New Releases by Paul Kennedy

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Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known that the stranger-danger she feared actually lurked in the presbytery attached to the girls'' Catholic primary school. Father Kevin O''Donnell, a long-term paedophile, lived and worked there. Two of their young daughters became victims of O''Donnell. And once the truth was revealed, the Fosters began a battle to find out how this could have happened. The Church offered silence, lies, denials and threats. Meanwhile, their daughters tried to piece together their fractured lives. This is the chilling true story that made national and international headlines. Chrissie Foster''s heartbreaking account of her family''s suffering, and their determination to stand up for themselves against the might of the Catholic Church, is testament to the strength of a mother''s love, and the resilience of the human spirit.

A report that includes the final report from Sir Thomas Legg on the review of past payments to Members of Parliament of Additional Costs Allowance (the ''second home allowance''), and the report from Sir Paul Kennedy on his decisions on appeals from MPs against Sir Thomas'' rulings.

A gas-station attendant waits wistfully for a mysterious young woman in a Mustang; astronauts find a promising, but curiously empty, planet; a modern corporation enjoys an eye-opening transformation; and an Irish lass gains enduring fame in post-colonial Pennsylvania: These and other "preposterous accounts" await readers who appreciate a wry angle and a wicked wit in this eclectic collection of stories....

These "troublesome tales" take place in territories where the familiar and the expected quickly evolve into quirky, humorous, and sometimes dark variations. From a John Doe who discovers a scrap of extraterrestrial clothing to a Godfrey Daniel doomed to inhabit an assortment of hells, the characters and landscapes of this "unfortunate collection" will challenge and charm the adventurous reader....

For individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury, it is a struggle to know how to assess and cope with such a life-changing event. The coping strategies that a person employs can have an enormous impact on their mental well-being and long-term health. Approach focused coping, in which the individual accepts and seeks to understand their condition, results in a sense of mastery, self-efficacy, and post traumatic growth. Conversely, avoidance focused coping can lead to anxiety, depression, self neglect, and substance abuse problems. Approximately 50% will meet the diagnostic criteria for depression at 6 months post injury. Research shows that those with depression will have a poorer outcome and shorter life-span. Coping effectiveness training (CET) aims to improve skills for assessing stress, teaching a range of coping skills that can be used to tackle stress, and provide an opportunity for interaction with others who have similar experiences of spinal cord injury. CET includes the identification of effective and ineffective responses to stress, especially those that are particularly unhelpful, such as disengagement, general avoidance, long term denial, and the expression of extreme emotion. By encouraging individuals to think critically about their behaviour in response to stressors, CET helps people avoid unproductive ways of coping. Like all TreatmentsThatWork programs, this treatment is evidence-based. In the author''s clinical studies, CET has proven to successfully reduce levels of depression and anxiety in individuals with spinal cord injury, and also resulted in changes in negative self-perception and improved self-efficiacy. The intervention consists of seven, 60-75 minute sessions run two a week in small groups of six to nine people. By working in small groups, participants are able to share experience and build a community, reducing the sense of isolation that often results from sever injury. A corresponding workbook provides monitoring forms, homework exercises, and other user-friendly techniques to continue the work outside of therapy. TreatmentsThatWorkTM represents the gold standard of behavioral healthcare interventions! · All programs have been rigorously tested in clinical trials and are backed by years of research · A prestigious scientific advisory board, led by series Editor-In-Chief David H. Barlow, reviews and evaluates each intervention to ensure that it meets the highest standard of evidence so you can be confident that you are using the most effective treatment available to date · Our books are reliable and effective and make it easy for you to provide your clients with the best care available · Our corresponding workbooks contain psychoeducational information, forms and worksheets, and homework assignments to keep clients engaged and motivated · A companion website (www.oup.com/us/ttw) offers downloadable clinical tools and helpful resources · Continuing Education (CE) Credits are now available on select titles in collaboration with PsychoEducational Resources, Inc. (PER)

The Parliament of Man is the first definitive history of the United Nations, from one of America''s greatest living historians.Distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy, author of the bestselling The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, gives us a thorough and timely account that explains the UN''s roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on its effectiveness and its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead. Kennedy shows the UN for what it is: fallible, human-based, often dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual administrators—yet also utterly indispensable. With his insightful grasp of six decades of global history, Kennedy convincingly argues that "it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN."

Ce livre a fait l''effet d''une bombe lors de sa parution. Best-seller instantané aux Etats-Unis puis au Japon, décortiqué dans les chancelleries du monde entier, Naissance et déclin des grandes puissances prend, en ce début de XXIe siècle, des allures de prophétie : et si l''Amérique, superpuissance incontestée, se trouvait aujourd''hui à la veille de sa chute ?

A fundamental look at the basic reasons why most individual fitness programs fail or lose their effectiveness over time. Dr Paul Kennedy reveals the basic reasons for lack of success in typical, well-intentioned programs and the simple adjustments that can correct those problems. In many cases, these adjustments, while uncomplicated and easily implemented, are often overlooked or not perceived as the ''critical little things'' that are the difference between long-term fitness goal achievement and the nagging frustration of a programme doomed to failure. With dozens of photographs, charts, illustrations, several easy-to-use personal training logs and diaries, plus a questionnaire to assist in establishing individual fitness readiness, this easy-to-read and entertaining book has everything you need to make your fitness program REALLY work in the REAL world.

Offering an innovative new approach to sociology that takes the global dimensions of the contemporary world as its overarching framework, Global Sociology is written in a style that is relevant and fresh for the undergraduate reader whether they have studied sociology before or approaching the subject for the first time. Carefully balancing contemporary sociological theory and concepts with arguments and concrete examples drawn from around the globe, Global Sociology highlights the scope and the importance of sociology for understanding the complex and fast-changing world in which we live. In twenty chapters, the authors consider an immensely rich and diverse range of material, from the emergence of global society and debates surrounding its social, political and economic structure, to topics such as migration, tourism, crime, drugs, famine, mass media, feminism and the environmental movement. The text includes an extensive glossary, boxed case studies, suggestions for classroom projects and seminar activities, and numerous graphs and illustrations. Accessibly written and jargon-free, Global Sociology is the ideal introduction to the topic for students.

En Hacia el siglo XXI, Paul Kennedy aborda una de las cuestiones ms candentes de los aos noventa: las fuerzas transnacionales con que tendrn que enfrentarse los Estados durante las prximas dcadas. La duplicacin de la poblacin mundial; la cada vez mayor degradacin del medio ambiente y sus efectos sobre el crecimiento econmico; el comercio y los intercambios a nivel mundial; los desequilibrios estructurales y las distintas ''velocidades'' del desarrollo; los espectaculares avances de la tecnologa, que segn las circunstancias pueden paliar o agravar los problemas demogrficos y ecolgicos...Con agudeza intelectual y exhaustivo conocimiento del tema, el autor analiza el probable impacto de estas fuerzas en pases y regiones concretos, de los que evala sus respectivos niveles de preparacin para afrontarlas con probabilidades de xito. Asimismo, sita estas transformaciones globales en un amplio contexto histrico y demuestra que, ineludiblemente generarn ganadores y perdedores.

Here is the astonishing true story of an 18-year-old veteran of one of the world''s fiercest counterterrorist forces, the SAS. Crawl inside the mind of this legendary British rogue warrior, and live the kind of adventures most can only dream about. 8-page insert.

Une analyse de la situation mondiale et des relations internationales; énumération des grands défis auxquels le monde et les Etats auront à faire face en entrant dans le 21e siècle. [SDM].

Witches, goblins, black cats and pumpkins abound in this delightful collection of 3 Halloween activity books: "Little Halloween Stained Glass Coloring Book, Little Halloween Stickers," and "Fun with Halloween Stencils." 3-vol. set.

Presents a new and unified, view of carbocationic polymers, demonstrating the prodigious promise and unexploited possibilities in the field. Clarifies the tremendous advances made in the past decade in the elucidation of cationic polymerization, and the exploitation of new mechanistic information in terms of new products and processes in the laboratory.

Soldier I, so named to preserve his anonymity at the coroner''s inquiry into the Iranian Embassy siege, spent a remarkable 18 years in the SAS, becoming a legend within that legendary force. This book tells the full story of those years, including accounts of operations with which he was involved.