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The good society: the humane agenda
Par John Galbraith. 1996
Contending that big governments arise from the people's need for services, economist Galbraith explores the nature and elements of a…
"good society" that he finds practically achievable. He posits the essential human needs of personal liberty, basic well-being, social and ethnic equality, and individual opportunity, while offering a liberal blueprint for building a safer and better futureLiving fences: a gardener's guide to hedges, vines & espaliers
Par Ogden Tanner. 1995
Living fences can screen and camouflage and act as property-line boundaries or partitions. Discusses selected species for deciduous and evergreen…
hedges, annual and perennial vines, and fruit-bearing and ornamental espaliers. Provides tips on choosing, planting, training, and caring for living fencesEpitaph for a peach: four seasons on my family farm
Par David Masumoto. 1995
A third-generation Japanese American peach and grape farmer in California has an orchard of Sun Crest peaches that he considers…
to be "the last remaining truly juicy peaches." Fragile and light in color, the peaches are not selling well. Masumoto details the year in which he gives his favorite crop another chance using organic farming methodsMaking wood tables: practical projects for every room
Par Hugh Foster. 1994
Step-by-step instructions lead novice- and intermediate-level woodworkers through the construction of twenty-six tables. General woodworking information contains descriptions of tools…
and techniques from selecting stock to finishing. Projects include a workbench, nightstands, several sofa tables, and an unusual glass-topped display for wood carvingsOn our own terms: portraits of women business leaders
Par Liane Enkelis. 1995
Interviews with fifteen women who lead large corporations and also have a personal life. The women include the principal chief…
of the Cherokee Nation, the president of two highly successful catalog companies, and the head of one of the world's leading software companiesMaterial world: The six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Par Ed Conway. 2023
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and…
greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material. In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates. Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground upHomestead year: back to the land in suburbia
Par Judith Moffett. 1995
Moffett, an assistant professor of English and a science fiction writer, had dreamed of buying some acreage and homesteading. When…
her five-year plan to do this faltered, she decided to take a year off from work and homestead her suburban one-acre yard in Pennsylvania. She describes her successes and mistakes while raising and slaughtering ducks, raising bees and fish, and growing a large gardenSimple, sensible ways to trim dollars off your family budget by saving pennies. Suggestions cover the kitchen, family room, nursery,…
closets, backyard, garage, stores, and bank. Some hints: don't take the kids grocery shopping, keep a sponge in the fruit and vegetable drawer to absorb moisture, and use the libraryOn your own: a guide to working happily, productively & successfully from home
Par Lionel Fisher. 1995
Fisher, a writer who works out of his home, focuses on the mental, emotional, psychological, and motivational challenges of working…
alone. Topics include getting organized, avoiding procrastination, promoting self-actualization, setting office boundaries, and befriending solitudeThe contrary farmer
Par Gene Logsdon. 1993
Writer and part-time farmer Logsdon describes the contrary cottage (small acreage) farmer. "A farmer with deep ecological sensitivity is to…
the plow jockey...what a French chef is to...hamburger handlers." Contrary farmers use technological cleverness and handiness to reduce manual labor by skill instead of expensive machines. They have a "love of home," subscribe to pastoral economics, and learn to let nature do work for themLager, who headed Ben & Jerry's for eight years, gives the company's history. Childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield…
led relatively unsuccessful lives until 1978, when they collaborated on creating an ice cream store in a former gas station in Vermont after taking a correspondence course on the topicThe craft of investing
Par John Train. 1994
Advice for the private investor from an investment consultant and author of books and articles on finance. Drawing on personal…
experience and his study of other successful money managers, Train analyzes market cycles and investment styles and advises on topics such as taxes, trusts, financial statements, estate and retirement planning, and prenuptial agreements. Includes a glossary of investment termsThe last empire: De Beers, diamonds, and the world
Par Stefan Kanfer. 1993
Kanfer, a journalist, discusses De Beers Consolidated Mines Inc. and describes how it sometimes uses a show of power to…
maintain its hold on the world's diamond industry and much of the gold industry. He focuses on the exploitation of blacks in South Africa and on the three men who have controlled the company since its founding in 1880--Cecil Rhodes, Ernest Oppenheimer, and "King" Harry Oppenheimer. Some violenceBeating the Street
Par Peter Lynch. 1993
Former manager of Fidelity Magellan Fund asserts that the stock market is the best investment and that a small investor…
does not need a professional manager. Lynch explains how he makes investment selections and suggests how to develop a method for choosing mutual funds. BestsellerMavericks!: how to lead your staff to think like Einstein, create like da Vinci, and invent like Edison
Par Donald Blohowiak. 1992
Blohowiak presents a guide to fellow executives on becoming maverick managers. Maintaining that "if managers concentrated on helping people fulfil…
their potential, our companies would be filled...with craftsmen," he gives recommendations on improving workplace conditions and worker-boss relationships. Included is a quiz measuring maverick potentialThe gardener's year
Par Karel C̈apek. 1984
Capek takes the reader through the year as he lays out his garden, plants his seed, and watches his work…
come to fruition. In between he talks about the lack or overabundance of rain; the search for space for just "one more plant"; the battle with the garden hose--which wiggles, makes puddles, and twists itself around his waist and neck; the unfathomable mystery of the green thumb; and concern for his garden while on vacationA practical and simple guide to a home mortgage
Par Gary Bass. 1987
The author, who was a former mortgage banker, offers a guide designed for first-time home buyers. He explains qualifying formulas…
used to determine eligibility, gives examples of information required on mortgage applications, and presents a glossary of mortgage loan languageGetting better results from the meetings you run
Par Michael Renton. 1980
Designed to help leaders do a better job of conducting meetings and group discussions, this manual offers advice on such…
topics as group involvement, clarifying problems to be solved, obtaining necessary facts, drawing on experienced individuals, and making sure everyone is in agreement and knows their assignmentsHow to make your own luck
Par Bernard Gittelson. 1981
A top consultant to industry, who is also a public relations representative and creator of a biothythm computer program business,…
focuses on using ingenuity and perseverance to get the breaks as an entrepeneur. Gittelson explains how to tap one's own creative energy and channel it into action