Robert Rice

Cliff Notes is a true story of survival in the Adirondack Mountains. When the family dog falls onto a small ledge on the side of a towering mountain cliff, the owner finds himself clinging for life and waiting for a helicopter rescue. While there, he contemplates life, nature, discomfort, and a seemingly mystical series of experiences. Written by a professor of mental health counseling, Cliff Notes speaks to every person's inner need to feel part of something greater. It provides useful insight on emerging concepts that have the potential to positively impact our mental health. Nature is trying to show us the way. It isn't necessary to fall off a cliff to see it, but it helps.

These days 'nature poetry' is often disparaged as irrelevant in modern society with the presumption that poets should be writing poems about humans: our suffering, our problems, our wars, prejudices, and injustices. In our culture of money, nature is mostly devalued as scenery or as an exploitable resource, a place to cut timber, extract minerals, and divert water for manufacturing. These powerful and accessible poems of loss and praise view nature as a resource-to assist in our awakening. They challenge us to find the spiritual in the everyday, the sacred in the secular. They examine the natural world as a local expression of the cosmos. By exploring mountains and rivers they move toward a fusion with the geography of our inner world, showing that in the mindfulness created by our experiences of nature lies our best hope of addressing human problems. As well as notes from the wilderness they include news from the edge of consciousness, wintry prayers, and the happiness of the ordinary, even within the context of ecological peril. These are poems with an intricate sense of our connection to the natural world for a disconnected time. "Poetry, for me, is an instrument of investigation and a mode of perception, a way of knowing and feeling both self and world...I am interested in poems that find a clarity without simplicity; in a way of thinking and speaking that does not exclude complexity but also does not obscure; in poems that know the world in many ways at once-heart, mind, voice, and body." -Jane Hirshfield, judge of the 2024 Wildhouse Poetry Chapbook Contest

A complete guide to load path calculations in complex structures-fully updated for current practices and regulationsThis thoroughly revised guide shows, step by step examples, how to calculate load paths—including for wind and seismic forces—in complicated structures. Written by a team of seasoned structural engineers and a certified building official, The Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures: Wood Diaphragms and Shear Walls, Second Edition contains clear explanations of current topics, including cross laminated timber (CLT). You will get thorough coverage of newly developed structure types and new design solutions. The book has been overhauled to reflect the most recent codes and standards, including ASCE 7-16, 2021 IBC, and 2021 SDPWS.Comprehensive coverage includes:Code sections and analysisDiaphragm basicsDiaphragms with intermediate offsetsDiaphragms with vertical offsetsDiaphragms with openingsOpen front, cantilever diaphragmsComplex diaphragms with combined offsets and openingsStandard shear wallsShear walls with openingsDiscontinuous and offset shear wallsThe portal frameCLT diaphragmsCLT shear wallsAnd much more

Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today’s youth.Using concepts from narrative, collaborative, cognitive behavioral, and other evidenced-based approaches to psychotherapy, the book gives examples of possible therapist questions, responses, and activities involving language and concepts that are appealing to young gamers. Addressing issues with psychophysiological self-regulation, anxiety disorders, and autism spectrum disorders, among others, this book uses multiple case examples to demonstrate each idea and is written in a way that is understandable for all mental health providers, regardless of their own familiarity with gaming. A review of over 40 popular video games with specific ideas for their use in psychotherapy is provided, allowing mental health providers to easily individualize therapy based on client goals and gaming preferences. Concepts for individual and group psychotherapy using games and interactive media, ranging from Pac Man to virtual reality, are also covered.Providing the reader with useful templates, worksheets, and other therapy resources, this book is a must-have for mental health providers working with children, adolescents, and transition-age youth.

Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today’s youth.Using concepts from narrative, collaborative, cognitive behavioral, and other evidenced-based approaches to psychotherapy, the book gives examples of possible therapist questions, responses, and activities involving language and concepts that are appealing to young gamers. Addressing issues with psychophysiological self-regulation, anxiety disorders, and autism spectrum disorders, among others, this book uses multiple case examples to demonstrate each idea and is written in a way that is understandable for all mental health providers, regardless of their own familiarity with gaming. A review of over 40 popular video games with specific ideas for their use in psychotherapy is provided, allowing mental health providers to easily individualize therapy based on client goals and gaming preferences. Concepts for individual and group psychotherapy using games and interactive media, ranging from Pac Man to virtual reality, are also covered.Providing the reader with useful templates, worksheets, and other therapy resources, this book is a must-have for mental health providers working with children, adolescents, and transition-age youth.

The book is a THRILLER book with the introduction of Humanoid Robots. Bad guys use the Robots to destroy the economy in America. The story goes in many different directions. The last chapter will surprise you. Good reading.

My book is about how men from different countries hate each other because of their beliefs. Imperialism, color, and religion often give way to this hate that leads to the killing of millions of humans. My book is a thriller with the introduction of humanoid robots. This novel takes you from Florida to Afghanistan and back again. ENJOY

A different perspective of life has humans the author of their own destiny with life's organic evolution instead of having been born with unchangeable construct but with a clean slate with the ability and freedom at the creation of one's own engagement in the evolution of living. Instead of qualifying a human being with concept such as faults and qualities which he or she inherited at birth a human being is born with potentiality at becoming a person he or she chooses to be. I am not referring here to choice of profession or trade which surely refers to aptitudes but to the quality of one's life.Freedom has to do with becoming or being what we are as individuals not as a group although our manners, jobs and taste share common characteristics to our milieu we nonetheless are unique and different in various ways from other members of our group. If freedom is reached partly or wholly when we attain that which make us unique it follows that indiscriminate conformity to values and norms extrinsic to our real self may become a serious obstacle to the attainment of this goal.It is one thing to know of teachings and precepts and another to be restricted by them in one's preferences and alternatives. Unless each action or decision is treated as a new experience requiring as well a novel decision there is an unstructured or unplanned act. We are relentlessly and unconsciously mandated to apply tutored values without question. Self reliance is something of a sin. It is easier to copy others and not not fret about becoming one self.

A different perspective of life has humans the author of their own destiny with life's organic evolution instead of having been born with unchangeable construct but with a clean slate with the ability and freedom at the creation of one's own engagement in the evolution of living. Instead of qualifying a human being with concept such as faults and qualities which he or she inherited at birth a human being is born with potentiality at becoming a person he or she chooses to be. I am not referring here to choice of profession or trade which surely refers to aptitudes but to the quality of one's life.Freedom has to do with becoming or being what we are as individuals not as a group although our manners, jobs and taste share common characteristics to our milieu we nonetheless are unique and different in various ways from other members of our group. If freedom is reached partly or wholly when we attain that which make us unique it follows that indiscriminate conformity to values and norms extrinsic to our real self may become a serious obstacle to the attainment of this goal.It is one thing to know of teachings and precepts and another to be restricted by them in one's preferences and alternatives. Unless each action or decision is treated as a new experience requiring as well a novel decision there is an unstructured or unplanned act. We are relentlessly and unconsciously mandated to apply tutored values without question. Self reliance is something of a sin. It is easier to copy others and not not fret about becoming one self.

This is a selection of my best work as an airbrush artist and pin striper. I have chosen these designs to cover just about every subject interest although my entire collection would be too large for a paperback. This is strickly a pictorial book with no expalinations or "how to".The first half covers pinstripping and then you will see aviation and the last section is a variety of designs.You may contact me at my e-mail address in the introduction page.

Practical Horticulture, Seventh Edition, is a classic, scientifically oriented book for basic horticulture. It presents readers with the fundamentals of horticultural science and its applications in both the commercial and home sectors. Easy-to-read, the books’s ample illustrations, chapter objectives, and chapter-ending review questions, help readers learn the concepts. Some exciting new features to this edition include: Updated with timely coverage of hot environmental topics. The latest information on horticultural science for indoor and outdoor plants. A new chapter on careers in horticulture has been added. This is a great resource for anyone interested in horticulture!

MMO EVOLUTION is about the online games industry and analyzes current trends and problems behind the decline of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) Role-Playing Games (RPG). A vision for the future and an overview of emerging trends, as well as design challenges faced by developers, issues in Cybersociology, Community Management, Social Gaming, and the management of newly launched MMORPGs are discussed in detail. MMO EVOLUTION is the perfect guidebook for travelers, adventurers, innovators, and designers to the true next generation of immersive worlds and MMORPGs online.