New Releases by Robert West

Navigating change is one of the biggest challenges in the construction industry, and cost escalation can make or break a project. In Documenting Change Essential Strategies for Managing Cost Escalations in Construction, Robert West delivers clear, actionable strategies to manage and document changes effectively, control costs, and keep projects on track. Whether you''re a project manager, contractor, or construction professional, this book provides the tools to identify cost risks early, handle unforeseen changes, and maintain clear documentation to support claims and minimize disputes. Real-world examples, practical templates, and step-by-step guides ensure you''re equipped to handle the unexpected and drive your projects to success. Ready to take control of cost escalations and change management? Documenting Change Essential Strategies for Managing Cost Escalations in Construction is your go-to resource for building smarter, more resilient projects.

Take a deep dive into ancient Greek military history with this annotated edition of Xenophon''s Agesilaus. Containing detailed syntax rules, historical references, explanatory notes, and indices, this comprehensive volume is an essential resource for students and scholars of classical studies. Robert West Taylor''s expert editorial guidance brings Xenophon''s compelling narrative to life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

As Christians, we seek to make God a part of every decision that we make--the way we parent, lead, serve, and spend. But what if God has a purpose and plan for the investing dreams he has given you? A community of ministries, businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and fund managers have all experienced God awakening a movement, and its bigger than simply avoiding ''sin stocks.''

Lollygag, by Robert West, is an engaging and powerful story. Based on his experiences working on a real-life wagon train with VisionQuest, an innovative program for at-risk teens, Robert witnessed firsthand that adversity and the healing power of the animals, especially the mules provided troubled teens with a path of honor that allowed them to heal and to turn their lives around. VisionQuest founder Bob Burton called the VQ mules aEURoeour best therapistsaEUR. Robert has captured perfectly the spirit of his experience on the wagon train and the joy in seeing traumatized children find positive rites of passage to adulthood. . . . VisionQuest is a nationally recognized company that has touched the lives of over 80,000 at risk teens. Started in 1973 by Bob Burton and Steve Rogers, VisionQuest was founded on the premise that at-risk youth need positive rites of passage in order to make the successful transition into adulthood and to break the cycle of failure created by a broken juvenile system. In the 1970''s through the 1990''s VisionQuest''s core programs included, wagon trains, sailing on tall ships and wilderness experiences designed to provide teen with these extraordinary experiences. Although a changing child welfare and juvenile system no longer supports this type of programming VisionQuest remains committed to providing at-risk teens the safety and stability they lack in their lives using trauma-informed and evidence-based programming. VisionQuest currently operates residential and community-based programs in 5 states.

Johan came from a past full of dark secrets. After his first love/best friend cheated on him, he left their rural town and lived for a fresh start in the nearby city, portraying an innocent persona. For years, he kept everyone out of his private life, but the mystery he''s hiding captivated Adrian, a man with an unsatisfied relationship with his girlfriend. Despite their apparent attraction to one another, a line kept them from acting on their feelings. But when Johan outed himself in a drunken confession, things took a drastic turn. On the day he decided to distance himself from his handsome workmate, Adrian appeared on his doorstep and invited him for a walk. Blinded by desire, Johan gets tangled in an insatiable affair that challenged his beliefs, awakened his feelings, and roused his fears. As they ventured between the boundaries of love, lust, and friendship, Johan''s secrets resurfaced one by one, and Adrian''s in for a wild, dangerous ride.

Robert West was born in 1960 in Shoreditch, London and was brought up as the youngest of five boys by his mother after his father died when Robert was just seven years old. An interest in the arts began by going along to Hoxton Hall in the 1970s and his experiences at this arts and community centre encouraged him to decide to try and build a career in the industry. Following training at Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama Robert went on to work professionally as an actor, writer, and director. Though his other roles, which have included paid work as a Children’s Entertainer, Football Coach and Creative Writing Tutor, have all provided as much excitement as the stage ever has. Like many others, Robert has written poems for pleasure for most of his life. Here he has gathered up the various scraps of paper and notebooks on which his poems have been written over the years and brought them all together in this anthology of his work. Each poem is accompanied by a short insight into the work. Robert has always sought to encourage others to have a go at things they might feel as being out of their reach. He hopes that this collection of poetry may encourage people to have a go at whatever they feel inspired to do. As Samuel Beckett once said, ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better’.

The Five Star Plan is a step by step plan for regular people and groups. This book is focused on putting Texas voters back in charge and replacing career politicians with patriots. We provide the tools; you provide the effort. This book will show you where to be active and how to make a positive impact in local and state government. You will learn how to recruit and lead by example, how to make your political group productive, how to communicate conservative principles, uncover elected positions from county to state, how to run for office with a focus and implement ways to hold elected officials accountable. The Five Star Plan is my attempt to answer a question I hear a lot. "What can we do?" People are willing, plenty of people risk their lives to protect and defend our freedoms but we are not taught how to do that. TFSP is a practical plan for regular people who want to unite and preserve liberty in Texas.

What do you believe about souls? There are many very different doctrines taught in the world today concerning souls that are believed to be in all humans. By most a soul is believed to be something that is wholly apart from the person that they believe a soul to be in; most believe that a soul will exist forever without the person; it will never be dead, therefore, a soul cannot be resurrected from the dead; most believe it will always live either in Heaven or Hell even if there is no resurrection. A deathless soul leaving a person at the death of the person makes it impossible for Christ to have given His life to save that soul from death; if a soul had immortality it would already have life and could never not have life; all Christ could do is give it a reward or punish it.

When you look at your phone, do you see nothing but an endless stream of bad news? This book will help you understand just what doomscrolling is and how it can ruin your health, damage your relationships, and leave you depressed and alone. It can happen to anyone. This book was written to help all those who have gotten lost in the bad news that comes out everyday. It will help you understand why you can’t seem to stop, and it will show you the evolutionary reasons behind your obsessive behavior. I’ll also provide you with effective steps to take to break the doomscrolling habit. In this book, you’ll discover valuable insights into the following topics: What doomscrolling is What are the evolutionary and biological reasons behind the habit How doomscrolling damages your mental and physical health How it wrecks your social life How to break the habit and replace it with healthy alternatives; How to rebuild your health and your friendships. It can seem impossible to stop the doomscrolling habit, but it''s not. You can do it and get your life back. This book will show you proven techniques for breaking this kind of bad habit. What’s more, it will help you recover your health and your lost friendships. You can rediscover the beautiful, positive things in your life and in the world around you. You can make positive changes that will help you escape the trap you’re living in right now. You can kick the habit and find the sunshine and the beautiful things in life that are still out there. If you’re ready to kick the doomscrolling habit and find what’s really good and important in life, this is the book for you. There’s no time like the present to get started taking your life back from the dark world of doomscrolling!

What is a man? Are all persons born with immortal souls in them, or do only the saved put on immortality at the resurrection? Is a person a three part being, an animal body with both a soul and a spirit that one or both will live after the body is dead? This is one of the most important questions of all time. It has more influence on our conception of our nature, our view of life in this world, and our view of life after death than any other question.

In this book Robert West explores the science behind motivation, delving into the Machiavellian art of persuasion and examining the roles that incentives, praise, and punishment play in our society. This lively and humorous book reveals simple yet game-changing principles that will transform your understanding of motivation and set you on a practical path to achieving your personal and professional goals. "How do effective leaders motivate their teams?" "How can parents stop their children throwing tantrums?" "How do adverts play on our hopes and fears?" "How do I resist that last slice of cheesecake?" Robert West is Professor of Psychology at University College London and an Associate of UCL’s Centre for Behaviour Change. He is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Addiction, and he has published more than 800 scholarly works including books on behaviour change and addiction. Jamie West is a writer, performer, and musician. He holds a BA in English from UCL and an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck University.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Cigarette smoking is one of the most significant preventable causes of death and illness in the world. Given the wide-ranging effects smoking has on many disease processes, it is essential that clinicians understand: • the short- and long-term effects of smoking on the body • the benefits of smoking cessation • why smokers find it difficult to stop • the role of clinicians in promoting and supporting smoking cessation • the treatments available to help smokers overcome their addiction. ''Fast Facts: Smoking Cessation'' meets these needs: here, in one place, you will find all the information you need on smoking, tobacco addiction and how best to treat the addiction. Ultimately, the best reason for reading this book is to help your patients who smoke to change their behavior for the better and sustainably. Every GP and support clinic will benefit from this edition, filled with tips, advice and treatment aids for the clinical team. Contents: • Cigarettes as a nicotine delivery system • Smoking patterns • Social, psychological and economic influences on smoking • Effects of smoking and smoking cessation • Addiction to cigarettes • The clinician and smoking • Treatments to aid smoking cessation • Future trends

Network navigation constitutes a fundamental human behavior: in order to make use of the information and resources around us, we constantly explore, disentangle, and browse networks such as the Web, social networks, academic paper collections, and encyclopedias, among others. Studying the navigation patterns humans employ is important because it lets us better understand how humans reason about complex networks and lets us build more intuitively navigable and human-friendly information systems. In this dissertation, we study how humans navigate information networks by analyzing tens of thousands of navigation traces harvested from the human-computation game Wikispeedia, where participants are asked to navigate between two given Wikipedia articles in as few clicks as possible. We first shed light on human navigation strategies by describing the anatomy of typical human navigation traces. We then build on these results to develop models and tools for predicting the targets of human paths from only the first few clicks, learning to navigate automatically, and recommending the insertion of important missing hyperlinks. These are useful building blocks for designing more intuitively navigable information spaces and tools to help people find information. The navigation traces collected through the Wikispeedia game have the unique property of being labeled with users'' explicit navigation targets. In general, however, humans need not have a precise target in mind when navigating the Web. Records of such navigation traces are abundant in the logs kept by any web server software. We demonstrate the value of passively collected web server logs by presenting an algorithm that leverages such raw logs in order to improve website hyperlink structure. The resulting system is deployed on Wikipedia''s full server logs at terabyte scale, producing links that are clicked 12 times as frequently as the average link added by human Wikipedia editors.

ARRÊTER LE TABAC... ET CHANGER DE VIE. Peut-on en finir avec le tabac ? Alors que la France compte près de 16 millions de fumeurs, plus de la moitié déclarent avoir envie d’arrêter de fumer. Mais comment y parvenir ? Et surtout, comment éviter la rechute ? Le professeur Robert West part d’un double constat : pour en finir avec le tabac, le fumeur doit d’abord connaître les méthodes qui fonctionnent réellement puis trouver, parmi elles, celle qui répond à son type de dépendance. Ce guide présente ainsi toutes les techniques, validées scientifiquement, pour cesser de fumer (patchs, hypnose, cigarette électronique, coaching...). À l’aide de questionnaires et de conseils personnalisés, il oriente ensuite chaque fumeur vers la méthode qui lui convient, ou suggère d’en combiner plusieurs, pour arrêter de fumer « sur mesure ». Psychologue, Robert West se consacre depuis plus de trente ans aux problèmes de dépendance tabagique. Directeur des études sur le tabac au Centre britannique de recherches sur le cancer, il est également éditeur scientifique au sein de la revue Addiction.

What do you believe about souls? There are many very different doctrines taught in the world today concerning souls that are believed to be in all humans. By most a soul is believed to be something that is wholly apart from the person a soul is in; that a soul is something that is that is believed to be complete in its self without the person; it will live after the person it is in is dead; it is believed that a soul will exist forever without the person; it will never be dead; therefore, a soul cannot be resurrected from the dead. It is believed that a soul must live someplace forever, and it will live either in Heaven or Hell even if there is no resurrection. The doctrine of unconditional immortality of a deathless soul being in a person, and that soul leaving that person at the death of the person makes it impossible for Christ to have give His life to save that soul from death; if a soul had immortality it would already have life and could never not have life; all Christ could do is give it a reward or punish it.

The Quiet Time Planner Study Guide Journal is a companion to two additional quiet time management resources by author and custom calendar designer Robert West (The Quiet Time Principle book, and The Quiet Time Planner time management system). The journal contains 75 lined writing pages for recording insights of ways the Lord is calling you to personal application of Scripture reading verses that touch and have an impact on your life.

Millionen Menschen haben mit dem Rauchen aufgehört – auf ihre ganz individuelle Weise. Denn die eine Methode, die jeden zum Nichtraucher macht, gibt es nicht. Doch wer die für sich passende Kombination an Maßnahmen findet, kann sich vom blauen Dunst befreien. Der Ex-Raucher und Gesundheitspsychologe Prof. Dr. Robert West zeigt, welche Methoden sich in 30 Jahren Forschung als effektiv herausgestellt haben und wie man sie zur ganz persönlichen Nichtraucher-Formel zusammenstellt.

Designing Interventions'' brings together theory-based tools developed in behavioural science to understand and change behaviour to form a step-by-step intervention design manual. This book is for anyone with an interest in changing behaviour regardless of whether they have a background in behavioural science.

Robert West is a prolific writer of poetry, stories and songs. This collection of poems is a journey through human instinct and emotions, a tapestry of intriguing characters and events.An absorbing and candidly realistic sculpture of words which throws of all the covers of humility and emotion.Fine, modern Australian poetry.

An understanding of addiction theory is vital to understanding addiction itself. Theory of Addiction takes theory development from a simple ‘rational addiction model’, adding elements such as compulsion, self-control and habit, to explain the ‘big observations’ in the field. As well as explaining and evaluating the arguments of each of the prevailing schools of thought, the book develops a new, synthetic theory of addiction that brings together the diverse elements of current models. Designed to enable students, practitioners and researchers to establish a starting point in the labyrinthine world of addiction theory, Theory of Addiction supports abstract thinking with concrete and realistic scenarios, underlining the centrality of theoretical understanding to working with addiction. Presents a digest of major existing theories in one volume Develops a new synthetic theory of addiction Recognises the diversity of the experience of addiction Discusses factors at the level of both the individual and populations Provides key recommendations for the development of effective interventions

This volume presents a compendium of models of addiction placed within an integrated framework.

YOU CAN STOP SMOKING FOR GOOD. The SmokeFree Formula reveals the TRUTH about stopping smoking from leading expert Professor Robert West. This book shows, for the first time, how you can create your personal SmokeFree Formula so that you are free from cigarettes for good. Professor Robert West is a world authority on smoking and addiction and has been helping smokers stop for more than 30 years. He is an advisor to the Department of Health and helped set up the NHS Stop Smoking Services. The book was written with Chris Smyth, Health Correspondent at The Times, and Jamie West. The SmokeFree Formula is the ultimate guide to stopping smoking once and for all.

Welcome to the world of Darkest Desires where the eternal fires are stoked by sin, lust and unfulfilled wanting. Demons in every incarnation are waiting to quench their own appetite and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. Darkest Desires explores the most primal needs lurking in everyone. This anthology from Hot Ink Press (an Erotic Imprint of Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing) features some of today''s cutting-edge erotica romance authors.