If you are new to Unix, this concise book will tell you just what you need to get started and no more. Unix was one of the first operating systems written in C, a high-level programming language, and its natural portability and low price made it a popular choice among universities. Initially, two main dialects of Unix existed: one produced by AT&T ...
Men like Henry Martyn, John G. Paton, John Eliot, David Brainerd and William Chalmers Burns left home, family and love for the sake of Christ and to spread his good news. Five Pioneer Missionaries tells their story.
For UNIX system administrators and programmers. This handbook provides information on writing and debugging terminal descriptions, as well as terminal initialization, for the two UNIX terminal databases.
curses is a UNIX library of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen from a C program. It can be used to provide a screen driver for a program (such as a visual editor) or to improve a program's user interface. This handbook will help you make use of the curses library in your C programs. We have presented ample material on curses ...
This book addresses one of the most controversial topics in restorative justice: its potential for dealing with conflicts within families. Most restorative justice programs specifically exclude family violence as an appropriate offence to be dealt with this way. This book focuses on the issues in family violence that may warrant special caution ...
Advocates of restorative justice question the state's ability to deliver satisfactory justice to the community, both in criminal and other cases. This collaborative volume looks at the burgeoning restorative justice movement and considers the relationship between restorative justice and civil society, examining debates and exploring ideas about ...
The British system of dealing with drug addiction is notable for its flexibility and its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. As such it has attracted considerable international interest. In this linked pair of books, the reader is invited on two illustrated journeys. In the first volume, the focus is on the evolution of the drugs problem ...
Drug misuse is a major challenge for health professionals in the twenty-first century, and community pharmacy holds a key place in the management of prescribed medication, the provision of health education and promotion messages to drug users. Two decades ago there would have been no need for a book which described the role of community pharmacy ...
The British system of dealing with drug addiction is notable for its flexibility and its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. As such it has attracted considerable international interest. In this linked pair of books, the reader is invited on two illustrated journeys. In this first volume, the focus is on the evolution of the drugs problem ...
If you are new to UNIX, this concise introduction should tell you what you need to get started. The third edition has been updated for new UNIX systems and now covers basic networking commands, email, and introduces the X window system.
The "British System" is internationally famous as a means of managing heroin addiction, but is widely misunderstood. This book provides a definitive contemporary account of its past, present, and possible future, set in the context of international activities. It includes several previously unrecorded accounts of events during critical periods, ...
HIV and AIDS have brought an unprecedented crisis to all those engaged in the provision of health and social services. Conventional wisdom and old methods have had to be discarded; new problems have called for new information and new skills. This text provides a major evaluation of the challenge of AIDS. An array of contributors, all of whom have ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2006. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ...
"The Secrets Series[registered]" is breaking new ground again! This volume will present guidelines for performing and interpreting CT studies. You'll find all of the features you rely on "Secrets Series[registered]" - such as a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, mnemonics, and tips from the authors. Plus, you'll appreciate these brand-new ...
This volume is the outcome of a conference conducted in 1999 by the Restorative Justice Group in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. The contributions manifest the considerable ferment and innovation around attempts to crystallize a restorative philosophy. They also manifests a distinct history of philosophy ...
Methadone heals, but methadone kills. Methadone is a life-saving treatment, but methadone is also a life-threatening poison. The challenge is how to confer the benefit without incurring the harm. And that is what this book is all about. Methadone is by far the most widely prescribed drug in the treatment of heroin addiction, and yet, all too often ...
The misuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco poses problems of international importance, to which much research is devoted. Basic research is directed at the psychological, biological and genetic basis of substance dependence, but valuable contributions also arise from the fields of social science, economics and historical scholarship. How can the ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
The Magic Feet, set in the years 1792-7198, continues the themes of the author's Plans of the Deathless Gods. It describes the New Zealand before the French Revolutionary wars sever contact between old and new worlds. Taking up where the author's Plans of the Deathless Gods left off, The Magic Fleet recounts the arrivals in the settlement of ...
These new guidelines on drugs are aimed at doctors, who have a role in the primary prevention of drug abuse and in its clinical management. Opioids continue to be a danger to health and more recent drugs such as ecstasy and crack also have potentially lethal effects.
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