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My Life in Mental Health: A Nurse's Story relates - honestly and without pretense - the journey of a man who grew up in a family who struggled with mental health issues. John Nugent, the memoirist, tells how those early experiences led him to explore psychology to better understand both himself and his often-chaotic family. His hands-on work in mental health nursing provides the grounding for his narrative that explores the development of modern mental health care. In just a few decades mental health treatment transformed from a "doctor knows best" discipline and arrived where the best treatments tend to emerge from the expressed needs and desires of clients. My Life in Mental Health: A Nurse's Story will inform and inspire anyone who has felt the impact of mental illness in his or her family or who cares about people with mental illness. The author makes a compelling case for putting to rest the enduring stigma toward people who live with mental illness.

Zoey and John take a walk every day and meet their neighborhood dog pals along their way. Each dog is introduced in a rhyme to the reader by Zoey. Their special story is shared with the refrain, "Every dog has a tale to tell; you only have to listen well." Along the way a homeless dog is noticed as he peeks from the bushes and trees at all the fun the dogs are enjoying. Zoey and her friends help find a perfect match for Rover and child.All royalties for this book go to the Young-Williams Animal Center in Knoxville, TN for pet adoptions. A special feature of the storybook is that it includes a Spanish translation.

Great book from best-selling author John Mason with nearly two million nugget books sold! Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them contains 101 "Nuggets of Truth" to help you break through barriers, reach new heights and live your dreams. National best-selling author John Mason shows you how to take the lid off and capture momentum in your life. Each nugget is a source of sound wisdom, proven insight, and practical principles. Readers will learn how to: Overcome fears and find success Go farther than they can see Use what they already have to go to the next level Make problems their promotions Plus much more!

Our interdependence with plants entails symbiosis that is not only biological but also cultural, social, and linguistic. Posthuman Plants addresses our diverse entanglements with plants in everyday life through the prisms of posthumanist, multispecies, ecocritical, and ecocultural theory. This volume asks: how does the reconfiguration of human "being" as inherently permeable affect our perceptions of and relationships to plants-those "others" that have been regarded historically as passive elements of the landscape and constructed as the mute foils of animality? This book contributes to the ever-increasing debate about how we perceive plants and their influence on what it means to be human, more-than-human, and other-than-human. It argues that reconceptualizing the botanical world requires seeing, feeling, and understanding plants as intelligent, active, and sentient agents. Posthuman Plants is divided into five sections: Affect and Reciprocity, Heritage and Digitality, Art and Vegetality, Poetry and Vegetality, and Plants and the Senses. Although some of its content is strongly focused on the vegetal life of the southwest of Australia where the author resides, other countries, bioregions, places, and contexts figure into the analysis. The chapters are presented as essays on diverse subjects, all organized around the common strand of rethinking plants through culture, art, and poetry. In re-imagining the vegetal, Posthuman Plants draws from ethnographic, auto-ethnographic, historical, and literary sources and develops plant-based theoretical models that blur disciplinary boundaries. This broadly-ranging work will be of interest to international audiences, especially researchers in the fields of environmental studies and ecological humanities.

So you decided to embark on a landscape project, but whom do you call? A landscaper? A landscape architect? A landscape designer? A landscape contractor? What criteria would you use to select that landscape professional? Have you considered the potential risks and how to mitigate them? Landscape professionals, John and Sondra Wright, help answer these questions and more in their informative book, Landscapes, Lawns, and Lies. With thirty plus years of experience in all aspects of landscape construction and property maintenance the Wright's impart invaluable, indispensable advice as only an industry insider can. Written in a demonstrative style illuminated with brilliant never boring scenarios, Landscapes, Lawns, and Lies directly and anecdotally confronts the many preconceptions, deceptions, and misconceptions consumers face in selecting a landscape professional. Read Landscapes, Lawns, and Lies, and emerge well-informed, confident, and better prepared to tackle your next project, with the right professional at your side, whatever your unique landscaping needs may be.

DIVINE ENERGY or the Efficacious Operations of the Spirit of God upon the soul of man, in his Effectual Calling and Conversion, stated, proved and vindicated. Wherein the real Weakness and Insufficiency of Moral Suasion, without the addition of the exceeding Greatness of God's Power, for Faith and Conversion to God, are fully evinced. BEING AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE PELAGIAN PLAGUE. "I heartily recommend this work to the perusal of every serious Christian that is desirous of knowing the nature of true Conversion, and of answering to himself that important question, Am I born again or am I a converted person? And I doubt not, with the blessing of God, but he will find the reading of it pleasant and profitable to him." John Gill {Preface}

Two neighboring West African countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone were caught up in nasty civil wars: Liberia in 1989 to 1996 and again in 1999 to 2003 while Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002. Both civil wars caused displacements of over four million people. Warring factions attacked villages, towns and cities, causing people to lose their homes and their lives as dreams and families shattered forever. John Davies grew up in these two countries. Coming from a dysfunctional family and left to cope on his own at a very young age, his life was filled with turmoil. John was no stranger to hard work and difficulties. But when the two countries were caught up in civil wars, his resolve and faith was tested to the core in the midst of it. Coping with the oddness of a deeply dysfunctional family - and striving for survival from the slums of refugee camps to the heights of the political scenes in Freetown and Monrovia, to the plights and challenges faced by English speaking West African refugees in francophone Senegal, John treads on slippery slope tides in a bid to protecting and keeping his family safe. Did he fail, succeed or triumph? Strangely, the answer to the question is left with you (the reader) to determine. Join John Davies as he recounts his life from the conflicted lands of Liberia and Sierra Leone to the free states of the United States.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Description:Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact. It uses a thought experiment to consider the ecological-economic-ethical-ecclesial impacts of Contact, analyzing incidents around the world described by credible witnesses (two of whom are interviewed for the book), including Roswell and the Hudson River Valley. It discusses government and academic efforts to use ridicule and coercion to suppress Contact investigations, supports a scientific method to research ETI reports in a field that should excite scientists, and calls on academics to publicly disclose their Contact experiences. It traces Earth ecological and economic injustices to the European Enlightenment and the Discovery Doctrine by which European nations rationalized invasion of distant continents, genocide, and seizure of the territories and natural goods of native peoples. It advocates a change in humans' Earth conduct to avoid replicating in space the policies and practices that wrought economic injustice and ecological devastation on Earth, provides an innovative cosmosociological praxis ethics theory and practice toward that end, and develops a Cosmic Charter, based on UN documents, to guide humankind in space and in ETI encounters. Permeated by a profound sense of the sacred, Cosmic Commons explores a positive relationship between religion and science as humankind ventures into space.

The Baby Boomers and the Queen is a short, easy-to-understand story in a fairy-tale-like setting that provides clarity on how the United States became what it is today. A lot of history is missing in common history books on the different trade policies and financial shenanigans that left what was once the world's greatest republic as a very difficult place to grow up and live. Before 1971, the average cost of a car was $2,500 dollars and a house was $10,000. The cost of education and living was much lower, along with stress levels. Life generally was much easier; people could work and have a twenty-year retirement. Today, about 60 percent of Americans are not going to retire but will work until their last day. The baby boomers are really the last generation of easy living in the United States. They sold out their children and their grandchildren for monetary profits earned on Wall Street. They shipped 80 percent of all the living-wage jobs overseas to profit from the same people that they sold out, raised the price of education to profit from usury, and legalized pornography and drugs in order to maintain their sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll lifestyle. The narcissism of the baby boomers is unparalleled throughout history; there has never been another generation in the history of the world that has taken the most prosperous, easy-living country that has ever been created and destroyed it for self-indulgences in the name of satisfying their need for instant gratification.