Readers will come away with the message that anyone who wants to have a positive impact on the world can do it right now from where they are-or can be inspired by Novelli's story to make the leap to somewhere they can.
Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were written without correspondence at all. This collection of never-before-published letters traces ......
Shortly after he was named President of Purdue University, Mitch Daniels was asked by the journalist Jonathan Alter if it bothered him that he could have been president of the United States instead. It bothered those who thought then and still do today that Indiana's chief executive should have been America's. Daniels, though, was off to the next ......
A World History of 20th Century Immigrant Families
This text shares the remarkable stories of 60 families who immigrated to the United States or were born into poverty during the twentieth century-from the aftermath of World War I to the 1970s. Based on narratives collected from community college students in Northern California, the book offers an intimate look at lives shaped by immigration, ......
Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology
The story of the commercialization of biology by a pioneer in biotechnology patenting Shortly after the emergence of genetic engineering in the 1970s, academic biologists were courted by venture capitalists and multinational companies. Researchers who understood the new biology of the time went from being merely curious about how the natural ......
Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. ......
Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. ......
This is a unique and intimate insider's account of the founding and growth of a small New York science and medical publishing company over the first 57 years. Bernhard Springer, the Berlin-born great-grandson of the founder of Springer-Verlag, started his own publishing company in 1950. For the next 20 years, he slowly but surely grew his company ......
