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The Rise Of The Megacorporation, Richard Adelstein Aug 2013

The Rise Of The Megacorporation, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A podcast interview with Sarah Green of the Harvard Business Review on the rise of big business in the United States.

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Boise's Big Business: History Of Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company, Jim D. Duran Jul 2013

Boise's Big Business: History Of Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company, Jim D. Duran

Jim D. Duran

Jim Duran presents a multi-media history of one of Boise's largest international companies: Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company. From beginnings, in road construction in Boise, to multi-billion dollar projects in Vietnam and Afghanistan, M-K workers, or EmKayans, experienced it all. From triumph to tragedy, this presentation will highlight the accomplishments and failings of a business that Boise was sorry to lose.

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The Blackwell Guide To Ethical Theory, 2nd Ed., Hugh Lafollette, Ingmar Persson Jan 2013

The Blackwell Guide To Ethical Theory, 2nd Ed., Hugh Lafollette, Ingmar Persson

Faculty Books

Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers. A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new material Includes 21 essays written by an international team of leading philosophers Extensive, substantive essays develop the main arguments of all the leading viewpoints in ethical theory Essays new to this edition cover evolution and ethics, capability ethics, virtues and consequences, and the implausibility of virtue ethics

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Coptic Scriptorium, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes Jan 2013

Coptic Scriptorium, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes

Department of Religious Studies Faculty Digital Projects

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect. As an open-source, open-access initiative, our technologies and corpus facilitate a collaborative environment for digital research for all scholars working in Coptic. We provide:

  • tools to process Coptic texts
  • a searchable, richly-annotated corpus of texts using the ANNIS search and visualization architecture
  • visualizations of Coptic texts
  • a collaborative platform for scholars to use and contribute to the project research results generated from the tools and corpus

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a collaborative, digital project created by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of …

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Coptic Scriptorium Dec 2012

Coptic Scriptorium

Caroline Schroeder

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect.  As an open-source, open-access initiative, our technologies and corpus facilitate a collaborative environment for digital research for all scholars working in Coptic.

We provide:
  • tools to process Coptic texts
  • a searchable, richly-annotated corpus of texts using the ANNIS search and visualization architecture
  • visualizations of Coptic texts
  • a collaborative platform for scholars to use and contribute to the project research results generated from the tools and corpus

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a collaborative, digital project created by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of …

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