Stress has three main fuels: worry, fear, and doubt. They act like little serpents that crawl into the lap of your life and wreak havoc emotionally, spiritually, and physically. But you have the ability to identify and dismiss these serpents that are trying to hinder your ability to maintain inner calm, clarity of focus, and a motivated response to all of life. 5 Minutes to Stress Relief will give you the specific skills and tools to: Identify and relieve stress Access personal excellence in your thought life to create positive transformation in your physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences Activate your God-given natural state of being Stress is often called the silent killer. As someone who battled the stress of advanced cancer and divorce—simultaneously—Lauren equips you with the ability to successfully handle any stressful situation...instantly.
99 Things You Want to Know Before Stressing Out is a stress prevention book that will empower you with the ability to enter into positive transformation by renewing your mind. This is a mind retreat that will relieve your body of the yoke of slavery to daily stress. Enjoy the journey back to a more relaxed version of you.
Lauren E Miller, founder of Stress Solutions University.com and Edie Hand, television personality, radio host, noted author and founder of GenuinePearlGirls.com have teamed up to share with readers short meditations and reflections to help remember what the soul already knows. Small, powerful, bite-size mind vitamins to feed and heal the deepest core of your mind, body and spirit in just 31 days! Each day the authors share spiritual truths, phrases, prayers and insights to help readers face their daily challenges. The daily Pearl of Hope creates a new dimension of thought for living your life with authenticity, gratitude, zeal and infinite possibilities. Readers looking to restore or enhance their faith in God and build their spiritual skills will appreciate this easy to read book.
Hearing His Whisper is intimate conversations with Jesus through the challenges of life, including two of life's top stressors. You will discover a portal into the un-manifested spiritual dimension that ultimately leads to internal freedom, inner strength, self-love and acceptance through and with the source of love itself. The world screams and God whispers, as you pause and lean your personality into Jesus' loving kindness you will release the grip you have on those shiny objects that create stress and anxiety and hold you back from the freedom Christ died to give you. Hearing His Whisper is grab and go inspiration that you can use in the midst of the hustle and bustle of life. In this second edition Lauren sets up the reader up by offering a safe container through which you can unpack and apply the phrases and insights that land in your heart. You will get a glimpse of Jesus' love and faithfulness in the eye of the storm as you walk with Lauren through every day inconveniences and emotional triggers into two of life's top stressors at the same time. An attachment is an emotional state of clinging due to the belief that without some specific outcome. situation or circumstance you cannot be happy. You will learn the power of releasing attachments as you resurrect your identity in Christ. With every storm and hardship Jesus comes too and along with an opportunity to re-engage the powerful, courageous spirit that Christ died to empower you with. Once your source of identity and confidence is fueled by your faith in Jesus' perfect love for you, fear will be cast out of your mental radar. You will learn that a simple desire to hear the voice of the Lord will unlock your ability to first guess what He may say to the questions you pose which after time leads to a full immersion into a continual flow of meaning (which is the definition of dialogue) between you and your Savior as was the case for Samuel: "Speak Lord, your servant is listening." "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened by the yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1 "Stress is the power we give to outside circumstance to define our worth, value and capability. Take it back Today!
Stress has three main fuels: worry, fear, and doubt. They act like little serpents that crawl into the lap of your life and wreak havoc emotionally, spiritually, and physically. But you have the ability to identify and dismiss these serpents that are trying to hinder your ability to maintain inner calm, clarity of focus, and a motivated response to all of life. 5 Minutes to Stress Relief will give you the specific skills and tools to: Identify and relieve stress Access personal excellence in your thought life to create positive transformation in your physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences Activate your God-given natural state of being Stress is often called the silent killer. As someone who battled the stress of advanced cancer and divorce—simultaneously—Lauren equips you with the ability to successfully handle any stressful situation...instantly.
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Aguirre writes clearly, concisely, and often cinematically. The book succeeds in providing an accessible yet substantive look at memory science and offering glimpses of the often-challenging process of biomedical investigation.”—Science Sometimes, it’s not the discovery that’s hard – it’s convincing others that you’re right. The Memory Thief chronicles an investigation into a rare and devastating amnesia first identified in a cluster of fentanyl overdose survivors. When a handful of doctors embark on a quest to find out exactly what happened to these marginalized victims, they encounter indifference and skepticism from the medical establishment. But after many blind alleys and occasional strokes of good luck, they go on to prove that opioids can damage the hippocampus, a tiny brain region responsible for forming new memories. This discovery may have implications for millions of people around the world. Through the prism of this fascinating story, Aguirre recounts the obstacles researchers so often confront when new ideas bump up against conventional wisdom. She explains the elegant tricks scientists use to tease out the fundamental mechanisms of memory. And finally, she reveals why researchers now believe that a treatment for Alzheimer’s is within reach.
In the latest contribution to the acclaimed Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series, one of the premier authorities on the subject focuses on America's most mainstream religion. 30 photos.
First Published in 1997. In an effort to find the validity of middle ground, this book offers a comprehensive analysis that looks further than the House Committee on National Security's actions on the B-2 bomber, President Clinton's campaign promise to support the Seawolf submarine, and the Pentagon's use of a concurrent and risky management strategy for the $71.6 billion F-22 fighter aircraft program. It provides a dissection of the decision-making process for a representative sample of major weapons systems to invalidate the claims that pork and malfeasance are both pervasive and determinate.
Are celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox on policy progress? This book identifies and measures the attributes of celebrities that make them well-equipped to win campaigns and yet poorly prepared to govern effectively. The framers of the U.S. Constitution worried about the propensity of an undereducated public to elect unqualified entertainers rather than fit characters to government positions. Celebrities have come to play an increasingly central role in the American political process as fundraisers, surrogates, and as candidates themselves, yet remain a sorely understudied topic in political science. Through a multimethod approach that includes qualitative analysis, novel public opinion surveys, and survey experiments, this book assesses whether Americans are more likely to vote for celebrities than well-known traditional politicians and the implications of these preferences for democracy in the U.S. Perfect for students, scholars, and interested citizens, Star Power looks at the contemporary American political landscape through new lenses of research as well as popular appeal.
Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.
Covering all aspects of sensory panel management, this volume describes the different types of sensory panels (for example panels for quality control, descriptive analysis and discrimination tests), discusses the issues involved with sensory testing, and gives detailed information about sensory panel recruitment, training and on-going management. Sensory Panel Management gives both theoretical and practical information from deciding what type of panel to recruit and how to conduct panel training, to creating the best sensory team and how to deal with any issues. Downloads of several of the documents included in the book are available from http://www.laurenlrogers.com/sensory-panel-management.html The book is divided into three main sections. The first section looks at the recruitment of sensory panels, covering the process from both a scientific and a human resources angle. The second section deals with the training of a sensory panel. Initial training, as well as method and product specific training is covered. Example session plans for running panel sessions for quality control, discrimination tests, descriptive profiling, temporal methods and consumer tests are included within the specific chapters. Refresher and advanced training such as training panelists to take part in gas chromatography-olfactometry are also included. The third section examines the performance of sensory panels. Chapters within this section explore performance measures and ways of preventing (and dealing with) difficult situations relating to panellists. A final chapter looks at the future of sensory panels. Throughout the book there are short case study examples demonstrating the practical application of the methods being discussed. Sensory Panel Management is a key reference for academics, technical and sensory staff in food companies. Lauren Rogers is an independent sensory science consultant in the UK with more than twenty years of practical experience. She has worked on a wide variety of projects, including shelf life studies, product and flavor optimization, new flavor development and in-depth brand analyses. She is a member of the Society of Sensory Professionals, the Institute of Food Science and Technology’s Sensory Science Group, the Sensometric Society and is also a member of the ASTM Sensory Evaluation Committee (E18). Discusses sensory panels for testing food and non-food based products Covers best practices for recruitment, selection and training of panels Provides examples of training plans for sensory panels Encompasses experimental design and data analysis of panel results Organized in modular format for practical uses
This important book for industrial hygienists, toxicologists, and cancer risk specialists discusses the state of the art in risk assessment for urethane carcinogenicity. The book features more than 30 tables that provide time and dose data at a glance. Major topics include pharmacokinetics and metabolism, genotoxicity, carcinogenic effects, the mode of action of urethane tumorigenesis, and cancer potency estimation. This book is a "must have" for anyone involved with urethane carcinogenicity.
Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originated in Bắc Ninh province, northern Vietnam. The book delves into the rich and complicated history of quan họ, showing the changes it has undergone over the last sixty years as it moved from village practice onto the professional stage. Interweaving an examination of folk music, cultural nationalism, and cultural heritage with an in-depth ethnographic account of the changing social practice of quan ho folk song, author Lauren Meeker presents a vivid and historically contextualized picture of the quan họ “soundscape.” Village practitioners, ordinary people who love to sing quan họ, must now negotiate increased attention from those outside the village and their own designation as “living treasures.” Professional singers, with their different performance styles and representational practices, have been incorporated into the quan họ soundscape in an effort to highlight and popularize the culture of Bắc Ninh province in the national context. With its focus on the politics of rescuing, preserving, and performing folk music, this book makes a timely contribution to studies of cultural politics by showing with considerable nuance how a tradition can become a self-conscious heritage and national icon. In 2009, Quan Họ Bắc Ninh Folk Songs was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Defining and reframing quan họ as cultural heritage has further complicated the relationship between village and professional quan họ and raises crucial issues about who has the authority to speak for quan họ in the international context. Sounding Out Heritage offers an in-depth account of the impact of cultural politics on the lives and practices of quan họ folk singers in Vietnam and shows compellingly how a tradition can mean many things to many people.
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacock—that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each work adapts figures from British Romantic poetry and translates them into an American context. Kincaid relies on the repeated image of the daffodil, Atwood displaces Lucy, McCarthy upends the American arcadia, Fitzgerald heaps Keatsian images of excess, and Harris transforms the albatross. In her close readings, Maxwell suggests that the novels reframe Romantic poetry to allegorically confront empire, revealing how subjectivity is shaped by considerations of place and power. Returning to British Romantic poetry allows the novels to extend the Romantic poetics of landscape that traditionally considered the British subject's relation to place. By recasting Romantic poetics in the Americas, these novels show how negotiations of identity and power are defined by the legacies of British imperialism, illustrating that these nations, their peoples, and their works of art are truly postcolonial. While many postcolonial scholars and critics have dismissed the idea that Romantic poetry can be used to critique colonialism, Maxwell suggests that, on the contrary, it has provided contemporary writers across the Americas with a means of charting the literary and cultural legacies of British imperialism in the New World. The poems of the British Romantics offer postcolonial writers particularly rich material, Maxwell argues, because they characterize British influence at the height of the British empire. In explaining how the novels adapt figures from British Romantic poetry, Romantic Revisions provides scholars and students working in postcolonial studies, Romanticism, and English-language literature with a new look at politics of location in the Americas.
The leading single-source book in women's health care, reproductive medicine, and pelvic surgery A Doody's Core Title! Thorough review of all of obstetrics & gynecology Covers more than 1,000 diseases and disorders The latest screening and management guidelines More than 450 clear clinical photos and illustrations in two colors Formatted to facilitate quick retrieval of information Concise, current coverage of treatments for common gynecologic infections Extensively revised throughout Covers underlying pathophysiology when relevant to diagnosis and treatment Helpful references to classic and important new sources
Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive reference provides the latest clinically relevant information on all aspects of women's health care. New contributors offer up-to-the-minute reports on late pregnancy complications, multiple pregnancy, third-trimester hemorrhage, and infertility.
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