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Anita Roddick

Dame Anita Roddick started The Body Shop in 1976 in Brighton, England. What distinguishes The Body Shop and Roddick from other global businesses and entrepreneurs is a core dedication to community trade and human rights. Roddick is a key pioneer of socially responsible business, proving that commerce with a conscience is not only a moral imperative. She was named a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Her Web site is www.AnitaRoddick.com.

    Anita's Books

    Numbers

    Numbers is intended to explore the strange and powerful relationship of humanity to its own system of numbers.

    A Revolution in Kindness

    A Revolution in Kindness seeks to turn the preconception of 'kindness' on its head -- to revolutionize our thinking about it and redefine it as a moral and ethical value, and to recognize those unconventional places where it is found.

    Troubled Water

    Saints, Sinners, Truths and Lies About the Global Water Crisis

    This book explores humanity's struggles for, against, and with water and the convoluted and potentially catastrophic nature of our relationship with this seeming innocuous, ubiquitous substance.

    Business As Unusual

    My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits with Principles

    Business As Unusual charts the story of Anita Roddick and her company The Body Shop, through all the highs and lows since 1990. It also examines the parallel growth of vigilante consumerism and predicts how businesses can evolve in this millennium.