This collection of case studies covers a number of contemporary issues in business ethics, and can be used either on its own or as a supplement to a core text on the principles of management or organizational behaviour. Its use of international companies makes situations instantly recognizable.
This collection of case studies covers a number of contemporary issues in business ethics, and can be used either on its own or as a supplement to a c...
A true story The world in which the child finds himself is one of vivid and wondrous beauty, and horrifying ugliness, too, that thrills with its suggestion of evil. The father, old enough to be a granddaddy, prides himself a self-made man, likes to dress well and doesn't take crap. The younger mother, a former school teacher, can be teasingly friendly: at other times, as coldly indifferent as ice. School proves difficult. Neither parent is ever satisfied, not even with passing. By the fourth grade, the boy is confined to the principal's office every afternoon. And on the bus, required to sit...
A true story The world in which the child finds himself is one of vivid and wondrous beauty, and horrifying ugliness, too, that thrills with its sugge...
This book tells a true story. An airplane crash sends a dying pilot to the hospital. From death and darkness, he rises to brilliant colour, entering upon a Romantic passion that may only be described as profound. He defies injury, surviving, always surviving, winning the companionship of ladies, until he meets one who gives him an offer he can't refuse The narrative includes the crafting of poems, too, for we cannot have love without poems.
This book tells a true story. An airplane crash sends a dying pilot to the hospital. From death and darkness, he rises to brilliant colour, entering u...
Haunted by the horror of death, Kiltie Hartley emerges from a troubled past. He is sent to an Episcopalian school in the tidewater of eastern Virginia. Into the conventional society celebrated by prep school he does not fit. His final year at a public high school is darkened by deepening alienation. The shadow of death which swallowed him up during his early life catches up with him again the following year in college. Like a snake, the darkness of death coils itself around him, suffocating him in its grip. Resistance-not wanting to be forced to do anything by anyone-pitches him into another...
Haunted by the horror of death, Kiltie Hartley emerges from a troubled past. He is sent to an Episcopalian school in the tidewater of eastern Virginia...
Jeb, a lecturer at Harvard, meets a mysterious pilot with a map who is murdered, the eyes sucked out of his skull while he is still alive. Jeb, shaken by the horror and wanting no more of it, is asked by the faculty at Harvard to travel to Colombia in search of ancient emeralds. In an Indian dialect, the map tells of their secret location. A Monster guards this secret for which the eyes of humans are sacrificed. General Junco, his contact person, finds refuge with an obscure woman, while his red-headed wife Lourdes, once a great beauty, is served nightly by a shadow lover. Jeb is provided a...
Jeb, a lecturer at Harvard, meets a mysterious pilot with a map who is murdered, the eyes sucked out of his skull while he is still alive. Jeb, shaken...
Haunting the Baltic nation of Latvia is a creeping monster. The Creeper is a sadist. The victims are women in their twenties who share two physical characteristics, a secret tattoo and another unmentionable. Into the forest the creeping monster drags each captive to perform his cruel ritual. A matchbook cover is found at a crime scene that says "Sioux Falls, South Dakota." A Lutheran missionary, Samantha Norlunder, is missing. Her brother Luke does postgraduate work at a Lutheran college near Sioux Falls, where he also teaches. His girlfriend, Constance, has begun a prison ministry at the...
Haunting the Baltic nation of Latvia is a creeping monster. The Creeper is a sadist. The victims are women in their twenties who share two physical ch...
Along the Mississippi River lies a swampy island, haunted by an old plantation that was abandoned during the 1800s. An asylum was later built onto the house where bizarre experiments were performed. The asylum, too, was abandoned after the 1940s. Even so, weird tales remain of men being made into monkeys. A Russian mail-order bride lands in the Mississippi Delta. Kat has secret reasons for coming to America. But she has no intention of staying with her prospective husband, Joe Leigh, a pilot. Politicians are regularly flown from the Delta to a secret location in Arkansas, a motel where they...
Along the Mississippi River lies a swampy island, haunted by an old plantation that was abandoned during the 1800s. An asylum was later built onto the...
The Oxen Are Slow is a story of taboo love. Cary, an American writer newly arrived in 1958 Malaya, encounters four sisters, who are each unique in a provocative way. "A handsome stranger appears and no one can find a decent dress to wear," laments Noor. Noor, their mother, is married to her fourth husband, the owner of a eucalyptus plantation who is murdered. The murder mystery may be solved, but what of the four daughters? Down what forbidden path, winding into the dark unknown-for their love is forbidden-do Cary and his lover tumble?
The Oxen Are Slow is a story of taboo love. Cary, an American writer newly arrived in 1958 Malaya, encounters four sisters, who are each unique in a p...
