Resilience by Andrew Zolli
Discover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole. What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of forces beyond our control? Or, in the face of constant disruption, can we build better shock absorbers--for ourselves, our communities, our economies, and for the planet as a whole? Reporting firsthand from the coral reefs of Palau to the back streets of Palestine, Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy relate breakthrough scientific discoveries, pioneering social and ecological innovations, and important new approaches to constructing a more resilient world. Zolli and Healy show how this new concept of resilience is a powerful lens through which we can assess major issues afresh: from business planning to social develop-ment, from urban planning to national energy security--circumstances that affect us all. Provocative, optimistic, and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on why some systems, people, and communities fall apart in the face of disruption and, ultimately, how they can learn to bounce back.When Once We Fell, a play by Ann Marie Healy, was a nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award in 2009. Adam Rapp is a writer and director who has won an OBIE Award, as well as a author, filmmaker, actor, and musician. The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois, his drama, had its world premiere at South Coast Repertory last month. Red Light Winter (cited by the American Theatre Critics Association, nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Play, two OBIE Awards, and a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize), Blackbird, The Metal Children, Finer Noble Gases, Through The Yellow Hour, The Hallway Trilogy, Nocturne, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Faste He recently directed Loitering with Purpose and created the screenplay for Winter Passing.
Rapp has won the Princess Grace Prize for Playwriting in 1999, as well as a Roger L. Foster Award in 2000. Short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, got the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a 2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and the Benjamin H. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and Boston's Elliot Norton Award; and was short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, received the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a 2007 Lucille Lortel The American Academy of Arts and Letters has given him the Danks Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781451683806 |
| ISBN 10 | 1451683804 |
| Title | Resilience |
| Author | Andrew Zolli |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2012-07-10 |
| Number of pages | 323 |
| Prizes | Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Business) 2013 |
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