The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (And Change Your Life)
Author: Carl J. Schramm File Type: epub In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the worlds leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the worlds economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and employ that secret.The secret that has led the American economy to become the worlds strongest? Our unparalleled skill as entrepreneurs. As Schramm compellingly shows in this sweeping manifesto, entrepreneurship alonenot anything elsecan give America the necessary leverage to remain an economic superpower. Not technology, since everyone now has the same technology, or access to it. Not educationwe are years behind other nations in this area. Not basic manufacturing, long since moved overseas from the United States. And not capital markets, now truly global entities.Drawing on detailed research conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and on his decades of experience as an entrepreneur himself and as a leader and mentor to other entrepreneurs, Schramm persuasively demonstrates in detail what this entrepreneurial imperative means for the way we run universities and foundations, lead companies, make personal job decisions, and even conduct our foreign affairs. The Entrepreneurial Imperative will change not only the way our government, corporations, and nonprofits operate, but also our day-to-day lives as working Americans. **
Author: Joe Calzaghe
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IT WAS past three oclock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life. Victory over Jeff Lacy, a 28-year-old American compared to a young Mike Tyson because of his power and take-no-prisoners attitude, left no one in doubt about the world super middleweight champions talent. For years, Calzaghes virtuosity remained a legend of the Welsh valleys. His defeat in 1997 of Chris Eubank brought him to prominence, winning for him the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) super middleweight title. But despite a record number of defences of the belt, his career lacked a defining contest. A long line of challengers and ex-titleholders were disposed of but the biggest names in American boxing avoided the ultimate showdown he craved. Hand injuries further obscured the true level of his aptitude for an art he began to learn from his father, Enzo, at the age of eight when - inspired by Sugar Ray Leonard - a rolled-up carpet in the family home in Newbridge became a makeshift heavy bag. This is the story of Calzaghes extraordinary life, from his humble beginnings in his hometown of Newbridge, to his ascent to personal greatness, becoming the first super middleweight boxer to win the prized belt awarded by The Ring, the bible of boxing, in the divisions near 20-year history. One of Britains foremost sporting champions, a warrior and working-class hero, this is the story of the triumphs and trials that made Calzaghe a legend.**
Author: Philip Mirowski
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At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that--post-apocalypse--weve awoken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and exploding sovereign debt crises.Philip Mirowski argues that, as in classic studies of cognitive dissonance, neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything--a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government--it could no longer be falsified by mere data from the real economy.In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account--taking no prisoners in his pursuit of zombie economists--Mirowski surveys the wreckage of what passes for...
Author: Allen J. Frantzen
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Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and implements associated with food contributed to social identity at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place of fish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social complexity. Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.
Author: Agnes Callard
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Becoming someone is a learning process and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a passion for music or politics. How can such activity be rational, if the reason for engaging in the relevant pursuit is only available to the person one will become? How is it psychologically possible to feel the attraction of a form of concern that is not yet ones own? How can the work done to arrive at the finish line be ascribed to one who doesnt (really) know what one is doing, or why one is doing it? In Aspiration, Agnes Callard asserts that these questions belong to the theory of aspiration. Aspirants are motivated by proleptic reasons, acknowledged defective versions of the reasons they expect to eventually grasp. The psychology of such a transformation is marked by intrinsic conflict between their old point of view on value and the one they are trying to acquire. They cannot adjudicate this conflict by deliberating or choosing or deciding-rather, they resolve it by working to see the world in a new way. This work has a teleological structure by modeling oneself on the person he or she is trying to be, the aspirant brings that person into being. Because it is open to us to engage in an activity of self-creation, we are responsible for having become the kinds of people we are. **Review Agnes Callard develops and defends a fascinating new idea about aspiration, the form of agency involving the rational process by which we work to care about something new. For Callard, aspiring agents exhibit a distinctive form of rationality that is not a matter of decision-making at all. Choosing to undergo a personal revolution is, rather, aspiring to a certain type of self-change. Deep and broad in its philosophical reach, the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of practical rationality and moral psychology. -- L.A. Paul, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A superb, agenda-setting addition to recent philosophical investigations into transformative experience, the kind of experience that results in changes to ones basic values. Callard rightly singles out aspiration - a change in ones values that, she argues, is rationally guided by what those values will become - as a critically important species of such experience, and brings out, with clarity, insight, and brilliance, the deep connections between this phenomenon and a range of other central topics in moral psychology and the theory of practical reasoning, such as the nature of moral responsibility, internalism about reasons, and akrasia. -- Ned Hall, Harvard University About the Author Agnes Callard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Author: Romain Fathi
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By the time of the Armstice, Villers-Bretonneux - once a lively and flourishing French town - had been largely destroyed, and half its population had fled or died. From March to August 1918, Villers-Bretonneux formed part of an active front line, at which Australian troops were heavily involved. As a result, it holds a significant place in Australian history. Villers-Bretonneux has since become an open-air memorial to Australias participation in the First World War. Successive Australian governments have valourised the Australian engagement, contributing to an evolving Anzac narrative that has become entrenched in Australias national identity. Our Corner of the Somme provides an eye-opening analysis of the memorialisation of Australias role on the Western Front and the Anzac mythology that so heavily contributes to Australians understanding of themselves. In this rigorous and richly detailed study, Romain Fathi challenges accepted historiography by examining the assembly, projection and performance of Australias national identity in northern France. **Book Description Our Corner of the Somme provides an eye-opening analysis of the memorialisation of Australians on the Western Front and the Anzac legend that contributes to Australians identity. Romain Fathi challenges accepted historiography by examining the creation, projection and performance of Australias nationhood in northern France. About the Author Romain Fathi, Ph.D.,is Lecturer in Historyat Flinders University of South Australia and aChercheur associeat the Centre dHistoire de Sciences Po, Paris. He has taught and researched at Sciences Po in France, Yale in the United States, and the University of Queensland in Australia. His primary research interests focus on the First World War, war commemorations and Australian identity.
Author: Geza Vermes
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In his new book distinguished Jesus scholar Geza Vermes explains the true story behind The Passion of Christ and the recent, highly controversial, film. Vital reading for anyone wanting to know the truth behind the hyperbole Vermess book is an intelligent and fascinating breakdown of the evidence of the Trial of Jesus and an authentic version of Stations of the Cross. A general introduction dealing with the Jewish court system, the Romen legal procedure and parallel court cases aims to provide a context to The Passion and a greater understanding of Biblical society. Written by the greatest Jesus scholar of his generation this will be required reading for anyone wanting to know the truth. **Review Geza Vermes is the greatest Jesus scholar of his generation. -- The Sunday Times, London About the Author Geza Vermes is the editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English and the author of The Changing Faces of Jesus and The Authentic Gospel of Jesus.
Author: Maggie Inchley
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Voice and New Writing, 19972007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres claims to find and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blairs decade as Prime Minister. Hearing cultural evidence for what Raymond Williams termed structures of feeling in the articulation of identities, Maggie Inchley attends to the negotiation of accepted etiquettes of articulation and audibility through processes used in writing, voice training and performance. In the voices of theatre this book hears the narrative of betrayal around Anthony Giddens promise of democracy, and an embattled belief in both transparency and dialogue as necessary conditions of representation.Voice and New Writing, 1997 2007 explores the use of voices in the work of writers including debbie tucker green, Gregory Burke, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Enda Walsh, Mark Ravenhill, and Dennis Kelly, as well as exploring the influential practice of voice teachers Cicely Berry, Patsy Rodenburg, Kristin Linklater and others.