' What is done out of love always takes place beyond good & evil' Always provocative the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good & Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist & philosopher-seer passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights & uncanny prescience This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential Nietzschean topics such as the origins & nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism & beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science & scholarship; liberal democracy nationalism & women's emancipation Written in his most masterful style full of irreverence & brio Nietzsche dissects self-deluding human behaviour bankrupt intellectual traditions & the symptoms of social decadence while at the same time advancing an extra-moral wisdom to be shared by those kindred soul who think 'beyond good & evil' This new translation of Beyond Good & Evil provides readers with a true classic of modernity that sums up those forces & counterforces in nineteenth-century Western Civilisation that to an astonishing degree have also determined & continue to inform the course of our own century ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in the face of deepening interdependence rising multipolarity & the growing complexity & fragmentation that characterise the global order The Gridlock authors have now partnered with a group of leading experts to offer a trenchant reassessment of elements of the argument Comparing anomalies & exceptions to multilateral dysfunction across a number of spheres of world politics Beyond Gridlock explores seven pathways through & beyond gridlock While multilateralism continues to fall short Beyond Gridlock identifies systematic means to avoid or resist these forces & turn them into collective solutions This book offers a vital new perspective on world politics as well as a practical guide for positive change in global policy ...

Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases companies must recognize that decisions about talent & its organization can have a significant strategic impact Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions strategically differentiate their HR practices & metrics & more optimally allocate talent to create value Illustrations from companies such as Disney Boeing & Corning describe a new decision science called Talentship that reveals opportunities by identifying strategy pivot points & the optimal talent & organization decisions that address them A unique framework helps readers identify their own distinctive strategic pivot points & connect them to talent decisions showing how today's HR can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A young criminal defense attorney is handed a cut & dried homicide case However things turn out to be a lot more complicated & he is thrown into a world of human trafficking & violent gangs ...

We're losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year on broken software & great new ideas such as agile development & Scrum don't always pay off But there's hope The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems facing our industry Discover why these practices work not just how they work & dramatically increase the quality & maintainability of any software project These nine practices could save the software industry Beyond Legacy Code is filled with practical hands-on advice & a common-sense exploration of why technical practices such as refactoring & test-first development are critical to building maintainable software Discover how to avoid the pitfalls teams encounter when adopting these practices & how to dramatically reduce the risk associated with building software--realizing significant savings in both the short & long term With a deeper understanding of the principles behind the practices you'll build software that's easier & less costly to maintain & extend By adopting these nine key technical practices you'll learn to say what why & for whom before how; build in small batches; integrate continuously; collaborate; create CLEAN code; write the test first; specify behaviors with tests; implement the design last; & refactor legacy code Software developers will find hands-on pragmatic advice for writing higher quality more maintainable & bug-free code Managers customers & product owners will gain deeper insight into vital processes By moving beyond the old-fashioned procedural thinking of the Industrial Revolution & working together to embrace standards & practices that will advance software development we can turn the legacy code crisis into a true Information Revolution ...

A powerful manifesto for CEOs & employees alike this book reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps In an age of 'radical' shifts & 'disruption' business leader Margaret Heffernan lays the groundwork for a new kind of thinking arguing that organizations can create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes such as using every mind on the team celebrating mistakes & encouraging time off from work A popular TED speaker Heffernan is a wise & witty storyteller who fully engages her reader at every turn Filled with incredible anecdotes & startling statistics she takes us on a fascinating tour across the globe highlighting disparate business & revealing how they've managed to change themselves in big ways through incremental shifts How did the CIA revolutionize their intelligence gathering with one simple question? How did one organization increase their revenue by 15 million by instituting a short coffee break? How can a day-long hackathon change the culture of a company? Heffernan investigates all these scenarios & comes to the same conclusion big improvements can come from simply making small changes ...

The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland not accepted by academic medicine prompted the author to describe & interpret the social causes of this phenomenon & its diverse effects as well as to forecast the future of such methods These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness health & medicine The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers ...

In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom Modern World which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium A decade later His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism & returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work Beyond Religion ethics for a whole world In this thought-provoking new book he argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life Rather focusing on tolerance & understanding between religions as well as tolerance & understanding between believers (of any faith) & non-believers is the way forward The way to achieve such an approach he proposes is through a system of secular ethics grounded in a deep appreciation of our common humanity Aimed particularly at the general reader Beyond Religion ethics for a whole world is a modern-day polemic which outlines those ethics he believes should be central to our lives ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Horror film set in a psychiatric hospital A group of medical students from around the world each one selected for his or her specific phobia takes part in a seminar exploring the nature & causes of fear But the experiment soon escalates into true horror as an unknown murderer embarks on a killing spree tailored to manifest the specific terrors of each student&s individual phobia Only one of the students Julia (Marie Zielcke) has the courage to confront the killer & uncover his own dark secret ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Are you ready for a 10-bird roast with lashings of mulled cider? Then join your favourite country cook & rustic companion Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in his latest River Cottage adventures Hugh has expanded his holding to 44 acres & with more land & livestock he is producing even more food He grasps the opportunity to set up a culinary HQ
- in a ramshackle cluster of old farm buildings where he can prepare his products for market & host seasonal dinners for paying customers For Hugh & his family & friends it&s a whole new challenge in rural living as they reap the harvest of the Dorset countryside & enjoy the very best in seasonal local home-cooked fare Actors Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Certificate PGYear 2004 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 4 hours (approx)

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