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The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juarez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua than in wartorn Afghanistan. Thanks to a culture of impunity, 97 percent of the killings in Juarez go unsolved. Despite a climate of fear, a small group of human rights activists, exemplified by the Chihuahua lawyer and organizer Lucha Castro, works to identify the killers and their...

A pedagogical approach to the principles and architecture of knowledge management in organizations

This textbook is based on a graduate course taught at Stevens Institute of Technology. It focuses on the design and management of today's complex K organizations. A K organization is any company that generates and applies knowledge. The text takes existing ideas from organizational design and knowledge management to enhance and elevate each through harmonization with concepts from other disciplines. The authors--noted experts in the field--concentrate on both micro- and macro...

"Sheer intellectual bliss," "The Los Angeles Times,"

"A Passionate and erudite critique of American culture," "Library Journal,"

One man's time capsule, lovingly gathered and carefully packed and then deliberately dropped from a great height, shattering on impact into brilliant smithereens. A tender, funny, language-drunk mix of autobiography, confession, commonplace book, humanist battlecry, it's completely wonderful," Michael Herr, author of "Dispatches,"

Das zärtliche Porträt einer Partnerschaft und einer wilden Liebe zu Sizilien, wo der Tod nicht das Ende bedeutet

»Die Verwebung von sikelischer Mythologie, äußerst Privatem und Gwyneth Paltrow ist einzigartig. Noto ist ein sehr guter, ein sehr kluger Roman.«
Christian Kracht

Als sein Partner stirbt, reist Konrad mit Adrianos Asche nach Sizilien, wo sie sich in den letzten gemeinsamen Jahren ein Haus gekauft und eine zweite Heimat geschaffen hatten. Auf die Reise begleitet ihn der unter anderem junge,...