Marvin: 663 books
Civilizing the Economy
A New Economics of Provision
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
When a handful of people thrive while whole industries implode and millions suffer, it is clear that something is wrong with our economy. The wealth of the few is disconnected from the misery of the many. In Civilizing the Economy, Marvin Brown traces the origin of this economics of dissociation to...
Multiple Account Benefit-Cost Analysis
A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values...
Lead More, Control Less
8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
**Unleash Commitment, Initiative, and Innovation
In their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same...
Future Search
Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Commitment, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA’s product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland,...
The Next Twenty-five Years
Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
A penetrating exploration of affirmative action's continued place in 21st-century higher education, The Next Twenty-five Years assembles the viewpoints of some of the most influential scholars, educators, university leaders, and public officials. Its comparative essays range the political spectrum...
Cannibals and Kings
Origins of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of...
Probable Tomorrows
How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1997
A fascinating look at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work. Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies explore these changes and the impact they will have on everyday life. For example, by the year 2010:
-Personal computers...
To Find a Job . . . Start a New Career
The Career and Job Change Toolbox
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Certain large industries have contributed more than their share of layoffs and downsizing, and our slow economy has more than a few employees scared and uncertain of their futures. As many as 20 million people are dissatisfied in their current occupations. Some of those are unhappy workers afraid to...
How Clouds Hold IT Together
Integrating Architecture with Cloud Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Gain the practical knowledge you need to plan, design, deploy, and manage mixed cloud and on-premises IT management systems. Drawing on his experience as senior principal software architect at CA Technologies, Marvin Waschke lays out the nuts and bolts of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)—the...
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
The Riddles of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.
Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches?
Marvin Harris answers these...
by Colleen Beard, Stephen Bocking, Jennifer Bonnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in...
The Ghost Quartet
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Do you believe in ghosts?
You will after reading these original short novels from four of today's best writers of the fantastic.
Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope series, opens the collection with the tense "A Place of Waiting." The...
Whiting Up
Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous."...
by Marvin Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
These poetic gems were found like pebbles on the sands of my life. Poems of love, joy, fact, fiction, depression and inspiration. Stories of romance and tragedy, war and peace, and father and motherhood. All born from my overactive imagination and I call them "My Kinda Poetry." And I hope they are your kind too.