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Short-Term America: The Causes and Cures of Our Business Myopia
Michael T. Jacobs, Harvard Business School Press

Harvard Business School Press, 1992

Americans have a growing conviction that we are losing economic ground to rivals in Europe and Asia. From store shelves to parking lots, the evidence of this competitive decline is abundantly visible. Less apparent are the causes and cures. While pundits point to everything from inadequate public schools to drug abuse as sources of our economic malaise, savvy business practitioners and thoughtful scholars concur that short-term thinking and ...

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)

2 reviews
Amir Fink, Jacob Press

Stanford University Press, 2000

revealing, entertaining, and thought provoking!
I have read the draft of this book, and it is undoubtedly one of the most revealing, enlightening and entertaining writings on modern gay life in Israel. A must not only for readers interested in gay culture, but for anyone who wants to know more about young people - gay or straight - in modern Israel. The book comprises of a tapestry of interviews, whose translation artfully captures all ...

Powerful Stories From the Lives of Latter-day Saint Men (1974 Hardcover Printing, 7475033)
Wendell J. Ashton, John Forest Barker, ...

Deseret Books, 1974

Powerful Stories From the Lives of Latter-day Saint Men 1974 Hardcover Printing. 320 Pages. Special Limited Edition.

Queer Diasporas (Series Q)

1 review

Duke University Press, 2000

Fabulous book on gays and transnational matters!
Loved this book! This is an anthology of academic essays on gays and gay fiction in international settings. It covers men and women and almost every regional/racial grouping. This book is an important contribution to gay studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist/womanist/mujerista studies. Unfortunately, the editors have the best pieces in the anthology (sabotage? jealousy?). Still, I ...

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q)
Jacob Press, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Duke University Press, 1997

Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory essay, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick delineates the possibilities for a criticism that would be "reparative" rather than cynical or paranoid. The startlingly ...