Douglas A. Quirk M.A's Books

Creating Peace

By: Reg M. Reynolds Ph.D.,Douglas A. Quirk M.A

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Creating Peace

By: Reg M. Reynolds Ph.D.,Douglas A. Quirk M.A

This book, Creating Peace, is at once a novel, a self-help book, and a manual for an engrossing game framed in essentially rational, problem-solving terms and an exploration of the motivations by means of which we create disturbance within ourselves and conflict with others – the final causes (our beliefs, goals, purposes, needs, and values) and the perpetuation causes (the rewards and reinforcers) that drive us toward either conflict or peace and appropriate means by which to modify them.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

497

Publisher

Balboa Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982217332

ISBN 13

9781982217334

Freedom from Addictions

A Psychological Detective Story

By: Douglas A Quirk,Reg M Reynolds

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Freedom from Addictions

A Psychological Detective Story

By: Douglas A Quirk,Reg M Reynolds

Freedom from Addictions is a psychological detective story. It details a multi-year search for the causes of underlying addictions, and it describes the successful results of a successful treatment program based on the resultant understanding of what drives addictions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

594

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1984571141

ISBN 13

9781984571144

A Simple and Effective Cure for Criminality

A Psychological Detective Story

By: Reg Reynolds,Douglas Quirk

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Simple and Effective Cure for Criminality

A Psychological Detective Story

By: Reg Reynolds,Douglas Quirk

A ten-year research project to understand and treat criminality has led to the development of a new test of criminal thinking, Survey of Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors (STFB) and a new understanding of criminality as six sets of angry distress-rejecting attitudes and behaviors on the part of offenders—behaviors that put them into conflict with society and get them in trouble with the law. This new understanding of criminality suggested the development of six different treatment programs, one for each of these six separate components of criminality, and these treatment programs were delivered in six day-long (i.e., four-and-a-half hour) large-group treatment workshops. None of those inmates who were assigned to and received three or more of these treatment workshops recidivated (i.e., relapsed into crime) within the two years following release from prison; in contrast to a control group of inmates who received none of these criminality workshops, half of whom were back in prison within two years of being released. It was concluded that this particular approach to understanding and treating criminality would seem to warrant further investigation and application.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1984572733

ISBN 13

9781984572738

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

By: R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

By: R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

802

Publisher

Wildside Press LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

0941028763

ISBN 13

9780941028769

Adventures in Pragmatic Psychotherapy

By: Douglas A. Quirk

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Adventures in Pragmatic Psychotherapy

By: Douglas A. Quirk

It has been said the psychology is the study of the id by the odd. But that is only part of the story. Psychologists are problem solvers, examining the circumstances surrounding their clients’ distress, and helping them to achieve some resolution of the problems involved. Adventures in Pragmatic Psychotherapy provides a glimpse inside the mind of one quirky psychological genius as he attempts to alleviate his clients’ suffering, as well as an entertaining tour de force illuminating the day to day challenges encountered in a long and varied psychotherapy career.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

413

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1984573969

ISBN 13

9781984573964

The Rhymer

an Heredyssey

By: Douglas Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rhymer

an Heredyssey

By: Douglas Thompson

The Rhymer, an Heredyssey by Douglas Thompson defies classification in any one literary genre. A satire on contemporary society, particularly the art world, it is also a comic-poetic meditation on the nature of life, death and morality. A mysterious tramp wanders from town to town, taking a new name and identity from whoever he encounters first. Apparently amnesiac or even brain-damaged, Nadith Learmot nonetheless has other means to access the past and perhaps even the future: upon his chest a dial, down his sleeves wires that he can connect to the walls of old buildings from which he believes he can read their ghosts like imprints on tape. Haunting him constantly is the resemblance he apparently bears to his supposed brother, a successful artist called Zenir. Setting out to pursue Zenir and denounce or blackmail him out of spite, in his travels around the satellite towns and suburbs surrounding a city called Urbis, Nadith finds he is always two steps behind a figure as enigmatic and polyfaceted as himself. But through second hand snippets of news he increasingly learns of how his brother’s fortunes are waning, while his own, to his surprise, are on the rise. Along the way, he encounters unexpected clues to his own true identity, how he came to lose his memory and acquire his strange ‘contraption’. When Nadith finally catches up with Zenir, what will they make of each other? Told entirely in the first person in a rhythmic stream of lyricism, Nadith’s story reads like Shakespeare on acid, leaving the reader to guess at what truth lies behind his madness. Is Nadith a mental health patient or a conman? - or as he himself comes to believe, the reincarnation of the thirteenth century Scottish seer True Thomas The Rhymer, a man who never lied nor died but disappeared one day to return to the realm of the faeries who had first given him his clairvoyant gifts?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

Elsewhen Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

190816851X

ISBN 13

9781908168511

Press Freedom and Global Politics

By: Douglas A. Van Belle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Press Freedom and Global Politics

By: Douglas A. Van Belle

Van Belle provides the first systematic analysis of the effects that press freedom has on the conduct of international politics. The institutionalization of press freedoms within a state and the free flow of information between the free presses of different nations creates a foreign policy decision making environment that systematically limits policy options, generates domestic political imperatives, and provides specific benefits to a leader. This shapes some aspects of foreign policy in a consistent and empirically identifiable manner, most notably by limiting international conflicts. When social-psychological propositions regarding dehumanization and the acceptance of killing in war are introduced to Van Belle's model, shared press freedom is shown to provide a mechanism that prevents lethal conflicts. The effects of press freedom on international conflict, particularly on hypotheses related to escalating conflicts beyond the threshold of casualties, are quite robust. However, Van Belle indicates there is no evidence of a complimentary effect on cooperation. The combination of findings from the empirical analyses suggest that the key to the effects of press freedom center on the creation of images, such as the dehumanized image of an enemy. A thoughtful analysis that scholars and researchers of foreign policy and international relations as well as journalism and mass communication will find particularly useful.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

182

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313002630

ISBN 13

9780313002632

Small Signal Audio Design

By: Douglas Self

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Small Signal Audio Design

By: Douglas Self

Learn to use inexpensive and readily available parts to obtain state-of-the-art performance in all the vital parameters of noise, distortion, crosstalk and so on. With ample coverage of preamplifiers and mixers and a new chapter on headphone amplifiers, this practical handbook provides an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be put together to make almost any type of audio system. A resource packed full of valuable information, with virtually every page revealing nuggets of specialized knowledge not found elsewhere. Essential points of theory that bear on practical performance are lucidly and thoroughly explained, with the mathematics kept to a relative minimum. Douglas' background in design for manufacture ensures he keeps a wary eye on the cost of things. Includes a chapter on power-supplies, full of practical ways to keep both the ripple and the cost down, showing how to power everything. Douglas wears his learning lightly, and this book features the engaging prose style familiar to readers of his other books. You will learn why mercury cables are not a good idea, the pitfalls of plating gold on copper, and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion use humble low-gain transistors to make an amplifier with an input impedance of more than 50 Megohms transform the performance of low-cost-opamps, how to make filters with very low noise and distortion make incredibly accurate volume controls make a huge variety of audio equalisers make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics sum, switch, clip, compress, and route audio signals The second edition is expanded throughout (with added information on new ADCs and DACs, microcontrollers, more coverage of discrete op amp design, and many other topics), and includes a completely new chapter on headphone amplifiers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

780

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134635133

ISBN 13

9781134635139

Genealogy of the Mangold Family from Bavaria to Cincinnati, 1800 to 1930s

By: Douglas Carl Fricke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Genealogy of the Mangold Family from Bavaria to Cincinnati, 1800 to 1930s

By: Douglas Carl Fricke

The genealogy of the Mangold family from northern Bavaria begins with Simon and Sabina in the early 1800s. The immigrant family of eight left their homeland and sailed across the Atlantic to the New World. In 1850, they arrived in New York City and traveled in-land to settle in the predominantly German neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Only Matthew, the oldest son of Simon and Sabina, continued the Mangold family name. With a successful downtown business, he and his wife were able to offer their children the opportunity of a college education.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Allodium Chase

Published Date

ISBN 10

0979996732

ISBN 13

9780979996733

Book's by Douglas A. Quirk M.A

Creating Peace

Creating Peace

Freedom from Addictions

Freedom from Addictions

A Simple and Effective Cure for Criminality

A Simple and Effective Cure for Criminality

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Adventures in Pragmatic Psychotherapy

Adventures in Pragmatic Psychotherapy

The Rhymer

The Rhymer

Press Freedom and Global Politics

Press Freedom and Global Politics

Small Signal Audio Design

Small Signal Audio Design

Genealogy of the Mangold Family from Bavaria to Cincinnati, 1800 to 1930s

Genealogy of the Mangold Family from Bavaria to Cincinnati, 1800 to 1930s

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email