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  • Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

    The Capitalist's Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

    Edited by Debi Ghate, Richard E. Ralston ...
    The intellectual tooks every business person needs in the boardroom. Includes two rare essays by Ayn Rand!With government and the media blaming big business for the world economic crisis, capitalism needs all the help it can get. It's the perfect time for this collection of essays presenting a philosophical defense of capitalism by Ayn Rand and other Objectivist intellectuals. Essential and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem

    by Michael S. Berliner, Andy Bernstein, Harry Binswanger, Tore Boeckmann, Jeff Britting, Onkar Ghate, Lindsay Joseph, John Lewis, Shoshana Milgram, Amy Peikoff, Richard E. Ralston, Greg Salmieri, Darryl Wright ...
    In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem investigates the importance of the ego ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Why Businessmen Need Philosophy and Other Essays

    by various authors, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Edwin A. Locke, Dr. John Ridpath, Richard M. Salsman, Dr. Jaana Woiceshyn, Ayn Rand ...
    Narrated by Susan O’Malley ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 59 min

    "Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth," wrote Ayn Rand.In the title essay of this collection, Leonard Peikoff applies this principle to the world of business. He shows that certain philosophic ideas, such as reason, egoism, and individualism, are needed to defend and protect the freedom of businessmen, while the opposite ideas, such as mysticism, altruism, and ... Read more

    $13.95 USD

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  • The Good That Business Does

    by Robert Kennedy ...
    One of the major political challenges of the modern era has been to manage the integration of business into the life of the civil community. Similarly, Christian social thinkers have struggled to integrate business activity into their account of morality, justice, and the common good. While the disciplines of economics and law teach us much about the character of contemporary business, their ... Read more

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  • The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect

    Edited by John Forrer, Conor Seyle ...
    The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect closes the gap between research on the Responsibility to Protect and the private sector, as previous research has focused only on state responsibilities and state actors. This book examines in detail the developing research on the significant role that private sector actors can play in promoting peace and stability. Contributors to this volume ... Read more

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  • John Berryman

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    Edited by Philip Coleman, Peter Campion ...
    Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly ... Read more

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  • Risk Management and Corporate Governance

    Edited by Abol Jalilvand, Tassos Malliaris ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    The asymmetry of responsibilities between management and corporate governance both for day-to-day operations and the board’s monthly or quarterly review and evaluation remains an unresolved challenge. Expertise in the area of risk management is a fundamental requirement for effective corporate governance, if not by all, certainly by some board members. This means that along with board committees ... Read more

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  • 'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror'

    200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Edited by Jarlath Killeen, Valeria Cavalli ...
    Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the ... Read more

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  • Managerial Ethics

    Managing the Psychology of Morality

    Edited by Marshall Schminke ...
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  • Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space

    Borders, Networks, Escape Lines

    Edited by David Walton, Juan Antonio Suárez ...
    Series Book 26 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts. Contributors tackle a broad range of themes, including how prose fiction addresses spaces of ... Read more

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  • The End of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Crisis and Critique

    by Peter Fleming, Marc V. Jones ...
    Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective.A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and ... Read more

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