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| Arts & Culture | Classic Buffalo: A Heritage of Distinguished
Architecture Andy Olenick & Richard O. Reisem Canisius College Press, Buffalo NY 1999 Secret Places: ...Scenic Treasures of the...Niagara-Allegheny Region... Bruce Kershner "...wonderful guidebook to often missed wonderful natural sites in WNY..." |
| History | Canal
Boatman: My Life on Upstate Waterways Richard Garrity City of Light Lauren Belfer "...a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue and tragedy of manners...intrigue, romance and politics surrounding Buffalo and the development of hydropower at Niagara Falls..." Great Lake Effects: Buffalo Beyond Winter and Wings Junior League of Buffalo "...apart from the many fantastic recipes...this hardcover book contains lots of historical and cultural information on Buffalo. The artwork was donated by a local artist, Margaret M. Martin. The proceeds are returned to the community through projects supported by the JLB..." |
| Leadership | Corporate
Mystic, The Gay Hendricks & Kate Ludeman "...Today's creative business leaders already know the answer and it's not about cutting overhead downsizing or meeting next quarter's budget. Corporate leaders of the twenty-first century will be spiritual leaders-- grounded in vision, integrity and intuition--and they will know how to nurture these qualities in others..." Evolution of Cooperation, The Robert Axelrod "...Axelrod's approach offers hope for a bottom-up construction of cooperation in an uncertain world without a central authority..." Handbook for the Positive Revolution Edward De Bono "...De Bono suggests that those who wish to create a more positive future could do well to turn away from traditional "I am right - you are wrong" thinking. In negative revolutions of the past (e.g. the Marxist fight against capitalism) there is an enemy to be hated, this hatred giving cohesion and energy to the revolutionaries. With a positive revolution however, there is construction instead of attack, design instead of criticism, change through awareness instead of change through violence. A flexible sense of humour is proposed instead of an inflexible ideology! Five basic principles are outlined: effectiveness, constructive, respect, self-improvement, contribution..." Leadership Without Easy Answers Ronald A. Heifetz "...a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as well as those who look to them for answers, drawing on research among managers, offices, and politicians in the public and private sectors. He discusses leading with and without authority, values in leadership, the roots of authority, and leaders such as Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Gandhi..." Lexus and the Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization, The Thomas L. Friedman "...globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree..." Nursing Father--Moses As a Political Leader, The Aaron Wildavsky "...compelling argument about the narrative in the latter four books of the Pentateuch: it is about leadership..." On Leadership John Gardner "...examination of leadership as it is practiced--or malpracticed--in America today..." Origins of Virtue, The : Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation Matt Ridley "...about the billion-year coagulation of our genes into cooperative teams, the million-year coagulation of our ancestors into cooperative societies, and the thousand-year coagulation of ideas about society and its origins...if nice guys always finished last when our ancestors were scrabbling around for food on the African savanna, why does morality come so naturally to us now?..." Right Mountain : Lessons from Everest on the Real Meaning of Success, The Jim Hayhurst, Sr. "...chronicles his 1988 climb up Mt. Everest and how the inspirational lessons he learned changed the way he defined success. Using the mountain as a metaphor, he shares how to incorporate the values of integrity, self-esteem, and respect for others into our daily personal and professional lives..." Six Thinking Hats Edward de Bono "...using case studies and real-life examples of his "six thinking hats", de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing..." Thriving On Chaos Tom Peters "...hands-on guide to coping with uncertainty and change...a program of 50 specific courses of action essential to corporate survival in today's (and tomorrow's) turbulent economic/political world..." Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, The Malcolm Gladwell "...a fascinating study of human behavior patterns, and shows us where the smallest things can trigger an epidemic of change. Though loaded with statistics, the numbers are presented in a way that makes the book read like an exciting novel. Gladwell also gives several examples in history, where one small change in behavior created a bigger change on a national level. He also studies the type of person or group that it takes to make that change..." Who Moved My Cheese? : An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life "...Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out..." |
| Regional Issues | Alexander
Hamilton Richard Brookhiser "The man on the $10 bill is probably the most overlooked Founding Father. This book--not a names-and-dates biography, but an appreciation and assessment in the tradition of Plutarch--should help change that...signer of the Constitution and author of roughly two-thirds of the Federalist Papers, Hamilton became the first secretary of the treasury at the age of 32. In this capacity, Brookhiser argues that the scrappy Caribbean native gave birth to American capitalism by developing the country's financial system. Brookhiser also reveals the sex and violence of Hamilton's life: he survived personal scandal but was shot down by Aaron Burr in an 1804 duel. The end came too soon for Hamilton--and it also helped elevate the reputation of his nemesis, Thomas Jefferson..." Citistates : How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World Neal R. Peirce, Curtis W. Johnson (Contributor), John Stuart Hall "...illuminates perhaps the major urban challenge of the day: the necessity of metropolitan-wide solutions in a governmental system still divided between urban, suburban and exurban Freedoms." Laboratories of Democracy Harvard Business School Press "The future of American politics is already visible. To see it, one must look beyond Washington to America's "laboratories of democracy," the states. Today's governors are hammering out a wide range of new approaches to the economic and social problems created by the transition to a post-industrial economy. In the process, they are constructing a new political paradigm: a post-Great Society, post-Reagan politics molded to the realities of the 1980s and 1990s..." Metropolitics Myron W. Orfield, David Rusk "...eschews both name-calling and urban handwringing to take a look at old geographies and new alliances in Minneapolis. [Orfield] acknowledges the demise of federal policies for cities. He understands the nation's destructive land-use practices and patterns and wants to reorder as well as arouse. Orfield's alternatives are political, but grounded in a broader landscape.... Metropolitics offers a lasso to join constituencies and enhance cities, not whip them..." Niagara: Attracting the World Philip Nyhuis et al |