I Have a Secret honors the struggle of children who have felt they must not tell others about the bad things that have been done to them. It is here to honor and respect the pain of what happened and the pain of keeping what happened a secret. When children are respected in such pain, they have taken their first step toward healing and wholeness.
The book, "I Didn't Get to Say Good-bye: A story for young children grieving during Coronavirus" is written for children ages 3-6. The narrative and illustrations address the thoughts, feelings, and unique process of saying good-bye for the children and families who have experienced the death of a loved one during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Many children and families will not get to say good-bye to their loved one, or be able to have traditional ceremonies like funerals where there is a communal opportunity to grieve the loss. For this reason, the narrative offers tender ideas, informed by the authors' training in pediatric mental health, for families to engage in together. The ultimate purpose of this book is to witness children in their grief, to help them have names for the complicated feelings they are experiencing as they grieve, and to provide a ritual which gives them the opportunity to say good-bye in their own way. When our emotions go unwitnessed by ourselves and others, those emotions can end up living inside of us, and making our lives more difficult. "I Didn't Get to Say Good-bye" hopes to provide the opportunity to have those feelings witnessed and to make a space for grieving.
Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography tells the complete story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Drawing on Sibelius’s own correspondence and diaries, contemporary reviews, and the remarks of family and friends, the book presents a rich account of the events of the musician’s life. In addition, this volume is the first to set every work and performable fragment by Sibelius in its historical and musical context. Filling a significant gap, the biography also provides the first accurate information about much of the composer’s early music. Writing for the general music-lover, Andrew Barnett combines his own extensive knowledge of Sibelius’s music with the insights of other scholars and musicians. He lays to rest a number of myths and untruths—that Sibelius wrote no chamber music of value, for example, and that he stopped composing in 1926 and didn’t need to compose to earn a living. Barnett completes the volume with the most thorough worklist available and an authoritative chronology of Sibelius’s entire output.
Family Dynasty: A Fantasy Football Oddity, is first and foremost a book. Beyond that it is not much of anything. The book, for the most part, consists of emails, sent back and forth between members of a fantasy football league. The emails range from friendly banter, to barbed attacks, from discussions on the nature of reality, to literary theory. Frankly, fantasy football is often a secondary conversation, but it is the framework which holds the book together. Family Dynasty: A Fantasy Football Oddity is an engaging read for anyone, regardless of their interest in the game.
This book describes in easy to understand language, how to apply the once secretive Shaolin Arts (not just Kung Fu) for self improvement, self empowerment, health optimisation, stress management and peak performance. Full descriptions of some key exercises are included.
Chris Payne and Rob Barnett are two formerly obese economists who started out as colleagues but soon became allies in creating a practical plan to lose weight. They faced the same obstacles to healthy living that so many others face today: long hours, frequently ordering in or eating out, and snacking due to stress or boredom. When Chris and Rob finally committed to healthier lifestyles, they lost weight by applying what they know best - economics - to their waistlines. In The Economists' Diet, Chris and Rob outline a straightforward, sustainable path for changing your eating habits that will help you to achieve your weight-loss goal. By combining economic principles, real-world data and the authors' personal experiences, this book teaches you how to control your impulses to overeat and learn how to approach food in a healthier way. Payne and Barnett provide six behavioural best practices that you can use to achieve lasting results, without extreme dieting or giving up your favourite foods. The Economists' Diet is a unique and effective way to lose weight - and successfully keep it off.
Two professional men in their forties got obese without meaning to. This is their no-nonsense advice on how they shed the weight and kept it off. Chris Payne and Rob Barnett are two formerly obese economists who met while working at Bloomberg. They faced the same obstacles to healthy living that so many face today: long hours, endless stress, constant eating out, and snacking out of boredom. When they finally decided to do something about it, they lost weight by applying their economists' insight into why we humans do the stuff we do even when we know it harms us in the long-term, plus the equation of energy in minus equal energy out. The Economists' Diet is weightloss from a male perspective. There are few rules, little complexity and no specialist ingredients - just a straightforward, sustainable path for changing your eating habits. By combining economic principles, real-world data, and their own personal experiences, this guide teaches you how to control your impulses to overeat and learn how to approach food in a healthier way. Payne and Barnett provide simple solutions that you can use to achieve lasting results, without extreme dieting or giving up your favourite foods. By applying economic concepts, such as supply and demand, budgeting, and abundance, The Economists' Diet is a unique and effective way to lose weight-and successfully keep it off.
Combining the authors' personal weight loss stories with their passion for economics, this counterintuitive approach to dieting reveals the behavioral codes of conduct--derived from core economic principles--which will enable readers to achieve and maintain a healthy weight"--
Helps planners identify energy needs early on so they can be integrated into project design. Summarizes key issues, with detailed discussion of energy options and the dynamics of supply and demand; plus fact sheets and checklists for quick reference.
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