Thomas H. Naylor

David Wann

John De Graaf

First published in 2001, Affluenza sold over 75,000 copies and inspired a movement. The book uses the metaphor of disease to address a serious subject-overconsumption. This revised edition features a new introduction and updated figures and includes a new "affluenza self-test."

The All-consuming Epidemic

Affluenza

Charles W. Polzer

The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: pt.2. 1700-1765

William H. Willimon

Rolf Österberg

Naylor, Willimon, and Osterberg search for meaning in the workplace by combining a spiritual journey inward with an outward quest in pursuit of human connectedness. Finding meaning in our work is no easy task, they contend, if life beyond the workplace has no meaning. Similarly, if most of each day is spent in meaningless work, then finding meaning outside of work may be equally elusive.

The Search for Meaning in the Workplace

Looks at social and economic conditions in the Soviet Union, assesses Gorbachev's sincerity in making Russia more open, and suggests U.S. policy changes in response

Opening the Closed Society

The Gorbachev Strategy

Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of affluenza--society's compulsive desire to acquire--and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side effects of over-consumption.

How Overconsumption is Killing Us-- and how We Can Fight Back

Acclaimed by readers and reviewers alike, the first volume of The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain was a landmark in the documentary study of seventeenth-century Spanish Colonial Mexico. Here, Charles W. Polzer and Thomas E. Sheridan bring the same incisive scholarship and careful editing to long-awaited Volume Two, covering the years 1700-1765. The two-part second volume looks at the Spanish expansion as occurring in four north-south corridors that carried the main components of social and political activity. Divided geographically, materials in this book (part 1) relate to the two westernmost corridors, while those in the projected book (part 2) will cover the corridors north to New Mexico and northeast into Texas. Documents in both books demonstrate the importance of regional hostilities rather than exterior threats in the establishment of presidios. Materials in this book relate to events and episodes in the Californias (the peninsula of Baja California) where the situation of the presidial forces was unique in New Spain. By bringing into focus the ways that civil-religious relations affected the military garrison there, these documents contribute immeasurably to a greater understanding of how California itself emerged in history. Also covering Sinaloa and Sonora, the mainland of the west coast of New Spain, records in the book reveal how the Sinaloa coastal forces differed from those in the interior and how they were depended upon for protection in the northern expansion, both civil and missionary. Because documents on the presidios in northern New Spain are vast in number and varied in content, these selections are meant to provide for the reader or researcher a framework around which more elaborate studies might be constructed. All of the records have been translated from the Spanish language into readable, modern English and are accompanied by transcribed versions of the originals. Valuable to both non-specialists and specialists, here is an unparalleled resource important not only for the careful selection, preparation, and presentation of documents, but also for the excellent background information that puts them into context and makes them come alive.

The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: pt. 1. The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora, 1700-1765

Reports, orders, journals, and letters of military officials trace frontier history through the Chicimeca War and Peace (1576-1606), early rebellions in the Sierra Madre (1601-1618), mid-century challenges and realignment (1640-1660), and northern rebellions and new presidios (1681-1695).

The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: 1570-1700

Redefining Progress (Organization)

Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of Affluenza, society's compulsive desire to acquire, and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side-effects of over-consumption.

The All Consuming Epidemic

John de Graaf

Previous editions of Affluenza described the early symptoms of the disease that led to a nearly fatal shutdown of all our financial systems in 2008. This new edition puts more focus on the behavior changes we need to make to be certain that the Great Recession does not become a prelude to something worse.

How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back

The Presidio And Militia On The Northern Frontier Of New Spain

Documents relating to Rivera's inspection of New Spain's military frontier, presented in their original Spanish and in translation, provide a detailed background by which modern scholars can better assess the status and role of Spain's military outposts.

Thomas H. Naylor

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