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Politics/Soc.
Reviews of books dealing with politics, either historical or present, as well as any societal themes or issues.
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
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Return To Equilibrium: The Proceedings of the 7th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
Much discussion follows disasters and critical incidents about returning to normal, but "normal" is never the same again. "Return to Equilibrium", involving integrating the event, its effects, meanings and recognition it's part of one's life can build a new balance and create a new enriched life. Good or bad, experience changes us.......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
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Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers: An Introduction
This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. It helps prepare them to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. Warning signs and symptoms are explored together with stages, strategies and interventions for recovery.......
Author
George W. Doherty, MS, LPC
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
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Taking Charge in Troubled Times: Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of major disasters, critical incidents and other events that have had major impacts on our world. The 2004 tsunami, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect millions of lives daily.......
Author
Richard Hobbs
Publisher
ColDoc Publishing
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World War IV and Beyond: Islamofascism, the Third Jihad, and other threats to the USA
This hard hitting book is a Wake Up Call for America. We have been in this war for 30 years already and it will be a long war.......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
5 Review Copies Left
From Crisis to Recovery: Strategic Planning for Response, Resilience, and Recovery
Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready?
Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily.......
Author
Liane Phillips & Echo Montgomery Garrett
Publisher
aha! Process, Inc.
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Why Don't They Just Get a Job? One Couple's Mission to End Poverty in Their Community
Why Don't They Just Get a Job? describes the journey and the incredible results of Dave and Liane Phillips' efforts to help those in poverty find their way to self sufficiency. Under the premise that existing job-readiness programs only focus on job placement and not retention, Dave and Liane Phillips created a poverty to economic self-sufficiency program with an 80.......
Author
Mike Smith
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
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Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather
Experience the most devastating storms of the last fifty years through the eyes of the scientific visionaries who took them on and tamed them.
For decades, the author, a pioneering meteorologist, has dedicated himself to saving lives by combining science, experience, and instinct.......
Author
Editor: Stephanie Marohn
Publisher
Elite Books
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Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change
For millennia, woman have been without a strong leadership voice in human affairs. No more! Women are now in positions of power in every branch of government, business, and social organization. They are providing a new style of collaborative and visionary leadership, which is changing the way society functions.......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
5 Review Copies Left
Being There When It Counts: The Proceedings of the 8th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
Will You Be There When it Counts?
"Being There When It Counts" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before, during and following disasters, critical incidents, crises, and terrorist activities.......
Author
Peter Weddle
Publisher
WEDDLE's
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The Career Activist Republic
Former Wall Street Journal columnist and current CEO of the International Association of Employment Web Sites, Peter Weddle, has penned a provocative rebuttal to Free Agent Nation. Called The Career Activist Republic, it describes a new state of mind emerging in the U.S. today.......
Author
Jay S. Levy
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing
On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?
"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto night watchman at Port Authority; Ben who claims to be a p.......
Author
Issam Jameel
Publisher
Modern History Press
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Iraq Through A Bullet Hole: A Civilian Wikileaks
A unique on-the-ground account of a country shattered
Iraqi playwright Issam Jameel returned to Iraq after a 12-year exile. Giving up the relative safety of Jordan, he made a perilous journey to Baghdad for a reunion.......
Author
Wayne Thorburn
Publisher
Jameson Books, Inc.
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A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement
Founded in 1960, Young Americans for Freedom was the national conservative youth organization for more than 30 years. YAF helped forge the conservative movement into a force that seized control of a party, elected one of their own to the presidency, and in the process changed the world.......
Author
David E. Bloch
Publisher
David E. Bloch
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The Elite Idolaters: A Real Michigan FOIA Case
This book is about the Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Michigan Child Protection Law (CPL), the judges of Michigan's Court of Appeals (COA) and 7th Circuit Court, and officials at Davison Community Schools (DCS).......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
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Crisis in the American Heartland: Disasters & Mental Health in Rural Environments -- An Introduction (Volume 1)
Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?
Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers.......
Author
John Cooker
Publisher
Spin Doctor Press
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Cure Your Democracy: The Infection, Spread and Treatment of Contagious Opinions
There's an epidemic sweeping across America but no one's taking it seriously. The infected look like normal Americans, at first, but then they open their mouths and foreign words leap out known only to inhabitants of their special nation: left coaster, mama grizzly, Obamacare, drill baby drill; or neocon, glass ceiling, teabagger, I didn't inhale.......
Author
Jay S. Levy
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned
From the author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways:
Jay S. Levy brings us a new educational resource entitled Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned. This monograph features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of life considerations, a new story entitled "Ronald's Narrat.......
Author
Guy Herman
Publisher
Sextant Pocket Press
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Till Debt Do Us Part
The laws of thermodynamics state categorically, evolution did not contemplate democracy, and despite our infatuation with its promise, it is one of the least effective and most wasteful deployments of our clearly finite and put upon planetary resource.......
