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Predicting Organizational Reconfiguration
Tim N. Carroll and Samina Karim
This chapter addresses the issue of structural change within for-profit organizations, both as adaptation to changing markets and as purposeful experimentation to search for new opportunities, and builds upon the "reconfiguration" construct. In the areas of strategy, evolutionary economics, and organization theory, there are conflicting theories that either predict structural change or discuss obstacles to change. Our aim is to highlight relevant theoretical rationales for why and when organizations world, or would not, be expected to undertake structural reconfiguration. We conclude with remarks on how these literatures, together, inform our understanding of reconfiguration and organization design and provide insights for practitioners.
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Integrating Student and Program Assessment with a Teacher Candidate Portfolio
Kathy Lake, Judith Reisetter Hart, William H. Rickards, and Glen Rogers
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The botulinum neurotoxin: a deadly protease with applications to human medicine
Kirkwood M. Land and Luisa W. Cheng
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Chosen and Unchosen: Conceptions of Election in the Pentateuch and Jewish-Christian Interpretation
Joel N. Lohr
The God of the Bible favors a national people, Israel, and this is at the cost of the other nations. In fact, not being Israel usually means humiliation or destruction or simply being ignored by God. Reading the text "with the grain" or placing oneself within the chosen’s perspective may seem very well until one considers the unchosen. There is much regarding the unchosen that has not been explored in scholarly research, but in this important work, Lohr attempts to make sense of the question of election and nonelection in the OT as a Christian interpreter and with a concern for the history of interpretation and Jewish-Christian dialogue.
He also corrects a Christian tendency to read election and nonelection as love and damnation, respectively, a perception that is altogether foreign to the OT itself. The unchosen are important to the overall world view of Scripture and, although election entails exclusion, and God’s love for the one people Israel is a love in contrast to others, it does not follow that the unchosen fall outside of the economy of God’s purposes, his workings, or his ways. The unchosen often face important tests of their own and have a responsibility to God and the chosen, however much this idea defies modern-day notions of fairness. It is a central idea of Scripture that already appears in the original call of and promises made to Abram and something that, if ignored, places our larger understanding of God at risk.
Equally important, if contemporary faith communities (both Jewish and Christian) form their understanding of "the other" on a faulty reading of Scripture regarding the unchosen, chaos and hatred can ensue. The political and religious climate of our contemporary world has never presented a more important time to get this matter right. Scholars and students alike are finding Chosen and Unchosen to be an indispensable resource as they mull over these difficult questions.
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What is a Good Society? Pacific Seminar 1 Textbook 2009
Macelle Mahala, Sarah M. Mathis, Marisela Ramos, Stacy Rilea, Susan G. Sample, and Caroline T. Schroeder
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John Stuart Mill, Three Essays on Religion
Lou Matz
John Stuart Mill was one of the most important political and social thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his writings on human rights, feminism, the evils of slavery, and the environment are still widely read and influential today. Published after Mill’s death to avoid controversy, the three essays in this edition, Nature, Utility of Religion, and Theism, represent Mill’s considered position on religion. Mill argues that belief in a supernatural power holds us back, but that a conception of the meaning and value of being human, or Religion of Humanity, could make the world a better place. Essential in understanding Mill’s views on religion and his practical philosophy, these essays are also significant contributions to the philosophy and psychology of religion.
Appendices include Mill’s other writings on religion, his early influences, contemporary reviews, and other 19th century writings on religion and science.
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On philosophy in American law
Francis J. Mootz III
In recent years there has been tremendous growth of interest in the connections between law and philosophy, but the diversity of approaches that claim to be working at the intersection of philosophy and law might suggest that this area of inquiry is so fractured as to be incoherent. This volume gathers 38 leading scholars working in law and philosophy to provide focused and straightforward articulations of the role that philosophy might play at this juncture of American legal history. The volume marks the 75th anniversary of Karl Llewellyn’s essay “On Philosophy in American Law,” in which he rehearsed the broad development of American jurisprudence, diagnosed its contemporary failings, and then charted a productive path opened by the variegated scholarship that claimed to initiate a realistic approach to law and legal theory. The essays are written in the spirit of Llewellyn’s article: they are succinct and direct arguments about the potential for bringing law and philosophy together.
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The Irrelevance of Contemporary Academic Philosophy for Law: Recovering the Rhetorical Tradition
Francis J. Mootz III
The Irrelevance of Contemporary Academic Philosophy for Law: Recovering the Rhetorical Tradition, in On Philosophy in American Law (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge, 2009). And On Philosophy in American Law (Cambridge, 2011) (ed.).
This chapter appears in a volume of original essays, On Philosophy in American Law (Francis J. Mootz III ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2009). I argue that the undeniable rift between philosophy and law is more than a simple dichotomy of theory and practice. Instead, the sharp distinction between philosophy and law occurred when both disciplines built insular guilds that employed distinctive vocabularies to distinguish themselves from rhetoric, and it is by returning to their roots in rhetoric that philosophy and law might find their common ground in the elucidation of rhetorical knowledge.
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Volume 1: Essentials of Insurance Law
Francis J. Mootz III
Volume 1: Essentials of Insurance Law, in New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition (Jeffrey E. Thomas, ed., LexisNexis, 2009) (ed., vol. 1).
Volume 1 –Essentials of Insurance Law
Topics include:
- Chapter 1 What is Insurance?
- Chapter 1A Self-insured Retentions Versus Large or Matching Deductibles
- Chapter 2 Agents and Brokers
- Chapter 3 The Contractual Relationship
- Chapter 4 Claims Processing
- Chapter 5 Insurance Policy Interpretation
- Chapter 6 Choice of Law
- Chapter 7 Dispute Resolution
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Volume 3: Commercial General Liability Insurance
Francis J. Mootz III
Volume 3: Commercial General Liability Insurance, in New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition (Jeffrey E. Thomas, ed., LexisNexis, 2009) (ed., vol. 3).
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Mercury rising: Exposing the vaccine-autism myth
Matthew P. Normand and Jesse Dallery
Environmentalist and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues that childhood vaccines containing thimerosal are linked to autism and that the government has colluded with pharmaceutical companies to cover up this information. Psychology professors Matthew Normand and Jesse Dallery contend that studies have failed to uncover any specifi c link between autism and mercurycontaining thimerosal vaccines.
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A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept
Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, Andreas-Holger Maehle, and Robert F. Halliwell
The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current impact on drug discovery in the 21st century.
A selection of books and book chapters written or edited by faculty at the University of the Pacific.
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