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Melissa Fulgham, James McGregor, Rex Allen
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Companies from around the globe are flocking to China to buy, sell,
manufacture, and create new products, but as former "Wall Street
Journal" China bureau chief turned successful corporate executive
James McGregor explains, business in China is never quite what it
seems. "One Billion Customers" offers compelling narratives of
personalities, business deals, and lessons learned, creating a
coherent pictures of China's emergence as a global economic power
with a dog-eat-dog business climate that has turned bureaucrats
into billionaires and left many foreign business executives with
their pockets turned inside out.
All over the world, political parties are being born and political
pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States,
the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political
process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a
vital two-party system is essential to America's political health.
The last thing this country needs, the authors argue, is two
Republican parties. At this critical moment in history, the
Democratic party has the opportunity to offer the nation a real
political choice, a sense of direction, and a program to address
the needs of Americans in a changing world. It is time, they say,
for a change-a change that only the Democrats can provide. As
recounted here, a generation of Republican administrations have had
their chance. The results have not been happy: deepening social
divisions, heightened inequalities in income distribution, a
decaying educational system, environmental exploitation, an
insensitivity to the concerns of the less powerful, the largest
public debt in history, and a foreign policy based on force.
Recurring constitutional crises have also erupted, as epitomized by
the Iran-Contra affair. The record is a sorry one. Alternatives
exist, and the best ones rest with the Democratic party. The
Democrats must lead. It is their responsibility to offer a new
vision of the future and the means for achieving it-to provide a
program that is compassionate, just, and inclusive of all. The
politics of greed, exploitation, self-promotion, and militarism
must be put behind us. Such are the themes of this extraordinary
book. Leading academicians, each an expert in his or her area,
emphasize the need for new leadership, propose contributions that a
progressive Democratic party could make, and suggest what this
party should stand for as well as how it can win in 1992. They urge
the Democrats to be both brave and principled-brave in defying the
conventional wisdom that Democrats must be moderate to win, and
principled in sticking to progressive ideals. The book provides
analysis of such areas as the political impact of an
issue-oriented, liberal party; the campaign and media choices
required to get a progressive message across; the role and concerns
of women, blacks, Hispanics, and other 262underrepresented groups;
electoral and legislative strategies for success; and the substance
of what a progressive policy agenda should contain. Challenging and
thought-provoking, these essays will help reshape political
thinking during this critical period in the nation's history. Their
objective is creation of a society that represents and responds to
human needs, and the authors indicate the way to achieve these
goals through an invigorated, forward-looking Democratic party.
All over the world, political parties are being born and political
pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States,
the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political
process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a
vital two-party system is essential to America's political health.
The last thing this country needs, the authors argue, is two
Republican parties. At this critical moment in history, the
Democratic party has the opportunity to offer the nation a real
political choice, a sense of direction, and a program to address
the needs of Americans in a changing world. It is time, they say,
for a change-a change that only the Democrats can provide. As
recounted here, a generation of Republican administrations have had
their chance. The results have not been happy: deepening social
divisions, heightened inequalities in income distribution, a
decaying educational system, environmental exploitation, an
insensitivity to the concerns of the less powerful, the largest
public debt in history, and a foreign policy based on force.
Recurring constitutional crises have also erupted, as epitomized by
the Iran-Contra affair. The record is a sorry one. Alternatives
exist, and the best ones rest with the Democratic party. The
Democrats must lead. It is their responsibility to offer a new
vision of the future and the means for achieving it-to provide a
program that is compassionate, just, and inclusive of all. The
politics of greed, exploitation, self-promotion, and militarism
must be put behind us. Such are the themes of this extraordinary
book. Leading academicians, each an expert in his or her area,
emphasize the need for new leadership, propose contributions that a
progressive Democratic party could make, and suggest what this
party should stand for as well as how it can win in 1992. They urge
the Democrats to be both brave and principled-brave in defying the
conventional wisdom that Democrats must be moderate to win, and
principled in sticking to progressive ideals. The book provides
analysis of such areas as the political impact of an
issue-oriented, liberal party; the campaign and media choices
required to get a progressive message across; the role and concerns
of women, blacks, Hispanics, and other 262underrepresented groups;
electoral and legislative strategies for success; and the substance
of what a progressive policy agenda should contain. Challenging and
thought-provoking, these essays will help reshape political
thinking during this critical period in the nation's history. Their
objective is creation of a society that represents and responds to
human needs, and the authors indicate the way to achieve these
goals through an invigorated, forward-looking Democratic party.
Manufacturing systems rarely perform exactly as expected and
predicted. Unexpected events, such as order changes, equipment
failures and product defects, affect the performance of the system
and complicate decision-making. This volume is devoted to the
development of analytical methods aiming at responding to
variability in a way that limits its corrupting effects on system
performance. The book includes fifteen novel chapters that mostly
focus on the development and analysis of performance evaluation
models of manufacturing systems using decomposition-based methods,
Markovian and queuing analysis, simulation, and inventory control
approaches. They are organized into four distinct sections to
reflect their shared viewpoints: factory design, unreliable
production lines, queuing network models, production planning and
assembly.
In 1978, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian
James MacGregor Burns published Leadership, a seminal book dealing
with how leaders interact with society and through their efforts
have the power to shape the course of history. The book became the
basis for an emerging field of leadership studies that has been
applied throughout the social sciences as well as in business and
government. Now Burns has returned to the subject, offering a new
vision of leadership-Transforming Leadership-that focuses on the
ways that leaders emerge from being ordinary transactional brokers
and deal-makers to become real agents of major social change who
empower their followers. Through the course of the book, Burns
illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the
chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute
monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's views of
liberty that came to fruition in the American Revolution. Along the
way he looks at key moments in leadership, and the great leaders
who made them, including Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, James Madison,
Napoleon, Mao, Gandhi, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Part One: Change
Chapter 1: The Mysteries of Leadership An introduction to Burns'
concept of leadership-how leaders differ from tyrants, and
transactional leaders from transforming leaders-and how this
differs from other Great Man views of history. Chapter 2: Searching
for the X-Factor Looking at his own studies of FDR and other
leaders, Burns looks at how change emanates from society, and how
this shapes community and society. Leadership is the X-Factor that
brings change from concept to social reality. Part Two: Leaders
Chapter 3: Kings and Queens, Knights and Pawns Using the game of
chess as a metaphor for leadership action in monarchical society,
Burns looks at the leadership systems of African tribes, and how
monarchy evolved to the absolute model in post-Renaissance Europe,
with a portrait of Elizabeth I's successful leadership during a
turbulent period in English history. Chapter 4: Leaders as Planners
A look at transforming leadership outside the political arena,
including the building of the Suez and Panama Canals and Charles
Eliot and the making of Harvard University into a world-renown
institution. Part Three: Leadership Chapter 5: The Transformation
of American Leadership A look at the American Revolutionary Period,
and how leaders like Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison created the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that first brought
to political life the 18th century enlightenment ideals of Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-from the foundation of
America's political culture to the formation of America's political
parties. Chapter 6: France: Trials of Leadership How the French
Revolution, begun in the spirit of Libety, Equality, and Fraternity
spun out of control because of the leadership failures of men like
Robespierre-and how it ultimately resulted in the military
strongman Napoleon coming to power, with dire consequences for
Europe. Chapter 7: Leadership as Conflict Burns argues that
conflict is an essential component to getting beyond transactional
leadership into transforming leadership-that ideals and ideas must
clash to yield continuing and meaningful social change. He looks
through the historical prism of the 19th century Tory Party's Loyal
Opposition in Britain (to view its success) and Gorbachev's
Perestroika and Glasnost initiatives of the 1980s (and why they
failed). Part Four: People Chapter 8: The Anatomy of Motivation A
look at the human causes behind the necessity for social change,
what the great thinkers have had to say about it from Rousseau to
Marx, and how wants become needs that create demands for change.
Chapter 9: Creative Leadership From da Vinci to Einstein, the
genius intellect has been able to transform our understanding of
the world through his or her creative vision. Burns argues that
creativity is an essential part of building coalitions and finding
solutions for the problems we face, and profiles Gandhi's creative
leadership in India against the British Empire as a prime example,
as well as how societies can encourage the creativity necessary to
foster positive change. Chapter 10: The Leader-Follower Paradox
Presents the Burns Paradox: If leadership and followership are
dynamically intertwined, is there really any way to begin
understanding their interaction? He argues that leadership begins
with the followers, whose wants and needs become expressed through
the intervention of leaders who can articulate them. Burns explores
this further through the prism of FDR's New Deal program and
re-election effort in 1936. Chapter 11: Conflict: The Arming of
Leadership Burns argues that great leaders seek out conflict, and
how leaders from Martin Luther King Jr. to Nelson Mandela have
created enduring change by engaging forthrightly in political
conflict. PARTTTTTT FIVE: Transformation Chapter 12: The Power of
Values Citing examples as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt's
championing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the
Avignon Papacy's enduring leadership of the Church following its
exile from Rome, Burns shows how creating lasting values is the
hallmark of enduring leadership. Chapter 13: The People, Yes? How
intellectual and creative leaders must engage with the people to
forge transformation in our society, including examples like the
Tennessee Valley Authority. EPILOGUE: Global Poverty: Putting
Leadership to Work In a provocative culmination of his examination
of leadership, Burns proposes a leadership challenge to the
foremost problem facing humanity in the 21st century: global
poverty. He outlines an international UN-led initiative for a
grass-roots campaign to promote development throughout the
impoverished nations of the world, based on the successful model
devised and operated to provide low-cost community healthcare in
India.
Think you know about British history and the causes of the First
World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of
events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight
into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be
the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put
together by a very small, but powerful, political elite...
'Thought-provoking . . . Docherty and Macgregor do not mince their
words . . . their arguments are powerful' -- Britain at War 'Simply
astonishing' -- ***** Reader review 'Very illuminating' -- *****
Reader review 'You simply MUST read this book' -- ***** Reader
review 'This is a page-turner' -- ***** Reader review
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Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First
World War. It reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been
deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of
very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most
heinous crime perpetrated on humanity. For ten years, they plotted
the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take
control of the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
was no chance happening. It lit a fuse that had been carefully set
through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through
Belgrade and St Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our
understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of
falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at
Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever
since. The official version is fatally flawed, warped by the volume
of evidence they destroyed or concealed from public view. Hidden
History poses a tantalising challenge. The authors ask only that
you examine the evidence they lay before you . . .
Vegetables are a significant component of agricultural farming
systems in Africa and have recently moved into the focus of
research organizations, development partners and policy makers.
Beyond income generating opportunities for producers, vegetable
production for domestic and export markets is an important driver
for growth due to employment opportunities in production,
processing and trade. Providing the latest socioeconomic research
methodologies alongside empirical examples, this volume explores
the potential for vegetable production to alleviate poverty, the
impact of food production standards on various stakeholders, an
assessment of markets and marketing potential for different crops
and advanced economic approaches to production.
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Mount Pleasant (Hardcover)
Melissa Fulgham, James McGregor, Rex Allen
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R1,105
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Discovery Miles 8 750
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