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Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the author of many books, including Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It (with Ann E. Tenbrunsel) (Princeton), Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore), Better, Not Perfect, and The Power of Noticing. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his spouse, Marla.
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive...
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Jasmine Toguchi volume 7
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When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.
3) Stoicism
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Are you tired of the glass being half empty?
Do you worry you don't have the strength to cope when something bad happens? (And something bad always happens!)
Stoicism changed the lives of its followers for the better and now it can do the same for you.
The Stoics knew what made for a good man – and a good life. Four simple virtues empowered them to cope with the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, ill health, and even bereavement. Now you...
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Discover the enthralling synthesis of faith and reason in "Conversations with ChatGPT: Exploring the Theory of Morality and Existence" - 2nd Edition. This groundbreaking philosophical work navigates life's most profound mysteries by artfully weaving together religious, scientific, and philosophical perspectives.
Join the author as he recounts his transformative 20-year odyssey to uncover the meaning of existence, ultimately reconciling faith in God...
5) Manuel, Le
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Il n'y a qu'un chemin pour le bonheur, c'est de cesser de nous tracasser pour des choses qui ne dépendent pas de notre volonté. Tel pourrait être résumé l'enseignement d'Epictète dont le manuel reste l'une des œuvres incontournables de la philosophie stoïcienne.
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Many, including those who profess the Christian faith, don't have a thorough understanding of what Jesus taught on certain issues. Many still seem to think that Christianity supports racism, condones slavery and the oppression of women. I wrote this book to shed light on the truth about what Jesus taught and delve into the issues that affect our society today as much as it did 2,000 years ago. This book focuses on the influence and legacy of Jesus'...
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Lucid Leadership tackles the toughest challenge facing organizational leaders today: how to get unfiltered, honest information from multiple sources and transform it into industry leading growth. In this powerful audiobook, the father and son team of Nicholas and Chase Webb reveal how leaders facing a bewildering mass of data and opinions can cut through the static, get a grip on reality, make affective decisions, and lead their organizations to sustained...
8) Who Am I?
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In his second book in a philosophically guided series, Ray W. Lincoln guides the reader through their first and most important task in a world-changing mission: namely, to learn how to think straight (and teach straight thinking) and combat the insurgence of crooked thinking in our culture and in our world today. "If we become passive victims of this crooked way of thinking," he says, "we promote it. If we remain silent, we also give it credence."
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Depuis que l'Egyptologie existe, les spécialistes n'ont cessé d'accumuler des textes parlant de Maat, déesse égyptienne de la justice. Pourtant Maat est demeurée un mystère pour les Egyptologues du monde entier. Jusqu'à ce jour, ils avouent ne pas savoir exactement ce qu'est la Maat. Ce qu'ils déplorent, car il s'agit là d'un concept-clef de la civilisation égyptienne. Un travail remarquable de déchiffrement des anciens textes a été réalisé...
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Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey are Senior Fellows at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and Research Professors at Furman University. They live in Greenville, South Carolina, with their three children. Website jbstorey.com
A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless....
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A story about an optimistic young man that eventually loses everything as a result of the dissolution of a Fortune 1000 corporation. 401K, IRA, home, and nearly life itself. Standing alone fighting some of the top executives. It takes twenty years to get there and another twenty years to get from there. It describes power games of executives and survival games of employees. And how both contribute to the downfall. It is about Yankees and Texans,...
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How can we avoid worst-case scenarios?
From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Black Mirror, we are all familiar with the tropes of dystopian science fiction. But what if worst-case scenarios could actually become reality? And what if we could do something now to put the world on a better path?
In Avoiding the Worst, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of risks of future suffering (s-risks). With a focus on s-risks that are both realistic and avoidable, he...
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If you own a business, plan to own a business or work in someone's business.
I taught this to 1600 accountants and lawyers and in my UCLA business fraud course.
Learn how they get cheated and what to do and what not to do about it.
The business facts of life nobody taught you.
Business fraud is not about accounting. It's about deception.
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Valerie Tiberius is the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Her books include Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well and The Reflective Life: Living Wisely with Our Limits. She lives in Minneapolis.
A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value-and what to do when your goals conflict
What do you want out of life? To make...
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Jesus didn't see a sick woman, he saw a daughter of God. He didn't see an outcast from society, he saw a child of Israel. He didn't see a sinner, he saw a person in the image of the Creator. Are we able to see others with the eyes of Jesus? Seeing rightly is the beginning of renewal, forgiveness, healing and grace. Seeing rightly, says Mark Labberton, is the beginning of how our hearts are changed. Through careful self-examination in the Spirit, we...
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"Easy-to-read and compellingly argued … masterfully demonstrated … a treasure trove of insights …" – Gregory A. Boyd (from the Foreword)
Have you ever struggled to reconcile Jesus's commands to not resist evil, turn the other cheek, and love your enemies with his use of a whip to clear the temple, his praise for the Roman centurion, his command to the disciples to buy swords, and his frequent warnings of violent judgment, not to mention Revelation's...
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No man can serve two masters, yet both Christ and Caesar demand our allegiance. The prince of this world, and the political institutions he supports and controls, entice us to rely on the arm of flesh as a means of solving our problems. But God seems to want something different to us and His commandments carry political implications that we ignore at our own spiritual peril. Christians seem to find themselves torn between Christ and His counterfeit,...
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Penguin Random House
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2024
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1 online resource(1 sound file (8hr.,17min.,12sec.))
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-- In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level really make a difference? In Catastrophe Ethics, Travis Rieder tackles the moral philosophy puzzles that bedevil us. He explores vital ethical concepts from history and today and offers new ways to think about the “right” thing to do when the challenges we face are larger and more complex than...
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