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Critical Thinking for Addiction Professionals
Learn to think critically and make better decisions. Addiction professionals make decisions everyday that impact peoples lives. Sometimes these decisions are solid, and sometimes they are the result of flawed thinking, which often results from myths and generalizations that are perpetuated in the field. Thinking flaws are common not just in counselors, but in supervisors, administrators and presenters, and can lead to potentially negative outcomes both for clients and for programs. In this easy-to-read guide - the first to bring together critical thinking and addiction work - critical thinking expert and addiction professional Dr. Michael Taleff offers readers the tools they need to think critically and make better decisions. Readers learn: to evaluate their critical thinking abilities; the characteristics of a critical thinking professional What drives bad thinking in addiction work; how to recognize and avoid thinking fallacies; and the ethics and consequences of using critical thinking. ""Dr. Taleff has provided an insightful analysis of the kinds of thinking errors often made by counselors. The text should be required reading in all areas of health and human services. The concepts and discussion are as valuable to experienced helpers as they are to novices"". - Gregory Blevins, Ph.D., Professor, Governors State University.
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Advanced Ethics for Addiction Professionals
The goal of this book is to help addiction professionals not only revise their ethical practice, but their ethical thinking. Taleff presents common ethical dilemmas that addiction professionals face in their daily work. The unique purpose of this book is to get readers to consider their own responses to common dilemmas, and how to apply new models and modes of thinking to their practice. The authors discuss how applying a different framework might lead to a different ethical conclusion. Key topics discussed include: how critical thinking skills and can impact and improve the process of ethical decision-making; how biases, emotional reactions, and fallacies can dull ethical decision-making; how to implement the 'Ethics Dilemma Kit', that can be used to help students make their own ethical decisions.
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Jesus of Vancouver: the Left Coast Memoirs
"Jesus of Vancouver: the Left Coast Memoirs" is the fictionalized memoir of a ubiquitous, unnamed drifter the author refers to as "Jesus." His life, and the life of Mary, a young runaway that crosses Jesus' path, are followed to gain insight into their personal experiences, trials and tribulations, while growing up on the west coast of North America. This is a shared narrative many will recognize. The story moves from small towns on Vancouver Island to the streets of Vancouver, the environmental protests in Tofino, the mountains of the Slocan valley, and, finally, to the beaches of the southern Baja.
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Vivaldi
Vivaldi has emerged during the last decades of the 20th century as a truly major composer of the early eighteenth-century. Taking account of recent research, to which he himself has made important contributions - including the discovery in 1973 of an unknown set of violin sonatas - Michael Talbot examines the life and works of this remarkable musician in Venetian, Italian, and international settings.
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Finale in Western Instrumental Music
The knowledge that finales are by tradition (and perhaps also necessarily) "different" from other movements has been around a long time, but this work examines, comprehensively and in detail, the special nature of finales in instrumental music. Three main types of finale, labelled "relaxant", "summative", and "valedictory", are identified. Each type is studied closely, with a wealth of illustration and analytical commentary covering the entire period from the Renaissance to the present day. The history of finales in five important genres - suite, sonata, string quartet, symphony, and concerto - is traced, and the parallels and divergences between these traditions are identified. Several wider issues are mentioned, including narrativity, musical rounding, inter-movement relationships, and the nature of codas. The book ends with a look at the finales of all Shostakovich's string quartets, in which examples of most of the types may be found.
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Too Famous
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal attention became one of the world's most valuable commodities, and ending with Donald Trump, fame's most hyperbolic exponent.Some of these pieces exist in the amber of a particular news moment, some as character portraits - as colourful now as when they were written - and some as lasting observations about human nature and folly. The common ground all of these thrilling stories share is that everyone in this book is a creature of, or creation of, the media. They don't exist as who we see them as, and who they want to be, without the media.
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Michael William Balfe
Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and in-depth study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle. Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris and travelled widely in Europe. William Tyldesley discusses the continental influences evident in Balfe's operas and offers new suggestions as to the draw that Paris held for the composer. Far from leading a fairly prosperous and unexceptional life, Balfe is shown to have found himself in financial straits on more than one occasion, and to have employed possibly unethical means of extracting himself from them. Those wishing to perform Balfe's works or to do further research into them, will find Tyldesley's re-examination of the composer a necessary first port of call.
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Case for Goliath
How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United States furnishes to other countries the services that governments provide within the countries they govern. Mandelbaum explains how this role came about despite the fact that neither the United States nor any other country sought to establish it. He describes the contributions that American power makes to global security and prosperity, the shortcomings of American foreign policy, and how other countries have come to accept, resent, and exert influence on America's global role. And he assesses the prospects for the continuation of this role, which depends most importantly on whether the American public is willing to pay for it. Written with Mandelbaum's characteristic blend of clarity, wit, and profound understanding of America and the world, The Case for Goliath offers a fresh and surprising approach to an issue that obsesses citizens and policymakers the world over, as well as a major statement on the foreign policy issues confronting the American people today.
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All or Nothing
The final chapter in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury series about the Trump White House. Fire and Fury was a #1 New York Times Bestseller. "Michael Wolff... the shrewdest and most colourful chronicler of the Trump years," Sunday Times All or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire and Fury series. With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, it follows every turn of Donald Trump's third presidential campaign. In disgrace after the January 6 attack on the Capitol and sent into exile, Trump immediately sputters back to life. To the shock of the Republican Party leadership, the Trump base has not abandoned him. Hardly a year on, he is as strong as any challenger has ever been. The American establishment is stunned by his comeback and determined to stop it and hold him accountable for his abuses of law and power. Equally, he has vowed retribution on anyone who tries to stand in his way. The 2024 presidential race iselemental: the system breaks Donald Trump or Donald Trump breaks the system. Michael Wolff tells this story from inside the Trump campaign. Through the sources he has cultivated over his ten years of writing about Donald Trump, including people who are with Trump on a daily basis, as well as his own first-hand reporting, we get a nearly moment- by-moment picture of the pendulum mood swings, the casual cruelties, the demands for obeisance, the preternatural resolve or otherworldly levels of denial, and the certain flashes of showman genius of the new president. Praise for Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide "A book to shake America to its foundations" The Guardian "Cruel, unforgiving, muckracking, scandalous. I couldn't stop reading it" The Telegraph"Hilarious and frightening, and often reads like a Hollywood gossip column" FinancialTimes "Smart, vivid and intrepid," The New York Times
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Of Blood and Rivers
Meditations on grief and the propulsive power of nature to invite one to navigate the territory of loss. One of the poems written out of Michael Delp's experience with grief begins "At first a koan, "What to be done?" then a mantra, finally a prayer said into flowing water, because so many things bleed, each individual kind of pain like a fire coming in unseen from far off, then the searing begins" As heard in the sample, the eighty-four elegiac poems in this book navigate through and beyond loss, grief, love, and the joy of being present in the moment. Inspired by the movement of river water, these poems metabolize loss in the ways our bodies come to know that some questions have no answers. Taken together as one, this prose poem emerges as a meditation, a prayer where grief balances love and body balances spirit. Loss comes to us all. This book bears forth the wisdom of looking to the stars for solace, the deep quiet of connecting to the natural world, remaining grounded in our own living bodies.
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Talkin' to Myself
Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 is a compendium of lyrics by the great blues recording artists of the classic blues era. It includes over 2000 songs, transcribed directly from the original recordings, making it by far the most comprehensive and accurate collection of blues lyrics available.
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Leaving Michael
Shaun, a mixed race Brit has been P.A. to Michael Michael, his fellow Brit and world famous rock star for as long as he can remember. But now, with Michael's intersex child Bodhi begging him to help him leave Michael's vast Californian estate, Shaun has to make the hardest decision of his life; to keep living a lie, or to follow his heart... A fascinating and thought provoking meditation on the nature of fame, the nature of gender and the nature of happiness. If you love literary fiction with a wide conceptual reach that leaves you feeling enriched by the end of it - you'll love this book!
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Mission Failure
The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world.In the decades before the Cold War ended the United States, like virtually every other country throughout history, used its military power to defend against threats to important American international interests or to the American homeland itself. When the Cold War concluded, however, it embarked on military interventions in places where American interests were not at stake. Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo had no strategic or economic importance for the United States, which intervened in allof them for purely humanitarian reasons. Each such intervention led to efforts to transform the local political and economic systems. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, turned into similar missions of transformation. None ofthem achieved its aims.Mission Failure describes and explains how such missions came to be central to America's post-Cold War foreign policy, even in relations with China and Russia in the early 1990s and in American diplomacy in the Middle East, and how they all failed. Mandelbaum shows how American efforts to bring peace, national unity, democracy, and free-market economies to poor, disorderly countries ran afoul of ethnic and sectarian loyalties and hatreds and foundered as well on the absence of thehistorical experiences and political habits, skills, and values that Western institutions require.The history of American foreign policy in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is, he writes, "the story of good, sometimes noble, and thoroughly American intentions coming up against the deeply embedded, often harsh, and profoundly un-American realities of places far from the United States. In this encounter the realities prevailed."
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Holographic Universe
‘There is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it – from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons – are only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality literally beyond both space and time.’ This is the astonishing idea behind the holographic theory of the universe, pioneered by two eminent thinkers: physicist David Bohm, a former protégé of Albert Einstein, and quantum physicist Karl Pribram. The holographic theory of the universe encompasses consciousness and reality as we know them, but can also explain such hitherto unexplained phenomena as telepathy, out-of-body experiences and even miraculous healing. In this remarkable book, Michael Talbot reveals the extraordinary depth and power of the holographic theory of the universe, illustrating how it makes sense of the entire range of experiences within our universe – and in other universes beyond our own.
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