Relationships don't have to be that hard! Billions of people are walking around on this Earth, trying to connect with others and build meaningful and satisfying bonds. Yet for so many, there is something getting in the way of this wonderful experience. Something is preventing individuals and couples from having the joyful life they want and deserve. Rational Relating guides you through the simple, step-by-step process of creating and sustaining a relationship structure that serves to enhance love, serenity, and pleasure, while minimizing stress, resentment, and fear in relationships. It outlines the "five pillars" that will uphold and sustain emotional connections, even during the rough times. It will give you clear tools and resources for discovering abundance in your life, while using the power of your mind and spirit to enhance positive, nurturing relationships. If you are in the early stages of a new relationship, heading toward marriage or partnership, or even looking for refreshing ways to reconnect in a long-term partnership, then Rational Relating will offer you smart, innovative, and fun ways to create the love you want with others. Based on two decades of experience and thous and s of sessions, Damon L. Jacobs has developed a simple framework that helps couples build a lasting and sustainable union that endures the largest and smallest of relationship "earthquakes."

Relationships don't have to be that hard! Billions of people are walking around on this Earth, trying to connect with others and build meaningful and satisfying bonds. Yet for so many, there is something getting in the way of this wonderful experience. Something is preventing individuals and couples from having the joyful life they want and deserve. Rational Relating guides you through the simple, step-by-step process of creating and sustaining a relationship structure that serves to enhance love, serenity, and pleasure, while minimizing stress, resentment, and fear in relationships. It outlines the "five pillars" that will uphold and sustain emotional connections, even during the rough times. It will give you clear tools and resources for discovering abundance in your life, while using the power of your mind and spirit to enhance positive, nurturing relationships. If you are in the early stages of a new relationship, heading toward marriage or partnership, or even looking for refreshing ways to reconnect in a long-term partnership, then Rational Relating will offer you smart, innovative, and fun ways to create the love you want with others. Based on two decades of experience and thousands of sessions, Damon L. Jacobs has developed a simple framework that helps couples build a lasting and sustainable union that endures the largest and smallest of relationship earthquakes.

Existing only in manuscript since the 1940s but enjoying an underground reputation among friends and advocates, this primary document by one of the most original and influential of American poets and thinkers is now being published as Rational Meaning, Laura (Riding) Jackson's testament of the necessity of living for truth. Begun as a dictionary and thesaurus in the 1930s, the work developed into a fundamental reevaluation of language itself. Riding, in close collaboration with her husband, continued this monumental project over the succeeding decades, completing it after his death in 1968. At the core of Rational Meaning, which aims to restore the truth of language by arguing that meaning inheres in words, stands the idea that a total renovation of the knowledge of language is needed, not to develop mere verbal sophistication and respectability but fundamentally to reinvigorate the intellectual processes of consciousness. The book reveals the disastrous extent to which language has been "unlearned" and shows how it may be learned again. Rational Meaning will be essential reading, not only for students of literature but for radical-minded linguists and lexicographers unhappy with the orthodoxies current in their disciplines.

The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book's central thesis is that what it is for one to be rational is to correctly respond to the normative reasons one possesses. Errol Lord defends novel views about what it is to possess reasons and what it is to correctly respond to reasons. He shows that these views not only help to support the book's main thesis, they also help to resolve several important problems that are independent of rationality. The account of possession provides novel contributions to debates about what determines what we ought to do, and the account of correctly responding to reasons provides novel contributions to debates about causal theories of reacting for reasons. After defending views about possession and correctly responding, Lord shows that the account of rationality can solve two difficult problems about rationality. The first is the New Evil Demon problem. The book argues that the account has the resources to show that internal duplicates necessarily have the same rational status. The second problem concerns the deontic significance of rationality. Recently it has been doubted whether we ought to be rational. The ultimate conclusion of the book is that the requirements of rationality are the requirements that we ultimately ought to comply with. If this is right, then rationality is of fundamental importance to our deliberative lives.

Olof Dahlbäck's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond those with which researchers have hitherto been equipped. The book examines single crimes, individual criminality, and societal crime, and it discusses thoroughly the general decision theoretical presuppositions necessary for analyzing these various types of crime. An expected utility maximization model for a single discrete choice regarding the commission of a crime is the foundation of most of the analyses presented. A version of this model is developed that permits interpersonal comparisons, and this basic model is used when deriving more complex models of crime as well as when analyzing the potential for such derivations. The rigorous, powerful methods suggested provide considerable opportunities for improving research and for seeing old problems in a new light.

"Why do beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age." -- From the jacket.