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Pigskin Nation

How the NFL Remade American Politics

By: Jesse Berrett

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Pigskin Nation

How the NFL Remade American Politics

By: Jesse Berrett

Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of America—and became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image. Jesse Berrett explores pro football's new place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL's brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL's gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity--all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL's alchemy of presentation, television, and high-stepping style. An invigorating appraisal of a dynamic era, Pigskin Nation reveals how pro football created the template for a future that became our present.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050371

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9780252050374

Untapped Agility

Seven Leadership Moves to Take Your Transformation to the Next Level

By: Jesse Fewell

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Untapped Agility

Seven Leadership Moves to Take Your Transformation to the Next Level

By: Jesse Fewell

This balanced guide to agility gets past the hype and frustration to help frustrated leaders transform their agile transformations. Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What's going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the “quick-fix” hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back. The boost is the initial gains from logical first steps; the barrier is the unavoidable roadblock that must come next; and the rebound is the way forward to further gains by leaning against the concept of the original boost. With these counterintuitive rebounds, Fewell identifies seven leadership moves that can be used to unblock stalled agile transformations. No, your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in, the talent, the alignment, and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface—undiscovered, unutilized, and untapped.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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152308832X

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9781523088324

Full Steam Ahead!

Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard,Jesse Stoner

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Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard,Jesse Stoner

Now in a first trade paper edition comes a blueprint for bringing creativity and imagination into any company, coauthored by one of the most popular business writers today.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1576753069

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9781576753064

Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor,Jesse O. Taylor

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Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

By: Daniel C. Taylor,Carl E. Taylor,Jesse O. Taylor

This highly readable account demonstrates how a comprehensive process for social change harnesses the energy of a community and scales it up with a rising number of participants becoming invested in increasingly high-quality work.

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295

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OUP USA

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0199842965

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9780199842964

Planetary Improvement

Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism

By: Jesse Goldstein

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Planetary Improvement

Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism

By: Jesse Goldstein

An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that “green capitalism” is more capitalist than green. Entrepreneurs and investors in the green economy have encouraged a vision of addressing climate change with new technologies. In Planetary Improvement, Jesse Goldstein examines the cleantech entrepreneurial community in order to understand the limitations of environmental transformation within a capitalist system. Reporting on a series of investment pitches by cleantech entrepreneurs in New York City, Goldstein describes investor-friendly visions of incremental improvements to the industrial status quo that are hardly transformational. He explores a new “green spirit of capitalism,” a discourse of planetary improvement, that aims to “save the planet” by looking for “non-disruptive disruptions,” technologies that deliver “solutions” without changing much of what causes the underlying problems in the first place. Goldstein charts the rise of business environmentalism over the last half of the twentieth century and examines cleantech's unspoken assumptions of continuing cheap and abundant energy. Recounting the sometimes conflicting motivations of cleantech entrepreneurs and investors, he argues that the cleantech innovation ecosystem and its Schumpetarian dynamic of creative destruction are built around attempts to control creativity by demanding that transformational aspirations give way to short-term financial concerns. As a result, capitalist imperatives capture and stifle visions of sociotechnical possibility and transformation. Finally, he calls for a green spirit that goes beyond capitalism, in which sociotechnical experimentation is able to break free from the narrow bonds and relative privilege of cleantech entrepreneurs and the investors that control their fate.

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233

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MIT Press

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0262535076

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9780262535076

Modernist Time Ecology

By: Jesse Matz

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Modernist Time Ecology

By: Jesse Matz

Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can do for the world at large.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421426994

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9781421426990

Reforming Schools

Working within a Progressive Tradition during Conservative Times

By: Jesse Goodman

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Reforming Schools

Working within a Progressive Tradition during Conservative Times

By: Jesse Goodman

In Reforming Schools, Jesse Goodman discusses the possibilities, struggles, and complexities involved in reforming today's schools. Drawing from his own experiences at the Harmony Education Center—a progressive educational center he helped establish in 1990—Goodman offers a vision of how to persevere at a time when many progressive educators are feeling discouraged. He focuses on practical ideas for reform, such as establishing school autonomy; creating democratic structures, rituals, and values upon which school reform discourse can be generated; and by addressing the current conservative agenda, how to influence what happens in our nation's public schools. By situating school reform within a progressive history of Western society, the author offers valuable insights and ideas that are alternatives to both the conservative and the radical left analyses of schools and society.

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State University of New York Press

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0791481530

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9780791481530

DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans

No More Gangs in Government

By: Jesse Ventura

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DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans

No More Gangs in Government

By: Jesse Ventura

DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions and political action committees. Covering historical details such as the development of the two-party system and the advent of third-party candidates throughout US history, DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans exposes how the two-major parties, acting like a gang-land cabal, have allowed corporations, businesses and politically-motivated wealthy individuals to manipulate elections, bribe elected officials and, in short, silence the average American voter. Exposing the ineptitude of both parties at insuring the integrity and vitality of American democracy, Jesse Ventura advocates the replacement of the two-party system for a no party system based on the ideals of our Founding Fathers. As election time rolls around, this is most certainly the book that should be looked at for reforming our electorate system. The knowledge and research that have gone into DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans is unmatched, and if there was to be change, this is most certainly where it should start!

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Simon and Schuster

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1626363757

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9781626363755

A More Perfect Union

Advancing New American Rights

By: Jesse L. Jackson Jr.

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A More Perfect Union

Advancing New American Rights

By: Jesse L. Jackson Jr.

Race, from the beginning and more than any other element, has shaped America's institutions, its economics, politics, laws, social structures, and political attitudes. Congressman Jackson considers race to be the focal point of America through the language of the economy because "the economy is the hearing aid through which Americans hear all political dialogue." In this thought provoking work, Jackson provides ample documentation and insightful analysis of the inextricable link between race and economics. More important Jackson proposes a radical economic strategy and program of new human rights that would build A More Perfect Union for all Americans and put them in a better position to come to grips with this enduring American legacy.

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Archway Publishing

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1665704632

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9781665704632

Pigskin Nation

How the NFL Remade American Politics

By: Jesse Berrett

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How the NFL Remade American Politics

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University of Illinois Press

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0252083326

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Full Steam Ahead!

Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard,Jesse Stoner

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Full Steam Ahead!

Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard,Jesse Stoner

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDThe first edition of Full Steam Ahead!-an international bestseller that was translated into twenty-two languages-pioneered the concept of vision as the vital ingredient for truly satisfying long-term success. In this new edition, Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner offer new content and new resources to help you create and communicate a vision that will radically transform your work and your life. When do we need vision? During times of growth, change, or opportunity-so that we know we're headed in the right direction. We also need vision during times of uncertai.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1605098760

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Full Steam Ahead!

Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard,Jesse Stoner

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Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life

By: Kenneth H. Blanchard,Jesse Stoner

Now in a first trade paper edition comes a blueprint for bringing creativity and imagination into any company, coauthored by one of the most popular business writers today.

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Quotations of Chairman Jesse

By: Jesse Ventura,Myron Rupp

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Quotations of Chairman Jesse

By: Jesse Ventura,Myron Rupp

This pocket-sized book of quotations from Jesse Ventura, the colorful pro-wrestler-turned-governor of Minnesota, sculpts a telling image of the man considered the people's politician. Readers get a deeper understanding of the magnetism of the man, with quotes arranged thematically by political and social issues.

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1886913390

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9781886913394

Tributes to My Father and Mother and Some Stories of My Life / Jesse Mercer Battle

By: Jesse Mercer Battle

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Tributes to My Father and Mother and Some Stories of My Life / Jesse Mercer Battle

By: Jesse Mercer Battle

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1376648008

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9781376648003

Book's by Jesse Berrett

Pigskin Nation

Pigskin Nation

Untapped Agility

Untapped Agility

Full Steam Ahead!

Full Steam Ahead!

Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

Empowerment on an Unstable Planet

Planetary Improvement

Planetary Improvement

Modernist Time Ecology

Modernist Time Ecology

Reforming Schools

Reforming Schools

DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans

DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans

A More Perfect Union

A More Perfect Union

Pigskin Nation

Pigskin Nation

Full Steam Ahead!

Full Steam Ahead!

Full Steam Ahead!

Full Steam Ahead!

Quotations of Chairman Jesse

Quotations of Chairman Jesse

Tributes to My Father and Mother and Some Stories of My Life / Jesse Mercer Battle

Tributes to My Father and Mother and Some Stories of My Life / Jesse Mercer Battle

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