Considering Job

Considering Job
Author: Anthony T. Selvaggio
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2021-03-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601788371

Suffering is common to the human experience. It is miserable to endure and a problem that has challenged sages, philosophers, theologians—and the person next door—for generations. Graciously, God provides us with an entire book of the Bible on this subject. In Considering Job, Anthony T. Selvaggio demonstrates how God is glorified as both sovereign and good through the reality of human suffering. Selvaggio prepares us to courageously face suffering in our life and more effectively minister to others experiencing miseries in their lives. By embracing the wisdom of this ancient book of Job, we will be drawn closer to our holy, righteous, merciful, and good God. Table of Contents: Beginning Our Journey 1. When Sorrows Come 2. From Bad to Worse 3. Why Me? 4. With Friends Like These 5. Lessons from the Misguided 6. It’s Hard to Argue with God 7. Wounds from a Young Friend 8. God v. Job

Considering Job

Considering Job
Author: Anthony T. Selvaggio
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781601788368

Consider Leviathan

Consider Leviathan
Author: Brian R. Doak
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 145148951X

Theologians and philosophers are turning again to questions of the meaning, or non-meaning, of the natural world for human self-understanding. Brian R. Doak observes that the book of Job, more than any other book in the Bible, uses metaphors drawn from the natural world, especially of plants and animals, as raw material for thinking about human suffering. Doak argues that Job should be viewed as an anthropological “ground zero” for the traumatic definition of the post-exilic human self in ancient Israel. Furthermore, the battered shape of the Joban experience should provide a starting point for reconfiguring our thinking about “natural theology” as a category of intellectual history in the ancient world. Doak examines how the development of the human subject is portrayed in the biblical text in either radical continuity or discontinuity with plants and animals. Consider Leviathan explores the text at the intersection of anthropology, theology, and ecology, opening up new possibilities for charting the view of nature in the Hebrew Bible.

Job the Silent

Job the Silent
Author: Bruce Zuckerman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1998
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 0198022557

This study of the Book of Job argues that it was intended as a parody of the stereotypical, righteous sufferer, portrayed as patient and silent. This example is used to demonstrate how texts become separated from the intentions of their authors, and can evolve quite different meanings for readers.

Judgment and Decision Making at Work

Judgment and Decision Making at Work
Author: Scott Highhouse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135021953

Employees are constantly making decisions and judgments that have the potential to affect themselves, their families, their work organizations, and on some occasion even the broader societies in which they live. A few examples include: deciding which job applicant to hire, setting a production goal, judging one’s level of job satisfaction, deciding to steal from the cash register, agreeing to help organize the company’s holiday party, forecasting corporate tax rates two years later, deciding to report a coworker for sexual harassment, and predicting the level of risk inherent in a new business venture. In other words, a great many topics of interest to organizational researchers ultimately reduce to decisions made by employees. Yet, numerous entreaties notwithstanding, industrial and organizational psychologists typically have not incorporated a judgment and decision-making perspective in their research. The current book begins to remedy the situation by facilitating cross-pollination between the disciplines of organizational psychology and decision-making. The book describes both laboratory and more “naturalistic” field research on judgment and decision-making, and applies it to core topics of interest to industrial and organizational psychologists: performance appraisal, employee selection, individual differences, goals, leadership, teams, and stress, among others. The book also suggests ways in which industrial and organizational psychology research can benefit the discipline of judgment and decision-making. The authors of the chapters in this book conduct research at the intersection of organizational psychology and decision-making, and consequently are uniquely positioned to bridging the divide between the two disciplines.

Work Won't Love You Back

Work Won't Love You Back
Author: Sarah Jaffe
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1568589387

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

Internet of Things—Applications and Future

Internet of Things—Applications and Future
Author: Atef Zaki Ghalwash
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2020-04-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811530750

This book is a collection of the best research papers presented at the First World Conference on Internet of Things: Applications & Future (ITAF 2019), Sponsored by GR Foundation and French University in Egypt, held at Triumph Luxury Hotel, Cairo, Egypt, on 14–15 October 2019. It includes innovative works from leading researchers, innovators, business executives, and industry professionals that cover the latest advances in and applications for commercial and industrial end users across sectors within the emerging Internet of Things ecosphere. It addresses both current and emerging topics related to the Internet of Things such as big data research, new services and analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) fundamentals, electronic computation and analysis, big data for multi-discipline services, security, privacy and trust, IoT technologies, and open and cloud technologies.

OECD Employment Outlook 1997 July

OECD Employment Outlook 1997 July
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1997-07-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9264163247

The OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in Member countries. Each issue contains an overall analysis of the latest market trends and short-term forecasts, and examines key labour market developments. Reference statistics are included.