| Title | : | The Book of Questions: Business, Politics, and Ethics |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.77 (311 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156305034X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1991-01-04 |
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Right to life, or abortion rights. Whistle-blowing. Does everyone have a price? The most difficult and revealing of all questions are questions of ethics-easy to answer from afar, but impossible when you're in the thick of it.From the author of the 1.9-million-copy bestselling The Book of Questions, here are 300 primary and follow-up questions on commerce and politics that probe deeply into our conflicts between ideals and reality, and help us sound our own morals.Put principles to the test: If you knew you could double your money in two years by investing in a company whose activities you strongly disapprove of, would you? Examine basic beliefs: If you knew you would not produce anything of real significance in your life, how would it change your goals and attitudes? Fantasize about power: If you could determine who could immigrate here, would you let in those who would contribute the most to our country or those most in need of refuge? Define convictions: If you were certain s
Editorial : From the Back Cover FACE THE QUESTIONS Ask yourself. Ask your family. Ask your colleagues. Ask your best friend, or a stranger. THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS: BUSINESS, POLITICS, AND ETHICS enables you to ask those things that seem so easy to answer-until you put yourself in the middle: dilemmas of freedom, justice, power, honesty, money, principles, and trust. Provoke discussion, stimulate healthy arguments, fuel those all-too-rare talks that go deep into the night-and see if you're the same person you were ten years ago.
The book shows that they have darker secrets than imagined and that chimestry is one of the most useful disciplines, as I found out in Berlin with the 5th gen Ravnos. If you are looking for an introductory text, start with Batchelor.. *thumbs up*
I had honestly forgotten how much I enjoy watching the students at Harkness fumbling their way into adulthood. Far more than a catalogue of eco-labels, Greener Products equips readers with the tools to understand sustainability as a system, ensuring that they will be prepared to responsibly market greener products, and equally important, to design and manufacture better products.. It turns the method is very simple, but is not obvious from just looking at the examples.
- A practice problem asks you to solve a system of 3 equations in 3 unknowns using matrices, but nowhere in the book does it actually show you how to write the inverse of a 3x3 matrix.
- The book has only one page and very little explanation on t
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