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Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency
Timothy O'Connor

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion - from metaphysics through theology. Organized into two sections, the text first examines truths concerning what is possible and what is necessary. These chapters lay the foundation for the book's second part - the search for a metaphysical framework that permits the possibility of an ultimate explanation that is correct and complete. * A cutting-edge scholarly work ...

The Contingency Theory of Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
Lex Donaldson

Sage Publications, Inc, 2001

Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory - one of the major theoretical lenses used to view organizations. It includes both an appreciation of the coherency of contingency theory overall and a frank recognition of some of the deficiencies in contingency theory research. The coherent underlying model ...

Nonprofit Risk Management & Contingency Planning: Done in a Day Strategies

1 review
Peggy M. Jackson

Wiley, 2006

Risk Management for Real People
Risk management and contingency planning need not be expensive, time-consuming or labor intensive! I wrote this book because I wanted to share a streamlined method for preparing effective risk management and business continuity plans. Many nonprofits are reluctant to engage in risk management or business continuity planning because they simply don't know where to start. My book walks the reader ...

The Didymus Contingency: A Time Travel Thriller

21 reviews
Jeremy Robinson

Breakneck Books, 2007

A Must Read - Great Book!
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I particularly enjoy stories with time travel themes. I'm also a committed Christian. I've long felt that there's a lack of quality Christian fiction, and there's almost no Christian science fiction. I can understand the difficulty in creating a sci-fi/Christian story line, but Jeremy Robinson accomplished it. The Didymus Contingency is one of the very few ...

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

6 reviews
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, ...

Verso, 2000

better than most...
This book represents an attempt by (the) three social thinkers of our time to bring their differing views of what is to done together by beginning with what it is that they have in common, namely: Marx (and Gramsci), Lacan, and Derrida. Although all three critique the above figures, they could not do what it is they do with them. This book provides a much needed companion to Laclau's (w/ ...

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

20 reviews
Richard Rorty

Cambridge University Press, 1989

A stimulating opportunity...
I've noticed a trend that various reviewers on philosophy books use this cyberspace as an opportunity to display their understanding and mastery over the work in question. This is, in ways, an interesting and useful phenomenon, but it can also be misleading. This is especially the case for thinkers like Richard Rorty, whose work is often read with the prejudice of traditional, less radical ...

The Didymus Contingency

45 reviews
Jeremy, Robinson

BookSurge Publishing, 2007

Stunning Collision of Biblical History & Science Fiction
Whether you find yourself a believer of the Christian Bible or not, author Jeremy Robinson has crafted a sci-fi thriller that any history or sci-fi enthusiast will love. He has created a character, a quantum physicist named Tom, who has the brains, the ability and the resources to use science in creating a way to travel in time. Through a series of events, he also has a strong, personal ...

Odds Ratios in the Analysis of Contingency Tables (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Tamas Rudas

Sage Publications, Inc, 1997

This volume shows how odds ratios can be used as a framework for understanding log-linear models. Tightly organized, the book moves systematically from the paradigmatic 2x2 case to more complicated cases. Author Tamas Rudas carefully defines the odds ratio and demonstrates how it is a measure of association for tabular analysis. Throughout the book, Rudas provides real examples, including those from the famous Stouffer data on American soldiers ...

Contingency Management in Substance Abuse Treatment

1 review

The Guilford Press, 2007

Enthusiastically recommended reading for students, educators, and professionals in the field of substance abuse treatment.
Edited by psychiatry professors Stephen T. Higgins, Kenneth Silverman, and Sarah H. Heil, Contingency Management in Substance Abuse Treatment is an anthology of essays by learned contributors concerning the contingency management (CM) approach to substance abuse treatment. CM applies a system of incentives and disincentives to help people meet their goals on the road to recovery; a simple yet ...

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology ...

The MIT Press, 2003

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic ...

Contingency Cannibalism: Superhardcore Survivalism's Dirty Little Secret

12 reviews
Shiguro Takada

Paladin Press, 1999

Great book!
This book is great! Very easy to read and very practical. It was surprising to find a book with so much humour on such a serious topic. Plus it includes great recipes!

Contingencies of Reinforcement; A Theoretical Analysis

1 review
B. F. Skinner

Prentice Hall, 1969

A Very Important Book
This is one of the most important books I read in my intellectual development. I recommend to anyone who is trying to understand how behaviorism has contributed to a science of human behavior. It is widely believed that Behaviorism is dead, but it is, in fact, one of the most vibrant and growing areas in the behavioral sciences. Skinner laid a foundation in this and other works that has led to ...

The Analysis of Contingency Tables, Second Edition (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
Brian S. Everitt

Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1992

Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen

NYU Press, 2007

View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction ?Clear, jargon-free writing prevails throughout the volume. The authors are leaders in their respective fields of inquiry, yet each of them writes not to a narrow group of specialists but to the intelligent reading public.? ?Elisabeth Ellis, author of Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World History is replete with instances of what might, or might not, have been. By ...

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created ...
Margaret J. Osler

Cambridge University Press, 2005

The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded ...

US Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941

2 reviews
Andrew J. Birtle

United States Government Printing, 1997

Solid Study of Small Wars
Andrew Birtle provides a succinct history of the U.S. Armies reluctance to embrace small scale wars and how it continues to focus on large wars and grand battles. Birtle's extensive research clearly details how soldiers became governors, constables, judges, diplomats, explorers, colonizers, educators, administrators, and engineers'. Current policy makers and soldiers will find this work ...

The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning and Crisis Management, June 1987-December 1989 ...
Lawrence A. Yates, Larry A. Yates

Dept. of the Army, 2008

New

Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory

1 review
Barbara H. Smith

Harvard University Press, 1988

sobering example of current literary theorizing
Herrnstein Smith is to be commended for tackling so difficult a subject, especially in view of how inadequately equipped she is in the field of value theory. To readers who have studied philosophy, this book--when dealing with such questions--has an undergraduate feel to it like a term paper (for instance, her tendency to quickly gravitate to the most general terms). She is also not informed on ...

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