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[2019]
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English
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Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life's challenges together. "When the waters rise, so do our better angels."-President Jimmy Carter Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another....
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Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
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English
Description
The impact of continental philosophy has been tremendous, infusing the humanities with a strange brew made up of energy and insight combined with absurdity and meaninglessness. This program delves deeply into concepts and thought processes that fueled the inquiries of the era's major exponents: Hegel's dialectic, Marx's dialectical materialism, Kierkegaard's lone individual standing before God, Nietzsche's declaration that God is dead, Husserl's intentionality,...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Ousted as editor of the "Review of Applied Ethics", Isabel thankfully has ner newborn son to keep her occupied. What's more, Charlie's adoring father Jamie has offered the most intriguing proposal of all--marriage. But before she can settle into a quiet, domestic existence, Isabel becomes entangled in an art world mystery. At an auction, two paintings attributed to a deceased artist hit the market at the same time, and both paintings have unusual...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Learn how to apply ethical standards and practices in the day-to-day execution of your leadership role.
Today's headlines are rife with stories of corporate corruption. These incidents are often pinned on the decision-makers at the top—and rightly so, in most cases. Modern corporate leaders are charged with both promoting ethical behavior and grappling with the ethical quagmires that crop up during their tenure. In this course, Bob McGannon delves...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ethics are critical to your career and your company. Learn how to hold yourself, your stakeholders, and your colleagues to ethical standards and avoid common ethical issues.
Ethical behavior is critical to the success of your career and your company. But ethics are not always black and white. Many factors can affect how people respond in ethically gray situations, including conflicts of interest, fear of failure, and business pressure. To ensure...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 12
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English
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"Isabel becomes involved in a delicate paternity case in the twelfth installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie Series. Isabel finds herself befriended by Patricia, a single mother whose son, Basil, goes to school with Isabel's son. Isabel discovers that Basil is the product of an affair Patricia had with a well-known Edinburgh organist, also named Basil, who was, rumor has it, initially reluctant to contribute financially to the child's upkeep....
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English
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses a range of global challenges and transition management strategies with Frank Dixon (Harvard MBA), former head of global research with social auditing firm Innovest. They consider the ways in which global geopolitics is evolving in response to the systemic changes to our planet's ecosystems due to human activities. Frank Dixon's book, Global System Change, maps these global issues and connects the dots. The...
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Pub. Date
[2009], c2001
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English
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Psychological experiments have shown that the natural human desire to conform can lead people to mistrust their own experiences, turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, and even inflict harm on the defenseless. But these findings have come at a price: the potential emotional damage of those being studied. This three-section program grapples with some of the thorny ethical issues arising from psychological research into obedience and conformity...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Ethics are integral to project participation and success. Learn how to recognize and apply appropriate ethical standards to your project management process.
Your overall success as a project manager depends upon your ability to identify and manage ethical issues. Ethical behavior is also a requirement for good standing with the Project Management Institute (PMI). To boost your reputation and increase project participation and success, you need to...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Analytics and AI are powerful tools that have real-word outcomes. Learn how to the practical, ethical, and legal frameworks to be an effective analytics professional.
With big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), corporations, governments, and individuals have access to powerful tools that can have real-world outcomes. Data professionals today need both the frameworks and the methods in their job to achieve optimal results while being...
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Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86082 Most books on psychoanalytical ethics focus on rules, but author Luigi Zoja argues that ethics is really concerned with personal decisions—as is analysis itself. Rules are defined by others and center on punishment, but the purpose of analysis is to free the individual to make choices from his or her own “best” psychological and emotional...
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Pub. Date
[2006], c2001
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English
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When it comes to situations involving life and death, the United States is strongly polarized. Liberals commonly support the legality of abortion as a private matter of personal choice but condemn the death penalty as inhumane, while conservatives often support execution as a form of justice but denounce abortion as legalized murder. How did these points of view become a part of the ideologies of the left and the right? This program traces the development...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
Learn how to boost your reputation, integrate AI into your workflows, and increase project participation and success by embracing respectable project ethics.
Your overall success as a project manager depends on your ability to identify and manage ethical issues. Ethical behavior is also a requirement for good standing with the Project Management Institute (PMI). You need to learn how to conduct your project in an ethical way and solve any complications...
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Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
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English
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While high-tech agriculture is one of the hallmarks of Western society, a growing number of Americans and Europeans believe that our farming methods are harmful on a number of levels. This program looks at the evolving debate over industrialized food production versus organic farming. Showing how and why farming techniques and policies have changed in the U.K. and similar countries over the last 50 years, the film then examines modern pesticides,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
Embed ethics into your product development workflow. Explore examples of tech gone wrong—and how to avoid ethical issues in your own projects—in this lighthearted course.
Both users and creators of technology are starting to notice projects with a troubling lack of ethical considerations. News headlines highlight the issues these products introduce, from the spread of disinformation to the monetization of user data at the expense of individual...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Learn how to improve your client acquisition skills to attract more clients, more quickly.
This audio course is for accounting professionals who want to improve their skills in engaging with clients or customers, including how to proactively manage the client acquisition cycle to attract more of the right clients, more quickly. Instructor Bruce Fern demonstrates effective client acquisition techniques and how to apply proven client acquisition practices...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous! Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically....
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[2014], c2003
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English
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The North has established extreme strict principles and regulations in the field of human medical experimentation."Enlightened consent" is demanded of patients recruited uniquely on a volunteer basis. But do these principles apply in the South where ethical commissions are often, to some degree, ineffective or even non-existent, and where medical trials are frequently the only way poorer patients can gain access to treatments that would otherwise...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Genetic Genealogy in Practice covers the basic knowledge needed to apply DNA evidence to genealogical questions and then reinforces this foundation with practical applications. Each chapter ends with exercises that include real problems that researchers encounter. Answers allow complex concepts to be reviewed and mastered. As well as covering the basics of DNA testing for family history research problems, Genetic Genealogy in Practice includes discussions...
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