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Moses (Hardcover)
Maurice D. Harris
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Yes You Can Survive Adolescence and Beyond was inspired by Jeffrey
Harris' childhood and life long experience. Growing up without
knowing his biological father, reared in a financially challenged
household, Mr. Harris makes no excuses of what he didn't have, but
talks about how he achieved what he does have. He learned the
values of hardwork at an early age. Self-determination never left
him although hard times challenged him. Reflecting on how he walked
around with cardboard stuffed at the bottom of his shoes to replace
their worn soles, drug dealing and use, and gang involvement, Mr.
Harris knows that there is a much better life for everyone despite
their challenges. The book captures such experiences of everyday
people and prominent people we all know. His experience in the
United States Army awakened him to his life's purpose. Although
those years were not his best, they were the years that fertilized
the seed his grandfather planted within him to cultivate the man he
is today. This book is straight talk. It is nothing spectacular,
but provocative, practical, profound and to the point. His advice
to young people is believable and achievable. The book is trusting
and real. Now, you be the judge
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black
women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what
they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in
many cases, they did not succeed. Harris demonstrates that Black
women have tried to gain centrality through their participation in
Presidential Commissions, Black feminist organizations, theatrical
productions, film adaptations of literature, beauty pageants,
electoral politics, and Presidential appointments. Harris contends
that 'success' in this area means that the feminist-identified
Black women in the Congressional Black Caucus who voted against
Clarence Thomas's appointment would have spoken on behalf of Anita
Hill; Senator Carol Moseley Braun would have won re-election; Lani
Gunier would have had a hearing; Dr. Joycelyn Elders would have
maintained her post; and Congresswoman Barbara Lee wouldn't have
stood alone in her opposition to the Iraq war resolution.
In business, driving value is a key strategy and typically starts
at the top of an organization. In today's digital age, driving
software value is also an important, and often overlooked, key
strategy. Executives, and the corporate board, need to expect the
highest level of business value from the software the organization
is developing, buying, and selling. In today's digital
transformation marketplace, it is imperative that organizations
start driving business value from software development initiatives.
For many years, the cost of software development challenged
organizations with questions such as: How do we allocate software
development costs? Should these costs be considered an overhead
expense? Are we getting the most value possible for our investment?
A fundamental problem has been built into these questions - the
focus on cost. In almost every other part of the organization,
maximizing profit or, in the case of a not-for-profit, maximizing
the funds available, provides a clear focus with metrics to
determine success or failure. In theory, simply aligning software
spending with the maximizing profit goals should be sufficient to
avoid any questions about value for money. Unfortunately, this
alignment hasn't turned out to be so simple, and the questions
persist, particularly at the strategic or application portfolio
level. In this book, Michael D.S. Harris describes how a software
business value culture-one where all stakeholders, including
technology and business-have a clear understanding of the goals and
expected business value from software development. The book shows
readers how they can transform software development from a cost or
profit center to a business value center. Only a culture of
software as a value center enables an organization to constantly
maximize business value flow through software development. If your
organization is starting to ask how it can change software from a
cost-center to a value-center, this book is for you.
In this original collection of essays, a group of distinguished
scholars critically examine the ethical dimensions of business
using the Kantian themed business ethics of Norman E. Bowie as a
jumping off point. The authors engage Bowie's influential body of
scholarship as well as contemporary themes in business, including
topics such as: the normative foundations of capitalism; the
applicability of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, and pragmatism in
normative business ethics; meaningful work; managerial ethics; the
ethics of high leverage finance capitalism; business ethics and
corporate social responsibility; and responsibility for the natural
environment. The contributors to this volume include both scholars
sympathetic to Bowie's Kantian business ethics and scholars
critical of that perspective. As one of the foundational figures in
the establishment and legitimization of the study of business
ethics as a field of scholarship, Bowie casts a long shadow over
the field. Over the last thirty years he has applied a distinctive,
Kantian approach to the analysis of problems in business ethics and
his work has had a substantial impact on a wide range of theory and
scholarship in the field. Bowie argues in his work that economic
value is not the only value that should inform managers,
executives, and policymakers when making both business policy
decisions and everyday management decisions. He utilizes a Kantian
framework to support the position that additional values - such as
human dignity and rational consistency - should inform business
practice and influence managerial decision-making. He also shows
that business practices that include these additional values are
consistent with sound management theory and that such businesses
can be financially successful. This volume of scholarly essays will
be of considerable interest to students and scholars working in
business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and organization
studies. Contributors: D.G. Arnold, N.E. Bowie, J.B. Ciulla, M.A.
Cohen, C.T. Dang, R.T. De George, J.R. DesJardins, J.W. Dienhart,
R. Duska, R.E. Freeman, J.D. Harris, R.P. Nielsen, S.J. Reynolds,
J. Smith, P.H. Werhane
Public trust in business is one of the most important but least
understood issues for business leaders, public officials,
employees, NGOs and other key stakeholders. This book provides
much-needed thinking on the topic. Drawing on the expertise of an
international array of experts from academic disciplines including
business, sociology, political science and philosophy, it explores
long-term strategies for building and maintaining public trust in
business. The authors look to new ways of moving forward, by
carefully blending the latest academic research with conclusions
for future research and practice. They address core drivers of
public trust, how to manage it effectively, the consequences of low
public trust, and how best to address trust challenges and repair
trust when it has been lost. This is a must-read for business
practitioners, policy makers and students taking courses in
corporate social responsibility or business ethics.
The book evaluates service-learning within the context of a liberal
arts education from a variety of disciplines. Contributors have
written chapters that have practical appeal to other teachers and
students interested in developing their own service-learning
courses and connecting those courses to broader issues of
citizenship and democracy.
By November 1822, the British reading public had already
voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and
Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred
to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact
bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship's Offerings, Keepsakes,
and Literary Souvenirs. By wrapping literature, poetry, and art
into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the
market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary
annual. In Forget Me Not, Katherine D. Harris assesses the
phenomenal rise of the annual and its origins in other English,
German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence
on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture. Harris
adopts an interdisciplinary approach that uses textual and social
contexts to explore a forum of subversive femininity, where warfare
and the masculine hero were not celebrated. Initially published in
diminutive, decoratively bound volumes filled with engravings of
popularly recognized artwork and "sentimental" poetry and prose,
the annuals attracted a primarily middle-class female readership.
The annuals were released each November, making them an ideal
Christmas gift, lover's present, or token of friendship. Selling
more than 100,000 copies during each holiday season, the annuals
were accused of causing an epidemic and inspiring an "unmasculine
and unbawdy age" that lasted through 1860 and lingered in
derivative forms until the early twentieth century in both the
United States and Europe. The annual thrived in the 1820s and after
despite - or perhaps because of - its "feminine" writing and
beautiful form.
In business, driving value is a key strategy and typically starts
at the top of an organization. In today's digital age, driving
software value is also an important, and often overlooked, key
strategy. Executives, and the corporate board, need to expect the
highest level of business value from the software the organization
is developing, buying, and selling. In today's digital
transformation marketplace, it is imperative that organizations
start driving business value from software development initiatives.
For many years, the cost of software development challenged
organizations with questions such as: How do we allocate software
development costs? Should these costs be considered an overhead
expense? Are we getting the most value possible for our investment?
A fundamental problem has been built into these questions - the
focus on cost. In almost every other part of the organization,
maximizing profit or, in the case of a not-for-profit, maximizing
the funds available, provides a clear focus with metrics to
determine success or failure. In theory, simply aligning software
spending with the maximizing profit goals should be sufficient to
avoid any questions about value for money. Unfortunately, this
alignment hasn't turned out to be so simple, and the questions
persist, particularly at the strategic or application portfolio
level. In this book, Michael D.S. Harris describes how a software
business value culture-one where all stakeholders, including
technology and business-have a clear understanding of the goals and
expected business value from software development. The book shows
readers how they can transform software development from a cost or
profit center to a business value center. Only a culture of
software as a value center enables an organization to constantly
maximize business value flow through software development. If your
organization is starting to ask how it can change software from a
cost-center to a value-center, this book is for you.
Treatment of articular cartilage pathology in the knees of young
and active patients is a challenging and controversial issue.
Biologic Knee Reconstruction: A Surgeon's Guide is a how-to,
step-by-step guide that addresses the evaluation and management of
this unique patient population. Â Internationally renowned
cartilage experts Dr. Brian J. Cole and Dr. Joshua D. Harris, along
with their contributors, present information on normal and abnormal
history and physical examination. The reader will learn proper
decision-making using a patient-centered approach of treatment,
increasing the likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition to
radiographic assessment of articular cartilage, Biologic Knee
Reconstruction discusses the use of biomarkers, defect
classification, and patient-reported and surgeon-measured outcomes.
Aggressive nonsurgical medical management, including medications,
injections, physiotherapy, and rehabilitation, is also presented.
 Biologic Knee Reconstruction also discusses the management
of concomitant pathologies such as malalignment, meniscal
deficiency, and ligamentous instability. Selection of surgical
cartilage restorative treatment options is multifactorial,
requiring consideration of several patient-, knee-, and
defect-specific issues. All contemporary open and arthroscopic
cartilage techniques are presented in detail with high resolution
figures. A unique feature of Biologic Knee Reconstruction is the
presentation of several chapters discussing non-medical issues
highly pertinent to the advancement and future of this field:
funding of research and cost of new advanced technologies,
regulation of advanced cellular, tissue, and genetic technologies,
evidence-based medicine and clinical trial design and conduct, and
the ethics of allograft tissues and stem cell use. Â
Features: Technique preference cards from the experts performing
cartilage surgery Patient education information The most up-to-date
descriptions of advanced cartilage techniques Unique chapters not
covered in books elsewhere, including: Biomarkers Patient-reported
outcomes assessment Newer injection techniques (PRP, stem cells)
One- and two-stage open and arthroscopic techniques using
chondrocyte- and stem cell based cell therapies Costs and public
and private funding of research Barriers to high-quality randomized
trials Governmental regulation and availability/accessibility to
patients Gene therapy and tissue engineering Ethics of articular
cartilage surgery with stem cells, ex-vivo cell manipulation, and
juvenile tissue sources  With the most up-to-date content
and step-by-step methods for surgical procedures, Biologic Knee
Reconstruction: A Surgeon's Guide is the perfect addition to the
bookshelf of the orthopedic surgeon, cartilage researcher, sports
physical therapist, or athletic trainer who evaluates and manages
this unique patient population.
The economic analysis of labor and employment law is a bold effort
to apply economic theory to explain important empirical facts about
the regulation of the employment relationship and to provide
positive predictions and normative analyses that are useful to
policy-makers. This book draws together 24 chapters, by leading
scholars in the field, summarizing the important theoretical and
empirical work that has been done to date on a wide spectrum of
labor and employment law topics including: regulating employment
contracts, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, health
insurance, executive pay, workers' compensation, unemployment,
occupational health and safety, discrimination, needs of families,
training and slave labor, to name but a few. This volume is one of
the first in a series on specific topics within law and economics
which builds upon, updates and replaces Elgar's very popular
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. It is designed as an essential
starting point for academics and policy-makers who are interested
in these topics.
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