Bøger af Steven Taylor

To hope is human. We seem to be hardwired for hope - even the most pessimistic of us. However deeply buried, there is at least the slightest inkling that things just might get better. Some people brim with a sense of hope. They exude optimism because they are hopeful. Even against the backdrop of the general malaise that seems characteristic of our times, there is something within us that wants to reach forward to better times. We want to believe things will get better, but we are hard-pressed to point to any tangible and clear evidence to support such feelings. The reality check of economic uncertainty, military crises, violent natural disasters, and social and racial upheaval casts a gray shadow over our optimism. Our general hopefulness is a state of mind, rather than a fact of life.Real hope does not leave us pawns in the hands of circumstances, because true hope transcends circumstances. The ability to survive and thrive amidst uncertain times is solidly based on substantive hope, hope that is far more than wishful thinking and starry-eyed optimism. Hope without true substance is little more than a delusional perspective that denies reality. It is important that we set forth a working definition of hope. HOPE IS CONFIDENT EXPECTATION OF SOMETHING BETTER IN THE FUTURE. Hope without a foundation is mere wishful thinking. Real hope, however, is based on specifics. It confidently expects very tangible things in times to come, and visualizes the roadmap to realization. It is so real that we can touch, taste, see, smell, and feel it!

The first book devoted exclusively to exploring the development and use of aircraft designed specifically for high-altitude operations in WW2.

People today increasingly rely on their preexisting opinions and biases (e.g., confirmation bias) as the basis for their decisions. However, effective business-related judgment and decision making depends on the ability to think both critically.and rationally. Therefore, business-related higher education and practice continue to identify the need for critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, there remains a dearth of educational tools to help business decision makers formally learn how to accomplish this goal. This textbook evolved based on the authors¿ decades of experience teaching critical thinking to both graduate and undergraduate business students. The textbook identifies arguments for embracing critical thinking skills and presents a structured method to help ensure the development of stronger critical thinking skills in business decision-making practices. The textbook further provides examples to help students apply the processes they are learning to emerging business issues. This textbook will benefit educators and organizational decision makers interested in strengthening business-related judgments and decisions through critical thinking.

Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary during the years of violence known as the 'Troubles'.

What does it mean to be 'mentally retarded'? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two experts, 'Ed Murphy' and 'Pattie Burt,' for answers. Ed and Pattie, former inmates of institutions for the retarded, tell us in their own words.

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation's mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. This book presents the extraordinary efforts of these courageous men.