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This book deals with a much understudied and poorly understood aspect of business: the role of owners and boards in value creation. While there is abundant guidance on value creation for publicly listed firms and their managers, the role played by owners, and their corporate directors, in value creation and governance has been overlooked. This book aims to fill that gap.• The first part deals with the mission, and the values and rules pertaining to the governance of the business. T...

The term "fundamentalism" has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church. In this book, Mark Massa argues that an analogously reactive, militant, and sectarian "fundamentalist" movement emerged within American Catholicism in the decades after World War II, for a similarly complex mix of theological and cultural reasons. In Catholic Fundamentalism in Americ...

Zibeline Volume 3

Zibeline Volume 2

The volume examines, from a legal point of view, various regulatory, political, technological and democratic issues related to the disinformation phenomenon in both "old media" (newspapers and broadcasting) and "new media" (digital platforms, social media and artificial intelligence) in two different scenarios: elections and war.Disinformation is in fact relevant, inter alia, in light of two very significant events of recent years. First, 2024 marks a year of general elections in n...

***Named a Finalist for the 2021 Wishing Shelf Awards***There's no monster under your bed, but there are several in this book. The first short story collection from Gerald Barkley Rocks author Kyle A. Massa, Monsters at Dusk offers answers to several important questions, such as:Do vampires use Snapchat?What happens when a demonic cat declares war on God and Satan?Is someone drinking your memories? If so, are they...

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic.Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission...

Metamaterials-by-Design: Theory, Technologies, and Vision is devoted to a comprehensive review of the latest advancements and current trends in the field of system-level-oriented metamaterial design methods, technologies, and future perspectives. Starting from the theoretical and methodological motivations of this research to macro-scale performance-driven design of volumetric and planar metamaterials, the book introduces advanced task-oriented modeling approaches, including specific refer...

Zibeline Volume 2 follows the journey of a spirited young woman whose sudden inheritance propels her into the dazzling yet demanding world of high society. Wealth brings freedom, but also scrutiny, as generosity and independence challenge accepted social norms. The narrative traces her movement through elegant gatherings and private encounters, where charm and confidence attract admiration as well as envy. Personal values guide her actions, particularly a desire to correct past injustices ...

Zibeline Volume 1

Zibeline Volume 1 follows the journey of a spirited young woman whose sudden inheritance propels her into the dazzling yet demanding world of high society. Wealth brings freedom, but also scrutiny, as generosity and independence challenge accepted social norms. The narrative traces her movement through elegant gatherings and private encounters, where charm and confidence attract admiration as well as envy. Personal values guide her actions, particularly a desire to correct past injustices ...

Zibeline Volume 3 follows the journey of a spirited young woman whose sudden inheritance propels her into the dazzling yet demanding world of high society. Wealth brings freedom, but also scrutiny, as generosity and independence challenge accepted social norms. The narrative traces her movement through elegant gatherings and private encounters, where charm and confidence attract admiration as well as envy. Personal values guide her actions, particularly a desire to correct past injustices ...