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The Positive Power of Sadness

How Good Grief Prevents and Cures Anxiety, Depression, and Anger

By: Ron Johnson Ph.D.,Deb Brock Ph.D.

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The Positive Power of Sadness

How Good Grief Prevents and Cures Anxiety, Depression, and Anger

By: Ron Johnson Ph.D.,Deb Brock Ph.D.

Written by two clinical psychologists with nearly a century of combined experience, this book explains how people who suffer from depression, anxiety, or undue anger can overcome these difficulties by allowing the normal process of grieving to occur. Sadness is generally characterized as a negative emotion, yet experiencing sadness plays a positive and key role in achieving and maintaining mental health and in avoiding anxiety, depression, and anger. Indeed, sadness can be understood as a normal and necessary feeling that always occurs when one loses something that is loved. The Positive Power of Sadness examines the experience of sadness, taking into account the personal, relational, and neurological factors of sadness; explains the cultural reasons that many resist feeling sad and consequently displace sadness into secondary processes; and provides a practical and systematic way to overcome anger, anxiety, and depression by allowing the normal process of being sad to occur. This simple paradigm of love and loss causing joy and sorrow in tandem is founded on solid research, carefully considered theory, and extensive experience and will serve to stimulate further thought and writing. Professional therapists, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and clergy who work with people in various settings will find this enlightening reading, as will general readers seeking self-help or possessing an interest in psychological functioning or relational difficulties.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216130673

Magical Mathematics

The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks

By: Persi Diaconis,Ron Graham

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Magical Mathematics

The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks

By: Persi Diaconis,Ron Graham

Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing it. Each card trick introduces a new mathematical idea, and varying the tricks in turn takes readers to the very threshold of today's mathematical knowledge. For example, the Gilbreath principle--a fantastic effect where the cards remain in control despite being shuffled--is found to share an intimate connection with the Mandelbrot set. Other card tricks link to the mathematical secrets of combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, topology, the Riemann hypothesis, and even Fermat's last theorem. Diaconis and Graham are mathematicians as well as skilled performers with decades of professional experience between them. In this book they share a wealth of conjuring lore, including some closely guarded secrets of legendary magicians. Magical Mathematics covers the mathematics of juggling and shows how the I Ching connects to the history of probability and magic tricks both old and new. It tells the stories--and reveals the best tricks--of the eccentric and brilliant inventors of mathematical magic. Magical Mathematics exposes old gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card monte, traces the history of mathematical magic back to the thirteenth century and the oldest mathematical trick--and much more"-

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Princeton University Press

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0691169772

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9780691169774

The Uninvited Traveler

In the Shadow of Trump

By: Ron Breazeale Ph.D.

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The Uninvited Traveler

In the Shadow of Trump

By: Ron Breazeale Ph.D.

The Uninvited Traveler: In the Shadow of Trump By: Ron Breazeale Ph.D. Lou, a middle-aged bookkeeper who hates his job and his life, decides to leave the Northeast behind, including his wife and two adult children, to head south to create a new life in Florida. While attempting to ask his old girlfriend, Jay, to flee with him, the two are carjacked by Thomas, who seeks asylum for himself and his people. Their journey south takes them not just to Cocoa Beach, Florida, but also to the jungles of Peru, and finally to the Bermuda triangle. The story twists and turns, giving new meaning to “asylum seeker,” as the three confront challenges to the resilience in the shadow of Trump.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798886046397

Making Sense of the Senseless

By: Ron D. Kingsley

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Making Sense of the Senseless

By: Ron D. Kingsley

This book represents a culmination of research, thought, and clinical experience collected over the past 15 years. It was written to help those individuals who find themselves in the quandry of not demonstrating symptoms of sufficient intensity and/or severity to be recognized as obsessive and compuslive and yet they are. Such mild-moderate symptoms (Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms; OCS rather than OCD) are nevfertheless life interfering, distressing, anxiety and panic provoking, have secondary and tertiary symptoms causally linked to them such as depression, explosiveness, emotional instability and yet are very treatable. This book is for us all. May the information therein help you as it has been helping others well before the actual book was completed. Ron D. Kingsley

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Xlibris Corporation

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1401068758

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9781401068752

The Popular Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling

An Indispensable Tool for Helping People with Their Problems

By: Dr Tim Clinton,Dr Ron Hawkins

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The Popular Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling

An Indispensable Tool for Helping People with Their Problems

By: Dr Tim Clinton,Dr Ron Hawkins

Seasoned counselors and professors Tim Clinton and Ron Hawkins provide a landmark reference that offers a capstone definition of the emerging profession and ministry of the Christian counselor. Appropriate for professional counselors, lay counselors, pastors, students, and teachers, it includes nearly 300 entries by nearly 100 top Christian counselors. This practical guide focuses on functional aspects of Christian counseling and explores such important topics as...Christian counseling as a profession, ministry, and lay ministry; Spiritual and theological roots; Social, emotional, and relational issues; Skills and essentials in Christian helping; Ethical and legal considerations; Intake, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning; and Premarital counseling, family therapy, and substance abuse. Counselors will also find up-to-date information on solution-based brief therapy, cognitive therapy and biblical truth, and trauma and crisis intervention. An essential resource for maintaining a broad and up-to-date perspective on helping others.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736943579

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9780736943574

Making Sense of the Senseless

:Mild-Moderate Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms (OCS) Unveiled

By: Ron D. Kingsley, MS, PhD, NCSP

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Making Sense of the Senseless

:Mild-Moderate Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms (OCS) Unveiled

By: Ron D. Kingsley, MS, PhD, NCSP

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395

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462806422

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9781462806423

Trailblazing African American Public Administrators

By: Beverly Edmond,Ron Finnell

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Trailblazing African American Public Administrators

By: Beverly Edmond,Ron Finnell

The field of public administration holds social equity and inclusiveness as a core administrative value, but African American voices in the discourse about the theory and practice of public administration have been ignored all too often. This book is the first to formally chronicle the evolution of the field of public administration in the United States through desegregation, equal opportunity, affirmative action, diversity/multiculturalism, and presumptions about a "post-racial" society, incorporating African American contributions to public policy-making and implementation at every stage. As long as the "post-racial" America myth continues to influence the design, development, and implementation of public policies, African American perspectives need to be reconsidered as a legitimate and important focus of public administration’s theoretical and practical framework. Focusing on the lives and profound contributions of several unsung but seminal African American public administrators, accompanied by personal accounts of perseverance and detailed descriptions of unique approaches used for social change, this book demonstrates the intellectual, academic, and pragmatic evolution of these leaders as they built careers in their discipline and blazed the trail for those to come. Authors Beverly C. Edmond and Ron W. Finnell demonstrate how these pioneers extended the very definition of the enterprise of public administration through their movements between the intersecting worlds of academia, practice, social movements, and community activism. Trailblazing African American Public Administrators serves as a timely practical, social, and historical teaching text for graduate and undergraduate courses in Public Administration, Public Management, Public Affairs, and Human Resource Management.

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Taylor & Francis

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131729338X

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9781317293385

Louisiana Fiddlers

By: Ron Yule,Bill Burge

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Louisiana Fiddlers

By: Ron Yule,Bill Burge

Louisiana Fiddlers shines light on sixty-two of the bayou state's most accomplished fiddlers of the twentieth century. Author Ron Yule outlines the lives and times of these performers, who represent a multitude of fiddling styles including Cajun, country, western swing, zydeco, bluegrass, Irish, contest fiddling, and blues.Featuring over 150 photographs, this volume provides insight into the fiddlin' grounds of Louisiana. Yule chronicles the musicians' varied appearances from the stage of the Louisiana Hayride, honky tonks, dancehalls, house dances, radio and television, and festivals, to the front porch and other more casual venues. The brief sketches include observations on musical travels, recordings, and family history.Nationally acclaimed fiddlers Harry Choates, Dewey Balfa, Dennis McGee, Michael Doucet, Rufus Thibodeaux, and Hadley Castille share space with relatively unknown masters such as Mastern Brack, Cheese Read, John W. Daniel, and Fred Beavers. Each player has helped shape the region's rich musical tradition.

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363

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604732962

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9781604732962

The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers

A Course Book and Reference Guide

By: Ron Cowan

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The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers

A Course Book and Reference Guide

By: Ron Cowan

The Teacher's grammar of English enables English language teachers and teachers-in-training to fully understand and effectively teach English grammar. With comprehensive presentation of form, meaning, and usage, along with practical exercises and advice on teaaching difficult structures, it is both a complete grammar course and an essential reference text."--Back cover.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521809738

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9780521809733

Deliver Us From Evil

The Remarkable True Story of a Child’s Abuse, Spiritual Deception, Deliverance and Ultimate Redemption.

By: Ron Corcoran

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Deliver Us From Evil

The Remarkable True Story of a Child’s Abuse, Spiritual Deception, Deliverance and Ultimate Redemption.

By: Ron Corcoran

Safety, Acceptance, Belonging. These words come to mind when we hear about families. Having a mother, father, and twelve siblings living in a strong Christian faith should mean plenty of love, laughter and companionship. But what if, inexplicably, one's parents selectively manipulated and mistreated some of the children and not the others? How would you deal with being one of three children who constantly bore unprovoked wrath and abuse - while watching the others receive the love, affirmation and nurturing you so desperately needed and craved? Would you ask yourself if your life was worth anything to anyone at all? Would you feel that God had overlooked and abandoned you? Would you despair of God for being unresponsive when you cried out for relief? Ron Corcoran's frank and honest memoir courageously proclaims that no matter how wretched, broken or angry we may be, we can indeed be delivered, redeemed and transformed by the love of the living, eternal God....

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FriesenPress

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1460289919

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9781460289914

Landscape Plans

By: Ron Lutsko,Ortho Books

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Landscape Plans

By: Ron Lutsko,Ortho Books

Contains 33 sample landscape plans for all styles of homes, a guide to drawing your own landscape plans, and listings of plants for all regions of the United States.

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0897211960

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9780897211963

Using Microsoft Windows 95

By: Ron Person

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Using Microsoft Windows 95

By: Ron Person

Bestselling author Ron Person offers detailed tutorials on tasks and/or topics that may challenge expert level users. "Using Windows 95" provides all the information, step-by-step instructions, and software tools one needs to build the ultimate Windows workstation in a networked/Internet-ready environment. The CD-ROM contains over 150 of Que's "Editor's Choice" shareware tools.

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0789713837

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Book's by Ron Johnson Ph.D.

The Positive Power of Sadness

The Positive Power of Sadness

Magical Mathematics

Magical Mathematics

The Uninvited Traveler

The Uninvited Traveler

Making Sense of the Senseless

Making Sense of the Senseless

The Popular Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling

The Popular Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling

Making Sense of the Senseless

Making Sense of the Senseless

Trailblazing African American Public Administrators

Trailblazing African American Public Administrators

Louisiana Fiddlers

Louisiana Fiddlers

The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers

The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers

Deliver Us From Evil

Deliver Us From Evil

Landscape Plans

Landscape Plans

Using Microsoft Windows 95

Using Microsoft Windows 95

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