|
Search
Amazon
Search
Powell's
|
|
Find books about Current
Affairs at Powell's Books.
|
Microtrends:
The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big
Changes
by Mark Penn
with E. Kinney Zalesne
In 1982, readers discovered Megatrends.
In 2000, The Tipping Point entered the
lexicon. Now, in Microtrends, one
of the most respected and sought-after
analysts in the world articulates a new
way of understanding how we live. Mark
Penn, the man who identified Soccer Moms
as a crucial constituency in President
Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, is
known for his ability to detect relatively
small patterns of behavior in our
culture-microtrends that are wielding
great influence on business, politics, and
our personal lives. Only one percent of
the public, or three million people, is
enough to launch a business or social
movement. Relying on some of the best data
available, Penn identifies more than 70
microtrends in religion, leisure,
politics, and family life that are
changing the way we live.
Read
Dr. Dolhenty's Review of this Book
Order
at Amazon Books -- Order
at Powell's Books
|
|
|
The Culture
Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why
People Around the World Live and Buy as
They Do
by Clotaire
Rapaille
Why are people around the world so very
different? What makes us live, buy, even
love as we do? The answers are in the
codes.
In The Culture Code,
internationally revered cultural
anthropologist and marketing expert
Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first
time the techniques he has used to improve
profitability and practices for dozens of
Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking
revelations shed light not just on
business but on the way every human being
acts and lives around the world.
Rapaille's breakthrough notion is that
we acquire a silent system of Codes as we
grow up within our culture. These Codes --
the Culture Code -- are what make us
American, or German, or French, and they
invisibly shape how we behave in our
personal lives, even when we are
completely unaware of our motives. What's
more, we can learn to crack the Codes that
guide our actions and achieve new
understanding of why we do the things we
do.
Read
Dr. Dolhenty's Review of this Book
Order
at Amazon Books -- Order
at Powell's Books
|
|
|
Black
Rednecks And White Liberals, by Thomas
Sowell
Commentating on race and ethnicity,
Sowell explores and seeks to dispel the
stereotypes associated with "black
rednecks" in the South, claiming that
their attempts to escape these typecasts
are hampered by white liberals. He
ventures further in his book, questioning
other ethnic stereotypes and analyzing the
history and present practice of
slavery.
Read an excerpt from this book by
Clicking
Here.
Order
at Amazon Books
Order
at Powell's Books
Order
at Laissez Faire Books for
$16.95
|
|
|
The Tipping
Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big
Difference
According to Malcolm Gladwell, ideas
spread exactly the same way that epidemics
do -- by casual contagion. He's not the
first to advance this memetic thesis, but
"The Tipping Point" is packed with
sterling examples, and the author's
enthusiasm for his subject is, as they
say, infectious.
|
|
|
Mean
Justice: A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's
Power, a Betrayal of
Innocence
An award-winning author and journalist
embarks on a chilling journey to the dark
side of the justice system -- the powerful
true story of one man's battle to prove
his innocence. It is a story both deeply
personal and sweeping in scope, for Humes
shows how the individual injustice done to
one man is part of a disturbing national
trend, in which innocence becomes the
unintended casualty of the war on crime,
and the immense new powers of prosecutors
are dangerously unchecked.
|
|
|
Postmodern
Times : A Christian Guide to Contemporary
Thought and Culture
The modern era is over. Assumptions
that shaped 20th century thought and
culture, the bridges we crossed to this
present moment, have blown up. The
postmodern age has begun. But what is
postmodernism? Well, here's your chance to
find out if you don't know.
(NOTE: While this book provides an
excellent analysis of the state of our
culture and recommends some needed
changes, it also contains some arguments
and conclusions with which The Radical
Academy disagrees.)
|
|
|
The New
Absolutes: How They are Being Imposed on
Us, How They are Eroding Our Moral
Landscape
Those who claim tolerance and decry
moral absolutes are the very ones imposing
on society "The New Absolutes." This book
discusses the ten beliefs once held to be
absolutely true which are being trampled
by ten new beliefs - the personally and
socially destructive new absolutes.
(NOTE: While this book provides an
excellent analysis of the state of our
culture and recommends some needed
changes, it also contains some arguments
and conclusions with which The Radical
Academy disagrees.)
|
|
|
Not Out of Africa : How
Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach
Myth As History
Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal
his ideas from the library in Alexandria?
Do we owe the underlying tenets of our
democratic civilization to the Africans?
Is it justifiable to make up history to
make certain groups feel good about
themselves? Here is a book that discusses
these and other fascinating questions.
|
|
|
