Any clinician or practitioner working with older people is likely to encounter psychiatric disorders, including common conditions like dementia, depression, and delirium, but also less familiar presentations such as substance misuse, phobias, or paranoid illness. The issues raised are often about diagnosis or treatment, but also often legal or ethical dilemmas involving assessment of capacity and potentially compulsion. This book provides advice about all the commonly encountered psychiatr...

Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin has her hands full--two hot guys and ghosts who won't rest in peace until she solves their mysteries.In Chicago for a cemetery conference, Pepper bumps into the specter of a young woman who demands Pepper's help. Before the woman died, she worked with Dan Callahan, the cute, absentminded, and very sexy researcher who once saved Pepper's life. The ghost insists Dan is in danger and Pepper is the only one who can help. But there's more to the story t...

Cast out from the clockwork island of Ironhold, where mechanical technology controls everything, Orin Crowfall finds himself adrift on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. As Orin and his robot friend Cody struggle to make sense of the events that brought them here, the one thing they know for sure is that Ironhold is in trouble. They need to get back, whatever the cost. Plagued by perilous seas and freak storms, and with a terrifying sea monster on their tail, Orin soon realises their...

The landmark description by Delay and Deniker in 1952 of chlorpromazine's effect in psychosis suddenly eclipsed all other progress in psychopharmacology over the previous centuries. Since this report 35 years ago, a vast amount of research has contributed to the major advances in treatment that have improved the lives of millions of patients who would otherwise be incapacitated by their psychiatric disorders. This research has also led to valuable new insights into the causes of mental ill...

Left unreconciled, the stories of our past will become the harbingers of our future.Nick Jacob’s father meant the world to him. Murdered during an apparent robbery, the loss of his only mentor, friend, and idol left a crimson stain on the pure fabric of Nick’s teenage life. Carrying the unimaginable burden of grief into his thirties, the haunting events of the past stir a new sensation deep inside of him. Fueled by anger and a sense of injustice, he begins a dark c...

Daily lessons and meditations on how to detach from other people's expectations and discover a life of balance and freedom.Do you ever feel like you give other people too much power over what you think and feel? Does how your mate or child or employer treat you make or break your day? Do you find yourself feeling immobilized by other people's expectations and demands? These are the classic indicators of codependence. And the only solution to codependence is detachm...

The Handsome Man is a collection of linked stories that follow several years of the life of a young man as he is drawn around the world: from Toronto to Montreal, New York, Ohio, New Mexico, British Columbia, Berlin, Rome, and Northern Ontario, along the way meeting hippies, healers, drinkers, movie stars, old friends, and welcoming strangers. He isn't travelling, however; he's running away. But as far and fast as he runs, the world won't let him disappear, and each new encounter ...

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Cîteaux in 1113. In 1115 he became the founding abbot of Clairvaux Abbey, whence his name, Bernard of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard was a gifted and prolific writer of theological treatises, Scriptural commentaries, letters, and many sermons. The sermons in the collection published here, styled Sermones de diversis (Sermons about Various Topics), lack the specific point of departure that char...

The Kurdish Republic, equipped with revolutionary GOG armored combat suits, has survived invasion and avoided nuclear annihilation. But now the wider world is taking notice, and international forces conspire to not only crush the Kurdish military, but to eradicate the GOGs themselves.One young infantry soldier arrives at a quiet border post, only to find herself fighting a massive mercenary army. Two GOGs executing a deep reconnaissance discover the Republic faces overwhelming odds...

“For fans of Tom Clancy and John Ringo, edge-of-your-seat near-future military science fiction with the verisimilitude that you'd expect from historian Fawcett and special-ops pilot Moores. Get set for a pulse-pounding adventure that hinges on plausible technology and a deep understanding of our precarious world situation.” — Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Oppenheimer AlternativeThanks to the General Ordnance Garment, or “GOG” combat suits, the Kurdish ...

Strong-willed Caitriona "Cait" Hayden has difficulty finding her place in her world – 22nd Century sovereign America, where women are expected to be seen and not heard. After her powerful uncle dies, she is faced with an impossible situation that could have drastic consequences. All the while, she has to choose between three suitors. Theo, a dragon, is bound to protect her. Dante, a brilliant demigod, questions his dedication to knowledge over love when he meets Cait. Corrin, America's Kin...

War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of troops with perhaps a future force increase proposed by the Trump administration, the role of landpower in US grand strategy will continue to evolve with changi...