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We do business in a results-oriented world. Our focus on growth is laudable for its clarity, but one of its downsides is that firms can lose sight of the process: how business gets done and the individuals or employees through whom results are achieved. This leads to compromised decisions and unethical behavior. It is not just what we accomplish th

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Presents a classic that had a spectacular immediate impact on national politics. This book tells a history of America and its political ideals and an analysis of contemporary ills, from rampant economic inequality to unchecked corporate power.

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Tie on your apron and step into Jim Henle's kitchen as he demonstrates how two equally savory pursuits--cooking and mathematics--have more in common than you realize. A tasty dish for gourmets of popular math, The Proof and the Pudding offers a witty and flavorful blend of mathematical treats and gastronomic delights that reveal how life in the mat

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By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, the author shows how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.

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Re-creates the fascination with which many intellectuals of prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. This book explains why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop.

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Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished.

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We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry - not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society This title examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period.

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How can developing countries grow their economies Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In this book, the author - the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank - focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves.

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In 1915, C G Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to understand and codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. This volume provides an historical grounding for those who work with, or are interested in, Jungian psychology and psychological typology.

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"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was that rarest of creatures--a towering scientific genius who could make himself understood by

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Offers a collection of Thomas Jefferson's quotations. This book puts Jefferson's words in context with an introduction, a chronology of Jefferson's life, the source of each quotation, an appendix identifying Jefferson's correspondents, and an index. It is intended for the casual reader, but is also a reference work.

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"The Description for this book, The Quotable Jung, will be forthcoming"--

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The father of existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work.

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Includes a collection of Thoreau quotations ever assembled. This title gathers more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American author, social reformer, environmentalist, and self-reliant thinker.

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Tracing modern democracy's roots to John Locke and the American founders, this book shows that they saw more deeply into the dynamics of democratic politics than have many of their successors. It also shows how elusive democracy can be by exploring the contrast between its successful establishment in South Africa and its failures elsewhere.

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