Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human – how do these things dwell wholly in emptiness, how do we reconcile their vivid life with 'no–thingness'?The red (or 'vermilion') thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments courtesans were obliged to wear. Most spiritual traditions do their best to distance themselves as thoroug...

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi founded the San Francisco Zen Center in 1962, and after fifty years we have seen a fine group of Zen masters trained in the west take up the mantle and extend the practice of Zen in ways that might have been hard to imagine in those first early years. Susan Murphy, one of Robert Aitken's students and dharma heirs, is one of the finest in this group of young Zen teachers. She is also a fine writer, and following on the teaching of her Roshi she has engaged her spiritual...

**PubWest 2023 Book Design Award (Silver)At a time of climate emergency, Zen koans show us how crisis itself can reveal the regenerative openness of life, mind, and being.**Zen koans are a tradition of holistic inquiry based on “encounter stories” from East Asia’s most radical Buddhist tradition. Turning this form of inquiry toward the climate crisis, Susan Murphy contends that koans can help us enter the mind of not-knowing, from which acceptance and possibility freely eme...

SYNOPSISAda Okoye is a struggling young woman drowning in debt, family pressure, and the constant fear of losing everything she loves. When a mysterious billionaire unexpectedly enters her life with a shocking offer—a marriage contract that promises to solve all her financial problems—she is forced to make an impossible choice.With no other way to save her mother’s medical treatment and prevent her family from being thrown out of their home, Ada signs the c...

LIFE IS 5% WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, 95% WHAT YOU DO WITH IT! Have you ever wondered how to create a great life for yourself or what is your purpose in life? This book will show you not just what you want but also EXACTLY how to create the happy, successful life you have always wanted using smart, measurable goals and a strategic life plan tailored specifically to YOU. In this book you will find out: • How to create a great life • How to find purpose and meaning in your life • Ways of achieving...

This monograph opens with an examination of the aid industry and the claims of leading practitioners that the industry is experiencing a crisis of confidence due to an absence of clear moral guidelines. The book then undertakes a critical review of the leading philosophical accounts of the duty to aid, including the narrow, instructive accounts in the writings of John Rawls and Peter Singer, and broad, disruptive accounts in the writings of Onora O’Neill and Amartya Sen. Through an elabora...

The essential leadership playbook for today's complex healthcare environment - endorsed by leaders at Harvard, Stanford, and Mayo Clinic.Healthcare has changed dramatically in recent years. Burnout is rising, staffing shortages are widespread, and teams are navigating unprecedented levels of stress, complexity, and cultural transformation. In this environment, leadership is no longer optional - it is the determining factor between organizational struggle and organi...

Written to reflect the realities of todays business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protg or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America'smost successful mentors and protgs, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to mHealth technology and is accessible to technology-oriented researchers and practitioners with backgrounds in computer science, engineering, statistics, and applied mathematics. The contributing authors include leading researchers and practitioners in the mHealth field.The book offers an in-depth exploration of the three key elements of mHealth technology: the development of on-body sensors that can identify key health-related be...

This edited book presents cutting-edge research looking at the role of multiple intelligence--cognitive (IQ), emotional intelligence, social intelligence--in effective leadership, written by the most distinguished scholars in the two distinct fields of intelligence and leadership. The synergy of bringing together both traditional intelligence researchers and renowned leadership scholars to discuss how multiple forms of intelligence impact leadership has important implications for the study...

Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.Winner of the 2021 Advancement of Knowledge Award presented by the Conference on College Composition and CommunicationBordered Writers explores how writing program administrators and faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are transforming the teaching of writing to be more inclusive and foster La...

The book begins with a section delving into foresight analysis, strategic foresight, and scenario planning. It then examines the pressing contexts and most wicked problems facing future leaders ranging from population growth and urbanization to climate change and resource competition. How can leaders create common cause and meet these issues with an eye toward peace, sustainability, and social justice? The book concludes with a series of unique ways of viewing the critical challenges facin...