmaterial 2 is a clear, concise, accessible, and carefully edited resource that provides information about the latest and most intriguing materials commercially available. Based on a compil

Author: Blaine Brownell
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: physical, environment, redefine, materials, catalog, transmaterial
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-12-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1568985630
ISBN-13: 9781568985633

Author: Peter Sprigg
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Keywords: democracy, redefine, marriage, trashing, judges, gay, activists, liberal, outrage
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0895260212
ISBN-13: 9780895260215

The oldest tradition of our society is under attack. The legalization of same-sex marriage has become the cultural battleground. This book draws attention to the battle of the sexes, invoking the American public to protect a stronghold of our civilization.

Author: John Grant
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: markets, defy, conventions, redefine, brands, innovation, manifesto, build, brand
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-05-23
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0470027517
ISBN-13: 9780470027516

The days of the image brands are over, and ‘new marketing’ has gone mainstream. The world’s biggest companies are pursuing a post-advertising strategy, moving away from advertising and investing in leading edge alternatives. In the vanguard of the revolution has been John Grant, co-founder of the legendary agency St. Luke’s and author of The New Marketing Manifesto, whose radical thinking has informed a generation. Now Grant is set to stun the industry again. In The Brand Innovation Manifesto, he redefines the nature of brands, showing why old models and scales no lo