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Shooting Ladders is a book of advice written to a little girl named Tori. She was four years old when the author started writing the fi rst topic, and she was eight years old when he fi nished the last topic. But he didnt write it for the Tori of then or even the Tori of now; instead he wrote it for the Tori of the future, as something to help her make the right decisions in her late childhood/early adult yearsand throughout her life. The book contains the authors opinions on hundreds of various subjectssome of them practical, many of them philosophical; some serious, some whimsical. On a typical subject, the author tells a story from his own personal experiences and then adds a morala lesson for her to learn from the story. Although hes not trying to tell her what to think; he is trying to guide her into making the proper decisions in life. The author hopes that shell carefully weigh all the options and choose the paths that lead her to a good and happy life

Accompanying compact disc has spoken and music field recordings in English and Lakota made by Bradford Keeney and Marian Jenson.

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The present report attempts to take a first step toward the integration of six major approaches to judgment and decision making. These six approaches (and their major spokesmen) can be identified as follows: (a) Decision theory (Ralph Keeney and Howard Raiffa), (b) Behavioral Decision Theory (Ward Edwards), (c) Psychological Decision Theory (Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Social Judgment Theory (Kenneth Hammond), (e) Information Integration Theory (Norman Anderson), and (f) Attribution Theory (E.E. Jones and Harold Kelley). The report attempts to provide a broad, theoretically neutral, systematic framework intended to permit and encourage the discovery of a 'kinship system' within which the relationship of each approach to every other approach can be determined. The report is divided into three major sections, theory, method, and procedure within which each of the six approaches are examined. The theory section deals with the six approaches in terms of their origins, scope, intended function, principal concepts, loci of concepts, and intended use. The method section examines each approach's basic methodology with respect to idiographic versus nomothetic analysis, sampling domains, object decomposition, judgment decomposition, aids for decision makers, and methodological claims. The procedure section focuses on description and comparison of the operational definition that each approach provides for the important concepts identified in the theory section.

The New York Times–bestselling author’s pioneering true crime classic: It’s “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood turned inside out” (Newsweek). During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US Air Force airmen stationed at a nearby base. The victims—including wife and mother Carol Naisbitt—were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Yet somehow, Carol’s sixteen-year-old son made it out alive—and “the emotional strain his family underwent during his year-long hospitalization, is the heart of Kinder’s story” (Kirkus Reviews). In Victim, the first true crime book to go beyond the headlines and tell story of love, loss, courage, and survival, “the crime in question becomes not merely something that happened to somebody else somewhere else, but rather an event that touches us all firsthand and very deeply.” A compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence, it remains one of the most influential books in the victims’ rights movement and has become required reading for trainees at the FBI Academy at Quantico (Boston Herald).

On a frigid January night, one knock on his door turned his life upside down. But the seizure of his four year old daughter, from the only home she's known, was just the start in a one and a half year battle with DHS, its agencies, and the Juvenile Family Court system. Envision the father sixty-one, non married and your name is not on the birth certificate. Add abuse allegations and calculate the odds of recapturing your daughter. The descriptive, wrenching anguish he shares throughout the narrative, gives insight into the impact the State's savagery has on families. With each passing encounter, the bias, notably age and gender escalates. False allegations presumed as fact. Social workers not following basic protocol. State's attorneys objecting without reasons, and a Judge issuing a court order leaving explanations blank. Forced to retire, the former Teacher provides a colorful and unadulterated glimpse into his thoughts of each person and agency he engages with. Is it possible his daughter's Guardian Ad Litem (GAL), whose job is to advocate in the child's best interest, investigate the parties of the case, make home visits, compile reports and give recommendations, has never spoken to the father? The father who has appeared and even sat next to the GAL, at Family team meetings, disposition and progress hearings, for over one year. Not one word was ever exchanged... Is it possible to legally keep a father, who spent every night for over four years with his daughter, from talking or seeing her for seventy days? A father with no criminal record to the case, and drops clean UA's? Yes, in this disturbing calamity anything is possible.