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Reality Check for Virtual Living

Posted on June 14, 2012
Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
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Author(s): Elias Aboujaoude
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2012)
Binding: Paperback, 352 pages
List Price: $17.95

The Internet has a propensity for bringing out reckless, cruel, and sometimes psychopathological behaviors in people who are normally rational and stable, says psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude in Virtually You. Citing clinical surveys and a series of patients that he personally treated for Internet-related behavioral disorders, he describes how the seeming unreality of cyberspace can lead I

Rethinking Risk: How Companies Sabotage Themselves and What They Must Do Differently

Posted on December 6, 2010
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Author(s): Joseph W. Koletar
Publisher: AMACOM (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 242 pages
List Price: $29.95

by Joseph Kolatar. 2011. 242 pages. AMACOM. $29.95.

Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution

Posted on September 17, 2010
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Author(s): Caroline Fraser
Publisher: Metropolitan Books (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages
List Price: $28.50

by Caroline Fraser. Metropolitan. 2009. 400 pages. $28.50.

In just one century, we could undo hundreds of millions of years of natural evolutionary processes, according to ecologist Caroline Fraser. She warns that the loss of ecosystems to growing human populations and rampant development could wipe out half the world’s animal and plant species by 2100.

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures

Posted on September 15, 2010
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Author(s): The Worldwatch Institute, Erik Assadourian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2010)
Binding: Paperback, 244 pages
List Price: $23.95

by the Worldwatch Institute. 2010. 244 pages. W.W. Norton. $19.95.

A worldwide binge of material consumerism has been draining the planet’s resources for the last few decades, but a new mass movement toward sustainability seems to be under way at last, according to the Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2010.

Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

Posted on September 10, 2010

Decision makers sometimes put their faith in logic and data when intuitive thinking would really be the better guide, says scientist Gary Klein in Streetlights and Shadows.

Sustainability’s Dividends

Posted on June 14, 2012
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
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Author(s): L. Hunter Lovins, Boyd Cohen
Publisher: Hill and Wang (2011)
Binding: Hardcover, 400 pages
List Price: $27.95

A business that lowers its fossil-fuel use is not only benefiting the planet’s health; it is also increasing its own profitability, argue L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen. In Climate Capitalism, they demonstrate how businesses in a variety of industries are adapting to the recession by adopting policies of environmental sustainability.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Posted on September 10, 2010
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Author(s): Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Publisher: Crown Business (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages
List Price: $26.00

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

How, exactly, do you motivate people to change their behaviors? According to Chip Heath and Dan Heath in Switch, it boils down to a three-part process: reaching people’s rational minds, appealing to their emotions, and then shaping the environment to make it more conducive to change.

Tapping the Fountain of Entrepreneurial Youth

Posted on June 14, 2012
Young World Rising: How Youth Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom Up (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series)
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Author(s): Rob Salkowitz
Publisher: Wiley (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages
List Price: $29.95

Geography and income may separate the young people of developing and industrialized countries, but digital technology is a powerful common ground, according to tech entrepreneur Rob Salkowitz.

The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today

Posted on February 18, 2011
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Author(s): Jeanne C. Meister, Karie Willyerd
Publisher: HarperBusiness (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages
List Price: $26.99

The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today by Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd. HarperCollins. 2011. 294 pages. $26.99.

The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

Posted on February 18, 2011
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Author(s): John McKnight, Peter Block
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 200 pages
List Price: $26.95

The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods by John McKnight and Peter Block. Berrett-Koehler. 2010. 173 pages. $26.95.