Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, theology, sociology, history, and law, to foster the creation of a new code of ethics that is bo...

This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how the idea of corporate responsibility has evolved over time, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge. Today, it is expected that a corporation will be t...

Why Postliberalism Failed offers an indictment of one of the most consequential ideological movements reshaping American and European conservatism today. With leading politicians among its adherents and major conservative institutions captured by its agenda, postliberalism demands serious scrutiny and this book delivers it.Drawing on deep historical research, the book traces postliberalism's intellectual roots to two traditions: an extreme papalism that subordinates all po...

The power isn’t coming back on...A terrorist attack rocks the small town of Big Rock, NC, after an EMP shuts down the power grid. Lacey Stone, a survivalist and Forest Ranger, must save her daughter from the clutches of this ruthless enemy. But the terrorists aren’t the only threat Lacey faces, as she must convince the town who hates her to stand and fight before the enemy destroys everything they hold precious.

2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.From Trump denying video evidence of his own words, to the infamous Leave claims of £350 million for the NHS, politics has rarely seen so many stretching the truth with such impunity.Bullshit gets you noticed. Bullshit makes you rich. Bu...

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has extended beyond functional assistance into the intimate domains of emotion, companionship, and love. AI chatbots and virtual companions are increasingly engaged as emotional confidants, romantic partners, and sources of care, prompting a re-evaluation of how intimacy is constituted and experienced in a technologically mediated society. This Element examines the emergence of what is termed post-humanistic love, defined ...

跟金融大数据专家学Python神器—Anaconda，快速成为数据科学高手Key Features本书示例丰富，讲解细致作者不仅在金融领域有着深厚的积累，还有着丰富的教学经验Book DescriptionAnaconda是一个强大的开源数据科学平台，它将很多好的工具整合在一起，极大地简化了使用者的工作流程，并能够帮助使用者解决一系列数据科学难题。 本书旨在通过一系列示例，引导读者在编码和图表中了解Anaconda的强大之处。本书包括12章，结合R、Python、Octave和Julia等4种编程语言，从平台的安装和配置开始，循序渐进地引导读者掌握数据集的获取、数据可视化、统计建模、管理包、Anaconda的优化、无监督学习、监督学习、数据预测分析、云、分布式计算等内容。 本书示例丰富，讲解细致，作者不仅在金融领域有着深厚的积累，还有着丰富的教学经验。对于那些有兴趣了解金融领域数据科学的读者，以及普通的数据分析师或数据科学从业者，本书都是一个不错的选择。在阅读本书...

The year is 1922. The carnival is Pontilliar’s Spectactular Star Light Miraculum, set up on the Texas-Louisiana border. One blazing summer night, a mysterious stranger steps out onto the midway, lights a cigarette, and forever changes the world around him.Tattooed snake charmer Ruby has traveled with her father’s carnival for most of her life and, jaded though she is, can’t help but be drawn to the tall man in the immaculate black suit who has joined the carnival as a geek, a man w...

Sir Henry Marquis, the Sleuth of St. James’s Square, shines in these sixteen unique mystery and crime stories from Melville Davisson Post.Sir Henry Marquis, the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, embraces the latest and greatest scientific methods of crime detection ranging from dactyloscopic (fingerprint identification) bureaus to photographie mitrique, and he has ample opportunity to utilize his skills in a range of mysterious scenar...

Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of approximately one quarter of the country’s population. Over two million people died from torture, execution, disease and famine. From the commodification of the ‘killing fields’ of Choeung Ek to the hundreds of unmarked mass graves scattered across the country, violence continues to shape the Cambodian landscape.Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in...

In recent years, there has been an increase of public employees being fired for inappropriate behavior on social media. This research explores social media conduct of public employees that have been adjudicated through the federal and state court systems. The arguments of these cases are based upon the question of an employee's first amendment rights versus the rights of the employer to maintain a desired work environment. The research found that widespread negative publicity, disruption o...

The Dismantling of America is a stark, eloquent meditation on a superpower at the edge. Moving from the corrosion of democratic norms to the shockwaves of foreign policy overreach, James E. Isham traces the invisible threads binding domestic fracture to global realignment. Through vivid argument and sweeping synthesis, the book contends that America's crisis is not a single event but an accelerating convergence: permanent war and imperial overstretch, economic precarity and cultural exhaus...