Development
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yu- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 16 2003
- ISBN10: 1586481983
- Language: English
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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future
$17.95 Read moreA hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that … [more below]
- Author: Boyd, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412387
- Language: English
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
$19.99 Add to cartIn these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it.” We assume that the quick-thinking “hare brain” will beat out the
- Author: Claxton, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0060955414
- Language: English
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Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
$45.99 Add to cartHow well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile pri
- Author: Humble, Jez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1492091774
- Language: English
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Sustainovation: Building sustainable innovation in government, one wildly creative idea at a time.
$17.95 Add to cartUnlock your creativity and move your innovation
initiative forward with this enlightening guide from
civic innovation superhero Nick Kittle. You’ll learn
why innovation is hard (especially in governme- Author: Kittle, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1732666709
- Language: English
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How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
$19.99 Add to cartA maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor—and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way.
Throughout history, some combination of government… [more below]- Author: Reinert, Erik S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762894
- Language: English
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Does It Matter?: Essays on Mana’s Relation to Materiality
$14.95 Add to cartThis series of essays represents philosopher Alan Watts’s thinking on the confounding problems of our relation to our material environment.
- Author: Watts, Alan W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: October 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1577315855
- Language: English
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Sustainability
$16.95 Add to cartA concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.
The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything fr
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Portney, Kent E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0262528509
- Language: English
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Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
$49.99 Read moreLean UX is synonymous with modern product design and development. By combining human-centric design, agile ways of working, and a strong business sense, designers, product managers, developers, and sc
- Author: Gothelf, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1098116305
- Language: English
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The Economist’s View of the World
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking tour of the economist’s mind using non-technical language and relevant political examples throughout.
- Author: Rhoads, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1108994075
- Language: English
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Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
$34.99 Add to cartAt the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for se… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0190901764
- Language: English
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Supernatural Business
$9.99 Add to cart*100% and more of all the proceeds will be distributed to local churches to empower their business leaders and other nonprofit organizations.*
Your business can be even more than you can imagine.
Supern
- Author: Rovner, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: October 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1943361614
- Language: English
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China’s Great Road: Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices
$35.00 Add to cartThe accumulated achievements of China since its revolution of 1949 are so great that they have now not only changed the world but must lead every socialist and progressive person to think about their
- Author: Ross, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1899155112
- Language: English
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The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
$28.95 Add to cartToday’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a glo
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0231193742
- Language: English
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The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
$29.99 Add to cartA demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age–when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen–and explores what it could mean for our collective futu
- Author: Schurman, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0063048752
- Language: English
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
“A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —New York Times Book ReviewDay… [more below]
- Author: Olopade, Dayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544483995
- Language: English
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The New City: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
$39.95 Read moreCities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and w
- Author: Despommier, Dickson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0231205503
- Language: English
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
$25.00 Add to cartThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes’s acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic
- Author: Landes, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 17, 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318885
- Language: English
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The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
$19.99 Add to cart“The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the relationship between business and the environment.”
–Don Falk, Executive Director, Society for Ecological RestorationThe
- Series: Collins Business Essentials
- Author: Hawken, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061252794
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartFrom Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universal Basic Income to the test. But can the reality live … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Zwolinski, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0197556221
- Language: English
