The High Life is Mike Berger's vivid, first-person account of some of San Francisco's most famous characters from the 60's and 70's. The stories include his legal colleagues Nate Cohn, Jim MacInnis, Pat (Butch) Hallinan and some of their clients, including Sally Stanford, Mel Belli and the People's Temple Survivors. The major thread throughout his humorous anecdotes and reminiscences is Berger's 40-year devotion to the Delancey Street Foundation and his intimate friendship with founders John Maher and Mimi Silbert. As their first lawyer and a founding member of the Board, he is justifiably proud of the nation's most successful and respected residential drug rehabilitation facility.

The High Life: An Insider's View: San Francisco Characters of the 60's and 70's

Biographies & Memoirs

Berger, Michael

Professionals & Academics

Art of the Matter Publishing

Shows how and why the context in which therapy occurs affects the conduct of proceedings. The authors discuss therapy in various settings; obtaining the co-operation of colleagues; involving families in the treatment of psychiatric patients; and in-patient and out-patient programmes.

Practicing Family Therapy in Diverse Settings (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Proquest/Csa Journal Div

Practicing Family Therapy in Diverse Settings (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES)

Social Sciences

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

The authoritative source is now in its 18th straight year! Get comprehensive, insider assessments of all the active NHL players--more than 430 from all 27 teams. The sleepers, the up-and-comers, the heroes, and the enforcers are all included in the 18th edition of this who's who of the ice. Evaluate the latest statistics on each player's performance, along with an analysis of his physical game, finesse, and the intangibles that could make or break his game, plus a projection of how he'll perform next year. Other highlights include a list of the NHL's top 100 scorers and charts of the league leaders in the categories of goals and assists, power-play goals, and goalie statistics. Whether you're scouting for the office hockey pool, tracking your favorite team, involved in a "fantasy league," or just a fan, you won't want to follow the hockey season without this authoritative source at your fingertips.

Hockey Scouting Report 2004: Over 430 NHL Players

Sports & Outdoors

Ross, Sherry

Hockey

Sterling

The author passionately believes that everyone can improve as a writer, a conviction earned through twenty years of empowering young writers. This handy guidebook explains in an accessible way the keys to writing well, providing valuable insight into the fundamentals of the writing process and seventy incisive pieces of advice. It can help teachers inspire students' engagement and guide their development. A student reading this concise book will be encouraged by realizing that writing well is not a magical gift some people have and others don't, but a skill she or he can develop. It clarifies that writing is thinking and that vigorous revision as the heart of the writing process empowers students to express themselves clearly and precisely. For instructor exam copies and bulk discounts (30% on purchases of eight or more), email request to: michaelberger.wwsb@gmail.com

Writing Well in School and Beyond

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Build birdhouses that attract the birds you want!Most birdhouse books are overly complex, with intricate projects that take hours of work. Are they attractive? Sure. But useful? Depends.The Best Birdhouses for Your Backyard puts birds' needs first! You'll find more than a dozen easy-to-build projects that include:Information about the bird each house attracts, including vital statisticsGuidelines for strategic placement of your birdhousesConsiderations for making sure your birds are safe and comfortableSpecial tips for dealing with raccoons and other predatorsComplete materials listAdvice on hardware and suppliesDetailed step-by-step instructionsSpecial woodworking tipsYou'll also find guidelines for choosing woods that can outlast the elements, charts with tool descriptions and comparisons, resource lists, construction techniques, finishing advice and more. You'll have fun in the shop while providing safe, attractive homes for your favorite feathered friends.

Best Birdhouses for Your Backyard

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Popular Woodworking Books

Building birdhouses is yet another way to enjoy the birds in our backyard, and author Michael Berger explains in his book Easy Birdhouses &amp; Feeders that you don't need a lot of tools or advanced equipment to create useful shelters for our avian friends. Here you'll learn how to make and install a simple nesting birdhouse out of a flowerpot. Flower Pot Nesting House Notice the groove in the bottom of the wood semicircular front that allows water to drain from the b View larger Flowerpot Nesting House Birds are ingenious little creatures, and many are not picky about what they build a house in. I've seen wrens build houses in discarded watering cans, robins on top of old wheelbarrows, and sparrows just about anywhere you'd rather they didn't. This house takes advantage of that tendency and can be used by a variety of small songbird species. Consisting of nothing more than a clay flowerpot and a semicircle of wood, the flowerpot house is extremely easy to build and provides a nice bit of shelter when tucked into a tree's forking branches or mounted in any sheltered location. Note: If you live in a region or neighborhood where predation is a concern, incorporate a suitable predator guard into your plans. Birdhouse Placement When mounting the birdhouse, you can use a wood screw and a large fender washer driven through the drainage hole at the base of the pot (which now serves as the back of the house). Tools, Hardware, and Supplies You'll Need Jigsaw Round file 6½"-dia. clay flower pot 6"-dia. wood circle (from scrap), cut in half Construction adhesive or silicone caulk 1" or larger fender washer and 3" exterior screw Building the Birdhouse 1. Measure the inside diameter of the opening of your flowerpot; then draw a circle of that diameter on a scrap of cedar and use your jigsaw to cut it out. For a 6½"-dia. flowerpot like I used, your circle should be roughly 6" in diameter. 2. Cut the wood circle in half; then use a round file to rasp a drain hole along the bottom curve of the semicircle. 3. Use silicone caulk or construction adhesive to glue the wood semicircle into the opening of the flowerpot. 4. To mount the flowerpot birdhouse on a tree trunk, slide a 1" or larger fender washer over a 3" screw; then drive the screw through the drainage hole in the bottom of the flowerpot and into the tree.

Easy Birdhouses & Feeders: Simple Projects to Attract & Retain the Birds You Want (Birdwatcher's Digest)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cool Springs Press

Following the success of Nano-society, Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny introduces 160 specific research projects that are currently being investigated in laboratories distributed throughout the world. Through interviews and descriptions of these projects the author provides the reader with a unique commentary on the current state of the art of nanotechnology, through the scientists' own words.

Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny

Science & Math

Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry, [

While our five senses are doing a reasonably good job at representing the world around us on a macro-scale, we have no existing intuitive representation of the nanoworld, ruled by laws entirely foreign to our experience. This is where molecules mingle to create proteins; where you wouldn't recognize water as a liquid; and where minute morphological changes would reveal how much 'solid' things, such as the ground or houses, are constantly vibrating and moving. Following in the footsteps of Nano-Society and Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny, this title introduces a new collection of stories demonstrating recent research in the field of nanotechnology. This drives home the fact that a plethora of nanotechnology R&D will become an integral part of improved and entirely novel materials, products, and applications yet will remain entirely invisible to the user. The book gives a personal perspective on how nanotechnologies are created and developed, and will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the research and future of nanotechnology. Reviews of Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny: 'The book is recommended not only to all interested scientists, but also to students who are looking for a quick and clear introduction to various research areas of nanotechnology' Angew. Chem., 2017, 56(26), 7351-7351 'Once you start reading you will find it very difficult to stop' Chromatographia, 2017, 80, 1821

Nanoengineering: The Skills and Tools Making Technology Invisible

Major technology shifts do not happen overnight and rarely are they the result of a single breakthrough discovery. Nowhere is this more true than for the broad set of enabling technologies that we have come to simply call "nanotechnology". Rather than standing on the shoulders of a few intellectual giants, nanotechnologies are created by tens of thousands of researchers and scientists working on minute and sometimes arcane aspects of their fields of expertise in areas as diverse as medicine, telecommunications, solar cells, filtration, coatings, or ever smaller transistors for electronic devices. They come from different sciences, live in different parts of the world and work for different organizations (government laboratories, industry laboratories, universities, private research facilities) and follow their own set of rules - get papers reviewed and published; achieve scientific recognition from their peers; struggle to get funding for new ideas; look to make that breakthrough discovery that leads to the ultimate resumÚ item - a nobel prize; get pushed by their funders to secure patent rights and commercialize new discoveries. This book puts a spotlight on some of the scientists who are pushing the boundaries of technology and it gives examples of their work and how they are advancing knowledge one little step at a time. The book shatters the monolithic term "nanotechnology" into the myriad of facets that it really is. It is a journey through the world of nanotechnology research and development, taking a personal look at how nanotechnologies get created today and by whom. The book covers 122 specific research projects that are happening in laboratories around the world and provides commentaries from the scientists in their own words. However, the collection of stories in this book barely scratches the surface of the vast and growing body of research that leads us into the nanotechnology age. The selection presented in the book is not meant to rank some laboratories and scientists higher than others, nor to imply that the work introduced in the book is more important or valuable than all the work that is not covered. The intention is to give the interested reader an idea of the incredibly diverse aspects that make up nanotechnology research and development - the results of which will bring about a new era of industrial and medical technologies. Nanoscience and nanotechnology research is a truly multidisciplinary and international effort. Each of the chapters is based on a particular scientific paper that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal and, while each story revolves around one or two scientists who were interviewed for this book, many, if not most, of the scientific accomplishments covered in the book are the result of collaborative efforts by several scientists and research groups, often from different organizations and from different countries. The book is different to other books in this field because it provides a novel human touch to nanotechnology research by not only covering a wide range of research topics but also the (often nameless) scientists behind this research. The book is a collection of Spotlight articles from the popular Nanowerk website and each article has been crafted with the author(s) of a scientific paper and signed off by them prior to being posted on Nanowerk. The book is intended for two broad groups of audiences - scientists and nanoscience students who want a bite-size, quick read to get a good first impression of what nanotechnologies are about and how they affect not only their own field but also neighbouring fields and other scientific disciplines further away. And a non-scientific readership that needs to (because it affects their organization and they have to acquaint themselves with nanotechnology) or wants to get a 'non-threatening' (i.e. no formulas, complex diagrams, or unexplained scientific terms) introduction, written by a non-scientist for non-scientists.

Nano-Society: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology (Nanoscience, Volume 8)

Biological Sciences

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