“…Businesses' past involvement or complicity in atrocities and human rights abuses such as slavery and genocide is a pressing concern for stakeholders today. Managers who meaningfully engage with their companies' past actions can address historic harms while simultaneously contributing to their companies' future success. …”

“…Innovation failures in dynamic environments usually track back to one or more tensions that are embedded in eight questions that leaders often struggle to answer. Leaders who get the answers right can transform the tensions from reductive to productive and not only tackle some of innovation's toughest trade-offs, but also significantly improve the odds of innovation success for their organizations…”

“…The majority of business leaders who fall prey to the tactic are unprepared for the scenario and wind up paying the ransom. …”

“…In a perfect world, those who produce the best code are the most successful. …”

“…Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such a cutthroat business. In a time of sweeping media change, the four major networks struggle for the attention of American viewers increasingly distracted by cable, video games, and the Internet. …”

“…Cassuto was a Jew raised in Egypt, who later became a pioneer businessman in the cotton trade with post-war Japan. …”

“…Shows the disastrous effects of U.S. drug policy on the coca farmers in Bolivia and Colombia, who are paid by the drug cartels to grow the coca and then attacked by drug patrols using fumigation planes. …”

“…Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meaning and event; or, systems theory and "the reconstruction of deconstruction" -- Language, representation, and species: cognitive science versus deconstruction -- Flesh and finitude: bioethics and the philosophy of the living -- "Animal studies," disciplinarity, and the (post)humanities -- Learning from Temple Grandin: animal studies, disability studies, and who comes after the subject -- From dead meat to glow-in-the-dark bunnies: the animal question in contemporary art -- When you can't believe your eyes (or voice): dancer in the dark -- Lose the building: form and system in contemporary architecture -- Emerson's romanticism, Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity -- The idea of observation at Key West: systems theory, poetry, and form beyond formalism -- The digital, the analog, and the spectral: echographies from my life in the bush of ghosts…”

“…Notes provide helpful contextual information for these excerpts while questions challenge readers to embark on their own investigations of this fascinating individual, who continues to rival all others in historical significance…”
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“…This study will be of importance to all who are interested in property, tort, contract, unjust enrichment, legal reasoning, legal method, the history of the common law, and the relation between legal theory and legal history…”
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“…This book addresses the concerns of readers who accept the benefits of globalization and technological change, but seek to reverse the tendency toward income inequality that each produces. …”

“…"Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the hardest questions humanity faces - Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? …”

“…A look at one of experimental theater's most influential figures, who collaborated on works with people such as Tom Waits and Philip Glass. …”

“…Today, in the aftermath of UPI's tragic plummet, it is still hard to believe that a journalistic institution with a tradition of excellence so hard earned and well deserved could have been allowed to self-destruct and almost disappear. The authors- who together have a combined forty-three years of experience at UPI- tell a stunning, insiders' tale of intrigue, mismanagement, financial gymnastics, greed, and lust for power. …”

“…Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature -- Amazon.es…”