Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based approaches to corporate responsibility, providing theoretical support for business involvem...

In matters of faith we generally accept what parents, Sunday school teachers, friends or ministers tell us. That was certainly the story of my youth and early years in the ministry. Given the fact that such matters are non-scientific and un-testable by traditional scientific means and that there is a wide range of Christian beliefs it is perfectly understandable that people are either puzzled or uninterested when trying to make sense of it all.Ghosties & Ghoulies peels awa...

Political economy scholarship suggests that private sector investment, and thus economic growth, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide investors with credible commitments to protect property rights. This book argues that this maxim does not hold for infrastructure privatization programs. Rather, differences in firm organizational structure better explain the viability of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments. Domestic investors - or, ...

As you have traveled, whether for pleasure, business, or governmental diplomacy, how many times have you said, "If I had only known?"Knowledge is sometimes all that stands between failure and success of any foreign endeavor. A lack of knowledge, no matter how insignificant, can lead to failure.As to international business, a knowledge of product and American business practice alone is not enough. You must have the ability to grasp how you and your interests are viewed throu...

"Our world is very different from the world our founders sought to address, in ways our forebears in the 1950s could have hardly imagined. Yet we remain what we have always been at our best, a people bearing witness to a grand moral vision rooted in the Bible and the person of the crucified and risen Christ, and a people of spiritual audacity prepared to risk old assumptions for the sake of new possibilities." - John H. Thomas, former General Minister, and President, United Church of Chris...

Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This lingering dichotomy of purpose for a major physical discipline has much shrouded further insights into the foundations of quantum theory.Quantum Reprogramming resolves this long-standing dichotomy by examining the mutual relation be...

A Treasury of Early Spy Thrillers – 3 Classic Espionage Novels invites readers into the shadowy world of espionage through a curated selection of groundbreaking early 20th-century spy narratives. These works explore themes of intrigue, secrecy, and loyalty through diverse literary styles that range from the intricate plotting of mystery to the suspenseful prose characteristic of classic espionage tales. By weaving together the tense atmospheres and high-stakes adventures emblematic of the ...

This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how the idea of corporate responsibility has evolved over time, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge. Today, it is expected that a corporation will be t...

The reliance on fossil fuels for energy is unsustainable and has released an unprecedentedamount of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. The continual research and developmenteffort into clean and sustainable energy technologies is of paramount importance toensure the responsible progress of human civilization and innovations. This collection,with authors representing industry, government, and academia, focuses on energyefficient technologies includin...

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, theology, sociology, history, and law, to foster the creation of a new code of ethics that is bo...

Some of the greatest detective stories every wrote are collected in this massive anthology. This book contains the stories and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Emile Gaboriau, E. W. Hornung, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, Jacques Futrelle, Melville Davisson Post, Ethel Lina White, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Arthur Morrison, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, Wilkie Collins, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Gaston Leroux, Anna Katharine Green, Fergus Hume, F...

30 Masterminds of Mystery surveys the formative decades of detective and sensation fiction, assembling tales that move from rational deduction and police procedure to gothic unease, criminal ingenuity, and comic reversal. Its range reflects the genre's international development: locked-room puzzles, stolen-identity plots, urban investigations, scientific clues, and encounters with the uncanny sit beside narratives of professional detectives and audacious amateurs. The volume's standout ach...