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"Atonement by the Resurrection" shows that the resurrection of
Christ was a causal factor counteracting sin and its consequences,
thereby producing the reconcilliation of humanity with God. It was
not simply a sign that it had been achieved. Thus is was an event
which was complimentary to the Crucifixion in its consequences. The
present book attempts to recitfy that inbalance, by offering an
orignal account, of the much neglected role of the Resurrection, as
one of the causes of humanity's salvation. It must not be regarded
simply as a sign of its successful accomplishment.
At three years old, when her father was released from jail, she
returned to live with her mother and father. The father was an
alcoholic and heroin user. Her mother was overwhelmed by life and
angry much of the time. Her father took this little girl to the
bars with him, and from as early as three years old, prostituted
her and continued this until she was a young teen. The mother
consistently called her a tramp, told her she was ugly and useless,
and that she better pray that some man would want her when she grew
up. When the girl cried or complained, her mother would often put
the girl into a closet or dirt cellar. This family lived from one
vacant and abandoned building to another. For her, this meant
changing schools every few months. At twenty-one, this young woman
was sharing her life with bitter, frustrated people who expected to
be short-changed by life. Excerpt from Chapter 1 This is a true
story of how, now at fifty-eight years old, she lives her life
fully present and aware that she is so much more than the
limitations that were programmed into her ego during her childhood
years. She lives the American dream of freedom, wellness, peace,
and with the joy and happiness we all wish for.
In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what
fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes
substances or processes as primary. There are, however, both
commonsense and naturalistic reasons for not fully adopting a
substance ontology, which indicate that we ought to suspend
judgment with respect to the acceptance of a substance ontology.
Doing so allows room to further explore other ontologies. In this
book, Andrew M. Winters argues that there are both commonsense and
naturalistic reasons for further pursuing a process ontology.
Adopting a process ontology allows us to overcome many of the
difficulties facing a substance ontology while also accommodating
many of the phenomenon that substance ontologies were appealed to
for explanation. Given these reasons, we have both commonsense and
naturalistic reasons for pursuing and developing a metaphysics
without substance.
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Studies of Narcosis (Hardcover)
Robert L. Lipnick; Introduction by Keith W. Miller, Peter M. Winter, Leonard L. Firestone; Charles Ernest Overton
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This volume is an English translation of Overton's monograph on
structure-activity relationships regarding anaesthetic action and
toxicity. This book has been cited widely by scientists studying
the correlation of biological activity with partition coefficients
and the mechanism of anaesthesia. Although the original monograph
was published in 1901, it should still be of value to modern
toxicologists, particularly those involved in the development of
quantitative structure-toxicity relationships and the predictive
limitations of such models. Introductory chapters by Lipnick,
Miller and Winter emphasize the importance of this text. This book
should be of interest to anaesthetists, pharmacologists,
toxicologists, medical and organic chemists and pharmaceutical
historians.
As a major transplantation center, the University of Pittsburgh has
conducted more than 300 liver transplants. Because the problems
faced by an institution contemplating the initiation of such an
organ transplantation program are many, unique, and often
unexpected, the university has been beseiged by requests from other
physicians and hospitals for training and advice. This book
represents much of the accumulated experience on hepatic
transplantation to date.
This book provides an in-depth overview of the current research on
sexual grooming. It explores the process by which an individual
seeking to commit a sexual offense skillfully manipulates a
potential victim into situations in which abuse can be more readily
committed, while simultaneously preventing disclosure and
detection. This volume addresses this understudied phenomenon and
comprehensively examines what is currently known about the
construct. It provides a thorough introduction to the sexual
grooming literature, focusing on the history of the term and how
sexual grooming strategies have become more publicly recognized
through high-profile cases, as well as those in child-serving
organizations (e.g., Catholic Church, Boy Scouts of America). The
book reviews the various proposed models of sexual grooming -
including the Sexual Grooming Model (SGM) - that detail the
overarching steps or stages involved in the process. It discusses
attempts to define the construct of sexual grooming and addresses
potential consequences of sexual grooming, emphasizing how victims,
families, and communities at large may be affected. Key areas of
coverage include: Unique contexts and facets in which sexual
grooming behavior has been observed, including online grooming,
personal/self-grooming, familial grooming, institutional grooming,
and grooming behaviors of females. The ways in which sexual
grooming strategies may be manifested in sex trafficking cases and
in adult sexual abuse. Assessment and treatment of sexual grooming,
as well as prevention strategies. The implementation of grooming
research to inform law enforcement efforts and court
decision-making. The creation and adoption of legislation and
policies designed to prevent sexual grooming. Child Sexual Grooming
is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate
students, clinicians, mental health therapists, legal
professionals, policy makers, law enforcement, and related
professionals in developmental psychology, child and adolescent
psychology, social work, public health, criminology/criminal
justice, forensic psychology, and behavioral therapy and
rehabilitation.
This title was first published in 2002. Misguided Morality presents
a survey of how the Catholic moral programme has failed to make a
decisive impact on the behaviour of the Church's members. Despite a
cogent theology of human conduct, the author argues that its
effectiveness is not impressive. This book analyses what has gone
wrong in the transmission of the New Testament ideals. The book
covers the whole field of morality, starting with the bible and
tracing the historical and sociological factors which have effected
the dilution of those ideals, frequently to the level of anodyne
respectability. Having explored the causes of failure, the author
offers positive suggestions for improvement in each area where
shortcomings have been revealed. Combining loyalty to the Roman
Catholic Church, with constructive criticism of shortcomings in
implementing moral policies, this book is essential reading to
those studying and participating in Catholic moral teaching in the
contemporary church. The author is well known for his books on the
challenges to the Church after Vatican II, including his books
Mission or Maintenance, and Whatever Happened to Vatican II.
The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious,
triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss
the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in
animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied
research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists,
psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers. Basic
Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best
papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50
chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology,
psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.
"The value of "Managing Outside Pressure" is that, not only is it a
handbook on issues identification and issues management, but it
provokes thoughts about the evolution into reputation
management."
-C.A.J. Herkstroter, Chairman of the Committee of Managing
Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies
"We have learned a that a company needs to establish and promote
a dialogue with all its stakeholders. In brief: you can only
realize what you can communicate. Against this background, I find
this book to be very helpful in identifying and assessing issues
that have the potential to develop into corporate crises."
-Jurgen Dorman, CEO of Hoechst Corporation
"You don't have to be a giant like Nike, Shell or Texaco to come
unstuck as campaigners spotlight your real (or perceived) corporate
weakness. Winter and Steger provide excellent advice on how to
predict and manage external pressures. Remember, though, the real
trick is to use such pressures to drive internal change."
-John Elkington, Chairman, SustaiAbility; author, "Cannibals with
Forks: The triple bottom line of 21st century business"
"Brand and reputation are ever more important for value
creation. Matthias Winter and Ulrich Steger launch a powerful new
tool to manage reputation. It arms managers with a smart detector
for potential public sparks or powder kegs. It offers options to
keep them safely apart and rather design win-win solutions."
-Claude Fussler, Vice-President for the Environment, Dow Europe
Two of the most important yet often overlooked aspects of a medical
device are its usability and accessibility. This is important not
only for health care providers, but also for older patients and
users with disabilities or activity limitations. Medical
Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations focuses
on how lack of usability and accessibility pose problems for
designers and users of medical devices, and how to overcome these
limitations. Divided into five broad sections, the book first
addresses the nature and extent of the problem by identifying
access barriers, human factors, and policy issues focused on the
existing infrastructure. The subsequent sections examine responses
to the problem, beginning with tools for usability and
accessibility analysis and principles of design for medical
instrumentation. Building on this foundation, the third section
focuses on recommendations for design guidelines while the fourth
section explores emerging trends and future technologies for
improving medical device usability. The final section outlines key
challenges, knowledge gaps, and recommendations from accomplished
experts in the field presented at the recent Workshop on Accessible
Interfaces for Medical Instrumentation. Integrating expert
perspectives from a wide array of disciplines, Medical
Instrumentation traces a clear roadmap for improving accessibility
and usability for a variety of stakeholders and provides the tools
necessary to follow it.
The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the
socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an
account of the development of the political ideas and activities of
some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that
time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole. The
first part of the book examines the state of the Labour movement
and of socialist ideas on the eve of the conflict, then turns to
the central question of the impact of the War on the dissemination
of British socialist ideas.
This title was first published in 2002. Misguided Morality presents
a survey of how the Catholic moral programme has failed to make a
decisive impact on the behaviour of the Church's members. Despite a
cogent theology of human conduct, The author argues that its
effectiveness is not impressive. This book analyses what has gone
wrong in the transmission of the New Testament ideals. The book
covers the whole field of morality, starting with the bible and
tracing the historical and sociological factors which have effected
the dilution of those ideals, frequently to the level of anodyne
respectability. Having explored the causes of failure, the author
offers positive suggestions for improvement in each area where
shortcomings have been revealed. Combining loyalty to the Roman
Catholic Church, with constructive criticism of shortcomings in
implementing moral policies, this book is essential reading to
those studying and participating in Catholic moral teaching in the
contemporary church. The author is well known for his books on the
challenges to the Church after Vatican II, including his books
Mission or Maintenance, and Whatever Happened to Vatican II.
A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and
interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from
Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise
of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and
encompassing all the main Christian denominations.
The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the
socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an
account of the development of the political ideas and activities of
some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that
time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole. The
first part of the book examines the state of the Labour movement
and of socialist ideas on the eve of the conflict, then turns to
the central question of the impact of the War on the dissemination
of British socialist ideas.
The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious,
triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss
the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in
animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied
research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists,
psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers. Basic
Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best
papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50
chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology,
psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.
The picture on the front cover of this book depicts a young man
pulling a fishnet, a task of practical relevance for many
centuries. It is a complex task, involving load transmission
throughout the body, intricate balance, and eye head-hand
coordination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such
tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable
pertur bations, has a long history. However, despite a history of
magnificent sculptures and drawings of the human body which vividly
depict muscle ac tivity and interaction, until more recent times
our state of knowledge of human movement was rather primitive.
During the past century this has changed; we now have developed a
considerable database regarding the com position and basic
properties of muscle and nerve tissue and the basic causal
relations between neural function and biomechanical movement. Over
the last few decades we have also seen an increased appreciation of
the impor tance of musculoskeletal biomechanics: the neuromotor
system must control movement within a world governed by mechanical
laws. We have now col lected quantitative data for a wealth of
human movements. Our capacity to understand the data we collect has
been enhanced by our continually evolving modeling capabilities and
by the availability of computational power. What have we learned?
This book is designed to help synthesize our current knowledge
regarding the role of muscles in human movement. The study of human
movement is not a mature discipline."
Most routine motor tasks are complex, involving load transmission
through out the body, intricate balance, and
eye-head-shoulder-hand-torso-leg coor dination. The quest toward
understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often
in the presence of unpredictable perturbations, has a long history.
This book arose from the Ninth Engineering Foundation Con ference
on Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement, held in Deer Creek,
Ohio, in June 1996. This unique conference, which has met every 2
to 4 years since the late 1960s, is well known for its informal
format that promotes high-level, up-to-date discussions on the key
issues in the field. The intent is to capture the high quality
ofthe knowledge and discourse that is an integral part of this
conference series. The book is organized into ten sections. Section
I provides a brief intro duction to the terminology and conceptual
foundations of the field of move ment science; it is intended
primarily for students. All but two of the re maining nine sections
share a common format: (l) a designated section editor; (2) an
introductory didactic chapter, solicited from recognized lead ers;
and (3) three to six state-of-the-art perspective chapters. Some
per spective chapters are followed by commentaries by selected
experts that provide balance and insight. Section VI is the largest
section, and it con sists of nine perspective chapters without
commentaries."
Diagnostic and exfoliative cytology has today achieved a status
that few could have envisaged 20 years ago. While exfoliative
cytology has long been employed in gynecological diagnosis, new and
rewarding spheres have now developed in which cytological diagnosis
plays an important role. Exfoliative cytology, for example, is
widely employed as an aid in the continuous assessment of urinary
tract tumors, and aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid
dis eases. This has given rise to a growing demand for pathologists
experienced in cytological diagnosis. However, clinicians with an
interest in morphology were often the first to adopt these simple
and safe methods, being naturally attracted by the chance to avoid
conducting biopsy, which, in the last analysis, is nothing less
than a surgical operation. In this Atlas of Prostatic Cytology
Leistenschneider and Nagel expertly demonstrate what can be
achieved when clinicians skilled in morphology take an interest in
cytological methods. Not only do they have direct contact with the
patient, but they also profit from immediately being in a position
to assess the results of their diagnostic procedures by examining
the specimen obtained. From the technical point of view aspiration
biopsy of the prostate is by no means a simple procedure and the
difficulties involved would seem to have been underestimated in the
initial phase of enthusiastic acclaim. Consequently it has been not
unusual for clinicians and pathologists to be disappointed by the
high rate of unsatisfactory samples obtained by this method.
Most routine motor tasks are complex, involving load transmission
through out the body, intricate balance, and
eye-head-shoulder-hand-torso-leg coor dination. The quest toward
understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often
in the presence of unpredictable perturbations, has a long history.
This book arose from the Ninth Engineering Foundation Con ference
on Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement, held in Deer Creek,
Ohio, in June 1996. This unique conference, which has met every 2
to 4 years since the late 1960s, is well known for its informal
format that promotes high-level, up-to-date discussions on the key
issues in the field. The intent is to capture the high quality
ofthe knowledge and discourse that is an integral part of this
conference series. The book is organized into ten sections. Section
I provides a brief intro duction to the terminology and conceptual
foundations of the field of move ment science; it is intended
primarily for students. All but two of the re maining nine sections
share a common format: (l) a designated section editor; (2) an
introductory didactic chapter, solicited from recognized lead ers;
and (3) three to six state-of-the-art perspective chapters. Some
per spective chapters are followed by commentaries by selected
experts that provide balance and insight. Section VI is the largest
section, and it con sists of nine perspective chapters without
commentaries."
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