Category: Leaders Notable People

By Thomas More

ISBN-10: 0813213762

ISBN-13: 9780813213767

This resource booklet brings jointly vintage texts by means of and approximately Thomas More—poet, student, statesman, relatives guy, academic reformer, thinker, historian, and saint. as well as serving as an creation to More’s existence and writings for the overall reader, this assortment is a necessary better half to the examine of More’s literary and philosophical masterwork, Utopia, and to the examine of sixteenth-century heritage, literature, philosophy, or politics. The writings concentration upon More’s perspectives of schooling, political idea, church-state relatives, love and friendship, sensible politics, and the vexing problems with moral sense. They make clear the precise Christian humanism that extra expressed and embodied. additionally incorporated during this e-book are 3 well-known sixteenth-century bills of More’s lifestyles by means of Erasmus, Roper, and a crew of London playwrights together with William Shakespeare.

By Alison Plowden

ISBN-10: 0750932392

ISBN-13: 9780750932394

By Jacques Cory (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0387228489

ISBN-13: 9780387228488

ISBN-10: 0387229140

ISBN-13: 9780387229140

Jacques Cory's moment booklet Activist company Ethics expands upon the theoretical strategies constructed in his first e-book company Ethics: the moral Revolution of Minority Shareholders released by way of Kluwer educational Publishers in March 2001. Activist company ethics is required with a purpose to treatment the wrongdoing devoted to stakeholders and minority shareholders. this can be completed by means of cooperation among moral businessmen, activist lecturers, stakeholders and minority shareholders.

We may still deal with others as we might wish others to regard us, now not via curiosity, yet by means of conviction. but this precept isn't the instruction of many businesses within the sleek company international, even though so much religions and philosophers have recommended it within the final 3,000 years. How do we persuade or compel sleek enterprise to use this precept? And is it necessary to the good fortune of financial system? as a way to solution those questions this e-book examines the evolution of activist company ethics in enterprise, in democracies, in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, in philosophy and psychology.

The ebook examines overseas facets, the personification of stakeholders, the predominance of values and ethics for CEOs and the inefficient safeguards of the stakeholders' pursuits. The ebook offers new automobiles for the defend of these pursuits, reminiscent of the web, Transparency, moral cash and Activist institutions, and destiny activist autos, similar to the Supervision Board and the Institute of Ethics.

Today all people is a stakeholder and a minority shareholder of a firm, without delay or via our pension cash, or as a shopper, a provider, a member of a group and a citizen. The imperative premise of the booklet is, consequently, that eventually the wrongdoers act opposed to themselves. The e-book is woven with many references on ethics and company ethics from the pro and vintage global literature, the Bible and different non secular texts, poetry, maxims, and folks stories; displaying that moral difficulties are related during the a long time and cultures, yet many of the suggestions given during this publication are new and unique.

Activist enterprise Ethics is basically meant for the educational industry and is especially acceptable for teachers in company management, ethics and finance. it's going to additionally attraction strongly to the pro business/finance industry, and to stakeholders and minority shareholders in addition, who're conscious of the wrongdoing devoted to them and who are looking to therapy the placement through activist conduct.

By Jerrold Winter

ISBN-10: 0896031845

ISBN-13: 9780896031845

By Barrett Tillman

ISBN-10: 0230602045

ISBN-13: 9780230602045

ISBN-10: 1403971358

ISBN-13: 9781403971357

LeMay was once a terrifying, advanced, and magnificent normal. In global conflict II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and used to be accountable while Atomic bombs have been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was once accountable for tens of millions of civilian deaths--a truth he loved to have a good time by way of smoking Cuban cigars. yet LeMay used to be additionally the guy who single-handedly reworked the yank air strength from a ramshackle group of poorly expert and badly outfitted pilots into one of many fiercest and best guns of the battle. over the past many years, such a lot U.S. army missions have been performed fullyyt during the employment of the Air strength; this can be LeMay's legacy. filled with breathtaking battles within the air and encouraging management strategies at the floor, LeMay will preserve readers on their fringe of their seats.

By Alfred Guillaume

ISBN-10: 0195778286

ISBN-13: 9780195778281

Alfred Guillaume's authoritative translation of the Sira of Ibn Ishaq provides in English the whole heritage of the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad. No e-book can evaluate in comprehensiveness, association, or systematic remedy with Ibn Ishaq's paintings.

By Robert C. Carriker

ISBN-10: 0806127902

ISBN-13: 9780806127903

Clad within the black gown of his priestly order and armed merely with a crucifix, for greater than 1 / 4 of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramped the yankee frontier to deliver peace and faith to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the higher Missouri River country.In this biography, Robert Carriker describes De Smet’s love for the nice American West and the local tribes who lived there, the Potawatomis, Flatheads, Coeur d’Alenes, Kalispels, Blackfeet, Yankton Sioux, and others to whom the Jesuit father carried Christianity. quickly the fellow known as Black gown grew to become recognized during the mountains and plains as a guy of peace and a pal of all Indians.

By Joni Eareckson Tada

ISBN-10: 0310273420

ISBN-13: 9780310273424

ISBN-10: 0310273439

ISBN-13: 9780310273431

ISBN-10: 031030086X

ISBN-13: 9780310300861

It is not what I misplaced. it truly is what i have discovered. i used to be merely seventeen, only a woman, while God requested me for every thing I had ... my health and wellbeing, my hopes, my independence, my desires, my freedom, and my mobility. He took all of it. i used to be so offended with Him that i attempted to push Him away. God relentlessly held me extra heavily. on reflection, 40 years later, I needless to say God has replaced and healed me---my middle and my mind---in the main unforeseen methods, giving me rubies of His knowledge approximately an unbending religion and an adventure of His mercy i will be able to now let you know approximately. used to be it a good alternate, my freedom and no wheelchair for the rubies of knowledge i have been given? completely. during this i've got discovered on the ft of the Lord Jesus, embracing the way in which that God heals us, even if we rage at Him in anger, worry, and depression. This ebook isn't approximately what I misplaced in that diving coincidence see you later in the past. it truly is concerning the knowledge he is given me to dwell lifestyles victoriously within the face of disappointments and demanding situations that all of us face.

By Stafford Poole

ISBN-10: 0806135921

ISBN-13: 9780806135922

Philip II is an interesting and enigmatic determine in Spanish historical past, however it used to be his letrados--professional bureaucrats and ministers expert in law--who made his giant castilian empire attainable. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole strains the existence and occupation of a key minister within the king’s govt to discover the position that letrados performed in Spanish society as they sought to displace the better the Aristocracy within the management via a procedure dependent upon merit.Juan de Ovando used to be an industrious, discerning, and dependable servant, but, like several letrados, he owed his place to royal desire. Ovando started his occupation as an ecclesiastical pass judgement on and inquisitor in Seville. From there, on the king’s order, he undertook the reform of the college of Alcal? de Henares, considered one of his such a lot enduring achievements. Appointed then to the splendid council of the Spanish Inquisition, Ovando used to be commissioned to enquire the Council of the Indies, over which he ultimately presided. during this function, Ovando begun codifying legislation and accumulating information regarding Spain’s out of the country possessions during the famed Relaciones geogr?ficas--wide-ranging surveys of everyday life within the New international. He devised long term and forward-looking colonial guidelines for brand new Spain whereas, additionally serving as president of the Council of Finance, he sought to convey order to Spain’s chaotic monetary situation.Poole’s biography of Juan de Ovando presents an intimate view of the daily impact letrados wielded over the Spanish colonial computer.

By Henning Köhler

ISBN-10: 3732501078

ISBN-13: 9783732501076

ISBN-10: 3869950765

ISBN-13: 9783869950761

Ist er nun einer der ganz Großen oder nicht? An der Bedeutung Helmut Kohls scheiden sich die Geister. Warum eigentlich? Für seine Kritiker warfare Helmut Kohl der Kanzler des Aussitzens. Im entscheidenden second aber hat er Geschichte gemacht. Als die Wiedervereinigung möglich schien, hat er die likelihood erkannt und entschlossen gehandelt. Das Deutschland, in dem wir heute leben, unser Europa, hat er ganz wesentlich geprägt. Später geriet er wegen der Spendenaffäre in Misskredit. Wer additionally ist dieser Mann? Eine Neubewertung.