Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are widespread, and the individual and societal problems associated with these disorders have made the study and treatment of alcohol use disorders a clinical research priority. Research over the past several decades has led to the development of excellent empirically supported treatment methods. This book aims to increase clinicians' access to empirically supported interventions for alcohol use disorders, with the hope that these methods will become th...

"This is a comprehensive and exceptionally practical blueprint for school supervision in the 21st century. At a time when national standards for administrative preparation are in the wings, this book should become required reading in schools of educational administration."John KappenbergDirector of Research Sewanhaka Central High School, Floral Park, NYSuccessfully meet the needs of staff and students and become a teacher of teachers!

A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general--and the stages-of-change model in particular--to make substance abuse treatment more effective. The authors are leaders in the field who describe ways to tailor interventions for clients with varying levels of motivation or readiness to change. They draw on cutting-edge theory and research on the transtheoretical model to explain what works (and ...

The execution of IRA leader Rory O’Connor on 8 December 1922, along with Liam Mellows, Dick Barrett and Joe McKelvey, marked a bitter turning point in the Irish Civil War and remains one of the most infamous episodes in modern Irish history.An unlikely revolutionary, in his early years, O’Connor qualified as an engineer and worked on the Canadian railroad. Returning to Ireland in 1915, he joined the ranks of militant Irish republicanism and became devoted to the violent overthrow o...

"Tristan et Iseult" à la mode irlandaise contemporaine. Deux êtres maltraités par la vie se rencontrent par hasard à Dublin, prennent la fuite ensemble et trouvent refuge tout au nord de l'Irlande, dans les environs d'Inishowen, un lieu de beauté et de paix. Mais la violence intime et sociale les attend, là comme ailleurs. Un des plus bouleversants romans de Joseph O'Connor, plein d'ardeur et de rage de vivre.

The BRAND NEW instalment in Stephanie Harte's gripping, gritty new gangland series, perfect for fans of Mobland, House of Guinness and Peaky Blinders, from the bestselling author of Double Trouble. Meet the O'Connors... She danced with the devil once...now she’s back for more. A decade after her husband Sean’s murder, Josie O’Connor has built his empire into something feared across London’s underworld. But respect is still in short supply. To the me...

Novembre 1847. Le navire L’Etoile des mers quitte l’Irlande à destination de New York, avec à son bord des centaines de personnes fuyant la Grande Famine. Une quinzaine de privilégiés se partagent la première classe, tandis que les passagers de l'entrepont tentent de survivre à une traversée hantée par la famine et les maladies. Un homme mystérieux erre la nuit sur le navire, accablé par une terrible mission... Mêlant documents historiques et fictionnels, "L'Etoile des mers" offre une trav...

A BRAND NEW gripping gangland read, perfect for fans of Mobland, House of Guinness and Peaky Blinders, from the bestselling author of Double Trouble. Meet the O'Connors... London, 1975.Dublin-born Sean O’Connor rules the streets of Kilburn with his charm and his fists. But the locals don’t take kindly to an Irishman muscling in on their patch—and they’re out for blood.As a turf war heats up, Sean digs in deeper, determined to protect ...

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new ...