San Antonio College Library

Two classic studies in one volume of America in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Dismantles the myths and hype which surround the US expansion in terms of profitability, productivity, and growth, and shows why the transendence of extended economic stagnation in the near future is anything but a foregone conclusion. [book cover].

An intimate and personal account of contemporary life in Russia. Author examines the life-styles and aspirations of every level of Russian society.

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of...

A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death throes as people wake up to the grim fact that their products and the way they deliver them are out of sync not only with what customers want but how they want it....

Yesterday was for youthful indiscretions. Today is for consequences...The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone begins in 1979, at an elite private school that sets a high bar for academic achievement and turns a blind eye to the risky behavior and social sabotage students use to get what they want. With absentee parents and the money to make mistakes disappear, they are free to make their own rules. That is, until...