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- An Inside Look into a Misunderstood Industry & its Lead'g Co
- A window admitting light into a sometimes dark industry.
- Inspiration and validation for us who aspire to do the same.
- THE prime method and vehicle to use for wealth building
- concise look at the future of business as it's done today
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Prescription for Success: The Rexall Showcase International Story and What It Means to You
James W. Robinson
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ASIN: 0761519815
Release Date: 1999-02-03 |
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Rexall Showcase International—the direct selling arm of Rexall Sundown—is changing forever the face of network marketing. In a little over eight years, this booming company and its legion of distributors have revolutionized the $18-billion-a-year natural health and wellness industry along with the $80-billion direct-selling industry, flooding the market with exciting new products that have attracted consumers around the world. Most important, however, it has helped tens of thousands of people just like you achieve success beyond their wildest dreams.
In
Prescription for Success, bestselling author
James W. Robinson takes you inside this network marketing phenomenon and shows you how it became a leader in the natural health industry—realizing revenues in excess of $160 million in 1998, a 51 percent increase over the prior year! You'll learn where Rexall Showcase is heading as it expands throughout the world. You'll also meet men and women from all walks of life—single moms, doctors, CPAs, attorneys, business professionals, and schoolteachers—who have discovered an incredible business opportunity that has changed their lives. It's an opportunity open to all, including you.
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Prescription for Success is a great American success story, vibrant with drama, inspiration, and penetrating insights. A fascinating glimpse into the network marketing phenomenon."
—Richard Poe, New York Times bestselling author of Wave 3 and the forthcoming Wave 4: Network Marketing in the 21st Century
Foreword by Damon DeSantis, President of Rexall Sundown, Inc., and CEO of Rexall Showcase International, and David Schofield, President and COO of Rexall Showcase International.
About the Author
James W. Robinson is the senior vice president and counselor to the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business federation. He is also the author of the bestsellers The Excel Phenomenon and Empire of Freedom (both from Prima).
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An Inside Look into a Misunderstood Industry & its Lead'g Co.......2000-01-07
"Prescription for Success" not only reviews the industry of network marketing itself, but it spotlights the industry's leading frontrunner: the preventative healthcare/natural medicines division of the well-known original Rexall Drug Corporation, Rexall Showcase International.
This is a great "behind the scenes" look by an unbiased, well-informed and savvy observer of both the industry and what it is that makes a network marketing company GREAT. The testimonies are captivating and the success-track of the company is portrayed in a story-like, yet business-oriented fashion.
The information is factual and down-to-earth, and makes the book an easy read. I thought I already well-understood Rexall Showcase International's background and strengths, since I'm an "insider" of sorts, leading (with my husband) one of the fastest growing RSI independent distributor organizations in the country--so I expected to be a bit bored. However, I was delightfully surprised and continually fascinated by what I learned from this book. If you want to understand the industry and the mechanics of what may end up to be the most successful MLM of all time, don't pass this one up--whether or not you are a current distributor, or care to become one.
A window admitting light into a sometimes dark industry........1999-08-24
Mr. Robinson gives a peek inside one particular company in the industry called network marketing. His experienced comments combined with those of several leaders in Rexall Showcase Intn'l. combine to really let one see what goes on, how it's done, and why. I found it to be a portrait of a group of very diverse individuals who have discovered a common way to do more good than they could have, by branching out into this type of business. The enthusiasm revealed is similar to that in the autobiograhical book by Mary Kay Ash.
Inspiration and validation for us who aspire to do the same........1999-06-27
This is a well written account of the rise of Rexall Showcase International and the vision of the people who made it work. Distributors stories are inspiring and encouraging and reveal that with the available tools and support, it's up to each individual to determine how far up the ladder he wants to go. Robinson presents some pros - and some cons - of network marketing in general and the entepreneural opportunity of Rexall Showcase International in specific.
THE prime method and vehicle to use for wealth building.......1999-03-08
The author does an excellent job in humanizing the network marketing profession as it is performed by Rexall Showcase International, both the company and its growing independent distributor force. He leaves no doubt that network marketing done with the right company that has the right products and the right moral ethics is the most compelling way for any of us to build wealth - and Rexall Showcase International is THAT company.
concise look at the future of business as it's done today.......1999-02-19
James Robinson has done a great job presenting an old company with a new business plan that looks at trends and capitolizes on them. His handling of the material is concise yet comprehensive and leaves the reader with no question about the viability of this business opportunity. I would recommend it to anyone who is looking to add to or diversify their income on a part-time basis as it looks like a no-brainer to be a prescription for success.
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Rethinking Globalization is the best single-volume source for teaching strategies that will help students make sense of an increasingly complicated and scary world. Rethinking Globalization alerts readers to the challenges we face--from child labor to sweatshops, from global warming to destruction of the rainforests--and also spotlights the enormous courage and creativity of people working to set things right. This essential resource includes role plays, interviews, poetry, stories, background readings, hands-on teaching tools, and much more!
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AWESOME RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS!!!.......2005-06-29
This book is something that all teachers should invest in. It is such a wonderful book. It's full of great lessons that integrate writing, history, modern-day history, government, reading, and math. It makes students and teachers more aware of the current and pressing world issues in regrads to poverty, colonialism, child labor laws/workers/working conditions, food shortages, and media. The acitivities can be modified for all age ranges and ability levels. The lessons are clearly outlined, all resources are provided, and everything is so well-thought out. I love the integration of poetry--written by students---throughout the book. It really helps when teaching to bring to life and show by example what is expected from students. This book is a breath of fresh-air when coupled with district assigned text books. It will be one of the investments you can make as a teacher. Also look out for their other books--because they have wonderful articles on classroom discipline, sexual harrasment, creating effective classrooms, diversity tranining, and additional wonderful lessons. Rethinking schools is a wonderful organiziation and I am so thankful there are people out there doing such wonderful things for teachers and students!!!!!
Interesting Vignettes on a Variety of Inter-related Topics.......2005-02-01
Rethinking Globalization, a social studies reader for teachers, presents a variety of essays and classroom activities on the topic of Globalization (yes, with a capital 'g'). The book makes for easy and accessible reading, and one can, after the first 40 or so pages of the book, choose a topic of interest and go from there. The book begins by defining globalization, and placing it firmly in the context of history. It then looks at the various interconnections, from economics and trade to poverty, war and civil strife, and shows how structural elements, both political and economic, have polarized the world into a minority of 'haves' versus a growing majority of 'have nots'.
The authors overlooked not a single pressing social issue or current event. Even the awful events of 2001 garnered some comment, and these too, the authors linked to the problems and issues of Globalization. I came away with a deeper understanding of the term, which basically boils down to the wholesale commodification of all of the resources on the planet(aka Earth For Sale, hence the cover picture of the planet with a bar code across it). However, given that at least one of the contributors teaches in an inner city school, I was quite surprised that issues affecting low-income individuals, the Drug Scourge in particular, somehow did not find their way into the text. Yet, while the book is truly global in scope, many of these global issues have their direct counterpart in some very local issues, and I commend the authors for introducing US based sweatshops in an attempt to point this out.
Basically, every single cause that has received its fifteen minutes (and only 15 minutes, no more and no less) of fame has found a home under the banner/umbrella of globalization. Ongoing problems such as modernizing forces encroaching on rural and traditional cultures, union-busting via back-door utilization of low-wage labor, interventionism by foreign superpowers in the political, economic and social affairs of foreign lands, and many others received equal treatment in the text. Potential readers of this book should take note, however, of the distinct presence of rhetoric along the lines of colonialism, class struggle and solidarity (especially among the lumpen proletariat), which, though limited in insight and applicability, adds an amusing but rather dubious and tenuous dimension to the text.
The presentation of each topic is pretty much even-handed, in the sense that there is no overt idealization of primitive cultures, for example. The book, as well as its authors, do indeed have their biases, and they do the reader a good turn by stating their biases upfront. As such, the text has a level of honesty and openness most uncommon in other books on the topic of Globalization, be they for or against it. Additionally, those with an interest in a particular topic or issue raised in the text will find the resources section of the book most helpful in obtaining more information. This section of the book, however, is geared more to the needs of teachers, and provides them with ample materials for potential use in the clasroom.
I personally liked the small vignette titled 'Prayers for a Dignified Life', written by Subcomandante Marcos of EZLN (Chiapas) fame. In it, he delivers an interesting spin on the Declaration of Independence, and I also detected some faint glimmerings of the Ten Point Program of the long defunct Black Panther Party. Truly heady stuff!
In sum, for those who want to know what all the hub-bub surrounding globalization is about, this is the book to read.
An incredible resource!.......2003-12-30
Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson have put together a compendium of articles that attest to their central claim that, when thinking about the globalization phenomenon, "everything is connected. You can't really understand what's going on in one part of the world without looking at how it's related to everything else." Poetry, essays, illustrations, graphs, memoirs, and classroom exercises (one of my favorites: "How do you live on 31 cents a day?", p. 145) are collected that deal with colonialism, sweatshops, child labor, food production and distribution, consumerism and culture, and neoliberal capitalism. The selections are written by some of the best people in the field, and are almost always interesting. My only reservation is that Bigelow and Peterson could've spent more time on the military connection. But then one book can't be expected to do everything.
Bigelow and Peterson teach high school and fifth grade, and the anthology was clearly born from their desire to dialogue with their own students about globalization. But the anthology isn't limited to teenagers. It's actually a quite sophisticated and close-to-comprehensive collection that I intend to use in one of my own college classes on peace and justice. It fits a number of audiences nicely--high school, undergraduate college, lay reading.
Highly recommended! It would make a great post-Christmas, anti-consumerism gift.
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In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating the study of American history in a transnational context, they examine the history of nation-making and the relation of the United States to other nations and to transnational developments. What is now called globalization is here placed in a historical context.
A cast of distinguished historians from the United States and abroad examines the historiographical implications of such a reframing and offers alternative interpretations of large questions of American history ranging from the era of European contact to democracy and reform, from environmental and economic development and migration experiences to issues of nationalism and identity. But the largest issue explored is basic to all histories: How does one understand, teach, and write a national history even as one recognizes that the territorial boundaries do not fully contain that history and that within that bounded territory the society is highly differentiated, marked by multiple solidarities and identities?
Rethinking American History in a Global Age advances an emerging but important conversation marked by divergent voices, many of which are represented here. The various essays explore big concepts and offer historical narratives that enrich the content and context of American history. The aim is to provide a history that more accurately reflects the dimensions of American experience and better connects the past with contemporary concerns for American identity, structures of power, and world presence.
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In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all.
Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative and deeply engaging. Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future. Morton develops a fresh vocabulary for reading "environmentality" in artistic form as well as content, and traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism. From John Clare to John Cage, from Kierkegaard to Kristeva, from The Lord of the Rings to electronic life forms, Ecology without Nature widens our view of ecological criticism, and deepens our understanding of ecology itself. Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damaged, Morton sets out a radical new form of ecological criticism: "dark ecology."
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Rethinking Civilization: Resolving Conflict in the Human Family (Rethinking Globalizations)
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This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth system with studies of the World system, and to reconceptualize human-environmental relations and the challenges of global sustainability. Immanuel Wallerstein, renowned Yale sociologist and originator of the world-system concept, closes the volume with his reflections on the intellectual, moral, and political implications of global environmental change.
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Understanding Conflict between Russia and the EU: The Limits of Integration (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
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Understanding Conflict between Russia and the EU addresses the conflictual issues in EU-Russian relations and presents an innovative theory for the understanding of their emergence. Drawing on up-to-date research data, the author argues that conflicts in EU-Russian relations are generated by the clash of principles of state sovereignty and international integration, which characterize the policies of both sides.
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Humanitarian Intervention and Safety Zones: Iraq, Bosnia and Rwanda (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
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In this volume, a number of eminent historians, sociologists and political scientists who have spent their lives studying revolutionary processes reflect on the age of 20th century of revolution. They debate questions like: is the era of revolution over? What might the revolutions of the future look like? The face of transformative politics in the future and the directions of social change rest in large measure on the answers. A range of recent cases are taken up, from the intensely backward-looking movement of the Taliban in Afghanistan, to the magical revolution in progress in Chiapas.
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Martin Khor's practical proposals offer action agendas to Third World governments as they are faced with globalization. Khor explains the economic globalization process, showing how it is failing to either increase economic growth or decrease poverty. A critique of Western governments for their domination of the international policy process ensues, where Khor exposes the flaws in the "one size fits all" policy prescriptions of the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. Arguing that Third World countries need room to maneuver, this book proposes innovative and realistic policies.
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Available in Canada from Fernwood Publishing for $19.95.......2003-11-27
Read it, learn it. The impact is too large to ignore, and Khor offers an authoritative interpretation of the impacts of globalisation. (Khor also writes for UNDP and UNCTAD at request, and works extensively with the third world network and the North South institute). He knows his stuff.
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Globalisation and Contestatio: The New Great Counter-Movement (Rethinking Globalizations)
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