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LIGHTEN Your Day

Fast, Easy and Effective Stress Relief

By: Professor Pete Alexander

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LIGHTEN Your Day

Fast, Easy and Effective Stress Relief

By: Professor Pete Alexander

Stress is all around us—at work, at home, online … you name it. A simple Google search on stress will pull up over one billion results on what stress is, types of it, what causes it, symptoms, and what you can do about it. But we don’t need Google to tell us if we’re stressed: the reality is, we know it because our mind and body are delivering clear signals that we are taxing ourselves. The problem is that we don’t have the time to figure out how to deal with stress in the now, and then we stress out about not being able to deal with our stress: a vicious circle. Sure, you could buy a book or download an app on meditating, or breathing, or journaling, or exercising. You could open the book or app and give it a try, but it probably didn’t work. Why? Maybe you didn’t give it enough time. Maybe you tried it while also responding to 100 emails. Maybe the techniques provided were too complicated or time-intensive, so now you’re frustrated and thinking “I’ve got this really important meeting/presentation this morning, where I have to be at my best. Isn’t there some tool or technique that can help me right now, in this moment?” The answer is yes! If you flip through this book you will see that there are hundreds of fast, effective, and easy tips and tools designed specifically to be used in the now. Why so many? Because you are unique, so there is no such thing as a one-size fits all tool for stress relief. What works for one person may not work for someone else. The book’s foundation is the LIGHTEN™ Model, and the tools suggested are organized around the areas of your life that need to be nurtured in order to achieve long-term stress relief: Livelihood (career), Imagination, Genius (unconscious mind), Health, Time, Environment, and Network (relationships). If you are stressed about hitting your sales quota, take a look at the Livelihood or Time chapter. Worried about that next presentation? The Imagination chapter has some great techniques. Anxious about your next doctor’s appointment? Check out the Genius or Health chapter. Meeting your in-laws? The Network chapter is the place to go. The intent of this book is that you keep it handy for whenever or wherever you need it: that important meeting/presentation, that difficult conversation you need to have, the multiple priorities all needing your attention right now, or anything else that stresses you out when shit happens. If you just have a couple minutes to spare to get some quick-and-easy stress relief, this book is for you.

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1072704994

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Women and Employment in Public Policy

Learning from the UK Women and Work Commission (2004-2009)

By: Professor of European Politics and Society Susan Milner,Susan Milner

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Women and Employment in Public Policy

Learning from the UK Women and Work Commission (2004-2009)

By: Professor of European Politics and Society Susan Milner,Susan Milner

Using documentary evidence and interviews from leading policy actors from the period, Women and Employment in Public Policy takes as its starting point the UK Women and Work Commission, which was convened in 2004 to examine causes of the gender pay gap.

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Oxford University Press

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0198875436

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African Cities

Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

By: Professor Garth Myers

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African Cities

Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

By: Professor Garth Myers

In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies. Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa - from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar - the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1848135106

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B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

By: Professor George Plasketes

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B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

By: Professor George Plasketes

There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no exception. George Plasketes adapts the iconic "A-side/B-side" dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical, and cultural framework for exploring and threading together a variety of popular music and media texts. The profiles and perspectives focus on the peripheries; on texts which might be considered "B-sides"—overlooked, underappreciated, and unsung cases, creators, patterns and productions that have unassumingly, but significantly, marked popular culture, music and media during the past 40 years. The underappreciated yet enduring contributions of a variety of creative individuals in music, television and film are a centerpiece of this volume: actress Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher, a 1960s music producer whose imprint is on the surf, country blues, garage pop and most importantly the folk rock genre; Hans Fenger's kid chorus cover project, a musical variation of "outsider art" that became representative of the tribute wave that began in the 1990s and continues today; versatile guitarist virtuoso Ry Cooder's extensive film soundtrack work; World Music "missionary efforts" of American artists beyond Paul Simon's Graceland, including Neil Diamond's precursor with Tap Root Manuscript in the 1970s and the exotic adventures of Henry Kaiser and David Lindley in Madagascar and Norway—to name just a few examples. These B-sides represent undercurrents, but they resonate as overtones in the mainstream of music and culture, many as historical hinges. Collectively, these B-sides are an A-side antidote of outskirt observations, individual snapshots of artists, artifacts and rituals, genres and generations, producers and musical productions in television, film and video. They constitute an important connect-the-dots cultural chronicle with a multi-layered context—social, legal, historic, economic, technological, generational, aesthetic—for interpreting the interrelations between creators and institutions, the music market place, the production of culture and important connections between the peripheral and the popular.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409493865

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Worlds of ScienceCraft

New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies

By: Mr Alexander I Stingl,Professor Sal Restivo,Ms Sabrina M Weiss

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Worlds of ScienceCraft

New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies

By: Mr Alexander I Stingl,Professor Sal Restivo,Ms Sabrina M Weiss

A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematics, social cognition, and medical ethics.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409445275

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Presidential Debates : The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

By: The Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Kathleen Hall Jamieson Dean,Department of Speech Baruch College David S. Birdsell Assistant Professor, City University of New York

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Presidential Debates : The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

Presidential debates have had mixed reviews. Advocates praise debates as a way of making issues more central to the campaign. Others criticize them as little more than joint press conferences. How important are these debates? Do they really test knowledge and vision? Do they sort good ideas from bad, or reveal important character traits and habits of mind? In short, do they provide voters with what they need to know to choose a president? To address these questions, the authors place contemporary debates in their cultural and historical context, tracing their origins and development in the American political tradition, from the eighteenth century to the present. Although the Kennedy-Nixon TV confrontations were an historical first, debate was an element of American electoral politics by 1788 and a staple of policy deliberation throughout the colonial period. Indeed, much of the confusion over the value of debates stems in part from the long tradition of political debating in America. Thus, to make the most productive use of debate in modern presidential politics, the authors argue, we must respond to the history of this tradition. The book concludes with recommendations to preserve the best elements of traditional debate while adapting to the requirements of the broadcast age. The reforms they advocate include: substantive debates between major party representatives between elections; alternative formats; use of visual aids in debates; follow-up press conferences; a focus on fewer issues and increased experimentation in the primaries. Presidential debates provide voters with a rare opportunity to evaluate political reasoning on complex issues. In suggesting ways to make presidential debates even more effective, this thought-provoking volume makes an important contribution to America's political future.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199729190

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No Place for Amateurs

How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson,Professor Emeritus of Political Management Dennis W Johnson

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No Place for Amateurs

How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson,Professor Emeritus of Political Management Dennis W Johnson

This work details the skills, strategies, and methods - and the extraordinary resources these require - to provide an expose of the highly sophisticated techniques used to reach and persuade voters.

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Routledge

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1135962731

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9781135962739

UNHCR

The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection Into the 21st Century

By: Associate Professor Department of International Development Alexander Betts,Chairman of the External Advisory Board to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva and Professor of International Relations Gil Loescher,James Milner

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UNHCR

The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection Into the 21st Century

Thisis a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the UN organization that protects and assists them. Written by experts in the field, this is one of the very few books that trace the relationship between state interests, global politics, and the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).Looking ahead into thetwenty-first century, the authors outline how the changing nature of conflict and displacement poses UNHCR with a new array of challenges and how there exists a fundamental tension between the UN s human rights agenda of protecting refugees fleeing conflict and persecution and the security, political and economic interests of states around the world. Key topics discussed include: The UNHCR as an actor in world politics since 1950 Refugee definition and protection instruments New challengestothe UNHCR's mandate Institutionalstrengths and weaknesses Asylum crises in the global North and global South Protracted refugee situations and internally displaced persons Key criticisms and continuing relevance of the UNHCR.

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1134141238

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Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music

A Composer's Search for American Music

By: Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University

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Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music

A Composer's Search for American Music

By: Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger, writing her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long after. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival, issuing several important books of transcriptions and arrangements and pioneering the use of American folk songs in children's music education. Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger. This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. The first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition, Crawford Seeger nearly gave up writing music as the demands of family, politics, and the folk song movement intervened. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength, that she returned to composing. Written with unique insight and compassion, this book offers the definitive treatment of a fascinating twentieth-century figure.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198022999

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The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

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The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

Based on the author s analysis of in-depth interviews and relevant research literature, this booki nvestigates and explores the experiences, problems and pressures faced by black and ethnic minority women managers in the United Kingdom. To date, research addressing the issues of black managers has been almost exclusively American, predominantly black African-Americans, and the overall amount of published research has been limited. Indeed, studies of black and ethnic minority professional women, especially in corporate settings, have been virtually excluded from the growing body of research on women in management. This book has been written to fill this gap.

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Sage

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1446223620

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LIGHTEN Your Day

LIGHTEN Your Day

Women and Employment in Public Policy

Women and Employment in Public Policy

African Cities

African Cities

B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

Worlds of ScienceCraft

Worlds of ScienceCraft

Presidential Debates : The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

Presidential Debates : The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

No Place for Amateurs

No Place for Amateurs

UNHCR

UNHCR

Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music

Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

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