Prescription for Survival

Prescription for Survival
Author: Bernard Lown, M.d.
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781442963986

Dr. Bernard Lown conveys in this book the excitement of the occasion, including the famous incident when a member of the audience had a heart attack and the two cardiologists, Lown and Chazov, worked together to resuscitate the man.

The Real Wealth of Nations

The Real Wealth of Nations
Author: Riane Eisler
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2008-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1576755142

Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don't value what matters. She then presents a radical reformulation of economics priorities focused on the home.

The Chalice and the Blade

The Chalice and the Blade
Author: Riane Eisler
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0062046306

Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." – LA Weekly The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible—and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past.

International Business-Society Management

International Business-Society Management
Author: Rob van Tulder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2005-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134293275

Drawing on a wealth of experience, both in research and teaching the authors of this book have developed a text that integrates reputation, responsibility, ethics and accountability.

Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise

Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise
Author: Rob van Tulder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781315879956

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability. Drawing on examples from 20 frontrunner companies located in the Netherlands, it builds upon a unique research project in which CEOs and middle-managers gave access not only to their decision-making process, but also revealed how their perceptions shaped the transition process. This book identifies four different archetypes of business cases and related business models that business students and managers can use to identify phases and related attitudes towards sustainability. The book provides in-depth analysis and insight into: * theoretical concepts and an overview of the relevant literature * the different business cases for sustainability * behavioural characteristics of each phase and the typical barriers between them * more than 70 tipping points * approaches to shaping stakeholder dialogue * effective engagement of stakeholders in each phase of transition * how companies move through the phases towards higher levels of sustainability * insights of employees of the 20 companies whether the business case was really achieved * summary of the interventions which have proved successful in these companies. This book offers students as well as managers of vocational and academic institutions at undergraduate and postgraduate level insight into real-life transition processes towards sustainability.

Nurturing Our Humanity

Nurturing Our Humanity
Author: Riane Eisler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2019
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0190935723

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.

Sacred Pleasure

Sacred Pleasure
Author: Riane Eisler
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0062030752

Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.