Substance use is very common among psychiatric patients. Depending on your practice, up to 50% of your patients suffer from an addiction that may be aggravating their primary symptoms. It is impractical to refer all such patients to addiction specialists, who are in short supply. This extremely practical guide will enhance your confidence in treating all substance use disorders. There are 14 brief chapters covering everything you need to know in order to evaluate the severity of substance use and to decide on the best treatments for your patients. You'll find detailed instruction on how to frame your questions about this sensitive topic, how to order drug screens, how 12 step programs work, and how to prescribe medications that will help your patients recover. There are also many useful tips and pearls, along with user-friendly comparison charts to make on-the-spot decision making easier.

Between periods of revolution, state repression, and war across Central and Western Europe from the 1840s through the 1860s, German liberals practiced politics beyond the more well-defined realms of voluntary associations, state legislatures, and burgeoning political parties. Political Friendship approaches 19th century German history's trajectory to unification through the lens of academics, journalists, and artists who formed close personal relationships with one another and with powerful state leaders. Michael Weaver argues that German liberals thought with their friends by demonstrating the previously neglected aspects of political friendship were central to German political culture.

When a corrupt U.S. Attorney General unleashes a global network of assassins to hunt down a woman who could destroy both his career and his life, two Mafia-connected men find themselves unwitting protectors of the innocent woman. By the author of Impulse.

In Analogical Geometry - Book One: A Language of Relations, author Michael Weaver returns to Geometry's roots to unveil an ancient system that integrated the study of Nature, φύσις, with technical skills, τέχνη. This book serves as an introduction to these ideas along with techniques that were foundational to ancient art and architecture. Stripping Geometry of calculations and computations allows readers to gain a greater understanding of this time-honored discipline. Over 700 illustrations encourage readers to explore Geometric principles for themselves and at their own pace. All constructions are laid out in a step-by-step manner so that curious readers can follow along using their own choice of compass, straightedge, and stylus.No previous experience with Geometry is necessary to navigate this book. The beginning of Analogical Geometry - Book One introduces readers to Geometric continua found in Nature, such as time, volume, area, and length. These continuous magnitudes, along with angles, serve as a foundation for further explorations involving both simple and complex constructions. Later chapters introduce readers to ratios, proportions, and the natural pattern of growth known as the Golden Section. Star polygons serve as a visual introduction to the mathematical concepts of prime numbers and factoring. Analogical Geometry - Book One concludes with chapters devoted to the Pythagorean Theorem, Dynamic Symmetry, and a Geometric explanation of Integral Calculus.

Auroravita - Poetic Perspectives is a collection of fifty-two poems penned by Michael Weaver, author of Science & Perception and Analogical Geometry - A Language of Relations. This book chronicles Michael's shift from prose to poetry, a choice that allows him to say more by writing less.

The two parts of Auroravita encourage readers to partake in the poetic process as active participants. Part I - Poems & Insights present the fifty-two poems in a sequential form. A set of Insights & Inspirations accompany each poem to provide insights into the author's creative process.

Part II - Poem Versions lists the various versions of each poem as they arose out of the ther. Readers can explore how the aesthetic feel of a work can shift and morph with the addition of a single word or a simple change in a phrase.

Auroravita contains an extensive Bibliography for those who wish to delve deeper into classical sources that influenced the Western poetic tradition. Many readers will be surprised to discover that poetry's roots extend to the dawn of Western culture and may very well predate prose.

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This book is printed in landscape format, hence the 'sideways' orientation of the online preview of the front cover and contents.

The U.S. president has decided to turn an international conference on human rights into the scene of his greatest triumph--but instead is taken hostage by a group prepared to kill for world peace. Paul Waters, an intelligence agent assigned to protect the president, joins forces with his lover, Kate Dinneson, to foil the plans of the extremist group and rescue American's leader. But can they stop the fanatics in time? And did the president plan his own kidnapping?