adult books

Los Angeles was once known as the Smog Capital of the World. Today, the city has changed "air you can see" into "air you can breathe." While the fight to eliminate pollution in the city continues, modern smog is not the thick, oppressive, silver-blue haze that drove people to move out of Los Angeles altogether during the mid-twentieth century. Professor Arie Haagen-Smit became a key leader in the fight against smog after making a crucial discovery--what caused it. The last Stage 3 smog, considered the unhealthiest, struck in 1974, and in 2003, the city saw its last Stage 1 smog. 

The book uses an organizational development lens to describe how concerned people uncovered the root cause of Los Angeles' thick silver-blue smog--a serious problem for sixty years, from 1943 to 2003, and the changes they made to eliminate it, changes that to this day also affect the nation and much of the world.

Business Ethics: The Path to Certainty shows how companies, work groups, and individuals can overcome uncertainty so as to detect and solve business ethics issues at the earliest possible moment. Uncertainty afflicts business ethics today largely because of nine important fallacies, nine ideas people believe that are false or mistaken, nine ideas companies base their well-intentioned ethics programs on that inevitably cause their business ethics to fail. The authors, Carl Oliver and Frank Daly, share real-world solutions garnered from hands-on experience, as well as scholars' research that explains why these solutions work. The book shows how to draw out human strengths so people and their organizations achieve the high ethics they already aspire to, and how to apply positive psychology and appreciative inquiry so that individuals and their companies emerge as superior performers. It provides process-focused solutions that are practitioners' real-world best practices.