E-Books

Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment: Working with Family Members By Jane Ellen Smith, Robert J. Meyers
2004 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 1593850522 | PDF | 2 MB
Filling a crucial need, this book presents Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), a time- and cost-effective therapy program oriented to individuals who want to motivate a loved one to seek help. The authors' nonconfrontational approach teaches concerned significant others (CSOs) how to change their own behavior in order to reward sobriety, discourage substance use, and ultimately to help get the substance abuser into treatment. The CSO also gains valuable skills for problem solving and self-care. Step-by-step instructions for implementing CRAFT are accompanied by helpful case examples and reproducibles.

Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots By Joel Chestnutt (auth.), Kensuke Harada, Eiichi Yoshida, Kazuhito Yokoi (eds.)
2010 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 1849962197 | PDF | 16 MB
Research on humanoid robots has been mostly with the aim of developing robots that can replace humans in the performance of certain tasks. Motion planning for these robots can be quite difficult, due to their complex kinematics, dynamics and environment. It is consequently one of the key research topics in humanoid robotics research and the last few years have witnessed considerable progress in the field. Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots surveys the remarkable recent advancement in both the theoretical and the practical aspects of humanoid motion planning. Various motion planning frameworks are presented in Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots, including one for skill coordination and learning, and one for manipulating and grasping tasks. The problem of planning sequences of contacts that support acyclic motion in a highly constrained environment is addressed and a motion planner that enables a humanoid robot to push an object to a desired location on a cluttered table is described. The main areas of interest include: * whole body motion planning, * task planning, * biped gait planning, and * sensor feedback for motion planning. Torque-level control of multi-contact behavior, autonomous manipulation of moving obstacles, and movement control and planning architecture are also covered. Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots will help readers to understand the current research on humanoid motion planning. It is written for industrial engineers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Most Common Academic Words, Part 1 (A to F): Master 200 Essential Academic Vocabulary Terms
English | 28 May 2025 | ASIN: B0FB9LFCGK | 147 pages | EPUB (True) | 219.31 KB
Improve your academic English with 200 of the most common words. My goal is to help you expand your academic English vocabulary and to be able to speak, read, and write more fluently. Improve your confidence when studying at an English-speaking college or talking to colleagues from other countries. Pick up a copy of the book today if you want to... Have 200 common words for academic English at your fingertips. See how they are used in real life. Improve your academic English. Speak English fluently and confidently. Have some fun while learning English vocabulary. Improve your TOEFL, TOEIC, or IELTS score. Understand more of what's happening around you at college or university. Gain some confidence with speaking in class or to your professors. Let's face it, academic English can be difficult to master, even for the best students. In this book, you'll find hundreds of academic English words that are commonly used at colleges, universities, and conferences around the world. You'll find a simple explanation for each word and have a chance to put into practice what you've learned. Answers are included so that you can easily check your progress. Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary skills in no time at all! Get your copy of Most Common Academic Words, Part 1 (A to F) today!

Mortimer's A to Zs of English History by Ian Mortimer
English | 21 Oct. 2025 | ISBN: 1913083675, 9781913083687 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 7.98 MB
In these sparkling A to Zs, time-travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency.

Sérgio Padrão Fernandes, "More than Buildings "
English | ISBN: 103280078X | 2025 | 232 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a function), the territory where it is integrated and with time and the way in which built forms evolve.

Jack Santucci, "More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America"
English | ISBN: 0197630650 | 2022 | 248 pages | MOBI | 3 MB
Americans want electoral reforms so that they can have more choice in elections. Recent surveys show that 20 to 50 percent of Americans are open to a new electoral system, while demand for a third party has crept upward since Gallup began asking in 2003. More Americans now call themselves "independent" than identify with either of the major parties, but what happens when Americans try to reform their way out of a two-party system?

Jack Santucci, "More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America"
English | ISBN: 0197630650 | 2022 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Americans want electoral reforms so that they can have more choice in elections. Recent surveys show that 20 to 50 percent of Americans are open to a new electoral system, while demand for a third party has crept upward since Gallup began asking in 2003. More Americans now call themselves "independent" than identify with either of the major parties, but what happens when Americans try to reform their way out of a two-party system?

Moralizing International Relations: Called to Account (Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy) By Ariel Colonomos (Author), Chris Turner (Translator)
2008 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0230600395 | PDF | 2 MB
The end of the cold war politics and the fall of the Berlin wall have had major ethical consequences. In the 90s Ethics have become a rallying point for non-state actors and experts who gather around values and norms in order to oblige institutions to justify their behavior. This process is the result of different changes, the transformation of the international system, the individualization of Western societies and the growing importance of expertise in the justification of decisions in risk adverse societies. Along with the globalization of the economy and the formation of new political coalitions, global ethics are the pillar of our era of international 'turbulence'.

Morality in Discourse (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Michael Haugh, Rosina Márquez-Reiter
English | December 31, 2024 | ISBN: 0197618065 | 312 pages | MOBI | 3.41 Mb
Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is socially constructed in and through discourse, and the implications of this for the empirical analysis and theorization of morality. The volume addresses both how morality gets done through everyday practices, as well as the practical concerns that discussions of morality inevitably entail. It does so by delving into how morality is socially constructed in an array of communicative environments through the lens of a range of different discourse analytic traditions. Drawing on the conceptual tools of moral stance, positioning, responsiveness and authority, the chapters address the ways in which morality is enacted, interactionally negotiated, contested and policed. What emerges from these discussions and analyses is an understanding of morality from a discursive perspective that encompasses both morality as action, in which moral stances become the articulated object of action, and moral framing, in which the situated context itself is morally charged for evaluation.

Moral Autopsy: Truths, Secrets, and the Judicial Afterlives of Communist Secret Service Archives
by Saygun Gökarıksel
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009653792 | 351 Pages | PDF | 2.93 MB