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Tech Billionaires
In the first decade of the twenty-first century a new wave of thinking has emerged from tech billionaires that may shape the way private capital gets invested to tackle social problems. These entrepreneurs broke the business mold in the 1980s and 1990s and are now trying to break the traditional pattern of philanthropy pioneered by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr. some one hundred years ago. Combining billions of dollars of their personal capital with new ideas, cutting-edge businesslike techniques, media and marketing savvy, the tech benefactors profiled in this book are attacking some of the globe's most intractable societal problems. In trying to make a difference in the world...
Building Sustainable Societies
A collection of articles addressing the issue of whether the industrial model of human progress can be sustained in the long term. It asks what the social, political, economic and environmental implications as well as potential solutions to the problem of resource-intensive growth are.
Too Hot to Handle
The first comprehensive history of sex education around the world Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. Examining key players who supported and opposed the sex education movement, Zimmerman takes a close look at one of the most debated and divisive hallmarks of modern schooling. In the early 1900s, the United States pioneered sex education to protect citizens from venereal disease. But the American approach came unde...
Toward Sustainable Communities
Toward Sustainable Communities uses six case studies toillustrate innovative strategies in specific policy areas: airpollution control, water pollution control, land use, transportation, urban redevelopment, and regional ecosystem management.
The Return of Odysseus
A shabby Odysseus returns to Ithaca, burdened with guilt and cursed with his family's inherited disposition toward violence. His son Telemachus, already experiencing the family curse, urges Odysseus to wreak vengeance on the suitors who have besieged his wife Penelope during his long absence. At a feast Telemachus removes the suitors' weapons while Penelope announces that she will marry whoever can wield Odysseus' bow. During the competition the suitors begin brawling. Odysseus seizes his bow and kills many of them before peace is made by Laertes, his father. After asking Laertes' forgiveness for former sins, Odysseus remembers his old hatred for his father and flees, knowing that Taphian pi...
Companies in a World of Conflict
Large companies are now players on the international scene. As such, they are increasingly embroiled in issues traditionally part of international relations and diplomacy: sanctions, environmental politics, human rights and the control of strategic resources.
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