John A : 1444 books

This is a book about communication behavior: how we conceptualize it, observe it, measure it, and analyze it. The 1970s and 1980s were times when communication behavior was a primary interest of many communication scholars. The aim of this book is to reignite some interest in and passion about how...

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, emergency first responders and social workers with little experience in recognizing symptoms, triggers and issues. This book addresses the need to recognize...

Confronting Mental Health Evidence—Second Edition describes and applies the four-step PLANModel to help lawyers organize, critique, and use psychological materials and testimony when examining experts and framing legal arguments. This Second Edition refreshes previous topics, including understanding...

Forest Growth and Yield Modeling synthesizes current scientific literature and provides insights in how models are constructed. Giving suggestions for future developments, and outlining keys for successful implementation of models the book provides a thorough and up-to-date, single source reference...

Building on best practices and lessons learned, Distributed Leadership in Schools shows educators how to design and implement distributed leadership to effectively address challenges in their schools. Grounded in case studies and full of practical tools, this book lays out a framework for building...

A comprehensive textbook of radiotherapy and related radiation physics and oncology for use by all those concerned with the uses of radiation and cytotoxic drugs in the treatment of patients with malignant disease. Walter & Miller's Textbook of Radiotherapy has become the core text for therapeutic...

SHORT STORY TALES - Captain Benjamin Jackson and his pirate crew, sea weary and yearning for port, face a maelstrom of a storm to battle against when appears a strange phantom galleon alongside transporting more than the dead crew

In this enjoyable Sherlockian short story, a headless baby is discovered upon the heath, forcing Holmes to become a carnie and disappear across Europe in search of her murderer. But when he discovers a more complicated international crime than he first expected, his old pal Watson is needed to help out....

Gabe and I traveled around the world contacting possible students for Saint Mary's College of California. We were able to have prolonged visit to the fantastic culture of Papua New Guinea, the wonders of Australia and New Zealand. the "forbidden to casual visitors" Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,...

Short story about how to avoid being hypnotised by the power of electronic images. One evening a young man walks to the river near where he stays, and there sitting by the river that night he understands for the first time the power of electronic images that are sent through the air to people all...

This book closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and action control which are drawn upon in order to enable us to drive, and the brain systems involved. It attempts to show how studying tasks such as driving...

Charlie is a right Charlie. Even though in the post computer age, everything seems to be accepted - it is not. The Bureau does not like freaks and deviants. However, Charlie has a friend who works there. He believes Dexter will protect him from going to the Wall of Fun. This is a scheme, after the birth-rate has kept falling, brought in by the government, to get people to mate.

When young Tom Adams, from the back hills of Kentucky, finds an American masterpiece between the walls of an old farmhouse, he is renovating in Riverport Massachusetts, he takes it to America’s foremost public art gallery: the Creighton American Gallery of American Impressionism, for an appraisal....

After hearing rumors of an escalation in the war in Afghanistan, the President hires a mediation team to discover the truth of the rumors. What they learn sets in motion events to prevent an overthrow of the Presidency and our government. What makes it more difficult is the discovery of the participants....