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Profit With Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism. By Daniel Yankelovich. Yale University Press.
June 22, 2006 – 6:02 pm | Comments Off
Profit With Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism. By Daniel Yankelovich. Yale University Press.

Recent scandals in corporate America can provide the incentive — and momentum — to develop a new ethic of stewardship in business. This wise and optimistic book examines the rampant scandals that plague American corporations …

What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening. By Jeffrey Hollender. Basic Books.
June 22, 2006 – 5:58 pm | Comments Off
What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening. By Jeffrey Hollender. Basic Books.

For seventeen years, Jeffrey Hollender has presided over Seventh Generation, a world leader in natural,non-toxic household and personal care products. What Matters Most illuminates the successful practices of Seventh Generation — and many pioneering companies …

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. By Yochai Benkler. Yale University Press.
June 22, 2006 – 5:53 pm | Comments Off
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. By Yochai Benkler. Yale University Press.

With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has
introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is …

Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution. By Peter A. Corning. Chicago University Press.
June 22, 2006 – 6:56 am | Comments Off
Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution. By Peter A. Corning. Chicago University Press.

In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualistic, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter A. Corning has been at …

From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. By Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee. Blackwell.
June 22, 2006 – 6:52 am | Comments Off
From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. By Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee. Blackwell.

Animals diverge from common ancestry through changes in their DNA, but what are the genes that control morphology? In this landmark work, the author team led by Dr. Sean Carroll presents the general principles of …

Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning. By Heiner Roetz, ed. Rodopi.
June 22, 2006 – 6:45 am | Comments Off
Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning. By Heiner Roetz, ed. Rodopi.

Human cloning is a main focus of current bioethical discussion, involving the self-understanding of the human species, it has become one of the most debated topics in biomedical ethics, not only on the national, but …

The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease. By Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton. Johns Hopkins University Press.
June 22, 2006 – 6:41 am | Comments Off
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease. By Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern ethics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? …

Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism. By Bruce Ackerman. Yale University Press.
June 20, 2006 – 11:06 pm | Comments Off
Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism. By Bruce Ackerman. Yale University Press.

Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future …

Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement. By John Brockman, ed. Vintage Books.
June 20, 2006 – 11:01 pm | Comments Off
Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement. By John Brockman, ed. Vintage Books.

Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin’s theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of living …

The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival. By Robert L. Nadeau. Rutgers University Press.
June 20, 2006 – 10:55 pm | Comments Off
The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics,  Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival. By Robert L. Nadeau. Rutgers University  Press.

In this groundbreaking book, Robert L. Nadeau warns that we have moved menacingly close to a global environmental catastrophe and that to avoid this fate we must stop drawing a distinction between issues that are …

The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way To Understand Why People Around the World Live And Buy As They Do. Clotaire Rapaille. Broadway Books.
June 20, 2006 – 6:21 am | Comments Off
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way To Understand Why People Around the World Live And Buy As They Do. Clotaire Rapaille. Broadway Books.

In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His …

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and Their Borrowers. By Ngaire Woods. Cornell University Press.
June 20, 2006 – 6:14 am | Comments Off
The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and Their Borrowers. By Ngaire Woods. Cornell University Press.

The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes …

The Nature of Paleolithic Art. By R. Dale Guthrie. University of Chicago Press.
June 20, 2006 – 6:08 am | Comments Off
The Nature of Paleolithic Art. By R. Dale Guthrie. University of Chicago Press.

The cave paintings and other preserved remnants of Paleolithic peoples shed light on a world little known to us, one so deeply impeded in time that information about it seems unrecoverable. While art historians have …