Patrick S. Dixon's Books

Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Promoting Recovery and Self-Determination

By: Patrick W. Corrigan,Nicolas Rüsch,Amy C. Watson,Kristin Kosyluk,Lindsay Sheehan

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Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Promoting Recovery and Self-Determination

By: Patrick W. Corrigan,Nicolas Rüsch,Amy C. Watson,Kristin Kosyluk,Lindsay Sheehan

The leading text and go-to practitioner resource on psychiatric rehabilitation is now in a thoroughly revised third edition, bringing readers up to date on current ideas, findings, and evidence-based best practices. The expert authors present the knowledge needed to help adults with psychiatric disabilities develop their strengths and achieve their life goals. The book describes effective ways to assess personal needs and aspirations; integrate medical and psychosocial interventions; implement supportive services in such areas as housing, employment, education, substance use, and physical health; and combat stigma and discrimination. "Personal Examples" throughout the text share the experiences of diverse individuals recovering from serious mental illness. New to This Edition *Increased attention to social determinants of health; for example, the impact of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, poverty, and criminal justice involvement. *Chapter on developing more equitable, culturally competent services. *Expanded coverage of physical health and wellness. *New and expanded discussions of community-based participatory research, peer recovery support providers, and other timely topics.

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418

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Guilford Publications

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1462553710

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9781462553716

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control

A Lyapunov-Based Approach

By: Rushikesh Kamalapurkar,Patrick Walters,Joel Rosenfeld,Warren Dixon

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Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control

A Lyapunov-Based Approach

By: Rushikesh Kamalapurkar,Patrick Walters,Joel Rosenfeld,Warren Dixon

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems. In order to achieve learning under uncertainty, data-driven methods for identifying system models in real-time are also developed. The book illustrates the advantages gained from the use of a model and the use of previous experience in the form of recorded data through simulations and experiments. The book’s focus on deterministic systems allows for an in-depth Lyapunov-based analysis of the performance of the methods described during the learning phase and during execution. To yield an approximate optimal controller, the authors focus on theories and methods that fall under the umbrella of actor–critic methods for machine learning. They concentrate on establishing stability during the learning phase and the execution phase, and adaptive model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning, to assist readers in the learning process, which typically relies on instantaneous input-output measurements. This monograph provides academic researchers with backgrounds in diverse disciplines from aerospace engineering to computer science, who are interested in optimal reinforcement learning functional analysis and functional approximation theory, with a good introduction to the use of model-based methods. The thorough treatment of an advanced treatment to control will also interest practitioners working in the chemical-process and power-supply industry.

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305

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Springer

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331978384X

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9783319783840

My Mother's Sons

Managing Sexuality in Islamic and Christian Communities

By: Patrick Krayer

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My Mother's Sons

Managing Sexuality in Islamic and Christian Communities

By: Patrick Krayer

My Mother’s Sons provides a thoughtful model for how Western Christian workers can respectfully negotiate sexual boundaries and norms in Muslim contexts. Westerners are inclined to impose their own culturally shaped notions of gender equality and justice on non-egalitarian communities, alienating the very people they are seeking to serve. The author draws on his own research among Pakistani Pashtuns, intercultural theory, and exegesis of Christian and Islamic sacred texts to show that it is possible to work for transformational change without offending those who live within a patriarchal system.

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302

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William Carey Publishing

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1645081125

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9781645081128

A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2

The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975

By: Patrick D. Bowen

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A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2

The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975

By: Patrick D. Bowen

In A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2: The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Patrick D. Bowen offers an in-depth account of African American Islam as it developed in the United States during the fifty-five years that followed World War I. Having been shaped by a wide variety of intellectual and social influences, the ‘African American Islamic Renaissance’ appears here as a movement that was characterized by both great complexity and diversity. Drawing from a wide variety of sources—including dozens of FBI files, rare books and periodicals, little-known archives and interviews, and even folktale collections—Patrick D. Bowen disentangles the myriad social and religious factors that produced this unprecedented period of religious transformation.

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732

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BRILL

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9004354379

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9789004354371

Swimming with Fish and Other Animals

Poems and Stories by Patrick S. Dixon

By: Patrick S. Dixon

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Swimming with Fish and Other Animals

Poems and Stories by Patrick S. Dixon

By: Patrick S. Dixon

Poems, stories and photographs by longtime Alaskan commercial fisherman Patrick S. Dixon. Topics include fishing and life on the water, relationships, nature and the environment, life and death.

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0615292577

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9780615292571

A Window to Heaven

The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak

By: Patrick Dean

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A Window to Heaven

The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak

By: Patrick Dean

The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck—an Episcopal priest—and his team's history-making summit of Denali. In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size—occupying 120 square miles of the earth’s surface —and position as the Earth’s northernmost peak of more than 6,000 meters elevation make it one of the world’s deadliest mountains. Although its height from base to top is actually greater than Everest’s, it is Denali's weather, not altitude, that have caused the great majority of fatalities—over a hundred since 1903. Denali experiences weather more severe than the North Pole, with temperatures of forty below zero and winds that howl at 80 to 100 miles per hour for days at a stretch. But in 1913 none of this mattered to Hudson Stuck, a fifty-year old Episcopal priest, Harry Karstens, the hardened Alaskan wilderness guide, Walter Harper, and Robert Tatum, both just in their twenties. They were all determined to be the first to set foot on top of Denali. In A Window to Heaven, Patrick Dean brings to life this heart-pounding and spellbinding feat of this first ascent and paints a rich portrait of the frontier at the turn of the twentieth century. The story of Stuck and his team will lead us through the Texas frontier and Tennessee mountains to an encounter with Jack London at the peak of the Yukon Goldrush. We experience Stuck's awe at the rich Aleut and Athabascan indigenous traditions—and his efforts to help preserve these ways of life. Filled with daring exploration and rich history, A Window to Heaven is a brilliant and spellbinding narrative of success against the odds.

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336

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Simon and Schuster

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1643136437

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9781643136431

Creating Wilderness

A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park

By: Patrick Kupper

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Creating Wilderness

A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park

By: Patrick Kupper

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.

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Berghahn Books

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1782383743

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9781782383741

Comparing Cabinets

Dilemmas of Collective Government

By: Patrick Weller,Dennis Grube,R. A. W. Rhodes

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Comparing Cabinets

Dilemmas of Collective Government

By: Patrick Weller,Dennis Grube,R. A. W. Rhodes

Why is cabinet government so resilient? Despite many obituaries, why does it continue to be the vehicle for governing across most parliamentary systems? Comparing Cabinets answers these questions by examining the structure and performance of cabinet government in five democracies: the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Australia. The book is organised around the dilemmas that cabinet governments must solve: how to develop the formal rules and practices that can bring predictability and consistency to decision making; how to balance good policy with good politics; how to ensure cohesion between the factions and parties that constitute the cabinet while allowing levels of self-interest to be advanced; how leaders can balance persuasion and command; and how to maintain support through accountability at the same time as being able to make unpopular decisions. All these dilemmas are continuing challenges to cabinet government, never solvable, and constantly reappearing in different forms. Comparing distinct parliamentary systems reveals how traditions, beliefs, and practices shape the answers. There is no single definition of cabinet government, but rather arenas and shared practices that provide some cohesion. Such a comparative approach allows greater insight into the process of cabinet government that cannot be achieved in the study of any single political system, and an understanding of the pressures on each system by appreciating the options that are elsewhere accepted as common beliefs.

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Oxford University Press

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0192583514

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9780192583512

Book's by Patrick S. Dixon

Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control

My Mother's Sons

My Mother's Sons

A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2

A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2

Swimming with Fish and Other Animals

Swimming with Fish and Other Animals

A Window to Heaven

A Window to Heaven

Creating Wilderness

Creating Wilderness

Comparing Cabinets

Comparing Cabinets

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