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  • Family Activism

    Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends

    We live in a world that needs radical transformation if our children and grandchildren are to live healthy, peace-filled lives. But where to start? In this inspiring new book, activist Roberto Vargas says the answer lies surprisingly close: at home, with our closest relationships. In our daily lives we experience countless opportunities to empower, inspire, and support positive change in those ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Power and Love

    A Theory and Practice of Social Change

    by Adam Kahane ...
    "A profound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges." —William Ury, New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Getting to YesTo try to solve their toughest problems, people either push for what they want at all costs or try to completely avoid conflict. Adam Kahane argues that these two seemingly contradictory approaches are each a reflection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solving Tough Problems

    An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

    by Adam Kahane ...
    "This breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created." —Nelson MandelaAdam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest, most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments, convinced of the need to calculate "the one right answer." After an unexpected ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abundant Community

    Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

    by John McKnight ...
    We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transformative Scenario Planning

    Working Together to Change the Future

    by Adam Kahane ...
    People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, and environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They can't solve their problems in their current context, which is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. They can't transform this context on their own-it's too complex to be grasped or shifted by any one person or organization or sector. And the people whose cooperation ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

    A Love Letter to Women of Color

    From the founder of Latina Rebels, a rallying cry for women of color that gives them the keys for their own liberation“Mojica Rodríguez’s electrifying debut channels mesmeric prose to heal the wounds of white supremacy.” —Los Angeles TimesFor generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Facilitating Breakthrough

    How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together

    by Adam Kahane ...
    A new approach to helping teams solve complex and stubborn problems from the acclaimed author of Collaborating with the Enemy.It's becoming less straightforward for people to move forward together. They face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people from across more divides. In such situations, the most common ways of advancing—some people telling others what ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging Emergence

    Turning Upheaval into Opportunity

    by Peggy Holman ...
    Change is everywhere these days—at times it seems like barely controlled chaos. Yet within this turmoil are the seeds of a higher order. When a new system arises from the ashes of the old, science calls the process “emergence.” By engaging it, you can help yourself and your organization or community to successfully face disruption and emerge stronger than ever.In this profound book, Peggy Holman ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Salsa, Soul, and Spirit

    Leadership for a Multicultural Age

    by Juana Bordas ...
    A practical guide to leadership in America's ever-increasingly diverse workforce, featuring approaches from non-European and non-white communities.Our nation is quickly becoming a multicultural cornucopia. Tapping the potential of our changing demographics requires a leadership approach that resonates with our growing diversity. In Salsa, Soul, and Spirit, Juana Bordas shows how incorporating ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buying into Fair Trade

    Culture, Morality, and Consumption

    by Keith R Brown ...
    Stamped on productsfrom coffee to handicrafts, the term "fair trade" has quickly become one oftoday's most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fairlabor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair-tradeproducts give buyers peace of mind in knowing that, in theory, how they shopcan help make the world a better place. Buyinginto Fair Trade turns the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moving Up without Losing Your Way

    The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

    The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourishUpward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Purpose-driven Organizations

    Management Ideas for a Better World

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society.This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocating a ... Read more

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