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Action Careers: Employment in the High-Risk Job Market; Benson, Ragnar Citadel Pr 080651079X / 9780806510798 PAPERBACK
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080651079X Imagine yourself in midnight encounters with shotgun-toting drug smugglers while working as a Border Patrol Officer, or escaping burning cars, crashing aircraft and skiing off of precipices as a stunt man while hobnobbing with movie stars and directors. Impossible, you say. Not if you leave your humdrum life behind and go for an action career! Ranging from the most laid-back (hunting and fishing guide) to difficult in terms of pre-planning and aptitude (test pilot), Action Careers covers such jobs as skydiving instructor, bounty hunter, explosives handler, rodeo cowboy, and international courier, and how to get into them.
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Applications of Management Science: Accounting Applications in Management Service : 1991; Jai Pr 1991 0892329394 / 9780892329397 Hardcover
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0892329394 Good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 276 p. Applications of Management Science, 6. Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! Your purchase benefits our local libraries and economy! 100% Money Back Guarantee. Earthlight Books has served over one million customers since 1973!
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Bankruptcy, Credit and You; Silvers, William L.; Harkness, Richard M. Desert Pubns 0879471727 / 9780879471729 PAPERBACK
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0879471727 This book was conceived in the aftermath of a personal bankruptcy filed by co-author Bill Silvers. Having himself experienced the roller coaster ride of promising career, business & material success, followed by divorce,financial crisis and ultimate bankruptcy, Bill fought the pain & humiliation of his unexpected financial reversals & resulting sense of defeat, and began the long road back toward restoring his fiscal health & repairing his battered self-esteem. 51/2 x 81/2, 114 pgs, softcvr.
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Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh (Body, Commodity, Text); Slavishak, Edward Duke University Press Books 2008 0822342065 / 9780822342069 Hardcover
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0822342065 No dust jacket. like new! appears unread, might be light wear to exterior, Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Glued binding. Cloth over boards. 354 p. Contains: Illustrations. Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice. Audience: General/trade. Pittsburgh emerged as a major U.S. manufacturing centre at the turn of the twentieth century. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fuelled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. In the Steel City, where the major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple, often contradictory, narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. Combining labour and cultural history with visual culture studies, Edward S. Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labour reformers, advertisements, and workers' self-representations. With "Bodies of Work", Slavishak chronicles a heated contest to define the essential character of the Steel City at the turn of the twentieth century: a contest conducted largely through the production of competing images. Slavishak focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh: the men engaged in the arduous physical labour demanded by the city's metals, glass, and coal industries. At the same time, he emphasizes how conceptions of Pittsburgh as quintessentially male limited representations of women in the industrial workplace. The threat of injury or violence loomed large for industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century, and it recurs throughout "Bodies of Work": in the marketing of artificial limbs, statistical assessments of the physical toll of industrial capitalism, clashes between labour and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a state-wide workmen's compensation system.
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Business 2000: Intro to Business; Ristau, Robert A South-Western Educational Pub 2000 0538698659 / 9780538698658 PAPERBACK
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0538698659 Very good. No dust jacket as issued. ~clean text, tight binding Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Business 2000. Audience: General/trade.
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Chinese Currency, History of; Imprint unknown 9627094013 / 9789627094012 Hardcover
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9627094013 ~Very Good. Good DJ. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. Small tear to rear cover of DJ.
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Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways; Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways 093074016626 AUDIO CD
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093074016626 Songs of the American labor movement from the 20th century. A collection of legends sing some of the classics (and a few gems you may not have heard before), including Paul Robeson, Bobbie McGee, Pete Seeger, Joe Glazer, Almanac Singers, Woody Guthrie, Utah Phillips, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Florence Reece, Hazel Dickens, Eddie Starr, Anne Feeny, Jon Fromer and more, singing the songs of Si Kahn, Joe Hill, their own work, and a whole lot more. 27 songs, 76 minutes, and a deluxe 26 page booklet, detailing the history of the songs, and the performers.
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COMECON Data 1983:; Vienna Greenwood Press 1984 0313245363 / 9780313245367 Hardcover
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0313245363 Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. academic library markings, clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior, Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 491 p. Contributions in American History, 109. Audience: General/trade. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book benefit Penrose Memorial Library at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Earthlight Books (across the street from the college), and the local Walla Walla economy!
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Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World; Ruppert, Michael C. Chelsea Green Publications 2009 1603582657 / 9781603582650 PAPERBACK
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1603582657 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! 238 p. world is running short of energy especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life. In Confronting Collapse, author Michael C. Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money and energy, including the ways in which oil shortages and price spikes triggered the economic crash that began in September 2008. Given the 96 percent correlation between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions and the unlikelihood of economic growth without a spike in energy use, Ruppert argues that we are not, in fact, on the verge of economic recovery, but on the verge of complete collapse. Ruppert s truth is not merely inconvenient. It is utterly devastating. But there is still hope. Ruppert outlines a 25-point plan of action, including the creation of a second strategic petroleum reserve for the use of state and local governments, the immediate implementation of a national Feed-in Tariff mandating that electric utilities pay 3 percent above market rates for all surplus electricity generated from renewable sources, a thorough assessment of soil conditions nationwide, and an emergency action plan for soil restoration and sustainable agriculture.
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Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours (PM Audio); Chomsky, Noam PM Press 2010 1604862114 / 9781604862119 Audiobook CD
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1604862114 New in new dust jacket. Brand New! Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! Audience: General/trade. On June 12, 2009, Noam Chomsky gave a historic address at the Riverside Church in New York City. talk was sponsored by Brecht Forum and co-sponsors included Education Ministry of Riverside Church, Mission and Social Justice Commission of Riverside Church, Theatre of the Oppressed at Riverside Church, Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory & Bluestockings Books. More than 2, 000 people attended this historic address, captured here, in which Chomsky offered a powerful analysis of the current economic crisis and its structural roots; the continuity in U.S. foreign policy under the Barack Obama administration; and the class interests driving U.S. domestic and foreign policy. He also speaks here at length about the tradition of worker self-management as a concrete alternative to the business as usual approach of corporations and the government during the current crisis. CD also features an introduction by Amy Goodman.
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Deep Inside the Underground Economy: How Millions of Americans are Practising Free Enterprise in an Unfree Economy; Cash, Adam BREAKOUT PRODUCTIONS 2003 1893626490 / 9781893626492 PAPERBACK
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1893626490 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 232 p. Audience: General/trade. Are you fed up with giving so much of your hard-earned cash to the government, then watching it get spent on ridiculous pork-barrel special-interest projects? Would you like to hold on to more of your money for your own special-interest boondoggles? underground economy continues to grow in spite of ever-widening atttempts by the government to regulate and tax everything we do. Millions of Americans are practicing free enterprise in today's increasingly unfree tax society. This former Loompanics title is the most comprehensive how-to book ever written for those entrepreneurial individuals who have decided to end their slavery to a wage and to government taxation as well. Discover how you can keep more of what you earn for yourself. Here you will find complete and up-to-date information on the ins and outs of guerrilla capitalism and the underground economy in this country.
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Depression 2.0: Creative Strategies for Tough Economic Times (Process Self-reliance Series); Nelson, Cletus Process 2009 1934170062 / 9781934170069 PAPERBACK
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1934170062 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Process Self-Reliance. Audience: General/trade. With Contributions from Douglas Rushkoff, Claire Wolfe and Charles Hugh Smith We have grown accustomed to life in a stable and prosperous society, and many of us are not prepared for financial uncertainty. Depression 2.0 is a practical, empowering, hands-on guide to persevering and even thriving in the event of an economic crisis. Placing particular emphasis on self-sufficiency, community-building, and personal resilience, this timely, informative book offers a hopeful way forward in a time of great uncertainty. Bankruptcy, barter, and survival investing are just a few of the important topics explored. Chapters include: Worst Case Scenario: Contemplating Unemployment Down but Not Out: Economics for Leaner Times Walking Away: Thinking about Bankruptcy In Case of Emergency: Resilient Home Return to Simplicity: Retreat Options Keeping the Lights on: Home Energy Solutions Between the Cracks: When You Have No Shelter Beyond Currency: When Greenbacks Go Bad Survival Finances: Crisis Investing Future Shift: Road Ahead Depression 2.0 is the fourth title in Process celebrated Self-Reliance Series, created to help urbanites make smart choices to live sustainably in the twenty-first century.
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Dictionary Of Insurance Terms; n/a Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Hardcover
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Direct Pointing to Real Wealth: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Money; Elpel, Thomas J. Hops Pr 1892784084 / 9781892784087 PAPERBACK
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1892784084 All living organisms consume energy, modify resources from the environment and produce waste. That is an inescapable fact of life. But in nature all material wastes are recycled as inputs to other living organisms. The only true waste is diffuse, low-grade heat. In order to create a truly sustainable economy we must mimic the ecosystem so that the waste of every household and business becomes resource inputs to other enterprises, and the only waste produced is diffuse, low-grade heat from renewable resources like solar. In Direct Pointing to Real Wealth Thomas J. Elpel demonstrates that it is inevitable that we will create an ecologically sustainable economy. Tom turns conventional thinking on its head and out-lines steps you can take to increase your prosperity right now while closing the loop on waste and speeding the transition to a greener world. Direct Pointing to Real Wealth is an enlightened look at the nature of money. Discover how the economy is like an ecosystem and how money is a token we use to represent calories of energy in the ecosystem. Tom's unique approach to money takes you beyond the numbers game to a direct examination of the laws of physics, biology, and economics. These laws are the same today as in the Stone Age, when people worked only a few hours per day and had much more leisure time than we do now. Whether you are raising a family or running a business, Tom's book gives you a fresh new look at economics, ecology and how to achieve your Dreams. Break through perceived limitations to discover a world of prosperity and abundance! 5th Edition. May 2000. 182 Pages.
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Diverse Paths of Economic Development; Pomfret, Richart Prentice Hall College Div 1992 0132203510 / 9780132203517 Hardcover
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0132203510 Very good. No dust jacket as issued. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior, Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p.
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Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region (Studies of the East Asian Institute); M E Sharpe Inc 1993 1563240149 / 9781563240140 PAPERBACK
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1563240149 Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. academic library markings, Clean text, tight binding, minimal wear to exterior. Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). 346 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies of the East Asian Institute (M. E. Sharpe). Audience: General/trade. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book benefit Penrose Memorial Library at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Earthlight Books (across the street from the college), and the local Walla Walla economy!
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Ecological Economics: A Practical Programme for Global Reform; Zed Books 1992 185649070X / 9781856490702 PAPERBACK
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185649070X Very good. No dust jacket as issued. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade.
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Everyman's guide to tax havens; Starchild, Adam Paladin Press 0873642031 / 9780873642033 PAPERBACK
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0873642031 THIS IS NOT THE PALADIN PRESS EDITION, BUT THE EDEN PRESS ONE FROM 2000. BUYER BEWARE. Stapled sheaf of papers, like most Eden Press Publications. Offshore expert, Adam Starchild, offers this overview of the world of tax havens and just how they can benefit you. Readers should consider their own needs first, and then locate a tax haven to suit them. This concise guide covers a wide range of personal and financial considerations which specific tax havens seek to address. A dozen specific tax havens are detailed with their respective advantages, with professional advice on how to approach still more.
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Everyman's Guide to Tax Havens by Starchild, Adam by Starchild, Adam; Starchild, Adam Eden Press SHEAF OF PAPERS
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Stapled sheaf of papers, like most Eden Press Publications. Offshore expert, Adam Starchild, offers this overview of the world of tax havens and just how they can benefit you. Readers should consider their own needs first, and then locate a tax haven to suit them. This concise guide covers a wide range of personal and financial considerations which specific tax havens seek to address. A dozen specific tax havens are detailed with their respective advantages, with professional advice on how to approach still more.
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Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide (Beginners Guide (Oneworld)); DeCarlo, Jacqueline Oneworld Publications 1851685219 / 9781851685219 PAPERBACK
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1851685219 What's wrong with buying regular coffee? Does Fair Trade necessarily mean ethical trade? What impact can the average consumer have on global economics? Author and activist Jacqueline DeCarlo reveals why the movement has come to mean far more than just bananas, coffee, and chocolate. Grounded in the inspiring power of Fair Trade as a positive alternative to poverty, environmental destruction, and human exploitation, this enlightening book explains how we can make a difference. Providing an accessible explanation of the principles behind the movement and tracing its development into the powerful economic and social justice tool it is today.
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For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America; Curl, John PM Press 1604865822 / 9781604865820 PAPERBACK
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1604865822 Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change?farmer, union, consumer, and communalist?that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. While the economic system was in its formative years, generation after generation of American working people challenged it by organizing visionary social movements aimed at liberating themselves from what they called wage slavery. Workers substituted a system based on cooperative work and constructed parallel institutions that would supercede the institutions of the wage system. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, this scholarly yet eminently readable chronicle follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, from the family farm to the corporate hierarchy, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future. John Curl, with over forty years of experience as both an active member and scholar of cooperatives, masterfully melds theory, practice, knowledge and analysis, to present the definitive history from below of cooperative America. This second edition contains a new introduction by Ishmael Reed; a new author?s preface discussing cooperatives in the Great Recession of 2008 and their future in the 21st century; and a new chapter on the role co-ops played in the Food Revolution of the 1970s.
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Gaveling Down The Rabble: How "Free Trade" Is Stealing Our Democracy; Morris, Jane Anne Apex Press 2008 1891843397 / 9781891843396 PAPERBACK
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1891843397 BUY FROM SMALL INDEPENDENT NOT A HUGE FACELESS CORPORATION! New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Audience: General/trade. In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States by using a "free trade" model. It was that very nineteenth-century model that was later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts at protecting the environment and citizen and worker health. Gaveling Down the Rabble is essential reading for understanding the background of the current struggle for U.S. democracy local, state and national against growing corporate power and how we can challenge it.
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Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (Spectre); McNally, David PM Press 1604863323 / 9781604863321 PAPERBACK
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1604863323 Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that ? far from having ended ? the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial deregulation. book locates the recent meltdown in the intense economic restructuring that marked the recessions of the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Through this lens, it highlights the emergence of new patterns of world inequality and new centers of accumulation, particularly in East Asia, and the profound economic instabilities these produced. Global Slump offers an original account of the ?financialization? of the world economy during this period, and explores the intricate connections between international financial markets and new forms of debt and dispossession, particularly in the Global South. Analyzing the massive intervention of the world?s central banks to stave off another Great Depression, Global Slump shows that, while averting a complete meltdown, this intervention also laid the basis for recurring crises for poor and working class people: job loss, increased poverty and inequality, and deep cuts to social programs. book takes a global view of these processes, exposing the damage inflicted on countries in the Global South, as well as the intensification of racism and attacks on migrant workers. At the same time, Global Slump also traces new patterns of social and political resistance ? from housing activism and education struggles, to mass strikes and protests in Martinique, Guadeloupe, France and Puerto Rico ? as indicators of the potential for building anti-capitalist opposition to the damage that neoliberal capitalism is inflicting on the lives of millions.
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Greedy Bastards Business Manual: Small Business Wealth Building for the 80's; Morrison, Robert H. Morrison Peterson Pub Co 0936062029 / 9780936062020 Hardcover
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0936062029 ~Very Good. Good DJ under mylar with light wear to corners and edges. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. This book shows small business and professional people how to survive and prosper in a rigged game - the business game where the rules are made by big government, big labor and big business. Morrison shows you how to use other people's money to play this game, how to be a pied piper for other entrepreneurs, and how to make IRS stand for Income Retention System. Here you have what you need to know in order to set yourself free and have the income to enjoy it!
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Growing a Business; Hawken, Paul Simon & Schuster 1988 0671671642 / 9780671671648 PAPERBACK
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0671671642 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. Nearly everyone harbors a secret dream of starting or owning a business. In fact, 1, 000, 000 businesses start in the United States every year. Many of them fail, but enough succeed so that small businesses are now adding millions of jobs to the economy at the same time that the Fortune 500 companies are actually losing jobs. Paul Hawken entrepreneur and best-selling author wrote Growing a Business for those who set out to make their dream a reality. He knows what he's talking about; he is his own best example of success. In the early 1970s, while he was still in his twenties, he founded Erewhon, the largest distributor of natural foods. More recently, he founded and still runs SmithandHawken, the premier mail-order garden tool company. And he wrote a critically acclaimed book called Next Economy about the future of the economy. Using examples like Patagonia, Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, and University National Bank of Palo Alto, California, Hawken shows that the successful business is an expression of an individual person. most successful business, your idea for a business, will grow from something that is deep within you, something that can't be stolen by anyone because it is so uniquely yours that anyone else who tried to execute your idea would fail. He dispels the myth of the risk-taking entrepreneur. purpose of business, he points out, is not to take risks but rather to get something done.
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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars; PM Press 1604864524 / 9781604864526 PAPERBACK
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1604864524 Strikes and union battles occurred throughout American industry during the early part of the twentieth century, but none of these stories compare to the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912 and 1921. These two workers? rebellions quickly drew national attention to an area known principally for its ?black gold,? the coal that was vital for U.S. factories, power plants, and warships of that age. In 1912, miners struck against the harsh conditions in the work camps of Paint and Cabin Creeks and coal operators responded with force. The ensuing battles caused the West Virginia governor to declare martial law, prompting Samuel Gompers to dub the state ?Russianized West Virginia [where] the people can be naught but serfs.? There was little improvement in working conditions by 1921, when another army?thousands of union miners?went up against similar numbers of state police, local deputies, and paid company guards. The weeklong Battle of Blair Mountain ended only after President Warren Harding sent 2,000 U.S. troops and a small unit of bombers to pacify the region. Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals tells the story of these union battles as seen by the leaders, rank-and-file participants, and the journalists who came to West Virginia to cover them for papers including The Nation and theNew York Times. Union leaders like Gompers, Frank Keeney, Fred Mooney, Bill Blizzard, and Mother Jones discuss the lives and struggles of the miners for their union. The book also contains articles, speeches, and personal testimony heard by two U.S. Senate committees sent to investigate West Virginia?s labor problems. In this testimony, miners and their family members describe life and work in the coal camps, telling why they participated in these violent episodes in West Virginia history. Special attention is given to the role of Huntington?s own radical newspaper, The Socialist and Labor Star, a forgotten monument in the history of American heresy and radicalism.
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How To Become A Professional Con Artist; Marlock, Dennis M.; Marlock, Dennis Paladin Press 1581602693 / 9781581602692 PAPERBACK
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1581602693 A fool and his money are soon parted, so the saying goes. And if the job is done right, the fool doesn't even realize it's happened until the wily con artist has moved on to the next victim or the next town. In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Dennis M. Marlock, a retired cop and chairman of the board for the international law enforcement organization Professionals Against Confidence Crime, takes the reader into the mind and greedy heart of the con man. You'll learn the mechanics behind famous swindles such as the pigeon drop, the Jamaican switch, bank-examiner schemes, three-card monte and even fortune-telling. You'll find out why a good scam artist rarely gets caught and, if he does, how he gets away with the lightest punishment or no punishment at all. If you've ever read a news story about a sucker getting taken and wondered how he could have fallen for that, you need to read this book before an honest-faced stranger offers you a deal too good to pass up.??
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How to Survive Best Practice; McWilliam, Erica University of New South Wales Press 0868407658 / 9780868407654 PAPERBACK
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0868407658 ~Very Good. No DJ, as issued. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed.
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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered; Tasch, Woody Chelsea Green Publishing 2008 1603580069 / 9781603580069 Hardcover
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1603580069 New in new dust jacket. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 200 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. We must bring money back down to earth. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy. months and years ahead will surely see a flood of books proposing micro-and macro-economic fixes to the financial crises of the day. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money brings a different vision a meta-economic vision, looking above the top tine and below the bottom line, a new way of seeing what is going on in the soil of the economy.
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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered; Tasch, Woody Chelsea Green Publishing 1603580069 / 9781603580069 Hardcover
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1603580069 Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?Such questions?at the heart of slow money?represent the first steps on our path to a new economy.Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations and serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets.Leading the charge is Woody Tasch?whose decades of work as a venture capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur now shed new light on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility. He offers an alternative vision to the dusty old industrial concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when dollars, and the businesses they financed, lost their connection to place; slow money, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in the new economic, social, and environmental realities of the 21st century.Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money is a call to action for designing capital markets built around not extraction and consumption but preservation and restoration.Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.
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John D. Rockefeller: Robber Baron Or Industrial Statesman? by Earl Latham (Ed. ); Earl Latham (Ed. ) D.C. Heath And Company 1949 Hardcover
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Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Ex-library. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior, moderate highlighting throughout, academic library markings 115 p. Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! Your purchase benefits our local libraries and economy! 100% Money Back Guarantee. Earthlight Books has served over one million customers since 1973!
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law; Gross, Daniel; Lynd, Staughton PM Press 1604864192 / 9781604864199 PAPERBACK
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1604864192 Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that the union operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members? Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy. Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic social change from below, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross deliver a practical guide for making work better while re-invigorating the labor movement. Labor Law for the Rank and Filer demonstrates how a powerful model of organizing called ?Solidarity Unionism? can help workers avoid the pitfalls of the legal system and utilize direct action to win. This new revised and expanded edition includes new cases governing fundamental labor rights as well as an added section on Practicing Solidarity Unionism. This new section includes chapters discussing the hard-hitting tactic of working to rule; organizing under the principle that no one is illegal, and building grassroots solidarity across borders to challenge neoliberalism, among several other new topics. Illustrative stories of workers? struggles make the legal principles come alive.
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Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion; Winslow, Cal PM Press 1604863277 / 9781604863277 PAPERBACK
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1604863277 This book examines one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. In 2006 and 2007, disputes developed concerning the practice and direction of the 150,000 member healthcare workers union in California, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW), with its ?parent? organization, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU is the second largest union in the US, the fastest growing in recent years. It is a well-organized, well-financed organization, with an ambitious agenda. SEIU perspectives, while packaged as progressive, reject traditional union traditions and practices ? union democracy and the idea of ?class struggle? are replaced with class collaboration, and the union frequently ?wheels and deals? directly with top management and politicians. In 2007 UHW rejected these perspectives and contested them within the union. The SEIU international leadership retaliated by placing UHW in trusteeship, firing its officers, seizing its assets, and taking control of all union?s activities. UHW leaders and members responded by forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and challenging the SEIU in virtually every unionized site in the state. This California conflict?SEIU vs. NUHW?is no local brawl; it is not about personalities, it is not about West Coast eccentricities. Its significance is not confined to the fortunes of just one particular union. SEIU's attack, however regrettable, is not the first such?nor will it be the last. The truth is that labor has always been divided, comprised of many currents. The truth is also that there are rights and wrongs in labor, as elsewhere, and that these can expose fundamental divides?in this case two contesting souls in the workers' movement. These are sharply on display today in this dispute?the one soul authoritarian, top-down, collaborationist, the other bottom-up, rank-and-file, class conscious.
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Last-Chance Guide to Protecting Your Wealth and Making a Killing in Precious Metals (Independent Living Presents); American Lantern Press, Inc. B005IDOH08 PAPERBACK
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B005IDOH08 So now, while it's still possible to do so, I'd like to show you exactly how to prepare ? from how to get full exposure to precious metals... to how to conduct gold and silver transactions with the lowest-possible profile... to slashing your tax exposure in precious metals transactions... to protecting yourself from rip-off artists... to reducing your risk of falling victim to crisis-driven government confiscation actions. These and a whole lot of other critical, time-sensitive strategies you need to act on RIGHT AWAY are covered in my Last-Chance Guide to Protecting Your Wealth and Making a Killing in Precious Metals.
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Law and Economics in a Nutshell (West Nutshell); Harrison, Jeffrey L. West Group 1995 031405586X / 9780314055866 PAPERBACK
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031405586X Very good. No dust jacket as issued. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 302 p. Nutshell Series. Audience: General/trade.
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Live Tax-Free in Canada by Schneider, Jerome by Schneider, Jerome; Schneider, Jerome Eden Press 2004 PAPERBACK
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New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! 85 p. stapled pamphlet world s safest and most stress-free place to live now welcomes Americans with some powerful incentives. Jerome Schneider, the world s leading authority on offshore banking and investing, has prepared this easy-to-read and concise guide to show you the many personal and financial advantages of living in tax-friendly Canada. You ll learn, step-by-step, how to make the transition from the U.S. to Canada. Jerome Schneider came to Canada eight years ago and is now a Canadian citizen, making Vancouver, British Columbia his permanent home. In this all-new book he reveals the secret solutions and strategies that the successful expatriate uses to live happily above the 49th parallel. With Canada now inviting Americans to become Canadian citizens, you can enjoy a higher standard of living, better healthcare, less crime, a better way of life, and the opportunity to enjoy years of generating income without paying taxes. Best of all, Canada is widely regarded as the safest and most stress-free country in the world! Live Tax-Free in Canada provides a wealth of secrets and practical information: ? Why Canada? ? Stories about his many clients who immigrated to Canada. ? ABC s of the immigration process. ? How to exchange your U.S. citizenship for Canadian citizenship. ? How to set up an Immigration Trust. ? Where to move Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal. Moving to Canada offers you unlimited opportunities for personal and financial freedom. Live Tax-Free in Canada will show you the many exciting secrets, solutions, and strategies that can work for you!.
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Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less; Callenbach, Ernest Ronin Publishing 2000 1579510140 / 9781579510145 PAPERBACK
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1579510140 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Glued binding. 176 p. Self-Mastery Series, 3. Audience: General/trade. Callenbach, a health and ecological writer in California, aims to show readers how to lead a self-determined, original lifestyle--and to do so frugally. His philosophy is based on three points--environment, health, and money--and he argues that doing something to benefit one of these points will inevitably benefit the other two. Another way of stating his philosophy is "Enough is enough"; more only encumbers. This leads him to recommend a lifestyle that is reminiscent of the counterculture of the 1960s. Callenbach applies this philosophy to every aspect of life: food, finances, car and home ownership, health, employment, and child rearing. topics covered are wide-ranging but are rarely fully developed; the advice is occasionally suspect but overall sound, if more useful to those living in large cities than other areas. A useful book for past, present, and future flower children. -Judith M. Nixon, Purdue Univ. Lib., West Lafayette, Ind. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. This fun and practical guide offers a huge variety of tips on living for less "with grace, humor, [and] imagination. " author covers a wide range of topics including food, housing, transportation, clothes, and entertainment.
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution; Paul Hawken; Amory Lovins; L. Hunter Lovins Back Bay Books 2000 0316353000 / 9780316353007 PAPERBACK
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0316353000 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 396 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Hawken (Ecology of Commerce) and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank, have put together an ambitious, visionary monster of a book advocating "natural capitalism. " short answer to the logical question (What is natural capitalism? ) is that it is a way of thinking that seeks to apply market principles to all sources of material value, most importantly natural resources. authors have two related goals: first, to show the vast array of ecologically smart options available to businesses; second, to argue that it is possible for society and industry to adopt them. Hawken and the Lovinses acknowledge such barriers as the high initial costs of some techniques, lack of knowledge of alternatives, entrenched ways of thinking and other cultural factors. In looking at options for transportation (including the development of ultralight, electricity-powered automobiles), energy use, building design, and waste reduction and disposal, the book's reach is phenomenal. It belongs to the galvanizing tradition of Frances Moore Lapp? 's Diet for a Small Planet and Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. Whether all that the authors have organized and presented so earnestly here can be assimilated and acted on by the people who run the world is open to question. But readers with a capacity for judicious browsing and grazing can surely learn enough in these pages to apply well-reasoned pressure.
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies; Naomi Klein Picador 2000 0312203438 / 9780312203436 Hardcover
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0312203438 Good. No dust jacket. lacking DJ, upper third of FFEP cut away, o/w a decent first edition, first printing with clean text, tight binding and light wear to exterior, Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 512 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein. First published by Knopf Canada in January 2000, shortly after the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the anti-globalization movement and an international bestseller.
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OECD Journal: General Papers, Volume 2008/1; n/a OECD 2001 Hardcover
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Parecon: Life After Capitalism; Albert, Michael Verso 2004 184467505X / 9781844675050 PAPERBACK
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184467505X New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 311 p. Audience: General/trade. What do you want? is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists. In yet another volume, Albert expounds on his answer participatory economics, "parecon" for short a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in this book. "Michael Albert's work on participatory economics outlines in substantial detail a program of radical reconstruction, presenting a vision that draws from a rich tradition of thought and practice of the libertarian left and popular movements, but adding novel critical analysis and specific ideas and modes of implementation. It merits close attention, debate, and action. " Noam Chomsky "[A] thoughtful, profound meditation on what a good society can be like. " Howard Zinn.
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Persuading People (Pocket Mentor); Harvard Business School Press 1422122735 / 9781422122730 PAPERBACK
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1422122735 ~Good. No DJ, as issued. Trade Paperback. Contains highlighting/markings. Light to moderate highlighting/markings/shelf wear; satisfaction guaranteed.
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Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies; Scott, Foresman & Co. 1899 B009AYF7DM
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B009AYF7DM Dark red cloth over boards with gold gilt lettering to cover and spine. ~Good. No DJ. Hardcover. Light to moderate shelf wear to boards; satisfaction guaranteed. Minor markings to endpapers. Robert's Rules of Order is the short title of a book, written by Brig. Gen. Henry Martyn Robert, containing rules of order intended to be adopted as a parliamentary authority for use by a deliberative assembly. Currently in its eleventh edition and published under the name Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (and often referred to using the initialism RONR) it is the most widely used parliamentary authority in the United States,[1] according to the National Association of Parliamentarians, a professional association of approximately 4,000 members which provides education and accreditation certifications for parliamentarians.
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Ragnar's Guide To The Underground Economy; Benson, Ragnar Paladin Press 1999 1581600119 / 9781581600117 PAPERBACK
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1581600119 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Through detailed case studies Ragnar shows you how carpenters, woodcutters, farmers, housecleaners, computer consultants, mechanics, lawyers, vendors, locksmiths and others are cashing in on today's booming economy and keeping what they earn by not paying taxes. From these undergrounders you'll learn how to locate work, get paid without supplying identifying numbers, prepare a realistic budget, advertise your services or product and finance your project when you can't go to the bank. You'll also learn the pitfalls of working off the books and what you can do to prepare for them.
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Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities; Laties, Andrew Seven Stories Press 1609801393 / 9781609801397 PAPERBACK
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1609801393 Andy Laties has launched five bookselling companies in the past thirty years. In 1987 he won the Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award for his innovative community outreach work at The Children's Bookstore in Chicago. After ten years as an American Booksellers Association School instructor, Andy wrote Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store And Beat Back The Chains, published by Vox Pop, which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Award for best book about writing and publishing; a revised and expanded edition is due out in July 2011 from Seven Stories Press. Andy holds a Masters degree from the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University. He co-founded and still manages the museum shop at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Parents Choice called "the very best bookstore for picture books in the entire world." In Rebel Bookseller, Laties tells how he got started, how he kept going, and why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He alternates his narrative with short anecdotes, interludes between the chapters that give his credo as a bookseller. Along the way, he explains the growth of the chains, and throws in a treasure trove of tips for anyone who is considering opening up a bookstore. Rebel Bookseller is a must read for those in the book biz, a testament to the ingeniousness of one man?s story of making a life out of his passionate commitment to books and bookselling.
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology; PM Press 1604864834 / 9781604864830 PAPERBACK
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1604864834 Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor's outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as "unorganizable." Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first strike to shut down all three coalfields in Colorado (1927), and the first "no-fare" transit-workers' job-action (Cleveland, 1944). With their imaginative, colorful, and world-famous strikes and free-speech fights, the IWW wrote many of the brightest pages in the annals of working class emancipation. Wobblies also made immense and invaluable contributions to workers' culture. All but a few of America's most popular labor songs are Wobbly songs. IWW cartoons have long been recognized as labor's finest and funniest. The impact of the IWW has reverberated far beyond the ranks of organized labor. An important influence on the 1960s New Left, the Wobbly theory and practice of direct action, solidarity, and "class-war" humor have inspired several generations of civil rights and antiwar activists, and are a major source of ideas and inspiration for today's radicals. Indeed, virtually every movement seeking to "make this planet a good place to live" (to quote an old Wobbly slogan), has drawn on the IWW's incomparable experience. Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. This new edition includes 40 pages of additional material from the 1998 Charles H. Kerr edition from Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont, and a new preface by Wobbly organizer Daniel Gross.
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Return on Sustainability; Wilhelm, Kevin Dog Ear Publishing, LLC 1598588443 / 9781598588446 PAPERBACK
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1598588443 Flat-signed by author on title page. ~Very Good. No DJ, as issued. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed.
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Stocks and Shares (Millard On?); Millard, Brian J. Wiley 1998 0471966584 / 9780471966586 PAPERBACK
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0471966584 Very good. No dust jacket as issued. ~clean text, tight binding, Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 190 p. Contains: Illustrations. Millard On--Series. Audience: General/trade.
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The Conscious Consumer: Promotic Economic Justice Through Fair Trade; Fair Trade Resource Network 2006 0967535433 / 9780967535432 PAPERBACK
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0967535433 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! 36 page stapled pamphlet FTRN says: A quick read offering a comprehensive overview of the North American Fair Trade movement. This is one of fair trade movement s most important educational tools. Summary/review: This publication will help readers: * Understand how Fair Trade relationships enhance the quality of life for producers, their families and communities, and how women realize a disproportionate benefit. * Interact with a global community taking action to ease inequalities wrought by traditional trade structures. * Discover the growing array of fairly traded products now readily available to consumers.
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power; Bakan, Joel Free Press 2005 0743247469 / 9780743247467 PAPERBACK
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0743247469 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies. In this revolutionary assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business corporation, Bakan backs his premise with the following observations: * corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others. * corporation's unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal. * Governments have freed the corporation, despite its flawed character, from legal constraints through deregulation and granted it ever greater authority over society through privatization. But Bakan believes change is possible and he outlines a far-reaching program of achievable reforms through legal regulation and democratic control. Featuring in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and cultural critic Noam Chomsky, Corporation is an extraordinary work that will educate and enlighten students, CEOs, whistle-blowers, power brokers, pawns, pundits, and politicians alike.
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The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution; Draffan, George Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2003 1891843141 / 9781891843143 PAPERBACK
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1891843141 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Pacific Northwest Booksellers! 183 p. Audience: General/trade. Financial and business corporations throw millions of dollars at think tanks, lobbyists and universities, exploiting writers and artists galore. Their assignment? To twist words, gnarl symbols, sell lies, whip people into line. Elite Consensus fingers the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation, and many other "educational" corporations, which men of property have unleashed on this planet. author shows how these corporate con artists teach us our history, elect our representatives, write our laws, define ideas and frame public policy debates. Originally published in 2000 by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project as Corporate Consensus.
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The Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook and Reader; Bollen, Peter Red Eye Press 2000 0929349067 / 9780929349060 PAPERBACK
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0929349067 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. GLQ is a unique compilation of quotations on work and labor drawn almost entirely from the American labor movement. Primarily a quotation sourcebook for writers and speakers, GLQ is as comfortable on a coffee table as on a reference shelf. Biographical briefs of historical labor leaders and topical labor images add context to quotations. combination reads as a provocative, enlightening labor primer that will inspire and entertain jobholders everywhere. According to labor historian William Cahn, history of America has been largely created by the deeds of its working people and their organizations-there is scarcely an issue that is not influenced by labor's organized efforts or lack of them. GLQ presents labor issues, many of them timeless, through the words of history makers-the workers, labor and political leaders, activists and advocates, as well as the powerful people who opposed them.
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The North Pacific Triangle: The United States, Japan, and Canada at Century's End; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 1998 0802080650 / 9780802080653 PAPERBACK
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0802080650 Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior, academic library markings Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 456 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism; Klein, Naomi Picador 0312427999 / 9780312427993 PAPERBACK
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0312427999 The neo-liberal economic policies?privatization, free trade, slashed social spending?that the Chicago School and the economist Milton Friedman have foisted on the world are catastrophic in two senses, argues this vigorous polemic. Because their results are disastrous?depressions, mass poverty, private corporations looting public wealth, by the author's accounting?their means must be cataclysmic, dependent on political upheavals and natural disasters as coercive pretexts for free-market reforms the public would normally reject. Journalist Klein (No Logo) chronicles decades of such disasters, including the Chicago School makeovers launched by South American coups; the corrupt sale of Russia's state economy to oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union; the privatization of New Orleans's public schools after Katrina; and the seizure of wrecked fishing villages by resort developers after the Asian tsunami. Klein's economic and political analyses are not always meticulous. Likening free-market shock therapies to electroshock torture, she conflates every misdeed of right-wing dictatorships with their economic programs and paints a too simplistic picture of the Iraq conflict as a struggle over American-imposed neo-liberalism. Still, much of her critique hits home, as she demonstrates how free-market ideologues welcome, and provoke, the collapse of other people's economies. The result is a powerful populist indictment of economic orthodoxy.
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The Trap; Goldsmith, James Carroll & Graf Publishers 0786701854 / 9780786701858 Hardcover
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0786701854 Based on conversations with Yves Messarovitch, Economics Editor of Le Figaro. ~Very Good. Good DJ. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith (26 February 1933 ? 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom. He was known for his many romantic relationships and for the various children he fathered with his wives and many girlfriends. Goldsmith was the inspiration for the character of the corporate raider Sir Larry Wildman in Oliver Stone's Wall Street. On his death, Tony Blair stated: "He was an extraordinary character and though I didn't always agree with his political views, obviously, he was an amazing and interesting, fascinating man." Margaret Thatcher stated: "Jimmy Goldsmith was one of the most powerful and dynamic personalities that this generation has seen. He was enormously generous, and fiercely loyal to the causes he espoused."
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Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens; Shaxson, Nicholas Palgrave Macmillan 0230105017 / 9780230105010 Hardcover
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0230105017 While the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist, argues that tax havens are a central cause of all these disasters. In this hard hitting investigation he uncovers how offshore tax evasion, which has cost the U.S. 100 billion dollars in lost revenue each year, is just one item on a long rap sheet outlining the damage that offshoring wreaks on our societies. In a riveting journey from Moscow to London to Switzerland to Delaware, Shaxson dives deep into a vast and secret playground where bankers and multinational corporations operate side by side with nefarious tax evaders, organized criminals and the world?s wealthiest citizens. Tax havens are where all these players get to maximize their own rewards and leave the middle class to pick up the bill. With eye opening revelations, Treasure Islands exposes the culprits and its victims, and shows how: *Over half of world trade is routed through tax havens *The rampant practices that precipitated the latest financial crisis can be traced back to Wall Street?s offshoring practices *For every dollar of aid we send to developing countries, ten dollars leave again by the backdoor. The offshore system sits much closer to home than the pristine tropical islands of the popular imagination. In fact, it all starts on a tiny island called Manhattan. In this fast paced narrative, Treasure Islands at last explains how the system works and how it?s contributing to our ever deepening economic divide.
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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy; Hayes, Christopher Crown 0307720454 / 9780307720450 Hardcover
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0307720454 Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another ? from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball ? imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters. How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it. Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Twilight of the Elites describes how the society we have come to inhabit ? utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom ? produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public's failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives. Upending well-worn ideological and partisan categories, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times. Twilight of the Elites is the defining work of social criticism for the post-bailout age.
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Under The Table And Into Your Pocket: The How and Why of The Underground Economy; Wilson, Bill Loompanics Unlimited 2005 1559502436 / 9781559502436 PAPERBACK
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1559502436 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 115 p. Audience: General/trade. Bill Wilson describes how many folks are working under the table-and keeping their own money. Wilson describes many ways of getting round the heavy money-grubbing hand of the government. Using examples of what has happened to people who have fallen victim to the IRS, he delves into what YOU should consider when under the table income presents itself. From boarding houses and dominatrixes, to flea markets, roadside merchants and exotic dancers, Wilson describes many ways that Americans are keeping Big Brother's hand out of their pockets. If you are like the dozens of ordinary people in this book, you are fed up with the callous and casual way the money you earn is going to line the pockets of politicos and their corporate cronies. underground economy is not for everyone. Is it for you? Bill Wilson grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and has spent most of his adult life avoiding things that would limit his freedom, such as credit, relationships and responsibilities. He has, however, nurtured a passion for writing, and describes himself as "a happy bohemian, slightly insane but completely harmless.
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Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane: Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the I.W.W (Labor Classics); John Duda Charles H Kerr 0882862707 / 9780882862705 PAPERBACK
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0882862707 Mass civil disobedience, train-hopping militants, insurrectionist poets, radical marching bands, and a victory for a precarious proletariat in 1909! Published for the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial Workers of the World s famous free speech fights. Through newspaper articles, dispatches from the scene of the fight, and personal recollections, the voices of the men (and women!) who filled the prisons of Spokane, Washington in the name of free speech and the One Big Union are brought back into print. A hundred years later, the courage and creativity of these Wobbly free-speech fighters, laughing in the face of law and order to defy an unjust system and even less fair working conditions, could not be more relevant. Includes articles, letters, updates, and essays by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Agnes Thecla Fair, Richard Brazier, J. H. Walsh, and other Fellow Workers, direct from the pages of Industrial Worker, International Socialist Review, Workingman's Paper, and more!.
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14.00 USD
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