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"The Environmental Endgame is substantive, innovative, and profound. Nadeau exposes the weaknesses of neoclassical economic theory, and shows why it cannot address environmental concerns. He offers instead a stimulating and radically new approach to sustainability."—Joseph Tainter, author of The Collapse of Complex Societies "The Environmental Endgame by Robert Nadeau is an astonishingly original and challenging book that examines the current global environmental crisis from multiple angles and differing perspectives. Above all, it provides the reader a sobering overview about critical steps that must be taken to undo momentous mistakes that policy makers have made in the past century by clinging to anachronistic and outmoded economic theories that belong to the early days of Western industrial societies." --A. Karim Ahmed, Director, International Program, National Council for Science and the Environment For decades, scholars have warned of an impending global environmental crisis. Yet politicians, particularly in the United States, have consistently shown through their actions towards crucial "green" policies that they are not taking the threat seriously. Initiatives aimed at protecting the planet are commonly seen as belonging to a category unto themselves—the preserve of scientists and environmental enthusiasts.
In this groundbreaking book, Robert L. Nadeau warns that we have moved menacingly close to a global environmental catastrophe and that the first step in evading large-scale ecological disaster is to stop drawing a distinction between issues that are "environmental" or "scientific" and those that reside in the sphere of "real life." Although scientists have attempted to bring ecological concerns to the forefront of the conversation on global issues, Nadeau argues that problems are rarely communicated in ways that can be readily understood by those outside the scientific community.
By bringing together perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including economics, politics, biology, and the history of science, The Environmental Endgame makes a bold and original effort to articulate the concerns of scientists in such a way that they become the real-life, tangible concerns of billions of people around the world. Starting from the premise that people require stories to explain their world, how they fit in it, and their relationship and responsibility to different groups, Nadeau asserts that we have entered a new phase of human history and the story that accompanies it cannot be one of separation and division. Instead, it must be on one of coherence and mutual goals.
Nadeau demonstrates that our current governmental and financial institutions, based on neoclassical economics, lack the mechanisms for positing and implementing viable solutions to large-scale crises. In other words, we should not be thinking in terms of competing nation-states, but should reconfigure international government as a supranational federal system. The book concludes with a call to view the natural world as a part of, not separate from, humanity. This unifying worldview would be a catalyst for implementing the new sorts of international government organizations necessary to resolving the current crisis.
The Environmental Endgame is an ambitious and timely book that will change the way we think about our economy, our government, and the environment. It should be read by everyone who cares about the pervasive neglect and abuse of planet Earth and what can be done about it.
Customer Reviews:
An important tool.......2006-09-24
THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENDGAME: MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS, ECOLOGICAL DISASTER, AND HUMAN SURVIVAL reiterates we've moved even closer to global environmental disaster - and maintains that distinctions must be abolished which consider environmental issues as outside the sphere of 'real' or everyday concerns. Scientists have long attempted to bring these issues to consumer attention: here perspectives from a range of disciplines connect environmental issues with the real worlds of people around the world. From government institutions to economic concerns, THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENDGAME is an important tool for linking environmental science with the rest of the world.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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The Eighth Edition relies on the Total Person approach to prepare students for the workplace by highlighting disparate factors such as phsycial fitness, self-awareness, emotional control, integrity, and values orientation.
- The text looks at diversity in the workplace as a broad concept encompassing more than just race, ethnicity, and nationality—such as age, income level, education, and different styles of communication.
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Effective human relations? - You bet!.......2000-10-17
I think this book is well layed-out, and easy to read. It is also full of examples from companies you know, and deal with. Lots of graphs help to illustrate the ideas, and relationships.
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The Tenth Edition focuses more directly on chapter objectives, establishing them around the seven themes of the text--communication, self-awareness, self-acceptance, motivation, trust, self-disclosure, and conflict resolution--so that the students absorb and connect the concepts. New areas of coverage include goal-setting principles; root causes of negative attitudes; introduction of the Reiss Profile instrument used to classify our basic desires; the use of "branding" to achieve greater visibility in a crowded job market; discrimination based on a person's religious preference; new ways to classify various forms of technostress; and new support for the importance of emotional intelligence. Throughout the text, major themes are supported by a multitude of real-world examples and emotional intelligence checkpoints.
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This volume presents the current state of our knowledge of the classification of the approximately 300 species of cycads. It includes contributions from leading researchers from Australia, China, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and the USA. It has been developed from papers presented at
a workshop held in 2002 at the Montgomery Botanical Center. The book provides guidelines for the designation of species, species boundaries and species groupings, thus clarifying what has been a confused area of research.
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A First Rate Introduction to Fromm.......2001-03-13
Rainer Funk brings together the most lucid and poignant passages from Fromms oeuvre. The chapters are concise and the ideas are cogently presented. In Fromm's humanistic writings and critiques one, of course, finds references to Marx and Freud. However, one can equally recognize the insights of Heidegger, Nietzsche and even the mystic traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism and Christianity. Fromm's insights on capitalism and the 'having' mode of being are incredibly insightful and should offer the reader a great deal of reflection, especially in context with today's consumerism. Yet, in contrast, Fromm offers suggestions to free oneself from the limited and pernicious sensibilities of materialism and pecuniary greed. This collection will be an excellent complement to Marx, Veblen and Marcuse, and an indispensible introduction to Fromm and the Frankfurt school.
Thorough Fromm compilation.......2000-05-30
This compilation of Fromm's writing, speeches, and interviews surrounding the topic of "having" versus "being" was very well compiled. Editor Funk takes relative material throughout Fromm's career and organizes it into a flowing, readable format; Not to mention the amazing insight Fromm covers when addressing this pertinent concept. Anyone seeking an alternative vision of how to live life more fully, and more humanistically should read this, as well as the rest of Fromm's writings. He was a genius.
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Learn how to play with a powerful vision that will elevate your game.
Customer Reviews:
A Story That Teaches the Secrets of Bad Writing.......2004-01-24
This book is anti-literature. The "story" is silly, cliched, and unconvincing. I threw the book out. I could have attempted to re-sell it, or even donate it to a local library, but I wanted to do my small part in making sure I didn't unnecessarily expose anyone else to Mr. Zosel's vision. I'm a little annoyed that Amazon requires that I award this book even one star.
Inspiring, educational read.......2001-03-07
Solid sport psychology concepts in an engaging format. I didn't put the book down until I was finished with the last page! Tennis players of all ages can relate to Tony and learn with him as he develops his mental game.
Tony's Da Bomb.......2000-10-01
I think Vision Tennis is a great book. It teaches people how to deal with tough situations in the game of tennis. Being a tournament player, I was able to learn a lot of things that helped me to be a better player, both physically and mentally. I liked it when the author described how he played against the top players in his region. The author, Michael Zosel told you how not to choke and what you should do before playing a match. It ended up being a great story in the end. If you want to get better both mentally and physically you must read this book.
an engaging story that's fun to read.......2000-04-12
My daughter would not put it down. She immediately used ideas from the book to improve her performance in tournament play. She came off the court excitedly telling me about how she had dealt with negative self-talk, as well as improvements in her visualization and concentration. She was having more fun and playing better! (She beat a girl soundly in straight sets that just weeks before had beaten her.)
Vision Tennis.......1999-12-26
Provides the tools of mental toughness in a format which is incredibly fun and enjoyable to read. Extremely useful for both juniors and adults.....anyone who want to raise the level of their game. This book would be an ideal "team book" for coaches to provide to their players, so that each can develop/adapt their own personal approach to mental toughness. This book is a winner!
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Family historians know the value of preserving precious family heirlooms--old letters, diaries, photographs, Bible pages. Yet most have limited, if any, knowledge of the technology needed to safely save these items.
Digitizing Your Family History gives readers the tools they need to keep these records permanently. They'll learn to:
* Utilize a scanner to best save photos and documents
* Get maximum results from digital cameras
* Enhance vintage photos through electronic editing
* Work with printers, PDAs, and more to preserve family records
* Organize digital records for easy access in later years
With McClure's instructive guide, genealogists will learn how to better preserve their family memories for future generations.
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The Way of the Future.......2007-05-13
Take heed and get started now. Once you have all those pictures scanned into the computer, organized and put on CD's - you can share them with everyone. Take the time to sort through your photos, label them before you die and turn them into your history. The legacy that you leave to future generations. A digitized photo is worth a million words.
Digitize this!.......2005-09-21
This is a book for dummies! It assumes you know nothing about scanners, cameras or the digital world. If that's the case, then this is the book for you. However, I found it difficult to read as the author does not get to the point. Too much time is spent on the simplest things while ignoring the point of the text. It would have been nice to pick up a book like this and get to the point of 'how to' without having to jump hoops through the history of things. That was not the point of the purchase of such a book nor the representation of the cover. There was no point reading the entire text as I quickly realized that much of it was "filler" text and I could skip to the parts I thought were interesting. My recommendation would be to look for other title options before this one.
Excellent guide to a relatively newsubject.......2005-03-28
When my father died a few years ago, my mother began systematically sorting through eight decades of accumulated stuff and giving the next generation "first dibs" on anything they wanted before the remainder was discarded. Of course, I took anything relating to the family's history, including old correspondence, military and employment files, and about forty pounds of old photo albums and several shoeboxes of loose snapshots. I'm slowly, steadily working my way through them, scanning not only photographs but also documents and old letters into a digitized format, cleaning up some of the older items with Photoshop, writing up brief text files (to be attached to the image files) explaining those people, places, and circumstances I could identify (and also transcribing my mother's penciled notes from the backs of many of the photos), and collecting everything in some sort of order on CDs for later distribution to the rest of the family. (Christmas is always coming.) Now, I'm reasonably computer-savvy and I have professional training in archival conservation, so all this seemed pretty obvious to me, but that probably would not be the case for many non-techies.
Rhonda McClure to the rescue, as she has often done before! She begins by explaining at length the opportunities digitization offers for preserving (which is increasingly simple with a home computer) and disseminating documents and photos (via CDs and the Web). Then she discusses the relevant technology, including what to look for in an inexpensive flat-bed scanner (under $100 these days) and a digital camera (under $200 now for a good one). The "Imaging Road Warrior" chapter is excellent; she recommends keeping a journal of research and sites visited in your word processor. (I never travel without my laptop, digital camera, and a small combination scanner-printer.) She also does a good job explaining the "why" of image-editing and enhancing vintage photographs without drifting too far into the "how" (which would take another book, and would be too software-specific anyway), and suggests isolating faces of individuals in group shots for attachment to database entries in your chosen genealogy software. (I confess that had never occurred to me.) Digitizing and preserving audio- and videotapes is something I know very little about, but she seems to cover all the bases there, too. Then comes sharing and publishing (in the broadest sense) what you've digitized - which is half the point of doing all this in the first place. Even knowing that the pace of change in technology will cause sizable parts of this well-written volume to become outdated in a couple of years, I strongly recommend it.
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Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although Korczak's celebrity afforded him many chances to escape, he refused to abandon the children. He was killed at Treblinka along with the children.
King Matt the First, one of Korczak's most beloved tales, is the story of a boy who becomes king and sets out to reform his kingdom. He decrees that all children are to be given a piece of chocolate at the end of each day. He visits faraway lands and befriends cannibal kings. Whenever his ministers tell him something's impossible, he puts them in jail. He disguises himself as a soldier and becomes a hero. But, as in real life, fantasy is tempered by reality:Matt's fellow kings become jealous of his success--and in the end, Matt falls, although it's clear that he was the greatest king there ever was.
Now this rediscovered classic is available again, and with a vibrant new cover by award-winning artist Brian Selznick. This timeless tale shows that only through the honesty and spontaneity of children can grown-ups begin to imagine and to create a better world.
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The world in the eyes of children.......2006-11-26
This book is a great adventure! Korczak succeeds again to describe our world in the eyes of a child; the games of power, envy, the lack of sensibility, the contempt to important things, and, most important, the beauty of life.
A child king, with no friends and no mentors in whom he can fully trust, Matt has to learn all the ways of life in the hard way. He learns, for example, that if you give too much, people (and even children!) will want more and more; everyone needs limits. He also understands that experience cannot be learned in the castle, it has to be lived outside the walls; you cannot rule an army if you have never seen the battlefields. He learns that friendship is a two-way road of trust and love; if you give you will receive. And he learns that you cannot solve all the problems of the world at once, even in the most efficient scheduled day; the body needs rest and peace of mind.
King Matt is a wonderful teacher to a healthy and ethical life, told in a simple language and amusing stories. I warmly recommend this book for children, parents, and educators.
I did not like this book at all........2006-08-06
I just did not like this book at all. Children should not be having parliments. What foolishness this all was. All it does is prove the point that children cannot and should not rule. They are imature! The ending was bad too. I hate books with bad endings. Don't waste your money like I did.
The hidden wisdom behind the adventures of "King Matt the First" .......2005-11-10
If a wise man wanted to share his wisdom with children, he would write "King Matt the First".
I have read "King Matt" 5 times over the last 45 years. I am excited about this new translation and I am looking forward to reading it again! I'd only wish that the second volume "King Matt on a Deserted Island", was available, too.
This is a deep book; underneath the exciting adventures of the little king, it offers a deeply penetrating, child's eye view of our world: Monarchy versus democracy, the upper v. lower class, differences between cultures and countries, the cunningness and hypocrisy of both domestic and international politics, the bureaucracy, racial relations, relations between children and adults, children's rights, boys v. girls, both the value and the absurdities of traditions and customs and just about every other aspect of life.
The second volume, "Matt on a Deserted Island", is unique among children's books. As the little king isolated on a deserted island, spends time alone, reading, writing, thinking, and growing wiser. This volume too is beautiful and full of love and surprising adventures. Unlike most "deep" books for adults, "King Matt" is remains a thriller even as it writes about deep introspection and contemplation of the meaning of life and death, love, friendship, togetherness and aloneness.
At the end, after many spellbinding adventures, Matt returns to his own country, where he establishes democracy.
To me the great value of this book is that it does not offer any answers. It does not promote any belief systems, religion, or values. Instead it opens up an existential inquiry and encourages the readers to think and find their own answers! This approach is characteristic of Jaunsz Korczak's deep respect for the intelligence of his young readers. It is a rare approach in the world where most writers try to stuff the minds of their readers with ready-made answers.
I recommend this book to every intelligent human being from any country, culture and religious background.
Veet Vivarto
Aboslutely GREAT.......2005-09-07
Anyone can love this book, it's exciting, sophisticated, and is overall fantastic. This book should be lined up as a classic, and should be at the top of childrens literature with books such as 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Holes', 'Number The Stars', and many more. It's that good.
Here's sort of a preview/commercial for the book.
A boy's father dies, leaving him an orphan. But the boys father was king of the land, so the boy became a king. Better known as King Matt the First. He still hardly knows how to read, so he fits that all into his schedule. Humorous rules and actions are put into play, making the scene more interesting. He goes on adventures, life threatening, suicidal, and very intimidating ones. Read the book, and you'll expierience the legend of King Matt the First.
This is truely a gem, something you should pass on. I recommend this.
Check my 'Battlezone' review.
My 9 year old daughter loved this book!.......2005-08-31
I read this book as a child and wanted my daughter to read it. I was so happy to see her fall in love with King Matt the First.
I also love Janusz Korczak. I hope that more people read this book and learn more about this wonderful man.
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