Bøger af Charles Atkins

Step into a vivid odyssey of green resistance within urban landscapes with Special Report: Growing Together: How Community Gardens are Reshaping our Cities. This comprehensive exploration escorts you through an enchanting journey showing how shared spaces fill hearts, and build communities, acting as living metaphors of resilience.From the hustle and bustle of New York to the arterial streets of Tokyo, city-dwellers around the world are turning to community gardens as a response to urbanization's challenges. They breathe life into empty lots, encourage biodiversity, combat isolation, and form close-knit communities, setting the stage for a healthier, more sustainable urban living.This isn't just about the transformation of seeds into towering sunflowers or abandoned lots into lush edens, but a very human story. A story about the power of community, about the shared experience of creating and nurturing something beautiful. It's about us. It's about you.Track the historical journey of community gardens, learning how we got here.Get inspired by case studies of successful community gardens worldwide.Glean practical insights on arranging your own community garden, making this green revolution accessible and practicable.Explore the environmental, social, and political impacts of these eco-friendly havens, understanding their importance beyond just the aesthetic.In the hands of Charles Atkins, garden enthusiast and expert urban agriculturist, this topic transcends the mundane to become a rallying cry for urban revitalization. Join us on this fruitful journey, and be inspired to sow the seeds of change at your own doorstep.Be part of the solution. Discover the world enhanced by community gardens.

Clearly, someone is unhappy with the status quo as high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome--yet fitting--ways. When a severed finger shows up at the Friday night auction, unlikely heroines Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss have to wonder--where's the rest of the body? A question that leads to festering small-town secrets, and the unraveling of a mystery that shows all is not well in a town famed for its postcard perfect New England charm. For Lil and Ada, long-time friends and neighbors, the murders take a personal turn as unspeakable accusations are raised against Lil's dead husband and she becomes the focus of the killer's rage. And to make things worse--or better--the two friends are forced to confront powerful feelings for one another that threaten their idyllic lives.

Forensic psychiatrist Barrett Conyors is back.Barrett Conyors finds the discovery of the bodies of two heroin-addicted teens particularly hard to accept. Barrett's convinced that chief suspect Jerod, a homeless schizophrenic, didn't do it but she's the only one, apart from Detective Ed Hobbs, who is. But even Hobbs can't stop Barrett from following a complex trail of drugs and death that places her in the cross hairs of a killer...

TV presenting proves dangerous, when Ada and her partner Lil become involved in a new antiques show and get sucked into a morass of lies, secrets and murder . . . Barry Stromstein has a serious problem. If he can't come up with a concept for a new TV antiques show asap, his terrifying boss - TV sensation Lenore Parks - will fire him, and his perfect life will be over. But when he talks to antiques columnist Lil Campbell, he unexpectedly hits pay dirt. Her partner, Ada Strauss, not only suggests the perfect hook for the show, but is the perfect woman to host it. Ada's elated, but production of The Final Reckoning seems blighted before it's even begun when, shockingly, Leonore dies. But Barry seems strangely determined to continue, and as Lenore's children - the unsettling Rachel and her beloved older brother Richard - become involved, the pilot episode becomes increasingly ghoulish in tone. Ada's enjoying herself - really, she is - but as she and Lil are drawn deeper into the lives and affairs of the Parks, they begin to suspect that there are dark, twisted secrets at the heart of the family, and very real danger for them all . . .

Lilian Campbell and her best friend and lover, Ada Strauss, are woken early by the sound of sirens: the local nursing home, Nillewaug Village, is ablaze. The police and fire chiefs find evidence to suggest the fire was accidental, but Detective Mattie Perez can't help but wonder why the smoke alarms didn't work. Soon, it's looking less like accident and more like arson . . . and Lil and Ada are swept up into an investigation that grows increasingly more complex, and frightening, by the hour.

A must-have clinical resource that should have a place on every clinicians' shelf - now in a fully revised and updated second edition! Dr. Charles Atkins, board-certified psychiatrist, addictions specialist, and clinical trainer, brings the latest on effective treatment and recovery with Co-Occurring Disorders: A Whole-Person Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use and Mental Disorders (2nd edition). Written in his signature straightforward style and packed with accessible clinical tools, it serves as a navigation guide through the complexities of co-occurring disorders, providing clarity where many clinicians find themselves stuck. This book is a must-have resource for the rubber-meets-the-road clinician, as well as the educators who train them. Now in its second edition, it covers: · The latest research on health and wellness interventions· New comprehensive case studies· Tools from evidence-based treatment models, including:o Motivational interviewingo Cognitive-behavioral strategieso Skills trainingo Mutual self-help & peer-based interventionso Mindfulness trainingo Recovery based strategieso Family interventionso Assertive community treatment and targeted case managemento Psychopharmacology including opioid and nicotine replacement strategies

Lilian Campbell and her best friend and lover, Ada Strauss, are woken early by the sound of sirens: the local nursing home, Nillewaug Village, is ablaze. The police and fire chiefs find evidence to suggest the fire was accidental, but Detective Mattie Perez can't help but wonder why the smoke alarms didn't work.

When a severed finger shows up at the Friday night auction, unlikely heroines Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss have to wonder - where's the rest of the body? A question that leads to festering small-town secrets, and the unraveling of a mystery that shows all is not well in a town famed for its postcard perfect New England charm.