The Four Year Career® for Women: Put Your Future in Your Own Hands or Not

This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.

Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire.

Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will:

• Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them
• Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity
• Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets
• Teach you to see the forest and the trees
• End the struggle between work and personal time

This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.

Essentials of Business Law and the Legal Environment

The Jonathan Clements Money Guide 2015 is the must-have book for Americans concerned about their financial future. Written by the highly regarded columnist for The Wall Street Journal, this annually updated guide delivers punchy, plain English answers to your most pressing financial questions. It was named money-management book of the year by the Institute for Financial Literacy and won a silver medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards. Here’s what you’ll find in this year’s Money Guide:

• Help with retirement, college, home buying, estate planning and more
• Indispensable information delivered in short, easy-to-understand sections
• Simple strategies to improve every aspect of your financial life
• Clements’s outspoken views on personal finance
• The latest facts and figures on the economy and markets
• Tax information for 2014 and 2015
• Intriguing statistics on how the typical American is faring financially

“It’s hard to imagine a finer place to begin your search for financial peace of mind than with Jonathan Clements Money Guide 2015. Yes, it’s long. But so is the list of financial challenges faced by American families. Don’t be intimidated. He’s made it easy to navigate through these challenges, identify those where you need help, and successfully deal with them. Don’t just scan this fine, readable, and insightful guide. Keep it by your desk and return to it as your circumstances change, as financial markets change, and as the world turns.”—John C. Bogle, founder, The Vanguard Group

“A comprehensive financial guide ranging from navigating health insurance alternatives to forming sensible investment portfolios. Clements is a first-rate financial writer who is a genius at making sophisticated advice accessible to everyone and a delight to read.”—Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street

“Since the early 1990s, Jonathan Clements’s columns taught his readers, profited them, and made them smile. Trouble was, you needed to have read all his Wall Street Journal articles. Until now, that is. His Money Guide wraps this bounty, and then some, into a tidy package, destined to be enjoyed and referred to over and over by readers for decades to come.”—William J. Bernstein, author of The Investor’s Manifesto

“How do you get nearly 30 years of personal-finance wisdom and advice in an engaging, entertaining and easy-to-use format? Keep Jonathan Clements’s Money Guide on your desk or tablet for instant answers to your essential money questions.”—Consuelo Mack, anchor, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack

“Would you like to have a friend who knew a lot and would share the straight scoop with you on any investment topic at any time in clear language, with candor and a wry sense of humor? Well, here it is. What a break!”—Charles D. Ellis, author of What It Takes and Winning the Loser’s Game

“As someone who has read just about every personal-finance book ever published, I can honestly say this is the best money manual ever written—period! Jonathan Clements’s Money Guide offers readers a host of brilliant insights on how to grow their money. It’s required reading for anyone striving for financial independence.”—Allan Roth, author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

Mandate for Leadership will help you hold politicians to their promises. This guide from The Heritage Foundation provides conservative solutions to issues ranging from free trade to Social Security reform to reducing federal spending.
In 1980, President Ronald Reagan used Heritage’s first Mandate to develop many of his policies. In fact, he used it so much it became a “kind of handbook for the new administration,” according to The Washington Post.

For centuries Andean civilization and ecology has afforded a special fascination for European travellers and officials. In this volume, eight writers – anthropologists, economists and historians working in Bolivia, Britain, France, Ireland and Peru – describe and analyse aspects of rural society in various Andean regions. They focus on the impact of capitalist development on both the peasant economy and the landed elite in the Andes and the ways in which that impact has been shaped by a specific Andean culture and a characteristic Andean ecology and climate. Their discussion of Andean specificity centres on the notion of verticality, first developed by John Murra to describe political and economic adaptation to climatic variation in the Andean eco-system. The volume represents a substantial contribution to our understanding of Andean rural society and the nature of the Latin American peasantry and peasant economy. It will appeal to all those interested in economic anthropology, Latin America, peasant studies and the capitalist world-economy.