Dennis: 3281 books
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Limits to Growth
The 30-Year Update
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human...
The Origins of Ethical Failures
Lessons for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
In 2001, as a young university graduate, Dennis Gentilin became a member of a FX trading desk at one of Australia’s largest banks, the National Australia Bank. In the years that followed the desk became involved in a trading scandal that resulted in the resignation of the chairman and CEO, the upheaval...
by Dennis L. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
With the latest data on income, wealth, earnings, and residential segregation by income, The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, Tenth Edition describes a consistent pattern of growing inequality in the United States since the early 1970s. Focusing on the socioeconomic core of...
Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent Power in Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics...
by Dennis Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
How do we ensure security and, at the same time, safeguard civil liberties? The Open Society Paradox challenges the conventional wisdom of those on both sides of the debateùleaders who want unlimited authority and advocates who would sacrifice security for individual privacy protection. It offers a...
New Consciousness for a New World
How to Thrive in Transitional Times and Participate in the Coming Spiritual Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
A call for a paradigm shift in human thinking in recognition of the interconnectedness of all things--a new mind for a new world
• Explains how the instability of our current time is part of a larger cycle of human evolution that will soon turn toward renewal and regeneration
• Reveals...
Human Behavior and Social Environments
A Biopsychosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social science...
Human Morality and Sociality
Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Human nature is enigmatic. Are we cruel, selfish creatures or good merciful Samaritans? This book takes you on a journey into the complexities of human mind and kind, from altruism, sharing, and large-scale cooperation, to cheating, distrust, and warfare. What are the building blocks of morality and...
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries
Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary...
by Triant G. Flouris, Dennis Lock
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Triant Flouris is a prominent academic and administrator in aviation management education; Dennis Lock has more than forty years experience in practising, lecturing and writing about project management. When these two experts combined their considerable talents to write their earlier book Aviation...
by Lawrence Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Lawrence Dennis presents his analysis of the political and economic situation that led to the Second World War. He introduces his theories on Dynamism and the decline of Capitalism throughout the world which he believes will be accelerated by world war. Originally published in 1940.—Print Ed.
by Dennis Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1999
In Library Relocations & Collection Shifts, author, librarian, and move director Dennis C. Tucker explains how to develop an appropriate moving plan for a library of any type or size. A thorough revision of his classic, From Here to There: Moving a Library, the book provides coverage of all these topics...