Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Book Description

Moral Capitalism is based on the Caux Round Table (CRT) Principles for Business, a code of ethics that sets consistent and attainable worldwide guidelines for how business can behave responsibly and ethically. The book shows readers how to manage market capitalism and globalization for economic and social justice and fairness, in the process improving individual lives and communities. Author Stephen Young argues that "brute capitalism" - profit-seeking regardless of effects - must give way to moral capitalism to attain widespread monetary and moral well-being. Emphasizing a cross-cultural perspective that draws on Chinese and Japanese philosophies of selflessness, Young links moral aspirations to practical, day-to-day guidelines for a profitable approach to business that is also ethical, resulting in the public good.

Customer Reviews:

Moral Capitalism.......2005-08-14

A book of tremendous importance. Communism committed suicide, and Capitalism needed the rescue this read can provide. Individuals, business leaders, educators, governments, economists plus some others can get extremely valuable guidelines here in how to steer the world to a safer and more enriching destiny, if they listen to the Caux Round Table's 7 principles.
I have already recommended it to some important people in my reach (and beyond)

Insightful!.......2005-07-29

The corporate scandals of recent years have led to much hand wringing about corporate values. Now comes Stephen Young, head of the Caux Round Table - an international network of executives focused on corporate responsibility - with simple rules for turning the hand wringing into action. Some of Young's advice seems to be common sense: Tell the truth, for instance, and follow the law. By encouraging capitalists to go beyond following the letter of the law, Young offers a useful guide to ethical decision making. At times, though, he seems to give capitalists a free pass. For instance, Young argues that moral capitalists have little responsibility to withhold harmful products such as cigarettes and liquor from consumers who want to buy them. We recommend this easy-to-digest study to anyone intrigued by the ethical implications of capitalism. The book is a useful presentation of the argument that capitalism, the most powerful economic system in history, must balance might and right.

Ideas, ideals, and real, useable principles.......2004-03-04

Written by Stephen Young (the Global Executive Director of the renowned Caux Round Table, an international network of business executives), Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest With The Public Good showcases the "Caux Round Table's Seven General Principles for Business" which are the collective antidote to the destructive sides of dog-eat-dog corporate world and the crony-favoring insider deals that come with "brute capitalism" unmitigated by justice or fairness. Discussing moral capitalism as the only system that can truly counter poverty, tyranny, and the needs of individuals and nations alike, Moral Capitalism is an impressive and strongly recommended collection of ideas, ideals, and real, useable principles, as seen through the eyes of a prosperous businessman striving to balance public good with the corporate bottom line.

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As a discipline, Informatics has over the years developed from a narrow focus on data processing and software development, towards an emphasis on people's use of technology and its impact on their working lives. The topic of human/computer interaction and the relationship between ICT and the social and psychological environment is attracting increasing interest. It is also increasingly part of the curriculum for both computing students and MIS under the umbrella of social informatics.

This book has been edited by an internationally recognized expert in this field who has been researching in this area for many years. Bradley provides a holistic analysis of the relationship between people, ICT, society and the environment. She examines the impact on organizations and individuals, both in the workplace and in the home, and explores issues including stress, power, and competence. Taking a firmly humanistic view she also looks to the future as ICT increasingly informs and impacts on our lives.

The book provides a uniquely research-based and cross-disciplinary resource which will be of interest to students and academics studying social informatics, computing and MIS as well as OB, sociology, psychology and communications.

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This book presents discussions of the most important aspects in the development of agrochemicals. The book covers such broad areas as structure activity and ecotoxicological analyses in comprehensive reviews for general methods and chronicles for individual examples. Topics in structure-activity relationships include how to combine submolecular structures of pharmacological interests and modify them according to chemorational models with computer-aided procedures such as the traditional Hansch-type QSAR, the sequential, simplex optimization, and molecular modeling. Topics in the ecotoxicology of organo phosphorus compounds are discussed in terms of the quantitative structure-toxicity relationship (QSTR). Chronicles of molecular orbital methodology in predicting environmental fates of agrochemicals are also provided. This volume will be invaluable for researchers in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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The current literature on resource selection by animals is a maze of methodologies for data collection and interpretation. Field biologists need a guide through the labyrinth. This book provides such a guide. It gives a clear and consistent framework for the study of how animals select their resources (food and habitat) by taking the reader through different types of study design. It is an invaluable handbook for the field biologist, especially those concerned with the management and conservation of wildlife. The authors have clearly identified the need to pull together the diffuse literature, and biologists will greatly improve their experimental design, methodology, and analysis with this book.

The second edition of this popular book has been updated to include many developments in the last few years. There is new material on discrete choice models, the analysis of data from geographical information systems, compositional analysis, Mahalanobis distance methods, and neural networks and related approaches.

Resource Selection by Animals:

is an invaluable guide for field biologists;
provides a consistent framework for study of resource selection (food and habitat) by animals;
is a unique guide, and is the only book which covers this critical topic in such depth; and
is particularly useful to wildlife managers and conservation biologists.

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These extraordinary photographs by two brothers, Anup and Manoj Shah, take the reader on a spectacular journey into the heart of the African savannah, concentrating on the Serengeti-Maasai Mara and Ngorongoro Crater regions in Kenya and Tanzania. The Shah brothers' breathtaking images chronicle life and death in one of the most fascinating and complex eco-systems in the world, a place left largely untouched by man. Here lions, giraffes, elephants, zebras, cheetahs, hippos, hyenas, baboons, wildebeests, and thousands of other species give birth, play, hunt, feed, groom, sleep, mate, migrate, and die in the dramatic scenes played out on these pages.

Anup Shah's text complements the images, starting with the most basic elements necessary for life on the savannah and gradually building up to the intricate, dynamic interactions between the plants and animals in the food chain and their environment. Every aspect of daily life is touched on: evolution and natural selection, sex and mating rituals, birth and motherhood, staying alive and getting along, predators and prey, herds and social groups. In the final chapters the reader discovers that in death all living things return to the soil, where it all began, thus completing the circle of life.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing photos of African wildlife: 5+ stars.......2006-11-22

These are simply amazing wildlife photos, all from East Africa, where the Shah brothers live. This large-format book is beautifully printed, and these photos are about as good as wildlife photography gets. Lots of everyone's favorite (mine anyway), baby animal photos! Now, almost anyone (even me) can take a cute photo of baby cheetahs in their furpunk soft-Mohawk glory. But the Shahs can photograph a baby *hippo* and make it look cuddly (p. 146)....

The Shahs have the unfair advantage of living in Kenya, so their photos represent literally years of fieldwork in their own backyard (big backyard!). Which wouldn't matter except that they may well be the finest photographers of East African wildlife so far. Astonishing work, absolutely not to be missed. I know, I'm stuck in superlative mode here, but these guys are really, really good, and Harry Abrams has done them up proud.

You've almost certainly seen some of the Shah's photographs, likely in National Geographic -- though if you're as oblivious as me, you may not have noticed their names. I've uploaded a couple of images to jog your memory. Most highly recommended for anyone who's interested in African wildlife. And yes, you should save up for a trip to East Africa someday....

Happy viewing--
Peter D. Tillman

Beautiful & Massive Documentation of Life on the Savannah........2004-07-09

Anup and Manoj Shah have distinguished themselves in the populous field of wildlife photography by producing expressive and beautiful portraits of wild animals that document the individuals' lives while achieving impressive aesthetic grace. Many of the brothers' photographs are simply unforgettable works of art that I never tire of looking at. "The Circle of Life" is a massive book that contains 235 photographs of wildlife on the African Savannah. About 40 species of mammal are represented, as well as some birds and reptiles. In the most comprehensive photographic essay of wildlife that I have ever seen, the Shah brothers document the lives of the many animals who live and die in this vast African ecosystem that spans much of Kenya and Tanzania. The authors have organized this photographic odyssey by dividing the book into 20 chapters, each showcasing one aspect of life on the Savannah. The early chapters show us the basic elements that create and sustain life. Some example chapters are: "Driven by Wet and Dry", "Light and Energy", and "Shaped by Fire and Elephants". The book then moves on to the subjects of birth and growing up on the Savannah. "Natural Selection", "Adaptation and Diversity", "Peaceful Coexistence", and "Mother and Offspring", for example. Then we see the lives of adult animals. Some examples are: "Herds and Social Groups", "Grazers and Browsers", and "The Hunters". And finally these animals die, returning to the earth, and the "circle of life" begins again: "Scavengers and Decomposers", "Land and Life". Each chapter begins with an essay written by Anup Shah that explains what that particular facet of life on the Savannah entails and how it fits into the greater life cycle.

The photographs in "The Circle of Life" are mostly one-to-a-page, but there are also 2-page spreads and pages containing two photographs. The reproduction quality is good. All photographs have detailed captions. An index in the back of the book allows the reader to locate text and photographs by species or topic. The index is most helpful considering the size of this volume. If you're familiar with the work of Anup and Manoj Shah through "Nature's Best" magazine, most, but not all, of their "Nature's Best" photographs are included in this book. "The Circle of Life" is a record of wildlife on the African Savannah that is impressive in its size, scope, and beauty. Only photographers who spend an extraordinary amount of time in this environment could have captured so much of the lives of so many species. It's a pleasure to see the results of Anup and Manoj Shah's experience and persistence in one volume. "The Circle of Life" is a fantastic coffee table book for nature photography fans, as well as a great visual resource for anyone studying this ecosystem.

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Terrific!!

Snake-like, Savage, Unorthodox

How to Be an Ass-Whipping Boxer

SERIOUS LESSONS WITH FUNNY DRAWINGS

A Good, Solid Foundation From An Old-Time Boxer

How to Be an Ass-Whipping Boxer
Champ Thomas
Manufacturer: LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1559502053

Book Description

When Champ Thomas was nearly sixty, he took on twenty challengers and beat them in less than fifteen minutes. This wasn't even a light workout for him, he'd say; in his time he'd taken on a hundered. Now this book offers you a step-by-step roadmap to success, whether you are a beginner, an amateur, a professional, or just someone who wants to know more about boxing and the art of self-defense. Have fun with this volume - there's a load of information in here if you follow Champ's advice and read each section carefully, perhaps more than once. "I've given perfect examples," he writes. "Now it's your job to surpass the perfection herein."

Customer Reviews:

Terrific!!.......2006-01-03

This book ios increadible. After reading many boxing how-to books that seemed incomplete and sometimes contradicted eachother this book taught me a important lesson, most of the authors of the books I read, were nobodies. I mean, I never had heard of them before they wrote the book. I got me thinking if they were so good, why were they never champions or at least contenders? Because they aren't that good. The author of this book was a very ackomplished boxer and I think the best trait of all, he thought for himself and came up with a supperior style because he did not just take anyones word for it. But at the same time I feel he was not able to explain everything perfectly with the limited space he had available so I would recomend Jack Dempsey's Championship fighting more mechanics of a punch and Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do for its fantastic coverage of the principles of strategy, defense and attack, which all can be applied to boxing. And, if you still are unsure whether the author is for real, just remember that Floyd Mayweather Jr uses the exact style Champ Thomas preaches

Snake-like, Savage, Unorthodox.......2004-06-17

It's pretty cool and unlike any other fighting book I've seen. It's got some cool bizarre techniques, it's very unorthodox. This book is a collection of Champ's small books from the 70s and early 80s, so it can be a little repetitive when you go from one book to another. Champ mostly shows a stance with your lead hand low protecting your body and rear hand high protecting your face/head. Champ calls it the "Stonewall Defense" stance since it doesn't leave you open and it's mostly about counter punching. You're kind of like a coiled cobra and he shows you how to strike with speed and power. It does seem to have it's faults for self-defense though- since your lead hand is low, you block right hand power punches with your shoulder and that could really weaken your arm against a bare fist. Champ does say that the stonewall "will make a minor contribution to general personal defense" and that it's mostly for "all students of boxing." I saw Aaron Pryor, a great champ from the 80's, using a similar stance on ESPN Classic. The opponent shown in the book looks unskilled and leaves himself open, which really makes "your" techniques and stance shine. He says that the stance is difficult to learn and it is, especially if you're used to the normal guard with both hands up. I don't think his stance is as perfect as he claims but he is entertaining to read. As far as boxing goes, if you can make this book work for you it's worth five stars. The advice on power is very interesting and is my favorite part of the book. Champ Thomas is supposed to be famous but I've searched the net and can't find anything at all about him.

How to Be an Ass-Whipping Boxer.......2003-12-31

If you are completely green to boxing the contents of this book will rush down on you like a river whose dam suddenly broke. At first some of the concepts were alein to me. I had already been kickboxing when I picked up this book for the first time so some of the concepts seemed out dated, however,after some study I understood hoew he used these things. You have to know something going into the book, J.C. Thomas lived in a time when men fought with and without gloves and aginst single and multiple oppoents(boombattle) and he made a living at it. His "prattle" gives important insight into how he lived. One important example is a story he tells of a boxer killing a man in the ring. How many pros have died in pro fights in the last decade or two? Probably not many if any at all. And look at the difference in the prizes between then and now. He fought for stale bread to eat you think Tyson,Douglas or any of these other new boxers would risk death for stale bread? Besides that he spent time in the navy, and at the time it was a lot harder on a person than the modern Navy so tough was trained into you. To people who doubt his power, you work his drills everyday in a single minded attempt to bulid power and see what happens. If you would like to study combat arts seriously pick up this book and the following: The Tao of Jeet Kune DO, Renaissance Swordmanship, a book on Iron Hand training and Kung Fu Iron body trianing. Read the swordsmanship book first and then the Tao of JKD then this book and use the other two as refenece. You would also be well advised to either or both of Ned beaumonts books on boxing. And if you want a book that will teach you to get strong without weights get the Naked Warrior by Pavel it is the perfect companion to the other books let me just say this, I do not have alot of confidence in Pavel T. but this time he delivers the goods, however he has some other products that are inticing but don't fall into this trap, stick to these basics and Beumonts suggestions on hiking ( I would add at least 60 pound pack to this)or maybe substitute sled pulls for aerobic conditioning . All except one or two of these books are sold right here on amazon.com.

SERIOUS LESSONS WITH FUNNY DRAWINGS.......2002-12-19

You need a lot of things if you want to become a consistent '...-whipping' pugilist. First and foremost, you have to be strong, resilient, hard-working, and determined. Then you should pay attention to the serious lessons this book has for you.
From its contents, ex-champ Thomas and his co-authors showed that they were dedicated in their effort. They designed this book for beginners and amateurs. A lot of useful information are in it: including some basic tactics that amateurs and pros alike, often neglect. Step-by-step do-it-yourself method was used throughout. I cherished the simple outlook. The only unserious issue that you will encounter in this book is its funny illustrative figures. But, you will understand. Boxers enjoy fun too!

A Good, Solid Foundation From An Old-Time Boxer.......2002-05-23

There's not much flash in this book, and that's the way it was meant to be. Thomas assumes you know nothing (or next to nothing) about boxing and gets you started right. Many of the "spa boxerobicise" types may look down on this book, but it's full of good common sense, won the hard way. I personally had no problems with the Champ's stories, even if they are exaggerations. Over the years, I've learned plenty from old timers who were known to "improve the truth" on occasion.

Book Description

This edition emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.

Customer Reviews:

Good Textbook.......2007-03-08

The book explains the topic in a clear manner. It creates understanding of the budgeting system even for non-finance people.

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Here is the definitive biography of one of the most exciting, influential, and elusive authors of the twentieth century. Christopher Isherwood’s novels and short stories, including those that inspired the musical Cabaret, have always been assumed to be largely autobiographical.

Based in part on Isherwood’s private papers–unavailable until now–this fascinating book presents the real story of his life, a life that saw a relatively conventional boy become an acclaimed writer, mystic, and “grand old man” of the gay liberation movement. In the end, Isherwood: A Life portrays someone who misled as much as he revealed.

Born in 1904, the heir to a large country estate where his grandfather was squire, Isherwood had a youth filled with both privilege and loss. His father’s death in World War I devastated his mother and created a “hero-father” image that would haunt both Christopher and his unstable brother for the rest of their lives.

He began to acknowledge his homosexuality at his English boarding school and subsequently formed a definition of “self” based on subterfuge, performance, and escape. With his lifelong friends W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender he emerged as one of the leading literary figures of the 1930s.

From the bars, nightclubs, and slums of Weimar Germany–where Isherwood created The Berlin Stories and introduced the world to Sally Bowles–to homosexual communes in Greece and Portugal, to the film studios of London (the subject of his novel Prater Violet) and Hollywood, his destinations became arenas for his reinventions. Isherwood’s later years as an unofficial spiritual and sexual sage in Southern California only added to the abiding mystery of his life.

In addition to using Isherwood’s correspondence, unpublished diaries, and other previously unavailable sources in painting this clear and definitive portrait, Peter Parker has also unearthed the author’s telling early works, including parodies, school memoirs, and even part of a crucial lost novel.

Painstakingly researched and brilliantly written, Isherwood: A Life captures the fugitive reality of a man who has become a favorite artist and important symbol of an entire era in our life of letters. Published in the centennial of his birth, it will be read as long as Isherwood himself is.

Customer Reviews:

Recommended.......2006-05-27

For me, this is the first biography of Isherwood that spells out the contradictions of this complex and fascinating personality and views them not as episodic pieces but as a whole life. Finally, I was able to see that the Hollywood and Vedanta years were not some unfortunate detour that Isherwood took, but an inevitable journey in a quest for authenticity and examination of truth -- real and perceived. This personal revelation is probably more a result of the life choices Isherwood made than anything Parker illuminates here, still I appreciated the fact that Parker HAS opinions, especially about the intrinsic value of Isherwood's work and I can agree or disagree with his assessments. I have walked away from this biography with a new appreciation of Isherwood's amazing talent and his profound integrity as an artist. The wild, the debauched, the dull, blissful, the banal and petty -- Isherwood captured it all, distilled it into his art and we are all the richer for it.

Size isn't everything!.......2005-01-31

Peter Parker's earnest, exhaustive and rather conventional biography fails to recognise the forest for the trees. Isherwood did, in fact, "find a home", both geographically and spiritually, although you might not recognise that from Parker, who indicated in an interview for The Telegraph that he didn't "judge" his subject.
The tone of some sections makes that claim a little hard to swallow but he has saved his worst finger-wagging for a crass putdown of Isherwood's guru, Swami Prabhavananda, whom he characterises as sly and manipulative, playing up to Isherwood's vanity in order to borrow some of the writer's cachet for Vedanta Society publications and good P.R. Parker even tries to mount a prosecution against the guru as not really being tolerant towards homosexuals at all, with Isherwood getting "special treatment", before finally beating a lame retreat into a disclaimer that Isherwood had "not been duped in any way". ( Parker is mouthing Denny Fouts, whom Isherwood called "the sourest of all critics").

Should we blame Parker for his cultural myopia? Even Isherwood's dear friend, W.H. Auden, regarded his religion as "Heathen mumbo jumbo" , but unlike Parker, did not fail to recognise the guru's bona fides ("Your Swami's quite obviously a Saint, of course.") Parker's churlish putdown of Swami Prabhavananda is sheer perversity and does him and his book little credit.

Isherwood presciently foreshadowed some of the neo-colonialist prejudice his spirituality might evoke In "An Approach to Vedanta" and elsewhere, David Robb picks up on the point in relation to the suspicion surrounding the reception of Aldous Huxley's turn towards spirituality. Robb identifies "an ingrained British contempt for subject native races." specifically in relation to Huxley's adoption of Gandhi's principles of nonviolence. Parker doesn't recognize this in his own attitude.

It's high time the Brits realised that they have had Isherwood suspended in aspic for far too long. Prof. John Sutherland, reviewing this biography for the London Review of Books, refers to Isherwood's "late life conversion to transcendentalism". As Isherwood met the guru in 1939 (when he was in his mid-thirties), and continued in the relationship for almost four decades, there's no way this could be construed as" late life". Reviews of the Parker biog. have flushed out many of these old canards lurking in the underbrush.

To Parker's credit, the second, very productive period of Isherwood's life IS given due weight. His judgments of the literary texts are fairly predictable, but he is unable to understand why Isherwood found "My Guru and His Disciple" (1980) as among his best work. Even Stephen Spender agrred on that (and he wasn't an uncritical friend, after all.)

When it comes to trying to evaluate the benefits to Isherwood from his 40 year practice of Vedanta, Parker is really out of his depth; his neo-Christian blinkers narrow his vision to the point where he can't even see what he is looking at. This is a shame. It seems also that he has avoided talking with many of the people still alive today who knew Isherwood during this time, to test his own prejudices, and that, too, is a failing in this portrait.

To give it its due, the 12 years' work Parker put into this biography does show. It will become the standard reference book on Isherwood for dates, places, people and events. But it will take a better biographer than Parker to capture all of the dimensions of this fascinating precursor of many (post-modern) trends. At 800 pages, he should have got it right (apparently he sliced 15% out of the final edit), but you have to ask why Isherwood's partner, Don Bachardy, was so bitterly disappointed with the outcome. I still feel the Berg and Freeman collections, and Katherine Bucknell, the editor of the diaries, give much more real insight into the man than this collection of facts has managed to do.

A much needed biography.......2004-12-03

I read the English edition of this biography a few months ago and enjoyed it. I think that once you have read this book, you really don't need to read another biography of Isherwood.

However, I kept thinking as I read this book, that has there ever been a life more recycled for literary purposes than Isherwood?

I am a fan of Isherwood and am glad to own this book.

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