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In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published his landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, a work that set the agenda for what we now call stakeholder theory. In the intervening years, the literature on stakeholder theory has become vast and diverse. This book examines this body of research...

Thoroughly updated and now featuring more than 100 full-color illustrations, the Fifth Edition of this comprehensive reference provides current, complete diagnostic and therapeutic information on infectious diseases of the female genital tract. This edition includes new chapters on human papillomavirus...

Flaps: Decision Making in Clinical Practice is an excellent readable guide for surgeons utilizing multiple techniques in plastic and reconstructive surgery. The authors have organized a pragmatic guide, specifically focused on those flaps which surgeons find difficult and challenging, with the latest technical developments in all anatomical areas.

Have you wondered what its really like to cross over into the afterlife? Would you like to make it a good trip for yourselfor be an ambassador of goodwill for someone who is dying? If so, welcome to this rich forum of information and compelling personal stories. You may be cynical, frightened, sure...

This book, first published in 1974, is a study of the two states which dominated the northern and western regions of Sudan from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: the Funj kingdom of Sinnār and the Keira sultanate of Dār Fūr. Until now the history of these two states has been neglected in...

This Story was written by Mademoiselle Gautier, a French lady who lives in Paris. She is very handsome, and very learned, and is able to write and speak Chinese, which is the most difficult language in the world. She has also written beautiful tales of Persia, Japan, and other far-away countries....

For several months starting February 1, 2011, I committed myself to sitting at my computer once each day after meditation for the purpose of opening my mind and energy to receive information. I had no way of knowing what would come through these sessions or where the information would lead me. But...

Ze dachten dat ze veilig waren... Het Sanctum is een zelfvoorzienend appartementencomplex dat diep onder de grond is gebouwd op het platteland van Maine. Een luxevesting voor de rijken en paranoïden - waar ze de apocalyps in stijl kunnen uitzitten. Als een allesvernietigend virus Amerika bereikt,...

El exceso de voluntad de verdad que protagonizó buena parte de la historia de nuestro pensar convirtió la literatura y sus géneros en subordinados de lujo de una racionalidad huérfana, solitaria y deshumanizante. Esta crisis se refleja muy especialmente en la quiebra de las fronteras entre verdad...

As a result of the industrialization, urbanization, and population increase during the last two centuries, the global landscape has been irreversibly damaged. These anthropological pressures have create endless problems on the global level, and individuals and organizations are beginning to realize...

Now, in one place, you'll find concise yet nuanced definitions of the key terms used in the construction industry and in the practice of construction law. The Annotated Construction Law Glossary provides a fundamental understanding of each defined term, making this an invaluable resource whether the reader is a law student or seasoned construction law practitioner, project manager or architect.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...

This book aims to provide a compact and unified introduction to the most important aspects in the physics of non-equilibrium systems. It first introduces stochastic processes and some modern tools and concepts that have proved their usefulness to deal with non-equilibrium systems from a purely probabilistic...

The common cause principle says that every correlation is either due to a direct causal effect linking the correlated entities or is brought about by a third factor, a so-called common cause. The principle is of central importance in the philosophy of science, especially in causal explanation, causal...