Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Sustainable Development

The Idealist by Nina Munk

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

Hardcover, 272 pages | Doubleday | Social Science - Third World Development; History - Africa; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $26.95 | 978-0-385-52581-7 (0-385-52581-8)

A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty

"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty—disagrees. In his view, poverty is a problem that can be solved. With single-minded determination he has attempted to put into practice his theories about ending extreme poverty, to prove that the world's most destitute people can be lifted onto "the ladder of development."

            In 2006, Sachs launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring five-year experiment designed to test his theories in Africa. The first Millennium village was in Sauri, a remote cluster of farming communities in western Kenya. The initial results were encouraging. With his first taste of success, and backed by one hundred twenty million dollars from George Soros and other likeminded donors, Sachs rolled out a dozen model villages in ten sub-Saharan countries. Once his approach was validated it would be scaled up across the entire continent. At least that was the idea.

        For the past six years, Nina Munk has reported deeply on the Millennium Villages Project, accompanying Sachs on his official trips to Africa and listening in on conversations with heads-of-state, humanitarian organizations, rival economists, and development experts. She has immersed herself in the lives of people in two Millennium villages: Ruhiira, in southwest Uganda, and Dertu, in the arid borderland between Kenya and Somalia. Accepting the hospitality of camel herders and small-hold farmers, and witnessing their struggle to survive, Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs's formula for ending global poverty.

         THE IDEALIST is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the reality of human life.

The Idealist by Nina Munk

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

eBook, 272 pages | Doubleday | Social Science - Third World Development; History - Africa; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $13.99 | 978-0-385-53774-2 (0-385-53774-3)

The Idealist by Nina Munk

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

Unabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Social Science - Third World Development; History - Africa; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $35.00 | 978-0-7393-6646-2 (0-7393-6646-7)

The Idealist by Nina Munk

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Social Science - Third World Development; History - Africa; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $20.00 | 978-0-7393-6647-9 (0-7393-6647-5)

La Vida Que Mereces by Pascual Olmos

2013-06-18T00:30:00-05:00

La Vida Que Mereces
Written by Alex Rovira and Pascual Olmos

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Conecta | Business & Economics - Sustainable Development; Business & Economics - Leadership | $18.00 | 978-84-15-43140-4 (84-15-43140-6)

This Crazy Time by Mark Leiren-Young

2012-06-19T00:30:00-05:00

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

Trade Paperback, 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $18.00 | 978-0-307-39979-3 (0-307-39979-6)

Passionate, profound and funny, Berman is inspiring people from all walks of life to get off the sidelines and fight the good fight--and win. This unique book--part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom--offers a wryly honest, behind-the-scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the planet. For almost 20 years, Tzeporah Berman has been one of our most influential environmentalists. A founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, she was instrumental in shaping the tactics and concerns of the modern environmental movement.

In her early 20s she faced nearly one thousand criminal charges and 6 years in prison for her role organizing blockades in Canada's rainforest. She later transformed her tactics and sat down with CEOs and political leaders to reshape their policies and practices. In her new role at Greenpeace International she is fighting the problem of our time: climate change. This Crazy Time is an impassioned plea for a better world.

This Crazy Time by Mark Leiren-Young

2011-09-06T00:30:00-05:00

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

Hardcover, 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Social Science; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $32.00 | 978-0-307-39978-6 (0-307-39978-8)

From one of the world's most controversial campaigners, This Crazy Time is the No Logo of the NEW environmental movement, an essential must-read that combines Bill Bryson's personable style and humour with Naomi Klein's hard-hitting activism and research.

Passionate, profound, inspiring and funny, Berman is inspiring people from all walks of life to get off the sidelines and fight the good fight--and win. This unique book--part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom--offers a wryly honest, behind the scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the planet. For almost 20 years, Tzeporah Berman has been one of our most influential environmentalists. A founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, she was instrumental in shaping the tactics and concerns of the modern environmental movement.

In her early 20s she faced nearly one thousand criminal charges and 6 years in prison for her role organizing blockades in Canada's rainforest. With ForestEthics she took on Victoria's Secret with a photo of a chainsaw-wielding lingerie model, convincing the catalogue manufacturer to stop using paper made from old-growth forests. She then transformed her tactics and sat down with CEOs and political leaders to reshape their policies and practices. She participated in saving over 12 million acres of endangered forests, including Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, and has campaigned against the development of Canada's oil sands. In her new role at Greenpeace International she is fighting the problem of our time: climate change, including researching the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill and protesting oil drilling in the Arctic. As a concerned mother, her book is an impassioned plea for a better world.

This Crazy Time by Mark Leiren-Young

2011-09-06T00:30:00-05:00

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

eBook, 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Social Science; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $13.99 | 978-0-307-39980-9 (0-307-39980-X)

Mindful Economics by Joel Magnuson

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

Mindful Economics How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different
Written by Joel Magnuson

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Business & Economics - Government & Business; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development; Philosophy - Eastern - Buddhism | $24.95 | 978-1-58322-992-7 (1-58322-992-2)

Are the huge profits garnered by corporations each year a case of a few bad apples in the business world taking advantage of unmonitored dealings? Is this consolidation of wealth made at the expense of the overall economy and the wellbeing of the average citizen? Will the planet be saved by developing more "green businesses" and "green collar" jobs? Joel Magnuson delivers a powerful response to the current misconceptions about the US economy in his brilliantly accessible Mindful Economics. The troubles we face are not the result of a good system gone awry, but rather a system that is built to do exactly what it is doing: corporations are designed to reap profits for its shareholders, at any cost. The greater welfare of society, or of the environment, will never be as important as financial gain. Magnuson shows us the relationship between the current wars abroad; rising oil prices; the recession; ballooning incomes of top CEOs; the mortgage crisis; and the health care, insurance, and auto industries, and he teaches us that the best way to understand the US economy is to think like an economist. With stunning clarity, Magnuson shows the interconnectedness of the local with the global, and offers real alternatives to this capitalist model.

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century by Juliet Schor

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
Written by Juliet Schor

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Political Science - Social Policy; Political Science - Economic Policy; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $5.95 | 978-1-60980-309-4 (1-60980-309-4)

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment, community, and quality of life above business and profit. She a traces back how after W.W.II, Americans had hoped that technology and social investment would yield shorter work weeks, more pay, and complete healthcare. Instead, we work more, get paid less, and maintain an indecent adult minimum wage. Where did we go wrong?
Schor's pamphlet charts an economic vision based that aims to reduce work hours, increase leisure, create new work schedules that are not operating on a "male" model of employment, create green quotas and industry-wide environmental standards, alternative housing and transportation, raise minimum wage, restructure labor relations, change corporate culture, and promote social accountability. The pamphlet "sets the guideposts," writes Noam Chomsky, "for constructive thinking and action to save our country from becoming a plaything for investors and transnational corporations, and to place its fate in the hands of its citizens."

Mindful Economics by Joel Magnuson

2008-09-02T00:30:00-05:00

Mindful Economics How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different
Written by Joel Magnuson

Trade Paperback, 432 pages | Seven Stories Press | Business & Economics - Government & Business; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development; Philosophy - Eastern - Buddhism | $27.95 | 978-1-58322-847-0 (1-58322-847-0)

Beyond Growth by Herman E. Daly

2001-01-29T00:30:00-05:00

Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable Development
Written by Herman E. Daly

eBook | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Environmental Economics; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development; Nature - Natural Resources | $27.50 | 978-0-8070-4706-4 (0-8070-4706-6)

For the Common Good by Herman E. Daly

2001-01-17T00:30:00-05:00

For the Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Fut ure
Written by Herman E. Daly

eBook | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Environmental Economics; Business & Economics - Industries; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $20.00 | 978-0-8070-4716-3 (0-8070-4716-3)

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century by Juliet Schor

1999-01-05T00:30:00-05:00

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
Written by Juliet Schor

Trade Paperback, 64 pages | Seven Stories Press | Political Science - Social Policy; Political Science - Economic Policy; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $5.95 | 978-1-888363-75-3 (1-888363-75-4)

Beyond Growth by Herman E. Daly

1997-08-14T00:30:00-05:00

Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable Development
Written by Herman E. Daly

Trade Paperback, 264 pages | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Environmental Economics; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development; Nature - Natural Resources | $23.00 | 978-0-8070-4709-5 (0-8070-4709-0)

For The Common Good by Herman E. Daly

1994-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

For The Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Written by Herman E. Daly

Trade Paperback, 544 pages | Beacon Press | Business & Economics - Environmental Economics; Business & Economics - Industries; Business & Economics - Sustainable Development | $39.00 | 978-0-8070-4705-7 (0-8070-4705-8)

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book

Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future.

Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.

Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Sustainable Development

The Idealist by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyWritten by Nina Munk

The Idealist by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyWritten by Nina Munk

The Idealist by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyWritten by Nina Munk

The Idealist by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyWritten by Nina Munk

La Vida Que Mereces by Pascual Olmos

La Vida Que Mereces Written by Alex Rovira and Pascual Olmos

This Crazy Time by Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental ChallengeWritten by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time by Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental ChallengeWritten by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time by Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental ChallengeWritten by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

Mindful Economics by Joel Magnuson

Mindful Economics How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be DifferentWritten by Joel Magnuson

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century by Juliet Schor

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century Written by Juliet Schor

Mindful Economics by Joel Magnuson

Mindful Economics How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be DifferentWritten by Joel Magnuson

Beyond Growth by Herman E. Daly

Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable DevelopmentWritten by Herman E. Daly

For the Common Good by Herman E. Daly

For the Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Fut ureWritten by Herman E. Daly

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century by Juliet Schor

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century Written by Juliet Schor

Beyond Growth by Herman E. Daly

Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable DevelopmentWritten by Herman E. Daly

For The Common Good by Herman E. Daly

For The Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable FutureWritten by Herman E. Daly

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Written by Nina Munk

La Vida Que Mereces
Written by Alex Rovira and Pascual Olmos

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

This Crazy Time Living Our Environmental Challenge
Written by Tzeporah Berman and Mark Leiren-Young

Mindful Economics How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different
Written by Joel Magnuson

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
Written by Juliet Schor

Mindful Economics How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different
Written by Joel Magnuson

Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable Development
Written by Herman E. Daly

For the Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Fut ure
Written by Herman E. Daly

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
Written by Juliet Schor

Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable Development
Written by Herman E. Daly

For The Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Written by Herman E. Daly