Mel Reese Saint Patrick, Sr., has created an exceptional framework for exploring one’s personal journey, teaching people how to assert their value and communicate efficiently and effectively through his inspiring guidance. He provides a step-by-step process that empowers the individual to master assertive communication while upholding their dignity. The author emphasizes the importance of personal interaction; he outlines a path to establish self-worth and a means to pursue it relentlessly...

Discover how rooting our beliefs and practices in relationship--with each other, the natural world, and the Source of All Life--leads us to transform ourselves and the world.At its heart, Ignatian spirituality is practical and experiential, offering modern readers a structure for pursuing inner growth that results in transformed action. While it is a deeply contemplative practice, Ignatian spirituality appeals to many of us who are looking for purpose and meaning, ...

Discourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Besides theoretical investigations, discourse analysis is central in a number of application areas such as dialogue and negotiation, the semantic web, question answering or authoring systems. Music is also a natural language, more abstract and mathematical, which follows very strict construction principles. However, there is very limited and no recent litera...

This book is an introduction to the linguistic concepts of argumentation relevant for argument mining, an important research and development activity which can be viewed as a highly complex form of information retrieval, requiring high-level natural language processing technology. While the first four chapters develop the linguistic and conceptual aspects of argument expression, the last four are devoted to their application to argument mining. These chapters investigate the facets of argu...

Toward the late 1990s, several research groups independently began developing new, related theories in mathematical finance. These theories did away with the standard stochastic geometric diffusion “Samuelson” market model (also known as the Black-Scholes model because it is used in that most famous theory), instead opting for models that allowed minimax approaches to complement or replace stochastic methods. Among the most fruitful models were those utilizing game-theoretic tools and the ...

Mel Reese Saint Patrick, Sr., has created an exceptional framework for exploring one’s personal journey, teaching people how to assert their value and communicate efficiently and effectively through his inspiring guidance. He provides a step-by-step process that empowers the individual to master assertive communication while upholding their dignity. The author emphasizes the importance of personal interaction; he outlines a path to establish self-worth and a means to pursue it relentlessly...

The Confession of Saint Patrick, originally written in Latin by Ireland's patron saint in the late 5th century CE. Translated by Rev. James O'Leary, D.D. in 1874 and republished in 1880.Narrated by Robin Reads.

At its heart, Ignatian spirituality is practical and experiential, offering modern audiences a structure for pursuing inner growth that results in transformed action. While it is a deeply contemplative practice, Ignatian spirituality appeals to many of us who are looking for purpose and meaning, and who are wondering how to live out that purpose in a way that addresses the brokenness of our world.At the heart of this thoughtful introduction to Ignatian spirituality are the Spiritua...