This natural and holistic guide to beauty combines the ancient principles of Ayurveda with the modern-day knowledge of skin biology. With these tools, understand the root causes of common skin ailments and how to rebalance your body, mind and spirit for a flawless, glowing complexion. Learn how to develop your own personal skincare practices based on your individual needs, and tailored to the constraints, issues and values of our current environment. BEAUTY: PURE + SIMPLE brings out our natural beauty through better health!
A radiant complexion can be yours through the ancient science of Ayurveda. Kristen Ma invites you to expand your skin-care consciousness to incorporate elements from this millennia-old system of wellness from India, along with principles supported by the latest scientific research on skin biology. Her practical guidelines are safe and easy to follow—and marvelously effective for nurturing healthy and beautiful skin. Ma explains both skin biology and the basics of Ayurveda as it applies to skin health, and shows you how to determine your true skin type according to your specific dosha (physical constitution according to Ayurvedic principles), then recommends individualized regimens with easy-to-obtain products. Ma explains the influence of diet on skin health, how to deal with skin changes that come with aging, how to protect skin from the sun and pollutants, and how to cope with the effect of stress on skin. She identifies harmful ingredients that are ubiquitous in most products and treatments on the market, and recommends healthy alternatives. She also offers advice on how to treat common problems such as: • breakouts • acne • eczema • rosacea • hyperpigmentation • dark circles under the eyes and puffy eyes • and many others
Laurie returns back home with two kids in tow to begin a new life. Now she must face Cal, who she turned her back on and who is strugling with his own problems.
Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality, The Healed Empath shows empaths and highly sensitive individuals practical techniques for managing their emotions and reclaiming their boundaries and sense of personal power.
The transition to college places vast demands on students to quickly adjust to new circumstances all without the safety net of friends, family and close relationships. For some, that transition is bumpy, for others derailing. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for 18-34 years old. A full 75 percent of mental illness will first appear between the ages of 15-25. More than 40 percent of young adults report an alcohol or substance abuse issue. But intervention can make all the difference, ensuring students not only complete college but turn their lives around. Mental Health and the Adaptation to College helps resident assistants and other student life professionals to differentiate between the normal "aches and pains" of adjustment to college life and the kinds of symptoms indicating the need for more serious treatment. This handbook draws upon the authors' combined eight decades of experience in college student health service and young adult mental health. Philip K. McCullough, MD is a member of the faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. Kristen M. Granachalek, LCSW is cofounder of Alliance Collaborative Psychotherapy, a private therapy practice that specializes in treating young adults in transition. Chris Ogle, MA is Vice President and Dean of Students at Ripon College.
Celebrating the Lectionary® is a supplementary catechetical resource that helps you bring the richness of the Lectionary and the liturgical year into your catechetical program. It can be used in Catholic school programs, during the process of preparing children for Christian initiation, or as a supplement to a traditional basal text for Catholic school or parish religious education programs. It has been changed from a school year annual to now follow the pattern of the Lectionary. It includes sessions for every Sunday of the liturgical year (Advent, Christmas Time, Lent, Easter Time, and Ordinary Time), sessions for each day of the Sacred Paschal Triduum, and sessions for holydays, solemnities, and feasts so that you can use it in a variety of catechetical settings. Each session is easily adapted to your specific needs and time constraints, with sessions designed so that you can lead class discussions and activities with minimal preparation and make use of the resources you have on hand. Each session includes: - Background information for the catechists - Ways to connect the children’s lives with the liturgical year - Full text of the day’s Gospel reading and an age-appropriate guided reflection - Gospel-related activities - A take-home page for the families to do during the week
A Christian self-help guide to life management skills, this book walks you through a journey of healing by exploring root issues, the process of change, and specific skill development.
Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
Written entirely by physician assistants, for physician assistants, Emergency Medicine CAQ Review for Physician Assistants is your go-to study guide for the Physician Assistants EM-CAQ exam. Now this first-of-its kind review offers you a convenient resource to help you need to demonstrate your proficiency and expertise in emergency medicine! Consult just one reliable source for a complete review of what you need to know for the exam. Prepare with confidence! This study guide was written using the NCCPA emergency medicine content blueprint. Get focused, well-organized, and up-to-date guidance from EM-PAs who have passed the exam. Maximize your study time with 250 multiple-choice questions that mimic the exam, including rationales for correct and incorrect answers. Cover every area of your field in one easy-access guide: abdominal and GI; cardiovascular; dermatologic; endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional disorders; environmental; head, ear, eye, nose, and throat disorders; hematologic; immune system; musculoskeletal; nervous system; obstetrics and gynecology; psychobehavioral disorders; pulmonary; renal and urogenital; systemic infectious disorders; toxicology disorders; traumatic disorders; procedures and skills; and other topics. “The book is a treasure trove of clinical information, carefully formulated with a question-based format designed to optimally prepare [physician assistants] for their emergency medicine examinations.” - Ron M. Walls, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Brigham and Women's Health Care, Neskey Family Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Kick Poor Sleep Hygiene Out of Bed! "Professional and insightful tips, tools, and takeaways from the sleep expert I trust the most!” ―Courtney Tracy, LCSW, PsyD, clinical entrepreneur, and creator of The Truth Doctor Dr. Kristen Casey, TikTok’s “Insomnia Doc,” brings her sleep solutions right to you, so you can get the restful sleep you deserve! We all have sleep issues and you’re not alone. Whether you suffer from acute insomnia, sleep maintenance insomnia, or even depression insomnia, we all have experienced sleeplessness brought on by poor sleep hygiene, emotional factors, or physical barriers that keep us just out of reach of a healthy sleep schedule. But don’t fret, you can learn the tools to help you sleep well every night! Mental health plays a huge role in our sleep patterns. Our mental wellness can greatly affect our quality of sleep. If we are feeling anxious, depressed, or tired, we may struggle with making those choices that promote healthy sleep hygiene, and we instead get stuck with the outcomes of poor sleep hygiene. Dr. Casey teaches you how to improve your mental health through better sleep for more restful nights. Inside, you’ll find: Practical methods for trading in your poor sleep hygiene for good sleep hygiene and optimal sleep health Expert advice on the best ways to fall asleep, how to stay asleep, and how to sleep soundly without a white noise machine Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI)-based techniques to help you set up a successful night routine to help you sleep like a baby and finally get a good night’s rest If you’ve enjoyed books like Why We Sleep, The Sleep Solution, or Sleep Through Insomnia, then you’ll love The Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep.
From the balcony of his house, Mike Haines can see the quiet, commonplace beauty of the Holliday farm. But what he remembers is the little sister of his high school girlfriend, Dusty who grew up there. As a teen, Dusty had gone off the rails but when she was a kid, she was sweet, she was funny and she had a special bond with Mike. But after high school, she took off and Mike never saw her again. Then tragedy strikes Dusty’s family, she comes back into town and Mike thinks she hasn't changed back to the sweet, funny girl he knew but instead continued to be selfish and thoughtless, leaving her family alone to deal with their mourning. So he seeks her out and confronts her in an effort to understand what went wrong and to force her to sort herself out. He finds out quickly he’s wrong about Dusty Holliday. Very wrong. And right after Mike discovers that, the bond they had years before snaps back into place in ways he would never suspect. But Mike Haines had a bad marriage then he played games of the heart for a good woman. And lost. In order to protect himself and his kids, he’s cautious, he’s careful to read the signs and he’s not interested in finding a woman he has to fix. Then he learns what happened to Dusty and he thinks she needs to be fixed. He swings, he misses and in this new game of hearts, for Dusty, Mike just got strike three.
Academic Coaching is the first comprehensive book about academic coaching in higher education, providing faculty and staff with a robust foundation in academic coaching that they can use to improve campus services to bolster student success. Drawing from the principles of executive, business, and life coaching, this book explores how to support college students as they begin their journey to independence, grapple with challenging courses, uncover their life’s purpose, and prepare to make their mark on the world. This accessible book is full of step-by-step guidance for becoming an effective academic coach, helping faculty and staff create, expand, incorporate, or improve academic coaching services on campus in order to better serve all students.
We devote this volume to an examination of the apparent shift in the use of force in defending U.S. interests and in furthering U.S. national security policy. The nation's use of unmanned aerial vehicles, in lieu of more conventional military capabilities, has been increasing significantly since the beginning of the century. Commonly referred to as drones, these surveillance and weapons systems appear to offer many advantages. They allow the United States to apply force in areas otherwise inaccessible to military units. ... drones ... are beginning to be used domestically for law enforcement purposes. This volume on drones focuses on international use of the systems. The following volume will address domestic use of drones"--
“A transcendent travelogue that guides readers through the history, places, and people of several of the many witch hunts and how their legacy continues to impact us today.” —Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollée explores the places and people significant to the early modern legacy of the witch. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, a confluence of political, economic, and religious factors ignited a wildfire of witch hysteria in Europe and, later, in parts of America. At the heart of these witch hunts were often dangerous misconceptions about femininity and female sexuality, and women were disproportionately punished as a result. Today, this lineage of oppression remains a vital reference point in the fight for women’s rights—and human rights—in the Western world and beyond. By infusing an adventurous first-person narrative with extensive research and moments of imaginative historical fiction, Sollée (author of Witches, Sluts, Feminists) makes an often-overlooked period of history come alive. Written for armchair travelers and on-the-ground explorers alike, Witch Hunt not only uncovers the horrors of history but how the archetype of the witch has been rehabilitated. For witches are not just haunting figures of the past; the witch is also a liberatory icon and identity of the present. This paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author and an updated travel resources section.
Features comprehensive updates throughout the text, including indications, techniques, potential complications in perioperative management of patients, and surgical techniques for congenital heart disease. Covers recent advances in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, developments in mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization. Features an all-new, full-color format that speeds navigation and helps clarify complex concepts. Contains 27 new chapters with an emphasis on the team approach to patient care in the ICU including creating multidisciplinary teams, quality and performance improvement, training , and challenges and solutions to developing a cohesive team environment. Includes a detailed chapter on bedside ultrasound, walking you through the techniques you’re most likely to encounter in the ICU. Employs well-documented tables, text boxes, and algorithms to make clinical information easy to access, and to provide a more complete understanding of echocardiography, imaging modalities, pulmonary hypertension, and more. Describes the basic pharmacology and clinical applications of new pharmacologic agents. Examines issues affecting adults with congenital heart disease.
If you've been confused or frustrated with how to change your mindset and secretly wondered, "Why haven't I gotten past this ___ yet?" or "Why do others seem to get it, when I don't?" then Life Well Spoken will help you understand-and transform-your mindset in a powerful way. If you feel called to lead, but you also feel overwhelmed by the responsibility that leadership brings, you'll find relief, solace, and companionship within these pages. Leading others begins with leading yourself, and frankly, sometimes that is not as easy as it sounds-until you know how. Learning to trust one's inner authority, stop second-guessing oneself, and not taking things personally are all hallmarks of a powerful leader. Through real-life stories, examples, and questions to free your Inner Voice, Life Well Spoken takes you behind the velvet curtain and into the lives and hearts of women who have been led by their Inner Voices and found that their lives and businesses have never been the same.
This is a book about everyday heroes, a story of divine importance. In this inspirational collection of true stories you'll see how the Lord connects us with others and magnifies our works into greatness. Filled with experiences that will benefit every ward and every organization, For All the Saints is a moving and memorable read you'll want to share with family and friends.
People magazine's top reason for Hope in America. Curated from a grassroots social movement, The Front Steps Project is an inspiring, uplifting portrait series capturing how people coped with living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Front Steps Project™ demonstrates that even in the most challenging of circumstances, kindness, love, courage, and hope exist to build, bind, and connect communities around the globe. Created on March 18, 2020, The Front Steps Project™ began when friends Kristen Collins and Cara Soulia sought out to unite their neighbors through photographs of life in quarantine. In addition to incorporating work from other local photographers, the women traveled to neighborhoods around Needham, Massachusetts to photograph residents in front of their homes in exchange for donations to their local food pantry. Within days, #TheFrontStepsProject became a grassroots social mission, connecting thousands of people across the globe and raising over $3,250,000 for vital non-profit organizations and local businesses including food pantries, frontline workers, homeless and animal shelters, hospitals and so much more. Through their noble efforts, hundreds of thousands of images and stories of love, sacrifice, compassion, kindness, perseverance, and – ultimately hope – flooded social media. Featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and more, The Front Steps Project brings communities together virtually, despite being – and maybe feeling – isolated. The Front Steps Project contains over 400 photographs and dozens of stories of families during the COVID-19 pandemic. This heartwarming keepsake commemorates a massive effort of courage, unity, and goodwill. As a tribute to the good work of The Front Steps Project, a portion of book sales will be donated to The United Way to help people impacted by the pandemic.
Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since the Enlightenment. Kristen Case's book argues that American poets from Emerson to Susan Howe have responded to the central problems of Western philosophy by performing, in language, the continually shifting relation between mind and world. Pragmatism, recognizing the futility of philosophy's attempt to fix the mind/world relation, announces the insights that these poets enact. Pursuing the flights of pragmatist thinking into poetry and poetics, Case traces an epistemology that emerges from American writing, including that of Emerson, Marianne Moore, William James, and Charles Olson. Here mind and world are understood as inseparable, and the human being is regarded as, in Thoreau's terms, "part and parcel of Nature." Case presents a new picture of twentieth-century American poetry that disrupts our sense of the schools and lineages of modern and postmodern poetics, arguing that literary history is most accurately figured as a living field rather than a line. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of pragmatism, transcendentalism, and twentieth-century American poetry. Kristen Case is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Despite its significant growth over the past five years, the mobile and social videogame industry is still maturing at a rapid rate. Due to various storage and visual and sound asset restrictions, mobile and social gaming must have innovative storytelling techniques. Narrative Tactics grants readers practical advice for improving narrative design and game writing for mobile and social games, and helps them rise to the challenge of mobile game storytelling. The first half of the book covers general storytelling techniques, including worldbuilding, character design, dialogue, and quests. In the second half, leading experts in the field explore various genres and types of mobile and social games, including educational games, licensed IP, games for specific demographics, branding games, and free to play (F2P). Key Features The only book dedicated to narrative design and game writing in social and mobile games, an explosive market overtaking the console gaming market. Provides tips for narrative design and writing tailored specifically for mobile and social game markets. Guides readers along with conclusions that include questions to help the reader in narrative design and/or writing. Explores real games to illustrate theory and best practices with analyses of game case studies per chapter, covering indie, social/mobile, and AAA games. Includes checklists to help readers critique their own narrative design/writing.
The first comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, chosen for their distinction. Based upon natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria and Kuwait, this study takes an analytical approach, combining insights from discourse analysis, language typology and pragmatics.
This book describes methods of support and intervention teachers can use to create social inclusion in preschool and the primary grades. Combining general early childhood education with special education, this unique volume explains a wide variety of strategies ranging from environmental arrangement, on-the-spot teaching, and cooperative learning, to more intensive, individually-targeted interventions for children experiences challenges and disabilities.
Il est le plus sensuel des interdits… *** Plaquée par son fiancé, Emma se retrouve célibataire à enchaîner les cocktails avec ses copines. Mais ce qui la rend vraiment folle, c’est que Marius, son ex, refuse de lui rendre ce qu’elle a de plus précieux au monde. Qu’à cela ne tienne, Emma a un plan ! Elle va recruter une bande de bad boys pour reprendre son bien. Vengeance et justice à la fois ! Cependant, elle n’avait pas prévu de succomber au charme de l’un d’eux, Diego… Emma devrait fuir, oublier son plan. Mais les délices et les interdits brisés que promet Diego sont bien trop attirants… *** – Tu es sûre de ce que tu fais ? demande Diego. Si le fait qu’il se soucie de mon consentement éclairé me touche, je suis lasse que l’on me traite comme une petite fille qui ne sait pas ce qu’elle veut. C’est ainsi depuis mon enfance et il est temps que ça change. – La seule chose dont je suis certaine, Diego, c’est que je ne veux plus entendre cette question. Désormais, ta bouche, tu dois l’utiliser pour m’embrasser. Un sourire carnassier étire ses lèvres et son regard devient si intense que le rouge me monte aux joues. Je ne suis pas une débutante, mais cet homme-là est différent de tous ceux que j’ai connus. Il est unique. Et, à présent, il va devenir mien, juste pour ce soir. Il m’embrasse de nouveau et ses mains descendent sur mes hanches. Il m’aide à me hisser. Mes jambes entourent sa taille tandis que mes doigts s’affairent toujours à ouvrir ses boutons. Je quitte ses lèvres pour embrasser son torse, mordillant ses tétons l’un après l’autre, ce qui lui arrache un gémissement. Je sens sa virilité contre ma culotte et je suis déjà prête pour lui. En même temps, dans une cabine d’ascenseur, ce n’est pas comme si nous avions le temps pour beaucoup de préliminaires. Cependant, pour ma plus grande déception, il me dépose à terre. Cela dit, il ne me donne pas le temps de protester. – Tourne-toi. Rien que pour le provoquer, j’obtempère d’un pas traînant, bien que je sois secrètement ravie qu’il me donne des ordres. Ma cage thoracique se soulève sous le rythme de ma respiration rapide. Je n’ai jamais été aussi excitée de toute ma vie. Alors, je sens ses doigts agiles sur ma nuque, quand il attrape la fermeture Éclair qu’il fait glisser le long de mon dos, jusqu’à mes fesses. Je retiens mon souffle et ma robe tombe à mes pieds. Je me tiens devant lui en culotte et en soutien-gorge sous la lumière verdâtre d’une cage d’ascenseur. La gêne liée à mon éducation bourgeoise particulièrement pudibonde fait irruption dans mon cerveau, et mon envie chute d’un cran. Quant à ma confiance en moi, elle a sans doute rejoint ma robe. – Retourne-toi. J’hésite entre lui obéir et me rhabiller fissa. Je peux toujours mettre fin à notre contrat et ne plus jamais le revoir. – S’il te plaît, Emma. Laisse-moi te montrer comme tu es belle. Laisse-moi te montrer comme tu brilles. Bad Boy Wanted ! de Kristen Rivers, premiers chapitres du roman.
Reconstructing Earth’s Climate History There has never been a more critical time for students to understand the record of Earth’s climate history, as well as the relevance of that history to understanding Earth’s present and likely future climate. There also has never been a more critical time for students, as well as the public-at-large, to understand how we know, as much as what we know, in science. This book addresses these needs by placing you, the student, at the center of learning. In this book, you will actively use inquiry-based explorations of authentic scientific data to develop skills that are essential in all disciplines: making observations, developing and testing hypotheses, reaching conclusions based on the available data, recognizing and acknowledging uncertainty in scientific data and scientific conclusions, and communicating your results to others. The context for understanding global climate change today lies in the records of Earth’s past, as preserved in archives such as sediments and sedimentary rocks on land and on the seafloor, as well as glacial ice, corals, speleothems, and tree rings. These archives have been studied for decades by geoscientists and paleoclimatologists. Much like detectives, these researchers work to reconstruct what happened in the past, as well as when and how it happened, based on the often-incomplete and indirect records of those events preserved in these archives. This book uses guided-inquiry to build your knowledge of foundational concepts needed to interpret such archives. Foundational concepts include: interpreting the environmental meaning of sediment composition, determining ages of geologic materials and events (supported by a new section on radiometric dating), and understanding the role of CO2 in Earth’s climate system, among others. Next, this book provides the opportunity for you to apply your foundational knowledge to a collection of paleoclimate case studies. The case studies consider: long-term climate trends, climate cycles, major and/or abrupt episodes of global climate change, and polar paleoclimates. New sections on sea level change in the past and future, climate change and life, and climate change and civilization expand the book’s examination of the causes and effects of Earth’s climate history. In using this book, we hope you gain new knowledge, new skills, and greater confidence in making sense of the causes and consequences of climate change. Our goal is that science becomes more accessible to you. Enjoy the challenge and the reward of working with scientific data and results! Reconstructing Earth’s Climate History, Second Edition, is an essential purchase for geoscience students at a variety of levels studying paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, oceanography, historical geology, global change, Quaternary science and Earth-system science.
An examination of the movement that has turned the discipline of political science upside down This superb volume describes the events and ramifications of a revolt within the political science discipline that began in 2000 with a disgruntled e-mail message signed by one “Mr. Perestroika.” The message went to seventeen recipients who quickly forwarded it to others, and soon the Perestroika revolt became a major movement calling for change in the American political science community. What is the Perestroika movement? Why did it occur? What has it accomplished? What remains to be done? Most important, what does it tell us about the nature of political science, about methodological pluralism and diversity, about the process of publishing scholarly work, and about graduate education in the field? The contributors to the book—thoughtful political scientists who offer a variety of perspectives—set the Perestroika movement in historical and comparative contexts. They address many topics related to heart of the debate—a desire for tolerance of methodological diversity—and assess the changes that have come in the wake of Perestroika. For political scientists and their graduate students, and for those interested in the history or sociology of Social Sciences, this volume is essential reading.
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