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The Shang dynasty of north-central China (c. 1500-1000 BCE) was a
flourishing Bronze Age civilization that maintained control over
much of north China for nearly six hundred years. It also produced
spectacular bronze ritual vessels that are among the greatest
cultural and technological achievements of any ancient
civilization. Ancient Chinese Bronzes offers readers the unique
opportunity to see Daniel Shapiro's astonishing collection of
ancient Chinese Shang dynasty bronze ritual vessels. The mystery
and beauty of these bronzes is captured in dramatic large-format
illustrations both in color and in black and white.
"One of the most important books of our modern era" -Amb. Jaime de
Bourbon For anyone struggling with conflict, this book can
transform you. Negotiating the Nonnegotiable takes you on a journey
into the heart and soul of conflict, providing unique insight into
the emotional undercurrents that too often sweep us out to sea.
With vivid stories of his closed-door sessions with warring
political groups, disputing businesspeople, and families in crisis,
Daniel Shapiro presents a universally applicable method to
successfully navigate conflict. A deep, provocative book to reflect
on and wrestle with, this book can change your life. Be warned:
This book is not a quick fix. Real change takes work. You will
learn how to master five emotional dynamics that can sabotage
conflict outside your awareness: 1. Vertigo: How can you avoid
getting emotionally consumed in conflict? 2. Repetition compulsion:
How can you stop repeating the same conflicts again and again? 3.
Taboos: How can you discuss sensitive issues at the heart of the
conflict? 4. Assault on the sacred: What should you do if your
values feel threatened? 5. Identity politics: What can you do if
others use politics against you? In our era of discontent, this is
just the book we need to resolve conflict in our own lives and in
the world around us.
In "Getting to Yes," renowned educator and negotiator Roger Fisher
presented a universally applicable method for effectively
negotiating personal and professional disputes. Building on his
work as director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher now
teams with Harvard psychologist Daniel Shapiro, an expert on the
emotional dimension of negotiation. In "Beyond Reason," they show
readers how to use emotions to turn a disagreementabig or small,
professional or personalainto an opportunity for mutual gain.
What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio
feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first
mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its
spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Vassos
emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His
career spans the evolution of central forms of mass media in the
twentieth century and offers a template for understanding their
success. This is Vassos's legacy-shaping the way we interact with
our media technologies. Other industrial designers may be more
celebrated, but none were more focused on making radio and
television attractive and accessible to millions of Americans. In
John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life, Danielle Shapiro is
the first to examine the life and work of RCA's key consultant
designer through the rise of radio and television and into the
computer era. Vassos conceived a vision for the look of new
technologies still with us today. A founder of the Industrial
Designers Society of America, he was instrumental in the
development of a self-conscious industrial design profession during
the late 1920s and 1930s and into the postwar period. Drawing on
unpublished records and correspondence, Shapiro creates a portrait
of a designer whose early artistic work in books like Phobia and
Contempo critiqued the commercialization of modern life but whose
later design work sought to accommodate it. Replete with rich
behind-the-product stories of America's design culture in the 1930s
through the 1950s, this volume also chronicles the emergence of
what was to become the nation's largest media company and provides
a fascinating glimpse into its early corporate culture. In our
current era of watching TV on an iPod or a smartphone, Shapiro
stimulates broad discussions of the meaning of technological design
for mass media in daily life.
Whether you're negotiating with an angry boss or a difficult
colleague - or, indeed, a stubborn teenager - you can learn to use
your emotions to help you achieve the result you want. Building
Agreement shows you how to control the five 'core concerns' that
motivate people: -- Express appreciation for what others think,
feel or do -- Build affiliation and turn an adversary into a
colleague -- Respect autonomy in others and gain autonomy in return
-- Acknowledge status and simultaneously establish your own worth
-- Choose a fulfilling role during the process of negotiating Using
the latest research of the Harvard Negotiation Project, the group
that brought you the groundbreaking book Getting to Yes, this is a
superbly practical guide to mastering essential negotiating skills.
Originally published in hardback under the title Beyond Reason.
In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in
contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights
theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should
converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He
examines how major welfare institutions, such as
government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national
health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work.
Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private
charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in
political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support
the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights
theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the
implications of their own principles, which in fact support more
market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may
realize. Shapiro??'s book is unusual in its combination of
political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited
to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in
affluent democracies and their market alternatives.
??? Argues that supporters of the welfare state should, following
their own premises, actually oppose it
??? Does comparative institutional analysis: compares real welfare
state institutions with real market-based alternatives
??? Combines focus on basic principles in political philosophy with
social science analysis of institutions
In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in
contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights
theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should
converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He
examines how major welfare institutions, such as
government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national
health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work.
Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private
charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in
political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support
the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights
theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the
implications of their own principles, which in fact support more
market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may
realize. Shapiro??'s book is unusual in its combination of
political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited
to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in
affluent democracies and their market alternatives.
??? Argues that supporters of the welfare state should, following
their own premises, actually oppose it
??? Does comparative institutional analysis: compares real welfare
state institutions with real market-based alternatives
??? Combines focus on basic principles in political philosophy with
social science analysis of institutions
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