Blackman: 201 books
Graceful Exits
How Great Beings Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Death is a subject obscured by fear and denial. When we do think of dying, we are more often concerned with how to avoid the pain and suffering that may accompany our death than we are with really confronting the meaning of death and how to approach it. Sushila Blackman places death—and life—in...
by John Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
"Brilliant", "Arguably the most important work in its field", "A literary masterpiece" … just a few of the accolades critics didn't shower on John Blackman's first book, The Aussie Slang Dictionary**.**
Despite this, it became a smash-hit success. Don't Come...
Get the Diagnosis Right
Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Dr. Jerome Blackman, author of 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself, has once again crafted an extraordinarily user-friendly book that demonstrates to all readers, from trainees to advanced analysts, the process of diagnosing mental disturbance. Get the Diagnosis Right provides a systematic method...
Blind Landing
Sydney to London Dead Stop
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Blind Landing is a detective mystery aviation thriller about the latest super jumbo aircraft that crashes at London Airport after a non-stop flight from Sydney. The story is woven around an aviation expert, Peter Talbert, his lawyer girl friend and the beautiful girl on the beach in Sydney who gives...
Now You See It
and now you don't
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
This book is the fifth in an aviation mystery series featuring Peter Talbert insurance investigator. Two aircraft crash in fog on opposite sides of the World, in New York and Hong Kong. Talbert discovers that things are lot more complicated and dangerous than they seem. Meanwhile he applies to be...
by Blackman, Tony
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
Flight to St Antony is a modern accurate aviation mystery/thriller where the detective Peter Talbert, an aviation insurance expert, is instrumental in solving the reason why an airliner with over two hundred people on board is forced to ditch at night in the Caribbean near the island of St Antony....
The Right Choice
An aviation story of deceit and disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
The Right Choice describes a competition between two manufacturers trying to sell their latest aircraft to an airline in the Philippines, both firms desperate to win. In the real world many tales are told about how such competitions are won and lost using every trick available. The contest in this...
The Final Flight
A Bermuda Triangle Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
This book is a Bermuda Triangle Mystery. A modern airliner flying from the Caribbean to Bermuda carrying 10 priceless impressionist paintings disappears near Bermuda. Peter Talbert, aviation expert and working for the airline, investigates the loss of the aircraft. He meets an art insurance specialist...
by Tony Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Java Waters Run Deep, set a few years ahead, is an aviation mystery. An airliner flying from Singapore to Adelaide disappears off the Air Traffic Controllers’ screen 250 miles before crossing the Australian Coast. A bomb was suspected but Peter Talbert, aviation insurance expert, didn't believe...
The Therapist's Answer Book
Solutions to 101 Tricky Problems in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Therapists inevitably feel more gratified in their work when their cases have better treatment outcomes. This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems that arise in psychotherapy, such as:
Do depressed people need an antidepressant, or psychotherapy...
Immaterial Bodies
Affect, Embodiment, Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In this unique contribution, Blackman focuses upon the affective capacities of bodies, human and non-human as well as addressing the challenges of the affective turn within the social sciences. Fresh and convincing, this book uncovers the paradoxes and tensions in work in affect studies by focusing...
by Carol Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
In 1967, tour buses drove through the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to see the Hippies. San Francisco of the late 1960s became legendary as the epicenter for lifestyle experimentation—including plenty of sex, a new selection of drugs, and some mighty fine rock ’n’ roll.San Francisco native and...
In Changing Seasons
Inspiring Words as Your World Turns
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Powerful, healing words given in poetry. It is indeed good news. Faced with drastic life changes, Jo Anne C. Blackman found herself a captive to words. As she journeyed through riveting heartfelt experiences, she found comfort and hope at the touch of a keyboard, unaware that sixty...
Haunted Data
Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data – big or small – is never as simplistic or straightforward as might first appear. Indeed, Blackman argues that our relationship with data is haunted with errors, dead ends, ghostly...