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  Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication

  Catherine Bohn-Gettler and Johanna Kaakinen

  This book brings together experts engaging in empirical studies on how emotion influences learning and processing for varying text types in different contexts.

  In our current era, learners are confronted with many and varying sources of information, such as news media, books, websites, social media, scientific articles, communicative interactions, and more. In addition, individuals must learn from such sources, making it important to critically examine the factors underlying learning from text and discourse. Importantly, the valence (pleasantness) and activation (intensity) of learners’ emotions can influence the quality of processing, which could help or hinder the learner’s ability to understand and learn from text. The chapters included in this book work toward developing a more comprehensive understanding of the influence of emotions in supporting learning, comprehension, processing, and conceptual change to draw important connections to the broader fields of text and discourse, learning, and motivation. --From publisher's website

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  Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (Sixth Edition)

  Joseph R. DesJardins and John J. McCall

  Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics begins from the perspective that business ethics are the products of market mechanisms and social values. By placing this approach in an international context, this edition shows students how ethical theories are applied in today’s complex global marketplace. The book also addresses the unique ethical dilemmas faced by employees and employers. Key topics covered include: ethical relativism, psychological egoism, ethics and the law, virtue ethics, and ethical decision-making.

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  An Introduction to Business Ethics (Fifth Edition)

  Joseph R. DesJardins

  Since its inception, An Introduction to Business Ethics by Joseph DesJardins has been a cutting-edge resource for the business ethics course. DesJardins’ unique multidisciplinary approach offers critical analysis and integrates the perspective of philosophy with management, law, economics, and public policy, providing a clear, concise, yet reasonably comprehensive introductory survey of the ethical choices available to us in business.

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  Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility

  Laura Pincus Hartman, Joseph R. DesJardins, and Chris MacDonald

  Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility, 3e is designed to prepare the student to apply an ethical decision-making model, not only in the ethics course but throughout her or his business discipline. This model teaches students ethical skills, vocabulary, and tools to apply in everyday business decisions and throughout their business courses. The authors speak in a sophisticated yet accessible manner while teaching the fundamentals of business ethics. Hartman’s professional background in law and her teaching experience in the business curriculum, combined with DesJardins’ background in philosophy and MacDonald’s ability to distill complicated business transactions into understandable terms, results in a broad language, ideal for this approach and market. The authors’ goal is to engage the student by focusing on cases and business scenarios that students already find interesting. Students are then asked to look at the issues from an ethical perspective. Additionally, its focus on AACSB requirements makes it a comprehensive business ethics text for business school courses.
  
  The goal for the third edition is to provide “a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the ethical issues arising in business.” Hartman and DesJardins have retained the focus on decision-making as well as the emphasis on both personal and policy-level perspectives on ethics. This edition continues to provide pedagogical support throughout the text. The most noticeable changes involve a thorough updating of distinct items such as Reality Checks, Decision Points, and readings to reflect new cases, examples and data.

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  Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Fifth Edition)

  Joseph R. DesJardins

  Environmental Ethics offers brief yet wide-ranging introduction to issues of environmental ethics and major schools of thought in the field. A discussion of basic concepts in ethical theory in Part I is followed by an application of these thoughts across a variety of major environmental problems (such as pollution, population, animals) in Part II. Part III introduces students to the major theories of environmental ethics in particular (including biocentrism, ecofeminism, and the land ethic). The final chapter offers a pragmatic approach to reconciling philosophical perspectives as a means to making progress in solving environmental problems.

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  An Introduction to Business Ethics (Fourth Edition)

  Joseph R. DesJardins

  Suitable as a resource for the business ethics course, this title offers an approach that encompasses all that an introductory business ethics course is, from a multidisciplinary perspective. It also offers critical analysis and integrates the perspective of philosophy with management, law, economics, and public policy.

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  Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility (Second Edition)

  Laura Pincus Hartman and Joseph R. DesJardins

  This book is designed to prepare the student to apply an ethical decision-making model, not only in this ethics course but throughout her or his business discipline. This model teaches students ethical skills, vocabulary, and tools to apply in everyday business decisions and throughout their business courses. The authors speak in a sophisticated yet accessible manner while teaching the fundamentals of business ethics. Hartman’s professional background in law and her teaching experience in the business curriculum, combined with DesJardins’ background in philosophy, results in a broad language, ideal for this approach and market. The authors’ goal is to engage the student by focusing on cases and business scenarios that students already find interesting. Students are then asked to look at the issues from an ethical perspective. Additionally, its focus on AACSB requirements makes it a comprehensive business ethics text for business school courses.

  The goal for the second edition remains the same as for the first: to provide “a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the ethical issues arising in business.” Hartman and DesJardins have retained the focus on decision-making as well as the emphasis on both personal and policy-level perspectives on ethics. This edition continues to provide pedagogical support throughout the text. The most noticeable changes involve a thorough updating of distinct items such as Reality Checks, Decision Points, and readings to reflect new cases, examples and data.

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  Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future

  Joseph R. DesJardins

  This book provides a framework for business ethics in the age of sustainability. The book examines the many ways that business is changing, and should change, to meet the demands of a sustainable future. This book blends philosophical and ethical analysis with real-world practical cases and examples to show what sustainable business can and should become. This book covers the shift to sustainable business models, environmental sustainability, alternative economic model of sustainable economics, sustainable production, and consumerism.

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  Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics

  Joseph R. DesJardins and John J. McCall

  The text provides students with a sociopolitical framework for looking at business ethics. This text takes students from a common, skeptical starting point – Why study business ethics? – to the very heart of ethical and political theory.