Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Philosophy): Charles E. Harris, Michael S. Pritchard, Michael J. Rabins

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Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Philosophy): Charles E. Harris, Michael S. Pritchard, Michael J. Rabins

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This book helps engineering students carry over their natural analytical talents into a new area - moral deliberation. It shows them the importance of being analytical by stressing that many apparent moral disagreements are really disagreements over the facts or over the definitions of crucial terms, and that the locus of moral disagreement can only be discovered by analysis. Since engineers are interested in real-world problems, the text catches the attention of students in the field by focusing on cases that hit the front pages of newspapers (e.g., the Challenger disaster and the Ford Pinto gas tank) as well as those more typical of the sort they are likely to encounter in their own careers.

About the Author
Charles E. Harris, Jr. received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and currently teaches at Texas A&M University. He has authored several articles and books on ethics, including APPLYING MORAL THEORIES (Wadsworth, 2002).

Michael S. Pritchard specializes in Ethical Theory, Professional Ethics (including Engineering Ethics), and Philosophy for Children. Having received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, he currently teaches at Western Michigan University.

Michael J. Rabins was active in ASME and other volunteer organizations on engineering ethics issues. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and ended his teaching career at Texas A&M University. He helped establish a course in engineering ethics in 1989 that is now required of all engineering majors. Professor Rabins died in 2007.
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The Living Trust Workbook: Robert A. Esperti, Renno L. Peterson, David K. Cahoone

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Trying to overcome the antipathy people feel toward discussing estate matters is like trying to get a child to eat lima beans. Lawyers Esperti and Peterson attempt to make estate planning–specifically, creating a living trust–an act of love. Whether or not they succeed is moot; what they do admirably well is provide logical, clear reasons for establishing a living trust. Almost every chapter includes sample forms, from a letter to confirm a first-time meeting with a new attorney to an assignment to the trust of a lease, with the caveat to consult a lawyer before executing these documents. Barbara Jacobs
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Since Robert A. Esperti and Renno L. Peterson’s groundbreaking book, Loving Trust, was published in 1988, more and more people have chosen Living Trusts as a probate-free alternative to wills or conventional substitutes. Now in this revised edition, Esperti and Peterson, with David K. Cahoone, have updated and expanded this easy-to-use guide that explains everything you need to know about creating and implementing a Living Trust. This essential workbook will help you and your advisors design a trust tailored for your circumstances and wishes. In this workbook you will learn:

• what a Living Trust is, how it works, and how it will save you money and your family stress during a difficult time
• the role of a Living Trust in the event of disability
• how to place various properties, such as real estate, market accounts, and businesses into your Living Trust
• charts, checklists, worksheets, and sample forms with instructions on how to use them
• tips on choosing and working with a lawyer

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Answers to Satisfy the Soul: Clear, Straight Answers to 20 of Life’s Most Important Questions: James D. Denney

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“…once you start reading “Answers to Satisfy the Soul”, your life will be forever changed!” — James Osterhaus, Ph.D., psychologist and author of The Thing in the Bushes: Turning Organizational Blind Spots into Competitive Advantage and Questions Couples Ask Behind Closed Doors

“A thoughtful and passionate exploration of many questions that puzzle modern folk, in a time of rapid change.” — David Brin, author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?

“As brisk and enjoyable as a good novel, this book challenges, informs, enlightens, and yes, satisfies.” — Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula-winning science fiction writer; author of Calculating God and The Terminal Experiment

“Buy one for yourself, one to lend out, and a dozen to give as gifts.” — Pat Williams, Senior Executive Vice President, the Orlando Magic; author of Go For the Magic and The Magic of Teamwork

“If you are on a quest for success, happiness, love, meaning, or God, this book is for you.” — John C. Maxwell, author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Be a People Person; founder of The INJOY Group

“Jim Denney has more insight and practical wisdom than one human being should be allowed to have.” — Bruce & Stan, best-selling authors of Bruce & Stan Search for the Meaning of Life

“Profound insights wrapped in a fun and friendly package…a book both ‘rare’ and ‘well-done’!” — Dave Thomas, founder and chairman of Wendy’s, and author of Dave’s Way and Well Done!

“Read this book and save yourself a lifetime of searching and wondering. The answers you seek are all right here!” — Jack Canfield, author of Dare to Win and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

“These Answers will not only satisfy you they will get you to thinking and believing and doing.” — Bert Decker, author of Speaking with Bold Assurance and You’ve Got to be Believed to Be Heard

“Wisdom clothed in a lively, contemporary, conversational writing style. Full of thought-provoking concepts.” — Muriel James, author/coauthor of 19 books including the classic Born to Win: Transactional Analysis and Gestalt Exercises [now in 22 languages] and It’s Never Too Late to be Happy.

In Answers to Satisfy the Soul, Jim Denney brings together such disparate subjects as football and physics to answer the deepest questions of life and he does it with energy, humor, and a delightful sense of fun!

These are the questions that trouble every human soul. And, these are answers that make sense, that bring confidence, solace, and peace. Answers that offer real satisfaction to our souls.

Questioning Ourselves

Does character matter? How do I become successful? How can I increase my luck? How can I put more time in my day? How can I learn to stop worrying? This book offers workable, practical steps to managing the details of your life so you can reach your life goals. These answers will transform your life.

Questioning Relationships

Do I always have to forgive? How can I forgive myself? How can I get past feeling angry? What is love and how can I find it? How can I build a better relationship? Here you’ll find the keys to living with and loving the people around you. These answers will transform your relationships.

Questioning Life

Is truth important? Why is there evil in the world? What is the meaning of life? How can I get past my fear of death? How can I find happiness? These answers will bring you solace.

Questioning the Infinite

Does God exist? What is the soul? Does prayer really work? Do miracles really happen? Is it important to have a religion? If you think these answers are unanswerable, you’re in for a big surprise. These answers will satisfy your soul.

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EVA: The Real Key to Creating Wealth: Al Ehrbar

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Al Ehrbar says there’s a more meaningful way to gauge a company’s performance than by quarterly earnings or other traditional yardsticks. It’s called EVA, or economic value added, and it’s helped turn companies like Coca-Cola into great engines of profit for shareholders. In EVA: The Real Key to Creating Wealth, Ehrbar describes how the formula works and how it can determine how efficient your company really is.

Unlike other financial ratios like EPS, or earnings per share, and ROE, or return on equity, EVA takes into account a critical factor: the cost of capital, or how much it costs to produce $1 in profit. Other measurements can be misleading because they show profits without deducting the price of producing them–a company that spends $1 to earn $1 could still appear profitable. As a result, Ehrbar says, those ratios can often show “accounting profits” rather than true profits as does EVA.

Ehrbar, a former editor and writer at such publications as Fortune and the Wall Street Journal, builds a convincing case for EVA. Take Wal-Mart vs. Kmart in the 1980s, Ehrbar writes. By traditional accounting measures, Kmart appeared to be the more profitable company, with an average gross profit margin of about 29 percent, while Wal-Mart’s was only about 23 percent. But over the decade, Kmart’s market value plummeted and Wal-Mart’s surged. “So why was Wal-Mart a winner and Kmart a loser? Because Wal-Mart was using its capital more efficiently,” Ehrbar writes, with higher sales per square foot of space and lower inventory as percentage of sales than Kmart. While EVA is geared for corporate managers, investors also will find a comprehensive method for judging a company’s value. –Dan Ring

From Booklist
Stem Stewart & Company has made a significant contribution to the field of corporate finance through its development of EVA, or Economic Value Added. Ehrbar is a senior vice president of the firm. The research of Nobel laureates Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani provided the original basis for EVA, which measures a company’s true profitability and provides a strategy for creating corporate and shareholder wealth. EVA is a performance measure and the basis for incentive compensation that drives behavior, making management actions and shareholder needs compatible. It forces managers to act like owners by holding monies at risk that are lost to them if improvements in performance are not sustained. Stem Stewart has expanded its application of EVA incentives beyond the executive level, down to workers on the shop floor, and we learn of instances in which the application of EVA has dramatically increased a company’s stock price. Although this book is an infomercial for Stem Stewart, it should be noted that EVA has made an important contribution to modern business thought. Mary Whaley

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Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live by: Danah Zohar, Ian Marshall

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Spiritual Capital presents a new vision of capitalist society that transcends the greed, materialism, and meaninglessness so rampant today. It offers an idea of wealth, profit, and capital that’s about more than simply money. “Profit,” under this system, would be not merely for private gain but would be used in part for public good. “Wealth” would be that which enriches the deeper aspects of our lives, gained by drawing upon our most fundamental purposes and highest motivations and finding a way to embed these in our work. “Capital” is amassed by serving - in corporate philosophy and practice - the pressing concerns of our world. The author’s dream of getting a critical mass of people and organizations to act for what’s right rather than for self-serving reasons. Ideally, spiritual capital would reflect a values-based business culture. Instead of emphasizing shareholder value, it would promote “stakeholder value,” where stakeholders include the whole human race and the planet itself.

About the Author
Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United States. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT and then did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is the author of the best-selling The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society. In 1997 she published Who’s Afraid of Schrodinger’s Cat?, a survey of twentieth-century scientific ideas, and her business book, ReWiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations. In February 2000 she published SQ: Spiritual Intelligence — The Ultimate Intelligence. Zohar is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and at Macquarie University Graduate School of Management in Sydney. Dr. Ian Marshall is a Jungian-oriented psychiatrist and psychotherapist and the co-author of several of Danah Zohar’s books. He studied Philosophy and Psychology at Oxford University before entering medical school at London University. He conducts workshops internationally with Danah Zohar.

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Space Commerce ‘90: John J. Egan

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In summary, the real value of this volume lies in its comprehensive coverage of space-business topics and in the timeliness of its publication. BR b –Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal /b BR BR

In summary, the real value of this volume lies in its comprehensive coverage of space-business topics and in the timeliness of its publication.
–Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal

These conference proceedings on space commerce, perhaps the economic frontier of the next century, offer the insights of top international leaders from the United States, Australia, the Soviet Union and Europe.

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Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live by: Danah Zohar, Ian Marshall

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Spiritual Capital presents a new vision of capitalist society that transcends the greed, materialism, and meaninglessness so rampant today. It offers an idea of wealth, profit, and capital that’s about more than simply money. “Profit,” under this system, would be not merely for private gain but would be used in part for public good. “Wealth” would be that which enriches the deeper aspects of our lives, gained by drawing upon our most fundamental purposes and highest motivations and finding a way to embed these in our work. “Capital” is amassed by serving - in corporate philosophy and practice - the pressing concerns of our world. The author’s dream of getting a critical mass of people and organizations to act for what’s right rather than for self-serving reasons. Ideally, spiritual capital would reflect a values-based business culture. Instead of emphasizing shareholder value, it would promote “stakeholder value,” where stakeholders include the whole human race and the planet itself.

About the Author
Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United States. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT and then did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is the author of the best-selling The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society, books which extend the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization. In 1997 she published Who’s Afraid of Schrodinger’s Cat?, a survey of twentieth-century scientific ideas, and her business book, ReWiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations. In February 2000 she published SQ: Spiritual Intelligence — The Ultimate Intelligence.

For the past several years, Zohar has been active in management education and consultancy. Companies to which she has made in-house presentations at senior management level have included The Swedish Forestry Commission, Volvo, Astra Pharmaceutical, Werner Lambert Pharmaceutical, Philip Morris Tabacco, Marks & Spencer, Shell, British Telecom, Motorola, Philips, Norwich Union Financial Services, Merita Financial Services (Finland), Skandia Insurance and Financial Services, The Bank of International Settlements, Scottish Enterprise, Fife Enterprise, BMW, McCann Erikson and McKinsey. She was on the faculty of Shell UK’s “Challenges for Change” senior management training program and has addressed the leadership team leading Shell USA’s transformation process for senior management.

Danah Zohar lectures widely throughout the world at conferences organized by such bodies as UNESCO, The European Cultural Foundation, The Davos World Economic Forum, The World Business Academy, YPO, IFTDO (the International Federation of Training and Development Organizations), the British Cabinet Office, Japan’s Council for the Growth of Future Generations, The American National Education Association (NEA), Britain’s Industrial Society, and the Australian National Government. She has addressed members of The Swedish National Parliament and has worked with local government representatives and educators in several countries. Zohar is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and at Macquarie University Graduate School of Management in Sydney. Dr. Ian Marshall is a Jungian-oriented psychiatrist and psychotherapist and the co-author of several of Danah Zohar’s books. He studied Philosophy and Psychology at Oxford University before entering medical school at London University. He conducts workshops internationally with Danah Zohar.

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Engineering Ethics: An Industrial perspective: Gail Dawn Baura

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“This is a most extraordinary book. Its contents range from valuable reference material on Sarbanes-Oxley and US engineering codes of conduct to some folksy, almost sentimental, personal case histories. But, remarkably, the author’s own personal commitment and integrity shine through on every page.”
- John Turnbull, The Chemical Engineer, August 2006

At first glance, this book looks like most other recent volumes on this topic. But where other books often written in whole or part by philosophers and academics - can be tedious for engineers who are not coversant with ethical theory, Baura definitely approaches from an industrial perspective. She also addresses the subject with a concrete problem-solving approach and with more elegant prose and a better organization than I find in other treatments.- Gael UlRich, Chemical Engineering 2006

Despite the US focus, the examples are presented with a level of detail that will enable engineers anywhere to understand the underlying technical and behavioral issues. It will be welcomed by those teaching engineering ethics modules, especially with the up-to-date examples we all remember from the news.- Julia King, Materials Today, March 2007

Book Description
Applying Engineering Ethics with real world case studies in a real world approach

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Wall Street Stories: Introduction by Jack Schwager: Edwin Lefevre

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“Lefèvre provided me with a goal when I wrote my first Market Wizards book… to write a book that would emulate the spirit of Lefèvre’s work in maintaining truth and relevance many years after it was written.”
-from the Foreword by Jack Schwager

The book that launched Edwin Lefèvre’s literary career, Wall Street Stories is considered by many to be his most memorable work, second only to Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, his classic fictionalization of the life of Jesse Livermore. Published to great critical acclaim in 1901, Wall Street Stories is a literary romp through the habits and customs of Wall Street. Like all of Lefèvre’s fiction it is firmly rooted in the facts as he knew them both as a top financial journalist and a successful investor, and, as was his style, many of the fictional characters in the stories are thinly-veiled portraits of well-known Wall Street personalities such as James R. Keene, Elverton R. Chapman, Roswell Pettibone Flower, and Daniel Drew-names as familiar to the public in their day as Warren Buffet, George Soros, and Julian Robertson are today.

But the charm of the eight tales in Wall Street Stories isn’t just in their ability to convey a sense of life in a bygone era. It comes from the timeless insights they offer into human nature warped in the crucible of the stock market. Each of these witty tales of still resonate with poignancy and simple authority.

From the Back Cover

Timeless Wit and Wisdom on the Birth of Modern Wall Street

“Lefévre’s lessons on this subject are state of the art-and he provides lots more fun at the same time. His stories are a delight.”
-Peter L. Bernstein, author, Capital Ideas Evolving and Against the Gods

“Wall Street Stories is as relevant today as they were over a century ago. Lefévre’s descriptions of investor behavior are now the standard lessons of behavioral finance.”
–Burton G. Malkiel, author, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, 9th Edition

“Wall Street Stories, Edwin Lefévre’s collection of masterful short stories, is a box of rare financial bon bons; I guarantee you won’t be able to eat just one.”
–William Bernstein, author, The Four Pillars of Investing and Birth of Plenty

“More than a century after he first crafted these insightful parables of fear and greed, Edwin Lefévre’s Wall Street Storie continues to furnish investment lessons and wisdom that are as priceless, timeless, and peerless today as they were when American capital markets first emerged onto the global stage.”
-David M. Darst, author, The Art of Asset Allocation, Second Edition

“Markets are driven by the law of supply and demand and human nature (hope, fear, and greed) which doesn’t change. Wall Street Stories tells you about stock pools and human psychology on daily display.”
-William J. O’Neil, Chairman & Founder, Investor’s Business Daily and www. investors.com

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