J Tucker: 33 books

For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies. Only recently has the study of recoveries in the absence of formal treatment or self-help groups provided an alternative source of information. This book on the process of self-change...

This groundbreaking reference — created by an internationally respected team of clinical and research experts — provides quick access to concise summaries of the body of nursing research for 192 common medical-surgical interventions. Each nursing care guideline classifies specific nursing activities...

The third book in the series - The Path To Vengeance. As the years roll by, the units existence and threat fades into the past. The surviving members have grown old living in peace. Or have they? When all the units’ members die in accidents in the same week, Peter Moustaffer, Ali's son, senses...

Provides real world studies of the family in business, by observing typical firms rather than dynasties. It looks at how the nature of family business is changing in our times and provides insight into the lessons we can learn from this. The book focuses on the impact for the professional non-family manager.

Can a small group of men change history? Since the dawn of modern warfare, small groups of trained soldiers equipped with the right equipment, and more importantly 'Intelligence' have carried out missions that have led to major victories and crushing defeats. This is the story of one of those units....

Planet Salvation Simon is a brilliant young man with a thirst for knowledge. With his aging grandfather, Mike, a hero of the third World War, he seeks to unlock the secrets of an ancient alien device. With an honesty shaped by his naivety, he changes not only the future of the human race, but the...

New America Wakening fifty years into the future, Simon and the crew of the Katherine, must again try to stop an unseen enemy. Conflict is everywhere, as Simon once again tries to convince his own race to help him. Confused and often one step behind the enemy in the shadows, for the first time, the Katherine's crew will feel the bitter taste of defeat.

His research, their weapon A young man dreams of honouring his father's memory, by changing the World. Having been invited to attend a prestigious think tank University in America, Adrian thinks his wish has come true. While carrying out his revolutionary experiments on DNA weed eradication, Adrian...

LIFE CHANGED THEM, LOVE CONDEMNED THEM Four friends are bound together by their twisted life experiences and their incestuous love for one another. Living on the fringe of society, looked down on by their community, they are confronted by pure evil. When one of the four is brutally beaten and raped,...

Senator Coby Henderson an African American war hero and a man who could be the President. He is sent to Vietnam to sign a peace treaty and heal the wounds with America’s once bitter enemy. Whilst there he is confronted by his buried past and is forced again to relive what occurred during that bitter...

When a pardon isn't a pardon! After being on the run from the CIA and Mossad for nearly twenty years, Ali's special opts unit is pardoned by the American President. Steve Robert's, one of the unit members has his doubts. As he starts his journey home to Australia and hopefully peace, he discovers...

This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land degradation at different scales and for a range of applications, including resilience of agro-ecosystems. Evidence is drawn...

This ground-breaking book has been in print since 1974. Earlier editions of the book were seminal in delineating brain-behavior relationships; the current edition expands this theme using the most recent data from the neurosciences and molecular biology. Earlier editions focused on the behavioral...

Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”? What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...