A relaxing weekend getaway turns into a terrifying encounter with a mysterious creature.Set in the Florida Everglades, Jonathan is a computer engineer who enjoys getting outdoors on the weekends.During his most recent trip, he stumbles upon a local mystery that only he may be able to solve.Will he survive, or become another piece of the puzzle?

A government physicist and a humanities professor become entangled within mysteries that surround the local crash site of an unknown aircraft.

When Feelings Get Stuck: Helping Kids Understand Addiction in the Family is a gentle, illustrated story that helps young children make sense of the confusing feelings that come when a loved one struggles with addiction. Using simple language and warm, hopeful imagery, the book explains how "tricky helpers" like alcohol or drugs can stick to a grown-up's brain, making it hard for them to stop, even though they still love their family very much.

Addiction is not the end of the story, it can be the turning point.For too long, addiction has been seen as a moral failing to punish or a chronic disease to manage. Thriving with Addiction offers a radically different vision: recovery as a gateway to a healthier, more meaningful life.Blending cutting-edge neuroscience, real-world psychiatry, and powerful personal narratives, addiction psychiatrist Jonathan Avery reveals how healing goes far beyond symptom control ...

From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American PsychotherapyFifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense debates within this community of healers.American Therapy begins, as psychotherapy itself does, with the ...

Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment provides a clinically detailed, evidence-based, and exhaustive examination of a topic rarely plumbed in psychiatry texts, despite the fact that co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders are common. The authors argue for a more holistic and integrated approach, calling for clinicians to tactfully but persistently evaluate patients for a broad range of co-occurring disorders before deter...

Overview"The Call of the Sea" is an exhilarating tale of adventure and discovery. Join Captain Jonathan Avery and Mohammed Uzzal Miah as they embark on an extraordinary journey, encountering mysterious islands, hidden dangers, and stormy waters. Along the way, they uncover the secrets of the sea, making thrilling discoveries and revelations that will leave readers captivated.In "Navigating the Unknown," Captain Avery and Miah chronicle their experiences as they navigate unc...

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier worl...

This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the science of addiction, as well as practical tools for diagnosing, treating, and supporting individuals with alcohol use disorder. It also offers guidance for building a successful recovery and preventing relapse, and it serves as a comprehensive and evidence-based resource that brings together the latest scientific research and guidelines endorsed by expert professionals. Alcohol use disorder is a prevalent and complex disea...

This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes. Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics. The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to pro...

Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1726 and is probably the most famous work by Jonathan Swift. It was an instant hit—selling out within a week—and has never been out of print, as well as having been adapted many times.Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon on the Antelope, is shipwrecked and washed up on the island of Lilliput, where the inhabitants are less than six inches tall. This part of the book is a thinly veiled attack on the political classes of the time, as the Lilliputian...

The book serves as a guide for all clinicians seeking to improve healthcare outcomes by implementing peer support in the treatment and management of medical and mental health conditions. The book begins with a chapter that describes the importance of peers and how peers are increasingly being utilized to improve medical outcomes. Each chapter opens with an introductory section, include tables and figures, and ends with a summary section for quick reference. Written by experts in the field,...