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  • An Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

    by Nikki Springer ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrust environmental consciousness to the fore of modern politics and policy, creating the regulatory landscape we know today.The book is also a monument to the power of closely reasoned argument – built from well ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of William H. Whyte's The Organization Man

    by Nikki Springer ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    William Whyte’s core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic. This stressed the group as the source of creativity and emphasized that the greatest need of the individual is to belong to a group. To investigate this idea, Whyte spent years interviewing the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Analysis of James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds

    Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies, and Nations

    by Nikki Springer ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    In The Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker columnist, Surowiecki, explores the question of whether the many are better than an elite few – no matter their qualifications – at solving problems, promoting innovation and making wise decisions. Surowiecki’s text uses multiple case studies and touches on the arenas of pop culture, sociology, business management and behavioural economics among others. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

    by Nikki Springer ...
    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 45 min

    Carson’s 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist issues. Focusing on the negative, widespread, and long-lasting effects of human activity on the environment—particularly through the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture—Carson argued that we are all morally obliged to look after the environment. A huge best-seller, Silent Spring makes the case ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition.**The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

    by Elizabeth Whitaker ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to approach former classmates who had attended Smith College with her, 10 years after their graduation, the high-achieving Friedan was astonished to ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Theodore Levitt's Marketing Myopia

    by Monique Diderich, Elizabeth Mamali ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Theodore Levitt’s 1960 article “Marketing Myopia” is a business classic that earned its author the nickname “the father of modern marketing”. It is also a beautiful demonstration of the problem solving skills that are crucial in so many areas of life – in business and beyond.The problem facing Levitt was the same problem that has confronted business after business for hundreds of years: how best ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Discourse on Leadership

    A Critical Appraisal

    by Bert A. Spector ...
    In a wide-ranging and provocative new study, Bert A. Spector provides a critical analysis of past and present theories of leadership. Spector asserts that our perception of leadership influences who we vote for, who we hire and promote, and ultimately, who we choose to grant our authority to. Focusing on leadership in discourse, the book sets out to explore how the notion of leadership has been ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

    A View from the Future

    by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
    The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Blessed Unrest

    How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World

    by Paul Hawken ...
    The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental changePaul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stand out of our Light

    Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

    by James Williams ...
    Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Progress

    Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

    by Johan Norberg ...
    A Book of the Year for The Economist and the ObserverOur world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook