Authors:Nancy Tennant Snyder, Deborah L. Duarte,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: industry, transformed, whirlpool, innovation, unleashing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0470192402
ISBN-13: 9780470192405

In publications such as BusinessWeek and Fast Company, the media have celebrated Whirlpool’s transformation into a leading-edge innovator and Nancy Tennant Snyder’s role as chief innovation officer. Ten years after this remarkable transformation, Unleashing Innovation tells the inside story of one of the most successful innovation turnarounds in American history. Nancy Tennant Snyder and coauthor Deborah L. Duarte reveal how Whirlpool undertook one of the largest change efforts in corporate history and show how innovation was embedded throughout the company, which ultimately lead t

Authors:Irene Tinker, Arvonne Fraser,
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: international, development, transformed, women, power, developing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1558614842
ISBN-13: 9781558614840

In these compelling testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell how they fought to ensure that the unprecedented political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. At this crucial historical moment, when women in Afghanistan and Iraq are being excluded from “rebuilding” plans in the wake of U.S. wars abroad, Developing Power offers both instruction and inspiration.Arvonne S. Fraser has been coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and is currently s

Author: Panel on Urban Population DynamicsNational Resear
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: developing, world, implications, change, transformed, demographic, cities
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2003-10-21
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0309088623
ISBN-13: 9780309088626

Authors:Wilson Smith, Thomas Bender,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: national, discourse, documenting, transformed, higher, education, american
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0801886716
ISBN-13: 9780801886713

This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith’s classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Science, the Endless Frontier; the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education and Sweezy v. New Hampshire; and Adrienne Rich’s challenging essay "Taking Women Students Seriously." The wid

Author: Anthony Flint
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: builder, transformed, american, city, master, york, moses, jane, jacobs, new, wrestling
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1400066743
ISBN-13: 9781400066742

To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental development projects, saw things differently: neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village were badly in need of “urban renewal.” Notorious for exacting enormous human costs, Moses’s p

Author: Matthew C. Price
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: century, praeger, security, international, twentieth, transformed, liberty, american, democratic, principles, advancement
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313346186
ISBN-13: 9780313346187

This book is a counterpoint to the prevailing view that the United States is an imperialist nation that has violently pursued power in the world to advance its own narrow interests. The basic theme is that at the dawn of the 20th century, there were six democracies in the world, but by century’s end, democracy was ascendant. This epic historical transformation has been thanks in great measure to the vision and sacrifices made by Americans. Matthew C. Price examines the great conflicts of the 20th century, showing how American democratic principles have utterly reshaped global values and

Author: Melody Petersen
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: hooked, machines, nation, prescription, drugs, marketing, slick, pharmaceutical, meds, companies, transformed, themselves, daily
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0312428251
ISBN-13: 9780312428259

An “angrily illuminating” (The New York Times) exposé of Big Pharma’s corrupting influence in America todayIn the last thirty years, pharmaceutical companies have seized control of American medicine by putting their marketers in charge. They invent diseases in order to sell the pills that "cure" them. They sway doctors by giving them resort vacatopms, gourmet meals, and fistfuls of cash. They advertise prescription drugs at NASCAR races, on subways, and even in churches. Medicines can save lives, but the relentless promotion of these products has come at tremendous cost. Prescription pil