Karl Weber

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force...

In Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization, Ron Williams provides you with practical, tested leadership advice, whether you're searching for a new career, looking for proven management solutions, or seeking to transform your organization. Developed from Williams's own personal and professional journey, as well as the experiences of America's leading CEOs, these strategies emerge boldly from engaging...

Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place. Here, Yunus...

Instruction in English grammar explains the different roles that words play in sentences, including verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and interjections.

This companion book to the sequel of 2008's award-winning documentary Food, Inc. examines the latest remarkable developments to reverse our dysfunctional food system through the efforts of brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists.

Instruction in English grammar shows how to use complements in sentences, explains transitive and intransitive verbs, distinguishes between direct and indirect objects, and shows how to describe subjects with complements and linking verbs.

Instruction in English grammar which explains the secrets of good spelling; simple spelling rules and their exceptions; mastering plurals, prefixes, and suffixes; and the capitalization of words.

Instruction in English grammar which explains mastering subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement, how number and gender affect agreement, using indefinite pronouns, and other agreement problems.

This book explores politically charged topics through a series of essays by thinkers at the leading edge of educational innovation. It shows how failing schools destroy neighborhoods--not the reverse--and how research reveals that dedicated, attentive teachers are what help at-risk kids succeed. Inspired the film directed by "An Inconvenient Truth's Davis Guggenheim.

Covers many types of reading materials: nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry. These videos will teach you how to answer the four question types found on the exam--comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis.