Authors:Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin,
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: rules, law, dilemmas, morality, rule
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0822327368
ISBN-13: 9780822327363

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ought not follow them when we believe they produce the wrong result in a particular case. In The Rule of Rules Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin examine this dilemma. Once the importance of this moral and practical con

Authors:Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: philosophy, law, introductions, cambridge, legal, reasoning, demystifying
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-06-16
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521703956
ISBN-13: 9780521703956

Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common law reasoning when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practice special forms of reasoning is false.

Authors:Emily S. Patterson, Janet E. Miller, Emily S. Patter
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: scenarios, metrics, macrocognition
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2010-07-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754675785
ISBN-13: 9780754675785

"Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams" translates advances by scientific leaders in the relatively new area of macrocognition into a format that will support immediate use by members of the software testing and evaluation community for large-scale systems as well as trainers of real-world teams. Macrocognition is defined as how activity in real-world teams is adapted to the complex demands of a setting with high consequences for failure. The primary distinction between macrocognition and prior research is that the primary unit for measurement is a re

Author: Ray Sherwin
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: results, book
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2005-03-23
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1411625587
ISBN-13: 9781411625587

Casting sigils is a highly effective form of sorcery and Sherwin provides a sound overview of the process. He cuts through the cant, rhetoric and old-fashioned moral baggage associated with magical practice and shows us how to use sigils to influence the subconscious, bypassing the often contradictory and usually self-sabotaging internal dialogue of the conscious mind. The Book of Results was first published in 1978 just as Chaos Magick was emerging from the stygian depths of the primordial occult oozo and it was essentially a book about the practise and theory of sigils as espoused by Austin

Author: Ray Sherwin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: magick, theatre
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2006-11-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1430301996
ISBN-13: 9781430301998

Ray Sherwin is perhaps the most conventional of the Chaos practitioners. Sherwin’s books are written in a calm, analytical style, systematically exploring points of practical concern to the magician. You are not guided into using any fixed paradigms, you effectively use whatever works best for you, mixing and borrowing or inventing new techniques. This level of belief is not what meta-belief is concerned with. Rather, it concerns the level of belief that is attained by the method actor, sometimes referred to in the inverted sense as "suspension of disbelief." Practicing Chaos Magick invo

Author: A.M. Sherwin
Publisher: Happy Media, LLC
Keywords: astoria, greetings, volume, choragus
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 0615138276
ISBN-13: 9780615138275

Greetings from Astoria is a must read for anyone who is in the internet business, working for a non-profit, naming a company, or on a golf course. It is equal parts business bible, civics lecture, golf yarn, and retrospective. Come sit around the campfire and listen to this song for staying up late, looking for the next big thing.

Author: Sherwin Carlquist
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: wood, dicotyledon, springer, science, aspects, series, evolutionary, anatomy, systematic, ecological, comparative
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $459.00
ISBN-10: 3540411739
ISBN-13: 9783540411734

An expose on comparative wood anatomy, comparing and discussing the systematic, ecological and evolutionary aspects of dicotyledon wood. Illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs of wood features, and incorporates significant changes that have occurred in wood anatomy since the previous edition. Previous edition not cited. DLC: Wood--Anatomy.