Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475840Description: What is success? How do you get it, and how do you keep it? If ever there was a cautionary tale about the fleeting nature of success, it is the events of recent years. Now, faced with gut-wrenching realities, many people are re-evaluating the meaning of success in less superficial and impermanent ways, asking themselves hard questions that have long been ignored: about what's really important to them, and where the bedrock of their personal achievement lies. As journalist Maria Bartiromo interviewed some of the most successful people in the world, she felt the need to answer these questions: what makes these success stories tick? How do you achieve leadership and power? How can you hold onto it, once you get it? What are the barriers to success, and what is the bedrock to enduring success?--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475840http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478723Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478723http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454176Description: With recent economic turmoil monopolizing the headlines, it has become more important than ever to understand fundamental economic terms and concepts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454176http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456528Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456528http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491101Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491101http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478536Description: This is an entertaining book on accounting written for a general audience. It opens with a wild premise: Heaven and Hell have been outsourced to a giant company in a distant galaxy and they are now in charge of determining who goes where after death. The entire universe is scoured for an objective system that can be adapted to the task, and it is found, in the form of accounting, in the least civilized backwater of the universe, Earth! The book is also a morality tale. It demonstrates how financial scandals (a la Bernie Madoff and many others) can be pulled off with "creative accounting," and how much a person adds or subtracts from the universe by their actions. Written for anybody who has taken an accounting class, practices it for a living, or is simply interested in seeing how a system designed to record finances can also be used to judge the entire universe will be enlightened by this book.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478536http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490283Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490283http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489979Description: Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489979http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456649Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456649http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504804Description: At present, about 45 million Americans are over the age of 65, and by 2020, one out of every six Americans will be 65 or older. These statistics are reflective of a worldwide phenomenon in developing and developed countries alike since the Industrial Revolution. This edited volume, written by experts in many fields, examines the economic and psychological research behind how aging consumers behave, make decisions, and choose in the marketplace. The book takes stock of what is known, identifies gaps and open questions, and outlines an agenda for future research. It covers topics from the individual to the societal level of analysis. --Book Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504804http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478535Description: This surprising narrative goes back more than twenty years to reveal, in rich, anecdotal detail, how Wall Street, the mortgage industry, and the government conspired to change the way Americans bought their homes, creating a perfect storm. The authors take us inside elusive institutions such as Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Fannie Mae, to reveal who changed the game and why.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478535http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491099Description: Overview: Effective leadership is more crucial than ever before. In fact, the link between effective leadership and corporate health is backed up by hard data, as best-selling author Judith M. Bardwick explains in her contributed article to The AMA Handbook of Leadership. Study after study shows that leadership quality directly impacts employee commitment and employee commitment predicts an organization's financial success. You'll learn about this and other important research, trends, and perspectives in this one-of-a-kind compendium of original writings from some of the leading thinkers and doers in the field. There's not a single "system" for sale here, but a gathering of twenty-three succinct, on-target articles on what it means to be an effective leader today, as well as proven strategies for leading people and organizations to success. Read from: Maya Hu-Chan on the five most important skills required of global leaders navigating a multicultural, ever-changing world. D. Quinn Mills and Luke Novelli Jr. on how to astutely read the three primary executive styles in both Asian and Western context. Marc Effron and Miriam Ort on the trouble with talent management, along with ideas for radically overhauling the TM and HR functions. Joseph Folkman on thirteen ways to show you care about your people distilled from one hundred thousand 360 assessments. Paul Hersey on eight ways to mold Generation Y into high-performing leaders not just a remarkably high-maintenance workforce. Robert H. Rosen on four ways that leaders can use the anxiety caused by change and uncertainty in positive, productive ways. Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams on how a "servant leader" approach can help your organization achieve a sustainable future. Packed with real-life examples, researched-based assessments, and probing analyses, The AMA Handbook of Leadership's brisk, stimulating articles give you a broad perspective on new leadership challenges and strategies including some refreshingly contrarian opinions and observations. Browse the book for a thorough overview or pick the best possible ideas for you and your organization.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491099http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=400988Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=400988http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476571Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476571http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456527Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456527http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478534Description: Oxford historian Karl Gerth reveals why we should all care about the everyday choices made by ordinary Chinese. Chinese consumers are quickly replacing overspent Americans as the global economic engine, but in so doing they are dramatically reconfiguring the world economy in ways that may be impossible to reverse.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478534http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454193Description: Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. Through Ferguson's expert lens, for example, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. Yet the central lesson of financial history is that, sooner or later, every bubble bursts.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454193http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455351Description: From its early beginnings in Southeast Asia, to the machinations of the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica and Central America, the banana's history and its fate as a victim of fungus are explored.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455351http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456511Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456511http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476569Description: This book is about igniting the power of any manager's emotional commitment to his or her company--worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. Sometimes companies get this from their managers in the early garage days or in times of tremendous gain, but it's almost unheard of to get it on a sustained, self-reinforced basis. Of course your company is only going to get it if you're willing to give it. Slap proves that emotional commitment comes from the ability to live your deepest personal values at work and then provides a process that allows you to use your own values to achieve success.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476569http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455350Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455350http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489978Description: You know what happened during the financial crisis--now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again. Journalist Suzanne McGee examines the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating and economy-boosting engine into a behemoth operating with only its own short-term interests in mind and with reckless disregard for the broader financial system. Wall Street is as important to the economy and the overall functioning of our society as our electric and water utilities--but it doesn't act that way. The financial system has been saved, but as long as the mind-set of "chasing Goldman Sachs" lingers, it will not have been reformed. As banking undergoes its biggest transformation since the Great Depression, McGee shows where it stands today and points to where it needs to go next.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489978http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455349Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455349http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476567Description: An exposâe on the rise of Coca-Cola to become one of the world's most profitable and recognized brands shares unsettling reports on franchise deals in adversarial nations, the role of company products in obesity rates, and the environmental impact of its bottling practices.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476567http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489977Description: Poised to become an enduring classic, this book is an intelligent and easy-to-read look at the basics of national and individual economics--information every citizen must know.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489977http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489976Description: Offers an analysis of mutual fund investment, discussing the significance of asset allocation, the benefits of simplicity, index funds, tax costs, information technologies, and other investment principles, with updated graphs.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489976http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478531Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478531http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454192Description: Two professors of management examine bad behavior in the workplace, combining scientific research with stories from a variety of fields, and offer ways to remove the roots of incivility at work and create a culture of respect.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454192http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455348Description: From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks, and social costs that now outweigh its advantages. He takes the long view of developments such as technology-driven progress, the offshoring of jobs, and open trade, arguing that current U.S. policies are leading to worldwide economic and political instability, in much the same way as before the Great Depression.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455348http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504849Description: In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior VP of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar PR campaigns designed to spread disinformation. Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock. In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. Whatever the fate of the current health care legislation, it makes no attempt to change that fundamental problem.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504849http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491097Description: Jay Greene shows how important it is to build a culture in which design is more than an after-the-fact concern, it's part of your company's DNA. Drawing on interviews with top executives, Greene illuminates the methods of companies that rely on design to stand out in their industry.--[book jacket]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491097http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456526Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456526http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476564Description: Cell phone radiation is a national emergency. Scientist Devra Davis presents an array of recent and long-suppressed research which shows that the most popular gadget of our age damages DNA, breaks down the brain's defenses, and reduces sperm count while increasing memory loss, the risk of Alzheimer's disease, and even cancer. The growing brains of children make them especially vulnerable--and half of the world's four billion cell phones are used by people under twenty. Davis takes readers through the dark side of this trillion-dollar industry. Health experts have long been frozen out of policy-making decisions about cell phones; federal regulatory standards are set by the cell phone industry itself. One secret memo reveals their war plan against reports of cell phone dangers. As this call to action shows, we can make safer cell phones now. Why put our children at risk of a devastating epidemic of brain illness?--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476564http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491096Description: The first in-depth examination of how a lack of corporate responsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. On April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives and raged uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank a mile beneath the waves. On the ocean floor, the unit's wellhead erupted. Over the next ten weeks, an estimated 200 million gallons of oil--the equivalent of 20 Exxon Valdez spills--spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, eventually lapping up on beaches as far away as Florida. Business journalist Loren Steffy--considered by many to be the writer with the best access to the story--presents the definitive account of this catastrophe and how BP's winner-take-all business culture made it all but inevitable.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491096http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491095Description: This book presents thirty-three of Peter F. Drucker's most important speeches and talks delivered at professional gatherings and in the classroom.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491095http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489974Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489974http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489973Description: One small idea can ignite a revolution just as a single matchstick can start a fire. One such idea, putting employees first and customers second, sparked a revolution at HCL Technologies, the IT services giant. In this candid and personal account, Vineet Nayar, HCLT's celebrated CEO, recounts how he defied the conventional wisdom that companies must put customers first, then turned the hierarchical pyramid upside down by making management accountable to the employees, and not the other way around. By doing so, Nayar fired the imagination of both employees and customers and set HCLT on a journey of transformation that has made it one of the fastest-growing and profitable global IT services companies and, according to BusinessWeek, one of the twenty most influential companies in the world. Chapter by chapter, Nayar recounts the exciting journey of how he and his team implemented the employee first philosophy by: creating a sense of urgency by enabling the employees to see the truth of the company's current state as well as feel the "romance" of its possible future state; creating a culture of trust by pushing the envelope of transparency in communication and information sharing; inverting the organizational hierarchy by making the management and the enabling functions accountable to the employee in the value zone; unlocking the potential of the employees by fostering an entrepreneurial mind-set, decentralizing decision making, and transferring the ownership of "change" to the employee in the value zone. Refreshingly honest and practical, this book offers valuable insights for managers seeking to realize their aspirations to grow faster and become self-propelled engines of change.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489973http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475859Description: The roots of the mortgage bubble, the story of the Wall Street collapse, and the government's unprecedented response are captured in this blow-by-blow account of "the end of Wall Street" by one of our most trusted business journalists.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475859http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=406421Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=406421http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454191Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454191http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477195Description: How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? In half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects--even becoming instrumental in political protests. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook's key executives in researching the history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477195http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475856Description: Hoagland offers a clear and compelling explanation of the FairTax. He explains the history of income tax collection in the United States and exposes the lobbying practices that have bloated the tax code with irrational regulations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475856http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477194Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477194http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455610Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455610http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475855Description: From the Publisher: A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington's presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation's largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation-in fact, as T.J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today. In The First Tycoon, Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodore's personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fist fighter who came to command the respect of New York's social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead. The First Tycoon is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475855http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491092Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491092http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454190Description: Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Not as poor as Africa, nor as booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world's largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is transforming its political and economic landscape. This book argues that Latin America's efforts to build fairer and more prosperous societies make it one of the world's most vigorous laboratories for capitalist democracy. In many countries--including Brazil, Chile and Mexico--democratic leaders are laying the foundations for faster economic growth and more inclusive politics, as well as tackling deep-rooted problems. Failure will increase the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants to the United States and Europe, jeopardize stability in a region rich in strategic commodities, and threaten some of the world's most majestic natural environments.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454190http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476562Description: Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies and bad behavior to the rest of the world. When World markets began to fail, America put together a haphazard response. Stiglitz outlines his responses to address the inequalities in the global financial and challenges economists for good ideas.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476562http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491091Description: Describes an approach to recognizing what is right and knowing how to act on values in the face of opposition, and includes advice, practical exercises, and scripts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455347Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455347http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456525Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456525http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455346Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455346http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455345Description: The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455345http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478527Description: In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted "green" producers - carbon offsets, organic, food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes - really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the world tracking how the conversion from a "perro" to a "green" society affects the most fundamental aspects of life - food, shelter, and transportation. Reporting from some of the most remote places on earth, Rogers uncovers shocking results that include massive clear-cutting, destruction of native ecosystems, and grinding poverty. Relying simply on market forces, people with good intentions wanting to just "do something" to help the planet are left feeling confused and powerless. Green Gone Wrong reveals a fuller story, taking the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of eco-friendly consumption. What do the labels "USDA Certified Organic" and "Fair Trade" really mean on a vast South American export-driven organic farm? A superlow-energy "eco-village" in Germany's Black Forest demonstrates that green homes dramatically shrink energy use, so why aren't we using this technology in America? The decisions made in Detroit's executive suites have kept Americans driving gas-guzzling automobiles for decades, even as U.S. automakers have European models that clock twice the mpg. This expose pieces together a global picture of what's happening in the name of today's environmentalism. Rogers casts a sober eye on what's working and what's not.--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478527http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491090Description: Perhaps you want a second income stream. Maybe you're considering selling your work full time and leaving your 9-to-5 job behind. Exploring selling your work is an exciting endeavor.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491090http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455344Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455344http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454187Description: The U.S. economy has had 25 years of some of the strongest, smoothest growth in its history--economists have even named it: "the Great Moderation." So why have so many of us arrived at the new century with a gnawing sense that events are moving against our families and ourselves? Drawing on interviews with hundreds of Americans and new statistics he developed, economics journalist Gosselin traces a quarter-century shift of economic risk from the broad shoulders of business and government to the backs of working people, a shift that has shaken the pillars of most families' lives--stable jobs, solid benefits, government protections. The change means that the benefits of growth come at greater peril, and your financial fall will be steeper if you stumble. This threat to working Americans' security--and what to do about it--is a pressing concern to economists, policy-makers, and everyone who works for a living.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454187http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454186Description: William D. Cohan's superb and shocking narrative chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454186http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478526Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478526http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454185Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454185http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456524Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456524http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456523Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456523http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490365Description: Provides an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. At a cost of over $20 trillion, it caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, this film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490365http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475852Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475852http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455343Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455343http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489873Description: By revealing the subtle yet powerful traits exhibited by those at the top rungs of the ladder, Davis will help you take your own leadership journey as far as it will go.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489873http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478525Description: "In 1998, Three Harvard Business School graduates---two men and one woman---turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By the time they returned to Harvard ten years later, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs---and left their mark on the world." "Based on dozens of interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School professors, and HBS alumni, The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders developed ideas, assembled teams, built ventures, and achieved their dreams. Over the course of a decade, they learned that starting great companies requires much more than a brilliant idea, good timing, and a ferocious work ethic. Their hard-won insights---distilled into ten key rules---will help anyone become a successful entrepreneur." "What they teach you at Harvard Business School is that intelligent entrepreneurship can be learned. In that spirit, Bill Murphy Jr. uses a unique combination of vivid storytelling and lucid instruction to show would-be entrepreneurs how to improve their odds of creating dynamic, lasting businesses."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478525http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476561Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476561http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489970Description: With the current market maelstrom as a back-ground, this timely guide describes just how to plan a lifetime of investing, in good times and bad, discussing stocks and bonds as well as the relationship between risk and return.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489970http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454189Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454189http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455342Description: Each of us enters the workplace not only as a human being, but as a woman or a man. Each workday is a meeting of gender-different styles, modes of operating, and leadership skills. The corporation that utilizes the differences between men and women is the corporation that discovers significant competitive advantage. The corporation that helps both genders understand each other has committed to maximum success. This book weaves together Michael Gurian's trademark use of brain science in gender studies and Barbara Annis' years of experience consulting to top, international companies on gender issues, and adds real life examples of what is currently happening in business leadership. Its practical application focuses on executive and managerial leadership, then extends to all levels of workplace operation. The authors provide new vision, helping women and men in the workplace become more effective and fulfilled, and ultimately helping businesses and business leaders realize increased profits. This book also includes PET and SPECT scans, and presents other brain science tools, by which readers can look into the brains of men and women. The authors also provide five ready to use, field-tested, and GenderTools by which readers can increase both their personal comfort and competitive edge as women and men. Through examples and case studies from companies like Kodak, Nike, Nintendo, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and Disney, the book shows readers how ignoring gender balance actually impedes the true potential of any business.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455342http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455341Description: With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455341http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490363Description: Drawing on case studies, surveys, and interviews, provides tips, insights, and solutions for managing the Millennial generation in the workplace. This ultimate guide to Millennials in the workplace offers valuable insight and practical tips on how Boomers, Gen Xers, and even Millennials themselves can bridge generational gaps, be more productive, and achieve organizational success like never before.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490363http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456522Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456522http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491088Description: The author draws from his study of how people interact with computers to present scientifically based findings on how to offer praise and criticism, work with various types of people, form teams, manage emotions, and persuade others.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491088http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454184Description: The founder of the Amherst Consulting Group and managing partner of One Eighty Partners turns current management theory on its head, arguing that organizations that are able to apply brain science to their businesses will overtake the competition and enhance performance at every level. He demonstrates how relying on emotions--rather than logic--leads to better business decisions.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454184http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455340Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455340http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456521Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456521http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454183Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454183http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478176Description: Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains documents covering over 100 countries and industries.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478176http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490279Description: "In Mind Your Xs and Ys, Lisa Johnson proves that the buying habits of 18-to-40-year-olds can be anticipated. Johnson pinpoints the new rules of engagement for this Connected Generation. Based on her own and others' research, she looks into the heart of the Gen X and Y psyche to identify its ten core cravings - for adventure, for high-concept design, for new families and social networks, and for personal storytelling, to name a few." "This book is packed with case studies of established and breakaway brands from every major industry, interviews with dozens of maverick thinkers and hundreds of consumers, and numerous revealing statistics. Johnson analyzes the scope of each craving to determine how it drives specific buying behaviors and offers relevant data that illustrate its impact. Mind Your Xs and Ys equips anyone who wants to reach these consumers - brand managers and their advertising, online, creative, packaging, events, and promotions teams; small-business owners and their marketing staff; advertising agencies and specialists - with the know-how to transform market research into profitable strategies."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490279http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477192Description: Based on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, economist/journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st century capitalism. Ken Griffin started out trading convertible bonds from his Harvard dorm room; Julian Robertson staffed his hedge fund with college athletes half his age; Paul Tudor Jones posed for a magazine photograph next to a killer shark; Michael Steinhardt was capable of reducing underlings to sobs. Finance professors have long argued that beating the market is impossible, yet drawing on insights from physics, economics, and psychology, these titans have cracked the market's mysteries and gone on to earn fortunes. Their innovation has transformed the world, spawning new markets in exotic financial instruments and rewriting the rules of capitalism--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477192http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456520Description: Examines the rise and fall of the efficient markets theory, the development of modern finance, and the rise of behavioral economics, in an account that draws on interviews with top thinkers while demystifying the ideas that forged the modern market.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456520http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456519Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456519http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475848Description: Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth. Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, this book reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America--focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society: families, towns, neighborhoods, industries.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475848http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455339Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455339http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491085Description: Rattner, the man brought in by the president to save the auto industry, crafts a tightly plotted narrative of political brinkmanship, corporate mismanagement, and personalities under pressure in a high-stakes clash between Washington and Detroit.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491085http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475711Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475711http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489966Description: "In Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis, author Bud Conrad, Chief Economist for Casey Research, predicts a rough road ahead for us - due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past decade - but reveals how you can prosper during these difficult times by tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities that match those trends." "With this book, Conrad outlines the long-term direction of our economy as driven by increasing U.S. government and trade deficits, oil prices, Social Security and Medicare obligations for baby boomers, the credit crisis, and the weakening dollar. He also examines why some of the government's actions - such as bailing out banks and curbing interest rates - fail to address more serious, long-term issues such as too much debt." "The crisis we have entered is not a typical business recession, but, instead, a major deleveraging which is the biggest shift since the Great Depression. The stagflation of the U.S. economy will present great challenges on a global scale. And since no market travels in a straight line, you need to be positioned correctly, with the right investments, to protect yourself and profit from the twists and turns you'll inevitably face in today's turbulent economic environment." "Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis deftly addresses how to gain your financial footing during these difficult times by highlighting global investment opportunities - such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities - that are likely to help you profit in the coming years."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489966http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456518Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456518http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455338Description: As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"--it's time for a reality check. Here, Kawasaki has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in handy book form. From competition to customer service, innovation to marketing, he shows readers how to ignore fads and foolishness while sticking to commonsense practices. He explains, for instance: how to get a standing ovation, the art of schmoozing, how to create a community, the top ten lies of entrepreneurs, everything you wanted to know about getting a job in Silicon Valley but didn't know who to ask.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455338http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456517Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456517http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489963Description: "After the worst market crash since the Great Depression, many investors have lost 30% to 50% of their retirement savings. Author Ken Kamen details the current market--where do we stand and what can we expect next? Ken advises we move away from the micro view and individual stocks and look at the big picture. Keep your investments simple, build a plan meant to last, and if you choose to, find someone you trust to help manage it. Ken discusses the facets of investing from a macro point of view. For example, Kamen discusses sample portfolios for those who want to manage their own accounts. The book looks at understanding what went wrong, managing your financial expectations, discovering a long-term investment strategy, and much more. Ken addresses the growing needs of readers throughout the work."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489963http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491084Description: The labor movement is weak and divided. Some think that it is dying. But the author a labor scholar, demonstrates through examination of recent developments that a resurgent labor movement is possible. He proposes new models for organizing and innovating techniques to strengthen the strike weapon. Above all, he insists that unions must return to their historical roots as a social movement.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491084http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454182Description: Retail expert Whalin identifies and explores 25 highly popular and profitable independent stores from around the country, offering lessons that store owners can apply to their own businesses. 25 photos throughout.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454182http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504860Description: The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research institutions--the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Strategic and International Studies--examines Russia after the financial crisis of 2007-2009. In the aftermath of the crisis, what is Russia's current economic status and role in the world order? How has the crisis changed a push for an innovation-driven economy fueled by advanced technology growth? Furthermore, how have recent allegations of political corruption affected domestic politics as well as the world's perception of Russia? To answer these questions, the book assesses Russia's international policy challenges and also provides an all-encompassing review of domestic issues. The authors consider foreign policy, Russia and it neighbors, climate change, Russia's role in the world, domestic politics, and corruption. As Russia grapples with the realities of the post-crisis world, this lucid volume offers the keen insights of today's foremost experts on Russia. -- Book Description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504860http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454181Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454181http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454188Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454188http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454180Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454180http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454179Description: Provides information on successful fixed-price sales using Amazon, Craigslist, and other online marketplaces.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454179http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478521Description: "In Selling the Fountain of Youth, Arlene Weintraub, who spent more than ten years as a science reporter at BusinessWeek, takes us inside this world--from the internet marketers behind the rise of acai berries to the backrooms of local pharmacies, where made-to-order, non-regulated compounds are produced; from celebrity promoters like Suzanne Somers and Oprah to the self-medicating doctors who run chains of rejuvenation centers to tout their 'miracle' cures. Weintraub brings readers inside the trade organizations, for-profit companies, and other players that have sought to legitimize anti-aging medicine--'medicine,' she argues, that's based mostly on hope, leavened with stories and weak science. Weintraub also reveals the remarkable economic and cultural impact of anti-aging medicine. The treatments, most of which have not been subjected to double-blind scientific studies, could, the author argues, actually reduce a patient's overall health even as they drain their pocketbooks. It's not a pretty story, but Weintraub doesn't flinch from revealing the high cost of staying young. Before you decide to pop your first pill or take your first shot, read this book and learn the true costs of the quest for eternal youth"--Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478521http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456516Description: Offers an account of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history--not merely a recounting of the collapse of Wall Street's legendary firms, but a broad examination of the people and the forces who killed Wall Street.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456516http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456515Description: Offers a provocative and entertaining tour of America's love/hate affair with shopping, a pursuit that, even in hard times, remains the true national pastime, in a book by the best-selling author of The Number that delves into both "The Sell Side" and "The Buy Side" of the world of shopping.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456515http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475846Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475846http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491102Description: The collapse of General Motors captured headlines in early 2009, but as Alex Taylor III writes in this in-depth dissection of the automaker's undoing, GM's was a meltdown forty years in the making. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience and insight as an automotive industry reporter, as well as personal relationships with many of the leading players, Taylor reveals the many missteps of GM and its competitors.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491102http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489962Description: Exposes the hidden costs and pitfalls of 401(k) and 403(b) plans, and explains how to make intelligent retirement-based investment choices based on the options available.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489962http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455337Description: A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455337http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452344Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452344http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454178Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454178http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456512Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456512http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503538Description: Business can be discouraging. According to US Department of Labor figures, only 44 percent of newly-opened firms will last four years. Amish farms, on the other hand, have registered a 95% survival rate over a five-year period. And in many cases, those businesses do remarkably well-as Donald Kraybill writes: "the phrase 'Amish millionaire' is no longer an oxymoron." Success Made Simple is the first practical book of Amish business success principles for the non-Amish reader. The work provides a platform of transferable principles - simple and universal enough to be applied in the non-Amish world, in a wide variety of business and management settings.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503538http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456514Description: Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456514http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491082Description: "In August 2007, the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others. Investigations following the tragedy revealed that it was not an unavoidable accident, but one that could have been prevented--and one that threatens to be repeated at many thousands of bridges located across the nation. Already more than 50 percent of our bridges are past their intended lifespan. Using the I-35W Bridge as a starting point, LePatner chronicles the problems that led to that catastrophe--poor bridge design, shoddy maintenance, ignored expert recommendations for repair, and misallocated funding--and then explores the responses to the tragedy, including the NTSB document which failed to report the full story to our nation. From here LePatner evaluates what the I-35W Bridge collapse means for the country as a whole--outlining the possibility of a nationwide infrastructure breakdown. He exposes government failure on a national as well as state level, uncovering how our nation's transportation system prioritizes funding for new projects over maintenance funding for aging infrastructure. He explains the imperatives for why we must maintain an effective infrastructure system, and how it plays a central role in supporting both our nation's economic strength and our national security. Written both for those who can effect change and for those who must demand it, Too Big to Fall presents an eye-opening critique of a bureaucratic system that has allowed political best interests to trump those of the American people."...Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491082http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454177Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454177http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489961Description: A guide to trading commodities that includes advice on how to access commodity markets cost-effectively, avoid common beginners' mistakes, and improve the odds of successful, profitable trades.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489961http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455336Description: We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually guarantees massive disruption in global markets. The crash, when it comes, will have no firebreaks. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset stripping, abusive lending, and hedge fund secrecy will come crashing down with it. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown explains how we got here, and what is about to happen.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455336http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456513Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456513http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455335Description: Surveys the consequences of globalization and explains how the global economy and the policies of other nations are significantly compromising the western world's quality of life and standard of living.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455335http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456639Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456639http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476557Description: During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG became a ward of the federal government. Top CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo spent the entire weekend taking frantic phone calls from the most powerful players on Wall Street and in Washington, as they toiled to keep the economy from complete collapse. Those CEOs and dozens of other sources gave Bartiromo behind-the-scenes details--unavailable to other members of the media--of the crisis and its aftermath. Now she draws on her high-level network to provide an eyewitness account of the biggest events of the financial crisis. Writing with both authority and dramatic flair, Bartiromo tackles the big questions: how did an unmatched period of market euphoria and growth turn sour, catapulting the economy into a dangerous slide? And in the long run, how will the near-catastrophe really change Wall Street?--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476557http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491081Description: "Meet Justin Campbell. He's a newly minted MBA who's landed a coveted job in consulting. He's headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven't yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities." "Justin is energized by this challenging assignment, but soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn't as straightforward as he'd expected. The political and organizational forces swirling within HGS complicate his analyses and test his fundamental understanding of important strategic concepts." "Justin and his cohorts aren't "real"--What I Didn't Learn in Business School is a business novel. But they're realistic: they're just like us. They are humans, not human resources, and they each have their own personality, motives, and skills. Their story reveals both the strengths and the limitations of common strategy tools. And it demonstrates tactics for navigating the messy organizational dynamics that can make or break a company's efforts to craft successful strategies." "This engaging book uses the power of story to present potent lessons for anyone seeking to excel at strategy management. The action moves quickly, and at the end of each chapter, you'll find provocative questions that help you tease out vital insights that you can apply in your own work." "What I Didn't Learn in Business School is a compelling read--whether you're a recent business school grad struggling to apply your new knowledge or an experienced leader who already knows that no strategy is created in a vacuum."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491081http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455334Description: Holstein goes deep inside GM on three continents to show what's really happening within one of the country's most iconic corporations. Demonstrates how GM has already radically retooled its entire operation, from manufacturing and cost structure to design.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455334