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An Analysis of William H. Whyte's the Organization Man

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Springer (Author)William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic. This stressed the group as the source of creativity and emphasized that the greatest need of the individual is to belong to a group. To investigate this idea, Whyte spent years interviewing the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies when he was an...

What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture

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Report copyright infringementby M. Gabriela Alcalde (Author)Leading for survival, leading for liberation--how to uplift women of color, transform cultures of complicity, and upend white supremacy culture at work Workplace leaders: white comfort comes at the safety of women of color--and it costs lives and livelihoods. Microaggressions, structural barriers, unpaid emotional labor: WOC in leadership disproportionately bear the burdens of white supremacist work cultures, even as they're expected...

Can't Not Do: The Compelling Social Drive That Changes Our World

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Shoemaker (Author)With so many social challenges facing our world, trying to effect change feels daunting. The problems are complex, the politics murky, and the players innumerable. Yet, every day there are regular heroes making a significant impact on our most intractable social issues. "Can't Not Do" is a catchphrase for the urge that captures the heart of effective social change agents--explaining, in their own words, their passion and drive: "I can't n...

Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Fauteux (Author)Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-expanding lineup of niche music channels and exclusive celebrity-hosted programming. Music in Orbit is the first book to explore how satellite radio bridges legacy broadcast music radio and streaming platforms, serving as both precursor and integral player in today's streaming media environment...

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Report copyright infringementby Angus Phillips (Author), Giles Clark (Author)Now fully revised and updated for its seventh edition, Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry.The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process: commissioning authors, product development, design and production, marketing, and sales. Angus Phillips and Giles Clark offer authoritative and up-to-date coverage of all sectors of the industry fr...

Food Activism Today: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Donald M. Nonini (Author), Dorothy C. Holland (Author)Illuminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headed As climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate alternatives to th...

Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition

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Report copyright infringementby Debt Collective (Author), Astra Taylor (Foreword by)A Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.Author BiographyTHE DEBT COLLECTIVE is a new kind of union--a debtors' union--that transforms individual financial struggles into a source of collective power by enabling its members to dispute debts and engage in strategic campaigns of economic noncooperation. The Debt Collective's writers' bloc includes Ann Larson, Astra Taylor, Hannah Appel, Thomas Gokey, and La...

Wish I Knew: Blockchain, Bitcoin, IoT ..

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Report copyright infringementby Karen New (Author)Comics book that gives you a glimpse of our future with Blockchain, Bitcoin and IoT...Karen NewIntroduce your child all about finance and technology in this brand new adventure comic It's never too soon to instil finance responsibility and encourage creative critical thinking This delightful all-ages graphic novel designed to be read aloud with your future tech wizard. Da Yi brings to life this fantastic new story for children and parents al...

From Antebellum Light Skinned Slaves to the Globalization of Skin Whitening Biotechnology

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Report copyright infringementby Amina Mire (Author)From Antebellum Light Skinned Slaves to the Globalization of Skin Whitening Biotechnology takes historically grounded analysis and delineates how the skin whitening industry has become a contemporary site that facilitates commodification of unregulated whiteness on a global scale. Amina Mire investigates the extent to which antebellum South anti-miscegenation racial purity laws facilitated unofficial interracial reproduction of light skinned ...

Lean Media: How to focus creativity, streamline production, and create media that audiences love

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Lamont (Author)Most new media is destined to fail. Whether it's a song, film, website, book, video game, advertisement, or other type of media production, it's extremely difficult to create works that resonate with audiences. Lean Media can give creators and media companies an edge. The framework has worked for some of the biggest media brands and most well-known artists, as well as smaller teams and media ventures. It draws on the same "lean" approaches ad...

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Smith (Author), Mariano Fressoli (Author), Dinesh Abrol (Author)Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, po...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelvin Boston (Author)The host of PBS's The Color of Money presents his bestselling guide to personal wealth for African Americans. Nationally renowned financial expert Kelvin Boston offers basic money management advice tailored for African Americans. It is an inspiring, clearly written, and easy-to-use book that will show readers the smart money moves they need to make to start on the road to financial security. Number of Pages: 336 ...

Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America - Paperback

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by Ibram X. Kendi (Author), Joel Christian Gill (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist. NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Racism has persisted throughout history--but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American fi...

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Report copyright infringementby Mathieu Alemany Oliver (Editor), Russell W. Belk (Editor)Navigating through classical Chinese fiction, Shakespearean characters, the arts, consumer society, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theories, interactions with computers at work, toy play, or law courts, this book provides a better understanding of the concept of childlikeness and highlights its continuing negotiation given its capacity to symbolize the character of our societies, notably our roles and degre...

Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea

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Report copyright infringementby Monica Minnegal (Author), Peter D. Dwyer (Author)Navigating the Future draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Kubo people and their neighbours, in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, to explore how worlds are reconfigured as people become increasingly conscious of, and seek to draw into their own lives, wealth and power that had previously lain beyond their horizons. In the context of a major resource extraction project-the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Nat...

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Report copyright infringementby Yuko Aoyama (Author), James T. Murphy (Author), Susan Hanson (Author)Part of the Key Concepts in Human Geography series, this is a companion text dedicated to economic geography presenting 23 key concepts and demonstrating their historical roots and contemporary applications.Author BiographyYuko Aoyama is Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University and is currently an editor-in-chief of...

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Report copyright infringementby Ekaterina Chertkovskaya (Editor), Alexander Paulsson (Editor), Stefania Barca (Editor)Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.Author BiographyEkaterina Chertkovskaya is a Researcher in Degrowth and Critical Organisation Studies based at Lund University...

The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle - Hardcover

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by Joanne Huist Smith (Author)For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love. After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children--especially with the holiday season approaching. But 12 days before Christmas, present...

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them - Paperback

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by Barbara F. Walter (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times (UK), Esquire, Prospect (UK) A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States “I wish all the [January 6] committee members would read [How Civil Wars Sta...

The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Flavio Comim (Editor), Mozaffar Qizilbash (Editor), Sabina Alkire (Editor)The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers a set of conceptual essays that debate the...

The Five Strategies for Fundraising Success: A Mission-Based Guide to Achieving Your Goals

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Report copyright infringementby Mal Warwick (Author)In this practical and engaging guide, top fundraising consultantMal Warwick introduces an entirely new and revolutionary approachto fundraising strategy and planning. He shows nonprofitorganizations how to set fundraising goals based on mission and howto select, implement, and stay with the right strategies to meetthose goals. His five fundamental fundraising strategies areGrowth, Involvement, Visibility, Efficiency, and Stability (GIVES), a...

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Report copyright infringementby Michal Kalecki (Author)This volume includes six essays, the first dating from 1935 and the last from 1967, by one of the outstanding economists of our time. The economics presented in this volume is political economy worthy of the name: a discipline which shows us the social relations, in particular the class and group conflicts, behind the economic quantitative relations. Michal Kalecki, as Joan Robinson has pointed out, anticipated the Keynesian system, from ...

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Shore (Author)A small cadre of scientists--collaborators and competitors--are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria, a feat most tropical disease experts have long considered impossible. Skepticism, doubt, and a host of logistical and financial obstacles dog their quest. Success may ultimately elude them. Why, and how, do they persist? The kind of person who decides to combat malaria must have a very rare combination of attributes: dogged enough to k...

Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships

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Report copyright infringementby Val Napoleon (Author), Sari Graben (Author), Angela Cameron (Author)While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to this project. Creating Indigenous Property identifies how contemporary Indigenous conceptions of property are ro...

Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby James L. Watson (Editor)McDonald's restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day. What are the cultural implications of this phenomenal success? The widely read--and widely acclaimed--Golden Arches East argues that McDonald's has largely become divorced from its American roots and become a "local" institution for an entire generation of affluent consumers in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, and Tokyo. In the second e...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Francis Adams (Author), Henry Adams (Author), Robert H. Elias (Preface by)Chapters of Erie is a classic account of ruthless business practices in nineteenth-century America--in particular, Jay Gould and James Fisk's successful effort to gain control of the Erie Railroad in 1868 and subsequent attempt to corner the American gold market, which resulted in the "Black Friday" panic of September 24, 1869.Seizing upon the opportunity provided by the scandals ...

The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade

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Report copyright infringementby Rohit Bhargava (Author), Henry Coutinho-Mason (Author)NEXT BIG IDEA BOOK CLUB 2023 MUST READ BOOK2023 HOFFER BOOK AWARD - GRAND PRIZE FINALISTINDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS - GOLD MEDAL WINNERThis is a handbook for visionaries.Making outlandish predictions about the future is easy. Predicting the future normal is far harder.For the past decade, Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason have been on the front lines of exploring the global forces shaping our fut...

Event Marketing in the Context of Higher Education Marketing and Digital Environments

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Report copyright infringementby Florian Neus (Author)Event marketing is a powerful tool of brand communication and used within many different fields. Florian Neus extends the existing scientific literature to events of higher education institutions and events within digital environments. Different aspects of event marketing efforts within these fields are addressed and evaluated. Based on conducted studies and coherent analysis new insights are derived. Furthermore, valuable implications for ...

The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

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Report copyright infringementby Henry A. Giroux (Author), Grace Pollock (Author)This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines that shape children's culture into a largely commercial endeavor. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millenniu...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oquendo (Author), Kate Klasen (Author)This 68 page fillable template will make short work of putting together that emergency and disaster planning manual thats been on your to do list forever. All you need to do is fill in the blanks for your business. It includes checklists for supplies, common hazards, debriefing, evacuation and sheltering in place protocols, resources, recovery, maintenance, as well as best intake practices. Number of Page...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg Colburn (Author), Rebecca J. Walter (Author)Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability of housing, or the lack thereof, going beyond conventional policy discussions to consider fundamental questions such as: What makes housing affordable and for whom is it affordable? What are the consequences of a lack of affordable housing? How is affordable housing created? And what steps can be taken to ensure all people have access t...

The Journey Ahead: Supporting Successful Migration in Europe and Central Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Laurent Bossavie (Author), Daniel Garrote Sanchez (Author), Mattia Makovec (Author)This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to better leverage labor mobility for all parties.Author BiographyThe World Bank came into formal existence in 1945 following the international ratification of the Bretton Woods agree...