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Veteran author James P. Gills takes readers on a path of discovery
toward the realization that only a relinquished life can find true
happiness in Christ. He acknowledges millions of Christians live
without ever truly experiencing His joy in their lives, leaving a
deep, emotional yearning and desperation to fill the void. Gills
offers a point-by-point comparison of a God-centered and repentant
spirit versus a religious spirit that is self-centered, proud, and
overconfident.
This revised and updated edition provides an even better
understanding of the essential characteristics of love. Readers
will learn the five various types of love and read an explanation
of love as many know it and as it should be. Dr. Gills provides an
in-depth study on the hindrances of love, God's agape love, and
love at its worst. The ultimate goal of this book is to receive
love at its finest by accepting God's love for us, showing our love
for God, and giving love to others.
Worry is a highly contagious disease in many lives. It can seem
unstoppable. But there is a cure?being thankful Revised and
updated, Dr. James P. Gills gives the cure for worry?a thankful
heart. Using bold honesty and an understanding of Scripture, he
reveals the importance of thankfulness in our daily lives and how
it will dispel fear caused by worry. Specific features included are
a table of scriptures showing the contrast between worry and
thankfulness, a scripture index, weapons against worry, and a list
of common worries accompanied by God's promise. One step in
fighting off worry is to be thankful for our present relationship
with God and thankful that He is in control of our future.
This book explores how digital technology is altering the
relationships between people and how the very nature of interface
itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this - how we can make
sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences,
empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern
society. The author presents new directions for research at the
relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of
arts, science and technology, and in so doing, presents
philosophical and artistic questions for future research on human
connectivity in our digital age. The book presents frameworks and
methods for conducting research and study of tacit engagement that
includes ethnography, experiments, discourse analysis, gesture
analysis, psycholinguistic analysis, artistic experiments,
installations, and improvisation. Case studies illustrate the use
of various methods and the application and emergence of frameworks.
Tacit Engagement will be of interest to researchers, designers,
teachers and students concerned with new media, social media and
communications networks; interactive interfaces, including
information systems, knowledge management, robotics, and presence
technologies. Not since Michael Polanyi have we seen such wise
science about the tacit: how we know more than we can tell. Gill
brings to the present era of design and data a profoundly needed
perspective on meaning that comes from social dialogue, skilled
performance, relational gesture and rhythm. - Sha Xin Wei, Ph.D.
(Synthesis, ASU)
This book explores how digital technology is altering the
relationships between people and how the very nature of interface
itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this - how we can make
sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences,
empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern
society. The author presents new directions for research at the
relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of
arts, science and technology, and in so doing, presents
philosophical and artistic questions for future research on human
connectivity in our digital age. The book presents frameworks and
methods for conducting research and study of tacit engagement that
includes ethnography, experiments, discourse analysis, gesture
analysis, psycholinguistic analysis, artistic experiments,
installations, and improvisation. Case studies illustrate the use
of various methods and the application and emergence of frameworks.
Tacit Engagement will be of interest to researchers, designers,
teachers and students concerned with new media, social media and
communications networks; interactive interfaces, including
information systems, knowledge management, robotics, and presence
technologies. Not since Michael Polanyi have we seen such wise
science about the tacit: how we know more than we can tell. Gill
brings to the present era of design and data a profoundly needed
perspective on meaning that comes from social dialogue, skilled
performance, relational gesture and rhythm. - Sha Xin Wei, Ph.D.
(Synthesis, ASU)
Imperfections and Behavior in Economic Organizations analyzes the
organization of economic decision making in a contemporary setting.
The contributors focus on two important aspects of this analysis.
First, they address the issue of imperfect or incomplete
information and communication in economic organizations and
consider imperfections arising from the interaction of the market
organization with its environment. Second, the issue of cooperation
in a competitive environment is thoroughly analyzed and alternative
social trade organizations are designed to dissipate the allocation
problems that arise in these situations.
The book brings together an overview of standard concepts in
cooperative game theory with applications to the analysis of social
networks and hierarchical authority organizations. The standard
concepts covered include the multi-linear extension, the Core, the
Shapley value, and the cooperative potential. Also discussed are
the Core for a restricted collection of formable coalitions,
various Core covers, the Myerson value, value-based potentials, and
share potentials. Within the context of social networks this book
discusses the measurement of centrality and power as well as
allocation rules such as the Myerson value and hierarchical
allocation rules. For hierarchical organizations, two basic
approaches to the exercise of authority are explored; for each
approach the allocation of the generated output is developed. Each
chapter is accompanied by a problem section, allowing this book to
be used as a textbook for an advanced graduate course on game
theory.
Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the
contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek
timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense
of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop
it and to what ends? How can we ensure that intelligence is not
abused? In this third edition of their classic text, Peter Gill and
Mark Phythian set out a comprehensive framework for the study of
intelligence, discussing how states organize the collection and
analysis of information in order to produce intelligence, how it is
acted upon, why it may fail and how the process should be governed
in order to uphold democratic rights. Fully revised and updated
throughout, the book covers recent developments, including the
impact of the Snowden leaks on the role of intelligence agencies in
Internet and social media surveillance and in defensive and
offensive cyber operations, and the legal and political
arrangements for democratic control. The role of intelligence as
part of 'hybrid' warfare in the case of Russia and Ukraine is also
explored, and the problems facing intelligence in the realm of
counterterrorism is considered in the context of the recent wave of
attacks in Western Europe. Intelligence in an Insecure World is an
authoritative and accessible guide to a rapidly expanding area of
inquiry - one that everyone has an interest in understanding.
This book aims to develop an institutional approach to general
economic equi librium. Thus far, institutional economics has
essentially been confined to purely verbal discourse. Here I argue
the case that general equilibrium theory forms a well rounded basis
for the development of an institutional economic the ory. The
fundamental economic trade mechanism underlying this refocusing is
that of the Edgeworthian barter mechanism modelled through the
equilibrium notion of the core of an economy. There is an extensive
literature that links the core with the Walrasian price mechanism,
which is explored in this book. Next I develop an alternative model
of explicitly nonsovereign trade in the setting of an
institutionally structured economy. In this book the core and
several of its extensions are considered to be descriptions of the
equilibrium allocations resulting from institutionalized barter
processes, thereby providing a basis of an institutionally based
economic theory. Traditionally finite economies have been assessed
as the most natural represen tations of real life economies, in
particular of market economies. Many funda mental insights have
been developed. In the first half of the book I summarize the most
influential and important results in the literature on finite
economies regarding the relationship of the Walrasian model of a
perfectly competitive market system and the Edgeworthian theory of
individually based, pure barter processes. I use the axiomatic
method as the main methodological framework according to which I
construct my models."
Cognition, Communication and Interaction examines the
theoretical and methodological research issues that underlie the
design and use of interactive technology. Present interactive
designs are addressing the multi-modality of human interaction and
the multi-sensory dimension of how we engage with each other. This
book aims to provide a trans-disciplinary research framework and
methodology for interaction design. The analysis directs attention
to three human capacities that our engagement with interactive
technology has made salient and open to constant redefinition.
These capacities are human cognition, communication and
interaction.
In this book examination of these capacities is embedded in
understanding the following foundations for design: concepts of
communication and interaction and their application (Part 1);
conceptions of knowledge and cognition (Part 2); the role of
aesthetics and ethics in design (Part 3).
The book brings together an overview of standard concepts in
cooperative game theory with applications to the analysis of social
networks and hierarchical authority organizations. The standard
concepts covered include the multi-linear extension, the Core, the
Shapley value, and the cooperative potential. Also discussed are
the Core for a restricted collection of formable coalitions,
various Core covers, the Myerson value, value-based potentials, and
share potentials. Within the context of social networks this book
discusses the measurement of centrality and power as well as
allocation rules such as the Myerson value and hierarchical
allocation rules. For hierarchical organizations, two basic
approaches to the exercise of authority are explored; for each
approach the allocation of the generated output is developed. Each
chapter is accompanied by a problem section, allowing this book to
be used as a textbook for an advanced graduate course on game
theory.
Cognition, Communication and Interaction examines the
theoretical and methodological research issues that underlie the
design and use of interactive technology. Present interactive
designs are addressing the multi-modality of human interaction and
the multi-sensory dimension of how we engage with each other. This
book aims to provide a trans-disciplinary research framework and
methodology for interaction design. The analysis directs attention
to three human capacities that our engagement with interactive
technology has made salient and open to constant redefinition.
These capacities are human cognition, communication and
interaction.
In this book examination of these capacities is embedded in
understanding the following foundations for design: concepts of
communication and interaction and their application (Part 1);
conceptions of knowledge and cognition (Part 2); the role of
aesthetics and ethics in design (Part 3).
Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the
contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek
timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense
of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop
it and to what ends? How can we ensure that intelligence is not
abused? In this third edition of their classic text, Peter Gill and
Mark Phythian set out a comprehensive framework for the study of
intelligence, discussing how states organize the collection and
analysis of information in order to produce intelligence, how it is
acted upon, why it may fail and how the process should be governed
in order to uphold democratic rights. Fully revised and updated
throughout, the book covers recent developments, including the
impact of the Snowden leaks on the role of intelligence agencies in
Internet and social media surveillance and in defensive and
offensive cyber operations, and the legal and political
arrangements for democratic control. The role of intelligence as
part of 'hybrid' warfare in the case of Russia and Ukraine is also
explored, and the problems facing intelligence in the realm of
counterterrorism is considered in the context of the recent wave of
attacks in Western Europe. Intelligence in an Insecure World is an
authoritative and accessible guide to a rapidly expanding area of
inquiry - one that everyone has an interest in understanding.
This book aims to develop an institutional approach to general
economic equi librium. Thus far, institutional economics has
essentially been confined to purely verbal discourse. Here I argue
the case that general equilibrium theory forms a well rounded basis
for the development of an institutional economic the ory. The
fundamental economic trade mechanism underlying this refocusing is
that of the Edgeworthian barter mechanism modelled through the
equilibrium notion of the core of an economy. There is an extensive
literature that links the core with the Walrasian price mechanism,
which is explored in this book. Next I develop an alternative model
of explicitly nonsovereign trade in the setting of an
institutionally structured economy. In this book the core and
several of its extensions are considered to be descriptions of the
equilibrium allocations resulting from institutionalized barter
processes, thereby providing a basis of an institutionally based
economic theory. Traditionally finite economies have been assessed
as the most natural represen tations of real life economies, in
particular of market economies. Many funda mental insights have
been developed. In the first half of the book I summarize the most
influential and important results in the literature on finite
economies regarding the relationship of the Walrasian model of a
perfectly competitive market system and the Edgeworthian theory of
individually based, pure barter processes. I use the axiomatic
method as the main methodological framework according to which I
construct my models."
Imperfections and Behavior in Economic Organizations analyzes the
organization of economic decision making in a contemporary setting.
The contributors focus on two important aspects of this analysis.
First, they address the issue of imperfect or incomplete
information and communication in economic organizations and
consider imperfections arising from the interaction of the market
organization with its environment. Second, the issue of cooperation
in a competitive environment is thoroughly analyzed and alternative
social trade organizations are designed to dissipate the allocation
problems that arise in these situations.
This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the
recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be
adopted. Gilles provides new institutional concepts for wealth
creation, such as network economies, which are based on the social
division of labour. This volume investigates the formation of
networks and hierarchical authority organisations, with a focus on
the role of trust. Gilles also looks at the theory of growth and
development, using real world examples and problem sets to put into
practice. This title is suitable reading for undergraduate, MSc and
postgraduate students in microeconomic analysis, economic theory
and political economy.
World-renowned cataract surgeon Dr. James P. Gills tells how prayer
has changed his life and the lives of other doctors and patients,
and how it can change your life.
Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and
European contexts in the Southeast.
'This is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam
Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and
behavioural economists have developed since 1776. As in the first
volume, markets are not the central organising principle. Instead,
attention centres on social institutions and the division of labour
that they enable. The book studies this via the endogenous division
of labour that existing institutions help form. The first book in
the series examined this problem deeply, resorting minimally to
formal mathematical modelling; the second volume is where the
formal modelling blossoms. General equilibrium theory meets network
theory and receives a breath of fresh air, including a new
viewpoint on economic inequality, the newly resurgent bane of
capitalism. What I said for the first volume applies to this second
volume equally: if you care to understand the economy, this book
belongs to your bookshelf.' -Dimitrios Diamantaras, Temple
University, Philadelphia, USA This textbook introduces and develops
new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how
desirable economic policies can be adopted. Gilles provides new
institutional concepts for wealth creation, such as network
economies, which are based on the social division of labour. This
second volume introduces mathematical theories of the endogenous
formation of social divisions of labour through which economic
wealth is created. Gilles also investigates the causes of
inequality in the social division of labour under imperfectly
competitive conditions. These theories frame a comprehensive,
innovative and consistent perspective on the functioning of the
twenty-first century global economy, explaining many of its
failings. Suitable reading for advanced undergraduate, MSc and
postgraduate students in microeconomic analysis, economic theory
and political economy.
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