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The Brothers Boswell

A Novel

By: Philip Edward Baruth

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In this literary thriller, Baruth (English, Univ. of Vermont; The X President) uses the relationship between diarist James Boswell and his brother John as a lens to examine the complex and often troubled bond between the eldest son and a younger brother. The plot revolves around a boat trip Boswell took to Greenwich in 1763 with his famous literary patron, Samuel Johnson. John, recently released from a lunatic asylum and bearing two pistols, follows them there to force a violent confrontationa sign not simply of his madness but of his lifelong ambivalence about James and his envy of James's burgeoning relationship with Johnson. The suspense is somewhat blunted by the reader's knowing that Johnson and James Boswell obviously weren't killed in 1763. Nevertheless, the book has a strong narrative thread and builds to a dramatic confrontation between the characters. Baruth grounds his narrative firmly in the extensive source material produced by Johnson and Boswell, and his depiction of Johnson is particularly convincing. For fans of historical fiction. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ 1/09.]Douglas Southard, CRA International, Inc., Boston Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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1569475598

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The Brothers Boswell

A Novel

By: Philip Edward Baruth

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A Novel

By: Philip Edward Baruth

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Counselling Skills for Health Professionals

By: Philip Burnard,Jo Campling

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Counselling Skills for Health Professionals

By: Philip Burnard,Jo Campling

This is the second edition of a book that I hope continues to be of practical value. For counselling must always be that: practical. No amount of talking, on its own, can really make a difference if people do not end up doing something as a result of counselling. The practical thread remains an important one throughout this edition. Counselling Skills for Health Professionals is not just a 'how to do it' book: people are probably too complicated for that approach to be of much use. Counselling is never simply a matter of learning a range of skills which you then apply in a range of settings. In the end, counselling is about facing the person in front of you, listening to them carefully and then supporting them as they work through their problems. For many problems, there are no easy answers and counselling doesn't offer any 'quick fixes'. It is essentially a supportive process. There are many things it cannot do. It cannot change certain social and political situations. It cannot cure diseases. On the other hand, what it can do is offer people more hope. Often, just the fact that there is somone who is prepared to hear your story and to listen to you is all that is needed. I remain convinced that the key issue in all types of counselling is the ability to listen.

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Springer

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1489933344

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The Ice Age

By: Jürgen Ehlers,Dr. Philip Hughes,Professor Philip L. Gibbard

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The Ice Age

By: Jürgen Ehlers,Dr. Philip Hughes,Professor Philip L. Gibbard

This book provides a new look at the climatic history of the last 2.6 million years during the ice age, a time of extreme climatic fluctuations that have not yet ended. This period also coincides with important phases of human development from Neanderthals to modern humans, both of whom existed side by side during the last cold stage of the ice age. The ice age has seen dramatic expansions of glaciers and ice sheets, although this has been interspersed with relatively short warmer intervals like the one we live in today. The book focuses on the changing state of these glaciers and the effects of associated climate changes on a wide variety of environments (including mountains, rivers, deserts, oceans and seas) and also plants and animals. For example, at times the Sahara was green and colonized by humans, and Lake Chad covered 350,000 km2 – larger than the United Kingdom. What happened during the ice age can only be reconstructed from the traces that are left in the ground. The work of the geoscientist is similar to that of a detective who has to reconstruct the sequence of events from circumstantial evidence. The book draws on the specialisms and experience of the authors who are experts on the glacial history of the Earth. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the Quaternary, researchers, and anyone interested in climate change, environmental change and geology. The book provides a rich collection of illustrations and photographs to help the readers at all levels visualise the dramatic consequences of glacier expansions during the Ice Age.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118507770

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9781118507773

Senator Leahy

A Life in Scenes

By: Philip Baruth

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Senator Leahy

A Life in Scenes

By: Philip Baruth

Having vaulted to a position in the United States Senate at the tender age of thirty-four, Patrick Leahy now claims the longest tenure of any member of that institution still serving-and he was third in line for the presidency when the Democrats held control. Few recent American lawmakers have watched history unfold so at such close range; fewer still have influenced it so powerfully. Philip Baruth brings a thriller-like intensity to the most spectacular of those scenes: the 9/11 attack on the US capital, the contentious drafting of the Patriot Act, the ensuing anthrax attacks, and the dramatic 2014 opening of diplomatic ties with Cuba. Throughout, the biography focuses in on Leahy's meticulous image making, his cultivation of a "Top Cop" persona both in the media and at the ballot box. It is an approach that culminates in simultaneous roles for the lawmaker as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and as the tough-talking "distinguished gentleman" in Christopher Nolan's acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy of Batman films. Leahy's improbable success, Philip Baruth argues, in the end lies in his ability both to be and to play the top cop not only in post-Watergate Vermont, but in a post-9/11 America viciously divided between the red states and the blue.

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University Press of New England

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1512600571

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Writing for Health Professionals

A Manual for Writers

By: Philip Burnard

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Writing for Health Professionals

A Manual for Writers

By: Philip Burnard

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Elmore Leonard This book is all about writing: it is both a practical and a personal account. When you write a book like this you put yourself on the line: you run the risk of people reading what you have written and saying 'he's saying one thing and doing another'. You stand to break the rules that you set up - quite badly. That is probably not such a terrible thing; besides, that should be part of the process of using this book. As you read it, notice when rules are broken. Check the phrasing, the sentence and paragraph construction, and see whether or not I have stuck to the rules. Then see whether or not the rules would have improved the passage in question. Begin to read books as much for their style, layout and general format as for their con tent. If you are going to write, you need to see plenty of examples of all of these things - good, bad and indifferent. to write for some time but was always This is a book I have wanted nervous of writing, so here it is: an introduction to some of the ways and means of writing. lt is, as I say, personal; I hope it will be useful. A word about sexism and the writing process. I find the use of 'his or her' and its variants clumsy.

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Springer

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1489928510

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After-School Theatre Programs for At-Risk Teenagers

By: Philip Zwerling

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After-School Theatre Programs for At-Risk Teenagers

By: Philip Zwerling

Where intervention programs such as D.A.R.E. and "Scared Straight" have failed to adequately address the problems of at-risk teenagers, inexpensive and easily-implemented after school theatre programs may offer promising new possibilities. This book suggests that low-cost, non-coercive theatre programs can demonstrably lower the incidence of youth violence, drug use, teen pregnancy, truancy, and gang membership. The author considers the problems facing today's teenagers, discusses the history of using theatre for social change in the United States and Britain, and takes an in-depth look at three U.S. theatre programs. An appendix provides an alphabetical directory of 106 after school theatre programs in the U.S., including contact information and a brief description of each program.

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McFarland

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1476612056

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9781476612058

The Old French William of Tyre

By: Philip D. Handyside

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The Old French William of Tyre

By: Philip D. Handyside

William of Tyre's history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem has long been viewed as one of the most useful sources for the Crusades and the Latin East from the beginnings of the First Crusade to William's death shortly before Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem. However, this text was most popular during the medieval period in an Old French translation. In The Old French of William of Tyre Philip Handyside identifies the differences between the Latin and French texts and analyses the translator motives for producing the translation and highlights significant changes that may provide a better understanding of the period in question. Handyside also argues for a complex manuscript tradition that developed across the medieval Mediterranean.

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BRILL

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9004282939

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9789004282933

Practical Counselling and Helping

By: Philip Burnard

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Practical Counselling and Helping

By: Philip Burnard

Practical Counselling and Helping is a practical, jargon-free guide to counselling. It offers clear information about how counselling and helping may be put into practice, whilst acknowledging and discussing its limitations. Contents include: * what is counselling and helping? * basic counselling and helping strategies * handling difficult situations * further personal development. Drawing from a range of counselling methods, and offering a useful and detailed reading list, Practical Counselling and Helping will appeal to all students in the health professions and to all those professionals requiring a clear account of how they might improve their own communication skills.

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Routledge

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1134659377

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The Psychological Effects of Police Work

A Psychodynamic Approach

By: Philip Bonifacio

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The Psychological Effects of Police Work

A Psychodynamic Approach

By: Philip Bonifacio

SOME DISCLAIMERS It is somewhat unusual to begin a book by declaring what it is not, but the topic of police behavior is so complex that it requires the writer to state as early as possible the limits of what he has written here to describe and explain a police officer's experience. In order for the reader to get a clear idea of what areas of police behavior are to be described, it is nec essary to delineate those aspects of police behavior that are beyond the scope of this book. First of all, this book is about the psychological effects of police work on policemen: male police officers. Nearly all of the police officers with whom I have worked have been men, so my impressions and opinions are based on the experiences of male police officers. Consequently, descriptions and expla nations of the motivations, anxieties, psychological defenses, and resultant behavior of police officers must be limited to policemen. I believe that there are significant differences in the psychological effects of police work on men and women, but this book does not address this issue.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489906002

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Senator Leahy

A Life in Scenes

By: Philip Baruth

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A Life in Scenes

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Effective Communication Skills for Health Professionals

By: Philip Burnard

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Effective Communication Skills for Health Professionals

By: Philip Burnard

This work discusses strategies for teaching, presentation, computing, listening, management and interview skills within each area.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748733124

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The X President

A Novel

By: Philip Baruth

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The X President

A Novel

By: Philip Baruth

A masterful blend of political satire and edgy social commentary, here is a wildly entertaining trip through recent American history and into the impending future. An incisive look at how we love and hate our political leaders, and how they love and hate us back, The X President touches the very heart of what it means to be president—and what a president means to America. It is the year 2055 and America is entangled in a devastating world war—and losing badly. As the threat of homeland invasion grows stronger, the United States is desperate to change the tide, anyway it can. Enter Sal Hayden, official biographer of a former president known as BC, now 109 years old and all but forgotten. Charismatic, controversial, and always willing to feel another person’s pain, BC’s political career, like his personal life, is marked by both uncanny triumphs and key blunders—some of which may have doomed the U.S. to defeat. Recording his story has not always been easy, but it has been straightforward. That is, until the day Sal is asked to rewrite it—and not just on the page. For Sal will be granted a biographer’s most fantastic dream, one that will thrust her into the greatest moral dilemma of her life—and the world’s most daring, dangerous, and spectacular spin job. . . .

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Bantam

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0553898116

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9780553898118

The X President

A Novel

By: Philip Baruth

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The X President

A Novel

By: Philip Baruth

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Textbook of Remedial Massage

By: Sandra Grace,Mark Philip Deal,Jane Graves

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Textbook of Remedial Massage

By: Sandra Grace,Mark Philip Deal,Jane Graves

Summary: A comprehensive, practical book for students and practitioners of remedial massage. Sandra Grace, Southern Cross University and Charles Sturt University.

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Elsevier Australia

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0729539695

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The Dream of the White Village

A Novel in Stories

By: Philip Edward Baruth

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The Dream of the White Village

A Novel in Stories

By: Philip Edward Baruth

Stories on life in a small town through the eyes of its inhabitants. As the protagonist in the story, Cheryl-lin, tells a taxi driver, she loves the town and the people, but the drawback is the place is so small "that you have to love them seventeen or eighteen times every day. It's like some Greek mythological torture." The setting is Burlington, Vermont.

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R. N. M., Incorporated

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0965714411

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9780965714419

Multiscale Europe 2007

By: George Philip & Son

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Multiscale Europe 2007

By: George Philip & Son

A fully revised and improved new edition of Philip's ultra-clear best-selling road atlas of Europe. The continental road network is shown at four different scales from 1:250,000 to 1:4,000,000, with ultra-clear detailed mapping for urban areas.Now with scenic routes highlighted, theme parks and World Heritage sites shown, and larger-scale mapping of Scandinavia, Greece and western Turkey.This atlas gives more for leisure travellers than any comparable product, plus a unique fact-finder giving key statistics, currency and recent events for each country. Up-to-date driving regulations, including speed limits, for every country in Europe Listings for ski resorts and top visitor attractions, country by country 15 pages of route-planning maps which enable journeys of over 1,200 miles to be planned without turning a page. 103 pages of clear, detailed road maps, with scenic routes highlighted and toll, toll-free and pre-pay motorways all clearly marked. 24 large-scale urban area maps for Europe's largest cities 41 city centre plans marking historic buildings and tourist attractions as well as car parks, head post offices and other facilities.Main map scale: 1: 1 000 000

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0540088900

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