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Heel Nederland houd van Zwarte Piet
2018 || Paperback || Kimberley Korenaar || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
Hoe maken we een einde aan de zwarte pieten-discussie ? Het gedoe dat elk jaar weer op duikt en families en gezinnen en vrienden kringen en de hele maatschappij verdeelt ?
Kimberley Korenaar schreef een uit het hart gegrepen boekje dat het definitieve boek hier over wil zijn. Met een helder overzicht over de geschiedenis van hoe zwarte piet is ontstaan voor en tegen standers en hoe nu verder in Nederland ? Afgewisseld met prachtige zelf geschreven gedichten is dit een onpartijdige zoek tocht ...
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Asylum Legal Aid Lawyers' Professional Ethics in Practice
a Study into the Professional Decision Making of Asylum Legal Aid Lawyers in the Netherlands and England
2018 || Paperback || Tamara Butter || Eleven international publishing
Asylum legal aid lawyers are under continuous public scrutiny. On the one hand, these lawyers are portrayed as being solely motivated by profit. On the other hand, they are depicted as leftist activists frustrating the legal system. When assisting their asylum seeking clients under the state's legal aid scheme, lawyers need to balance the client's interest, the public interest in the administration of justice and their own interest in profit or survival.
The current book examines this balancin...
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The Handbook of Privacy Studies
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
2018 || Paperback || Bart van der Sloot e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective.
Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, the use of social media data for commercial profit and political microtargeting, password hacks and identity theft, new data protection regimes, questionable reuse of medical data, and concerns about ...
Ethics and Business / Druk 1 (e-book)
a global introduction
2018 || E-book via Bookshelf || Bart Wernaart || Noordhoff || met inkijkexemplaar
- Written from an international perspective;
- discusses ethics on multiple levels and includes many examples;
- offers students methods to critically assess ethical dilemmas.
Ethics and Business is an introduction to ethics in the context of international business. The book stimulates an open debate on norms and values. Ethics should cross not only the borders of a country, but also the borders of one’s mind. It emphasizes that ethics is not only about harmony, but also about dealing with ...
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Humanity is not a plague
How 10 Billion People can Exist Together
2018 || Hardcover || Cees Buisman || Bornmeer, Uitgeverij
In Humanity is Not a Plague, Cees Buisman argues that it is possible for 10 billion people to exist together on this Earth – as predicted for the year 2100 – provided that the richer part of the world no longer merely focuses on its own health, prosperity and happiness, and instead starts working seriously on developing a higher consciousness.
In this essay, Buisman sharply analyzes some of the problems facing mankind, such as fresh water shortages, whilst overturning several clichés and...