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  The Ecology of Commerce

  by Paul Hawken

  A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.
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  The Long Tail

  Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

  by Chris Anderson

  What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket... (more)
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  Jennifer Government

  by Max Barry

  Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye... (more)
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  Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet

  by Richard Coyne

  The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richard Coyne uses the liminality of design—its uneasy position between creativity and commerce—to explore the network economy. He argues that design, with its... (more)
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  A Matter of Profit

  by Hilari Bell

  The T'Chin may be plotting an assassination -- and Ahvren has to stop them Ahvren is fed up with war, but as a Vivitare soldier he must fight or risk dishonoring his family. His sister, Sabri, who dreams of freedom, is being forced to marry the emperor's loathsome son. The only chance either of them have to escape is if Ahvren can solve the mystery of the T'Chin in time. Why did forty planets of alien races... (more)
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  Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

  by Mike Dash

  In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike.... (more)
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  Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (Politics of the Living)

  by Derrick Jensen

  "It was strangely like war. They attacked the forest as if it were an enemy to be pushed back from the beachheads, driven into the hills, broken into patches, and wiped out. Many operators thought they were not only making lumber but liberating the land from the trees. . ." from The Last Wilderness, by Murray Morgan, 1976 Derrick Jensen, prize-winning author of A Language Older than Words and The Culture of... (more)
• Industrial and Commercial Geography Third 3rd EditionJ. Russell / Phillips, M. Ogden Smith

  

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  Industrial and Commercial Geography Third 3rd Edition

  by J. Russell / Phillips, M. Ogden Smith

• American Industry in the War a Report of the War Industries Board (March 1921)Bernard M. Baruch

  

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  American Industry in the War a Report of the War Industries Board (March 1921)

  by Bernard M. Baruch

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  A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

  by William J. Bernstein

  A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting... (more)
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  Endgame: Book 2

  Resistance

  by Derrick Jensen

  Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leap-frogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution. Derrick Jensen , activist, author, small farmer,... (more)