The therapist has a problem. Her patient is in love with her. The therapist has romantic feelings for her patient, too. Meanwhile, the patient's husband is having an affair with his wife's mother. The daughter is fully aware of their taboo relationship and embraces it. The functioning chaos unravels when one of them is poisoned. The only person who knows who did it has dementia and can't be considered competent. It's a complicated love story, but so is the path of life....

Uncover the six blind spots that derail women's career paths and learn strategies to effectively overcome them for an impactful, sustainable career.There are predictable blind spots that affect thousands of professional women during their careers, but most don't know they exist or can't see their adverse impacts.Authors and executive coaches Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath have spent decades coaching and working with female executives, middle managers, and professionals acr...

The book provides a description of the process of health economic evaluation and modelling for cost-effectiveness analysis, particularly from the perspective of a Bayesian statistical approach. Some relevant theory and introductory concepts are presented using practical examples and two running case studies. The book also describes in detail how to perform health economic evaluations using the R package BCEA (Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis). BCEA can be used to post-process the resul...

***Value of Information for Healthcare Decision-Making***introduces the concept of Value of Information (VOI) use in health policy decision-making to determine the sensitivity of decisions to assumptions, and to prioritise and design future research. These methods, and their use in cost-effectiveness analysis, are increasingly acknowledged by health technology assessment authorities as vital.Key Features:Provides a comprehensive overview of VOI

The book provides a description of the process of health economic evaluation and modelling for cost-effectiveness analysis, particularly from the perspective of a Bayesian statistical approach. Some relevant theory and introductory concepts are presented using practical examples and two running case studies. The book also describes in detail how to perform health economic evaluations using the R package BCEA (Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis). BCEA can be used to post-process the resul...

"One kiss. I need to know if you feel this too."Meet the Mills, Ryan and Walsh families in this heartfelt and steamy romance series!Kayla Walsh ran thousands of miles to start her life over in Austin, Texas. Kayla isn't ready for the sexy former MMA fighter Duncan Mills who instantly set his sights on her. Duncan makes her feel alive again and isn't giving up without a fight. Duncan is all in for the first time in his life,...

As the last flames of the Second World War flickered and died, Germany emerged into an apocalyptic wasteland, where the Hitler Youth generation would be cursed with the running sore of National Socialism. With the uncaged bear of the Soviet Union flexing its muscles and the escalating tensions between East and West providing some distraction from the funeral pyre of the Third Reich, those living in West Germany soon understood that they were the geological bulkhead, a component in the prev...

Chronicles life under East Germany’s GDR, the Berlin Wall’s rise, and citizens’ struggle for freedom.At midnight of 12 August 1961 East Germany became partitioned from the West by an ideological barrier that would remain a chancroid rash upon the political landscape of post WW2 Europe for some forty-five years. Initially little more than rolls of barbed wire, this barrier soon became the concrete monolith known the world over as the Berlin Wall.Prior to the...

Everything that we've been told about women succeeding in the workplace-from leaning in to throwing out the idea of being "nice girls"-misses the true key that puts women ahead: influence. Leadership experts Kathryn Heath, Jill Flynn, Mary Davis Holt, and Diana Faison create an airtight case for the importance of the influence effect.It's pure myth that women need to be more aggressive to succeed. Since the time when Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In was first published in 2013, one thing ...

Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing: More than Words examines a number of widely used expressive arts therapies from a communication perspective, providing case studies and other qualitative investigations focused specifically on communication aspects of expressive therapies including drama, music, and dance/movement therapies. This collection, edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz and authored by contributors with experience as educators, ...

Written as a tutorial to explore and understand the power of R for machine learning. This practical guide that covers all of the need to know topics in a very systematic way. For each machine learning approach, each step in the process is detailed, from preparing the data for analysis to evaluating the results. These steps will build the knowledge you need to apply them to your own data science tasks.Intended for those who want to learn how to use R's machine learning capabilities and gain...

Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statisticsi s a practical, up-to-date introduction to statistics—for everyone! Thought you couldn’t learn statistics? You can—and you will! One easy step at a time, this fully updated book teaches you all the statistical techniques you’ll need for finance, quality, marketing, the social sciences, or anything else! Simple jargon-free explanations help you understand every technique. P...