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The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (Vintage)
Robert Kuttner
Vintage, 2008
The Truth Exposed
Great expose of how America has been sold out by the elite politicians and Wall Street financiers.
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The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Stephen A. Marglin
Harvard University Press, 2008
Capitalism is Wrong
There are many things wrong with capitalist economics and I agree with Marglin that economic theory is made up of a great many half truths. I believe that Margin misses the most serious error in capitalism however. Capitalist economics employs a theory of value which ...
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Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine ...
Suzanne Gordon
ILR Press, 2006
Wish I would have known
I read the book and am going to graduate from a nursing program in June of '08. I was so disenchanted as to what went on in the book as I see it going on when I am in clinicals. I probably wouldn't have picked nursing as my number one profession after being in the ...
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Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back
Michele Simon
Nation Books, 2006
A great resource for those who want to protect themselves and their families
This book will teach you how to spot the PR, how to not be fooled, and how to organize, for example, to improve school food. The government and large corporations have a lot of big bucks at stake. They do not care about your health. They care about profits. This is ...
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The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning
Alexander D. Platt, Caroline E. Tripp, ...
Ready About Press, 2008
This is a book for leaders who have advanced beyond basic teacher improvement strategies and want to tackle some of the hidden, stubborn blockers that are limiting what they can accomplish in schools. The Skillful Leader II places a major emphasis on finding and improving groups and school communities that are not functioning together effectively ...
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Disinformation : 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror
Richard Miniter
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005
WOW
Show this to your University Prof's and it'll make their heads spin! It's brilliant!
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Addicted to Unhappiness: Free Yourself from Moods and Behaviors That Undermine Relationships, Work, and the ...
Martha Heineman Pieper, William J. Pieper
McGraw-Hill, 2004
Difficult to accept, but true
Everything that this book talks about is true. It's difficult for some people (usually, people with the exact same problem that the authors are talking about) to admit that they're messed up. The notion that their subconscious is making them do things that are not ...
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Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
James Fallows
Vintage, 1997
Liberal vs. Conservative? No Contest
I first met James Fallows online in the early '90s, and then in person several times. For a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard grad, he was surprisingly in touch with the realities I knew as a moderate Westerner living in the East. He was kind enough to give me a copy of ...
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How The Left Was Won: An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine ...
Richard Mgrdechian
Coventry Circle, 2006
Where Have You Been All My Life?
If genius is the ability to piece together ideas in new and creative ways, this book is truly the epitome of genius. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone (Left or Right) who has a sincere desire to understand in no uncertain terms exactly how and why modern-day liberalism ...
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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade (Council of Foreign ...
Jagdish Bhagwati
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTAs endangers the world trading ...
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Don't Jump to Solutions: Thirteen Delusions That Undermine Strategic Thinking (Jossey Bass Business and ...
William B. Rouse
Jossey-Bass, 1998
too strategic becomes too certain, you are avoiding uncertai
Too many people believe too much on strategic thinking, while they are too certain about everything they really thought they could manage. In reality there are many things uncontrollable. Many factors and many aspects includes and involves uncertainty. So too short ...
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Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and ...
Dan Pallotta
Tufts, 2008
a NECESSARY book
A novel perspective on the state of the American nonprofit sector, Pallotta offers an intriguing reconceptualization of charity and catalogues all the things that are counter-productive about our current approach. After years in philanthropy (Dan created AIDS ride, his ...
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Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam ...
Scott Ritter
Nation Books, 2006
Useful study of Iraq's disarmament
Scott Ritter helped to lead the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), whose job was to oversee Iraq's disarmament after the 1991 war. From September 1991 to August 1998 UNSCOM worked to compel Iraq to provide a full account of its weapons. By contrast, US policy ...
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Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform
Mary Kennedy
Harvard University Press, 2006
Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing for twenty years. So why does teaching change so little? Arguing that too many would-be reformers know nothing about the conflicting demands of teaching, Mary Kennedy takes us into the controlled commotion of the classroom, revealing how ...
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The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom
Philip K. Howard
Ballantine Books, 2002
A book that will really make you think
As an immigrant to the US (from Mexico), one of the hardest things for me to get used to was the skewed sense of freedom and entitlement that is sometimes expressed in this country. On my own I had been trying to come to grips with the ideas of extreme lawsuits, ...
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