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  • Ethical Data and Information Management

    Concepts, Tools and Methods

    by Katherine O'Keefe, Daragh O Brien ...
    Information and how we manage, process and govern it is becoming increasingly important as organizations ride the wave of the big data revolution. ***Ethical Data and Information Management***offers a practical guide for people in organizations who are tasked with implementing information management projects. It sets out, in a clear and structured way, the fundamentals of ethics, and provides ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Trolley Problem Mysteries

    by F.M. Kamm ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive today Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Competition is Killing Us

    How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It

    by Michelle Meagher ...
    We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it.In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new ... Read more

    $6.69 USD

  • Dimensions of Normativity

    New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence

    Edited by David Plunkett, Scott J. Shapiro, Kevin Toh ...
    Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "metaethics" concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality. Analogously, the branch of contemporary philosophy of law that is often called "general ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • M.K. Nambyar

    A Constitutional Visionary

    by K.K. Venugopal ...
    This book is an attempt to preserve in perpetuity the life of one of India’s greatest constitutional lawyers, M.K. Nambiar. Written by his son and a legal luminary himself, K.K. Venugopal, this biography provides a fascinating account of Mr Nambiar’s life. It not only describes the man but also recapitulates Indian legal history dating to before Independence. The book includes some of the landmark ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Anatomy of Injustice

    A Murder Case Gone Wrong

    by Raymond Bonner ...
    The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice

    by Stephen Bainbridge ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance. In both theory and practice, a team of senior managers ran the corporation with little or no interference from ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law

    by Peter Jenkins ...
    Series series Professional Skills for Counsellors Series
    `Jenkins′ book makes the law relevant, understandable and manageable to counsellors and psychotherapists. It makes clear, reassuring and essential reading for therapists in training as well as those in practice. [All] counsellors and psychotherapisys need to be up to speed with the law and with how it relates to their work. This book is more than timely with the impending introduction of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Objection

    Disgust, Morality, and the Law

    by Debra Lieberman, Carlton Patrick ...
    Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment? In a world where a gruesome photograph can decisively influence a jury and homosexual behavior is still condemned by some as "unnatural," it is worth asking: is our legal system ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Digital Accessibility Ethics

    Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

    Edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, Chancey Fleet ...
    Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.This book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework – an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • 眾裏尋她

    公義在香港

    by 陳文敏 ...
    在《眾裏尋她：公義在香港》，陳文敏教授通過其個人經驗和重要案例，探討香港法律制度的核心價值。本書解釋和釐清了一些有關香港法律的常見問題。例如大律師如何為有罪的人作辯護？法律偏袒於有財有勢的人嗎？我們是否在任何情況下皆要遵守法律？在人權與國家安全互相抵觸的情況下，兩者該如何取得平衡？公平又如何與行政效能協調？我們可以因自由被濫用而否定它嗎？陳教授在書中亦會談及法律專業和專業精神，並指出法律專業備受尊崇在於律師嚴格堅持其專業操守，並致力於維護公義與公平。本書所談及的案例涵蓋不同的法律範疇，並橫跨陳教授數十年的執業經歷。通過這些真實案例，陳教授不但令讀者更明白香港的法律制度如何運作，亦讓讀者更深入地考量法律體制、法律專業、正義在現代社會的角色和法治的重要性。陳文敏為香港大學法律學院公法講座教授暨前院長（20022014），專研憲法、行政法和人權法，著作甚豐 ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Values & Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy

    by Gillian M Proctor ...
    This book offers an introduction to values and ethics in counselling and psychotherapy, helping you to develop the ethical awareness needed throughout the counselling process. The book covers:- Context and emergence of ethics in counselling- Exercises to explore personal and professional values- Tools to develop ethical mindfulness- Differences between therapeutic models- Relational ethics- ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • We Own This City

    A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

    by Justin Fenton ...
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American cityNOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS“A work of journalism that not only chronicles ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Firefighters

    Their Lives in Their Own Words

    by Dennis Smith ...
    An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Death of Common Sense

    How Law Is Suffocating America

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • Animal Rights

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • What It Means to Be Human

    The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics

    by O. Carter Snead ...
    A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded Reason Award“This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this entails.”—Wall Street JournalThe natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and dependent on others ... Read more

    Was $34.49 USD Now $18.89 USD

  • Complicit

    How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

    by Max H. Bazerman ...
    What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The New Lawyer

    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

    by Julie MacFarlane ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
    Today’s justice system and the legal profession have rendered the “lawyer-warrior” notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer’s skills go beyond court battles to encompass negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, and restorative justice. In The New Lawyer, Julie Macfarlane explores the evolving role of practitioners, articulating ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Ethics and Accountability in Criminal Justice: Towards a Universal Standard - SECOND EDITION

    by Tim Prenzler ...
    This is a book of research and policy aimed at raising ethical standards in criminal justice practice. Around the world, corruption continues to undermine the rule of law and the application of due process rights. Misconduct by criminal justice professionals challenges democratic authority and the equality and freedom of ordinary citizens. There is an urgent need for academics, advocates and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer

    Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed

    by Richard A. Zitrin, Carol M. Langford ...
    These are perilous times for Americans who need access to the legal system. Too many lawyers blatantly abuse power and trust, engage in reckless ethical misconduct, grossly unjust billing practices, and dishonesty disguised as client protection. All this has undermined the credibility of lawyers and the authority of the legal system. In the court of public opinion, many lawyers these days are ... Read more

    $8.79 USD

  • Cheating Justice

    How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It

    by Cynthia Cooper, Elizabeth Holtzman ...
    President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are audaciously unapologetic about their crimes. In his recent memoir, President ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Flow of Illicit Funds

    A Case Study Approach to Anti–Money Laundering Compliance

    by Ola M. Tucker ...
    High-profile case studies provide compliance professionals with a deep, holistic understanding of modern-day money laundering to better detect and deter itMoney laundering is a serious crime that presents a heightened, yet underrated, global threat. Although often thought of as a victimless crime, money laundering significantly impacts the global financial system, which leads to further crime, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Confronting the Death Penalty

    How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases

    by Robin Conley ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', ... Read more

    $22.79 USD