Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions. Here, Jonathan Mitchell considers emotional experiences as sui generis states; not to be modelled after other mental states such as perceptions, judgements, or bodily feelings, but given their own analysis and place within our mental economy. More specifically, he proposes an original view of emotional experiences as feelings-towards-values. Centr...

This book tackles a long-standing puzzle concerning visual experiences. How is it the case that we can enjoy visual experiences as of complete three-dimensional entities given the fact that we are limited to seeing the side or sides facing us from a specific spatial perspective. How are these phenomenological facts to be reconciled? The contention of this study is that we can solve this puzzle, and in so doing make sense of a foundational form of spatial perception, through a correct under...

The O'Rourke family is hit with sudden and unexpected tragedy, then they suffer through one of the worst food shortages in Ireland's history. The resulting struggle for the family forces young Joseph to take the brunt of his father's rage and abuse. However, his loving and patient mother makes life bearable--until Joseph's newfound love causes his father's anger and prejudice to become even more cruel and dangerous. Young Joseph is forced from his home in an act of self-preservation, only ...

This work: features expanded and amplified meanings of many of the words in the Greek New Testament; provides multiple renderings of some phrases and sentences, where these are viable; includes readings from different eclectic Greek texts, as well as from early individual manuscripts that present a significant change in the meaning of the text; supplies optional functioning of noun and adjective cases, where the context supports these options; expands the renderings of the Greek verbs to s...

This fourth volume, in a series of verse-by-verse comments and explanations on a collection of New Testament letters, is an interpretation of Second Peter and Ephesians. It is based upon, and contains, a fresh, expanded translation of these letters, by the author, which are a part of The New Testament, God's Message of Goodness, Ease and Well-being... Peter's letter and Paul's sermon unveil dynamic perceptions concerning God's plan of the ages. This mystery which from the beginning was hid...

This third volume, in a series of verse-by-verse comments and explanations on a collection of New Testament letters, is an interpretation of Paul's letter to the first century called-out, covenant community of Christ in Rome, which is arguably his greatest contribution to Christianity. It is based upon an original, expanded translation of the Greek texts and gives some explanations of the reasons for, and the implications of, these new renderings. Included with the author's comments are ci...

This first volume, in a series of verse-by-verse comments and explanations on a collection of New Testament letters, covers 1 Peter, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus and Jacob (James). The interpretation and comments are based upon The New Testament, God's Message of Goodness, Ease and Well-being Which Brings God's Gifts of His Spirit, His Life, His Grace, His Power, His Fairness, His Peace and His Love, translated by Jonathan Mitchell....

This second volume, in a series of verse-by-verse comments and explanations on a collection of New Testament letters, covers 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Judah (Jude), Hebrews and Galatians. The interpretation and comments are based upon The New Testament, God's Message of Goodness, Ease and Well-being Which Brings God's Gifts of His Spirit, His Life, His Grace, His Power, His Fairness, His Peace and His Love, translated by Jonathan Mitchell. The text of each of these letters is given and the m...

Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different disciplines and practitioners with different objectives generally work in splendid isolation from each other and from the mainstream of development economics. Detailed economic analysis remains buried and is rarely challenged for policy impl...

For over fifty years, Boundary Value Problems and Partial Differential Equations, Seventh Edition has provided advanced students an accessible and practical introduction to deriving, solving, and interpreting explicit solutions involving partial differential equations with boundary and initial conditions. Fully revised and now in its Seventh Edition, this valued text aims to be comprehensive without affecting the accessibility and convenience of the original. The resource's main tool is Fo...

Social media is at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives. It is intimately entwined with mental health issues and can be both a blessing and a curse.Do you fully understand the links between social media and mental health?What problems does social media present for your learners?What benefits could it bring them?What can you do to educate children and young people about the use of social media while also developing their digital resili...

AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”Over the next four decades, the studen...