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Today's headlines are full of employee unrest over racial injustice, communities infuriated by corporate environmental impacts, staff anxiety over surveillance, and discoveries of child labor in supply chains. Simply maximizing shareholder value while not breaking the law is no longer an option, but we've never been so confused about what it means to do the right thing. NYU ethics professor Alison Taylor argues that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures, we can no longer treat ethics as a legal and reputational defense mechanism.

British Architecture presents an original and engaging overview of the architecture of the British Isles, from medieval times to the present day. Avoiding the traditional approach of a chronological survey of architects and architectural style, each chapter presents a thematic exploration of key aspects of British architecture that endure across time and still have relevance today. Arnold also highlights the ways in which architecture can project national and regional identities.

First, she lost her son. Then she lost her trust. Now she’s about to lose control. Ten years ago, bestselling author Olivia Collins’s life shattered when her teenage son collapsed and died. Her marriage survived the grief. Her career did not. Now, just as she starts to rebuild, Olivia stumbles on something she wasn’t meant to find: a hotel key card, a woman’s name, and a lie that began the day her son died.

When Maya Rivers takes a job at Pulse, a coffee shop in the heart of the Umbrafore Complex, she expects busy shifts and maybe the occasional grumpy vampire. What she doesn't expect is accidentally stumbling into supernatural fame or being targeted by a serial killer with a flair for theatrics.

This book considers the complex and often contradictory relations that are forged between boredom and everyday media use in the twenty-first century and demonstrates how networked media have developed new technical means of capitalizing on boredom's state of suspension to make it into a source of value creation.

Did you know that there is a molecule that may be a key to increasing human lifespans? Learn about this interesting research and more scientific advances powering the future of technology, interstellar exploration, and the human body.

Learn all about the science of puberty, sex and even death in The Seeker Human Collection! Includes The P Word: The Science of Growing Up, The Strange and Scientific World of Sex, and Life, Death and the Afterlife.

Learn all about the science of everything supernatural from aliens and the origin of monsters to the truth about the paranormal in The Seeker Supernatural Science Collection! Includes The Truth Is Out There, Is There Anything Normal About the Paranormal?, and Monster Science.

Learn all about dinosaurs, dogs, marine life and more in The Seeker Animals Collection! Includes Everything You Know About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong, Why Dogs Are So Amazing, Under the Sea: A World Like No Other.

From plastic surgery and bionic body parts to tattoos and piercings, body modifications are more common than you think; you may even have some! Listen in as Seeker dives into the world of body mods like 3D bioprinted organs, cochlear implants, designer babies of the future, and more in this best-of collection, available for the first time in audio.

Explore the world of our favorite furry feline friends in this curated collection from Seeker, available for the first time in audio! All of your important cat questions will be answered.

Lions, tigers, and bears are some of the largest, most ferocious animals in the world, but did you know that we all pee for the same amount of time? In this best of Seeker collection, you’ll learn the answers to questions like why polar bears don’t hibernate, why you’ll never have a pet lion, how a genetic mistake could save white tigers, and if elephants really never forget.

Flying cars - the best or worst idea ever? In the ever-changing world of technology and transportation, flying and autonomous cars might not be just a part of futuristic sci-fi movies anymore...they may become available in your lifetime. Listen in as Seeker discusses the future of transportation, the evolution of fuel alternatives, and how close humans are to a self-driving world in this best of collection, available for the first time in audio.

Everyone meets the Grim Reaper at some point, so why not learn a little more about it beforehand? There are many ways for life to come to an end, but there may be some you’ve never thought about before: lack of sleep, extreme heat, being...unpopular? Listen in as Seeker breaks down everything about death from how it feels, what is smells like and even the possibility of an afterlife in this curated audio collection.

It seems like dogs have always been man’s best friend, but when did it become official? Explore the world of our favorite furry friends from the beginning when humans started to take wild animals like wolves and give them a place in our homes. In this Seeker collection, you’ll also learn how new dog breeds are created, why dogs can remember smells better than humans, and if your dog really needs that sweater you bought it.

The newly-wed Anne Hastings faced her husband's wrath when her affair with William Compton was made public. Mary Tudor married to satisfy her brother's political need to ally with France, but when her decrepit royal husband died, she married the dashing Charles Brandon for love. William Parr, humiliated by his wife's extramarital affair, sought a divorce to marry the woman he loved.

When Jen goes to her grandmother's house for the last time, she's determined not to dwell on the past. As a child Jen adored Lily and suspected she might be a witch, but the spell was broken long ago, and now her death means there won't be any reconciliation. In Lily's house Jen and her daughter, Marianne, reluctantly confront the secrets of the past and present - and discover how dangerous we become when we're trying to protect the ones we love.

Featuring a cross-cultural introduction to psychopomps, this book brings light to times of uncertainty and fear that often accompany the process of dying or its living corollary—the dark that comes from shame and the shadow parts of the self. Psychopomps & the Soul offers ancient wisdom to bring ease to modern distress around grief and inner darkness. Whether you experience loss through physical death or psychological soul death caused by living inauthentically, psychopomps can provide a full toolkit for navigating unfamiliar liminal space back to peace and wholeness.

This is an interactive self-help workbook and psychological road map to enable survivors of coercive, cultic, and spiritual abuse to find healing, recovery, and growth.

Combining social and cognitive neuroscience with real-life accounts from genocide perpetrators, this book sheds light on the process through which obedience influences cognition and behavior. Emilie Caspar, a leading expert in the field, translates this neuroscientific approach into a clear, uncomplicated explanation, even for those with no background in psychology or neuroscience. By better understanding humanity's propensity for direct orders to short-circuit our own independent decision-making, we can edge closer to effective prevention processes.