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In this detailed book, we take you on a never before inside view of Microsoft Integrity which details the steps that Microsoft publicly states as company's standards of business conduct which are applicable to all Microsoft employees irrespective of their seniority. Does the company take its own company wide compliance and ethics policy seriously? The answer to that is, what is said unfortunately is different from what is practiced inside by those...
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This book has a very grand ambition. That of putting forth a fundamentally new economic theory-the symbiotic economy-that could bring about the coexistence of humans and nature.John miller offers a synthesis of numerous methodologies and fields of study that have gained attention recently, including permaculture, the circular economy, the economy of functionality, peer-to-peer lending, the social and solidarity economy, and complementary currencies....
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Our legal system is broken...
So, posits Raymond Kawamata in this scathing indictment of the US justice system. And, he should know. When Kawamata, a Hawaiian rose farmer, discovered one day that his roses had been dying due to a manufacturing defect of a fungicide he had applied to his plants, he did what any aggrieved customer would do: he asked for compensation from the manufacturer. This outwardly simple action against the chemical giant DuPont,...
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Simon Davis is the first truly independent trial lawyer to write about the notorious Manson Family murder spree of 1969. The murders were some of the wildest and most vicious in the annals of crime set against the backdrop of a hazy hippie summer in which flowers and music would fill the air at Woodstock just days after the Tate/LaBianca murders.
By analysing the trials, Davis ties up the loose ends of the story, debunks the myths and also reveals...
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The battle between Big Pharma and scientific integrity
Larger-than-life, creative, and fiercely ambitious, Dr. Charlie Bennett has a long history of revealing dangerous side effects of bestselling medicines. In 2006, his meta-analysis of existing data showed that top-selling ESAs (erythropoietin stimulating agents) created previously unrecognized risks, deaths, and serious illness. According to Dr. Stephen Rosen, chief medical officer of the City...
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Un exceptionnel partage d'expérience et un formidable espoir que représentent l'engagement et le respect absolu des droits humains !
Ce livre n'est ni une autobiographie proprement dite, ni un ouvrage de droit.
Il raconte le cheminement qui a conduit Luc Walleyn à s'engager pour les droits humains, à lutter contre l'impunité de ceux qui les piétinent, à prendre la défense de victimes de génocide, d'esclavage et d'autres crimes contre...
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"A Guide to Ethical Considerations in Various Professions" is a comprehensive exploration of ethical frameworks across diverse fields. Spanning from the foundational principles of ethics to the nuanced considerations within professions such as medicine, law, education, journalism, engineering, social work, business, science, environmental conservation, public service, psychology, nonprofits, technology, research, military, sports, entertainment, and...
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The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world, our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art, are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent, especially without some recourse to the familiar coherency of order. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort...
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As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made aware of the atrocities committed in the Society's jurisdiction. They have been, in turn, puzzled, exasperated and horrified at humanity's cruelty to our...
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Ce guide vous donne les clés de compréhension indispensables à la mise en place et à l'exécution du télétravail. Il expose en 50 questions les aspects fondamentaux sous le prisme juridique :
• Qu'est-ce que le télétravail ? Qu'est-ce qu'il n'est pas ?
• Quels sont les droits et obligations de l'employeur et du salarié en télétravail ?
• Quel régime de travail ? Quels horaires de travail ?
• Quelles règles de santé et de...
93) Class pet mess!
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Alexia is delighted when Mr. Cooper brings in Bob, a hognose snake, as class pet, but when Bob keels over, is Andrea's toy poodle or Alexia's neglect to blame?
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An unvarnished account of the personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power. On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a covert CIA agent. The public...
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Mike McCormick fingers not only to the current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, known for his role in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the failure to deter Putin from invading Ukraine. But what if Jake Sullivan "failed" on purpose to ensure new huge contracts and commissions on the military help to Ukraine?McCormick claims that many other "Obama officials" and maybe Obama himself is connected to the corruption schemes. Obama certainly...
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Les publications consacrées à l'euthanasie sont nombreuses. Y a-t-il encore argument qui ne soit déjà connu ? À l'heure o le débat s'invite en France, au Québec et ailleurs, il est sans conteste éclairant de découvrir la réalité de l'euthanasie, telle qu'elle est pratiquée et vécue dans un pays o elle a été dépénalisée. Seuls trois pays au monde se sont engagés dans cette voie : les Pays-Bas, la Belgique et, récemment, le Luxembourg....
98) Conflicts of Interest In Science: How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health
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30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific Research
For over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos, but far less attention is paid today to the various...
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Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the...
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Today's scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body. Unlocking these secrets has become the new Holy Grail of biomedical research. But behind that search lies a sharp divide, one that has continued for years. Stem cells offer the hope of creating or repairing tissues lost to age, disease, and injury. Yet, because of this ability, stem cells also hold the potential to incite an international biological arms race. The Stem...
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