New Releases by Michael Morrison

This book sets out a critical sociological approach to ‘personalised medicine’ (PM), not only highlighting its limitations and flaws but also emphasising its hopeful potentialities for a better medicine in the future. Bringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical sociology, law, and bioethics, this book traces PM from its historical roots in disease classification and predictive genetics to its data-driven present of digital infrastructures, algorithmic prediction, and precision therapeutics. Across seven chapters, it explores how measurement, classification, and datafication shape medical knowledge; how infrastructures and platforms distribute benefits and risks; how publics are imagined as patients, consumers, and citizens; and how privacy, access, and equity are negotiated in global health systems. This book concludes by outlining possible futures grounded in solidarity, patient-centred care, and democratic innovation – offering practical ways to shift PM from a privilege for the few to a shared public good. Written for scholars and practitioners in science and technology studies, sociology of medicine, health policy, and bioethics, as well as for clinicians and policymakers, this book will engage readers seeking to understand – and reshape – the social futures of data-intensive healthcare. It will also be useful for policy makers debating the implementation of different PM projects in local or national healthcare systems.

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"Every Man is Now in the Market" is a study of informal institutional change in medieval Liguria during the second half of the thirteenth century. Informal institutions are social rules that are enforced by commonly held values and norms, rather than by any law. The goal of this study is to use this methodology to consider the active role of the Genoese laity in articulating a Christian identity for commerce. For the Genoese laity, the performance of commercial labor and the legitimacy of profits derived from trade were deemed acceptable within the Christian moral worldview. By the thirteenth century, the medieval economy was increasingly oriented toward the exchange value of goods as opposed to immediate consumption, meaning that the scope of trade was geographically expanded and invited investment cooperation between multiple partners. Traditional religious attitudes toward commercialization tended to stigmatize commerce, warning of the danger of avarice and greed, the corruptibility of money, and encouraging the rejection of worldly wealth. Over the course of the thirteenth century scholastic theologians helped mediate commerce and Christianity, producing sophisticated treatises on economic thought and market behavior, but the scholastic and clerical perspectives on the dangers and benefits of commerce have been emphasized over that of the laity who lived and worked in the market. When it comes to the laity, twentieth century scholars of economic history have tended to associate commercial sophistication with a de-emphasis on personal piety, resulting in a conception of medieval merchants as prototypical capitalists struggling against old world values. This thesis challenges this view by using the methodologies of informal institutionalization and stigma management to bring together a wide range of sources, including statutes, commercial contracts, hagiography, and land leases to uncover the role of the laity in articulating their own ideals of Christian commerce. This thesis argues that commerce became informally institutionalized in three sectors of civic and spiritual life. Chapter one examines the emergence of lay associative life in Genoa in relation to the broader religious movements of Northern Italy. These groups functioned as accommodating informal institutions that provided internal ordering and external advocacy, enabling membership in a community which provided a more intimate role in the practice of their religion while also fostering individual connections, group solidarity, and a positive public image for commercial trades. Chapter two explores the process of creating a religious identity for Christian merchants through the elaboration of positive and negative aspects of the stigma. The vitae and miracles of thirteenth-century lay saints with commercial occupations are analyzed as a form of celebrity stigma, providing positive associations for commercial trades. References to negative traits such as avarice in penitential literature need not reflect a tension between Christianity and commerce, but instead show the successful identity construction of the archetypal Christian merchant. This served to integrate commerce into a penitential framework, helping to regulate commerce by associating immoral activity with non-Christian identity, encouraging Christians active in commerce to turn to confessors for guidance in commercial life. The third chapter will sketch out the charitable landscape of thirteenth century Genoa, highlighting the prevalence of lay bequests and gifts to hospitals. This chapter will consider charity not only in terms of the alienation of money toward an institution, but also the voluntary donation of time and labor by laypeople, though the two often went hand in hand. These hospitals were patronized and staffed predominantly by laypeople, but their ties with the laity went beyond their walls. Land around the hospitals was often denoted in rent agreements as developed, partially developed, or undeveloped, and the latter two types often included rent estimated per tavola instead of in a lump sum. These commercial tenants were invited to improve and build on the land that they occupied, increasing the value of the hospital''s patrimony while also integrating themselves into its social network and living in close proximity to an institution of misericordia. The concluding chapter uses an excerpt from the Anonimo Genovese, an anonymous poet active between 1290-1310, to recapitulate the argument and offer some thoughts on the sustained relevance of the Christian merchant identity into the fourteenth century and beyond.

Turning thirteen can be difficult - especially when a time-traveling thief steals your necklace, and a brewing temporal conflict turns your birthday party into a mission to save the universe. As Hannah and her friends chase the thief across time and space, they learn her necklace is more than a pretty piece of jewelry. Only one person can control the powerful pendant, and they must find them before the entire universe is wiped from history. Myth and magic collide in Hannah Goodheart and the Guardian of Time

These articles were written in the years 1995-1999 as we re-examined the question of Old Testament laws. Although several Old Testament laws were foundational to our existence as a denomination, we studied them afresh from Scripture, and found that we had built on the wrong foundation. There was a tremendous cost, both financial and human, to our doctrinal change, but we were compelled by the word of God to change. The articles have all been edited in 2012-2014 by Michael Morrison. We believe that these studies can help many Christians come to a better understanding of how the Old Testament is informative, but not normative, for Christians today.

In this book, DO NOT: Start or Run a Business My Way, you will learn critical mistakes that most entrepreneurs are afraid to share. These mistakes could be detrimental to your business! DO NOT: Start or Run a Business My Way is a memoir of critical business and life mistakes that are not thought about, talked about, or written about. Until now! DO NOT: Start or Run a Business My Way is personally written by Michael D Morrison with no ghost writers or fluff involved. Michael Morrison is just like you. He might as well be you. He has been in your shoes and chose to pursue a better life by creating his own business. The lessons he learned along the way to building a multimillion-dollar company are lessons any aspiring entrepreneur would want to know. More importantly, however, DO NOT: Start or Run a Business My Way is a guide - a guide to what NOT to do. Mistakes offer the best learning opportunities, and Michael has seen and done it all during his decades as an entrepreneur. Michael shares his life lessons. From his biological father''s violent past to the importance of hiring the right professionals - he takes his life lessons from his failures and difficulties, and he shares them so you don''t have to go through the same thing. Each chapter in DO NOT: Start or Run a Business My Way explains a different challenge that Michael encountered, and details what he did wrong and how he should have - and eventually did - do things differently. Michael writes openly and humorously, with stories, lessons, and suggestions so that you can do as he says ...not as he did. Scroll up and buy today. Learn systems and processes that you can apply which will allow you greater success, immediately! Learn to work "on" the business and not "in" the business so that you can enjoy life and sleep at night as an entrepreneur. Order your copy of DO NOT: Start or Run a Business My Way now and immediately reduce the stress of owning or starting a business!

In this lay-level commentary, Michael Morrison, instructor in New Testament at Grace Communion Seminary, walks through the letters of Paul chapter by chapter, showing how Paul presents the gospel of salvation - given to us by Jesus Christ out of his love for us. This affects who we are and how we live. "Exploring the Word of God" began in the mid 1990s. We were able to print a volume on the books of Moses, but the series was never continued, and the first volume has fallen out of print. However, we had a substantial amount of material written, and we added more in the intervening years. These materials have been edited and are on our website. We have also compiled our articles on Paul''s letters and are happy to make them available through print-on-demand publishing. Paul''s letters are a key part of Christian theology and teaching. They not only show that the foundation of salvation is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also explain how salvation should affect the way we live with one another. One theme found throughout is the grace of God: * by grace God sent Jesus to be our Savior* by grace we are saved, not by any good works that we do* by grace the Spirit works in us, transforming us to be more like Christ* by grace we love one another* by grace we will be resurrected with Christ and be given immortality with him.Paul''s letters show a church leader driven by his love for Christ, and driven by his love for the people of Christ. There is warm pastoral concern, and a firm insistence on truth. There are parts that are hard to understand, some parts that are easy to misunderstand, and large sections in which the message is clear and strong. Although we do not have comments written for every chapter, we will proceed through the letters chapter by chapter for a richly rewarding walk with the apostle.

REA''s MAXnotes for William Shakespeare''s Richard II The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of Richard II and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.

"Exploring the Word of God" began in the mid 1990s. We were able to print a volume on the books of Moses, but the series was never continued, and the first volume has fallen out of print. However, we had a substantial amount of material written, and we added more in the intervening years. These materials have been edited and we share them on our website. We have also compiled our articles on Acts and are happy to make them available through print-on-demand publishing. Acts tells the story of how Christianity began and spread. No history book ever has enough space to tell all the facts. The historian must select the facts that are most important and the events that played critical roles in the development of later situations. The historian must interpret the facts and present them in an organized way. Luke does this well. With literary skill, he gives numerous details and interesting personality sketches that help us understand what happened.Luke, in addition to being a historian, is also a Christian writing about his own faith. In the introduction to his first volume of history, he says that one of his purposes is to help readers understand the truthfulness of the Christian faith (Luke 1:4). Similarly, Luke has selected events in church history that help show Christian doctrine and practice; he has quietly omitted facts that might confuse the reader. Regarding circumcision, for example, he says there was a heated debate (Acts 15:2), but he reports the arguments of only one side of the controversy. What Luke writes is true - it is historically accurate - but it is also theologically selective.Several speeches or sermons in Acts are concise presentations of the gospel. They argue that Jesus is the Messiah, that he fulfilled Old Testament prophecies, that God raised him from the dead and that he is the answer to Jewish and Gentile hopes. Speeches are better at communicating these ideas than a historical description could be.While Luke tells the story of the spread of the Christian gospel from Jerusalem to Rome, he is also able to achieve some additional purposes: to explain why Christianity was becoming more Gentile than Jewish, to show that Christianity was not a threat to the Roman government, and to defend Paul from accusations that he was preaching against Judaism. Paul Kroll worked for Grace Communion International for many years, writing hundreds of articles for our magazines. He is now retired. He wrote this material in the mid 1990s. We have updated it with the most recent version of the NIV for this book.Michael Morrison, PhD, is Dean of Faculty at Grace Communion Seminary. He wrote the Introduction, the study of Acts 15, and the chapters on the decree of the council of Jerusalem. He is the editor of this volume and author of numerous e-books.

Microsoft Word is a popular word-processing program. It is capable of doing many things, and because of that, it is complex, sometimes difficult to use - and sometimes it does things we did not ask it to do. However, after we learn how to control Word, it will make the process of preparing papers much easier. We will find that it can do things we want it to do - we just need to learn how to use it. This tutorial is designed for a variety of users. For beginnings, some of what we say will be too complicated. For more experienced users, some of what we say will be too simplistic. So feel free to skip the parts you do not want. But if you think something is too complicated, you might want to skim it anyway, just so that you''ll know that such things can be done, if you ever need them. Store it away for a later day. Our focus in this document is for academic papers. Other users will probably find this information helpful, too, but our focus is on academic papers. Some of the default settings in Word are designed for business use, and academic papers require different settings. So we need to learn how to change the settings in Word. We examine each of the menu ribbons and features, skipping those that are not needed for academic papers. We spend the most space for File, Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Review, and View. Includes more than 100 screenshots to illustrate how to do it.

Guilt is so thoroughly ingrained in religious culture that many people cannot imagine the gospel without a focus on guilt. They present the gospel as a transaction: you will be forgiven IF you accept the gospel. But Jesus already paid for your sins and you are already forgiven. There is no IF. Sin is forgiven, but it still messes up relationships. So the gospel needs to focus on our relationships."God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people''s sins against them" (2 Cor. 5:19). "Love...keeps no record of wrongs" (1 Cor. 13:5). Jesus "canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross" (Col. 2:14).Jesus paid for our sins, our debts, and he did it 2000 years ago. It was done, past tense, before we ever lived and long before we ever believed it. Forgiveness has been granted; God is not waiting on us to believe it before we are actually forgiven. There is no longer any debt to speak of.Why then do many evangelistic presentations dredge our sins back up, to pronounce people guilty? Why do they threaten people with non-existent debts? They present God as a cranky judge who is upset merely at the fact that people don''t know that someone else has paid their debt. They present a Father who seems unaware of what his Son did, and one who has a different attitude toward us than the Son has.Some evangelistic presentations present the gospel as a trial in a court - that we first have to be proven guilty before we can be forgiven. But the Bible says that the sins are already paid for, and already forgiven. God is not counting our sins against us. He does not keep a record of our mistakes. The book of our sins is already blank.Other presentations say that our sins have created a huge chasm between us and God. But this chasm is a fiction; it has already been filled in by Christ. Our sins are not a barrier that keep us away from God, because God has already reconciled us to himself. It is a unilateral declaration of peace. He does not harbor any grudges against us.A guilt-based gospel is a misrepresentation of who God is, what Christ has done, and how people are to respond. It often works, though, because many people are already enculturated into thinking that God is cranky, that he is angry at people, and that we have to do something to get back on his good side. They think that God is like Zeus or Thor, ready to send lightning strikes on anyone who annoys him. But the gospel should free people from these errors, rather than act like they are correct.What would the gospel look like if we didn''t harp about sins that are already paid for? If we didn''t focus on guilt that God has already put aside? (We are of course guilty of all kinds of sins, but the Bible says that God is not counting our sins against us. He is not concerned about a legal category called "guilt.")However, many religious people think that God is still focused on our guilt, that our relationship with God is based entirely on whether he holds us guilty. They see humanity''s problem through the lens of guilt, and if we remove guilt from the equation, then they think that the gospel will have nothing left to say. There is no reason for anyone to accept the gospel, they think, if everyone is already forgiven. Such people have a one-dimensional gospel.But consider this: If humanity''s only problem is guilt, and that guilt is removed when we accept Jesus as our Savior, then that would mean that we have no more problems. If the only thing wrong with sin is that it makes us guilty, and that guilt is forgiven when we accept the gospel, then there will then be nothing wrong with sin! That is of course wrong, but it illustrates the fact that there''s a lot more to sin and salvation than just the removal of guilt. There''s a lot more to the gospel than a transaction by which our sins can be forgiven.

REA''s MAXnotes for William Shakespeare''s As You Like It The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of As You Like It and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.

A history of Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania from the time before the Europeans through the township''s Tricentennial Year in 2013.

"Apple''s new iAd framework promises to standardize the world of app marketing. Rather than learning and choosing from several third-party providers, Apple''s framework makes it simple to inject iAds into your own apps. But, like any framework, you''ve got to know how it works--and where the tricky spots are. Mike Morrison, a seasoned iPhone app developer, takes you through the ins and outs of iAds. You''ll learn how to handle multiple orientations, position an ad for maximum visibility, and even check out how your ads are doing."--Resource description page.

King of Prussia hosts over 10 million visitors annually. This is quite a change from the little town once described as resembling an English hamlet. By 1762, King of Prussia had already become an area of strategic importance. Only a day''s ride from Philadelphia, it was often used as a staging area for travelers heading west.

Wish your BlackBerry 7100 had come with a little more meat in the owner''s manual? "BlackBerry 7100 In a Snap" is your wish come true. This task-oriented guide goes well beyond the BlackBerry 7100 owner''s manual and guides you through its devices using practical usage scenarios. Jump in anywhere, and learn how to squeeze every bit of mobile power out of your BlackBerry 7100, one task at a time. You will learn how to: Manage your BlackBerry 7100 from your desktop Take control of e-mail with the built-in Web Client Text message Use your BlackBerry 7100 as the ultimate mobile phone Manage your time with the calendar Organize your to-do list with tasks You will also learn about advanced features that go beyond simple phone and communicator usage, and you''ll be able to reference quick tutorials on a broad array of features and practices with this essential guide from the In a Snap series.

Make your Treo smartphone live up to its name.Treo Essentialswill show you how to get the most out of your Treo 600 or 650 smartphone without making you feel anything but smart. You already know the basics and this book will take you beyond them. You''ll learn how to synchronize with a PC, launch applications while making a phone call, and take and share pictures. You''ll find out how to use e-mail and instant messaging, and how to secure your Treo with passwords, work over virtual private networks and use anti-virus protection software. There''s so much more to your Treo 600 or 650 smartphone than meets the eye. LetTreo Essentialshelp you uncover its mysteries!

Presenting the art of game programming in easy-to-understand terms, this book enables readers to build fully functional games, as well as a game engine to use for future projects.

Build several fully functional games as well as a game engine to use for programming cell phone and mobile games with Beginning Mobile Phone Game Programming! The included CD provides the tool, code and graphics necessary to complete all exercises covered in the chapters. Beginning Cell Phone Game Programming demystifies wireless game programming by providing clear, practical lessons using the J2ME Game API. You will learn how to use the most popular mobile programming language, Java, to build compact games that can run on any Java-enabled device, including mobile phones, pagers and handheld computers. You will also learn to add a splash screen, create a demo mode, keep track of high scores, and test, debug, and deploy your games. Topics covered include: How to construct a game engine to drive mobile games. How to use Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) and the Java Game API to get the most performance out of your mobile games. How to implement sprite animation and control interactions among moving sprites. How to play sound effects and music in mobile games. How to take advantage of wireless networks to build mobile multiplayer games. How to design and develop a variety of different games spanning several video games genres.

A gentle introduction to game programming on the Windows platform for the complete beginner.

Practice your favorite hymns with an accompanist at home or in your studio! Hymns for Flute and Piano Made Easy is a collection of fifteen traditional hymns arranged for flute solo with piano accompaniment: A Mighty Fortress is Our God; All Glory Laud and Honor; Amazing Grace; Christ the Lord is Risen Today; Come, Ye Thankful People and more. the flute score includes both the hymn tune and an easy descant part that will add variety to the performance setting. the CD contains two accompaniment tracks for each hymn; the first is played on piano, and the second on pipe organ. the collection is perfect for the flutist who wishes to play familiar hymns in the church setting.

The latest edition of the smartest, most authoritative and bestselling sports almanac in America. Whether they''re looking for new world records, updating their trivia knowledge, or curious about the most intriguing sports stories of the past year, sports enthusiasts of all kinds will welcome the latest edition of this incredibly popular almanac, which netted more than 100,000 in sales last year alone. ESPN fans will find many of the network''s features here as well as: --In-depth statistics from ESPN''s award-winning "Inside the Numbers" team. --"SportsCenter''s" Top Ten highlights of each sport. --Exclusive essays and analysis from your favorite ESPN personalities, including Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Kenny Mayne, and more. --Rule and uniform changes. --Hundreds of photographs. --Thousands of graphics and tables. --Fast access to all the facts: world records, champions, year by year, sport by sport. --Full recap of the World Series, Women''s World Cup, and Ryder Cup. The ultimate resource for sports professionals and fans everywhere, the ESPN Information Please(R) Sports Almanac is clearly the winner in its field.

The Unauthorized Guide to Pocket PC is the best place to start for someone seriously considering the purchase of a Pocket PC, or someone who has just made the purchase and is eager to hit the ground running and use it to its full potential. Along with exploring the major software components of the Pocket PC platform, the book also guides the reader through other aspects of using a Pocket PC such as establishing an online connection and taking advantage of wireless communications. This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to get the most out of their Pocket PC, even beginners. No matter what model the reader has, this book will be a useful reference and learning tool.

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution’s legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step — from John Tyler’s attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War — the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.