Reich, Robert B
Summary: "...Clear-eyed manifesto for re-centering our economics and politics on the idea of the common good. Robert B. Reich...demonstrates that a common good not only exists but in fact constitutes the very essence of any society or nation...We must weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how we as a country should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 REIGardner, Howard.
Contents: Minds viewed globally: a personal introduction -- The disciplined mind -- The synthesizing mind -- The creating mind -- The respectful mind -- The ethical mind -- Conclusion: toward the cultivation of the five minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2006
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Summary: "Bad Leadership argues that it's time to embrace a more honest, holistic view of leadership that acknowledges the dark side of human nature and its impact on leaders and followers alike. In a departure from conventional thinking, Barbara Kellerman contends that bad leadership is not an aberration, but a ubiquitous and insidious part of everyday life that must be carefully examined and better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4092 KELTirole, Jean
Summary: When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 TIRSacks, Jonathan
Summary: "In Morality, the distinguished religious leader and philosopher Rabbi Jonathan Sacks diagnoses our troubled times as a period of 'cultural climate change.' Delivering an insightful critique of our modern condition, and assessing its roots and causes fromthe ancient Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present day, Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SACSandel, Michael J.
Summary: "A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the tyranny of the meritocracy and the resentments it produces"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 SANDaly, Herman E.
Contents: Economics as an academic discipline -- The fallacy of misplaced concreteness in economics and other disciplines -- Misplaced concreteness: the market -- Misplaced concreteness: measuring economic success -- Misplaced concreteness: homo economicus -- Misplaced concreteness: land -- New beginnings -- From academic discipline to thought in service of community -- From chrematistics to Oikonomia --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 DALBooker, Cory
Summary: An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated him to serve, he speaks of rising above discord, tending to our shared resources, and embracing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328 BOOHoward, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 HOWBooker, Cory.
Summary: U.S. Senator Cory Booker draws on personal experience to issue a stirring call to reorient our nation and our politics around the principles of compassion and solidarity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 328 BOOCollins, Chuck
Summary: As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class. On the other side,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 COLDeVotchKa (Musical group)
Contents: The alley -- All the sand in all the sea -- 100 other lovers -- The common good -- The man from San Sebastian -- Exhaustible -- Bad luck heels -- Ruthless -- Contrabanda -- Sunshine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anti 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEVSummary: Season Eleven catches up with the Reagans a short time after the discovery of their newest family member, NYPD officer Joe Hill, son of deceased officer Joe Reagan, who was killed in the line of duty. As the first family of the NYPD continues to overcome the day-to-day challenges that always come their way, they do so while confronting the reality of a changed world. Also, Frank battles City...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLUFrancis
Summary: "The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis' prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. "The clock is ticking, all life is in danger, but we are on time...Let's take the first step and go to meet the other, the different. Let's put hands, mind and heart to work together. Let's change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 FRAReilly, Joe.
Contents: Beyond colors -- Diversity -- Elders' wisdom : Jeannine Palms -- The circle -- Our Detroit River -- Elders' wisdom : Grace Lee Boggs -- Boggs School song -- Friends -- Core democratic values -- Elders' wisdom : Gilbert "Farmer Jack" Potter -- The common good -- One community -- Las Mariposas -- Love lives on -- Miigwech -- Elders wisdom : George Martin -- Thankful -- Snow day -- Be still and know
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Reilly 2016
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Summary: Popular Harvard professor Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 172.2 SANGrassy Knoll (Musical group)
Contents: 1. Black helicopters (3:59) -- 2. Driving nowhere (5:19) -- 3. Slow steady salvation (4:07) -- 4. 1961 (6:19) -- 5. The Americans (3:45) -- 6. Roswell crash (4:00) -- 7. The common good (3:25) -- 8. Another theory (1:28) -- 9. Wailing and gnashing of teeth (2:24) -- 10. Fall of the American empire (4:42) -- 11. All things considered (4:32) -- 12. Corrosion of the masses (4:02) -- 13. End of it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Antilles/PolyGram Records, Inc. 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRAWallis, Jim.
Summary: Religious faith was a driving force behind our greatest national reforms, such as the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement. These "great awakenings" happened periodically at crucial times in our nation's history to propel us toward the common good. The time is ripe for another movement that will transform this country. With The Great Awakening, Wallis [rediscovers] our moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 269.0973 WALSagawa, Shirley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.408 SAGDotson, Bob.
Summary: The host of the NBC "Today Show" shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DOTSurowiecki, James
Summary: In this book, New Yorker columnist Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant--better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With seemingly boundless erudition and in clear, entertaining prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 SURSteede, Kevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 STEBhargava, Deepak
Summary: "A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BHASummary: Do Americans still hold certain truths to be self-evident? Do all human beings possess inalienable rights endowed by their creator? Are all lives of equal value? And if so, how do those core beliefs translate into public policy on issues such as healthcare, poverty, abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia? This program explores what the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin called a "consistent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006