Merchants of Virtue

2011-09-13 Business & Economics

Author : Bill Birchard
Release : 2011-09-13
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 678/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Merchants of Virtue written by Bill Birchard. This book was released on 2011-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchants of Virtue is about a band of people who determined to make their company a good global citizen. Herman Miller has been looking at some of the critical questions of our time—for the past 35 years. Is sustainable business sustainable? In an age where sustainability is key to future success, businesses must incorporate new strategies towards sustainability in order to give them the competitive edge. But, can employees in global companies make great products, take care of the environment, benefit society, and make good money—all at the same time? The answer, as in so many stories of people working together, comes down to a principle of management. At Herman Miller, sustainability triumphs because people commit and recommit themselves to the guiding light of company values and in turn changed the world of business. Here author Bill Birchard goes deep inside the organization to find out how Herman Miller has been accomplishing this goal—from the individuals who have become passionate about this topic—to the designers who incorporate ideas of sustainability into every product they create. Birchard shares not only the stories—but the details of how every this remarkable effort has been accomplished.

Merchants of Virtue

2022-12-27 History

Author : Divya Cherian
Release : 2022-12-27
Genre : History
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Download or read book Merchants of Virtue written by Divya Cherian. This book was released on 2022-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.

The Huguenot Chronicles Trilogy

2022-02-04 Fiction

Author : Paul C. R. Monk
Release : 2022-02-04
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book The Huguenot Chronicles Trilogy written by Paul C. R. Monk. This book was released on 2022-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 books of epic historical adventure now in one volume. A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their love, faith and loyalty be strong enough to help them survive war, persecution and a cruel separation? France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to convert the country's Huguenot "heretics" to the "true" faith, yet Jeanne and Jacob hold fast to their Protestant principals of liberty of conscience. But will the punishment for their defiance be more than they can bear? If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again... As Jacob becomes an indentured servant in the New World and Jeanne earns a meager living in Switzerland, a sudden disruption in European politics leaves their chance of a bittersweet homecoming more doubtful than ever... Will the Delpech family survive the years of war, piracy and persecution to reunite at last? You'll adore this brilliantly researched historical saga, because everyone loves heart-warming tales of family loyalty and a fight for survival against the odds. Read The Huguenot Chronicles trilogy to start a journey through history today!

Merchants of Doubt

2011-10-03 Technology & Engineering

Author : Naomi Oreskes
Release : 2011-10-03
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Merchants of Doubt written by Naomi Oreskes. This book was released on 2011-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

Merchants of Vision

1994 Business & Economics

Author : James E. Liebig
Release : 1994
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Merchants of Vision written by James E. Liebig. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is changing, and businesses must change also or face extinction. Forty corporate leaders and entrepreneurs from the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia offer their visions of how businesses can lead the world into an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable future. Photos.

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