Authors:Suzanne Benn, Dexter Dunphy, Andrew Griffith,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: change, organizational, future, understanding, agents, guide, corporate, sustainability, leaders
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0415287413
ISBN-13: 9780415287418

This title is a unified approach to corporate sustainability, combining ecological and human sustainability. Key areas covered include HRM, strategic, organizational and environmental issues. Not only valuable to students, it will also prove invaluable to practitioners as a practical guide for change agents in bringing about sustainability in a systematic way. Practice and theory are carefully balanced; uniquely the authors provide a combination of insight into the subject and practical assistance with implementation.

Authors:Dexter Dunphy, Andrew Griffiths, Suzanne Benn,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: change, organizational, future, understanding, agents, guide, corporate, sustainability, leaders
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-05-22
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415393302
ISBN-13: 9780415393300

The sustainability of business, both economically and ecologically, is one of this century’s key debates. In this fully revised and updated edition of their ground-breaking study of organizational change and corporate sustainability, Dexter Dunphy, Andrew Griffiths and Suzanne Benn argue that there are important benefits to the corporation in making changes for sustainability, and that a sustainable world is only possible with the formation of creative alliances between corporations, citizens and governments. Bringing together global issues of ecological sustainability, strategic human re

Author: Benn Steil
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Keywords: special, report, council, crisis, financial, lessons
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0876094329
ISBN-13: 9780876094327

In this report, Benn Steil shows that the financial crisis is the inevitable bust of a classic credit boom, and explains how monetary, taxation, and home ownership promotion policy combined with other features of the financial system to fuel an unsustainable buildup in debt. He recommends significant reforms to reverse the debt financing bias and make the system more resilient to falls in asset prices.

Author: Charles Benn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: tang, dynasty, life, everyday, golden, china
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-10-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195176650
ISBN-13: 9780195176650

The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Charles Benn paints a vivid picture of the lifestyle behind the grandeur of the Tang culture. All aspects of day-to-day life are presented, including crime,entertainment, fashion, marriage, food, hygiene, dwellings, and transportation. Attend an ancient feast to celebrate an imperial birthday, where ale was served in elaborate pitchers before

Author: Benn Pitman
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: labors, life, pitman, isaac, sir
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1417965738
ISBN-13: 9781417965731

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author: Piers Benn
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: philosophy, fundamentals, ethics
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0773517014
ISBN-13: 9780773517011

Benn stimulates a concern for moral discourse through an initial discussion of moral objectivity and relativism, a central problem for ethical theory as well as one of the most immediate and practical concerns in our contemporary world. He suggests that most of the arguments offered in support of relativism are really arguments for tolerance and elucidates the crucial distinction and its implications. His emphasis on showing the reader how to think critically about the issues is brought to bear on key moral concepts throughout the book. Free will and determinism, pleasure and happiness, reason

Author: Carl Benn
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
Keywords: york, fort, historic
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-06-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0920474799
ISBN-13: 9780920474792

Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto. Twenty years later, the Fort was the scene of the bloody Battle of York in which the famous American explorer, Zebulon Pike, died leading US forces against the Fort’s outnumbered Canadian, British and Aboriginal defenders. The Americans won this battle and torched the province’s public buildings during a six-day occupation. A year later, British forces retaliated by capturing Washington and