Authors:Frank Roosevelt, David Belkin,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: dissent, voices, socialism, market
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1994-11
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 1563244667
ISBN-13: 9781563244667
This is a collection of essays on market socialism, originally published in "Dissent" between 1985 and 1993. Among other topics, they take issue with the traditional view that socialism means rejecting the use of markets to organise economic activities, and question the reliance upon markets.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: fulfilling, life, keys, eleven, living, learn
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0664244947
ISBN-13: 9780664244941
One of the most admired people of the twentieth century, Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, just two years before her death, Roosevelt penned this simple guide toward a more fulfilling life. The commonsense ideas and heartfelt ideals presented in this volume are as relevant today as they were five decades ago. Her keys to a fulfilling life? Learning to Learn Fear: The Great Enemy, The Use of Time, The Difficult Art of Maturity, Readjustment Is Endless, Learning to Be Useful, The Right to Be an Individual, How to Get the Best out of Peopl
Author: Arthur M. "Schlesinger Jr."
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: volume, roosevelt, order, old, crisis
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2003-07-09
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0618340858
ISBN-13: 9780618340859
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, volume one of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, is the first of three books that interpret the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the early twentieth century in terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the spokesman and symbol of the period. Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: editions, thrift, dover, speeches
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-05-14
List price: $2.50
ISBN-10: 0486408949
ISBN-13: 9780486408941
representative speeches spanning the career of one of the greatest speakers in American political history. High points include FDR’s First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933– "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"); his message to Congress (December 8, 1945– "a day that will live in infamy"); and his Fourth Inaugural Address. Provides history students and general readers alike with a useful reference and a wonderful window on the Roosevelt years.
Author: Mary Ann Glendo
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: declaration, human, rights, universal, roosevelt, made, new, eleanor, world
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0375760466
ISBN-13: 9780375760464
Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and
Author: R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: workforce, managing, diversity, total, power, gender, unleashing, race
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 1992-10-08
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0814478077
ISBN-13: 9780814478073
The ability to successfully manage diversity in the workplace has become a basic strategy for corporate survival. Thomas supplies an action plan, extensive case studies, and a series of tough questions and answers to get readers thinking seriously about what elements are blocking the full use of their employees.Book Description The ability to manage this diversity successfully has become a basic strategy for corporate survival. Beyond Race and Gender supplies a sorely needed Action Plan, extensive case studies, and a series of tough questions and answers to get readers thinking deeply about w
Author: Richard E. Neustadt
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: leadership, roosevelt, reagan, politics, presidents, power, modern, presidential
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0029227968
ISBN-13: 9780029227961
Thirty years ago Richard Neustadt published "Presidential Power", which became a widely studied book on the theory and practice of presidential leadership. Presidents themselves read it and assign it to their staff for study, as did the intructors of hundreds of thousands of students of government. Now Richard Neustadt re-examines the theory of presidential power by testing it against events and decisions in the administrations of the later modern presidents who followed FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. To the original study of presidential power, Neustadt has added a series of chapters appraising
