Blending theory with practical application, Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive CSR text with a strong emphasis on strategy . Balancing theory and practical applications, the text is divided into two parts. The first half of the text provides an overview of the field, stakeholders perspective, CSR as a strategic filter, and how to implement CSR effectively. The second half of the book uses more than 20 cases to illustrate the organizational, economic, and societal issues surrounding CSR. The engaging cases capture contentious debates across the spectrum of CSR topics that culminate with a series of questions designed to stimulate further investigation and debate.

KEY FEATURES:

• Part I contains five chapters that present a comprehensive overview of CSR, while also introducing new definitions and models to detail the innovative concept of strategic CSR.
• Part II presents 21 in-depth and topical CSR issues and cases that capture the breadth and depth of this dynamic subject.
• Each issue and case study in Part II provides numerous tools to facilitate discussion around CSR, such as Online Resources for Further Investigation, a Pro/Con Debate designed to capture the heart of the issue, and Questions for Discussion and Review.
• An international perspective, supported by multiple examples, emphasizes the multi-cultural challenges of CSR and conducting business in a global context.
• The Strategic CSR Newsletter, a freely available resource generated by the authors as a dynamic complement to this text, offers updates and topical commentary on the range of issues encompassing Strategic CSR. http://strategiccsr-sage.blogspot.com/

Nessuna battaglia ha attirato l'attenzione dei militari e degli storici e ha suscitato l'interesse popolare più di Waterloo. Svoltasi il 18 giugno 1815 fra le truppe napoleoniche e gli eserciti della settima coalizione (Regno Unito, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Paesi Bassi, Svezia, Regno di Sardegna e alcuni stati tedeschi), fu una lotta tra titani: il genio strategico e il carisma di Napoleone contrapposti all'abilità tattica e alla tenacia di Wellington, e alla lealtà e alla combattività di Blücher. Una battaglia campale, che portò con sé conseguenze cruciali: la consacrazione della Gran Bretagna e della Prussia come leader dell'Europa, l'eclisse militare della Francia, la stasi momentanea nel progresso del liberalismo in tutto il continente, la ricerca di nuovi equilibri con il Congresso di Vienna. David Chandler ripercorre con sapienza le fasi antecedenti, la preparazione e le strategie militari messe in atto, portandoci nel cuore di quegli straordinari e terribili eventi che determinarono la disfatta di un impero e la sconfitta del più grande condottiero della storia moderna. Il risultato è un grande affresco del più celebre campo di battaglia d'Europa, la ricostruzione momento per momento di uno scontro che, a due secoli di distanza, continua a stupire per la sua drammaticità e potenza.

The recipient of Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box has won almost every honor in his field. InBreaking Point, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is glad to catch up with old friend Lyle Pendergast, but then the man goes missing and is named a suspect in the death of two EPA employees. All signs point to Lyle’s guilt, but the more Joe digs into the case, the more he realizes he’s stepped into the middle of a deadly power play.

Bestselling author C. J. Box—an Anthony and Macavity Award winner—earned starred reviews from bothPublishers Weekly and Booklist for this exceptional mystery.

Taking advantage of a legal loophole, a lawyer kills four people in Yellowstone National Park and walks away a free man. As the public outcry intensifies, the governor hires former game warden Joe Pickett to conduct a private investigation.

C. J. Box’s Open Season is a rare debut mystery that “immediately sets itself apart from the crowd” (Booklist). This thrilling novel stars Joe Pickett, a game warden in Wyoming who finds his life in danger after he looks into a murder investigation and discovers a conspiracy involving an oil pipeline and its threat to an endangered species.

C. J. Box’s bestselling Joe Pickett novels have earned him a spot on every serious suspense fan’s shortlist of favorites. The tightly constructedOut of Range brings game warden Joe to a new, remote beat in Wyoming’s vast countryside to investigate the suspicious death of the previous warden.

An Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner, C. J. Box delivers the second pulse-pounding installment in his critically acclaimed series. While investigating a string of bizarre murders, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is forced to flee across treacherous terrain with a deadly tracker on his trail.

Publishers Weekly calls this fourth entry in Anthony Award winner and New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box’s gripping Joe Pickett series “riveting.”Trophy Hunt opens at the Wyoming game warden’s chilling discovery of a mutilated moose. Although the sheriff believes the carnage was the act of a ravenous bear, Joe has a hunch something—or someone—much more sinister is to blame.

In the third adventure in C. J. Box’s engrossing series, Joe Pickett finds himself at the center of a confrontation between a special investigative team and a group of government-hating survivalists camped out on federal land. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Joe lays his life on the line to protect an innocent girl before a wave of violence surges over the Bighorn Mountains.

This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars.

Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international policy-making. Today, there are around one billion people living in some 50-60 conflict-affected, 'fragile' states, vulnerable to political violence and civil war. The international community grapples with the core challenges and dilemmas of using outside force, aid, and persuasion to build states in the wake of conflict and to prevent such countries from lapsing into devastating violence.

The Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding is a comprehensive resource for this emerging area in International Relations. The volume is designed to guide the reader through the background and development of international statebuilding as a policy area, as well as exploring in depth significant issues such as security, development, democracy and human rights. Divided into three main parts, this Handbook provides a single-source overview of the key topics in international statebuilding:

Part One: Concepts and Approaches

Part Two: Security, Development and Democracy

Part Three: Policy Implementation

This Handbook will be essential reading for students of statebuilding, humanitarian intervention, peacebuilding, development, war and conflict studies and IR/Security Studies in general.

Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Street before turning his focus to his black swan theory. With its revolutionary examination of the impact of highly improbable events, thisNew York Times bestseller took the world by storm. Not all swans are white, and not all events—no matter what the experts think—are predictable. Every so often, one of these unpredictable events occurs and has an immeasurable impact on the world—such as 9/11. Taleb argues the problem is that humans focus too much thought on what they already know, and not enough on what they don’t. The trick is understanding how to deal with black swans when they appear, and how to benefit from them.

Witty and irreverant, The Black Swan holds the power to change—for the better—the way people think about the world. It is unlike any book ever written, and its groundbreaking arguments are lucidly articulated by narrator David Chandler.

From C. J. Box, the New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, comes a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well—and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there. Over the course of eighteen books, C. J. Box has been consistently hailed for his brilliant storytelling and extraordinary skills at creating character, suspense, and a deep sense of place. All of those strengths are in the ten riveting stories—three of them never before published—that make up Shots Fired.

In "One-Car Bridge," one of four Joe Pickett stories, Pickett goes up against a " just plain mean" landowner, with disastrous results, and in "Shots Fired," his investigation into the radio call referred to in the title nearly ends up being the last thing he ever does. In "Pirates of Yellowstone," two Eastern European tough guys find out what it means to be strangers in a strange land, and in "Le Sauvage Noble," the stranger is a Lakota in Paris who enjoys playing the "noble savage" for the French women—until he meets Sophie. Then he discovers what "savage" really means.

Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent rumors that the man’s wealth comes from killing people. Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is, but he discovers a lot more than he’d bargained for. There are two other men living up at that ranch. One is a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe. The other is new—but Joe knows him all too well. The first man doesn’t frighten Joe. The second is another story entirely.