“I could never do your job.”Maybe you could. Maybe you couldn’t.Duress follows a 38‑year career on the front lines of mental health care — a world where bringing order to chaos is the daily work. Told through humour, lived experience, and the stories clinicians rarely share, this memoir offers a view of mental health that patients never see.Across decades, Scott Watson witnessed moments of hope, moments of loss, and everything in between. By the end, listeners gain a...

"I could never do your job". Well, maybe you could and maybe you couldn't.A 38-year journey through the front lines of mental health care, where bringing order to chaos isn't just a metaphor—it's the daily work.Told through humour and anecdotes, this book offers a rare perspective: the side of healthcare that patients never see—the world of a front-line clinician.Over the decades, I witnessed moments of profound hope, devastating loss, and everything in between. By ...

'An auditor is a person who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded.' The best way to prove this often repeated quote wrong is to study your new profession, learn its best practices, immerse yourself in its history, and its future direction. This six-step guide will set new entrants to the internal audit profession on the right path.

In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy.Based on empirical analysis of the three international disaster management regimes - disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration - and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues that international disaster management ...

This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian principles. Watson examines how refugees and asylum seekers have come to be treated so poorly by these states through the use of policies such as visa requirements, mandatory detention and preve...

Pediatric Intensive Care offers clinicians and trainees a concise, easy-to-carry resource on pediatric critical care medicine, designed for frequent and quick reference at the bedside, providing solutions to questions and situations encountered in practice. The book is sized to fit in a pocket and contains focused text, bulleted lists, tables, and figures. The book facilitates the delivery of critical care by a range of practitioners, from residents to generalists in settings where CCM exp...

“This book is an essential supplement for everyone who saw the movie Waiting for Superman. It makes clear that education improvement is more complex, and requires more change in policy and practice, than Superman ever envisioned. It is a roadmap for more comprehensive transformation of education.”—Michael W. Kirst, Emeritus Professor of Education, Stanford University“No one who hopes to participant in and contribute to the contempora...

The stunning success of early Methodism as a disciple-making movement was made possible because of John Wesley’s genius in organizing believers into band meetings. This book powerfully demonstrates that the band meeting is not merely another church program, but is ultimately the basic transformational community that enables us to be “saved to the uttermost.” In our age of digital disconnection, we need Christian practices of community more than ever, as well as a clear sense of what “socia...

Unlock Your Mind's Full Potential: Discover How to Sharpen Your Focus and Revolutionize Your Thinking in Just 14 Days!It's commonly believed that intellect, memory, and problem-solving are decided at birth – the brain you start with is only capable of growing to a certain degree.The truth is, your brain adapts and evolves daily as life unfolds around you and it is exposed to new experiences and stimuli.When you read a book, your brain streng...

There is something about the house next door, nearly torn asunder by flames, but inside, a baby's cry seems impossible. It seems only to come from a faded photograph of a doll. When it is taken from its home, it seems to change, on its own, and with it, change the lives of those around it for the worse.

Rachel can't understand the strange sounds and goings on in her house or why her son, all of a sudden, has an imaginary friend, until he mentions the name Paul and what this friend wants. Rachel's deadly secret that she's kept buried for many years has now worked its way to the surface, only to take everything from her. Bodies will drop like flies if she doesn't come to terms with her past and give into the horrible demands of the dead.

Get 2 incredibly chilling tales for the price of 1!You Can't Hide from Your Past: Rachel can't understand the strange sounds and goings on in her house or why her son, all of a sudden, has an imaginary friend, until he mentions the name Paul and what this friend wants. Rachel's deadly secret that she's kept buried for many years has now worked its way to the surface, only to take everything from her. Bodies will drop like flies if she doesn't come to terms with her past and give in...