Bøger af Michael O'Brien

For more than 80 years this unique short atlas has been the go-to guide to the examination of patients with lesions of the peripheral nerves and nerve roots - appreciated by generations of students and experienced practitioners alike. First published in its original form in 1943 and updated in its sixth edition by highly respected author Michael O''Brien, this book is the perfect companion for all those involved or caring for patients with peripheral nerve injuries and other neuromuscular disorders. It covers mononeuropathies, peripheral nerve lesions, examination techniques and anatomy of the peripheral nervous system, all illustrated with excellent diagrams and high-quality photographs. Aids to the Examination of the Peripheral Nervous System now comes with the complete electronic version for the first time, for easy anytime, anywhere access. Illustrated with exceptionally clear photographs, accompanied by simple anatomical diagrams to aid comprehension Useful tables of the innervation of muscles and the muscle and cutaneous distribution of peripheral nerves Updated to reflect latest changes in nomenclature New diagrams and illustrations, including of the spine and spinal nerve roots, male inguinal region and female perineum Summary table of the common compression and entrapment mononeuropathies, with sites now indicated on the nerve diagrams Access to the complete, enhanced eBook version - makes quick reference easier than ever for busy students and practitioners

What makes magic so much fun to watch? Is it the compelling story, the sense of wonder it creates, or perhaps even the beautiful ballet of cards that the magician brings to life? To be honest, all of these things are correct. Magic is an art form and like any art form it depends on what kinds of emotions it evokes from its viewers. The ability to make a spectator's imagination run wild as they witness these impossible miracles taking place in the palm of their own hands is what truly makes magic such a wonderful experience. At the end of the day it is how a spectator feels that will make them remember this moment forever. "The Imagine Nation Project" is a collection of 31 close-up magic effects that are designed to evoke a sense of wonder and excitement from your viewers whilst leaving them with an experience that they will be telling their family and friends about for years to come. Join magician Michael O'Brien on a journey through the imagination and discover what it is that makes magic so captivating. Learn some new sleights, techniques and build some new gimmicks that will take your magic to the next level. Deep down we all have a child's sense of wonder just waiting to be discovered. It is your job as the conjurer to inspire your audience to take a step back from reality and truly enjoy this magical experience.

You may be asking yourself, "What exactly makes these tricks easy to master?" The effects in this book are what you call "self working card tricks". This simply means that there is no sleight of hand or skill required to be able to perform these amazing card miracles. The mathematics of the tricks themselves do all of the work for you so that you can focus on your story and presentation. In this book are 13 fun and easy to perform card effects that will mystify and amaze you family, friends, or clients. This book is the perfect place to start if you are a beginner. Never held a deck of cards before in your life? Guess what, you can still do all of the tricks in this book!!! This is a collection of some of my versions of the tricks I loved growing up and helped me fall in love with performing magic. I cannot wait to share these with you so sit back, relax, grab a deck and lets get started!

Make a living doing what you love. How to Magish is the magician's guide that will take you from amateur to professional virtually over night. In a refreshingly simple how-to guide, Michael O'Brien spreads out 3 chapters helping you to: -Create stunning magic that wows your audience and has clients calling you. -Get consistent business without spending a cent on advertising and marketing. -Instantly go from hit or miss hobbyist to paid professional. By the end of How to Magish, you'll understand how to create mind-blowing magic, how to maximize free online resources to generate an abundance of paid gigs, and how to make money appear IN your pockets instead of vanishing through your thumb tips.

The #1 New Release in Practice Management!Learn the secrets to success from one of the most successful independent addiction counselors. Addiction Private Practice is a comprehensive business plan for addiction counselors and therapists who want to effectively and safely help clients with substance abuse problems in a private office setting. Michael O'Brien will help you to break free of the shackles of addiction treatment programs, earn the income you deserve, achieve your true potential, and help more people with substance use disorders than you ever imagined possible.Already in Private Practice? Michael O'Brien's informed strategies, processes, and best practices will help you take your practice to the next level or refocus your existing practice to serve those with substance abuse disorders. In this definitive guide, you will learn: The fundamental components of a successful, ethical, and safe addiction practice.Everything you need to know to get started with very minimal start-up capital.The best practices of a successful addiction practice.How to effectively and ethically market your services.Michael O'Brien has negotiated discounts and free access to tools and services that will save you thousands of dollars when launching your practice and allow you to get started with very little capital. Turn self-doubt into confidence and join the revolution that is occurring in the addiction treatment industry!What other counselors are saying about Addiction Private Practice: "Michael O'Brien has not only literally written the book on achieving success in addiction private practice, but he is also living proof that it is possible. His bulletproof addiction practice model is easy to understand and execute, even for those who are not technologically savvy. Any competent counselor can use this book to achieve their desired success. He is selflessly handing his proven strategies to his future competition and propelling the profession forward! This is a huge leap forward for all addiction professionals." Sherrie Rager, Ph.D., CADC II, M-RAS, CCDS"Addiction counselors have been waiting for this ground-breaking work! Clear, concise, and expert guidance in launching a private practice. Michael takes the guesswork out of building, marketing, and managing a successful addiction practice. There are many books on starting a private practice, but none are dedicated to the specific needs of addiction counselors. Even if you are already in private practice, this book is worth reading. The processes, marketing wisdom, and business model will boost your existing practice." Christopher Wellington, LAADC"If you intend to start a private practice, you must read this book. You'll discover many insights that will benefit your business and your clients. Michael's model sets a new standard for best practices in addiction private practice. His step-by-step instructions are easy to implement and understand. Don't start a practice without it!" Nelu Zia, LAADC, SAP"Addiction Private Practice has been monumental in helping me start my practice. This book lays out step-by-step how to get started, maintain, and continue to thrive in private practice. By following Michael's strategies, I was able to obtain eight clients in a matter of weeks! His knowledge and strategies work. As a substance abuse counselor, without this information and guidance, I may never have gone into private practice." Bryan Vasquez, CAT-C III

This instructional guide has one aim: to teach inexperienced astrophotographers how to take high quality images. Often, basic information about astrophotography is lacking, or is dealt with too briefly in books on the subject. This book is a distillation of the author¿s own experiences, bringing together everything you will need to make the fastest possible progress in deep-sky imaging. The book will teach you how to set up and use your astrophotography equipment in a systematic, easy-to-follow manner, helping you get started while avoiding common mistakes. With a step-by-step walk-through course and a unique observational guide to each object, the book contains a plethora of valuable, beginner-friendly information. Particularly useful is the chapter on troubleshooting, which will help newcomers avoid further frustration when things just don¿t seem to go right! The book also contains a number of easy to advanced DIY projects for imagers working on a budget.

Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. The prize-winning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.

Published to widespread critical acclaim, Vince has been called: "the definitive biography" of an American legend. With stunning revelations and anecdotes, Vince Lombardi's life is pieced together with painstaking care in research, detail, and historical accuracy. Based on more than two hundred interviews, including those who played with him and against him, from his early coaching days at St. Cecilia High School in New Jersey to West Point, the New York Giants, and his championship seasons with the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. Drawing upon unpublished Lombardi family papers, Vince clarifies the thirty years of mystery and contradiction that have swirled around the legend of Vince Lombardi.Vince goes beyond the sidelines to reveal the true character of Lombardi. He was dedicated and narrow, intelligent and dogmatic, self-restrained yet emotional, abusive yet apologetic. His moods could swing from deep gloom to soaring exuberance in seconds. He was compassionate, kind, charitable. He could also be gripped by uncontrollable anger. Above all, Vince paints a portrait of a very human man who committed his life to winning.

Michael O'Brien was a victim of a miscarriage of justice over a murder in Cardiff. He was driven to discover more about the many notorious and dubious convictions made in south Wales over a period of thirty years. This is the shocking result of his research into fifteen cases, and the Miscarriage of Justice Unit in the South Wales Police Force.

Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases. The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice and explains the unjust Texas 'law of parties.'

This is the story of a man who researched his family tree only to find it had been growing in a forest full of unusual life.His family began arriving in Sydney, Australia in 1839, whether by choice or by the order of an overworked judge. Either way, they left their old ways (and sometimes, spouses) behind and began a new life (sometimes with new spouses).While the O'Brien and Kingdom families had their share of interesting people, so did life around them. There were heroes, villains, brilliant minds, and utter morons. There was thrilling entertainment (until television arrived), political shenanigans, sporting successes and complete failures. There were some extraordinary stories in some extraordinary times.With a dry sense of humour and the odd tear in his eye, Michael O'Brien tells the tale of his family and the world they lived in. It is funny, it is sad, it is tragic, it is triumphant.It is their story … and it is history.

The Pee Pee Tape: The Book is the book adaptation of the infamous Donald Trump Pee Pee Tape. The Pee Pee Tape: The Book is the world''s first look at what really happened with Donald Trump and sex workers in the Presidential Suite of the Moscow Ritz-Carlton back in 2013 .

The Idea of the American South moves the debate over Southern identity from speculative essays about the "central themeof Southern history and, by implication, past the restricted perception that race relations are a sufficient key to understanding the history of Southern identity.

Drawn from the notebooks he kept over the course of forty years, A Pillow-Book provides a welcome opportunity to listen in on the conversation poet Michael O’Brien maintained with the world in all its ravishing and rebarbative complexity. That world includes the writers he most valued, the art he practiced so devotedly, the painters and filmmakers that stirred him, the nation that sometimes confounded him, and the city he moved through with such unstinting regard.Consisting primarily of brief passages gleaned from his reading, further enriched by his own observations and commentary, A Pillow-Book captures all the intelligence, subtlety, and wit so manifest in O’Brien’s poems. Michael O’Brien’s A Pillow-Book is a kind of blueprint or x-ray of the sensibility of one of recent poetry’s neglected masters. Unpredictable, quirky, chock-a-block with coruscating insights that are completely individual and revelatory. A treasure.                                              —August Kleinzahler Michael O’Brien was a writer of meditative wit, generous spirit, and a powerful receptiveness to the most fleeting juxtapositions and suggestions. His poetry—spare, rigorous, preternaturally alert, and still profoundly underestimated—found large perspectives in the most minute phenomena, music in the accidental encounters of overheard conversations and other floating signifiers, biographies and social histories in intercepted gestures and stances. A Pillow-Book extracts another kind of music from his reading over many years, and from the dazzling commentary it drew from him. It is a privilege to share, in this oblique fashion, Michael’s astute and endlessly curious intellectual companionship.                        —Geoffrey O’Brien      

Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.

Imagined by one of the world's foremost JFK scholars, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of America's most glamorous and mythologised president.

Current and future managers are regularly confronted with decisions that create risk in the legal environment of business. This book provides a framework for qualifying legal risk and then determining if the legal risk is worth taking. This framework begins by looking at the relationship between the firm, its suppliers, customers, owners, agents, and others in society as a whole to understand specific risks in personal injury, agreements, products, borrowing money, employees, independent contractors, and business entity selection. When the manager is aware of the magnitude of the risk and the likelihood of the risk, the manager is in a strong position to determine if the risk is worth taking. This book uses numerous applications from Game Theory to determine how risks of the firm compare to risks of another firm, an employee, a vendor and a customer.Students of business law will appreciate the black letter legal discussions of civil procedure, torts, contracts, the sale of goods, secured transactions, agency, and business associations with tax implications. Aspiring accounting students will find familiarity with many topics that appear on the AICPA exam. Managers will gravitate toward specific guidance with regard to setting up agreements with customers and vendors, creating effective human relations policies, and mitigating firm risks with regard to internal and external stakeholders. Dozens of managers provided input and experience that found its way into the selection of examples in the book ensuring real-world application for many practical business law problems.

With twenty-three new portraits, including John Graves, Rickard Linklater, Joel Osteen, and Cat Osterman, as well as updated profiles of all of the subjects, here is the face of Texas captured in the faces of noteworthy Texans by one of America's premier

Noted John F. Kennedy historian O'Brien has distilled the findings of his heavily detailed biography of a few years ago into a compact life that touches on all the important issues and incorporates the findings and judgments of major works since the president's death.