A young doctor enters the U.S. military at the quiet end of the Cold War, expecting a career of steady medicine and controlled risk—but history has other plans. From the trauma wards of Cook County Hospital to the battlefields of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the shadow war of Operation Observant Compass, he is thrust into a world where life, death, and moral ambiguity collide daily. Rising throu...

Twenty years ago a killer with a unique and horrific signature terrorized the city. As it became clear the killer's cooling off periods between murders halved each time, the police desperately tried to catch him before he might take another innocent life. After eight murders he stopped. Because he died, or was incarcerated for another offense, or moved away, or ...? Serial killers do not stop of their own volition. Correct?

In the 35th century they sought the mind of God. Something answered.

Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition, this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI—engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning—and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples...

In the sweltering summer of 1540, as Thomas Cromwell falls and Henry VIII's court turns into a nest of paranoia and quiet murder, the King's trusted physician discovers that four deaths, a fragment of green wax, and one forbidden letter could cost him his life—and the truth he uncovers may be more dangerous than any poison.

The plane broke apart over France. The warning was written two years earlier.When Tunisair Flight 305 falls from the sky into the Fontainebleau Forest, young journalist Francine "Frankie" Mouilly is assigned to find the story behind the worst air disaster the world has ever seen. The wreckage points to a sudden failure aboard the DC-10. Then Frankie hears about another flight, another cargo-door failure—and an internal memo that warned exactly what could happen nex...

What would you do if you found $50 million worth of almost pure heroin?Use it?Sell it?Turn it in?Start a war?

What would you do if you heroin worth millions of dollars?Turn it in to the authorities to keep it off the street?Or sell it to try and reignite a viscious sectarian war?

Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation.The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove worker resistance, initially by informal organization that slowly transitioned to formal organisation. This new volume analyses worker mobilisatio...

This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere including the introduction of minimum labour standards (living wage rates, maximum hours etc), workplace safety and compensation laws and the rise of ...

A multidimensional biography of one of Philadelphia’s ultimate power brokersMost sports team owners make their money elsewhere and purchase a team as an extravagant hobby—but that is not the story of Ed Snider. One of the few owners in history to start a franchise by mortgaging nearly everything to his name, the Philadelphia Flyers founder would go on to form the billion-dollar empire of Comcast-Spectacor and cement his standing as one of the biggest movers and sha...

What is it that makes some therapists so much more effective than others, even when they are delivering the same evidence-based treatment? This instructive book identifies specific interpersonal skills and attitudes—often overlooked in clinical training—that facilitate better client outcomes across a broad range of treatment methods and contexts. Reviewing 70 years of psychotherapy research, the preeminent authors show that empathy, acceptance, warmth, focus, and other characteristics of e...