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Value-Focused Thinking

A Path to Creative Decisionmaking

By: Ralph L. Keeney

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Value-Focused Thinking

A Path to Creative Decisionmaking

By: Ralph L. Keeney

This text argues that in decision-making a focus should be placed on the bottom-line objectives that give it its meaning. It states that through recognizing and articulating fundamental values, better decision opportunities can be identified, thereby creat

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Harvard University Press

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067493198X

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Give Yourself a Nudge

Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions

By: Ralph L. Keeney

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Give Yourself a Nudge

Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions

By: Ralph L. Keeney

Enhancing your decision-making skills to make smarter decisions is the best way you can purposefully improve your life.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108715621

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Value-Focused Thinking

A Path to Creative Decisionmaking

By: Ralph L. KEENEY,Ralph L Keeney

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Value-Focused Thinking

A Path to Creative Decisionmaking

By: Ralph L. KEENEY,Ralph L Keeney

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0674039408

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Give Yourself a Nudge

Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions

By: Ralph L. Keeney

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Give Yourself a Nudge

Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions

By: Ralph L. Keeney

The best way to improve your quality of life is through the decisions you make. This book teaches several fundamental decision-making skills, provides numerous applications and examples, and ultimately nudges you toward smarter decisions. These nudges frame more desirable decisions for you to face by identifying the objectives for your decisions and generating superior alternatives to those initially considered. All of the nudges are based on psychology and behavioral economics research and are accessible to all readers. The new concept of a decision opportunity is introduced, which involves creating a decision that you desire to face. Solving a decision opportunity improves your life, whereas resolving a decision problem only restores the quality of your life to that before the decision problem occurred. We all can improve our decision-making and reap the better quality of life that results. This book shows you how.

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1108803989

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Tracking Down Oregon

By: Ralph Friedman

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Tracking Down Oregon

By: Ralph Friedman

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Interesting people and places and their stories are sprinkled throughout this conversational narrative that gives the reader a taste of the spirit of Oregon's people.

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Caxton Press

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0870042572

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9780870042577

Taming Uncertainty

By: Ralph Hertwig,Timothy J. Pleskac,Thorsten Pachur

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Taming Uncertainty

By: Ralph Hertwig,Timothy J. Pleskac,Thorsten Pachur

An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world. How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless decisions and predictions even under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and extreme time pressure? Taming Uncertainty argues that the human mind has developed tools to grapple with uncertainty. Unlike much previous scholarship in psychology and economics, this approach is rooted in what is known about what real minds can do. Rather than reducing the human response to uncertainty to an act of juggling probabilities, the authors propose that the human cognitive system has specific tools for dealing with different forms of uncertainty. They identify three types of tools: simple heuristics, tools for information search, and tools for harnessing the wisdom of others. This set of strategies for making predictions, inferences, and decisions constitute the mind's adaptive toolbox. The authors show how these three dimensions of human decision making are integrated and they argue that the toolbox, its cognitive foundation, and the environment are in constant flux and subject to developmental change. They demonstrate that each cognitive tool can be analyzed through the concept of ecological rationality—that is, the fit between specific tools and specific environments. Chapters deal with such specific instances of decision making as food choice architecture, intertemporal choice, financial uncertainty, pedestrian navigation, and adolescent behavior.

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MIT Press

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0262039877

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9780262039871

Sayre Family

Another 100 Years

By: Ralph Hall Sayre

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Sayre Family

Another 100 Years

By: Ralph Hall Sayre

Thomas Sayre came with his family from England to Lynn, Massachusetts in the early 1630's. Among descendants of Thomas were clergymen, surgeons, attorneys, ambassadors, and representatives of almost every profession. Francis B., cowboy, professor of law, and ambassador, was son-in-law of former President Woodrow Wilson. Zelda was the wife of American novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and subject of one of his books. David A. was silversmith, banker, and founder of Lexington's Sayre School. Many Sayre descendants were taken by wars in service to America and never had the chance to win recognition for their inherent abilities. SAYRE FAMILY another 100-years, in a large part, focuses on the early pioneers who came to or passed through the Onio Valley of West Virginia and Ohio. At least three direct descendants of Thomas had made settlements in that area by the Nineteenth Century. One, David Sayre, came from New Jersey about 1778, and left many descendants who still lived in that area at the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, The bulk of this genealogy covers those, while other Sayre families whose ancestral links were not discovered are also included. The three generations of ancestors above each family block makes tracing easier.

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iUniverse

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1475968493

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9781475968491

Leading High Performance Projects

By: Ralph L. Kliem

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Leading High Performance Projects

By: Ralph L. Kliem

The number one cause of failure on the people side of project management stems from ineffective or inadequate leadership. Leading High Performance Projects explains how project managers can adopt the most appropriate style under a given set of circumstances, encourage greater teaming, become more effective decision-makers, reduce incidences of negative conflict and eliminate opportunities for 'negative energy' to permeate a project. Ralph L. Kliem, President of Practical Creative Solutions, is an accomplished author of hundreds of articles and 12 books primarily in project management.

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J. Ross Publishing

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193215910X

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9781932159103

Citizen Action For Global Change

The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea

By: Ralph B. Levering,Miriam L. Levering

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Citizen Action For Global Change

The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea

By: Ralph B. Levering,Miriam L. Levering

A case study of the effectiveness of nongovernmental organizations in international and national arenas, Ralph B. Levering describes and analyzes the work of three U.S.-based NGOs, known collectively as the Neptune Group. He discusses the group's successful efforts during the Third United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III1973-1982). He details the group's effectiveness supporting negotiations in Washington and addressing the news media and public opinipn. One of the most important international conferences of modem times, UNCLOS III thoroughly revised and updated the law of the sea. By organizing seminars and conducting research on difficult issues facing the conference, facilitating the flow of information among delegates, and publishing a newspaper, Neptune, the Neptune Group became the leading NGO at the conference. Engagingly written, this history and memoir will interest students, scholars, officials, environmentalists, religious and world-order activists, and anyone interested in efforts to help create a more just and peaceful world order.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815627947

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9780815627944

Valuation of Ecological Resources

Integration of Ecology and Socioeconomics in Environmental Decision Making

By: Ralph G. Stahl, Jr.,Lawrence A. Kapustka,Wayne R. Munns, Jr.,Randall J. F. Bruins

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Valuation of Ecological Resources

Integration of Ecology and Socioeconomics in Environmental Decision Making

By: Ralph G. Stahl, Jr.,Lawrence A. Kapustka,Wayne R. Munns, Jr.,Randall J. F. Bruins

Choosing the optimal management option requires environmental risk managers and decision makers to evaluate diverse, and not always congruent, needs and interests of multiple stakeholders. Understanding the trade-offs of different options as well as their legal, economic, scientific, and technological implications is critical to performing accurate

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CRC Press

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1420062638

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9781420062632

Health Behavior Theory for Public Health

Principles, Foundations, and Applications

By: Ralph J. DiClemente,Laura Francisca Salazar,Richard A. Crosby

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Health Behavior Theory for Public Health

Principles, Foundations, and Applications

By: Ralph J. DiClemente,Laura Francisca Salazar,Richard A. Crosby

While a solid understanding of human behavior theory is an essential tool for designing and implementing successful health promotion programs, changing health behavior requires multiple skills beyond the ability to simply apply theory. Divided into three sections, the book takes a unique ecological approach to learning about health behavior theory and its application. The reader will first gain a broad understanding of health, public health, health behavior and health promotion planning. This is followed by a straightforward and expansive look at the most commonly applied theories and approaches to public health research and programs. Students will come away with a clear understanding of how theory "fits" into the larger scope of public health research and practice. Finally, readers will learn about the essential tasks of measurement, evaluation, and translation through an examination a diverse set of application "tools".

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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0763797537

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9780763797539

A Historical Collection From Official Records, Files, &C., of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, During the War of the Revolution: With an Appendix, Containing Important Letters, Depositions, &C., Written During the War

By: Royal Ralph Hinman

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A Historical Collection From Official Records, Files, &C., of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, During the War of the Revolution: With an Appendix, Containing Important Letters, Depositions, &C., Written During the War

By: Royal Ralph Hinman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385128137

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9783385128132

Focus on Sickle Cell Research

By: Ralph L. Plasmar

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Focus on Sickle Cell Research

By: Ralph L. Plasmar

Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited blood disorder, characterised primarily by chronic anaemia and periodic episodes of pain and occurring in approximately 1 in every 400 African-American infants born in the United States each year. Individuals of Mediterranean, Arabian, Caribbean, South and Central American, and East Indian ancestry can also be affected. The underlying problem involves haemoglobin, a component of the red cells in the blood. The haemoglobin molecules in each red blood cell carry oxygen from the lungs to the body organs and tissues and bring back carbon dioxide to the lungs. In sickle cell anaemia, the haemoglobin is defective. After the haemoglobin molecules give up their oxygen, some of them may cluster together and form long, rod-like structures. These structures cause the red blood cells to become stiff and to assume a sickle shape. Unlike normal red cells, which are usually smooth and donut-shaped, the sickled red cells cannot squeeze through small blood vessels. Instead, they stack up and cause blockages that deprive the organs and tissue of oxygen-carrying blood. This process produces the periodic episodes of pain and ultimately can damage the tissues and vital organs and lead to other serious medical problems. Unlike normal red blood cells, which last about 120 days in the bloodstream, sickled red cells die after only about 10 to 20 days. Because they cannot be replaced fast enough, the blood is chronically short of red blood cells, a condition called anaemia. Sickle cell anaemia is caused by an error in the gene that tells the body how to make haemoglobin. The defective gene tells the body to make the abnormal haemoglobin that results in deformed red blood cells. This book gathers the latest research in this important field.

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266

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Nova Publishers

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1590339207

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9781590339206

Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations

By: Rene J. Herrera,Ralph Garcia-Bertrand

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Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations

By: Rene J. Herrera,Ralph Garcia-Bertrand

Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations describes the genesis of humans in Africa and the subsequent story of how our species migrated to every corner of the globe. Different phases of this journey are presented in an integrative format with information from a number of disciplines, including population genetics, evolution, anthropology, archaeology, climatology, linguistics, art, music, folklore and history. This unique approach weaves a story that has synergistic impact in the clarity and level of understanding that will appeal to those researching, studying, and interested in population genetics, evolutionary biology, human migrations, and the beginnings of our species. - Integrates research and information from the fields of genetics, evolution, anthropology, archaeology, climatology, linguistics, art, music, folklore and history, among others - Presents the content in an entertaining and synergistic style to facilitate a deep understanding of human population genetics - Informs on the origins and recent evolution of our species in an approachable manner

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590

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Academic Press

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0128041285

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9780128041284

JUDGES, ADMINISTRATORS & COMMON LAW

By: Ralph Turner

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JUDGES, ADMINISTRATORS & COMMON LAW

By: Ralph Turner

This collection of essays brings together the author's work on th growth of administrative monarchy in Angevin England, concentrating upon the personnnel of royal government and especially upon the common law courts. It describes the institutions of the English common law during its formative period, including the growth of the jury and of the two central courts, Common Pleas at Westminster and the court following the king, later King's Bench. Another group of essays illustrate the justices' handling of cases coming before the law courts, examining please that touched the king's interest. After a discussion of the authorship of England's first great lawbook, Glanvill, other essays examine the justices, their level of literacy, the conflicts facing the clerics among them in hearing secular cases, and the hostility that they aroused as 'new men' in the king's service from conservative elements in society.

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342

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A&C Black

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185285104X

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9781852851040

Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations

By: Ralph Brody

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Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations

By: Ralph Brody

Now in its Third Edition, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable advice for achieving managerial success. Ralph Brody dissects and diagnoses common workplace dilemmas, arming practicing managers with the skills to implement positive changes in their organizations. While retaining much of the valuable information from the previous editions, the Third Edition adds up-to-date information and ideas to chapters on developing leadership, planning strategically, solving organizational problems, addressing challenging employee situations, monitoring financial statements, improving internal and external communications, and obtaining funding from private foundations. Easy to read, the book contains hundreds of real-life examples and specific guidance in developing skills necessary to manage large and small organizations.

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SAGE

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141290420X

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9781412904209

Coal

Nature and Culture

By: Ralph Crane

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Coal

Nature and Culture

By: Ralph Crane

While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have all benefitted from the mining of the black seam. Coal has significantly influenced the course of human history and our social and natural environments. This book takes readers on a journey through the extraordinary artistic responses to coal, from its role in the works of writers such as Émile Zola, D. H. Lawrence, and George Orwell; to the way it inspired the work of painters, including J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh; to the place of coal in film, song, and folklore; as well as the surprising allure of coal tourism. Strikingly illustrated, Coal provides engaging and informative insight into the myriad ways coal has affected our lives.

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Reaktion Books

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1789143675

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9781789143676

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