Author: Clyde Prestowitz
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: compete, decline, post, dollar, era, america, delusions, american, prosperity, free, market, betrayal
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-05-11
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1439119791
ISBN-13: 9781439119792

CONSIDER THIS SHOCKING FACT: while China’s number one export to the United States is $46 billion of computer equipment, the number one export from the U.S. to China is waste—$7.6 billion of waste paper and scrap metal. Bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz reveals the astonishing extent of the erosion of the fundamental pillars of American economic might—beginning well before the 2008 financial crisis—and the great challenge we face for the future in competing with the economic juggernaut of China and the other fast-rising economies. As the arresting facts he introduces show, the U.S. is

Author: Sandy Hotchkiss
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: narcissism, sins, deadly, seven
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-08-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0743214285
ISBN-13: 9780743214285

In this groundbreaking book -- the first popular book on narcissism in more than a decade -- clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss shows you how to cope with controlling, egotistical people who are incapable of the fundamental give-and-take that sustains healthy relationships. Exploring how individuals come to have this shortcoming, why you get drawn into their perilous orbit, and what you can do to break free, Hotchkiss describes the "Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism" and their origins. You will learn to recognize these hallmarks of unhealthy narcissism -- Shamelessness,

Author: Jim Loehr
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: story, change, life, business, destiny, power
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743294688
ISBN-13: 9780743294683

In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jim Loehr, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves -- and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. "Your story is your life," says Loehr. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories -- of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about our work, our families and relationships, our health; about what we want and what we

Author: Matthew E. May
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: mastering, innovation, formula, toyota, solution, elegant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743290178
ISBN-13: 9780743290173

"Toyota is becoming a double threat: the world’s finest manufacturer and a truly great innovator . . . that formula, a combination of production prowess and technical innovation, is an unbeatable recipe for success." -- Fortune, February 2006For the first time, an insider reveals the formula behind Toyota’s unceasing quest to innovate and do more with less, a philosophy that has made it one of the ten most profitable companies in the world (and worth more than GM, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Honda combined). In a rare look into Toyota’s ability to consistently achieve breakthr

Author: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: nature, dangerous, creatures, world, bizarre, rex, inside, parasite
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-09-11
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 074320011X
ISBN-13: 9780743200110

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts’ own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world’s most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zim

Author: Ernest Becker
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: death, denial
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1997-05-08
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0684832402
ISBN-13: 9780684832401

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.

Author: Shank Govindarajan
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: competitive, advantage, tool, new, cost, management, strategic
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0029126517
ISBN-13: 9780029126516

As often reported in Business Week and Fortune, most large companies today concede that their cost systems are desperately obsolete. In this eagerly awaited book, John Shank and Vijay Govindarajan, nationally known experts on the strategic use of cost information, address head-on the fundamental concepts of management accounting that are in desperate need of change. The authors demonstrate how strategic cost management, the first analytic framework to relate meaningful accounting information to a firm’s business strategy, is revolutionizing accounting—and overall business practices in