- Offers specific examples of success stories of faith communities involved in the faith + food movement - Engaging stories with photos in local communities and neighborhoods showing the church in action
In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence. The authors present a controversial thesis that demonstrates how the forces of captivity and risk management are sustained by several interdependent "conditions of control." These conditions impose barriers to justice and set limits on citizenship for one and all. Situated at the nexus of political/social theory, mental health law and jurisprudential ethics, the book examines and critiques constructs such as offenders and victims; self and society; therapeutic and restorative; health; harm; and community. So, too, are three "total confinement" case law data sets on which this analysis is based. The volume stands alone in its efforts to systematically "diagnose" the moral reasoning lodged within prevailing judicial opinions that sustain captivity and risk management practices impacting: (1) the rights of juveniles found competent to stand criminal trial, the mentally ill placed in long-term disciplinary isolation, and sex offenders subjected to civil detention and community re-entry monitoring; (2) the often unmet needs of victims; and (3) the demands of an ordered society. Carefully balancing sophisticated insights with concrete and cutting-edge applications, the book concludes with a series of provocative, yet practical, recommendations for future research and meaningful reform within institutional practice, programming, and policy. The Ethics of Total Confinement is a thought-provoking and timely must-read for anyone interested in the ethical and legal issues regarding madness, citizenship, and social justice. "It has become clear that there is no criminological exit from embrace of degrading punishments and practices to which our increasingly distorted risk perception commits us. Instead, the path forward must run through a return to the ethical and psychological roots of security and justice. The Ethics of Total Confinement is a quantum step forward in defining and advancing that path."--Jonathan Simon , Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley School of Law "This book boldly calls for a total transformation in the way the law deals with people who are confined because of their perceived depravity or dangerousness. It focuses on three outcast groups--juveniles tried as adults, people with mental illness subjected to hospitalization, and sex offenders committed as dangerous--and, based on an innovative analysis of the relevant caselaw and empirics, shows why current practices not only visit substantial harm on these people but also brutalize those who deprive them of liberty and damage the rest of us by feeding our basest, most uninformed fears. Relying on Aristotelian philosophy, therapeutic and restorative principles, and commonsense justice, the book persuasively argues that we must reorient the training and thinking of all major players in the system if our goal is to promote the maximum amount of human flourishing."--Christopher Slobogin, Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School "The Ethics of Total Confinement: A Critique of Madness, Citizenship, and Social Justice deepens our understanding of how our legal system justifies its treatment of those it confines. By bridging gaps among relevant disciplines, the book clarifies to an interdisciplinary audience just how inadequate those justifications turn out to be when measured by psychological, ethical, or justice-based standards. The book's provocative conclusions and recommendations offer much food for thought and suggest potential directions for action."--Dennis Fox, Emeritus Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, University of Illinois at Springfield "The Ethics of Total Confinement shows how captivity diminishes the keepers and the kept. It is a book that synthesises in creative new ways reformist visions of justice, virtue and the cultivation of habits of character. This is profound work that opens new paths to dignity, healing and social justice."--John Braithwaite, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Australian National University "The Ethics of Total Confinement offers a useful and wide-ranging perspective grounded in psychological jurisprudence. With its emphasis on the harm done to those most vulnerable to extremes of risk-management, this volume makes a welcome addition to the literature on confinement."--Lorna Rhodes, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington "The provocative thesis of this book develops psychological jurisprudence to conceptualize the ethics of existing total confinement practices, aspiring to greater justice and human flourishing for all. A timely intervention of this kind is most welcome."--George Pavlich, Associate Vice-President (Research), Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Alberta
Computing as a discipline is maturing rapidly. However, with maturity often comes a plethora of subdisciplines, which, as time progresses, can become isolationist. The subdisciplines of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies and modelling languages within software engineering e.g. have, to some degree, evolved separately and without any underpinning formalisms. Introducing set theory as a consistent underlying formalism, Brian Henderson-Sellers shows how a coherent framework can be developed that clearly links these four, previously separate, areas of software engineering. In particular, he shows how the incorporation of a foundational ontology can be beneficial in resolving a number of controversial issues in conceptual modelling, especially with regard to the perceived differences between linguistic metamodelling and ontological metamodelling. An explicit consideration of domain-specific modelling languages is also included in his mathematical analysis of models, metamodels, ontologies and modelling languages. This encompassing and detailed presentation of the state-of-the-art in modelling approaches mainly aims at researchers in academia and industry. They will find the principled discussion of the various subdisciplines extremely useful, and they may exploit the unifying approach as a starting point for future research.
The first in a series of adventures about Clyde the Green Fish comes Clyde's corner. Clyde is a young green fish that has a best friend named Warner, and they are ready to go on their first adventure and leave their safe home under their dock. What happens to Clyde and his best friend on their adventure?
When Emily came into this world on Thanksgiving Day of 2000, it wasn't anyone's idea of a typical birth. From the day she took her first breath, nobody, not one doctor, not one nurse, nobody thought she would make it. Nobody thought she would survive. Nobody offered a single thin thread of hope. Nobody but Emily.
While previously available methodologies for software – like those published in the early days of object technology – claimed to be appropriate for every conceivable project, situational method engineering (SME) acknowledges that most projects typically have individual characteristics and situations. Thus, finding the most effective methodology for a particular project needs specific tailoring to that situation. Such a tailored software development methodology needs to take into account all the bits and pieces needed for an organization to develop software, including the software process, the input and output work products, the people involved, the languages used to describe requirements, design, code, and eventually also measures of success or failure. The authors have structured the book into three parts. Part I deals with all the basic concepts, terminology and overall ideas underpinning situational method engineering. As a summary of this part, they present a formal meta-model that enables readers to create their own quality methods and supporting tools. In Part II, they explain how to implement SME in practice, i.e., how to find method components and put them together and how to evaluate the resulting method. For illustration, they also include several industry case studies of customized or constructed processes, highlighting the impact that high-quality engineered methods can have on the success of an industrial software development. Finally, Part III summarizes some of the more recent and forward-looking ideas. This book presents the first summary of the state of the art for SME. For academics, it provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and discusses new research areas. For lecturers, thanks to its step-by-step explanations from basics to the customization and quality assessment of constructed methods, it serves as a solid basis for comprehensive courses on the topic. For industry methodologists, it offers a reference guide on features and technologies to consider when developing in-house software development methods or customising and adopting off-the-shelf ones.
OPEN (Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation) is an international de facto standard object-oriented development method developed and maintained by the OPEN Consortium. OPEN consists of the OPEN Modeling Language (OML) as well as process, metrics, etc. This book specifies OML, a small but vital component of the complete OPEN method. It uses diagrams, tables, Web references and text to present the syntax, semantics and rationale behind OML. It documents version 1.0 of OML so that object-oriented modelers can learn and use it, and upperCASE vendors can support it.
A typo in a help wanted ad results in Constantin Stanislavski being cast in the role of Marketing Director for a company in transition. Stanislavski, through the contrived alter-ego of Stan Islavski, is tasked by the company’s CEO with using the techniques of his Method to turn around the marketing department and reconnect the company its products and its services with its customers and markets. The one condition of his assignment, however, is that he cannot reveal his true identity until after his team’s new marketing plan is presented to the company’s senior management and board just three months later. Using the principles of his Method Acting technique, Stan sets out to help the company and its cast of characters to find their corporate self and connect it to the actions of the marketplace. Along the way, the managers he is training learn to cope with his digressions, stories and analogies all the while unwittingly learning to apply concepts such as observation, emotion memory and even a little magic to their daily work. In the end, the lesson taught through this creative, humorous and engaging story is that there is a method which can be used as a guide to teach marketing and business professionals the intangible skill of connecting the corporate self with the Character of the Customer.
Silver writes like a good friend and a concerned parent. Like you, he was deeply affected by September 11 and how our world has changed since that tragic day. He understands that 9/11 will remain the major event for our children's growing years, just as World War II and the Cold War was for our parents and grandparent's lives. He understands that the War on Terrorism has engulfed us in an unconventional war like no other we have ever fought where our enemies seek to harm and terrorize us here at home. This easy-to-read volume discusses how we got into this conflict, the threats to our safety, and provides practical (not apocalyptic) advice on things you can do to protect your family, community, and country. This passionate book's central theme is about raising kids and offers ideas on how to protect your children during these turbulent times. The book is crammed to the gills with realistic, action steps you can take-right now.
5th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 and Chicago, IL, USA, October 13th, 2003, Revised Selected Papers
5th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 and Chicago, IL, USA, October 13th, 2003, Revised Selected Papers
Thisproceedingsvolumeofthe5thAOISWorkshopisanopportunityforlooking back at ?ve years of organizing AOIS workshops. What did we achieve with the AOIS workshop series? Where were we ?ve years ago, where are we now? Did ourthemeimpactontheinformationsystems?eldinthewaythatwehadhoped for? AOIS workshops have taken place in Seattle, Heidelberg, Stockholm, Austin, Montr ́ eal, Interlaken, Toronto, Bologna, Melbourne, and Chicago, always in c- junction with a major conference on either multiagent systems in arti?cial - telligence (AI/MAS) or information systems (IS). We have tried to innovate in holding these workshops as biconference events (each year AOIS held two wo- shop events, one at an AI/MAS conference and one at an IS conference), as well as using the AOIS web site as a medium for communication among researchers. So, certainly, we have reached a wide audience of researchers around the world from both the AI/MAS and IS communities. But did we also manage to build up a dedicated AOIS community? Five years ago, we wrote: “Agent concepts could fundamentally alter the nature of information systems of the future, and how we build them, much like structured analysis, ER modeling, and Object-Orientation has precipitated fundamental changes in IS practice. ” Of course, a period of ?ve years is too short for evaluating the success or failure of a new scienti?c paradigm. But still we may observe that while most IS conferences meanwhile list agents as one of their many preferred topics, agent-orientation is generally not considered to be a fundamental IS paradigm.
If you've ever wished you could open up a book about selling and find the exact phrase or idea that could instantly change your sales outcome, then look no further. In The Selling Formula, Brian W. Robinson gives you five powerful steps that he's meticulously developed, tested, and used for over 20 years as a top-performing sales professional and marketing innovator-steps that are proven to increase sales instantly and dramatically. Plus, you'll discover the top-ten most powerful selling phrases you should be using right now, how to overcome the fifteen most common selling challenges, and the keys to becoming a selling master. The Selling Formula will empower you with greater confidence, clarity and closing power so you can get more deals done, and have a greater impact in your life and the lives of others.
Sociological Approaches to Theories of Law applies empirical insights to examine theories of law proffered by analytical jurisprudents. The topics covered include artifact legal theory, law as a social construction, idealized accounts of the function of law, the dis-embeddeness of legal systems, the purported guidance function of law, the false social efficacy thesis, missteps in the quest to answer 'What is law?', and the relationship between empiricism and analytical jurisprudence. The analysis shows that on a number of central issues analytical jurisprudents assert positions inconsistent with the social reality of law. Woven throughout the text, the author presents a theoretically and empirically informed account of law as a social institution. The overarching theme is that philosophical claims about the nature of law can be tested and improved through greater empirical input.
Electronics Primer: The Products, The Markets, The Players (Electronics Primer) is a new handbook that provides a comprehensive overview of the electronics components that form the building blocks of the global electronics industry.The book is authored by a collaborative student team from Texas A&M University and edited by Texas A&M faculty member M. Laura Kane-Sellers who also holds the office of Education Foundation Director of the NEDA. As an educator and electronics industry executive, I was dismayed to find that there was no quick reference tool on the market that provided a comprehensive and unbiased overview of the many component products that make up the electronics industry shared Kane-Sellers Having challenged my students to research the various product groups, we soon found that their combined efforts could fill a much needed gap in the libraries of students, educators, engineers and electronics industry executives alike. We took the idea to the executive board at NEDA who recognized the value and invested the support for the creation of this much needed tool. Publication of Electronics Primer was underwritten by a grant from the NEDA Education Foundation, which is affiliated with the National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA). Readers are saying:This is a book that every distributor sales person should have a copy of. Electronics Primer has the pertinent information that distributors, manufactures, and their customers need to have on hand. This may well become a bible for our industry." Robin Gray Executive Vice President of the NEDA The Electronics Primer is an incredibly comprehensive yet easy to understand introductory guide to the basics of electronics. This valuable tool is a must read for every new inside and outside sales person. It provides an excellent overview of the vast majority of passive and active electronic components. I would recommend this book to anyone entering the electronics industry! Skip Streber, Vice President, Global Semiconductor Supplier Marketing at Arrow Electronics.Ive been in this industry now for over 30 years and have yet to see a practical guide to all of the different technologies in the industry as comprehensive and easy to understand as the Electronic Primer. This book should be the core for training any person joining the electronic industry. I recommend it highly! Craig Conrad, Sr. Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and Strategic Planning Officer for TTI. Electronics Primer is available exclusively for purchase through the National Electronics Distributor Association at www.NEDAssoc.org. Orders placed thrpugh this site will be processed by NEDA. A 7% sales tax will apply to deliveris in Georgia. Features and Benefits:A Comprehensive Industry Overview:Electronics Primer is a comprehensive non-technical guide to the electronics industry. It offers product descriptions, features and benefits and the life cycle of a wide variety of components: semiconductors, active discrete and passive electromechanical interconnects. The Primer also provides company names, websites, revenue, and market share information.Semiconductor ComponentsAnalogConnectivity* Data Converters* WiFi* Sensors and Encoders * Blue Tooth* Interface* Fiber Optics* Power Management* Radio Frequency * Signal Conditioning* MicrowaveLogic * Wireless* Field Programmable Optoelectronics* DiscreteLogic ICProcessorsMemory* Microcontrollers* Volatile* Microprocessors* Nonvolatile* Digital Signal ProcessorsActive Discrete Components* Diodes and Thyristors* TransistorsPassive Electromechanical Interconnect Components* Switches* Relays and Circuit Breakers* Cooling Equipment* Potentiometers and Trimmers* Filters* Resistors* Capacitors* Power Supply* ConnectorsThe Products Defines all products in the specific product group in a non-technical, simplified way. Also, this section answers questions such as how customers use the product and what problems the product solves. Includes the primary features the customer uses to make selections about the specific product type stated in terms of the user benefits and answers the question so what? Life Cycle Stages of a life cycle are explained in each product area and product families are positioned on a life cycle curve.The Market Identify key Manufacturers, Distributors, and Suppliers Worldwide and Regional Total Available Market (TAM) Distributor Total Available Market (DTAM) and Market Segmentation. Market Trendso Historical1998, 2000, 2002, 2004o Projected 2005, 2007, 2010 End equipment applications for each product groupThe Players Which manufacturers drive the top 80% of the revenue for these productso Company Names o Company Websiteso Authorized Distributors o Revenue in $Millionso % Market Share
Learn everything you need to know to start selling on eBay and making money!Do you have countless old items lying around that you've been meaning to sell? This book will have you fetching top-notch prices for your old items!For many years, eBay has been one of the largest marketplaces on the internet. At times it can be daunting; there are millions of listings, each at different price-points, quality, and listed in different categories. This selling on eBay book will give you complete and concise instructions on how to create a powerful listing, get your products seen and sold, and the how to close the deal. This guide will help you build the foundation to making thousands per month!This Selling on eBay complete user guide will cover: Getting started and setting up your eBay account Writing a powerful product description Deciding what your product is worth and how to get top dollar for it Overseeing your auction and what to do once your product is sold Note from the Author, Brian Patrick“With many years of experience using various online retail channels, I have become an expert at selling on eBay, and recommend it as the best e-commerce platform for selling unique, rare, and personal items. If you dedicate some time to it you can run a full-time business on eBay!
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