A Dialogue on Philanthrocapitalism: "Just Another Emperor" Reviewed | NextBillion.net
While noting the benefits of approaches championed by social entrepreneurs and venture philanthropists, he suggests that these movements complement - rather than replace - non-market-base...
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http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/07/07/a-dialogue-on-philanthrocapitalism-just-another-...
While noting the benefits of approaches championed by social entrepreneurs and venture philanthropists, he suggests that these movements complement - rather than replace - non-market-base...
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http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/07/07/a-dialogue-on-philanthrocapitalism-just-another-...
WorldChanging: Here Comes Everybody
Here Comes Everybody provides a much-needed map for people who want to operate in this new social space, where the rules are both subtly and radically different.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008162.html
Here Comes Everybody provides a much-needed map for people who want to operate in this new social space, where the rules are both subtly and radically different.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008162.html
Paul Polak on Poverty Alleviation
He convincingly exposes the underlying and practical dilemmas of traditional approaches to development, critiques the persistent macro-economic focus of development and suggests that comm...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/paul-polak-on-poverty-alleviat-003286.php
He convincingly exposes the underlying and practical dilemmas of traditional approaches to development, critiques the persistent macro-economic focus of development and suggests that comm...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/paul-polak-on-poverty-alleviat-003286.php
Book Review: Paul Polak's Out of Poverty | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise
Out of Poverty gets beyond the fractious discussions of "what's gone wrong?" or "which approach is right?" and offers a welcome dose of common sense for getting people out of poverty, qui...
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http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/02/06/out-of-poverty
Out of Poverty gets beyond the fractious discussions of "what's gone wrong?" or "which approach is right?" and offers a welcome dose of common sense for getting people out of poverty, qui...
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http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/02/06/out-of-poverty
Ode Magazine : In praise of unreasonable people
They are unreasonable because they want to change the system, because they are insanely ambitious, because they aren’t guided by reason but emotion, because they think they know what th...
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http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/51/in-praise-of-unreasonable-people
They are unreasonable because they want to change the system, because they are insanely ambitious, because they aren’t guided by reason but emotion, because they think they know what th...
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http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/51/in-praise-of-unreasonable-people
Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Sirota: The Uprising
And it’s that sense -- that the American way no longer works for all of us because it’s rigged to benefit a few -- which allows Sirota to see a cross-cultural, nationwide, transpartis...
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http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-david-sirota-the-uprising
And it’s that sense -- that the American way no longer works for all of us because it’s rigged to benefit a few -- which allows Sirota to see a cross-cultural, nationwide, transpartis...
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http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-david-sirota-the-uprising
Rooting for a Revolution - washingtonpost.com
What he witnessed on his cross-country journey is an embryonic movement that might transform the country, just as a broad stream of populist radicals and reformers including Eugene Debs a...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303184.html
What he witnessed on his cross-country journey is an embryonic movement that might transform the country, just as a broad stream of populist radicals and reformers including Eugene Debs a...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303184.html
The FASTForward Blog » The Science of Love and how this works in the 2.0 World
Here is a review of a book that talks to the design of our brain itself and how part of it has been put aside and how it needs to be brought back into prominence.
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http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/05/17/the-science-of-love-and-how-this-works-in-the-20-w...
Here is a review of a book that talks to the design of our brain itself and how part of it has been put aside and how it needs to be brought back into prominence.
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http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/05/17/the-science-of-love-and-how-this-works-in-the-20-w...
WorldChanging: More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability
More, published Thursday by Island Press, explores the link between population and the environment through the lens of sexual relations and women's efforts to influence the timing of thei...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008014.html
More, published Thursday by Island Press, explores the link between population and the environment through the lens of sexual relations and women's efforts to influence the timing of thei...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008014.html
The Threat to the Planet - The New York Review of Books
Even when the scientific evidence is clear, technical nit-picking by contrarians leaves the public with the false impression that there is still great scientific uncertainty about the rea...
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131
Even when the scientific evidence is clear, technical nit-picking by contrarians leaves the public with the false impression that there is still great scientific uncertainty about the rea...
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131
In 'Thanks!' Robert Emmons explains why it's good to be grateful
While this is indeed a book that purports to provide some useful insight and tools into mental well-being, it's also a serious exploration of a current arena of psychological research, by...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/RVF9RA7HH.DTL
While this is indeed a book that purports to provide some useful insight and tools into mental well-being, it's also a serious exploration of a current arena of psychological research, by...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/RVF9RA7HH.DTL
PsyBlog: 'thanks!' by Robert A. Emmons (Book Review)
For the psychologist in me there was too much anecdote and not enough experiment. But for the casual reader in me looking for inspiration there was much to ponder.
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http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/09/thanks-by-robert-emmons-book-review.php
For the psychologist in me there was too much anecdote and not enough experiment. But for the casual reader in me looking for inspiration there was much to ponder.
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http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/09/thanks-by-robert-emmons-book-review.php
AlterNet: Tom Friedman's Folly: The Lies Behind 'Free Trade' ((Bad Samaritans review)
A new book on disastrous trade policies makes it clear that it's time to dismantle the barriers that keep so much of the world so poor.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/75645
A new book on disastrous trade policies makes it clear that it's time to dismantle the barriers that keep so much of the world so poor.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/75645
The Long Tail: Why you should read Bjorn Lomborg's new book (but not follow his advice)
Rather than spending the government tax money on federal research (which is best reserved for cases of market failure, which is clearly not the case in this greentech boom), use it to red...
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http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/08/why-you-should-.html
Rather than spending the government tax money on federal research (which is best reserved for cases of market failure, which is clearly not the case in this greentech boom), use it to red...
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http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/08/why-you-should-.html
Review: The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
Conflict is one of four 'poverty traps' that the bottom billion will be unable to escape without our help. The other three are being landlocked, especially when the neighbouring countries...
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2099345,00.html
Conflict is one of four 'poverty traps' that the bottom billion will be unable to escape without our help. The other three are being landlocked, especially when the neighbouring countries...
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2099345,00.html
Can Anyone Stop It? - The New York Review of Books
Reviews of Cool It (Lomborg), Break Through (Nordhaus and Shellenberger), What We Know About Climate Change (Emanuel) and Climate Change (Dimento and Dougman).
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20676
Reviews of Cool It (Lomborg), Break Through (Nordhaus and Shellenberger), What We Know About Climate Change (Emanuel) and Climate Change (Dimento and Dougman).
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20676
Economist's View: "If The Uncertainties Are Not Small, Standard Cost–Benefit Analysis As Applied To The Economics Of Climate Change Becomes Incoherent"
Partha Dasgupta reviews Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg.
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http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/09/if-the-uncertai.html
Partha Dasgupta reviews Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg.
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http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/09/if-the-uncertai.html
Jonathan H. Adler on Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming on National Review Online
All policy options should be on the table. Yet, as Lomborg laments, “we often don’t hear the proposals that will do the most good but only the ones that involve cutting greenhouse-gas...
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGUxMGMyNzBkZjA4MTVjMWQyYmM0MzM0M2I3NDg1ZTg=
All policy options should be on the table. Yet, as Lomborg laments, “we often don’t hear the proposals that will do the most good but only the ones that involve cutting greenhouse-gas...
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGUxMGMyNzBkZjA4MTVjMWQyYmM0MzM0M2I3NDg1ZTg=
Book Review: The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen | Kairosnews
For Himanen, the exciting thing about hackers is not so much their coding wizardry as the challenge they offer the dominant work ethic of our time, which he defines as the Protestant Work...
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http://kairosnews.org/book-review-the-hacker-ethic-by-pekka-himanen
For Himanen, the exciting thing about hackers is not so much their coding wizardry as the challenge they offer the dominant work ethic of our time, which he defines as the Protestant Work...
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http://kairosnews.org/book-review-the-hacker-ethic-by-pekka-himanen
FT.com / Business Life - Changing the market system
Humankind’s future now depends on one particular new group of unreasonable people. They are the social entrepreneurs striving to solve the knotty economic, social and environmental prob...
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71d5d4b4-ca9f-11dc-a960-000077b07658.html
Humankind’s future now depends on one particular new group of unreasonable people. They are the social entrepreneurs striving to solve the knotty economic, social and environmental prob...
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71d5d4b4-ca9f-11dc-a960-000077b07658.html
Muhammad Yunus: The Unlikely Disciple
In the end, though, it is not just Yunus' theories Drucker would have admired; above all, it's his effectiveness.
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http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jan2008/ca20080131_108963.htm?chan=top+news_top...
In the end, though, it is not just Yunus' theories Drucker would have admired; above all, it's his effectiveness.
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http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jan2008/ca20080131_108963.htm?chan=top+news_top...
LRB · Lawrence Lessig: Do you Floss?
It’s time for [governments] to recognise officially what we all know individually: that the economies of human behaviour are more than one; that these other economies too produce extrao...
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n16/less01_.html
It’s time for [governments] to recognise officially what we all know individually: that the economies of human behaviour are more than one; that these other economies too produce extrao...
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n16/less01_.html
Europe: Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century by Mark Leonard - Times Online
Not many books about the European Union are fun to read. This one is; and, more than that, it tells the political story of the EU better than any other I know.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article517916.ece
Not many books about the European Union are fun to read. This one is; and, more than that, it tells the political story of the EU better than any other I know.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article517916.ece
"The Rise of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida
The key to economic growth lies not just in the ability to attract the creative class, but to translate that underlying advantage into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas,...
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html
The key to economic growth lies not just in the ability to attract the creative class, but to translate that underlying advantage into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas,...
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html
The Wall Street Journal Online: The Lowdown on Doomsday - Why the public shrugs at global warming.
Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that Mr. Gore and the broader environmental movement--in which Mr. Gore plays an almost messianic part--remain wedded to an outmoded vision, seeing global...
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110010913
Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that Mr. Gore and the broader environmental movement--in which Mr. Gore plays an almost messianic part--remain wedded to an outmoded vision, seeing global...
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110010913
Reason Magazine - The Amateurs' Hour
Keen’s depressing book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, laments techno-utopianism, free content, and the rise of citizen journalists, filmmakers,...
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http://www.reason.com/news/show/123523.html
Keen’s depressing book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, laments techno-utopianism, free content, and the rise of citizen journalists, filmmakers,...
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http://www.reason.com/news/show/123523.html
Nick Carr's Big Switch | The Register
The Big Switch is Carr's second book, and is the first serious examination of "Web 2.0" in book form. It's a good companion to Steve Talbott and Clifford Stoll, lone critics of the first ...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/nick_carr_big_switch_review
The Big Switch is Carr's second book, and is the first serious examination of "Web 2.0" in book form. It's a good companion to Steve Talbott and Clifford Stoll, lone critics of the first ...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/nick_carr_big_switch_review
American Scientist Online - The Evil That Men Do
This [...] book should be required reading not only for social scientists, but also for politicians, decision makers, educators and just about anyone else disturbed by the self-destructiv...
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http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/55923;jsessionid=aaag...
This [...] book should be required reading not only for social scientists, but also for politicians, decision makers, educators and just about anyone else disturbed by the self-destructiv...
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http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/55923;jsessionid=aaag...
” The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky - Book Review " on Positive Psychology News Daily
I nominate Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want for best single book about positive psychology to have on the shelf.
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http://pos-psych.com/news/kathryn-britton/20080123595
I nominate Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want for best single book about positive psychology to have on the shelf.
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http://pos-psych.com/news/kathryn-britton/20080123595
False Prophet by Sol Stern, City Journal Autumn 2007
Contrary to Kozol’s impression, testing hardly registers as a reason for leaving. One factor that does turn up, however, is the lack of adequate training that teachers get from educatio...
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http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_sndgs04.html
Contrary to Kozol’s impression, testing hardly registers as a reason for leaving. One factor that does turn up, however, is the lack of adequate training that teachers get from educatio...
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http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_sndgs04.html
Book Review: Deep Economy by Bill McKibben : TreeHugger
We're given a more difficult, but more ultimately rewarding, task: cautiously crafting a new kind of individualism that allows one to be a unique part of something beyond just a lonely self.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/book_review_deep_economy_bill_mckibben.php
We're given a more difficult, but more ultimately rewarding, task: cautiously crafting a new kind of individualism that allows one to be a unique part of something beyond just a lonely self.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/book_review_deep_economy_bill_mckibben.php
'Deep Economy': ideas for a better world | csmonitor.com
"The key questions will change from whether the economy produces more or less to whether it builds or undermines community – for community, it turns out, is the key to physical survival...
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0529/p17s01-bogn.html
"The key questions will change from whether the economy produces more or less to whether it builds or undermines community – for community, it turns out, is the key to physical survival...
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0529/p17s01-bogn.html
Thomas Princen, The Logic of Sufficiency - SSPP: Book Review Perspectives
Princen’s main argument is that to adequately deal with growing environmental problems, we need to move from an economy built around the principles of profit maximization and efficiency...
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http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol3iss1/book.princen.html
Princen’s main argument is that to adequately deal with growing environmental problems, we need to move from an economy built around the principles of profit maximization and efficiency...
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http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol3iss1/book.princen.html
Review: Confronting Consumption
Refusing to apply a band-aid to the wound of consumption, the authors demonstrate great courage as they confront many underlying assumptions about consumption and consumers.
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http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.php/egj/article/view/2962/2920
Refusing to apply a band-aid to the wound of consumption, the authors demonstrate great courage as they confront many underlying assumptions about consumption and consumers.
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http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.php/egj/article/view/2962/2920
Review: The Logic of Sufficiency
What happens when a culture, an entire civilization, declares that it has enough to eat, drive or live, and that it does not need more? Princen’s book sets out to explore this theory of...
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http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.php/egj/article/view/3105/3063
What happens when a culture, an entire civilization, declares that it has enough to eat, drive or live, and that it does not need more? Princen’s book sets out to explore this theory of...
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http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.php/egj/article/view/3105/3063
Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason, anti-intellectualism, Lawrence H. Summers, Richard Hofstadter | Salon Books
All we have to count on, she writes, is the fortitude of "parents and citizens determined to preserve a saving remnant of those who prize memory and true learning above all else.
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http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/15/susan_jacoby
All we have to count on, she writes, is the fortitude of "parents and citizens determined to preserve a saving remnant of those who prize memory and true learning above all else.
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http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/15/susan_jacoby
Block That Metaphor!
Lakoff's book will be red meat for his foes on the right, who can hold up his distortions as proof of liberals' insularity and incomprehension.
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http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_19
Lakoff's book will be red meat for his foes on the right, who can hold up his distortions as proof of liberals' insularity and incomprehension.
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http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_19
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Comments On Bjørn Lomborg’s New Book “Cool It”
Bjorn Lomborg’s book, which emphasizes that a broader view on environmental risk is needed, is supported even more since this heat wave was not even due to global warming.
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http://climatesci.org/2007/12/11/comments-on-bj%C3%B8rn-lomborgs-new-book-cool-it
Bjorn Lomborg’s book, which emphasizes that a broader view on environmental risk is needed, is supported even more since this heat wave was not even due to global warming.
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http://climatesci.org/2007/12/11/comments-on-bj%C3%B8rn-lomborgs-new-book-cool-it
The Other Journal at Mars Hill Graduate School :: Thomas Princen’s The Logic of Sufficiency: A Sapling in a Landfill by Andy Meyer
With The Logic of Sufficiency, Princen has dug up just enough topsoil and laid down just enough manure to make a rich field for future farmers and a rich economic picture for future framers.
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http://otherjournal.com/article.php?id=184
With The Logic of Sufficiency, Princen has dug up just enough topsoil and laid down just enough manure to make a rich field for future farmers and a rich economic picture for future framers.
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http://otherjournal.com/article.php?id=184
Governing The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action | Cooperation Commons
Changing the rules of the game to turn zero-sum games into non-zero-sum games may be one way to describe the arc of civilization for the past 8000 years.
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http://www.cooperationcommons.com/node/361
Changing the rules of the game to turn zero-sum games into non-zero-sum games may be one way to describe the arc of civilization for the past 8000 years.
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http://www.cooperationcommons.com/node/361
'Governing the Commons' by Elinor Ostrom - A Book Review by Scott London
I consider it one of the more far-sighted and genuinely significant works to emerge in recent years on environmental resource management.
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http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/ostrom.html
I consider it one of the more far-sighted and genuinely significant works to emerge in recent years on environmental resource management.
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http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/ostrom.html
Science in Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology by Roy Sugarman
[The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy] is likely to create much interest in a community of psychologists desperate perhaps to add to the arsenal of what could be considered evidence based pr...
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http://www.human-nature.com/nibbs/03/cp.html
[The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy] is likely to create much interest in a community of psychologists desperate perhaps to add to the arsenal of what could be considered evidence based pr...
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http://www.human-nature.com/nibbs/03/cp.html
Foreign Affairs - Smart Samaritans - Michael A. Clemens
There are many deliberate acts that can help at the margins as an event of economic conception grows into a complex organism. But we are play-acting if we underestimate the magnitude of t...
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There are many deliberate acts that can help at the margins as an event of economic conception grows into a complex organism. But we are play-acting if we underestimate the magnitude of t...
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The Really Poor - FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Instead of the “poverty trap,” Collier contends that the bottom billion are caught in four other traps: the conflict trap, the natural resource trap, being landlocked with bad neighbo...
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Instead of the “poverty trap,” Collier contends that the bottom billion are caught in four other traps: the conflict trap, the natural resource trap, being landlocked with bad neighbo...
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The Least Among Us
Collier’s is a better book than either Sachs’s or Easterly’s for two reasons. First, its analysis of the causes of poverty is more convincing. Second, its remedies are more plausible.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?ex=1357448400&en=f3ebd7c6b6fd...
Collier’s is a better book than either Sachs’s or Easterly’s for two reasons. First, its analysis of the causes of poverty is more convincing. Second, its remedies are more plausible.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?ex=1357448400&en=f3ebd7c6b6fd...
The Power of Mindful Learning, by Ellen J. Langer .
Ellen Langer takes a look at some of Education's most "sacred cows" [...] and suggests that our beliefs are holding us back, way back.
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http://www.greensense.com/Marketplace/Books/power_mindful_learn.htm
Ellen Langer takes a look at some of Education's most "sacred cows" [...] and suggests that our beliefs are holding us back, way back.
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http://www.greensense.com/Marketplace/Books/power_mindful_learn.htm
Cozolino: The Making of a Therapist
Cozolino’s words will be reassuring and helpful to therapists at the beginning of their journey, and an enjoyable, sometimes thought-provoking companion to those already practising.
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http://counsellingresource.com/books/cozolino-making-of-a-therapist
Cozolino’s words will be reassuring and helpful to therapists at the beginning of their journey, and an enjoyable, sometimes thought-provoking companion to those already practising.
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http://counsellingresource.com/books/cozolino-making-of-a-therapist
Cozolino, Louis. The Making of a Therapist: A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey | Adolescence | Find Articles at BNET.com
Despite the fact that the therapist's self-insight, emotional maturity, and calm centeredness are critical for successful psychotherapy, rote knowledge and technical skills are the focus ...
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2248/is_164_41/ai_n17094459
Despite the fact that the therapist's self-insight, emotional maturity, and calm centeredness are critical for successful psychotherapy, rote knowledge and technical skills are the focus ...
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neuroscience of psychotherapy: Building and rebuilding the human brain, The | Journal of Marital and Family Therapy | Find Articles at BNET.com
The book is well written, coherent, with useful examples. The only notable limitation is the amount of information covered, such that one can be distracted by the volume of information on...
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3658/is_200501/ai_n9520952
The book is well written, coherent, with useful examples. The only notable limitation is the amount of information covered, such that one can be distracted by the volume of information on...
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3658/is_200501/ai_n9520952
Aiming to Level a Global Playing Field - New York Times
Two notions still animate the author. The first is that neoliberal economics vandalized the developing world. The second is that smart people in Washington and New York with the correct i...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/business/yourmoney/03shelf.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Two notions still animate the author. The first is that neoliberal economics vandalized the developing world. The second is that smart people in Washington and New York with the correct i...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/business/yourmoney/03shelf.html?_r=1&oref=slogin