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Psalms of Sonorous is a book of free verse truth, magnified by
God's love. It was transcribed by the Holy Spirit through the faith
of one believer's heart and then poured out on paper for the glory
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Most High God.
Love, worship, and obedience are words that describe the walk of
faith. Within these pages, the reader will discover varying degrees
of openness, self-reflection, and a fearless will to be closer and
move forward to and in Christ. The author opens her heart as the
reader opens the pages of Psalms of Sonorous, a collection of
intimate interactions with the only living God, I Am. Walk along
this literary path as you read a thinker's style of poetry and
prose. The words of a believer's heart pasted on the truth of God's
existing and everlasting cornerstone, Jesus Christ.
Scenarios are a widely used approach to aid strategic analysis. An
innovative guide to new methods in scenario thinking, this book
presents a detailed step-by-step account of the "intuitive logics"
method for developing and using scenarios within organizations. The
authors detail a range of methodological innovations and show how
to apply the most relevant technique to a particular situation. The
approach is based on a mix of both high-level research and
top-level consultancy experience. The book focuses on the
demonstration and illustration of practical steps in scenario
development processes.
"Scenario Thinking" describes the logical bases of a range of
scenario methods and provides detailed 'road maps' on how to
implement them - together with practical examples of their
application. The authors review the strengths and weaknesses of
each method and detail the time and material resources that each
method requires, providing a comprehensive overview of the most
useful and successful methods at your organization's disposal.
This volume brings together a range of contributors from Europe and
North America. All contributions were especially commissioned with
a view to e- cidating a major multidisciplinary topic that is of
concern to both academics and practitioners. The focus of the book
is on expert judgment and its interaction with decision support
systems. In the first part, the nature of expertise is discussed
and characteristics of expert judges are described. Issues concemed
with the eval- tion of judgment in the psychological laboratory are
assessed and contrasted with studies of expert judgment in
ecologically valid contexts. In addition, issues concerned with
eliciting and validating expert knowledge are discussed. Dem-
strations of good judgmental performance are linked to situational
factors such as feedback cycles, and measurement of coherence and
reliability in expert ju- ment is introduced as a baseline
determinant of good judgmental performance. Issues concerned with
the representation of elicited expert knowledge in kno- edge-based
systems are evaluated and methods are described that have been
shown to produce improvements in judgmental performance. Behavioral
and mathematical ways of combining judgments from multiple experts
are compared and contrasted. Finally, the issues developed in the
preceding contributions are focused on current controversies in
decision support. Expert judgment is utilized as a major input into
decision analysis, forecasting with statistical models, and expert
s- tems.
Addiction Intervention: Strategies to Motivate Treatment-Seeking
Behavior shows you how to use the tools of intervention--the words,
the steps, and the strategies--to be a change agent in the lives of
individuals with alcohol and drug addictions. It is full of
effective strategies and case studies coming from widely respected
specialists across several disciplines. You'll learn how you can
get people to seek help for their chemical dependence, resolving
the cause of their problems rather than temporarily fixing the
symptoms or side effects of their addictions.Whether you're an
alcohol and drug educator, intervention trainer, physician, nurse,
social worker, employer, lawyer, judge, or counselor, Addiction
Intervention will help you find ways to confront chemically
dependent people and motivate them to change their lives. You will
find the tools of intervention easier to wield than you might
otherwise think as you read about: how physicians can assess
symptoms using various diagnostic tools, initiate conversation with
a patient, and overcome resistance to referral how clinical
therapists can develop response-specific intervention strategies
that are appropriate to clients'behavior pathology conducting
effective performance-related workplace interventions the
development and design of impaired professional committees
alternative models for peer and administrative interventions the
methodologies of student assistance programs and teams brief,
structured therapy for the family of an addicted person recent
changes in the criminal justice system that have encouraged judges
to refer individuals to treatment the One-Stop Re-Employment Social
Services Center Addiction Intervention brings within your reach
results-oriented intervention. Don't continue to offer band-aid
solutions or skirt around the real problem of addiction. This book
will help you help people get their lives back on track
permanently.
Richard Wright analyzes the current state of violence in America,
the criminal justice system's response, and the experiences of
survivors in the aftermath of a violent crime. Despite decades of
advocacy, change, and research, our policy responses embedded with
historic and systemic values which rank victims and survivors not
based on their trauma and loss, but by race, social status, gender,
location, and age, remain quite flawed. Keeping the big picture in
mind, Wright analyzes the unintended consequences of current,
well-meaning policies, critiques the victim hierarchy, and sheds
light on why American responses to the needs of violent crime
victims have accrued a more failures than successes.
This work discusses the major court decisions that answer the
important questions affecting freedom of the press, providing
illustrations and examples that give insight into this complex body
of law. The clear and concise style of the book makes it an
essential guide for all those interested in freedom of the press.
The book begins with an analysis of the text of the First Amendment
and demonstrates how the seemingly simple text has given rise to
complicated issues and interpretations. It also discusses the
historical evolution of our current understanding of the
justifications offered to protect freedom of expression. A number
of important questions that have arisen in First Amendment law are
discussed in detail.
Ontic Ethics: Exploring the Influence of Caring on Being claims
that to care more and better is to exist more and better. Much has
been written about how character affects action, but this book
describes how actions and passions affect character ontologically.
H. G. Wright identifies an independent, not culturally relative,
source for the ethics of care in an ontology of the self. Ethical
and aesthetic flourishing is therefore at once ontological
flourishing of the largest, truest self. The book includes many
illustrations of how behavior and attitudes have consequences not
only for who, but for how much we are. It refines the concept of
flourishing, originating with Aristotle, and shows how values that
encourage flourishing of the world as it relates to any person,
reflexively enhance the flourishing of that person, hence offering
a bridge across the fact/value chasm and a cure for ethical
relativism. Wright engages classical and modern philosophers
writing about the nature of a self to provide a platform from which
further advances can be made on several problems in general
philosophy that relate to the ontology of a self. These include the
use of the term "existence," a bundle theory showing a way
substance can be made up of attributes, an exploration of unity in
a self, an evaluation of necessary constituents of selfhood, a
theory of how persons are constituted in space and time, a
portrayal of how existential intensity relates to the exercise of
power, and a proposal about how free acts and stances can be
connected to character. In the final chapters the author outlines
applications of an ontology of care to problems of partiality,
specialization, limitation, age and death. All these issues
explicate the connection between ontological and ethical
flourishing of the self/world combination. The insights in Ontic
Ethics will be of interest not only to philosophers working in
ethics and metaphysics, but also to scholars working in economics,
theology, sociology, and evolutionary theory.
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