Learn how to plan, operate and optimize a supply chain that delivers maximum value.The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management is the definitive guide for students, operations leaders and logistics professionals who want to master strategy, planning and execution in today's fast-changing environment.Now in its eighth edition, this comprehensive resource blends strategic insight with step-by-step tactical guidance, supported by real-world ...

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Pete...

In Morality and Ethics of War, which includes a foreword by Major General Susan Coyle, ethicist Deane-Peter Baker goes beyond existing treatments of military ethics to address a fundamental problem: the yawning gap between the diverse moral frameworks defining personal identity on the one hand, and the professional military ethic on the other.Baker argues that overcoming this chasm is essential to minimising the ethical risks that can lead to operational and strategic fail...

Is what you see really what it is? Do all dreams come true? What happens when we find out our dreams never quite came true? Can we ever repair the relationships we willfully destroyed in our search for meaning in life? What are the parameters for reconciliation?These and many others could be the questions that need to be answered by many who went out on a limb looking for that which was reachable in their thinking only to find out that they were only paper moons that were never rea...