Completely revised and updated, the new fourth edition of this popular text takes an in-depth look at the social costs and moral problems that have arisen by the ever expanded use of the internet, and offers up-to-date legal and philosophical perspectives. It focuses heavily on content control and free speech, intellectual property, privacy and security, … >>
May 022011
A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation’s most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings.
Political Economy and Global Affairs
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May 012011
Policy decisions at the domestic level–whether relating to currency rates, tariffs on certain goods, or labor protection–factor heavily on such issues as trade, monetary policy, foreign debt, and development. How can we best understand the way those decisions and events at the national level affect outcomes and policy at the international level? A focus on one over the other paints an incomplete picture for students. Sobel contends that we must focus on the individual preferences, strategies, and choices of political-economic policymakers in order to fully understand the larger, macro view of international political economy. With the aim of linking the two, Sobel helps students develop analytic skills for describing both what happens in the international political economy, and why policymakers make the choices they do.
In this groundbreaking new text, Sobel presents–in a lucid and intuitive way–the core assumptions of scarcity, political survival, and rationality which form the basis of the book’s “micro-level” approach. Individuals–not nations–make choices. With constraints as to what resources and opportunities are available, policymakers choose among alternatives that are most in sync with their self-interest. If students understand market failure and social traps, as well as how collective action problems affect interest group and institutional performance, they will be able to answer questions about a wide spectrum of events that start at the domestic level and spill over into global economic markets. Continue reading »
 Ethics in the Fashion IndustryWithin a professional setting such as a business or and educational institution peoplemake decisions about what level of attention and care they give to the tasks at hand, whatthey produce and how they produce it (whether it is a wool coat or a research paper), andhow they present their work to others. If we never … >> |
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 Medical Tourism in Developing CountriesWestern patients are increasingly traveling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. This international trade in medical services has huge economic potential for developing countries and serious implications for health care across the globe. The potential is explored in this book through … >> |
 The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge EconomyThe growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of … >> |
 Strategic Communication in Business and the Professions (7th Edition) (MyCommunicationKit Series)Strategic Communication discusses the four essential elements of effective communication – setting goals, knowing the audience, mastering skills, and managing anxiety. For the successful communicator this book provides the both framework and the necessary tools. |
 Ethics and the Pharmaceutical IndustryDespite the pharmaceutical industry’s notable contributions to human progress, including the development of miracle drugs for treating cancer, AIDS, and heart disease, there is a growing tension between the industry and the public. Debates are raging over how the industry can and should be expected to act. In this volume leading figures in industry, government, … >> |
 The English Workshop: A Programmed Approach, Text-WorkbookWith a major revision, The English Workshop: A Programmed Approach, Fifth Edition (formerly Business English With Programmed Reinforcement) is a comprehensive text-workbook that teaches basic English grammar and usage. It provides a firm and thorough foundation in the basics of workplace writing. Key to the instruction is the use of PROGRAMMED REINFORCEMENT which highlights what … >> |
 Journalism Ethics: A Philosophical Approach (Practical and Professional Ethics Series)Since the introduction of radio and television news, journalism has gone through multiple transformations, but each time it has been sustained by a commitment to basic values and best practices. Journalism Ethics is a reminder, a defense and an elucidation of core journalistic values, with particular emphasis on the interplay of theory, conceptual analysis and … >> |