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Charles Fishman
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Charles Fishman

Charles Fishman is the author of The Wal-Mart Effect, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week bestseller, as well as a finalist for the Goldman Sachs-“Financial Times” Business Book of the Year award in 2006. Fishman is a former metro and national reporter for The Washington Post. Since 1996, he has worked for the innovative business magazine Fast Company. He has won numerous awards, including twice winning UCLA’s Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding business writing, the most prestigious award in business journalism. His story about bottled water, “Message in a Bottle,” was a finalist for the 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for... Read full bio

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The Big Thirst will be released on February 14, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 14, 2012
The Big Thirst is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 14, 2012
The Big Thirst will be released on April 12, 2011 in
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Apr 12, 2011

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Heartland Institute, April 4, 2013
...2013 April 16, 2012 Review of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, by Charles Fishman (Free Press, 2012), 416 pages, ISBN- 978-1439102084 Charles Fishman, longtime newspaper reporter and author of the bestselling book The...
Charlotte Observer, March 29, 2013
...Almost everyone reading this has heard of Perrier, Poland Spring and San Pellegrino. But how many know that all three of these brands of bottled water are owned by Nestlé? And how many know that for the same $1.50 one pays for a 16-ounce plastic bottle...
Summit Daily News, March 22, 2013
...book, other resources address the water crisis in this country and around the world. One of them is Charles Fishman's 2011 book, ?The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.? Chapters in his book include a discussion of water usage in...
Simply Green, February 25, 2013
...is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we...
Target Marketing Magazine, February 20, 2013
...It seems only fitting that bestselling author and journalist Daniel Pink returns to Copyblogger to reveal his secrets for getting words onto the page. Brian Clark sat down to dinner with this influential thinker five years ago in a conversation that...
Reuters, January 24, 2013
...http://pdf.reuters.com/htmlnews/8knews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e37541&u=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20130124:nBw246488a Best Selling Author Charles Fishman Delivered Keynote Address Following a Discussion on Turf Management in a Water Sensitive Environment EAST...
Reuters, January 23, 2013
...Turfgrass Science, Irrigation Technology and Sports Turf Design To Be Discussed by Panel of Experts; Best Selling Author, Charles Fishman To Deliver Keynote Address --(Business Wire)-- Rain Bird: WHAT: Presented in partnership by Rain Bird and the...
Forbes.com, January 17, 2013
...to assemble the water heater went from 10 hours in China to two hours in Louisville. "For years," Charles Fishman writes in a great article in The Atlantic, "too many American companies have treated the actual manufacturing of their products as...
Forbes.com, January 17, 2013
...to assemble the water heater went from 10 hours in China to two hours in Louisville. "For years," Charles Fishman writes in a great article in The Atlantic, "too many American companies have treated the actual manufacturing of their products as...
PluginEurope.com, January 17, 2013
...to assemble the water heater went from 10 hours in China to two hours in Louisville. “For years,” Charles Fishman writes in a great article in The Atlantic , “too many American companies have treated the actual manufacturing of their products as...
Atlantic Monthly, January 17, 2013
...design decisions that were out of its immediate control, and other challenges These are exactly the limits-to-outsourcing that Charles Fishman discussed in his recent cover story. If you'd like to read a fascinating, dissident inside-Boeing account of...
Forbes.com, January 17, 2013
...to assemble the water heater went from 10 hours in China to two hours in Louisville. "For years," Charles Fishman writes in a great article in The Atlantic, "too many American companies have treated the actual manufacturing of their products as...
Center for a New American Security, January 17, 2013
...-made products, such as sporting goods, apparel, games, paper products and high-end appliances. But not everyone is impressed. CHARLES FISHMAN: It does not represent a huge commitment. ZARROLI: Charles Fishman, author of the book "The Wal-Mart...
Solid Waste & Recycling, January 15, 2013
...is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States. By CHARLES FISHMAN For much of the past decade, General Electric’s storied Appliance Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, appeared...