Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now. James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond, now in paperback . . ....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Nevada Press, ISBN-13: 9781647792091)
Principled University Leadership: Critical Decision-Making in Academia is a personal account by university president Marc A. Johnson that draws on his extensive experience in academic administration. The book delves into four major themes: tra...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226827087)
The economic case for self-interest at the outer limits of being morally good. Modern life is an exercise in discomfort. In the face of endless injustice, how much selfishness is permissible? How do we square suffering elsewhere with our hope to thr...Daugiau...
The book develops, defends, and applies a Dual Scale model of weighing reasons to resolve various issues in ethics. It tells you everything you ever wanted to know about weighing reasons and probably a lot of stuff you didnt want to know too. It...Daugiau...
Competencies in general represent a set of knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and values that enable personal development. Entrepreneurs use their competencies to have a successful business and could profit from them in particular areas such a...Daugiau...
Pediatric Surgery encompasses a multitude of specialty practice domains and thus requires detailed knowledge in a wide arena of topics. It is thus unique among surgical specialties for the breadth of knowledge that is required, emphasizing the po...Daugiau...
An exploration of justice and ethics, highlighting how over-reliance on rules and mandates diminishes morality, fosters deception and corrupts institutions, while advocating for balanced discretion over rigid systems, especially as AI threatens to el...Daugiau...
This record from the 1980s offers useful historical comparisons with todays paediatric cardiac services in both the remarkable progress over nearly 40 years and the continuing concerns. One mother described part of the complicatio...Daugiau...
By making sovereign decisions, ordinary individuals, too, can work towards the peaceful resolution of conflicts or reduce their carbon footprint. Making such sovereign decisions is not easy for individuals who are taught to follow orders and norms....Daugiau...
Moral pragmatism has been largely ignored in Business Ethics, despite its natural attraction and the fact that it is prominent in philosophy and socio-economic theories. The main premise of the book is that the complexity of todays business world...Daugiau...
