Social Systems

Imagine building your business vocabulary and having fun at the same time. Now you can! Verbalicious takes a fun, entertaining approach to language. With Liv Montgomery as your verbal tour guide, you'll expand your word base and develop verbal prowess for business situations almost effortlessly. Other vocabulary programs are boring, and often they just don't work. But Verbalicious is fun and engaging.

Social loafing has a negative impact on organizations all over the world, and this book explores the phenomenon as a career choice for workplace slackers. It introduces the subject, discusses its background, exemplifies its occurrences in organizations, highlights the problems it creates, and shows how to minimize its negative influence. Readers gain an understanding of what social loafing is, what it does, and why some employees choose to follow it as a career path.

How can you keep your faith in people after seeing the flaws of the American justice system? Juror #11 exposes the flaws and weaknesses in the American justice system from the perspective of a murder trial juror who endured months of trauma, the threat of jail, and thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees because of them.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20211 (CAA) requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) to submit annually for seven years a report focused on cybersecurity to Congress. The CAA calls for a description of measures the Board has undertaken to strengthen cybersecurity within the financial services sector and with respect to the Board’s functions as a regulator, including the supervision and regulation of financial institutions and third-party service providers.

This book is great for beginners and no seeking general knowledge. It explores green business, social responsibility, organizational ethics, and nonprofit organizations as they relate to business, employees, society, and the environment. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels.

Dive headfirst into the ever-evolving blend of Yoga and the digital world with "Om Online" – your ultimate guide to establishing and improving your yoga studio's online presence. Harness the potential of the digital era and tap into a global audience, bringing the beauty of Yoga to doorsteps worldwide! "Om Online" is a comprehensive guide that starts off by emphasizing the importance of a strong digital presence for your yoga studio and the benefits it carries. The book leverages the shift towards digital Yoga and illustrates how this change affects your studio and the opportunities it ...

New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America’s southern border for nearly a decade, but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In this, his first book, Blitzer goes back to the beginning: to the shadowy civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s; to the American prison system in the 1990s and the policies of mass deportation that transformed local street criminals into international crime syndicates.

The word is out, and the fight is on for civilization to prove that cannabis, also known as marijuana, is the next superdrug. What fascinates me is our body's prebuilt system that feeds off of endocannabinoids, which are contained in plants such as the marijuana plant. I became interested with endocannabinoids because of their responsibility in creating the "runner's high" with which all long-distance and endurance athletes are quite familiar.

Hegels Logik von 1812 komplett (aber ohne die Anmerkungen) in 36 Stunden vorgelesen und mit einem ausführlichen Inhalts- und Trackverzeichnis versehen.

In Get Off My Neck, Debbie Hines draws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor, and assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland to argue that US prosecutors, as the most powerful players in the criminal justice system, systematically target and criminalize Black people. Hines describes her disillusionment as a young Black woman who initially entered the profession with the goal of helping victims of crimes, only to discover herself aiding and abetting a system that prizes plea bargaining, speedy conviction, and excessive punishment above all else.

Many White Christians are eager to fight against racism and for racial justice. But what steps can they take to make good, lasting change? How can they get involved without unintentionally doing more harm than good? In this practical and illuminating guide drawn from more than 20 years of cross-cultural work and learning from some of the greatest leaders of color, pastor and racial justice advocate Daniel Hill provides nine practices rooted in Scripture that will position you to be an active supporter of inclusion, equality, and racial justice.

On the 50th anniversary of Robert Pirsig’s classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, John Zdanowski, a six-time $100 million business builder, applies the Metaphysics of Quality to inspire and empower the entrepreneur in each of us to create something from nothing. Blending personal anecdotes, business case studies, simple diagrams, and philosophical poetry to convey the deep meaning of complicated subjects …so you get it.

Die alte Weltordnung zerbröselt, befeuert durch den neuen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump. Er zettelt Handelskriege an, untergräbt multilaterale Bündnisse und schleift die Schutzmechanismen der amerikanischen Demokratie. Als Systemsprenger betreibt Trump den Rückfall in eine Welt, in der jeder Nationalstaat nur auf den besten Deal aus ist und unsere Werte keine Rolle spielen. Elmar Theveßen entwirft in diesem Buch das düstere Szenario vom Abgleiten in einen Autoritarismus, der uns alle bedroht.

In this path-breaking volume, engagingly written for the general public, psychiatrist Jeffrey Kahn reveals that the Angst of anxiety and depression ultimately results from our transformation, over tens of thousands of years, from biologically shaped, almost herd-like prehistoric tribes, to rational and independent individuals in modern civilization. Because of our Reason, we don't choose to act like sheep.

This audiobook includes simple information on drugs that affect different systems of the body.

ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on ethics or social responsibility of organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Social Responsibility of Organizations This book focuses on social responsibility of organizations by: • Examining the types of social responsibility • Evaluating the impact of social responsibility • Analyzing the advantages of social responsibility • Exploring the problems of social responsibility • Suggesting ways for improving social responsibility • Discussing the future of ...

This is the first book to trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science from antiquity to modern times, showing how the two disciplines have always influenced each other - until recently. In the past few years, the scientific paradigm has shifted dramatically, from seeing the natural world as a kind of cosmic machine to understanding it as a network of fluidly interacting communities. But law is stuck in a mechanistic, 17th-century view that the world is made up of discrete individual parts.

Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago's very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial. Jovan grew up on the rough streets of Chicago's Southeast Side. With one brother dead of HIV complications, another in jail for arson and murder, and most kids his age in gangs, Jovan struggled to be different. Until his arrest, he was.

So far the author is not a well-known scientist. Nonetheless, he has been able to attract occasional interest to his books on scientific topics, particularly because of his popular website on perpetual motion machines. This text gathers together his scientific theories---insights that may be important to science. It includes such areas as psychology, social science, physics of black holes and wormholes, mathematics, miscellaneous theories, and many other topics. It will be updated periodically to give the latest, most advanced and interesting scientific viewpoints advocated by the author. ...

Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy - a fresh start for debtors - were available to people convicted of crimes? Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection of the law, justice, and forgiveness, asking whether the law should encourage people to forgive, and when courts, public officials, and specific laws should forgive.