This reader contains twelve thematic sections, each featuring a “Main Event” reading and a companion assignment for critical thinking and writing. Each writing assignment covers a different type of writing—both academic and practical. The book discusses various preparation strategies so that its users can more effectively and efficiently put their thoughts into words—and their words onto paper. KEY TOPICS A variety of themes—Film and Television, Democracy in the Classroom, Dreams, Marriage and Divorce, American Cities, Technology, Your Body, Youth Culture, Biographies, Fairy Tales; The Justice System: and Jobs in the 21st Century—will appeal to a wide and diverse audience. For readers and writers who want to learn how to respond critically to a text, and generate responses of their own.

The Main Event: Readings for Writing and Critical Thinking

Hoffman, Andrew J.

Hoffman, Catherine A.

Literature & Fiction

Pearson

Integrating grammar, sentence, and writing instruction within each chapter, this thematically arranged workbook calls for student writing in response to other works-both pictorial and written.

A Thousand Words: Grammar and Writing In Context

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Wadsworth Publishing

This sentence- to - paragraph writing text uses timely themes, provocative readings, and interesting photographs to help students develop their writing skills.

A Thousand Words: Grammar and Writing in Context (with InfoTrac)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution prevention, total quality environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, environmental strategy, environmental justice, and, most recently, sustainable development. As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research.

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment (Oxford Handbooks)

Business & Money

Bansal, Pratima

Business Culture

Oxford University Press

This developmental paragraph-to-essay book seeks to empower readers by showing them that writing is a series of choices and that all aspects of the writing process are within their control as writers. All stages of the writing process—from prewriting to revision—are introduced as the book first illustrates the rhetorical modes at the level of the paragraph and then shows how to use and combine these modes the essay level. Grammar and punctuation concerns are addressed in each chapter, as well as in an in-depth section at the end of the text. For all professionals wishing to improve upon their writing skills.

Writing Choices

“Climate change’s impacts cut across all functional areas of a business. The systematic approach proposed in this report will be very helpful to business managers concerned with integration of business activities in operations, marketing, finance, and human resources to support a consistent, pro-active strategic response to climate change.”
―Karen Flanders, Director, Corporate Responsibility, The Coca-Cola Company
“Carbon Strategies captures the risks, and opportunities, for companies in an increasingly carbon-constrained marketplace. This book will be invaluable to any executive seeking insight into strategies for success in this changing business climate.”
―William L. Thomas, Americas Environment Head, Clifford Chance US LLP
“For any manager who has been charged by the CEO to develop a climate change strategy, this book is for you. It offers plainspoken wisdom garnered from over 30 companies on how best to address climate change as a business issue. It takes much of the guesswork and expense out of testing unproven ideas, and puts you on the right path towards addressing this critical issue in a way that benefits the bottom line and the environment.”
―Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense
“In order to preserve the stability and growth of the world’s economy and all of the opportunities it affords, we must protect the global environment. Climate change represents one of the most significant issues of risk and reward facing CEOs and investors today. Hoffman offers a very helpful framework for the analysis.”
―Michael Klein, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Citi Markets &amp; Banking Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC
“Future generations will look back with either admiration or despair, judging how well we, in these early years of the twenty-first century, addressed critical climate-change issues. Over the past six years, even as Entergy’s sales increased more than 20 percent, our emissions have been held to near 1990 levels. We applaud Andy Hoffman and the Pew Center’s success in creating a fact-based constructive dialogue among various stakeholders, while offering effective solutions to meet the needs of future generations. With the best intentions of everyone, we can give our grandchildren a planet that we changed for the better.”
―J. Wayne Leonard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Entergy Corporation
“While climate change presents a daunting array of potential challenges, there are also real opportunities if you know where to look for them. Carbon Strategies provides approachable, pragmatic, and actionable guidance for companies who are ready and willing to turn climate-related risks from a liability into a competitive advantage.”
―Brian M. Storms, Chairman and CEO, Marsh Inc.
“We hear far too often that the constraints of ‘business as usual’ prevent real action on global warming. In this important and timely book Andrew Hoffman demonstrates that real action is already under way in many of the world’s leading corporations. Moving far beyond simple anecdotes to detailed analysis and careful case history, Hoffman lays out a practical road map to enduring corporate change.”
―Rebecca M. Henderson, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor, MIT Sloan School
Carbon Strategies describes specific steps any business can take to implement sound, practical, climate-related corporate policies. Based on Andrew J. Hoffman’s widely praised report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and significantly revised in light of subsequent developments, Carbon Strategies teaches practitioners and students about the importance of timing policy implementation, establishing appropriate levels of internal and external commitment, influencing beneficial policy development, and creating new business opportunities based on climate policy. Hoffman presents real-life “lessons learned” at each step of the climate-strategy development process and concludes this concise guidebook with six case studies (Cinergy, Swiss Re, DuPont, Alcoa, Shell Group, and Whirlpool) that demonstrate the principles of corporate climate policymaking in action.

Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint

Economics

University of Michigan Press

This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain.
 Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.

Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

William Morrow

History

Harper-perennial

Winner of the 2000 Rachel Carson Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)Rated one of the top 10 books on business and the environment by TOMORROW magazine, December 1998.Few contemporary movements illustrate the dynamics of institutional change quite as dramatically as that of corporate environmentalism. From Heresy to Dogma takes an in-depth look at the evolution of corporate environmentalism for a unique perspective: that of industry itself. Here is an analysis of corporate change in the U. S. chemical and petroleum industry drawn not from law or economics, but rather from the realm of organizational behavior, an area of academic research all too absent from the debate over this socially important issue.Scholarly, accessible, and engaging,  From Heresy to Dogma provides the type of rigorous academic analysis critical in an era when "political correctness" can cloud the logic of rational discourse. More important, it draws from that analysis to present a compelling―and sometimes controversial―prognosis for the future of corporate environmentalism. This is history as only an accomplished organizational theorist could present it, filled with provocative new insights into the collective psyche of corporate America.

From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism

Biography & History

Lexington Books

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