Practically Radical

Real Common Sense insists that America, plagued with consumerism and private interests, has strayed from its Founding principles and the vision for America of our forefathers. Brian Kahn exposes the d

Abandoned at age 15, Sam Bracken battled homelessness, poverty, and abuse to successfully earn a full-ride football scholarship to the Georgia Institute of Technology. When he left for college, everyt

???? ?In a world where fear, crisis, and insufficiency dominate the media and many personal lives, the notion of claiming contentment may seem fantastic or even heretical.?????? ?? Yet finding suffici

It started simply. The pastor would stand outside her church and greet the workers as they came in from the fields. She spoke to them in Spanish and they responded. And soon a bridge was forged.This i

The editor-in-chief of Wired magazine reveals how to run an online business profitably in spite of the Internet's inherently free culture, disseminating the principles of a "priceless economy" in six

“David Horowitz has single-handedly exposed the intellectual corruption that exists within the classrooms of American colleges. Like all forms of corruption, indoctrination flourishes when kept in the

Freud’s discovery of the Oedipus complex has had a tumultuous fate in the field of psychology in the United States. At first considered the kernel of psychoanalysis, it progressively lost its luster

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on F

Beinhocker (a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm) has written this work in order to introduce a broad audience to what he believes is a revolutionary new paradigm i

Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a

In this book some of the leading thinkers in development studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period and its establishment during decolonization all the

While life is the most immediate, transparent, and familiar thing people experience, says Tuttle (emeritus philosophy, U. of New Mexico-Albuquerque), it is also the most problematic, obscure, and dist

Discover why being a "fast second" is often more financially rewarding than being at the cutting edge. If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Not necessarily! The skill-sets of most est

With his combination of hard-edged logic and visionary hope, Michael Albert is one of the treasures of the Left. [Barbara Ehrenreich] How does a Marxist talk about gender? How does a feminist talk abo

From inception to commercial application, and with lavishly illustrated examples, this book explores the idea of type design by experimentation and how this produces innovations in typography. Treatin

The remarkable memoir of an Iraqi woman who escaped from captivity in Baghdad and became America's leading undercover counter-terrorist expert. Here is the story of an anonymous counter-terrorism ex

As we enter a new century, has it got harder for revolutions to occur in a world of far-flung corporations and commodity chains, global cultural forms, instantaneous communication, and a new unipolar

在資訊流與市場變動劇烈的時代，《Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes》為企業提供快速洞察未來的指南。作者 Sam Hill 以簡潔筆法歸納六十個將影響行銷與品牌發展的主要趨勢，說明如何區辨短期風潮與深層變革。書中探討都市化、全球網絡、人口結構與消費心理的變化，並提供領導者實用工具，協助團隊舉辦趨勢分析工作坊。全書視野開闊、語氣務實，適合企業決策者、行銷主管與創新從業者閱讀。A showcase of the sixty trends that will have the biggest impact on business in the next decadeIn Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes (A Brandweek Book), top marketer Sam Hill, author of the bestselling Radical Marketing, highlights the trends that will have the biggest impact on marketing, brand management, and product development within the next decade. He separates the momentary fads from the lasting movements and reveals why trends matter, where they come from, and how to exploit them. He also describes the ten factors that will influence current trends and trends to come, such as exponential population growth, urbanization, interconnectedness, and the decreasing role of work in our lives. With these valuable insights in hand, business leaders will learn how to differentiate their product on

Digital technology and the Internet may have changed our lifestyles over the last decade, but so far they have had very little impact on our dwellings.Looking to the most innovative talents from aroun

A study of the development of a group of individuals on the left of British politics between 1936 and 1956. Woodhams studies the experiences of this generation, the motives that attracted them towards

Be an online success story with the built-to-last Internet strategies used by today's leading e-businessesGeneral Electric PlasticsEnronVictoria's SecretNortel NetworksDavid Bowie (DavidBowie.com)Gene

Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary... Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas a Kempis with the journalistic energy

At a time of widespread disillusion as to what development has in practice done to the lives of hundreds of millions of marginalised people over the past 40 years, this book seeks to reclaim developme

At a time of widespread disillusion as to what development has in practice done to the lives of hundreds of millions of marginalised people over the past 40 years, this book seeks to reclaim developme

Examines the work of Yvonne Rainer, an avante-garde filmmaker with film credits covering over 20 years. Green's attention falls specifically on Rainer's treatment of gender and multiculture issues. An

Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth

Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, r