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A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

I'm Not the New Me

by Wendy McClure

A hilarious and sometimes poignant look at the absurdities of weight-loss culture from an appealing and original new voice. From the creator of the immensely popular websites Pound and Candyboots, this is the memoir of Wendy McClure's odyssey-on-line and off-through the Valley of The Shadow of Her Really Big Ass. It's about the universe she created for herself when she couldn't see herself as a kicky Weight... (more)

Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together

Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

A massive disconnect exists between consumers and providers today. Consumers have a greater selection of higher quality goods to choose from and can obtain these items from a growing number of sources. Computers, cars, and even big-box retail sites promise to solve our every need. So why aren't consumers any happier? Because everything surrounding the process of obtaining and using all these products causes us... (more)

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth

by Marilyn Waring

Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development consultant, writer, and goat farmer, isolates the gender bias that exists in the current system of calculating... (more)

Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy

Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy

The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agencies are convinced that knowledge can be managed in sophisticated, rational ways and that networking and information technology... (more)

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

by Douglas W. Hubbard

Praise for How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business "I love this book. Douglas Hubbard helps us create a path to know the answer to almost any question in business, in science, or in life . . . Hubbard helps us by showing us that when we seek metrics to solve problems, we are really trying to know something better than we know it now. How to Measure Anything provides just the... (more)

The Love Every Woman Needs: Intimacy with Jesus

The Love Every Woman Needs: Intimacy with Jesus

by Jan McCray

With warmth and caring, Jan McCray helps women longing for intimacy to discover and connect with the love of Jesus. Weaving together biblical wisdom and true-life stories, she helps women discover the ultimate love relationship.

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 3rd Edition, Nagle, HoldenThomas Nagle

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 3rd Edition, Nagle, Holden

by Thomas Nagle

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 3rd Edition, Nagle, HoldenBinding: PaperbackPublication date: 2002

The Warren Buffet Way Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest InvestorRobert G Hagstrom

The Warren Buffet Way Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor

by Robert G Hagstrom

Life in the iron mills, and other stories

Life in the iron mills, and other stories

by Rebecca Harding Davis

You must read this book and let your heart be broken- New York Times Book Review "One of the earliest recognitions in American literature of the existence of the very poor."-Michele Murray, National Observer Suggested for course use in: 19th-century U.S. literature Working-class studies Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) published 12 books and many serialized novels, stories, and essays.

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding... (more)

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births,... (more)

The Glass Castle

A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle , Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing... (more)

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

by Thomas H. Naylor, John De Graaf, David Wann

Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done — to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment — by the obsessive quest for material gain. In cleverly titled chapters like "Swollen Expectations" and "A Rash of Bankruptcies," the authors examine the origins,... (more)

Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

As American women have entered the labor force in greater numbers, the traditional work of wives and mothers--cleaning houses and caring for children--has gradually moved into the global marketplace. Paid domestic work has largely become the domain of disenfranchised immigrant women of color. Unlike the working poor who toil in factories and fields, these women see, touch, and breathe the material and emotional... (more)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum

Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.

Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty

Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty

by Annelise Orleck

In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country’s most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring “We can do it and do it better,” these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In 1972 they founded Operation Life, which was responsible for many firsts for the poor in Las Vegas—the first library,... (more)

La frontera/Borderlands

by Gloria Anzaldua

Cultural Writing. Chicana Studies. Women's Studies. "The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S., Southwest/ Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands, and spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races... (more)

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