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The Sustainability Transformation

How to Accelerate Positive Change in Challenging Times

By: Alan AtKisson

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The Sustainability Transformation

How to Accelerate Positive Change in Challenging Times

By: Alan AtKisson

The Sustainability Transformation is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of what is happening to our world – and wanting to change it for the better. Renowned consultant and communicator Alan AtKisson, author of the sustainability classic Believing Cassandra, cuts through the jargon and illuminates the essentials in this highly readable and motivational work. The Sustainability Transformation covers theory and practice, tools and strategies, the opportunities and the obstacles, illustrated with in-depth case studies and poignant personal anecdotes. AtKisson's aim is to empower the reader and to help grow a global 'army of change agents,' working effectively to overcome the great challenges of our times. At the heart of the book is AtKisson's potent ISIS Method, used by business, governments, and organizations around the world. ISIS - Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy - helps professionals, students, and amateurs alike to put sustainability to work and accelerate change, even when facing difficult circumstances. AtKisson also introduces the reader to many inspiring people, unsung heroes whose success stories provide a solid foundation for hope. Previously published in hardcover as The ISIS Agreement.

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1136537260

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Believing Cassandra

How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World

By: Alan AtKisson

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Believing Cassandra

How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World

By: Alan AtKisson

A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army ordered it by the box. Now fully revised and updated, Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World is even more relevant, fresh, and motivating than when it first appeared in 1999. In a style that's refreshingly candid and vivid, with unforgettable personal anecdotes, AtKisson provides us with a bridge over the sea of despair, and shows us how to catch the wave to an enticing, sustainable future. He empowers the reader to join the pioneers who created the ideas, techniques and practices of sustainable living - the people who prove Cassandra's warnings wrong, by believing in them, and taking strategic action.

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113654061X

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The ISIS Agreement

How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

By: Alan AtKisson

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The ISIS Agreement

How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

By: Alan AtKisson

This is the must-have book for leaders in business, organizations and government who are scrambling to get a grip on sustainability while improving performance in the era of climate change.Renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson distils decades of wisdom and experience into this highly readable and motivational work. Covering theory and practice, obstacles and opportunities, case studies and poignant personal anecdotes, The ISIS Agreement draws the reader ever deeper into a global 'conspiracy of hope.'The core of the book is AtKisson's potent Accelerator, adopted for use in dozens of countries by business, governments, and organizations such as UNEP. A comprehensive toolkit that helps integrate sustainability into organizations, initiatives and plans, it can be used by any group, organization, business, community or region, in virtually any context. Central to the Accelerator is the potent ISIS (Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy) method that teaches leaders how to create a whole-systems view of their organization, to identify and understand blockages and opportunities, and to leverage the potential for innovative change that adds value and accelerates progress towards sustainability.

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1849773092

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The Sustainability Transformation

How to Accelerate Positive Change in Challenging Times

By: Alan AtKisson

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How to Accelerate Positive Change in Challenging Times

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Believing Cassandra

How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World

By: Alan AtKisson

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Believing Cassandra

How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World

By: Alan AtKisson

Providing an introduction to sustainability, 'Believing Cassandra' reviews the history of thinking about sustainability and presents the key dynamics of organisational transformation.

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1136540628

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Parachuting Cats into Borneo

And Other Lessons from the Change Café

By: Axel Klimek,Alan AtKisson

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Parachuting Cats into Borneo

And Other Lessons from the Change Café

By: Axel Klimek,Alan AtKisson

In Parachuting Cats into Borneo, change-management experts Axel Klimek and Alan AtKisson offer crisp, concise, and targeted advice for success. They expose the most significant impediments helping readers recognize their habitual patterns of thinking and perceiving a situation, critique their own beliefs regarding change, and then move beyond these unhelpful patterns using improved systems thinking. Named after a classic tale of unintended consequences, Parachuting Cats into Borneo delivers tools that help leaders and others keep their change initiatives on track. The advice imparted will help you move away from agonizing over immediate problems toward stoking action, identifying collaborators, focusing at the right level for your cause, and aiding others in pursuing their change.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603586814

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The ISIS Agreement

How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

By: Alan AtKisson

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The ISIS Agreement

How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

By: Alan AtKisson

This is the must-have book for leaders in business, organizations and government who are scrambling to get a grip on sustainability while improving performance in the era of climate change. Renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson distils decades of wisdom and experience into this highly readable and motivational work. Covering theory and practice, obstacles and opportunities, case studies and poignant personal anecdotes, The ISIS Agreement draws the reader ever deeper into a global 'conspiracy of hope.' The core of the book is AtKisson's potent Accelerator, adopted for use in dozens of countries by business, governments, and organizations such as UNEP. A comprehensive toolkit that helps integrate sustainability into organizations, initiatives and plans, it can be used by any group, organization, business, community or region, in virtually any context. Central to the Accelerator is the potent ISIS (Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy) method that teaches leaders how to create a whole-systems view of their organization, to identify and understand blockages and opportunities, and to leverage the potential for innovative change that adds value and accelerates progress towards sustainability.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136553428

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Because We Believe in the Future

Collected Essays on Sustainability, 1989-2009

By: Alan AtKisson

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Because We Believe in the Future

Collected Essays on Sustainability, 1989-2009

By: Alan AtKisson

For over two decades, Alan AtKisson - author of Believing Cassandra and The Sustainability Transformation - has been traveling the world to speak, write, and consult on sustainability. This book brings together the best of his essays, articles, speeches and blog posts, from the first twenty years of his career. AtKisson has been a leading voice in the sustainability movement almost since it began, and his writing also serves as a guided tour through the emergence of sustainability during that period, from a very personal perspective. The collection also shows just how quickly sustainability rose to prominence during that time: in the first essay, AtKisson is reflecting on the seemingly impossible task of waking up the world to the challenge of global warming, writing from a small basement office in Seattle. By the closing piece, he is reporting on an enormous gathering of world leaders, negotiating the fate of the planet at a climate summit in Copenhagen. At times serious, at times funny or edgily ironic, AtKisson's essays are engaging windows onto the world of sustainability that are always fresh, and that always aim to inspire.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1478289252

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Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction

The United States & Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan & Iraq

By: Matthew Alan Hill

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Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction

The United States & Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan & Iraq

By: Matthew Alan Hill

This book investigates US foreign policy and tests the hypothesis that transition-inspired democracy promotion will successfully establish liberal democracy around the world, and thus fulfil the aims of the American mission and its application of the democratic peace. It features two detailed case studies exploring political liberalization in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and suggests that the conclusions are applicable to other cases by highlighting the US mission in Iraq. The author critically examines US foreign policy in a theoretical and historical context, focusing on the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) democracy assistance. It demonstrates that if liberal democracy is the end-goal of USAID’s strategy then the theoretical and practical limitations of transition-inspired assistance will impede the attainment of this goal. In examining US democracy promotion in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq during the Clinton and Bush administrations, the book concludes by considering its future during the Obama administration. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, US Foreign Policy and Democratization Studies. A video of a panel discussing Matthew Hill's book and associated topics in more detail can be found here: http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-human-rights/old-wine-new-bottle-democratisation-lessons-af

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1136668004

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Exploring Sustainable Development

Geographical Perspectives

By: Martin Purvis,Alan Grainger

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Exploring Sustainable Development

Geographical Perspectives

By: Martin Purvis,Alan Grainger

Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital that there is a clear definition of what it means, how it is applied on the ground, and the influence it exerts upon people's perceptions of change in the physical environment, economic activity and society. Exploring Sustainable Development is a major new text which provides a multifaceted introduction to key areas of study in this field, examining sustainability at the full range of spatial scales from the local to the global. Building on existing theory it demonstrates the unique contributions that thinking geographically about space, place and human-environment relationships can bring to the analysis of sustainable development. This book explores different interpretations of sustainable development in both theory and practice, in developed and developing countries, and in rural and urban areas. It pays particular attention to the local, national and international politics of implementation, the future of climate and energy, the role of business, and different conceptions of agricultural sustainability. This wide-ranging text is ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates in geography, environmental science, development studies, and related social and political sciences.

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1136566023

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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia

By: Kim T. Mueser,Alan S. Bellack,Susan Gingerich,Julie Agresta,Daniel Fulford

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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia

By: Kim T. Mueser,Alan S. Bellack,Susan Gingerich,Julie Agresta,Daniel Fulford

Social skills training (SST) continues to be a widely accepted and recommended intervention for improving the psychosocial functioning of persons with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. The book begins by providing useful background information, including the nature and importance of social skills (Chapter 1), updated evidence supporting the effectiveness of SST (Chapter 2), and assessment and goal-setting for SST (Chapter 3). The next group of chapters addresses the practicalities of providing SST groups and are also similar to the second edition, including methods for teaching social skills (Chapter 4), starting an SST group (Chapter 5), choosing curricula for an SST group (Chapter 6), tailoring SST to meet individual participant needs (Chapter 7), and solutions to common challenges encountered when providing SST (Chapter 8). The third edition of this book differs from the second edition in the variety of special topics related to SST that are addressed. While the second edition had only one such chapter on providing SST to individuals with comorbid substance use problems, in addition to retaining (and updating) this chapter (Chapter 9), the third edition also has six additional chapters on special topics, including younger individuals who are either at risk for psychosis or recovering from a first episode of psychosis (Chapter 10), technology-based communication skills (Chapter 11), SST with older individuals (Chapter 12), providing SST in residential or inpatient settings (Chapter 13), cultural factors when providing SST (Chapter 14), and gender and sexual identity issues and sexual harassment (Chapter 15)"--

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Guilford Publications

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1462555047

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Environmental Problem Solving

Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change

By: Alan Miller

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Environmental Problem Solving

Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change

By: Alan Miller

Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of environmental problems that they are attempting to resolve. In Environmental Problem Solving, Alan Miller reappraises conventional analyses of environmental problems using lessons from the psychosocial disciplines. He combines the disciplines of ecology, political sociology and psychology to produce a more adaptive approach to problem-solving that is specifically geared toward the environmetal field. Numerous case studies demonstrate the practical application of theory in a way that is useful to technical and scientific professionals as well as to policy makers and planners. Alan Miller is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461214408

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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Alan S. Bellack,Kim T. Mueser,Susan Gingerich,Julie Agresta

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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Alan S. Bellack,Kim T. Mueser,Susan Gingerich,Julie Agresta

This book has been replaced by Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5503-1.

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1462513964

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Parachuting Cats into Borneo

And Other Lessons from the Change Café

By: Axel Klimek,Alan AtKisson

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And Other Lessons from the Change Café

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603586814

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Sustainability Is for Everyone

By: Alan AtKisson

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Sustainability Is for Everyone

By: Alan AtKisson

In just 49 pages, this little book - now in its 2nd edition, after selling over 20,000 copies - helps you "lift your thoughts above the fray" (Michael Kensler, Auburn University) and rethink what it means to do sustainability work. Alan AtKisson, recognized as one of the pioneers of sustainability consulting, author of the bestselling Believing Cassandra and The Sustainability Transformation, brings 25 years of international experience into crystal clear focus with a refreshing message of simplification and renewal. He also introduces useful new concepts such as "Sustainability, Big and Small" and "Take-out Sustainability." Companies and universities have purchased this book in bulk for distribution to all their employees or alumni. Highly recommended for all sustainability professionals, amateurs, and students alike.

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Center for Sustainability Transformation

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0991102207

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Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge

The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945

By: Ronald D. Cohen

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Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge

The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945

By: Ronald D. Cohen

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. A reading and examination of his letters from 1935 to 1945 reveal someone who led an extremely complex, fascinating, and creative life, mostly as a public employee. While Lomax is noted for his field recordings, these collected letters, many signed "Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge," are a trove of information until now available only at the Library of Congress. They make it clear that Lomax was very interested in the commercial hillbilly, race, and even popular recordings of the 1920s and after. These letters serve as a way of understanding Lomax's public and private life during some of his most productive and significant years. Lomax was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the twentieth century. Here he speaks for himself through his voluminous correspondence.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604738014

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The Dawn of Genius

The Minoan Super-Civilization and the Truth About Atlantis

By: Alan Butler

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The Dawn of Genius

The Minoan Super-Civilization and the Truth About Atlantis

By: Alan Butler

The Dawn of Genius puts back into the place the missing pieces of the puzzle that is Europe prior to a massive watershed in population and culture that took place after 2,000 BC. A cataclysmic volcanic eruption in the Eastern Mediterranean destroyed an almost totally forgotten infrastructure that encompassed an entire continent, and opened Europe to an unparalleled invasion of much less sophisticated people from the East. The book recreates the culture and religion and scientific knowledge that was shattered in an instant and which plunged the world into a dark age from which it has taken over 3,000 years to emerge. This is probably the most comprehensive explanation of mysteries from a truly ancient world that has ever been written. Those interested in exploring the genuine origins of the modern world are certain to be enthralled.

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1780286848

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