James O Brien: 40 books
by James O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
This story takes place in the northern part of the Oregon Mountains. Bob and his wife Karla are celebrating their 3rd anniversary at a mountain cabin retreat when their lives are turned upside down by the attack of a killer bear. During the struggles with the bear, Karla disappears. The hunt for her...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
Harnessing Hibernate
Step-by-step Guide to Java Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations....
Subjectivity
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...
History 1, Cubs 0
A Historical Perspective of the Chicago Cubs Championship Drought
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, only the fifth World Series ever played. Going into next year's 2013 season, it will be at least 105 years before the Cubs win their next World Series. This championship drought already is longer than the entire existence of the National Hockey League...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by James J. O'Brien, Fredric L. Plotnick
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The definitive guide for using CPM in construction planning and scheduling—now thoroughly updated to reflect new technologies and procedures
Critical path method (CPM) is the most widely taught and used framework for construction project design, scheduling, and management. This new edition has been...
by Brian R. Calfano, Michele Dillon, Bernadette Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware...
Self-Neglect
Challenges for Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!
Self-Neglect examines the social, ethical, medical, and practical implications of the most prevalent form of elder abuse. It can be difficult to diagnose and treat, and it poses...
Diatom Nanotechnology
Progress and Emerging Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Diatoms are single cell algae composed of silica. They represent one of the most outstanding natural materials with exceptional structural, mechanical, optical, photonic and chemical properties optimized through millions years of evolution. The unique nano and micro silica structures of the material...