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An Essential Guide to Hearing and Balance Disorders
by R. Steven Ackley T. Newell Decker Charles J. LimbAn Essential Guide to Hearing and Balance Disorders consolidates the most significant clinical aspects of hearing and balance disorders, ranging from cause and diagnosis to treatment and cure. Experts in various subspecialties of this extensive topic introduce readers to the most sophisticated and state of the art methods of diagnosis and treatment. Each chapter expands on a specific topic area along the continuum of how medical personnel diagnose hearing and balance disorders, to how surgical implantation of the cochlea and rehabilitation can remedy various conditions. In concise format, the book begins with a case history and follows with comprehensive descriptions of current knowledge regarding fundamental causes of hearing loss and balance disorders, as well as a thorough examination of objective assessment. The latter half of the volume presents specialized treatment and rehabilitative options for various disorders. The chapters in this part cover special topics and conclude with pertinent case studies. Unique areas of discussion in a text of this kind include: genetics of deafness pediatric hearing loss and hearing loss later in life business essentials in audiology private practice professional issues, such as ethics, methods of practice, and conflicts of interest. As its title implies, this book is critically important for all students and professionals in hearing/balance related disciplines, including audiology, otolaryngology, general medicine, and rehabilitation oriented allied health care occupations.
An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School: Practical resources for all school managers
by Ken ReidIn this engaging book Professor Ken Reid focuses on the needs of school professionals and leaders, providing them with workable, achievable solutions to radically reducing their truancy rates. As well as discussing the importance of regular attendance and the importance of sound leadership, Professor Reid provides: A highly effective whole school strategy for use in both primary and secondary schools Checklists on good practice Early intervention strategies Advice on using attendance panels Guidance on effective monitoring schemes Supporting throughout with case-studies, sample letters, reports, attendance calendars and action plans, this book will be an essential staff-room resource for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.
An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication: Building Great Relationships With Faith, Skill, And Virtue In The Age Of Social Media
by Quentin J. Schultze and Diane M. BadzinskiTwo experts offer a solid Christian perspective on interpersonal communication in our social media age.
An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience With Faith, Skill, And Virtue
by Quentin J. SchultzeIf you were called to deliver an important message, would you be able to speak about your faith or any other topic clearly and convincingly? A Christian communications expert, Schultze shows how preparation for effective public speaking involves listening and being a servant to our neighbors-as well as learning to use verbal skills.
An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue
by Quentin SchultzeWhether at a business meeting, church gathering, or social function, most of us will be called upon at some time to speak publicly. As Christians, we are called to speak not only with effectiveness but also in a way that honors God and embodies Christian virtue. In An Essential Guide to Public Speaking, communications expert Quentin Schultze encourages readers to become servant speakers who faithfully serve their audiences as neighbours. Besides providing a biblical perspective on public speaking, this accessible book also covers such practical topics as overcoming common challenges, the importance of listening, and the art of preparing and delivering well-crafted speeches. Filled with helpful sidebars, checklists, and tips, this is a book for any person who wishes to improve his or her public speaking skills.
An Essential Guide to Speaking in Tongues (Foundations on the Holy Spirit #2)
by Ron PhillipsThis book is part of the Foundation Series by Pastor Ron Phillips. The series will contain books describing the basic foundational truths for the Spirit-filled believer. An Essential Guide to Speaking in Tongues will describe the author&’s own experience with speaking in tongues. The author brings great balance to this topic and helps readers to understand that speaking in tongues is a blessing of God that gives us the ability to boldly approach God&’s throne with the Holy Spirit&’s power and language.
An Essential Guide to Spiritual Gifts (Foundations on the Holy Spirit)
by Ron PhillipsWhat are spiritual gifts? What does the Bible say about them? How do I experience them for myself? In An Essential Guide to Spiritual Gifts, Ron Phillips explains the gifts of the Spirit--including the five leadership gifts, the seven service gifts, and the eight sign gifts--and provides clear biblical background and support for them. As a Spirit-filled Southern Baptist pastor, Phillips brings a welcome balance to the topic. Offering clear support from Scripture along with dynamic illustrations from his own life and the lives of others, he demonstrates the importance and operation of each of the gifts. The Holy Spirit who filled Jesus, empowered His ministry, raised Him from the dead, and performed miracles in the early church is the same Holy Spirit who equips believers today. Discover how you can activate these amazing gifts in your life.
An Essential Guide to the Gift of Healing (Foundations on the Holy Spirit)
by Ron PhillipsWhat does it mean to have the gift of healing? What does the Bible say about it? How do I experience it for myself? Many people have questions about how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. In An Essential Guide to the Gift of Healing, Ron Phillips explains the gift of healing and provides clear and comprehensive biblical background and support for the practice. As a Spirit-filled Southern Baptist pastor, Phillips brings a welcome balance to the topic, examining the many avenues that lead to healing and health. Filled with information and illustrations from his own life and the lives of others, this book clearly demonstrates God’s power to touch and heal lives even today. The Bible is filled with miraculous accounts of healing. The Holy Spirit who activated these miracles in the early church is the same Holy Spirit who equips believers today. This book will help you build your faith and appreciate God’s gift of healing, whatever form that healing might take.
An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging
by Cheryl BriggsWhile some rigging books focus too much on the theory of rigging and provide little instruction, others do the exact opposite and offer no reasoning behind the button-pushing. An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging, 2nd Edition, however, offers a perfect balance. Cheryl Briggs’ text is built for the classroom, with step-by-step tutorials that guide the reader through the rigging process. With vibrant screenshots and a plethora of helpful tips, this book provides a strong foundation in character rigging for anyone who wants to pursue 3D animation or more advanced rigging topics. Features Provides readers with fundamental techniques to give them a firm grasp on Maya character rigging. Thorough step-by-step tutorials, which provides instruction on how to create biped, quadruped, and prop rigs. Continuous updates and further support can be located at www.cherylcreates.com Cheryl Briggs (formerly Cabrera) is an award-winning animated short film director. She has advised and guided aspiring animators, game artists, and visual effects artists for 20 years. Since 2009, Cheryl has taught all aspects of production in the Character Animation specialization in the School of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Central Florida. She also taught as Professor of Animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design from 2001 to 2009. Cheryl is currently on the Board of Directors for the Animation Hall of Fame. She also is a member of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), the International Animated Film Society (ASIFA-Hollywood), Women in Animation, Women in Film and Television, and the Society for Animation Studies. Cheryl is also an Autodesk Certified Professional and an Autodesk Certified Instructor in Maya. She is the author of An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging (Focal Press, 2008), Reel Success: Creating Demo Reels and Animation Portfolios (Focal Press, 2013), and Animating Short Stories: Narrative Techniques and Visual Design (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Cheryl holds a B.A. and M.Ed. in Education and an M.F.A. in Computer Art with a specialization in 3D Animation. She is a digital artist and animator that blends the lines between digital imagery and the traditional painting medium. She has participated is numerous group and solo exhibitions in the United States and her work is featured in several private collections. Her award-winning students have been featured in animation festivals worldwide, and many have gone on to work within the entertainment industry.
An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging with DVD
by Cheryl CabreraDiscover the concepts and techniques required to rig engaging CG character models with Maya in this unique book and DVD package. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them. Every technique and tip is backed up with practical tutorials, using the models, student
An Estimated DSGE Model for Integrated Policy Analysis
by ZhouA report from the International Monetary Fund.
An Estimated DSGE Model for Monetary Policy Analysis in Low-Income Countries
by Shanaka J. Peiris Magnus SaxegaardA report from the International Monetary Fund.
An Estimated Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model of the Jordanian Economy
by Tigran Poghosyan Samya Beidas-StromA report from the International Monetary Fund.
An Estimated Model with Macrofinancial Linkages for India
by Magnus Saxegaard Rahul Anand Shanaka PeirisA report from the International Monetary Fund.
An Estimated Small Open Economy Model of the Financial Accelerator
by Ivan Tchakarov Selim Elekdag Alejandro JustinianoA report from the International Monetary Fund.
An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination #2)
by Braxton D. ShelleyAn Eternal Pitch examines the homiletic life and afterlife of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God in Christ from 2000 to 2007. Although Patterson died in 2007, his voice remains a staple of radio and television broadcast, and his sermons have taken on a life of their own online, where myriad YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users enact innovative forms of religious broadcasting. Their preoccupation with Patterson’s "Afterliveness" punctuates the significance of Patterson’s preoccupation with musical repetition: across the decades of Patterson’s ministry, a set of musical gestures recur as sonic channels, bringing an individual sermon into contact with scripture’s eternal transmission.
An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Thinking Gender)
by Mary Jeanne LarrabeePublished in 1982, Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice proposed a new model of moral reasoning based on care, arguing that it better described the moral life of women. An Ethic of Care is the first volume to bring together key contributions to the extensive debate engaging Gilligan's work. It provides the highlights of the often impassioned discussion of the ethic of care, drawing on the literature of the wide range of disciplines that have entered into the debate. Contributors: Annette Baier, Diana Baumrind, Lawrence A. Blum, Mary Brabeck, John Broughton, Owen Flanagan, Marilyn Friedman, Carol Gilligan, Catherine G. Greeno, Catherine Jackson, Linda K. Kerber, Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Zella Luria, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Linda Nicholson, Bill Puka, Carol B. Stack, Joan C. Tronto, Lawrence Walker, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler.
An Ethical Approach to Leading Change
by Mervyn ConroyMacIntyre's narrative based virtue ethics have for the first time in this book been applied to an organization undergoing change driven by market forces and a society that wants more for less with scant regard for the means by which that is achieved. The practical potential of these insights is explored in the case study that runs through the book.
An Ethical Approach to Practitioner Research: Dealing with Issues and Dilemmas in Action Research
by Anne Campbell Susan Groundwater-SmithPractice based research is burgeoning in a number of professional areas. An Ethical Approach to Practitioner Research covers a comprehensive range of issues and dilemmas encountered in practitioner and action research contexts. While principally focused upon practitioner inquiry in education it takes account of, and acknowledges that others engaged in professional practice such as in legal, nursing and social care contexts, face similar issues and dilemmas. It aims to stimulate ethical thinking and practice in enquiry and research contexts. Following moves to promote professional learning and development in the workplace, there is an increase in the number of practitioners engaging in action or inquiry based learning in the workplace supported by university staff or consultants, as evidenced in the emergence of professional learning communities and learning networks. There are many tensions inherent in relationships between practitioners and academics in terms of the setting of the research agenda, the policy implications that may flow from it and the right to publish outcomes. Negotiating that relationship requires ethical probity where each party recognises, understands and respects mutual responsibilities. The book explores this through a wide variety of roles from those of academic researchers, consultants and teachers to professional practitioners as researchers and, importantly, students and children. It therefore illustrates a number of differing perspectives about ethics and research which are allied to those roles Drawing on the expertise of international researchers and academics from America, Australia and Europe, the book provides invaluable support to the novice researcher and illuminates some of the more intricate issues for the more experienced research practitioner.Packed with detailed and thought-provoking examples this book contains both theoretical analyses of ethical matters and offers practical advice to practitioner and action researchers across the fields of schools hospitals and community and family settings.
An Ethical Compass: The Ethics Prize Essays of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
by Thomas L. FriedmanIn 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over “the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world.” Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. A project at the heart of the Foundation’s mission is its Ethics Prize—a remarkable essay-writing contest through which thousands of students from colleges across the country are encouraged to confront ethical issues of personal significance. The Ethics Prize has grown exponentially over the past twenty years. “Of all the projects our Foundation has been involved in, none has been more exciting than this opportunity to inspire young students to examine the ethical aspect of what they have learned in their personal lives and from their teachers in the classroom,” writes Elie Wiesel. Readers will find essays on Bosnia, the genocide in Rwanda, sweatshops and globalization, and the political obligations of the mothers of Argentina’s Disappeared. Other essays tell of a white student who joins a black gospel choir, a young woman who learns to share in Ladakh, and the outsize implications of reporting on something as small as a cracked windshield. Readers will be fascinated by the ways in which essays on conflict, conscience, memory, illness (Rachel Maddow’s essay on AIDS appears), and God overlap and resonate with one another. These essays reflect those who are “sensitive to the sufferings and defects that confront a society yearning for guidance and eager to hear ethical voices,” writes Elie Wiesel. “And they are a beacon for what our schools must realize as an essential component of a true education.”
An Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series)
by Andrew Linzey Clair LinzeyThe fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry. It is estimated that over 100 million animals are killed in fur farms worldwide annually. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the state of fur factory farming worldwide, and an ethical critique of the main arguments propounded by the fur industry. Consideration is also given to an attempt to justify fur farming through the concept of “Welfur." Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey argue that from any ethical perspective, fur factory farming fails basic moral tests.
An Ethical Framework for Complementary and Alternative Therapists
by Julie StoneAs growing numbers of patients turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the focus of attention has largely been on whether these therapies work and whether they are safe. These questions are central to further integration of CAM with orthodox medicine. But in the absence of formal regulation, it is equally critical to consider the ethical dimensions of the CAM therapeutic encounter.In this book, Julie Stone demonstrates that ethical issues are no less relevant to CAM therapists than they are to doctors or any other group of health professionals. She provides CAM therapists with a detailed framework of the specific ethical issues which affect CAM practice to help practitioners think constructively about how ethics underpin their therapeutic work.An Ethical Framework for Complementary and Alternative Therapists encourages critical and reflective practice, suggests practical problems to common problems, includes illustrative scenarios of ethical dilemmas faced by therapists and summarises key points. This timely book offers a comprehensive guide to this important area. Its challenging conclusions are as relevant to experienced practitioners as to students and newly qualified therapists. This book will also interest policy makers and professional bodies interested in strengthening and enhancing CAM's potential.
An Ethical Framework for Global Governance for Health Research (Advancing Global Bioethics #15)
by Kiarash ArameshThis book provides a comprehensive description and ethical analysis of one of the most challenging areas: international health research. Furthermore, it provides a vivid portrait of the current situation of global governance for health research and its main challenges and suggests a comprehensive and universal ethical framework based on the existing theories and frameworks. This work is a must-read for all the students, scholars, professionals, activists, and policy-makers who are involved or interested in the global health research enterprise and its governance and ethics.
An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity: Concepts, tools, and techniques to protect your anonymity from criminals, unethical hackers, and governments
by Kushantha GunawardanaDive into privacy, security, and online anonymity to safeguard your identityKey FeaturesLeverage anonymity to completely disappear from the public viewBe a ghost on the web, use the web without leaving a trace, and master the art of invisibilityBecome proactive to safeguard your privacy while using the webBook DescriptionAs the world becomes more connected through the web, new data collection innovations have opened up more ways to compromise privacy. Your actions on the web are being tracked, information is being stored, and your identity could be stolen. However, there are ways to use the web without risking your privacy. This book will take you on a journey to become invisible and anonymous while using the web.You will start the book by understanding what anonymity is and why it is important. After understanding the objective of cyber anonymity, you will learn to maintain anonymity and perform tasks without disclosing your information. Then, you'll learn how to configure tools and understand the architectural components of cybereconomy. Finally, you will learn to be safe during intentional and unintentional internet access by taking relevant precautions.By the end of this book, you will be able to work with the internet and internet-connected devices safely by maintaining cyber anonymity.What you will learnUnderstand privacy concerns in cyberspaceDiscover how attackers compromise privacyLearn methods used by attackers to trace individuals and companiesGrasp the benefits of being anonymous over the webDiscover ways to maintain cyber anonymityLearn artifacts that attackers and competitors are interested inWho this book is forThis book is targeted at journalists, security researchers, ethical hackers, and anyone who wishes to stay anonymous while using the web. This book is also for parents who wish to keep their kid's identities anonymous on the web.
An Ethical Life: A Practical Guide to Ethical Reasoning
by Richard KyteEthics isn't just a set of principles to study, but a skill to practice. By introducing a logical 4-Way Method, An Ethical Life demonstrates how everyone has the capability to work out complex and real ethical dilemmas.