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Fisman, the Business School 's Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, and Tim Sullivan, editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press, look at why organizations are central to human achievement. Using case studies that include McDonald's, Procter and Gamble, Google and even al-Qaeda, they explain the tradeoffs that every organization faces, arguing that everyday dysfunction is actually inherent to the very nature of an organization. The Org diagnoses the root causes of this dysfunction, beginning with the economic logic of why organizations exist in the first place and then explaining their structure from the lowly cubicle to the executive suite. Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence - BY BRUCE W. ROBBINS - Duke University Press Books In his new book, Robbins takes stock of the "new cosmopolitanism," a movement that emphasizes allegiance to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the interests of one's country. Robbins, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, rethinks his own commitment to the movement and reflects on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. By engaging with thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and W. G. Sebald, he explores the paradoxes of detaching and belonging that they embody.