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rEvolution |
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Publisher: Crown House
By Bill Lucas
ISBN:9781845901295 |
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We have reached a turning point in our development as a species. In the coming decades we face significant global challenges in terms of climate change, biodiversity, food and water resources and violent extremism. At the local level, these seem like crazy times, with the speed of change accelerating faster than ever.
In rEvolution, best-selling author Bill Lucas suggests some of the ways we can all succeed in today’s complex world. 150 years after Charles Darwin invented the concept of natural selection, Bill argues that the rules of evolution are changing. To thrive in our current crazy world we need a new kind of “mind-ware”. Specifically we need to develop our adaptive intelligence.
Drawing on new and emerging sciences and using approaches previously applied in other domains, this book describes some of the practical steps you can take at home, at school, in the workplace and in the wider community to ensure that you can constantly adapt to new circumstances.
Bill’s analysis, optimism and suggestions for practical learning make this an essential addition to the book shelf of all thoughtful questioning members of the species! |
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Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach 8th Edition |
Publisher: Norton
By Hal R. Varian
ISBN:9780393934243 |
The #1 best-selling intermediate microeconomics text in the world is still the most modern and contemporary.
Varian is “the Adam Smith of the new discipline of Googlenomics.”—Stephen Levy, Wired.
For over 20 years Hal Varian’s Intermediate Microeconomics has given students the most current and complete coverage of intermediate microeconomics at an appropriate mathematical level. The Eighth Edition includes contemporary case studies and examples and relevant coverage of the current economic crisis—all in focused, lecture-length chapters. |
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Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace |
Publisher: Norton
By Guhan Subramanian
ISBN:
978-0-393-06946-4 |
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Bringing together auction theory and negotiation theory in a practical and accessible way, here is an authoritative guide to negotiating deals.
Today’s increasingly competitive marketplace is filled with business transactions that include elements of both negotiations and auctions, yet the received wisdom on deal-making treats these two mechanisms separately. Leading dealmaking scholar Guhan Subramanian explores the ubiquitous situation in which negotiators are “fighting on two fronts”—across the table, of course, but also on the same side of the table with known, unknown, or possible competitors. Delving into case studies as diverse as buying a house, haggling over the rights to the television show Frasier, and selling “toxic” assets into the U.S. government’s bailout fund, Subramanian combines meticulous research, field experience, and classroom-tested strategies to create an indispensable guide for anyone involved in buying or selling everything from cars to corporations. |
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Concise History of Western Music 4th Edition |
Publisher: Norton
By Barbara Russano Hanning
ISBN:9780393932515 |
The most engaging and accessible brief survey of Western music history, at the best value on the market.
Based on A History of Western Music, by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, Concise History of Western Music, Fourth Edition, offers authoritative coverage of the essential works and genres in Western music history. By setting musical events into a memorable historical and cultural context, Concise History of Western Music provides a history students will read and remember. |
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State of the World 2010:Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability |
Publisher: Norton
By The Worldwatch Institute
ISBN:9780393337266 |
| The premier environmental nonprofit shows the ways to transform our consumer culture into a culture centered on sustainability.
For society to thrive long into the future, we must move beyond our unsustainable consumer culture to one that respects environmental realities. In State of the World 2010, the Worldwatch Institute’s award-winning research team reveals not only how human societies can make this shift but also how people around the world have already started to nurture a new culture of sustainability. Chapters present innovative solutions to global environmental problems, focusing on institutions that are the principal engineers of culture, such as governments, the media, and religious organizations. Written in clear, concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore. |
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy |
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
ISBN:9780393075960 |
An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world’s future prosperity.
The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about America’s economic missteps, the soundness of this country’s economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system. |
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Macroeconomics: Economic Crisis update |
By Charles I Jones
ISBN:9780393935110 |
The only Intermediate Macroeconomics text to provide substantive content on the economic crisis.
The current economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression: the events themselves and the actions by the Fed and Treasury Department are equally unprecedented. Macroeconomics: Economic Crisis Update contains two brand-new chapters that directly address the crisis and present it in terms of the short-run models used in macroeconomics. |
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