Reducing the use of psychotropic drugs in the symptomatic treatment of dementia is key to successfully implementing compassionate, person-centered practices in your organization—and this book shows clearly why and how it can be done. The revised second edition of this award-winning resource introduces new research, language, and examples to reinforce the core message that antipsychotic medications are not the solution to ease the distress experienced by individuals living with dem...

How to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating."Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide for baby boomers wishing to continue vibrant, active lifestyles." - EPR Real Estate News"Make your senior years safe and socially fun with the idea of senior cohou...

Attempt of murder, murder, bullying, love, unsolved mystery, betrayal, hope, kidnapping, hope shattered, deep loneliness, more hope, hope lost, vengeance. Does it ever stop for these two kids?Boy meets girl and they suffer betrayal, prejudice, love, indifference, rape, injustice, hope. How do they overcome this invasion into their everyday lives?Bill suffers a brain injury. Hes blinded, he suffers stupidity. Teachers taunt him. His classmates follow.Cricket comes into ...

When archaeologists excavated an Indian village in a farmer’s field along a river in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, they made a startling discovery. Among the buried remains of ancient American natives, was found the skeleton of a man who had been bludgeoned to death and interred face down sometime in the early nineteen-hundreds. At about the time of this gruesome discovery, Jenny Franklin, a student at State College, went missing. As far as everyone knew, she was a happy, stu...

Boyd Houston joined the Confederate Army after selling his fishing boat and cottage on the coast of South Carolina. Within weeks, his detachment is ordered to march to a remote mountain town in Western Virginia to confront Union forces encamped there. Control of turnpikes, supply lines and the materials of war is at stake. His detachment is routed by an inferior force, and he is among those grievously wounded and left behind. Almost a hundred Confederate soldiers are captured, and scores l...

Cover SynopsisBlackwater A mans body is found in a tree on a lonely ridge in the Dolly Sods Wilderness deep in the mountains of West Virginia. It is wrapped in an old blanket and tied to a high limb. It had been there for monthsbirds and other predators had been working on it. The medical examiner determines that he had been bludgeoned to death with a rock. When the local police forces investigation stalls, Dr. James Houston, college professor and avid fly fisherman, is asked by the deceas...

College professor and fly-fishing enthusiast Dr. James Boyd Houston is accused of harassing an attractive coed who is enrolled in one of his classes. The dean honors his one-year terminal contract but refuses to approve his application for tenure. He will be out of a job when the contract expires. Jimmy begins a halfhearted attempt to find other employment, but his primary task is to clear his name. State police trooper Peter Kowalski and lieutenant Sam Miller discover a young womans body ...

Into the Mountains is the story of two young peoples struggle to survive while the Civil War rages around them. Boyd Houston is a Confederate soldier on parole after being captured by Union forces in West Virginia. When Lexus Saunders asks for his help, he returns from his home in South Carolina to find that she has been abducted by renegade soldiers and her house burned. When she is finally rescued and her broken body heals, Boyd escorts her through the mountains to Rowlesburg, where her ...

A simple, powerful idea that's reinventing the way smart, adaptive companies do business.Most businesses follow the same basic formula: create a product or service, sell it, and collect money. What Lisa Gansky calls "Mesh" businesses throw this model out the window. Instead, these companies use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burd...

**NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERBlue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and over 4 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne."Groundbreaking." ―Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human**Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show y...

Dramatic, gripping, and moving, this sequel to the award-winning We All Fall Down will captivate readers.It’s September 12th, 2001, and New York City is at a standstill: somber, bleak and shocked in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. Will knows he and his father are lucky to have escaped; others, like his best friend James’ father are still missing . . . and soon presumed to be dead.Poignant and dramatic, United We Stand is a ...

Non-profits are big business. According to a recent Johns Hopkins report, third-sector institutions in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U.S. and Canada have been growing at an average rate that is twice the growth rate of their GDPs. Canada is home to the second largest non-profit workforce in the world, employing 2 million paid staff and contributing $112 billion to our economy each year. We are also recognized worldwide as an important generator of ideas and agent of social change...