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Professionals in the treatment of substance abuse have long recognized the dismal success rate in addressing this pervasive problem. A fresh view of addiction may offer long-sought answers. Intervention and treatment strategies can be made more effective, maintains veteran addiction educator and psychologist Gary L. Fisher, through identification of addict subtypes. That is the goal of "Understanding Why Addicts Are Not All Alike: Recognizing the Types and How Their Differences Affect Intervention and Treatment."

The book provides an in-depth, research-based analysis of three specific...

Open the Door to GIS guides you through a set of stories that will teach you how to use the most popular Open Source Geographic Information System available---QGIS. This book is recommended for students age 10--15 years.

You'll learn how to:

• Operate new software
• Design a digital map
• Generate a 3D map
• Communicate with maps
• Advance your creativity with a graphics package
• Invent solutions using software
• Successfully manage working as a group
• Develop a learning strategy for approaching new software
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Geographic Information Systems are a compelling way to present data as well as offering a learning platform for students to become proficient with a variety of digital, graphical, analytical and technical skills.

Open the Door to GIS offers a way for teachers to use this powerful software in their classes without having to become experts, with freely downloadable Open-Source GIS, QGIS.

Using one of the oldest forms of teaching in the world, storytelling, each chapter offers students a fun and engaging way to learn about GIS, with a weekly story and activity, covering...

The National Drug Control Policy has failed its two major functions (supply reduction and demand reduction) due to faulty assumptions regarding nearly every aspect of the alcohol and drug fields, charges author Fisher. Yet in spite of overwhelming evidence of this failure policy makers have strongly resisted discussing major changes to the assumptions that underly current policy, because of political pressure, bias and philosophical intransigence, he adds. Fisher discusses controversial topics and defends uncommon approaches in chapters focused on subjects including legalization, harm...

Grace at the Gate is one of those very rare treats, mixing historical accounts into a wonderful love story that crosses though time. Some of history's most colorful characters come back to life, Buffalo Bill Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, and Mark Twain, all make appearances in the story, even the Wright Brothers first manned flight occurs as the tale unfolds through the eyes of star-crossed lovers Charlie and Grace. A story so wonderfully real you won't be able to put it down