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The Truth about Everything. How to access the Centre. How to
understand it. How to use it. How to enter it forever. "I liked
'CENTRE', it is different and well done. The author is sharing
something real, quite Zen, that he experienced on the bridge...and
the book is an opportunity for a possible transmission to another.
That's what I'm in the esoteric book business for - to supply books
to help do just that...I wish the book every success." -Anthony
Cheke, The Inner Bookshop, Oxford, England "A marvellous and truly
stunning book!! A treasure indeed. A way to complete happiness is
here. It is ALL UP TO US. Read chapter 37 and find out WHY things
are the way they are for YOU." -Pisamorn Chulsrikaival, Thailand "A
marvellous book! In the light of its wisdom, all one's fragments of
knowledge and experience suddenly make sense. Read "CENTRE" and
discover who you are!" -Tim Ormonde, England "The most remarkable
new book in the world today..." -Ariya Books, UK
HERE (AND NOW) Clusters of English "unofficial" roses have climbed
the fence to face the sun. Each in its crimson finery supposes that
it, alone, is the only one. Honeysuckle tangles with its vagrance
bramble and lavender, rose and gorse, fills the still air with its
golden fragrance there where the steps run a wayward course.
Shamrock has camped with a fragile neatness just where the
foxgloves have unfurled; the privet has flowered and its lemon
sweetness hedges the edges of this living world. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT
NOW Imagine you have an audience. (Which you have). And people are
listening to everything you say. (Which they are). And everything
you say is being written down. (Which it is). And may be used in
evidence against you. (Which it will be). Don't you wish you could
be alone?
Oxford: bones and stones, churches and vivisection laboratory.
Peaceful gardens, rivers and quadrangles. Relentless efforts to
squeeze the money out of its alumni. Drifting ghosts looking for
peace. Drifting students looking for a place in a disintegrating
world. Beauty inherited from the past. Deliberate ugliness
bequeathed by the present. Vice Chancellors once men of God.
Currently a man chosen because he is good at making money. A
footprint of your world and mine
What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of
Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian
politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the
thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also the
set of emotions and habits that influence how Putin and his close
allies view the world. The code of Putinism has powerfully shaped
the nature of Russia's political system, its economy, and its
foreign policy. Taylor draws on a large number of interviews, the
speeches of Putin and other top officials, and the Russian media to
analyze the mentality of Team Putin. Key features of Russian
politics today - such as authoritarianism, Putin's reliance on a
small group of loyal friends and associates, state domination of
the economy, and an assertive foreign policy - are traced to the
code of Putinism. Key ideas of the code include conservatism,
anti-Americanism, and the importance of a state that is powerful
both at home and abroad. Dominant habits of Putin and his
associates include control, order, and loyalty. Important feelings
driving Russia's rulers include the need for respect, resentment
about lost status and mistreatment by the West, and vulnerability.
While some observers portray Putin as either a cold-blooded
pragmatist or a strident Russian nationalist, Taylor provides a
more nuanced and compelling interpretation of Putin's motives and
actions. The Code of Putinism also shows how Putin's choices,
guided by this mentality, have led to a Russia that is misruled at
home and punching above its weight abroad.
Experts in the field offer the first comprehensive review of the
tectonics and magmatism of backarc basins, covering their initial
rift stage to mature spreading. Complete with numerous
illustrations, each of the twelve chapters focuses on a young,
active backarc basin of the circum-Pacific-where volcano-tectonic
processes are best studied because of their activity. Key themes in
this volume include volcano-tectonics setting; cause and location;
rift magmas; and hydrothermal activity. Researchers also present
models of the dynamic processes occurring in backarc basins.
Planning, designing and laying the track for a model railway layout
can be challenging, especially if you have never done it before.
This book provides a step-by-step guide to the techniques required
and methods used in track design and layout. With content suitable
for those who are new to the hobby through to the more experienced
modeller, and some 200 images, it includes: an overview of the
various forces that act on prototype railways and which determine
the design of trackwork. The planning and designing of layouts,
including the pros and cons of different domestic locations are
covered along with baseboard construction for both portable and
permanent layouts. There is a review of the track systems available
and how to lay tracks, the tools and skills required, and problem
solving. Wiring up both analogue (DC) and digital layouts (DCC),
with diagrams are given and scales and gauges are discussed.
Finally, there are hints and tips on ballasting and weathering
track.
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 is a high-performance,
mission-critical database management system designed to meet the
increasing demands of large databases and high-transaction volumes,
while providing a cost-effective database management system. "The
Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15" focuses on the many
enhancements in Sybase ASE 15 including semantic partitions,
computed columns, functional indexes, and scrollable cursors.
The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay
between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional
values and organisational systems. This book brings together
contributions from key social work researchers and theorists from
the UK, USA, New Zealand and Italy, writing with a focus on aspects
of risk within social work. It examines key debates concerning risk
in contemporary social work practice, including ethical dilemmas,
approaches to decision-making and the challenges of ignorance and
errors. Contributions range from the perennial challenges of how
one uses formal knowledge when assessing risk to emerging risks
arising from the counterterrorism agenda. This book will enable
practitioners, policy makers and researchers to appreciate the
complexities of risk in different settings and apply this
understanding to their own practice. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work
Practice.
Professional judgement and decision making are central to social
work, both in everyday professional practice and in public
perceptions of social work as a profession. This book examines key
issues that are relevant today. The chapters cover child
protection, mental health, and elder care settings in Europe,
Australia and Canada. They discuss organisational and cultural
contexts for professional judgement; the role of experience in the
development of expertise and professional discretion; understanding
variability in decision making; and the role of legal frameworks in
decision making. This book will enable practitioners, managers,
policy makers, and researchers to appreciate the complexities of
professional judgement and decision making in different social work
settings and to apply this understanding to their own practice.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Social Work Practice. The book is linked to sister text
Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues, which examines key
debates around the understanding of risk in contemporary social
work practice.
The third edition of Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids provides
clinical audiologists, hearing instrument specialists and graduate
students with the latest in practical information reflecting
current clinical practice standards. Authored by two of the
industry's leading authorities on adult amplification and audiology
practice management, the book is sequenced to match the patient's
journey through a clinical practice. Its 12 chapters are packed
with the latest commercial innovations in hearing aids, basic
hearing assessment procedures, patient-related outcome measures,
and innovative counseling techniques. Experienced clinicians will
also find the updated chapters on help-seeking behavior and hearing
aid features and benefits to be valuable to their continued
professional development. Hearing aid dispensing always has been a
technology-driven profession, heavily dependent on the expertise,
thoughtfulness, and good judgment of the licensed professional.
Over the past few years, even as technology has continued to evolve
at breakneck speed, these skills have become more relevant than
ever in the delivery of high-quality patient care, especially to
the rapidly aging Baby Boomer population. This bestselling text is
required reading for those studying to obtain their hearing aid
dispensing license or audiology or speech pathology students
looking for the latest in dispensing and fitting hearing aids in a
succinct, entertaining format. Because each chapter is written
around a specific theme, like wine tasting, travel, baseball,
country music, and more, this succinct and entertaining textbook is
actually fun to read!
Increasing rates of male suicide have been well documented, as have
the problems of mental health provision for some minority male
groups; however, the position of men in general within the
psychiatric system is complex. There are many contradictions and
gendered assumptions in mental health policy and practice, for
example conflating mental health illness with dangerousness.
Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at
gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It
looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and
madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses
of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author relates this to a
discussion of current policy and practice responses to men within
the mental health system. It offers the reader a theoretical
exploration of a topically and politically sensitive issues, and is
relevant to service user involvement and survivor movements.
Professional judgement and decision making are central to social
work, both in everyday professional practice and in public
perceptions of social work as a profession. This book examines key
issues that are relevant today. The chapters cover child
protection, mental health, and elder care settings in Europe,
Australia and Canada. They discuss organisational and cultural
contexts for professional judgement; the role of experience in the
development of expertise and professional discretion; understanding
variability in decision making; and the role of legal frameworks in
decision making. This book will enable practitioners, managers,
policy makers, and researchers to appreciate the complexities of
professional judgement and decision making in different social work
settings and to apply this understanding to their own practice.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Social Work Practice. The book is linked to sister text
Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues, which examines key
debates around the understanding of risk in contemporary social
work practice.
The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay
between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional
values and organisational systems. This book brings together
contributions from key social work researchers and theorists from
the UK, USA, New Zealand and Italy, writing with a focus on aspects
of risk within social work. It examines key debates concerning risk
in contemporary social work practice, including ethical dilemmas,
approaches to decision-making and the challenges of ignorance and
errors. Contributions range from the perennial challenges of how
one uses formal knowledge when assessing risk to emerging risks
arising from the counterterrorism agenda. This book will enable
practitioners, policy makers and researchers to appreciate the
complexities of risk in different settings and apply this
understanding to their own practice. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work
Practice.
In this new book, you'll learn how to teach evidence-based writing
using a variety of tools, activities, and sample literary texts.
Showing elementary and middle school students how to think
critically about what they're reading can be a challenge, but
author C. Brian Taylor makes it easy by presenting twelve critical
thinking tools along with step-by-step instructions for
implementing each one effectively in the classroom. You'll learn
how to: Design units and lesson plans that gradually introduce your
students to more complex levels of textual analysis; Encourage
students to dig deeper by using the 12 Tools for Critical Thinking;
Help students identify context and analyze quotes with the Evidence
Finder graphic organizer; Use the Secret Recipe strategy to
construct persuasive evidence-based responses that analyze a text's
content or technique; Create Cue Cards to teach students how to
recognize and define common literary devices. The book also offers
a series of extra examples using mentor texts, so you can clearly
see how the strategies in this book can be applied to excerpts from
popular, canonical, and semi-historical literature. Additionally, a
number of the tools and templates in the book are available as free
eResources from our website
(http://www.routledge.com/9781138950658), so you can start using
them immediately in your classroom.
In this new book, you'll learn how to teach evidence-based writing
using a variety of tools, activities, and sample literary texts.
Showing elementary and middle school students how to think
critically about what they're reading can be a challenge, but
author C. Brian Taylor makes it easy by presenting twelve critical
thinking tools along with step-by-step instructions for
implementing each one effectively in the classroom. You'll learn
how to: Design units and lesson plans that gradually introduce your
students to more complex levels of textual analysis; Encourage
students to dig deeper by using the 12 Tools for Critical Thinking;
Help students identify context and analyze quotes with the Evidence
Finder graphic organizer; Use the Secret Recipe strategy to
construct persuasive evidence-based responses that analyze a text's
content or technique; Create Cue Cards to teach students how to
recognize and define common literary devices. The book also offers
a series of extra examples using mentor texts, so you can clearly
see how the strategies in this book can be applied to excerpts from
popular, canonical, and semi-historical literature. Additionally, a
number of the tools and templates in the book are available as free
eResources from our website
(http://www.routledge.com/9781138950658), so you can start using
them immediately in your classroom.
Bamboo has become a popular planting choice in recent years; its
architectural features are very appealing. Nevertheless, some
bamboos can be highly invasive and can impact negatively on the
built environment and local habitats. This book outlines the darker
side of bamboo's nature and offers practical advice on how to deal
with it; it also provides an overview of bamboo history, biology
and ecology, and highlights why planting some species of bamboo can
be particularly problematic. Useful guidance for householders who
have planted, or wish to plant bamboo, is presented, as well as
practical advice for those wanting to rid themselves of the plant.
Most people who buy and sell bamboo are not aware of how invasive
and destructive many bamboos can be. This book seeks to raise the
profile of these plants, constructively and helpfully.
What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of
Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian
politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the
thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also the
set of emotions and habits that influence how Putin and his close
allies view the world. The code of Putinism has powerfully shaped
the nature of Russia's political system, its economy, and its
foreign policy. Taylor draws on a large number of interviews, the
speeches of Putin and other top officials, and the Russian media to
analyze the mentality of Team Putin. Key features of Russian
politics today - such as authoritarianism, Putin's reliance on a
small group of loyal friends and associates, state domination of
the economy, and an assertive foreign policy - are traced to the
code of Putinism. Key ideas of the code include conservatism,
anti-Americanism, and the importance of a state that is powerful
both at home and abroad. Dominant habits of Putin and his
associates include control, order, and loyalty. Important feelings
driving Russia's rulers include the need for respect, resentment
about lost status and mistreatment by the West, and vulnerability.
While some observers portray Putin as either a cold-blooded
pragmatist or a strident Russian nationalist, Taylor provides a
more nuanced and compelling interpretation of Putin's motives and
actions. The Code of Putinism also shows how Putin's choices,
guided by this mentality, have led to a Russia that is misruled at
home and punching above its weight abroad.
Forrest Reid's books were never commercial successes, and many have
fallen out of print. Yet he has been called 'the first Ulster
novelist of European status', and he continues to attract a small
and loyal audience. Apart from three years at Cambridge, he lived
in Belfast from his birth in 1875 till his death in 1947. He cared
little for literary coteries, preferring that a small circle of
friends, amongst whom he numbered E. M. Forster and Walter de la
Mare, should visit him in his quiet, bachelor home in the suburbs.
However, the richness of his imaginative life stands in stark
contrast to this apparent provincial obscurity. Reid was obsessed
with boyhood. He loved boys, wrote about them and wanted to write
about nothing else. Throughout his work the recurrent theme is
childhood and the loss of its complicated innocence. This book,
first published in 1980, was the first study of Reid for
twenty-five years.
Experts in the field offer the first comprehensive review of the
tectonics and magmatism of backarc basins, covering their initial
rift stage to mature spreading. Complete with numerous
illustrations, each of the twelve chapters focuses on a young,
active backarc basin of the circum-Pacific-where volcano-tectonic
processes are best studied because of their activity. Key themes in
this volume include volcano-tectonics setting; cause and location;
rift magmas; and hydrothermal activity. Researchers also present
models of the dynamic processes occurring in backarc basins.
Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at
gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It
looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and
madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses
of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author relates this to a
discussion of current policy and practice responses to men within
the mental health system. It offers the reader a theoretical
exploration of a topically and politically sensitive issues and is
relevant to service user involvement and survivor movements, making
it essential reading for academics and students of sociology and
allied disciplines.
Quality - in the broadest sense of the term - is the true
differentiator in today's age of economic uncertainty and
disruptive technology. As over-the-counter and other low cost
distribution systems of hearing aid technology gain in popularity,
the audiologist is challenged to maintain a thriving practice.
Audiologists that are able to differentiate their practice based on
quality service delivery are able to maintain success- - even in
times of great economic uncertainty. Quality in Audiology provides
a detailed road map for how both clinicians and business managers
alike can apply various components of Six Sigma, Total Quality
Management and other quality initiatives to improve both the
delivery of services to patients and the overall performance of
their practice. It covers everything from the reception area to the
marketing and operations of the practice. This book provides
readers with several tools as well as a step-by-step plan for
improving quality across all facets of their practice.
As hearing aid technology becomes more automated and easier to use
for persons with hearing loss, the need for humanistic interactions
with a professional is more important than ever.
Relationship-Centered Consultation Skills for Audiologists: Remote
and In-Person Care is a how-to guide for clinicians who want to
provide evidence-based, holistic care to persons with hearing loss.
By focusing on person-centered communication, this practical text
is an incredible tool for both in-person and remote telehealth
providers. With new disruptive technologies, it is crucial to adapt
to a changing marketplace. The material in Relationship-Centered
Consultation Skills for Audiologists: Remote and In-Person Care is
practical and straightforward to implement for the busy clinician.
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