Most Popular Books by Gary Shapiro

In this new book, philosopher Gary Shapiro aims to demonstrate the extreme relevance of Nietzsche s thought to some of the contemporary world s most pertinent political issues, fully acknowledging the prescience of his thinking in several areas. In particular, Shapiro takes up Nietzsche s environmentalism and his concern with the direction ("Sinn") of the earth to show how Nietzsche is one of few major philosophers to have anticipated the most important and characteristic questions about modernity, and to have addressed them when it first became possible to do so (given Nietzsche s historical context: the 19th century zenith of the nation-state and the new speeds of industry, transportation, and communication). Nietzsche, Shapiro says, has important things to say about topics that are very much on the agenda today: globalization; the character of a livable earth (what he called a "Menschen-Erde"); and geopolitical categories that characterize people and places, peoples and states. While Nietzsche was clear in foregrounding these issues and questions, there is still much to be done in making sense of them, and "Nietzsche s Earth" offers a fresh reading informed both by Nietzsche s assessment of modernity, and by contemporary philosophical discussion in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Agamben, Badiou, Foucault, Derrida, and others."

"... Shapiro''s book is bursting with thoughts, and if one is willing to mine them, one is sure to find items of interest or provocation." -- The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Taking issue with a widely held view that Nietzsche''s writings are essentially fragmentary or aphoristic, Gary Shapiro focuses on the narrative mode that Nietzsche adopted in many of his works. Such themes as eternal recurrence, the question of origins, and the problematics of self-knowledge are reinterpreted in the context of the narratives in which Nietzsche develops or employs them.

The untimely death of Robert Smithson in 1973 at age 34 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson''s pioneering earthworks and installations of the 1960s and ''70s anticipated concerns with environmentalism and site-specific artistic production. Gary Shapiro''s insightful study of Smithson''s career is the first book to address the full range of the artist''s dazzling virtuosity.

From Gary Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author and head of CES and the Consumer Technology Association, a manifesto for today’s top executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders: pivot or die. As CEO of the Consumer Technology Association ®, owner and producer of CES ®, Gary Shapiro has had a front row seat to the launch of nearly every recent major technology. He''s seen tech companies rise and fall, and bankrupt entrepreneurs become billionaires. After more than four decades in the industry, he knows that leaders who make it in the tech world have one thing in common: they know how to pivot. Drawing upon detailed case studies, economic theory, and personal experience, Pivot or Die offers a behind-the-scenes look at the development of innovative technology and business strategies. Along the way, Shapiro offers a "pivot" framework for leaders in technology and beyond to stay flexible and agile: The startup pivot: how startups can shake up industries and maximize the advantage of new ideas The forced pivot: adapting to the unforeseeable (or simply unforeseen) and meeting shifting consumer demands The failure pivot: why failure can deliver better lessons than success and how to take those lessons forward The success pivot: Beating the market by seizing opportunity and out-pivoting your competitors In laying out each of these pivots, Shapiro shares unique lessons on how leaders can change minds and mindsets and steer their organizations to success in an increasingly competitive environment.

While many acknowledge that Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have redefined our notions of time and history, few recognize the crucial role that ''the infinite relation'' between seeing and saying plays in their work. Shapiro reveals the full extent of Nietzsche and Foucault''s concern with the visual.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Ninja Future is an essential read for businesses and individuals striving to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving world: Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, casts his eye toward the future, charting how the innovative technologies of today will transform not only the way business is done but society itself During his more than three decades at the head of the Consumer Technology Association, Gary Shapiro has witnessed, and been a part of, one of the most extraordinary periods of technological change in human history. Today’s world is almost unrecognizable from that of just a decade or two before: in just a few short years, the internet has already transformed how we access information, purchase goods, get from place to place, and do our jobs. And even greater changes are on the horizon. In Ninja Future, Shapiro explains the evolving technological landscape, breakthroughs underway now and those we can only envision. New innovations such as self-driving vehicles, blockchain, 5G, the Internet of Things, and countless others will forever change the economy as we know it. Shapiro uses case studies to identify companies and countries addressing today’s challenges particularly well—and relates lessons from those that have stumbled. Drawing on the insights he has gleaned as a martial arts black belt, he shows how businesses can move to succeed in today’s turbulent environment by adopting the mindset of “ninjas”—adapting to technological change to capitalize on opportunities at lightning speed.

Innovate or die For thirty years, Gary Shapiro has observed the world''s most innovative businesses from his front-row seat as leader of the Consumer Electronics Association. Now he reveals the ten secrets of "ninja innovators" like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and many others. What does it take to succeed? Discipline. Mission-oriented strategy. Adaptability. Decisiveness. And a will for victory. In short, today''s most successful businesses are "ninja innovators." Drawn from Gary Shapiro''s three decades of experience leading the consumer electronics industry, Ninja Innovation takes readers behind the scenes of today''s top enterprises, uncovering their ten essential strategies for success. As head of the Consumer Electronics Association and its influential annual trade show, the International CES, Shapiro has worked with the most innovative companies in history—Intel, IBM, and Samsung, to name a few—focusing on creating policies and events that produce revolutionary products year after year. He has learned the key strategies that have guided these businesses to record-breaking profits, as well as the traps that have led so many others to crushing failure. In order to stay in front of the pace of innovation, Shapiro observes, top companies must operate as an elite strike force—just like the legendary medieval warriors known as ninjas. Ninjas weren''t called upon to do the ordinary; they had to perform truly extraordinary tasks, while risking everything. As a highly trained martial-arts black belt himself, Shapiro mines the valuable insights of these centuries-old warriors to spotlight the secrets of agility, creativity, decisiveness, and reinvention that are essential for twenty-first-century leaders seeking breakthrough success. Taking readers inside the most cutting-edge businesses, Ninja Innovation is the ultimate guide to achieving victory in today''s innovate-or-die economy.

Shapiro explores an interrelated series of themes that contest and offer alternatives to some of the traditional concepts of metaphysics. The notion of gift giving and related ideas are seen to play fundamental roles in the economy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Shapiro articulates the relevance of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Mauss, and Georges Bataille for the thought of the gift and shows that Nietzsche''s writing contains a conception of an archaic economy that is radically different from the order of property and exchange usually associated with Western metaphysics. This leads to a critique of Martin Heidegger''s interpretation of Nietzsche as a philosopher of value. Shapiro reads the fourth part of Zarathustra as the libretto for an anti-Wagnerian, postmodern opera in which food, noise, feasting, and parasitism are the major themes, and in which the thought of eternal recurrence is sung and orchestrated in ways that usually go unnoticed. He demonstrates that the fourth part constitutes a rigorous analysis of the logic of the supplementary and the parasitic. In the final chapter, Shapiro undertakes a reading of the classical texts presupposed by Nietzsche''s claim that Zarathustra will not be understood unless one hears its "halcyon tone." By juxtaposing Nietzsche''s halcyon with the Homeric version of the myth, Shapiro shows how Nietzsche''s appeal to the halcyon evokes a premetaphysical economy and a voice suppressed by ontotheology.

America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much, our economy creates too little, and we aren''t preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians—Republican and Democrat alike—just don''t get it. While once-great cities fall into decay, Washington thrives, living off the hard work and tax dollars of the private sector. It''s time for an American comeback—and it starts with innovation. Throughout its history, America''s great innovators have been the drivers of our unsurpassed economic success. American innovation transformed a country of ragtag farmers into the epicenter of the world''s technological progress. Innovation creates jobs, markets, and new industries where none existed before. Most importantly, innovation moves us forward as a nation, pushing us to succeed and strive for a better tomorrow. In short, innovation is the American Dream. In The Comeback, Gary Shapiro shows us how to return innovation to its rightful place at the center of America''s economic policy. The Comeback is a new blueprint for America''s success.

EMPOWER YOURSELF! Whether you''re a newly diagnosed patient, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from advanced breast cancer, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor''s and patient''s views, 100 Questions & Answers About Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions. Written by Lillie Shockney, Administrative Director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center, Instructor in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine, and tireless breast cancer patient advocate, with insider commentary from actual patients, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone struggling with the medical, psychological, or emotional turmoil of this condition.

A recently divorced graduate student is offered an opportunity of a lifetime. Asked to teach an orangutan sign language to solve a murder, he finds himself in an exotic land to discover a world of ex-captive red-haired great apes of Borneo who are learning to return to the wild.Out of the Cage recounts Shapiro''s studies and adventures from field notes and memory to demonstrate the many otherwise human interactions he has had with the unique orangutan personalities of Borneo and Sumatra, the highs and lows of their close and collegial relationships. Orangutan personhood, great ape rights, and the many moral conundrums that the scientific community has largely ignored weigh heavy on Shapiro''s mind and heart as he reflects upon his experiences with those noble persons.Indeed, the incredible journey of Sandra, an orangutan who was the first legally declared non-human person in a court of law, is chronicled, and the very real and simple actions that anyone can take to help save our compassionate cousins, the critically endangered orangutans, are revealed.

Princess didn''t ask to lose her home. Frightened and now alone, Princess is rescued by Gary who teaches her, along with fellow orphaned orangutans, not only how to be an orangutan, but sign language as well. This beautifully illustrated story is based on the true story of Princess. The book also features a photo section of the real Princess and her journey learning sign language and finally returning to the wild.

Princess didn''t ask to lose her home. Frightened and now alone, Princess is rescued by Gary who teaches her, along with fellow orphaned orangutans, not only how to be an orangutan, but sign language as well. This beautifully illustrated story is based on the true story of Princess. The book also features a photo section of the real Princess and her journey learning sign language and finally returning to the wild.

This report summarizes the findings from a study on the impacts of Head Start on children and families during the children''s preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade years. Its study goals were to: (1) Determine the impact of Head Start on children''s school readiness, and on parental practices that support children''s development; and to (2) determine under what circumstances Head Start achieves its greatest impact and for which children. (Contains 10 exhibits and 14 footnotes.) [For the "Head Start Impact Study. Final Report," see ED507845. For the "Head Start Impact Study. Technical Report," see ED507846.].