Purpose, Incorporated: Turning Cause Into Your Competitive Advantage, John Wood & Amalia McGibbonToo many working professionals still subscribe to the old Milton Friedman logic that businesses' sole purpose is to generate profit for shareholders. In this revolutionary book, authors John Wood and Amalia McGibbon show once and for all that cause is not the enemy of commercialism, but perhaps the new key to it. Based on over 100 interviews with entrepreneurs, executives and front line staff, Wood and McGibbon provide a breath taking tour of this new

but he also reveals the ups and downs of his marriage -- entered into too quickly and far too young -- and discusses his intensely emotional reaction to visiting New York after the September 11th terrorist attacks

one of the most influential sociologists of her generation

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and The Thin Man

Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece—an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity

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or the woman facing all the ghosts who scare her most in a Choose Your Own Adventure

It is a meditation on life

But her ultimate triumph owed nothing to those circumstances and everything to her inner qualities--an innate ability to understand and connect with ordinary people

of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart

in the niches and hollows of the market system