Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help
Rakuten Kobo
Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Ethics in Practice eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Ethics and Crisis Management

    Edited by Lina Svedin ...
    Series series Ethics in Practice
    The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public’s trust in governing institutions. In crises, public decision-makers face complex ethical judgments under great uncertainty, timepressure, and heightened public scrutiny. A lack of attention to the ethical ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Ethics and Risk Management

    Edited by Lina Svedin ...
    Series series Ethics in Practice
    The underlying rationale for this book is to present research that a) highlights the explosively political and deeply divisive issues involved in managing risk and b) address the empirical deficit and theoretical challenges related to managing societal risk ethically. Extant risk management research borrows heavily from engineering, systems theory and business management, and is primarily focused ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Future of Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **From the scholar who coined the term “soft power,” a bracing examination of what it means to lead in the digital age“Nye is a master of his field at the height of his powers.” —The Washington Post**Power evolves. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

    Edited by Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Our Own Worst Enemies

    America in the Age of Violent Populism

    by Robert A. Pape ...
    **The nation’s leading expert on political violence diagnoses the gravest threat to American democracy—and how to overcome it“One of the most prominent voices warning about the dangerous climate in the country.” —Vanity Fair**The January 6th riot, the attempted kidnapping of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the shootings of Minnesota legislators, the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, attacks on ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humanitarian Economics

    War, Disaster, and the Global Aid Market

    by Gilles Carbonnier ...
    While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Surviving Field Research

    Working in Violent and Difficult Situations

    Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie A. Mertus, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman ...
    In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has been a vast increase in the number of academics and researchers seeking to analyze the causes of, and offer practical responses to, these atrocities. Yet there remains insufficient discussion of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Wicked Problems

    The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

    Edited by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ernesto Verdeja ...
    The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to "do good," how should we prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? And, how ought we act once we have decided whose ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

    Edited by Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Thierry Balzacq ...
    This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. This second edition has been ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sociology

    by John E. Farley, Michael W. Flota ...
    This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The text continues to frame sociological debates around the major theoretical perspectives of sociology and focus on capturing ... Read more

    $120.00 USD

  • Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform

    by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Terry J. Crooks, Luis Crouch, Ori Eyal, Eva Forsberg, Martin Gustafsson, Batia P. Horsky, Dan Inbar, Barbara M. Kehm, Stephen T. Kerr, Ulf P. Lundgren, Peter Schrag, Hasan Simsek, Ryo Watanabe, Alison Wolf, Ali Yildirim, Robert W.McMeekin, Adam Nir, Kai-ming Cheng, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew, Ratna Ghosh, Allan Luke ...
    In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by "insiders". This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms in the context of societal and global change. In some countries, reforms are a response to major ... Read more

    $72.89 USD