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Book Greed and Conscience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matea Corvin
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2020-05-15
  • ISBN : 1640271252
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Greed and Conscience written by Matea Corvin and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Book Greed and Conscience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matea Corvin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-04-28
  • ISBN : 9781640271241
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Greed and Conscience written by Matea Corvin and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers four generations of rich and poor families. In some past time, the differences between rich with royalty background and the poor was well noticeable. The two of them with such differences became close friends, but greed, jealousy, and stated differences took over and wrapped the happy families into darkness of seemingly unsolvable mystery. But down life's road, victory and kindness for the poor and the good overpowered disrespect and stepped forward to reveal the mystery. The book broadly describes it for the readers to live the story, not wishing to set the book aside. Each page reveals new action and leads the readers to read on with tears of joy or sadness.

Book Cultivating Conscience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Stout
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-10-04
  • ISBN : 140083600X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Cultivating Conscience written by Lynn Stout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperity Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of conscience. Stout makes the compelling case that conscience is neither a rare nor quirky phenomenon, but a vital force woven into our daily lives. Drawing from social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology, Stout demonstrates how social cues—instructions from authorities, ideas about others' selfishness and unselfishness, and beliefs about benefits to others—have a powerful role in triggering unselfish behavior. Stout illustrates how our legal system can use these social cues to craft better laws that encourage more unselfish, ethical behavior in many realms, including politics and business. Stout also shows how our current emphasis on self-interest and incentives may have contributed to the catastrophic political missteps and financial scandals of recent memory by encouraging corrupt and selfish actions, and undermining society's collective moral compass. This book proves that if we care about effective laws and civilized society, the powers of conscience are simply too important for us to ignore.

Book The Conscience of a Liberal

Download or read book The Conscience of a Liberal written by Paul Krugman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created his finest book to date, a "stimulating manifesto" offering "a compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny" (Publishers Weekly). "As Democrats seek a rationale not merely for returning to power, but for fundamentally changing—or changing back—the relationship between America's government and its citizens, Mr. Krugman's arguments will prove vital in the months and years ahead." —Peter Beinart, New York Times

Book Greed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2014-04-30
  • ISBN : 9781499318081
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Greed written by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GREED was first written to warn my fellow Americans that those who tout themselves a NeoCons have no limits to their ambitions and willingness to prey on those who trust them. GREED was a personal story, the characters based on people I knew. I thought the issue was domestic violence. Then I discovered it was much larger and far deeper. How do you place limits on the actions of people who have no conscience? This is the source of all the problems we face today. Today, awareness is growing of the cost psychopaths exact from those of us who understand human decency. For me it was a personal confrontation with the psychopathic which removed all illusions about who is in charge of our lives. Americans believed our freedoms were secure. We were wrong. Using lies, intimidation and the vast resources made available to them by their corporate employers played the Wag the Dog Game, using our trust to begin wars which are only increasing in intensity. Our economy is melting down before our eyes and we have become accustomed to seeing people made homeless through the greed of bankers without conscience. GREED is a true story and in the 2014 version you discover there are solutions.

Book Cultivating Conscience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Stout
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-10-24
  • ISBN : 9780691139951
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Cultivating Conscience written by Lynn Stout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of conscience. Stout makes the compelling case that conscience is neither a rare nor quirky phenomenon, but a vital force woven into our daily lives. Drawing from social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology, Stout demonstrates how social cues--instructions from authorities, ideas about others' selfishness and unselfishness, and beliefs about benefits to others--have a powerful role in triggering unselfish behavior. Stout illustrates how our legal system can use these social cues to craft better laws that encourage more unselfish, ethical behavior in many realms, including politics and business. Stout also shows how our current emphasis on self-interest and incentives may have contributed to the catastrophic political missteps and financial scandals of recent memory by encouraging corrupt and selfish actions, and undermining society's collective moral compass. This book proves that if we care about effective laws and civilized society, the powers of conscience are simply too important for us to ignore.

Book Money  Blood and Conscience

Download or read book Money Blood and Conscience written by Steinman and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Money, Blood and Conscience" is a novel about Ethiopia's recent democracy revolution. Written by an American adviser to the rebellion, it portrays the fight by the world's poorest for food and justice, drawing the reader into a magnificent and heartbreaking crusade for human dignity.

Book The National Provisioner

Download or read book The National Provisioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frontiers of Conscience

Download or read book Frontiers of Conscience written by Martin Prozesky and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Condition of England

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  • Author : C.F.G. Masterman
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2012-11-15
  • ISBN : 0571286836
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Condition of England written by C.F.G. Masterman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Condition of England was first published in 1909. Faber Finds are reissuing it to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary. Although copies are now hard to come by, it was a success on first publication running quickly into six editions. It has often been likened to Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy though it is more sombre. Charles Masterman, who was in the Liberal Government when he wrote this, provides a penetrating, sceptical and unsettling anatomy of Edwardian England, seeing beneath the imperial splendour a society 'fissured into unnatural plenitude on the one hand and ... an unnatural privation on the other'. This remains a work of acute social analysis.

Book Piers Plowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780192836465
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem.

Book The Elements of Soul

Download or read book The Elements of Soul written by Sam Adettiwar and published by sam adettiwar. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you searching for real answers to fundamental questions like: * Who am I? * What is consciousness? * What is intelligence? * What is love? * What is the ultimate truth about matter and mind? * What is real and what is not? * What is life, its origin, its ultimate purpose? If you are, then The Elements of Soul is for you. The purpose of this ambitious book is to take you on a phenomenal journey to the ultimate depths of soul-a journey that will bring you immense joy and peace due to newfound wisdom. On this journey, you will explore groundbreaking concepts like: * Soul mechanics: The science of what lies beyond quantum mechanics * Soul-atoms * I-atoms * Mental elements, and * Dynamics of consciousness. The Elements of Soul is spiritual science at its best. At the same time, it is a revolutionary guide on how to perfect human love and intelligence. You are sure to conclude the same after you experience first-hand the profound benefits of practicing various meditation techniques prescribed in the book.

Book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Book Conscience and Courage

Download or read book Conscience and Courage written by John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Termeer was one of the first of a pioneering group of business executives who built a disparate group of fledgling companies into a biotech industry that has driven decades of therapeutic innovation. During a 28-year career at Genzyme, including 26 years as CEO, he created a process of drug development that for the first time was patient-centered. He also helped forge biotech's public policy agenda and inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to take on large and important challenges. An extraordinary number of today's biotech leaders were directly mentored by Termeer. His own leadership was iconoclastic: He broke rules and took risks, setting ambitious goals and finding novel ways to reach them. In doing so he transformed an industry and brought hope to patients with a range of diseases previously deemed too rare to justify the investment needed to support the development of specific therapies. In Conscience and Courage, John Hawkins, an insightful analyst of healthcare leaders, reveals the philosophy, principles, methods, and habits of a prominent and successful CEO who defied convention to create an investor-owned global enterprise that put people before profits and improved the lives of thousands of forgotten patients.

Book Scruples

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Krantz
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2011-09-07
  • ISBN : 030780352X
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Scruples written by Judith Krantz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it. Scruples was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. The New York Post said that "Scruples was born to be a smash bestseller. . . It has more inside information about the worlds of high fashion and Hollywood than you'd find in a dozen manuals." With Scruples, Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. she takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives. Scruples is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels.

Book Being Elizabethan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Jones
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-04-09
  • ISBN : 1119168244
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Being Elizabethan written by Norman Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare’s age. Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God, nation, society and self. This well-written, accessible book depicting how Elizabethans perceived reality and acted on their perceptions illustrates Elizabethan life, offering readers well-told stories about the Elizabethan people and the world around them. It defines the older ideas of pre-Elizabethan culture and shows how they were shattered and replaced by a new culture based on the emergence of individual conscience. The book posits that post-Reformation English culture, emphasizing the internalization of religious certainties, embraced skepticism in ways that valued individualism over older communal values. Being Elizabethan portrays how people’s lives were shaped and changed by the tension between a received belief in divine stability and new, destabilizing, ideas about physical and metaphysical truth. It begins with a chapter that examines how idealized virtues in a divinely governed universe were encapsulated in funeral sermons and epitaphs, exploring how they perceived the Divine Order. Other chapters discuss Elizabethan social stations, community, economics, self-expression, and more. Illustrates how early modern culture was born by exposing readers to events, artistic expressions, and personal experiences Provides an understanding of Elizabethan people by summarizing momentous events with which they grew up Appeals to students, scholars, and laymen interested in history and literature of the Elizabethan era Shows how a new cultural era, the age of Shakespeare, grew from collapsing late Medieval worldviews. Being Elizabethan is a captivating read for anyone interested in early modern English culture and society. It is an excellent source of information for those studying Tudor and early Stuart history and/or literature.