For thousands of years, elite people of great wealth and stature from around the world have journeyed to an eternal spring to purchase everlasting life from the beast who guards a hidden shrine. As an extended drought sweeps across the land, the beast claws to the surface from a hidden cave in search of food for a starving colony of creatures.
The roles that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business support of democracy play in American higher education are infrequently discussed, though very important. There are many ethical issues that concern both corporate interests as well as higher education, linking the two more than many would think. It is necessary to understand the environment, inter-organizational relationships, and documents holistically to observe the rich history, pluralistic American societal issues, and relevant milestones between corporate America and higher education. Partnership Motives and Ethics in Corporate Investment in Higher Education provides comprehensive documentation of business and corporate entanglements with higher education. This work discusses the historic journey of funding from business and U.S. corporate engagement in American higher education. Covering topics such as academy-business relationships, philanthropic partnerships, and transactional partnerships, this work is essential for professors, executives, managers, faculty, fundraisers, leaders in higher education, researchers, students, and academicians with interests in CSR, business ethics, and higher education.
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.
This richly illustrated monograph furnished with a works catalogue and commentary presents Paul Bonatz (1877–1956), one of the most influential architects and teachers of architecture in the 20th century. He left behind a multifaceted legacy of modern and traditional work from the German Empire to the early Federal Republic of Germany. Bonatz also earned a reputation as a designer of technical buildings. His fruitful dialogue with engineers was widely admired by many other architects.The book is a companion to the exhibition in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main, January 21st until March 20th 2011, and in the Kunsthalle Tübingen, March 26th until May 22nd 2011.
A critical biography of the popular 1920s novelist G. B. Lancaster (the pen name of Edith Lyttleton), this book tells the moving story of her life and work. Sturm paints a fascinating picture of the harsh experience of a woman writer in the first half of the 20th century whose economic circumstances shaped much of her output but who struggled nonetheless to move beyond the limits of potboilers toward more serious and original work.
The reign of Dr. Jaxon King, famous televangelist, comes to a scandalous end when the media exposes him as a fraud despite his very real healing power. Now a failure at everything including ending his own life, Jaxon finds himself on the streets. After months of nonstop drinking and living in a cardboard box, Jaxon decides the only thing left to him is to discover his identity by seeking his birth mother. Locating her in a convent, he is shocked to discover his conception was the result of a scientific experiment designed by Dr. Niklas Fleischer, a specialist in the field of genetics working in the death camps under the supervision of Hitler. With money from his mother's trust, Jaxon departs for Germany where he encounters the love of his life, Anne, Dr. Fleischer's daughter. Anne reveals that her father kept a journal where he recorded all scientific findings, including the details of the experiments concerning Jaxon which were coded Genesis. Jaxon and Anne as well as Father Huberman soon find themselves in a race with her father's old nemesis whose only goal is to obtain the journal and destroy all evidence of Dr. Fleischer's participation in the experiment, in order to claim the success of the experiment as his own. The Vatican is advised of the presence of a viable Genesis and joins the race to gain access to Jaxon. Jaxon's only protection, Father Huberman, is drawn to Rome by the assassination of the pope, leaving Jaxon and Anne vulnerable. Priests are gunned down, old lovers decapitated, the pope is assassinated, and in the middle of the chaos, Jaxon discovers the information he is seeking. He realizes what he discovers will not only affect his future but... ...will change how the world perceives life and death if the information is allowed to leak out.
The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel reveals the complex symbiotic bond between Stekel and Sigmund Freud in its many social and psychological aspects. This biography also explores the dual context of the formative years of psychoanalysis, and Freud’s relationships with his colleagues. Each chapter examines an aspect of social marginalization, including self-marginalization, the relationship of marginals to the mainstream, and the value of marginalization in the construction of identity. Includes unpublished
Frankie, just a boy of 14, was always seeking ways to make money. When a garbage collecting company in his small hometown had a job opportunity for an enterprising young student, Frankie was one of several boys who jumped at the chance to be a garbage collector, a career he actually considered for himself years earlier. He was, unfortunately, a scrawny kid at 5' 10" but only 120 pounds, which did not impress the owner at all. Despite Frankie holding up two heavy garbage cans at his house on garbage day to positively influence the owner/driver of the garbage truck, his admirable effort failed, for the owner had already offered the job to another student. Frankie had no hard feelings about losing the garbage collecting job, but since there were few money-making opportunities for a young boy, he struggled to find something lucrative and enjoyable, too. Frankie performed odd jobs, including raking leaves, shoveling snow, and getting bloody hands weeding those horrible, thorny bushes at Mr. Perez's house, with all providing some compensation, but none of these efforts were much fun. Fortunately, his friend Ozzie, who was a caddie at the River Vale Country Club, came to the rescue, inviting Frankie to become a caddie, too. Those golfers who did not wish to carry their own golf clubs, or pull a golf cart holding their clubs, and who desired to get good exercise walking the course, hired a caddie to carry their golf clubs, find their golf balls, keep score, and, on occasion, give advice on club selection. However, Ozzie did have a concern about Frankie as a caddie. Frankie, though humorous, had a big mouth with a penchant for saying anything that came to mind. Would golfers who had Frankie as their caddie enjoy his bold musings? Only time would tell, as Frankie, the witty caddie, who knew almost nothing about golf, learned the game quickly. He became a caddie on his first day at the golf course for a delightful, kind man named Bob, who was part of a horrible golf playing foursome, including Reggie, Whitey, and Jessie that day. The fun and frolics that ensued for their 18-hole golf adventure, despite this foursome's woeful inability to play golf, was surely enhanced by the hilarious and sometimes belittling comments, not to mention the "heroic" actions by Frankie, which were not only surprisingly welcomed but enjoyed by all.
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