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Righting the Balance

How You Can Help Protect America

By: Daniel Serwer

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Righting the Balance

How You Can Help Protect America

By: Daniel Serwer

When Daniel Serwer is asked what he does, he often replies, ôI make peace. I put it in cans and ship it abroad.ö That pursuit of peace took him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, and many places in between during SerwerÆs forty years in public service. His experiences at the sharp end of foreign policy have shaped his view of the United StatesÆ ability to protect itself from todayÆs threats. In Righting the Balance, Serwer focuses on what should be done to protect the United States by offering alternatives that move away from an exclusive reliance on the military. Most fundamentally, Serwer stresses that civiliansùdiplomats, aid workers, UN officials, humanitarians, police trainers, lawyers, judges, entrepreneursùcan and should be involved in helping bring about peace. Righting the Balance offers a proposal to reform our civilian institutions for the twenty-first century so that they can help deliver real results in the search for peace even when confronting difficult conditions in faraway places.

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Righting the Balance

How You Can Help Protect America

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How You Can Help Protect America

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From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine

By: Daniel Serwer

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From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine

By: Daniel Serwer

This open access book focuses on the origins, consequences and aftermath of the 1995 and 1999 Western military interventions that led to the end of the most recent Balkan wars. Though challenging problems remain in Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Serbia, the conflict prevention and state-building efforts thereafter were partly successful as countries of the region are on separate tracks towards European Union membership. This study highlights lessons that can be applied to the Middle East and Ukraine, where similar conflicts are likewise challenging sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is an accessible treatment of what makes war and how to make peace ideal for all readers interested in how violent international conflicts can be managed, informed by the experience of a practitioner.

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3030021734

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Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780

By: Daniel Heartz

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Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780

By: Daniel Heartz

Historians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, Daniel Heartz shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. The generation of composers led by Haydn no longer trained in Italy. By the time young Mozart joined the ranks of the Viennese school, its accomplishments towered above all others of the time. The author's approach can be compared to viewing a majestic mountain range in its totality: the highest peaks take on even greater majesty when seen in their natural context of foothills and lesser peaks. This is how Haydn and Mozart were viewed by their contemporaries, whose world of perception Heartz recreates, using, among other things, the visual art of the period. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history at a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods matter less to him than the common denominators of geography, culture, and political history. Book jacket.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393037126

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The Racial Mosaic

A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism

By: Daniel R. Meister

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The Racial Mosaic

A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism

By: Daniel R. Meister

Canada is often considered a multicultural mosaic, welcoming to immigrants and encouraging of cultural diversity. Yet this reputation masks a more complex history. In this groundbreaking study of the pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism, Daniel Meister shows how the philosophy of cultural pluralism normalized racism and the entrenchment of whiteness. The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how early ideas about cultural diversity in Canada were founded upon, and coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism, despite the apparent tolerance of a variety of immigrant peoples and their cultures. To trace the development of these ideas, Meister takes a biographical approach, examining the lives and work of three influential public intellectuals whose thoughts on cultural pluralism circulated widely beginning in the 1920s: Watson Kirkconnell, a university professor and translator; Robert England, an immigration expert with Canadian National Railways; and John Murray Gibbon, a publicist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. While they all proposed variants of the idea that immigrants to Canada should be allowed to retain certain aspects of their cultures, their tolerance had very real limits. In their personal, corporate, and government-sponsored works, only the cultures of "white" European immigrants were considered worthy of inclusion. On the fiftieth anniversary of Canada's official policy of multiculturalism, The Racial Mosaic represents the first serious and sustained attempt to detail the policy's historical antecedents, compelling readers to consider how racism has structured Canada's settler-colonial society.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228009979

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Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven, 1781-1802

By: Daniel Heartz

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Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven, 1781-1802

By: Daniel Heartz

A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.

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0393066347

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A Yiddish Parody

'twas the Last Night of Hanukkah : Some Light Interfaith Goodwill

By: Daniel Halevi Bloom,Daniel Bloom

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A Yiddish Parody

'twas the Last Night of Hanukkah : Some Light Interfaith Goodwill

By: Daniel Halevi Bloom,Daniel Bloom

In this parody of "The Night before Christmas" Santa visits a Jewish household on the night before Hanukkah.

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0933503938

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The Toddler in Chief

What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

By: Daniel W. Drezner

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The Toddler in Chief

What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

By: Daniel W. Drezner

“It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.”—An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a New York Times op-ed, September 5, 2018 Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What’s more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protestors who compare the president to a child; Trump’s staffers, subordinates, and allies on Capitol Hill also describe Trump like a small, badly behaved preschooler. In April 2017, Daniel W. Drezner began curating every example he could find of a Trump ally describing the president like a toddler. So far, he’s collected more than one thousand tweets—a rate of more than one a day. In The Toddler-in-Chief, Drezner draws on these examples to take readers through the different dimensions of Trump’s infantile behavior, from temper tantrums to poor impulse control to the possibility that the President has had too much screen time. How much damage can really be done by a giant man-baby? Quite a lot, Drezner argues, due to the winnowing away of presidential checks and balances over the past fifty years. In these pages, Drezner follows his theme—the specific ways in which sharing some of the traits of a toddler makes a person ill-suited to the presidency—to show the lasting, deleterious impact the Trump administration will have on American foreign policy and democracy. The “adults in the room” may not be able to rein in Trump’s toddler-like behavior, but, with the 2020 election fast approaching, the American people can think about whether they want the most powerful office turned into a poorly run political day care facility. Drezner exhorts us to elect a commander-in-chief, not a toddler-in-chief. And along the way, he shows how we must rethink the terrifying powers we have given the presidency.

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University of Chicago Press

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022671425X

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Wheel, Deal, and Steal

Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms

By: Daniel Quinn Mills

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Wheel, Deal, and Steal

Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms

By: Daniel Quinn Mills

Mills outlines comprehensive reforms that can clean up the system and keep it clean, by finally eliminating the incentives that still promote massive corruption. He shows small investors how to protect their remaining assets---and, in some cases, even recover their losses.

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FT Press

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0131408046

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Buy, Lie, and Sell High

How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble

By: Daniel Quinn Mills

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How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble

By: Daniel Quinn Mills

This book critically examines the role of the venture capitalists, investment banks and the Federal Reserve in the evolution of the internet "bubble". It also looks at what new companies and managers need to do to avoid the consequences of such "irrational exuberance" in the future.

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0130091138

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The History of Modern Fashion

By: Daniel James Cole,Nancy Deihl

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The History of Modern Fashion

By: Daniel James Cole,Nancy Deihl

This exciting book explores fashion not simply from an aesthetic point of view but also as a manifestation of social and cultural change. Focusing on fashion from 1850, noted fashion historians Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl consider the evolution of womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, decade by decade. The book looks at the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change, at the relationship between fashion and the visual, applied, and performing arts, the intertwined relationship between fashion and popular culture, the impact of new materials and technology, and the growing globalization of style. With photographs of costume from museums and images from the fashion press including editorial photography, illustrations, and advertising, the book will include insights into icons of fashion and the clothes worn by “real people”, providing a valuable visual reference for the reader.

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1780677979

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A White Catholic's Guide to Racism and Privilege

By: Daniel P. Horan

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A White Catholic's Guide to Racism and Privilege

By: Daniel P. Horan

Winner of a 2022 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award: General Interest (Third Place). Growing up, Fr. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., never thought much about race, racism, or racial justice except for what he read in history books. His upbringing as a white, middle-class Catholic shielded him from seeing the persistent, pervasive racism all around him. Horan shares what he has since learned about uncovering and combatting racial inequity in our nation and in our Church, urging us to join the fight. In the spring and summer of 2020, US cities erupted in protests and racial tensions ran high following several high-profile killings of Black women and men at the hands of white police officers. As America watched and listened, many of us became dislodged from our comfortable assumptions about race. Horan recognized this unnerving dynamic as a doorway to the awakening and spiritual conversion he has been undergoing for much of his adult life. In A White Catholic’s Guide to Racism and Privilege, Horan speaks prophetically to what has become a gnawing unease for so many. With candid critique and reflection, Horan helps us makes sense of crucial issues such as: The difference between what sociologists call common-sense racism and systemic racism. What is meant by white privilege and how is contributes to racial injustices. The Catholic Church’s teachings about racism, how those can still be developed, and what those teachings require of us. Combatting racism in our everyday lives. As a white man, Horan shows his fellow white Catholics how to become actively anti-racist and better allies to our Black brothers and sisters as we work against racism in our culture and in the Church. He offers us the hope and surety of the Gospel, the wisdom of Catholic tradition, and some practical ways to educate ourselves and advocate for justice. Each chapter includes a substantial suggested-reading list. This book is perfect for individual or group study.

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Ave Maria Press

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164680077X

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Hot Topics

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Fifty Major Controversies

By: Daniel Starer

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Hot Topics

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Fifty Major Controversies

By: Daniel Starer

A nuts-and-bolts guide to 50 of today's most controversial issues, Hot Topics offers an entertaining, concise, and thoroughly informative overview that uniquely summarizes the most important points and opinions unders "Yes/No" headings on facing pages.

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0671887084

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Tales from the Sausage Factory

Making Laws in New York State

By: Daniel L. Feldman,Gerald Benjamin

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Tales from the Sausage Factory

Making Laws in New York State

By: Daniel L. Feldman,Gerald Benjamin

A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction.

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1438434030

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Winter in America

A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution

By: Daniel Robert McClure

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Winter in America

A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution

By: Daniel Robert McClure

Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. Resting on the fundamental premise that the free market should be unfettered by government intrusion, neoliberal policies have primarily redirected the state's prerogatives away from the postwar Keynesian welfare system and toward the insulation of finance and corporate America from democratic pressure. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, a&8239;reactionary cultural turn&8239;catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the 1970s provided the space of negotiation permitting these ideas to take hold and be challenged. Daniel Robert McClure's book follows the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to&8239;the&8239;triumph of&8239;neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. From the 1965 debate between William F. Buckley and James Baldwin, through the pages&8239;of BusinessWeek and Playboy, to the rise of exploitation cinema in the 1970s, McClure tracks the increasingly shared perception by white males that they had "lost" their long-standing rights and that a great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of&8239;the 1960s.

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1469664690

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Mindful Leadership: Emotional Intelligence Collection (4 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Daniel Goleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee,Fran Johnston

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Mindful Leadership: Emotional Intelligence Collection (4 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Daniel Goleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee,Fran Johnston

This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, offers four books on the topic of emotional intelligence, found by bestselling author Daniel Goleman to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. In Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors, the authors show that great leaders excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using emotional intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness. The best leaders are “resonant” leaders—individuals who manage their own and others’ emotions in ways that drive success. In Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee provide an indispensable guide to overcoming the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance that afflicts many leaders and offer a field-tested framework for creating the resonance that fuels great leadership. And in Becoming a Resonant Leader, Annie McKee, Richard Boyatzis, and Frances Johnston share vivid, real-life stories illuminating how people can develop emotional intelligence, build resonance, and renew themselves. Finally, HBR’s 10 Must Read on Emotional Intelligence presents 10 articles by experts in the field of emotional intelligence, all of which will inspire you to monitor and channel your moods and emotions; make smart, empathetic people decisions; manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team; react to tough situations with resilience; better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals; and develop emotional agility.

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1633691810

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Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors

Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

By: Daniel Goleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee

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Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors

Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

By: Daniel Goleman,Richard E. Boyatzis,Annie McKee

This is the book that established “emotional intelligence” in the business lexicon—and made it a necessary skill for leaders. Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business and medical schools, and professional training programs, and by a growing legion of professional coaches. This refreshed edition, with a new preface by the authors, vividly illustrates the power—and the necessity—of leadership that is self-aware, empathic, motivating, and collaborative in a world that is ever more economically volatile and technologically complex. It is even timelier now than when it was originally published. From bestselling authors Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, this groundbreaking book remains a must-read for anyone who leads or aspires to lead. Also available in ebook format wherever ebooks are sold.

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1633692914

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Injustice, Inc.

How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

By: Daniel L. Hatcher

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Injustice, Inc.

How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

By: Daniel L. Hatcher

In Injustice, Inc., Daniel L. Hatcher exposes how justice systems are harnessing America's history of racial and economic inequality into revenue-generating operations. Courts, prosecutors, probation, policing departments, and detention facilities are trading away ethics and justice to churn vulnerable children and adults into an unconstitutional factory enterprise. These justice institutions are entering contracts to make money removing children from their homes, monetizing harm from juvenile delinquency, child welfare and child support proceedings, extorting fines and fees, collaborating with private debt collectors, enforcing unpaid child labor, seizing property, incentivizing arrests and evictions, maximizing occupancy in detention and 'treatment' centers, and more. Hatcher details the disproportionately racialized harm and unconstitutionality of the injustice enterprise, and calls for opened eyes to our justice system failings--to walk a better path toward instilling truth into the words 'Equal Justice Under Law'"--

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0520396057

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Fortune Zoom

Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career

By: Leigh Gallagher,Marc Andreessen,Daniel Roberts

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Fortune Zoom

Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career

By: Leigh Gallagher,Marc Andreessen,Daniel Roberts

With Zoom, Fortune magazine extends one of its most successful franchises, 40 Under 40, to bring you original insight on the best-kept secrets of top entrepreneurs, business leaders, and rising tech stars. Discover how Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh built a uniquely attractive corporate culture, how Under Armour founder Kevin Plank took on Nike, and what Marissa Mayer told herself before leaping from a safe post at Google to the high-risk top job at Yahoo. Zoom features the fascinating profiles of these and other young innovators and provides readers with tips to fast-track their own career success. Additional contributors include: Omar Akhtar; Katie Benner; Ryan Bradley; Erika Fry; Miguel Helft; Michal Lev-Ram; Pattie Sellers; Anne VanderMey; and Kurt Wagner. Praise for Zoom: "Zoom shocases dozens of today's brightest young business stars... An entertaining and accessible read." - Reid Hoffman, co-founder and chairman, LinkedIn; co-author, The Start-Up of You "Make way, Boomers - here come the Zoomers... A smart and lively book." - Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive "Compelling profiles of young innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders... It is also a fascinating read!" - Tory Burch, CEO, Tory Burch LLC "Zoom is chock-full of inspirational stories... Fortune 500 leaders will benefit enormously by applying the lessons in this book." - Jim Stengel, former CMO of Procter & Gamble; author of Grow

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Time Home Entertainment

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1603204504

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Management

By: John R. Schermerhorn, Jr.,Daniel G. Bachrach

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Management

By: John R. Schermerhorn, Jr.,Daniel G. Bachrach

Schermerhorn, Management 14e continues to offer the same balanced theory approach as with previous editions. Students need an active and engaged learning classroom environment that brings personal meaning to course content and the instructor's course objectives. Schermerhorn communicates with students through rich, timely features and cases that bring management topics, theories, and concepts to life. The underlying goal is to translate foundation theories into lasting tools for students as they move beyond the classroom where their skills will be put to the test.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119497655

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Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities

By: Daniel E. Palmer

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Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities

By: Daniel E. Palmer

While skeptics once saw the concept of business ethics as an oxymoron, modern businesses are proving them wrong. Success depends not only on educating young professionals about ethical practices, but on the implementation of these practices in all aspects of a company. The Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities explores the fundamental concepts that keep companies successful in the era of globalization and the internet. Investigating the implementation of best practices and how ethics can be taught to the next generation of business experts, this handbook is an essential reference source for students, academics, business managers, or anyone interested in the increasingly interdisciplinary field of business ethics and its applications in the world today.

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