Corporate Integrity and Accountability

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The ethical and legal scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and many other businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia have shaken people’s confidence in business. Corporate Integrity and Accountability seeks to address questions of corporate integrity as they arise for financial reporting, executive compensation, globalization, and business ethics itself. In so doing it asks the following questions:

What is the current meaning of corporate integrity?
How should we go about analyzing and responding to unethical and corrupt behavior both at home and abroad?
What measures can be undertaken by corporations within their own walls to address these problems?
What groups and perspectives need to be taken into account with regard to CEO compensation?

These are a few of the many topics that the chapters in this book discuss under the heading of corporate integrity and accountability.

The chapters are the product of leading business ethicists—both academic and practitioner—in the U.S. and Europe, resulting in the application of different methodologies, sources, and forms of argument. This gives the reader a sense not only of the complexity of some of the ethical issues business faces, but also the richness of the various resources that are available to address these issues.

Corporate Integrity and Accountability is ideally suited as a text for courses in the following: business ethics, corporate social responsibility, current ethical issues in business, and corporate citizenship.

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Ferreira-Ibarra, Dario C., Compiler. The Canon Law Collection of the Library of Congress: A General Bibliography with Selective Annotations. Washington: Library of Congress, 1981. xiii, 210 pp. 8- 1/2" x 11." Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003052789. ISBN 1-58477-366-9. Cloth. New.

* The Library of Congress has one of the largest collections of published Canon Law materials in the world. This bibliography, which includes all items catalogued before 1980, is thus a powerful guide to a body of legal literature that dates back to the birth of printing. The first three sections cover early editions of the Code of Canon Law, the code's historical foundations and the decisions of the Roman Rota, or the Church's jurisprudence. The remaining sections correspond exactly to the divisions of the Code of Canon Law and cover such subjects as persons, things, procedural law and crimes and penalties. Comprehensive author and subject indexes are included as well.

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The astronomical community is wrongly interpreting cosmological data by using the standard Big Bang Model. In this highly controversial volume, three distinguished cosmologists argue this premise with persuasion and conviction. Starting with the beginnings of modern cosmology, they conduct a deep and wide review of the observations made from 1945 to the present, explaining what they regard as the defects and inconsistencies that exist within the interpretation of cosmological data. This is followed by an extensive presentation of the authors' own alternative view of the status of observations and how they should be explained. Along the way, the book touches on the most fundamental questions, including the origin, age, structure, and properties of the Universe. Writing from the heart, with passion and punch, Hoyle, Burbidge, and Narlikar, make a powerful case for viewing the universe in a different light, which will be of great interest to graduate students, researchers, and professionals in astronomy, cosmology, and physics.

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Strictly for the credulous........2003-10-05

Earth to cultists: Hoyle's steady-state theory was discredited forty years ago. Give it up already.

An excelent book........2003-02-28

Having read what the other gentlements said about the book. I have not much to say. It pretty much gives a better cosmological model for our Universe than the standart model for it brings commum sense and simple logic back to the field. However, I would like to comment a sentence wrote by the Scientific American editors:

"Seemingly plausible ideas can have subtle flaws, and it takes a collective effort of problem solving to find them out."

I wonder that what is going on with mainstream Science nowadays is even worse than I thought. It look likes they assume that standart models can NOT possible be wrong and that any other models MUST fail in order to keep the standart one.

Plausible ideas are the BEST ideas in Science. Of course it still can have flaws, but as they pointed out, the flaws are often subtle. But in the illogical and nonsensical big-bang model, the flaws are OBVIOUS. Also, if you read this book or "Seeing Red" by Alton Harp or "Dark Matter, missing planets and new comets" by Tom V. Flandern, you will find out (in spite of what the Scientific American are trying to tell you) that in fact the standart model IS durty.

I strongly recommend this book because I have found a logical truth and I'd like you find it by yourself as well: The Universe is infinity in space and time and the so-called Big-Bang actually NEVER happened.

Seeing the Universe in a different light..........2000-04-16

A rare and well balanced scientific discussion of the relative merits of the new Quasi Steady State versus Big Bang concept of the Universe. This book gives the reader a feel for the basis of our understanding of the Universe. A feeling for the vast uncertainties concerning our interpretation of distant objects, such as Quasars.

Please note: This book is for serious students of cosmology. The authors presume the reader has an understanding of general relativity.

Compelling! the cosmology paradigm debates ended too soon!.......2000-03-23

Sir Fred Hoyle and fellow authors, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar show why the paradigm debates in modern cosmology ended too soon! Their sweeping analysis includes the early static universe concepts, the Einstein, de Sitter, and Friedmann-Lemaitre relativistic models, the controversy of the classic Steady-State vs. the Big Bang, and the contemporary Big Bang paradigm. As participants, they discuss the controversies over interpretation of the Hubble velocity-distance relation, light element origins, the radio sources and their fabled distributions, the quasars, the cosmic microwave background, and large-scale matter distribution.

They summarize the accumulating evidences for intrinsic-peculiar redshifts, and ejection of compact X-ray and optical sources from active galactic nuclei. The Big Bang is found wanting both in theoretical assumption and observationally. Building on their Quasi-Steady-State cosmology, the authors propose that both observation and scale-invariant gravitational equations require us to consider an ongoing-episodic creation of matter within the universe. . . .

Don't let prevailing theory (or episodic mathematical equations) keep you from reading this important book!

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"Contains a complete manual with procedures for the implementation and scaling-up of industrial extraction processes. Discusses computer-aided molecular design. Includes examples of interactive, combinatorial, construct-and-test, and mathematical programming."

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In ""Creation AND/OR Evolution: An Islamic Perspective"", T.O. Shanavas describes an Islamic theory of creation that is not incompatible with evolution. He accomplishes this by weaving together insights from modern science, the Qur'an, and pre-Renaissance Muslim history. He proposes that evolution is an intelligent design created by a higher power to manifest His omniscience, supremacy, and grace in a universe constructed with creatures with limited free will. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate between creationism and evolution.

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Groundbreaking work of brilliance!.......2006-11-29

At last, an indepth scientific treatment of one of life's most essential questions: Is religious revelation in accord with scientic wisdom?

It is well past time to realize that Science and Religion are twin sisters.
You needn't stay locked within mind numbing superstition or negate the magnificence of the divine plan. But, you must READ if you wish to know.
If you don't read, you have no one else to blame but yourself for your continued state of ignorance. Open your eyes and open your mind. Neither truth nor science should be frightening or threatening to the person of true faith. The mind is a divine gift!

Creation and/or Evolution: An Islamic Perspective (2005).......2006-08-07

The United States (and other parts of the Western world) is currently experiencing increasing political polarization between followers of religion and practitioners of science. The current battleground for this conflict occurs in the study of the evolution of living organisms, although confusion on the role of scientific and faith-based knowledge can occur just as easily when studying the origin, age and scope of the universe (cosmology), uncertainty in quantum mechanics, and the material nature of the mind (neuroscience).

In Creation and/or Evolution: An Islamic Perspective, T. O. Shanavas challenges this notion of an inherent conflict between scientific knowledge and religious texts, revealing it to be a false dilemma, at least where Islam is concerned.

Creation and/or Evolution weaves together several themes. The first is the Quranic theology of time, space, and creation. The second is the history of Islamic science and how its legacy has been forgotten, both by Muslims ready to accept fundamentalist Christian critiques of evolutionary science, and Westerners, quick to disparage Muslims as superstitious and anti-modernity. The third strand, woven within the first two, describes secular scientific understanding of the history of the universe and its inhabitants. Since I am a biologist by training and not a theologian, the following critique will focus mainly on this third strand.

Overall, however, Shanavas does a good job describing the bridges between modern and medieval Muslim science and Quranic assertions. His best sections come at the very beginning and the end, where he discusses the role of God the Creator in terms of metaphysics of the future. Briefly, what appears as random chance to a scientist working toward material explanations in linear time may be controlled in a more deterministic fashion by a God who sees all time and space at once.

Despite the many things Shanavas does well in this book, there are several issues that prevent me from giving an entirely unqualified recommendation. Most critically, there several major scientific flaws in Creation and/or Evolution that point to, at best, sloppy fact-checking. For one, "amino acid" is used frequently in the section on molecular biology to describe a sub-unit of DNA. This is simply incorrect - amino acids are subunits of proteins, while the word he is looking for is nucleotide as the subunit of DNA or RNA.

Shanavas' explanation of evolution is also a sloppy one, and I wonder whether it is deliberately so in order to fit Muslim understandings with scientific ones. He neglects to mention one of the most important corollaries of the modern theory of evolution - that evolution is non-linear and non-directional. All life is continuing to evolve with humans at a branch of a growing tree, not the end of the tree. That is, modern apes and humans share a common ancestor; one did not evolve directly from the other. Shanavas appears to champion an incorrect, outdated view of a "great chain of being" with unicellular organisms giving rise to plants, then animals and then humans. Such an understanding, while in keeping with the Muslim sources he quotes, is anthropocentric and not supported by science.

Shanavas' most wild contention, based on a highly original reading of Sura 4:1 (http://islamawakened.org/Quran/4%5C/default.htm), is that the first humans, Adam and Eve, were twins born to a non-human primate mother. He argues that concurrent creation of both a male and a female would be necessary in order to propagate the new species. This betrays a complete lack of understanding of how speciation is thought to occur. In fact, most evolutionary biologists believe that speciation is a gradual process, with no clear cut line between different non inter-breeding species. The primordial Eve (or Adam?) would have been able to breed with the parent population, and the offspring would subsequently have become separated into a different niche, become reproductively isolated, and therefore over many generations, become biologically different from non-human ancestors. This is one of a few instances where Shanavas would have been better off taking the Quran as figurative rather than coming up with a literal explanation which is not only highly statistically improbable, but for which there is no known precedent in nature.

Later on, Shanavas explains the origin and diversification of humans with reference to Quranic creation and the Out-of-Africa hypothesis. His explanation for Out-of-Africa migration of modern humans is simplistic and betrays a lack of understanding of the concept of mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam.

Shanavas' haphazard, scientifically inaccurate attempts to mesh Quranic verses or the beliefs of early Muslim scientists with modern science, as in the examples given above, highlight the inherent flaw in arguing that science agrees with religion - or vice versa. Inevitably, such explanations involve twisting understanding of either theology or science in a manner that does proper service to neither. At best, we can conclude that science, while not allowing room for some forms of religious belief (i.e. literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2; earth-centric cosmos), cannot disprove the existence of a non-anthropomorphic, and non- time constrained Creator who works with scientific laws to create multiple possibilities for evolutionary trajectory.

At its best, this book might prompt the reader to examine their own views of God and how this understanding fits into secular understandings of the nature of the universe. In a climate awash with popular Christian (and sometimes Islamic) rhetoric questioning the compatibility of evolution with belief in God and often attacking the nature of scientific inquiry itself, Shanavas is a fresh spring rain. His book details how the modern scientific approach is consistent with the Quran and Hadith encouraging Muslims to find knowledge, wherever it may take them, as a way of understanding the methodology of Creation. However, finishing Creation and/or Evolution, I felt that this topic needed a practicing Muslim evolutionary biologist to do both the theology and science proper justice. Unfortunately, such individuals are few and far between, though perhaps this book is the first step in encouraging young Muslims to enter science and act to bridge this false divide.

AMAZING, JUST AMAZING.......2006-01-06

As a thirteen year old muslim, I always asked my self, will there ever be an answer to the relation of islam and evolution. T.O. Shanavas has just completely clear and I was able to understand. He comes right to the point and I hope that this book makes a fortune

This Book Had to be Written, as Much as it Needs to be Read.......2005-12-30

Let me share my biases first. I am not Muslim, but Christian, though I have studied Islam a great deal, so my perspective is one of an outsider. I am also very much a creationist, for I believe that God used evolution to create life.

I have been waiting so long for a book like this. I was so thrilled for it to show up at Christmas time. Shanavas writes neatly and clearly, so even the least biologically inclined can understand, and yet presents some perspectives that have never before been put in print- at least, as he points out, not for the past 500 years.

There are a couple areas that could use some work- some editing; the final chapters are a bit odd; some of his understanding of Christian theology is a bit off the mark...But then, I really appreciate that he admits that he is lacking in understanding of Christianity. I can respect an author who knows what he is talking about and knows when to admit he doesn't know everything.

I wanted to read this book as I teach biology in Morocco, and have a number of Muslim students. At this point they are being taught the Intelligent Design Hypothesis as well in another forum outside my class. I showed this to them, and they were devouring it and could hardly put it down. There is already a queue to read it. I wish I could assign it, simply because it so clearly explains the process of evolution.

But in the midst of explaining it, Shanavas also gives a very Islamic perspective of evolution. I say Islamic, because he follows the standard practice of interpreting the Qur'an literally. While there is room for allegorical interpretation among the Sufis, the standard practice in ijtihad for most of the history of Islam has been literalism. So while I wouldn't necessarily interpret my holy book in this manner, I applaud Shanavas for doing so with his book, for he is correctly following the path of his religion.

In doing so, he shows that evolution is not only appropriate in Islam, but is even mandatory in the faith. He uses another great author, Haught, and his theology of the future, to show how Islam is better understood within evolution. And then he shows how evolution doesn't really begin with Darwin, but actually was advocated under different names by the greatest of Muslim theologians and thinkers during the Islamic Rennaissance, including Ibn Sina. I don't know that I would say there has been a conspiracy to deny the Muslim contribution, but I am the better for now knowing how much Muslims gave to evolution 1000 years before Darwin.

Shanavas succeeds at what he attempts. He wants to write a book to help non-Muslims understand the Muslim perspective and contribution. It does. He wants to write a book to help Muslims see they can be Muslim and accept evolution. Through this book they can. They can not only accept it, they can be proud of their heritage in seeing how the great Muslims of the past established the groundwork for this venerable theory.

The View from Another Religion.......2005-09-28

Sometimes the questions of an innocent child make your thinking to off in new directions. It was his son asking why he was taught evolution in public school and creationism in Muslim school that caused Dr, Shanavas to research and then write this book. He sees it as lamentable that many Muslim imams have taken the psuedoscience of the fundamentalist Christians and are teaching it to their students. Likewise he laments that students in the sciences look at what the imams are teaching and begin to distrust or reject Islam.

His studies took him back to the Qur'an itself and further into the teachings of early Muslim scholars to come up with a view that evolution is an intelligent design in its own right. It was (I have to say 'may.') have been set up by a higher power to manifest His omniscience, supremacy, and grace in a universe constructed with creatures of limited free will. ==The rejection of science by the Muslims has to be a major part of why the Muslims, on a world wide basis, are so far behind the western countries.

This book certainly presents a view different from the fundamentalist Christians. It is to be hoped that our Government can see enough to take other religious views into mind when crafting legislation. We do have a fundamental tenant in the separation of church and state.

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In an effort to hold onto his deceased grandmother, Junebug has become her. And not only her, but other ancestors she has told him about as well. In this spin-off of the novel, Babe, we begin to see the fine line that separates a broken heart from a shattered mind. Has Junebug crossed it? Can anybody reach him? Has “Anybody Seen Junebug?”

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No Man Is An Island.......2004-02-27

Junebug's got problems. Nobody knows the extent of them like his cellmate John. Incarcerated for their various crimes a strong bond is formed between the two men. What starts out as crazy eventually leads John into realizing that here lies a human being who is incapable of rescuing himself from the mire of his many different personalities.

Often eccentric, but totally without apology, Junebug's bizarre behaviour strikes a resonant chord within John who sets out to become Junebug's savior. Upon Junebug's release, and with John's outside connections firmly in place, Junebug is finally on target to get his life back in order.

But life on the outside doesn't come without its challenges. There is no warden, or prison administration carefully crafting the ordinary routines of life. Now it is up to Junebug to forge his own way. With pressures steadily rising and the re-emergence of his many different personalities, one wonders if the power of friendship and love can help Junebug overcome his mental disorder once and for all.

Delores Thornton's "Anybody Seen Junebug?" stresses the age-old cliche that no man is an island. Without friends, love, and a network of support many would be doomed to isolation and eventual failure. Can Junebug be saved, or will the loony bin be his next permanent address?

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I love Junebug!.......2004-01-27

Junebug is in prison. But thats not his biggest problem. For years, Junebug had to deal with five different personalities in his mind, without any professional help. Each personality is based on stories, told to Junebug, by his grandma at a early age. Although Junebug realizes that he has a mental problem, he never sought professional help. While in prison he meets John, his cell mate, who committed a crime because of a mental problem he never sought help for. Junebug and John become close friends and it's John that suggest Junebug speaks with a professional when he gets out of prison. When Junebug is released, he starts to get his life back together. He moves back to his old apartment, gets a job and starts to see a psychiatrist. All is going well until one of his personalities, Elizabeth, decides to teach Junebug a lesson which could change his life, forever.
Delores Thornton has created some memorable characters in "Anybody Seen Junebug?". I became very interested in the lives of The Davis Family and their unconditional support of Junebug. Their love and support for each other was very heart warming. I was amazed at the lengths John went through to keep the family together after their mother was killed by a drunk driver.
Also, as I was reading "Anybody Seen Junebug?", I couldn't help but analyze the judicial system. I started to think about all the black men in prison who may be dealing with the same problems Junebug and John went through. For all the crimes committed by them, who ever took the time to consider that maybe a mental problem is the basis behind it. Society will sit back and blame their family, the school system, television and rap music before they really seek to find out what may really be the problem. I wonder how many smart, loving and strong brothers are locked up right now because they were trying to deal with a mental anguish on their own.
Thornton was able to write a interesting novel without creating the stereotypical sexually charged, dramatic, back stabbing characters that seems to be popping up in other novels lately. This is a book that everyone in the family can (and should) read.

He ain't crazy, he's JUNE BUG!.......2004-01-18

If June Bug ain't crazy than what is the definition of crazy? Delores has written a tale that is riveting because you really don't know from the opening scene to the last how Delores managed to weave a tale of multi-diminsions.

June Bug can't decide who he is or "won't" decide. Actually, during the reading, I couldn't decide if June Bug was crazy or was everyone around him actually a little mental-deprived.

I enjoyed the way the author managed to peel away the layers in such a manner that we are very much sympathetic to June Bug and how he became and stays cocooned in his own world which in my opinion, not only protected him but those he truly loved.

I hope there's a sequel.

Thornton delivers again.......2004-01-18

In Delores Thornton's third title, HAS ANYBODY SEEN JUNEBUG, she has chosen, once again, to delve into the psyche of a multi-dimensional character.

June Bug, even in jail, can't seem to come to terms as to who he really is. Is it because it's too painful or does June Bug have something to hide and acting crazy provides the perfect hiding place?

It's hard not to go into details surrounding this particular story because Thornton's writing has many layers. Just when you think you're going on one ride you find out that she's secreted you on another.

If I had one negative to say about this story is that it leaves you wanting more. After all, Where is June Bug? He's probably somewhere or someone in all of our families.

Kudos to Ms. Thornton...
if she keeps this up she'll become even more of a literary phenomenon than already.

Publisher of Disilgold Soul Literary Review Magazine.......2004-01-18

I read Delores Thornton's book before I ever knew who she was, and was amazed by the quality of character development. We immediately asked Delores to be our Disilgold Book of The Year judge, and she actually selected an author who has gone on to receive outstanding reviews. We always have said that, "Talent recognizes talent." Anybody Seen Junebug? is by far one of the most intriguing books of our times that deals with issues too personal for me to discuss here, but has gone on to be among one of the favorites of YOUnity Reviewers Worldwide for content, real issues, and exposure to unfortunate situations that can happen to anyone, and at any time. Never feel that you are alone if your suffer from dual personalities. This disease comes from extreme loneliness, depression and traumatic life's situations that many normal people hide by occupying their life with goodness for others, and or harm to escape the harshest of realities they've had to deal with, and perhaps will never tell until their dying day or until someone makes an effort to help these souls. Junebug is a classic character who I wanted to embrace, nurture, support, and help. He is the sophomore sequel to BABE!, another prior book with equal weight. I felt empathy for Junebug. He is the underdog and pathetic soul that folks lock up in jail and throw away the key. He is Michael Jackson, glorified and knocked down and stripped to nothingness, and may go to jail for being different when innocent, but no one will take his side so it seems. He can be your neighbor who helped you with groceries, the man who saved your child from drowning, the next president of the United States of America, your brother, and even your father. I have a lot of sympathy for folks in his predicament, and in reality, this can be a dangerous task to take on, but someone has to care. Delores begins this journey by writing a powerful book that will bring better understanding to mental disease, and I believe that all who are well, should feel blessed, and fortunate to read this book, and perhaps help people undergoing circumstances like those experienced by Junebug. I have no idea how Delores Thornton created this character. He is totally original, quite frightening at times, mysterious, unpredicatable, and the kind of character fit for a movie like The Green Mile. This one is an unassuming winner that is powerfully overwhelmed by the glittery books on the market. I encourage true die hard book lovers to read the message inside, a message much more powerful than the cover. I truly recommend this book as the standard for quality literature and I am sure many YOUnity Reviewers will agree. There is no time limit for this book to filter into every real home library. Anybody Seen Junebug? is a book of the ages, and I do not doubt that The New York Times Review will one day feature this book which is far too sophisticated to be a trend. This book is one for life long domain. I am very proud of Delores Thornton's work and believe that Junebug will become a celebrity very soon. I also, love the matching CD. Brilliant work!!!!!!!

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