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Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the 'rationalization' of working processes, or the 'rationality' studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. This book sets out to rectify this neglect....

The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War OrderThe Global Offensive shows how Palestinian liberation fighters--inspired and supported by other revolutionary groups in the Third World--waged a military and diplomatic campaign between 1967 and 1975 that seized the world's attention. Meanwhile, the...

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The Music of James Bond is the first comprehrensive chronicle of the songs and scores written for the movie adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007. New interviews with Bond songwriters and composers coupled with previously undiscovered details -- tales of temperamental artists, unexpected hits and surprising convergences of great music with...

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Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the        ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one newly commissioned articles in the Oxford        Handbook of Plato provide in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics        and dialogues. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man...