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Foreword | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
How Corporate Structures, Products, and Processes Impact Our Work and Personal Lives | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
A Time of Turbulence: when too much information keeps us from knowing the truth | p. 9 |
The Gift That Keeps On Taking: how the bottom-line mentality is bottoming out our lives and the planet | p. 15 |
The Hidden Costs of Competition: the heavy price we pay to win | p. 37 |
This Is Entertainment? TV as purveyor of a culture of disrespect and promoter of a passive populace | p. 49 |
Media, Girls, and Body Image: how impossible images of physical perfection are making our girls sick | p. 67 |
The Best Government Big Money Can Buy: can a corporate-sponsored democracy serve the people? | p. 73 |
What Do World Trade Agreements Have to Do with Me?: globalization means equalizing down to the lowest common denominator | p. 87 |
Time: A Nonrenewable Resource: why we aren't finding time to live | p. 99 |
Fresh Choices: Saying Yes! to a More Expansive Life | p. 107 |
Change and the Comfort Zone: embracing risks that have been foisted upon us by life | p. 109 |
What's an Inner Life and Who Needs It? trading fear for trust and planting seeds of loving-kindness | p. 115 |
Flashpoints: how our stresses play out in the family crucible, damaging those we love most | p. 121 |
Nurturing What Is Precious: finding new ways to communicate and connect with our loved ones | p. 127 |
Meaningful Work: livelihoods both personally satisfying and earth-friendly | p. 135 |
Giving Time, Getting Joy: life as a banquet for the servers | p. 153 |
Together We Are Whole: new ways to create a support network while beating the high cost of living | p. 165 |
Paring Down Our Lives: how less can be much more | p. 177 |
What Is and What Can Be: starting from wherever you are with a passionate consciousness | p. 181 |
Afterword: Way More Fun than TV: surefire ways to release your playful spirit | p. 185 |
Bibliography | p. 191 |
Endnotes | p. 195 |
Resources | p. 199 |
Index | p. 209 |
About the Authors | p. 223 |
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