Reveals the enormous power exercised by the biggest, most secretive firms in the consulting industry, detailing their successes and failures

Dangerous Company: Management Consultants and the Businesses They Save and Ruin

Business & Money

O'Shea, James

Madigan, Charles

Industries

Penguin??Books

An account of the decline and fall of a Texas savings and loan institution reveals corruption, indiscretion, and unbridled greed, and offers a perspective of the nationwide S &amp; L scandal

The Daisy Chain

Finance

Pocket_Books

Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and scientific images, have become standard philosophical terms. Often, however, recent uses of these terms do not reflect the richness or the true sense of Sellars original ideas. This book gets to the heart of Sellars philosophy and provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to his lifes work. 
The book is structured around what Sellars himself regarded as the philosophers overarching task: to achieve a coherent vision of reality that will finally overcome the continuing clashes between the world as common sense takes it to be and the world as science reveals it to be. It provides a clear analysis of Sellars groundbreaking philosophy of mind, his novel theory of consciousness, his defense of scientific realism, and his thoroughgoing naturalism with a normative turn. Providing a lively examination of Sellars work through the central problem of what it means to be a human being in a scientific world, this book will be a valuable resource for all students of philosophy.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Polity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin

Diane Pub Co.

An insight into Irish social history & the role of the Catholic Church in the nineteenth century.

Priests, Politics & Society in Post-Famine Ireland

History

Europe

Irish Amer Book Co

An authentic collection of 100 Irish sayings, toasts, and blessings. One to meet any occasion.

100 Irish Sayings, Toasts, and Blessings

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.
The Deal From Hell is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors--convinced they were acting in the best interests of their publications--made a series of flawed decisions that endangered journalistic credibility and drove the newspapers, already confronting a perfect storm of political, technological, economic, and social turmoil, to the brink of extinction.

The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers

PublicAffairs

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive in to bankruptcy and public scandal? The Deal from Hell is the riveting narrative in which veteran editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to that ongoing disaster.

Business Culture

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction and Interpretation (This Way Up series)

"Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" remains one of the landmark works of Western philosophy. Most philosophy students encounter it at some point in their studies but at nearly 700 pages of detailed and complex argument it is also a demanding and intimidating read. James O'Shea's short introduction to "CPR" aims to make it less so. Aimed at students coming to the book for the first time, it provides step by step analysis in clear, unambiguous prose. The conceptual problems Kant sought to resolve are outlined, and his conclusions concerning the nature of the faculty of human knowledge and possibility of metaphysics, and the arguments for those conclusions, are explored. In addition he shows how the "Critique" fits into the history of modern philosophy and how transcendental idealism affected the course of philosophy. Key concepts are explained throughout and the student is provided with an excellent route map through the various parts of the text.

Routledge

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