Author: Julie Hessler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black market
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Culture of Shortages
Author: Julie Hessler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black market
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black market
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Cultures in Crisis
Author: James F. Downs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social change
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social change
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Aftermath
Author: Manuel Castells
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199658412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The consequences of the financial crisis may be uncertain, but are sure to reach deep into the body politic, civil society, welfare systems, and reform. This collection of essays by leading international sociologists and social scientists explores the likely outcomes and consequences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199658412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The consequences of the financial crisis may be uncertain, but are sure to reach deep into the body politic, civil society, welfare systems, and reform. This collection of essays by leading international sociologists and social scientists explores the likely outcomes and consequences
Hillbilly Elegy
Author: J. D. Vance
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062872257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062872257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
S.e.t. Culture
Author: Ken J. Brumfield
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781477635216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Whether you are a frontline worker, an executive, a manager, or a member of the board of directors of your company or organization, understanding and obtaining strategies to successfully manage a potential crisis is vital knowledge for you. Dr. Ken J. Brumfield, a management professor and management consultant, offers practical strategies in this book to help organizations and companies successfully manage crises. He has experience working at a large organization that successfully rebounded from the Hurricane Katrina disaster and has extensive experience providing management consulting to organizations facing crises. Let's face it. It is highly likely that your organization will face a crisis of some kind in the future. Understanding your senior executive team or top management culture is important when determining how organizations perform during a crisis. In this book, Dr. Brumfield assists top managers, middle managers, and all company stakeholders in examining the role of their top leadership culture and its impact on crisis management. He does so by providing useful examples showing how senior executive or top management team culture affects middle managers' decision making during crises. This book is useful for all business types, including those operating in corporate America, governmental agencies, religious organizations, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations. This book will help you make critical decisions and act decisively in a crisis, especially when there is the potential for loss of life or property. This book can make the difference between your company successfully managing a crisis and experiencing temporary or permanent cessation of business operations! Don't wait until it is too late to read this book! Help your organization or company successfully manage crises.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781477635216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Whether you are a frontline worker, an executive, a manager, or a member of the board of directors of your company or organization, understanding and obtaining strategies to successfully manage a potential crisis is vital knowledge for you. Dr. Ken J. Brumfield, a management professor and management consultant, offers practical strategies in this book to help organizations and companies successfully manage crises. He has experience working at a large organization that successfully rebounded from the Hurricane Katrina disaster and has extensive experience providing management consulting to organizations facing crises. Let's face it. It is highly likely that your organization will face a crisis of some kind in the future. Understanding your senior executive team or top management culture is important when determining how organizations perform during a crisis. In this book, Dr. Brumfield assists top managers, middle managers, and all company stakeholders in examining the role of their top leadership culture and its impact on crisis management. He does so by providing useful examples showing how senior executive or top management team culture affects middle managers' decision making during crises. This book is useful for all business types, including those operating in corporate America, governmental agencies, religious organizations, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations. This book will help you make critical decisions and act decisively in a crisis, especially when there is the potential for loss of life or property. This book can make the difference between your company successfully managing a crisis and experiencing temporary or permanent cessation of business operations! Don't wait until it is too late to read this book! Help your organization or company successfully manage crises.
Culture in Crisis
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231004123
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231004123
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The Future of Capitalism
Author: Paul Collier
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062748661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit, and the return of the far-right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts—economic, social and cultural—with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world’s most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself—and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the twentieth century.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062748661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit, and the return of the far-right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts—economic, social and cultural—with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world’s most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself—and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the twentieth century.
Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586171429
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Discusses the dangers of the Western world's growing secularism, including growing poverty, declining morals, and greater threats to security, and argues that spiritual renewal is the solution to these problems.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586171429
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Discusses the dangers of the Western world's growing secularism, including growing poverty, declining morals, and greater threats to security, and argues that spiritual renewal is the solution to these problems.
Culture, Crisis, and Creativity
Author: Dane Rudhyar
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835604871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835604871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Scarcity
Author: Sendhil Mullainathan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092641
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092641
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture