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Learning From Leonardo - Decoding The Notebooks Of A Genius

by Fritjof Capra

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Leonardo da Vinci is celebrated as the archetypal Renaissance man. The author shows that Da Vinci practiced a science and technology that honored and respected the unity of all life, recognized the fundamental interdependence of all natural phenomena, and connected the microcosm (the human being) with the macrocosm (the living Earth).
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Leading From The Emerging Future - From Ego-System To Eco-System Economies

by Katrin Käufer e Otto Scharmer

43,66€ + 10% CARD

 One of the key insights of Theory U is that form follows awareness: the quality of results in any kind of system is a function of awareness that people in the system are operating from. This title is about path and method of dropping the baggage of old habits of thought and then crossing through the gate to an economy that operates collectively.
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Pharmacy On A Bicycle - Innovative Solutions To Global Health And Poverty

by Eric Bing e Marc J. Epstein

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Offers practical solutions for governments, NGOs, and local and global businesses. This title contains examples of dozens of exemplary programs on the ground that are implementing these innovative solutions and saving lives.
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Our Common Wealth - The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work

by Jonathan Rowe e Peter Barnes

22,46€ + 10% CARD

 "The Commons" is a generic term that denotes everything we share. The commons includes our entire life support system, both natural and social. This title examines the history and tragic loss of the commons and discusses how we can bring them back at a time when privatization and ownership are economic mantras.
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Rooftop Revolution - How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy-And Our Planet-From Dirty Energy

by Danny Kennedy

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 In the wake of the Solyndra collapse, solar power's detractors - particularly the fans of fossil fuel have been proclaiming that solar is just a hippie pipe dream. He breaks down the 100,000 jobs solar has already created in America and explains how it could create far more.
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Transformative Scenario Planning - Working Together To Change The Future

by Adam Kahane

31,73€ + 10% CARD

 People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, and environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They can''t solve their problems in their current context, which is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. They can''t transform this context on their own-it''s too complex to be grasped or shifted by any one person or organization or sector. And the people whose cooperation they need don''t understand or agree with or trust them or each other. Transformative scenario planning is a powerful new methodology for dealing with these challenges. It enables us to transform ourselves and our relationships and thereby the systems of which we are a part. At a time when divisions within and among societies are producing so many people to get stuck and to suffer, it offers hope-and a proven approach-for moving forward together.
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Confessions Of A Microfinance Heretic - How Microlending Lost Its Way And Betrayed The Poor

by Hugh Sinclair

37,03€ + 10% CARD

 Very little solid evidence exists that microloans make a dent in long-term poverty. Sadly, evidence does exist for negligence, corruption, and methods that border on extortion. Part exposé, part memoir, and part financial detective story, this is the account of a one-time true believer whose decade in the industry turned him into a heretic. Hugh Sinclair worked with several microfinance institutions around the world. He couldn''t help but notice that even with a booming $70 billion industry on their side, the poor didn''t seem any better off. Exorbitant interest rates led borrowers into never-ending debt spirals, and aggressive collection practices resulted in cases of forced prostitution, child labor, suicide, and nationwide revolts against the microfinance community. Sinclair weaves a shocking tale of a system increasingly focused on maximizing profits—particularly once large banks got involved. He details his discovery of several scandals, one of the most disturbing involving a large African microfinance institution of questionable legality that charged interest rates in excess of 100 percent per year and whose investors and supporters included some of the most celebrated leaders of the microfinance sector. Sinclair''s objections were first met with silence, then threats, attempted bribery, and a court case, and eventually led him to become a principal whistleblower in a sector that had lost its soul. Microfinance can work—Sinclair describes moving experiences with several ethical and effective organizations and explains what made them different. But without the fundamental reforms that Sinclair recommends here, microfinance will remain an "investment opportunity" that will leave the poor with hollow promises and empty pockets.
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Owning Our Future - The Emerging Ownership Revolution

by Marjorie Kelly

33,06€ + 10% CARD

 All attempts to address the economic collapse are overlooking an essential factor: ownership. So long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing monetary returns per quarter for a narrow group of individuals the economy will be subject to crippling boom-and-bust cycles. The author reports on emerging ownership alternatives.
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99 To 1 - How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking The World And What We Can Do About It

by Chuck Collins

21,13€ + 10% CARD

 For over thirty years, we''ve lived through a radical redistribution of wealth—upward, to a tiny fraction of the population. It''s as though we''re undertaking a bizarre social experiment to see how much inequality a democratic society can tolerate. As a result "We are the 99%," the rallying cry of the Occupy movement, has spread far beyond its ranks. But who are the 99 percent? Who are the 1 percent? How extensive and systematic is inequality throughout society? What are its true causes and consequences? How is inequality changing in our world? And what can be done about it? For many years Chuck Collins has been a leading voice and activist on these questions. In this book he marshals wide-ranging data from a variety of sources to paint a graphic picture of how disparities in wealth and power play out in America and the world. For the first time, this book reveals the concrete meaning of "the 99% and the 1%," looking not just at individual households but at the business world, the media, and the earth as a whole. Collins identifies the shifts in social values, political power, and economic policy that have led to our current era of extreme inequality—particularly the way Wall Street has managed to rig the rules of the game in favor of the 1perecent—and surveys the havoc inequality has wreaked on virtually every aspect of society. But there is hope. Not only does he offer common-sense proposals for closing the inequality gap, but Collins provides a guide to many of the groups—including some made up of millionaires—that are working to bring about a society that works for everybody: for the 100 percent. This is a struggle that can be won. After all, the odds are 99 to 1 in our favor.
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Best Care Anywhere - Why Va Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone

by Phillip Longman

25,11€ + 10% CARD

 Once denigrated for shoddy care and antiquated systems, the VA health system has become a hallmark of excellence and technical innovation. This book uses the VA turnaround to illustrate deeper lessons for the US health care system. It shows how fee-for-service healthcare leads to more expensive, less comprehensive, and less effective healthcare.
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Campaign Boot Camp 2.0 - Basic Training For Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, And Nonprofits

by Christine Pelosi

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Presents leadership lessons from the campaign trail for anyone who wants to run for office, advocate for a cause, or win a public policy issue. This book provides practical advice and exercises so that individual readers can integrate these leadership lessons into their own public service efforts.
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Self-Made Myth - And The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals And Businesses Succeed

by Brian Miller e Mike Lapham

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the historic roots of the self-made myth and offers profiles of business leaders who, in their own words, identify the kinds of government support and assistance that were crucial to their success. The authors disprove the arguments of individuals like Donald Trump who have tried to perpetuate their own self-made myths of their success.
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Taking Back Our Lives In The Age Of Corporate Dominance

by Ellen Augustine e Suzanne Stoddard

19,81€ + 10% CARD

 This text is about the ways large corporations manipulate our lives, from ferocious underpinnings of competition to the image-driven media. It details 75 action steps we can use to take back control of our lives.
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Moral Capitalism - Reconciling Private Interest With The Public Good

by Stephen Young

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 The world is drifting without a clear plan for its economic development. Communism is dead, but in the wake of Enron and similar scandals, many see capitalism as amoral and too easily abused. A blueprint for progress is needed and Moral Capitalism provides one. Moral Capitalism is based on principles developed by the Caux Round Table, an extraordinary international network of top business executives who believe that business can-and must-weigh both profit and principle. Caux Round Table''s global chair, Stephen Young, argues that the ethical standards inherent in capitalism have been compromised by cultural values inimical to capitalism''s essentially egalitarian, rational spirit, and distorted by the short-sighted dog-eat-dog doctrines of social Darwinism into what he calls brute capitalism. He demonstrates how the Caux Round Table''s Seven General Principles for Business can serve as a blueprint for a new moral capitalism, and explores in detail how, if guided by these principles, capitalism is really the only system with the potential to reduce global poverty and tyranny and address the needs and aspirations of individuals, societies, and nations.

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