An illustrated guide to surviving today's turbulent and challenging workplace from the authors of The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Boss's Survival Guide Forget the Australian Outback or the Amazon jungle-today's toughest survival challenge is the minefield we call work. It's impossible to "do more with less," especially with the looming threat of another reorganization, layoff, or other dramatic change. The good news is that you've got a new power tool for what ails you at work: Gray Matters. This inventive new book combines lively visuals, engaging characters, and impudent humor. But Gray Matters also offers hope and proven strategies to show you how to succeed at work today: how to sell successfully how to survive a layoff how to overcome the stress and pressure of today's frenetic workplace. Think Dilbert with a solution. Your tour guides are the employees of GlobalGadget: Gray Blanderson, a frazzled employee seeking a promotion; Rick Newman, Gray's nemesis; S. P. Chan g, a Gen-Xer and a wise soul; and Virginia Edgarly, Gray's boss who will do whatever is required to be the next CEO. A follow-up to the bestseller, The Boss's Survival Guide, this new book is a must for all managers in this turbulent work environment. This funny guide will help managers navigate change, improve morale and develop business strategies. WARNING: Gray Matters is addictive; get ready to laugh and learn.
FOREWORD The peoples of Mexico, Central America and South America have had the most horrendous life experiences for over four hundred years. Their lives previously may not have been any better. But, one would think that Christianity would have turned out to be a blessing to them, and spiritually it has. But, their living conditions have been sad. Wealthy so-called Christians eventually gained control of most of the riches and resources of all those countries and treated the people like slaves. Much of the damage to these peoples was with the collaboration of business interests from the United States and other First World countries. We have taken wealth in natural resources from their lands while leaving indigenous and other poor people destitute and ignorant. The Church has spoken out against these crimes against humanity in offi cial statements beginning in the 1968 Medellin Conference until the 2007 Aparecida Conference. Some Church offi cials like Archbishop Helder Camara spent their lives siding with the poor. Others have been willing to sacrifi ce their lives for speaking out for justice like Archbishop Oscar Romero. Too many more have preferred to enjoy the social life with the rich and the powerful. During the Second World War we needed the Mexican people to come and work in our factories to support the war effort. There were also a million and a half Mexicans in the United States army, doing the most diffi cult and dangerous assignments. After the war, those who were not citizens were sent back to Mexico. We have not had a proud history of our treatment of these great people, and a people of great faith and forgiveness. They still love us, in spite of the way we are treating them today when we desperately need them because we have such a severe labor shortage mounting in the tens of millions. Very few authors have had the courage to speak out on the lives of the people of Latin America and their brothers and sisters living among us One of them is Father John Lavin. His powerful documentary, entitled, Noticing Lazarus at Our Door is a masterful description of the life and exploitation of the people in Latin America and Hispanics in the United States based on his own personal experiences as a missionary among these peoples for over forty years. I was totally captivated by this graphic expose, and I can honestly say that it is a story everyone of us can read with a profound effect on each of us.. I hope many take advantage of this rare opportunity. Fr. Joseph F. Girzone Author of the Joshua series A Just Immigration Law, An Impossible Dream? After the November 2006 elections, there was hope that the new Democratic controlled Congress would join with President Bush to give the country a bipartisan and fair immigration bill. However, a New York Times editorial wondered if political interests were stronger than the will of our government to do what is right for immigrants and the country as a whole: "Immigration remains a high-voltage issue that Congress may be too timid or distracted to touch." 16 Unhappily the editorial proved to be accurate. The U.S. Senate defeated the legislation in July, 2007. Immigrants and their supporters are not marching and demonstrating with the same fervor and sense of empowerment in 2007 as in 2006. However, we are learning a lesson from the loss in the Senate. We will continue to plan, gather resources, take action, and challenge both federal and local governments to recognize the positive contributions of immigrants, both documented and undocumented, to the greatness of our country. The goal of undocumented immigrants and their supporters continues to be a joint bill of the Senate and the House that offers a clear path to residency and citizenship for most immigrants without papers.
First Published in 1992. The last decade of the twentieth century has seen an unprecedented advocacy for the preservation of a safe environment, and the prevention of ill-health from toxic chemicals. Human activity, however, is responsible for introducing new toxins into the environment. In order to control competitors for human food sources, an armament of pesticides has been assembled and their widespread and largely uncontrolled application has been permitted. It is only when the health of the population begins to suffer from the effects of these chemicals that the efficacy of their use is questioned. Decision-makers whose roles involve the promotion and control of the environment must look to lessons that can be learnt from biosystems that include animals other than man. Toxins and Targets details the way in which organisms from diverse habitats in the plant and animal kingdoms have adapted to handle toxins safely. Part I, on the aquatic environment, highlights the means by which marine organisms have adapted their toxins to be effective in a world of high aqueous solubility and infinite dilution. Part II deals with venomous terrestrial organisms and the mechanisms by which they damage animal cells, and Part III considers the way in which human society attempts to investigate toxicity and to control both synthetic and naturally occurring poisons. The development of a safe environment depends on increased knowledge and novel approaches to solving escalating problems. This book is a step towards this end.
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