This text emphasizes applications of decision research to problems of everyday living, as well as to business, social, and political issues. The text contains examples and problems for analysis, ranging from personal decisions about medical treatment to Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb.
Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible, and it certainly leaves plenty to the imagination. From the pen of an accomplished New Testament scholar, this vivid historical fiction account follows the slave Onesimus, fleshing out the lived context of first-century Ephesus and providing a social and theological critique of slavery in the Roman Empire.