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: Fred Strebeigh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: law, american, reshape, women, equal
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2009-02-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0393065553
ISBN-13: 9780393065558

The dramatic, untold story of how women battled blatant inequities in America’s legal system. As late as 1967, men outnumbered women twenty to one in American law schools. With the loss of deferments from Vietnam, law schools admitted women to avoid plummeting enrollments. As women entered, the law resisted. Judges would not hire women. Law firms asserted a right to discriminate against women. Judges permitted discrimination against pregnant women. Courts viewed sexual harassment as, one judge said, "a game played by the male superiors." Against the odds, women fought to reshape the law

Author: James Canton
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: world, years, reshape, trends, future, top, extreme
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0452288665
ISBN-13: 9780452288669

A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology, environment, terrorism, population, and medicine to help companies and individuals prepare for the coming complex and volatile global changes, including: • How climate change and energy trends will reshape the planet • How astounding medicine trends will enhance people’s lives • How the rise of China will bring on a new global power strug

Author: David J. Lieberman
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: attitude, behavior, feelings, beliefs, anyone, reshape, anybody, proven, techniques, change
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312324758
ISBN-13: 9780312324759

Finally, the book that shows you how to do the impossible: get someone to change, for the better.Don’t let crazy people drive you crazy. Don’t let annoying, obnoxious, petty people get under your skin. Whether it’s your kids, spouse, friend, client, patient, or coworker, you have the power to make it better. Before you break up with your boyfriend, fire your employee, or write off your mother-in-law, try changing them into someone new. With clear, prescriptive techniques, How to Change Anybody tells you how to: * Inspire loyalty.* Turn anyone’s mood around fast.* Stop stubborn beha

Author: Carl J. Schramm
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Keywords: world, change, life, reshape, miracle, imperative, america, economic, entrepreneurial
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 006084163X
ISBN-13: 9780060841638

In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the world’s economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and employ that secret. The secret that has led the American economy to become the world’s strongest? Our unparalleled skill as entrepreneurs. As Schramm compellingly shows in this sw

Author: Linda Nazareth
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: attitudes, reshape, lives, industries, generational, economics, economy, changing, demographics, leisure
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 047084034X
ISBN-13: 9780470840344

Author: Fred Harmon
Publisher: Kiplinger Books
Keywords: business, work, reshape, forces, five
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0938721844
ISBN-13: 9780938721840

(Kiplinger Books) A text answering essential questions about the forces of change that are sweeping business and will reshape it over the next decade. Includes ways to develop a strategy for understanding the forces of change, successfully aligning the key components of a business to make room for changes, and more. DLC: Business forecasting.