A Sense of the Possible addresses a longstanding puzzle about visual experience: how we perceive whole three-dimensional objects despite seeing only the surfaces facing us. This book argues that the solution lies in recognising the role of a in perception—an implicit awareness that reaches beyond what is currently visible to the hidden parts of an object. This implicit element compensates for our limited viewpoint, allowing us to experience objects as complete. The book opens wit...

STAYING THE COURSE AS A CIO: HOW TO OVERCOME THE TRIALS AND CHALLENGES OF IT LEADERSHIPThe shelf-life of a Chief Information Officer can be shockingly short. Few survive in post for more than a few years. More often each falls prey to insurmountable problems and their careers come to a sharp and ignominious end. In this book, a global CIO with over thirty years of experience in major corporations examines the main reasons why this happens. Readers will understand w...

Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions. Here, Jonathan Mitchell considers emotional experiences as sui generis states; not to be modelled after other mental states such as perceptions, judgements, or bodily feelings, but given their own analysis and place within our mental economy. More specifically, he proposes an original view of emotional experiences as feelings-towards-values. Centr...

Matthew Rode has a problem; he's still alive. Just hours ago, he was perched atop a Boston parking garage about to make the leap of all leaps. Now, he has been committed to a psychiatric hospital and needs to find out what went wrong. And then there are the dreams.When he was a boy, Matthew had a life-changing accident that led to many things: a new group of friends, an unstoppable gang of enemies, and a metal rod in his leg. The limp he would carry his entire life, along with the ...

The O'Rourke family is hit with sudden and unexpected tragedy, then they suffer through one of the worst food shortages in Ireland's history. The resulting struggle for the family forces young Joseph to take the brunt of his father's rage and abuse. However, his loving and patient mother makes life bearable--until Joseph's newfound love causes his father's anger and prejudice to become even more cruel and dangerous. Young Joseph is forced from his home in an act of self-preservation, only ...

Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different disciplines and practitioners with different objectives generally work in splendid isolation from each other and from the mainstream of development economics. Detailed economic analysis remains buried and is rarely challenged for policy impl...

Worship. That intimate, face-to-face encounter with our most wonderful God, where we lavish our love upon Him... hear His heart... and simply, BEHOLD. Worship the King is a book compiled by authors who know what it is to have their hearts entwined with His in the intimacy of worship. Come; respond to the calling of the deep and share the mysteries in this secret place... Worship the King. Nic Bilman begins with examples and an exhortation about how we can function like thermostats vs. ther...

A Warhammer Crime AnthologyIn the sprawling hive city of Varangantua, crime lords and gangers, law enforcers, and vigilantes live cheek-by-jowl killers, thieves, and worse from all echelons of society doing what they can to survive.READ IT BECAUSEReturn to Varangantua, a decaying hellscape where only the ruthless prosper.In such a choking and claustrophobic environment, neither law-maker nor law-breaker is safe from dark des...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...

The highest peak in the eastern United States, Mount Mitchell towers 6,684 feet over its home in Yancey County, North Carolina. It has borne silent witness to great scientific and personal achievements, tragic loss of life, heated debates, and a host of controversies both great and small. Once considered forbidding and remote, it claimed the life of its namesake, Elisha Mitchell, when he fell to his death in an attempt to firmly establish the mountain's height. In the early 1900s, entrepre...

This second volume, in a series of verse-by-verse comments and explanations on a collection of New Testament letters, covers 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Judah (Jude), Hebrews and Galatians. The interpretation and comments are based upon The New Testament, God's Message of Goodness, Ease and Well-being Which Brings God's Gifts of His Spirit, His Life, His Grace, His Power, His Fairness, His Peace and His Love, translated by Jonathan Mitchell. The text of each of these letters is given and the m...

In this book on new fiscal approaches, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities. Scholars will find the book useful as a reference tool explaining how rules-based fiscal policy is used to address debt fatigue and unsustainable spending gr...