Why Do They Call It Business If It's Mostly Politics

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In this first-ever foray into the mysterious and tumultuous world of corporate politics, the author traces it from its humble beginnings to its commanding position of influence over every facet of business life in organizations today.

As head of The Truth Squad, an independent consulting practice which he founded, Mike Latimer has studied the myriad of ways in which corporate politics is practiced in the workplace. Utilizing remarkable comparisons to the animal kingdom and revolutionary concepts such as "facts evasion" and "excessive wait loss", he brings the topic further out into the open than ever before. Anyone who has ever been part of an organization will be able to identify with his real-life examples from experiences spanning over twenty years in business. The book provides the most enlightening and amusing perspective ever presented on this subject, and is a must-read for those interested in learning more about this unshakable reality of the business world.

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a funny view of business.......1999-10-21

A funny book that we can all relate to

An easy and entertaining read.......1999-08-23

This book reads like it was written for the rest of us - the ones who bear the brunt of all that top management misbehavior. It felt good to finally have a good laugh at the expense of the corporate politicos. I hope there is a sequel. There's certainly no shortage of material to use.

LIGHTHEARTED AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING.......1999-08-21

This was truly an enjoyable book to read. It was a great opportunity to see the business world from an executives point of view. The authors lighthearted approach provides a great examination of business-politics. His play on words are highly entertaining. This is definitely not just another boring book about business. I am looking forward to his second book.

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James Stoner's first book, Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism, was hailed as forceful and wise . . . powerful and convincing by the American Historical Review and a stunning achievement by the Journal of Politics. In that work, which provided historical background to the Founding era, he focused on the common law almost exclusively as a mode of legal thought. He now amplifies and extends his thinking on this subject with a study that transcends such formalistic limits and reveals how constitutional law has developed since the Founding.

Common Law Liberty is a rediscovery and reassertion of the common law's central contributions to and enduring impact on American constitutional law. Stoner illuminates the common law's ties to an entire way of life, inextricably linked to the Founding and American constitutionalism, influenced by Christianity, closely connected to the development of free enterprise, and open to the influences of modern science and democracy.

Stoner delineates two common laws: one understood by the Founders and rooted in British traditions of jurisprudence and one that, thanks to jurists like Holmes and Cardozo, corrupted the first by redefining common law as mere judge-made law or judicial process, dangerously disconnected from the values and norms of the communities it serves. The latter, for Stoner, has been a disastrous development, shrouding the common law's original meaning and vitality, replacing its spirited liberty with personal license, giving far too much discretion to judges who wish to depart from tradition and precedent, and, thus, undermining our constitutional system of checks-and-balances.

In an era as morally confused as ours, Stoner argues, we at least ought to know what we've abandoned or suppressed in the name of judicial activism and the modern rights-oriented Constitution. Having lost our way, perhaps the common law, in its original sense, provides a way back, a viable alternative to the debilitating relativism of our current age.

Drawing upon themes from his first book, as well as numerous articles, papers, and lectures produced during the past decade, Stoner crystallizes and reintegrates this body of work. By applying and contrasting both understandings of the common law to specific cases--including free speech, abortion, and religious liberty--he hopes to reclaim essential principles long buried but, in his view, desperately needed to preserve the integrity of our nation's polity and its hold on our moral imagination.

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The Tory Position.......2004-02-11

The absence of Common Law adherence in light of our Constitution, at least in the schools, makes Professor Stoner's attempt at revival a refreshment. Indispensible for current dialogue, the work reflects that genre of American jurisprudence regarding Magna Carta as "extortion." In that vein, the professor walks a fine line between the "liberty" afforded in at least the process and the clear tradition he has identified in common law underpinning the force of the state, and there going to public libel. Thus, we see the claim of custom and usage refined to rule and doctrine emerging in an "unwritten" way from "legislation" and "Christianity" denoting a compatibility with the British Constitution, and there in contrast with "liberalism" which he defines in the genre of Justice Holmes and coming from the political writings of Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke, among others. In tracing the political theory behind his perception, Professor Stoner minimizes, but at least diminishes the impact of the Reformation and its outgrowth as well as roots in the formative stages of the Common law as it was understood before the Framing and beyond, to the extent no distinction is made between the practical effects of the authority of the Lord working on and in the individual apart from the law giving rise to separation and the province of Lex Rex and the gradual convolution of that private authority to the specific "reasoning" of the judge, even as a law unto himself,which the professor attributes to Holmes, at least in making law. To quote Barnard, "Our English law never appeared in its strength until after the reformation; until after it had come in contact with a free Bible; until it had been softened, subdued and leavened by Bible teaching and Bible precepts, and, by these unmanacled from many of its glaring absurdities and heathenisms and unjust distinctions and inhuman punishments. It was not until then that civil liberty was reinstated after the downfall of the Jewish theocracy." Even before the reformation, the common law rule against torture was, as the professor suggests, a bulwark against inquisition. It furnished a response to Hobbes by way of CJ Hales' apology, and a substantial contribution to our constitutions without sacrificing the comity put forward by CJ Marshall in his Ogden dissent which denotes more a response to condition than a fear of destruction . Perhaps the professor's greatest contribution is his outline of a common law framework in dealing with the present problems of church-state relations and the like. Curiously, there is no mention of the Common law's traditional separation from the province of equity in Chancery - a benchmark for the separation of Church and State, reflected in the 1st Amendment, and hardly liberal in the sense the professor opines. All in all, Common Law Liberty represents a fine contribution to the emerging debate over fundamentals, which has pitted even those who believe in a "working" constitution beyond dead letter against those who have preached a "living constitution" of special interest.

Common sense and common law.(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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Common sense and common law.(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Robert F. Nagel
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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1615 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Common sense and common law.(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism)(Book Review)
Author: Robert F. Nagel
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 140 Page: 42(3)

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Since exposure to hazardous substances, commonplace in the modern industrial environment, can lead to adverse effects on health, statutory limits are established for the levels of such substances in the workplace air and of the substances themselves or their metabolites in the body fluids of workers. Therefore reliable analytical methods are required to determine the levels of such substances in air and in body fluids (usually blood or urine).

The Analytical Chemistry Group of the Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area has established new methods and standardized old ones for the biological monitoring of numerous industrial chemicals. The analytical reliability and reproducibility of each of the methods has been determined by the author and confirmed by at least one examiner. The methods are therefore suitable for checking adherence to statutory limits such as the German BAT values (Biological Tolerance Values for Working Materials) and the American BEI values (Biological Exposure Indices) and for reliable detection of dangerous substances in the tissues of individual workers.

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Good for beginners but..........2003-03-03

For an introduction to hydrology this is a good book, but it's a little too basic and laymen for my tastes. This criticism aside, the information in this book is nevertheless good and adequate to provide you with decent background information in hydrology.

If you've had any education in basic meteorology, climatology, oceanography, etc... you won't find this book very useful since it is mostly a recap of 101 courses in the physical sciences, but for the rest of us who haven't had much experience in these fields, this book is not only very informative, but it is a very interesting read... who would've known the molecular structure of water was so unique and life-sustaining?! Alter it even a little and life would be impossible, lakes would freeze from the bottom up instead of the top down... and other weird possibilities! For the beginner, this book is easy to read, avoids math, and provides a relatively strong foundation.

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Modelling Change in Environmental Systems addresses the concepts and principles of model construction for environmental systems, as well as the scientific achievements of environmental modelling in key areas of the natural sciences. The book evaluates the use of models in different environmental systems, assessing the limitations of environmental modelling and identifying the restrictions these limitations might place on making predictions on the effects of environmental change. New techniques and approaches which might be successfully applied to understanding environmental processes and to making predictions in the face of uncertainty are appraised. The book is divided thematically, beginning with an introduction on modelling and numerical issues. Individual environmental systems are then explored in detail, examining models for various problems in hydrological and ecological systems, followed by modelling of large-scale systems including circulation of the atmosphere and oceans. The final chapters consider data and decision support systems including climate scenario development, GIS, expert systems and natural resource accounting. The authors are internationally based, providing a comprehensive assessment, and an interdisciplinary perspective of state-of-the-art and future prospects for modelling and simulation in an illustrative, but extensive, range of environmental systems.

The Rivers Handbook: Hydrological and Ecological Principles (River's Handbook)

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The Rivers Handbook: Hydrological and Ecological Principles (River's Handbook)

Manufacturer: Blackwell Science
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The use of lasers which emit infra-red radiation and sophisticated detectors of IR radiation is increasing dramatically: they are being used for long-distance fibre-optic communications and remote environmental monitoring and sensing. Thus they are of interest to the telecommunications industry and the military in particular. This book has been designed to bring together what is known on these devices, using an international group of contributors.

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Saki's blend of stories, featuring the witty and sometimes Machiavellian Clovis, range from the supernatural and sinister to hilarious comedy. (Three 90-minute cassettes and one 60)

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There are good things which we want to share with the world and good things which we want to keep to ourselves. The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our infallible remedy for seasickness is thrust upon every traveller we meet, even if he be no more than a casual acquaintance about to cross the Serpentine.

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Wonderful stories. Unblemished prose........1998-06-18

These short stories constitute some of the best in the English language. They have quite a range in tone, from the extreamely humorous Unrest Cure to the mystery of Sredni Vashtar. Only The Easter Egg diappoints. Written in an Edwardian prose that never disappoints, read it like it was one of life's little luxuries.

excellent.......1998-03-17

black comedy at its best. not for everyone. read only one story at any given sitting, or the flavor and the impact goes away. One of the Best short storie collections ever printed.

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The Best of Saki
H. H. Munro
Manufacturer: Compass Books/ Viking Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000RP3Y0Q

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these 37 stries have been chosen by Graham Greene from the complete omnibus volume of Saki's short stories written between 1904 and 1923, in an endeavor to present in one book all tat is characteristic and most entertaining in Saki's writing.

The Best of Saki: Extracts from: Reginald + Reginald in Russia + The Chronicles of Clovis + Beasts and Super-Beasts + The Toys of Peace

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The Best of Saki: Extracts from: Reginald + Reginald in Russia + The Chronicles of Clovis + Beasts and Super-Beasts + The Toys of Peace
Saki [H H Munro]
Manufacturer: John Lane - The Bodley Head
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IYZJ68

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The Chronicle of Clovis
Saki (H. H. Munro)
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000V0QSUU

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The Chronicles of Clovis
Saki [H H Munro]
Manufacturer: John Lane - The Bodley Head
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KL8KSI

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The Chronicles of Clovis

Manufacturer: John Lane The Bodley Head
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Chronicles of Clovis
H H Saki/munro
Manufacturer: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD
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The Chronicles of Clovis
Saki - H. H. Munro
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THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS

Manufacturer: The Viking Press
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Chronicles of Clovis
Saki
Manufacturer: VIKING PRESS
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