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  • Taming the Compensation Monster

    Using Freight Broker Compensation to Drive Urgency, Performance, And Profits

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    THE MONSTER PROBLEM FOR FREIGHT BROKERS The compensation beast can rear its ugly head in many ways. But generally, compensation problems for freight brokers come from the four employee “lacks:” 1. Lack of urgency 2. Lack of motivation 3. Lack of good decision-making 4. Lack of alignment with company objectives Taming the Compensation Monster helps transportation and logistics providers create a ... Read more

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  • Feeling Film

    A Spatial Approach

    by Beth Carroll ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
    This book questions the de facto dominance of narrative when watching films. Using the film musical as a case study, this book explores whether an alternative spatial understanding of film can offer alternative readings to narrative. For instance, how do film aesthetics influence our interaction with the film? Can camera movement and music make us ‘feel’ cinema? Can the film world bleed into our ... Read more

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  • The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three of Nietzsche's three most important books: The Anti-Christ, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spake Zarathustra, as well as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken. A perfect book for new readers of Nietzsche or anyone hoping to understand his writing and philosophy more thoroughly. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry ... Read more

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  • Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

    by Paul Crowther ...
    Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gives unique aesthetic ... Read more

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    Creating Local Jobs and Competitive Domestic Industries in Supply Chains

    Local Content in Procurement is the first book of its kind. Recognizing the substantial economic and social value brought to host countries and local communities through the procurement practices of large private and public companies, this book by Dr Michael Warner – Director of the consultancy firm Local Content Solutions and former architect of the Local Content standards for BG Group – provides ... Read more

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  • Responding to Loss

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    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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  • Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty

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    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
    Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty's later ontology of language in the light of his “figured philosophy,” which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation. Kaushik argues that, since for Merleau-Ponty the work of art actualizes a sensible ontology that would otherwise be invisible to the history of dialectics, it ... Read more

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