Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based approaches to corporate responsibility, providing theoretical support for business involvem...

MURDER MYSTERY COLLECTION - 40+ Thriller Novels & Detective Stories gathers Melville Davisson Post's distinctive contributions to early twentieth-century crime fiction, ranging from intricate legal puzzles to morally charged tales of detection. Best known for the Uncle Abner stories, Post writes with a grave, almost biblical cadence, combining frontier atmosphere, courtroom logic, and metaphysical inquiry. His mysteries stand at a fascinating crossroads between the classical detective tale...

This expansive collection gathers more than forty of Melville Davisson Post's mysteries, detective tales, and adventure narratives, showcasing a writer who helped refine the early twentieth-century American detective story. Best known for the Uncle Abner stories, Post combines legal ingenuity, moral gravity, frontier atmosphere, and tightly constructed puzzles. His prose is formal yet vigorous, rooted in the traditions of Poe and Doyle while distinctively shaped by American regional experi...

Darren Hopkins, a young, naïve international businessman without government experiences is hired as a research analyst with the President’s National Security Committee and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a highly divisive struggle. He learns that so-called super patriots are acquiring weaponry from the Mid-East and that the CIA is trying to track the shipments. But the CIA fails and the potential volatility of a link between America’s domestic terrorists and international terrorists se...

"Our world is very different from the world our founders sought to address, in ways our forebears in the 1950s could have hardly imagined. Yet we remain what we have always been at our best, a people bearing witness to a grand moral vision rooted in the Bible and the person of the crucified and risen Christ, and a people of spiritual audacity prepared to risk old assumptions for the sake of new possibilities." - John H. Thomas, former General Minister, and President, United Church of Chris...

The Sleuth of St. James's Square gathers Melville Davisson Post's Sir Henry Marquis stories, polished examples of early twentieth-century detective fiction in which aristocratic poise meets rigorous analytic method. Set amid drawing rooms, diplomatic circles, and transatlantic intrigues, the tales combine the elegance of Edwardian society with the dark mechanics of murder, fraud, and concealed motive. Post's prose is formal, lucid, and atmospheric, placing the collection in the lineage of ...

Marcos Kedalion knows amazing things, reports what he experienced and learned as a friend of Poserich, reports on the influence of unknown powers on human destinies, on the limits of human will, on the transformation of the earth, a mysterious people, primeval dramas and tragedies, secrets in the wilderness of Siberia, bloody wars, but also of love and happiness, and an offer to live among the stars for an unlimited time. And he shows how everything, to this day, is always repeated, albeit...

Bringing together Dwellers in the Hills, The Gilded Chair, and The Mountain School-Teacher, this volume displays Melville Davisson Post's gift for transforming rural American settings into arenas of moral conflict, suspense, and social observation. His prose is firm, lucid, and dramatic, shaped by the traditions of late nineteenth-century regionalism, yet animated by the plotting instincts of romance, crime fiction, and legal mystery. Across these works, mountain communities, ambition, edu...

Political economy scholarship suggests that private sector investment, and thus economic growth, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide investors with credible commitments to protect property rights. This book argues that this maxim does not hold for infrastructure privatization programs. Rather, differences in firm organizational structure better explain the viability of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments. Domestic investors - or, ...

As you have traveled, whether for pleasure, business, or governmental diplomacy, how many times have you said, "If I had only known?"Knowledge is sometimes all that stands between failure and success of any foreign endeavor. A lack of knowledge, no matter how insignificant, can lead to failure.As to international business, a knowledge of product and American business practice alone is not enough. You must have the ability to grasp how you and your interests are viewed throu...

The Greatest Works of Melville Davisson Post: 40+ Titles in One Edition gathers the essential fiction of a master of early twentieth-century American mystery, including the celebrated Uncle Abner tales and other stories of crime, conscience, and detection. Post's prose combines legal precision with Gothic atmosphere, regional realism, and moral allegory, situating his work between the Victorian detective tradition and the modern American crime story. His plots often turn on subtle evidence...

Melville Davisson Post's UNCLE ABNER, MASTER OF MYSTERIES gathers eighteen finely wrought detective tales set in the rugged moral landscape of early nineteenth-century western Virginia. Combining frontier realism with the architecture of classical detection, the stories follow Uncle Abner, a stern, Bible-steeped figure whose powers of observation and ethical certainty expose murder, fraud, and hidden sin. Post's prose is grave, economical, and atmospheric, placing the collection within the...