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This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how the idea of corporate responsibility has evolved over time, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge. Today, it is expected that a corporation will be transparent in its operations; that it will reflect ethical values that are broadly shared by others in society; and that companies will enable society to achieve environmental sustainability as well as a high standard of living. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the social, political and economic landscape is once again shifting: the need for an informed public conversation about what is expected of the modern corporation has never been greater.

Johannes (John) Kesler (1728-1823) immigrated from Germany or Switzerland to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and married Eva Dorothea Leman about 1755. They later moved to Botetourt County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Washington, California, Arizona, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Oklahoma and elswhere.

Pierre Louis Cantelou (1753-1819) was born in Paris, France and immigrated to America at the time of the Revolutionary War. He served in the American army and then married Alice Crymes (b.1757) of Lunenburg County, Virginia. They were the parents of five children. Their descendants settled in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and other parts of the United States.

This textbook accommodates the two divergent developmental paths which have become solidly established in the field of fusion energy: the process of sequential tokamak development toward a prototype and the need for a more fundamental and integrative research approach before costly design choices are made.Emphasis is placed on the development of physically coherent and mathematically clear characterizations of the scientific and technological foundations of fusion energy which are specifically suitable for a first course on the subject. Of interest, therefore, are selected aspects of nuclear physics, electromagnetics, plasma physics, reaction dynamics, materials science, and engineering systems, all brought together to form an integrated perspective on nuclear fusion and its practical utilization.The book identifies several distinct themes. The first is concerned with preliminary and introductory topics which relate to the basic and relevant physical processes associated with nuclear fusion. Then, the authors undertake an analysis of magnetically confined, inertially confined, and low-temperature fusion energy concepts. Subsequently, they introduce the important blanket domains surrounding the fusion core and discuss synergetic fusion-fission systems. Finally, they consider selected conceptual and technological subjects germane to the continuing development of fusion energy systems.

Record especially emphasizes line of descent from immigrant Jacob Schwarztrauber (1816-1893) to the author and his descendants. Sayre Archie Schwarztrauber was born in 1929 at Zion, Illinois, the son of Archie Douglas Swarztrauber (1905-1976) and Eleanor Miriam Sayrs Swarztrauber (1900-1987). He married Beryl Constance Stewart in 1953 at Haworth, New Jersey. She was born in 1930 at New York City, the daughter of Webster Lafayette Stewart (1902-1955) and Eleanor Grant Watson Stewart (1906-1979). They had four children, 1955-1968, born in New York, Virginia, and California.

This book expounds the basic principles of Axiology as a major field of philosophical inquiry. Those principles can be discovered and demonstrated by scientific method. In treating scientific inquiry the book throws light on what values are and how they are known. It explores questions of Good and Bad, Ends and Means, and Appearance and Reality as applied to values. Axiology, argues the author, provides the basis for ethics as the science of oughtness: the power that a greater good has over a lesser good in compelling our choices. The book concludes with a survey of efforts to establish Axiology as a science.