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That Something Else
What is medicine apart from being a science? What else goes on between doctors and patients? What have ideas like love, healing, and prayer got to do with twenty-first century medicine?
In this unique book, Doctor Tim Harlow shows us that there is a great deal more to medicine than we think. He helps us see how some of the important connections between doctor and patient work in surprising ways. The author sees these routine things from an unusual angle and avoids medical jargon.
He uses his medical lens to show us new questions and make us think about what it means to be human. This book will help both doctors and patients to think about the deep underpinnings of both our lives and our deaths.
Medicine and science are now under public scrutiny as never before. This thought-provoking book steers us towards a better understanding of the place of medicine in the world.
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Success Curry for Student’s Peak Performance
The book Success Curry for Student’s Peak Performance endeavors to enhance student performance in examinations. Unfortunately, many students perform poorly in the school tests due to a lack of effective strategies to navigate their academic difficulties. Despite having access to quality teaching practices and evidence-based study materials, several students still struggle to perform well in their studies. Notwithstanding the honest efforts of teachers, parents, and the students themselves, in certain subjects, a student sometimes experiences a mental block that leads to profound hopelessness.Perhaps psychological pedagogy can overcome challenges of students’ underperformance in the classroom environment. The authors have meticulously dissected various reasons for mental blockage and suggested strategies to overcome barriers to enhance academic performance. This book aims to improve not only literacy and numeracy outcome but also long-term confidence building, self-identity, and self-worth in students. The writing style of this book is conversational, and the content is easy to follow. This book will act as a catalyst to promote effective collaboration among students, teachers, and parents.
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Stillness in Preschool and School
This is a hands-on report on how to find calm in the most stressed out and turbulent of worlds today – preschools and schools. Not a calm out there, but the calm inside all of us, closer than our thoughts and as natural as the air we breathe.
25 years of experience with the Dream of the Good in preschools and schools in all parts of Sweden show very good results. The grown-ups did not believe the kids would take to it.
But the message is, it can be done, and kids of all ages like it – if the practices are simple and natural. Their teachers often didn’t think it was possible, but once they learn they also benefit. Research confirms the positive results: less stress, less psychological problems and better self-image.
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Spirits of Severn
The River Severn is Britain's longest natural waterway. It rises in mid-Wales, where it is known as the Hafren. Both these names stem from that of a river goddess, known since prehistoric times as Sabrina. To stop anywhere along Sabrina's course, or on either side of her beautiful estuary, is to risk becoming absorbed and transfixed by her ever-moving, yet timelessly repetitive progress. Throw a net across Sabrina, from side to side, and you might catch a fish, but the body of her stream will pass straight through the mesh. Can words possibly convey the elusive majesty of her current, or adequately describe its multi-stranded sacred story? In Spirits of Severn, artist and mythographer Michael Dames - whose acclaimed work includes The Silbury Treasure, The Avebury Cycle and Mythic Ireland - brings the river's illusive legacy to the surface, while tracing her progress from her pair of sources to the furthest tips of her Mor Hafren estuary.
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So You Want to Be a Paranormal Investigator?
You have seen every episode of Most Haunted, TAPS’ Ghost Hunters, Haunted Collector.
Now it is your turn. This book will guide the new investigator to begin investigating safely and give the experienced investigator another area of paranormal investigation used by the investigators of the past. Maybe you just have the interest in the paranormal; I am sure this book will not disappoint.
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Shoulder Health: Postoperative and Preventive Orthopedic Programs
The amount of free time we have in our world is shrinking. The people in the developed world spend more time sitting than ever, and a sedentary lifestyle is hard to avoid. The global number of people suffering from chronic musculoskeletal conditions is astounding and ever-growing. There is no time to be suffering with joint pain and not functioning like your best self. Exercise has been shown to be quite beneficial for the body, mind and soul. Incorporate a daily exercise routine into your lifestyle to: increase energy, combat chronic medical conditions, promote productivity, elevate mood, stay active, experience less falls and lengthen life. The safe, simple and effective musculoskeletal-health activities and controlled exercise programs in this book help you attain, regain, maintain and preserve a healthy musculoskeletal system. Use this book to diminish joint pain and prevent pain from becoming chronic. Less pain leads to less opioid usage and staying active diminishes obesity. Active people live longer and can enjoy the everyday activities that bring them happiness and joy. At Pop-doc, we are ‘Making the Move to Better Joint Health’. Heathier Joints Make Happier People!
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Sheeny Shadow Narratives
Quantum computers are on the doorstep and artificial intelligence has already entered our living rooms. Research breakthroughs determine the latest company’s stock values. Reasonable investment volumes and financial funding frameworks are in place. This signals that profitable applications are within sight and the pace of development is increasing rapidly.Corporate business and governments are powerful drivers, offering personalized products for users, entertainment for followers and safety for all. Global communication is at our fingertips. Intuitive robots act in tandem with factory workers, artists, and scientists.But services “for free” come at a price. Revolutionary technologies will soon disrupt markets and shake up societies. Individuals will pay with a loss of privacy and personal autonomy. Intuitive algorithms will challenge artistic creativity. Unlimited computing power will call art and science into question. We have no clue yet how a mesh of quantum computers (QC) and swarms of artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change art and science.Yet we mostly ignore a debate on our cohabitation with novel technologies. Could artists resist the domestication by intelligent robots? Just now artists and scientists erratically meander to escape the inevitable. Are we ready to enter an informed public discourse? We experiment with burning answers in our encounter with cold machines.
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Secrets of a Maverick Manager
Discover the secret to successful projects with Richard May’s insightful guide. Despite receiving approval, projects can still face unexpected turbulence. This often stems from not asking the right questions at the beginning. Drawing on his vast business and procurement expertise, May takes readers through revealing case studies, personal experiences, and anecdotes to shed light on the crucial “cornerstone questions.” Business professionals, whether in the private or public sector, will benefit from May’s practical approaches, which apply to all levels of project management and activities where external resources are critical to success. Learn how to implement these vital questions into your executive thinking, avoiding turbulence and ensuring project success.“Anybody can ask questions, but not quite in the way Richard May does.” Dr. Richard Russill, author of Purchasing Power and Route 42.
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Running a Small Business in the Pacific Region
It is not easy to start a successful business these days and far too many fail in the first year of trading. The problem lies largely in the lack of accessible and good information available to small business owners.Running a Business in the Pacific Region offers simple step-by-step plans for starting and maintaining a small business as it grows. It takes you through all the stages, from how to decide if it’s worth starting the business, financial planning and management, to the day-to-day running of a successful business.There is a wealth of information throughout the book for other kinds of readers as well. General management topics including; hiring employees, keeping bank accounts and avoiding scams, purchasing and using computers, business and the law, and ethics should be of interest to all kinds of managers.
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Receiving Your Personal Truth
Our contemporary world is experiencing a crisis in facts and truth. Conflicting messages or fake news bombard us every day, about religion, politics, and COVID-19 and vaccinations. The daily newspaper, internet news, websites, and social media all compete for our attention, and quite often each insisting on their version of the facts. Made-up news and distorted information, create confusion and a distrust in various religious and political institutions.
How do we know what is true when watching the news, listening to elected officials and religious leaders, or using social media? Who is telling the truth? How can we know? What can we do?
In Receiving your Personal Truth, you are taken on a journey where you experience what is truth for yourself. Practical ways of receiving your truth are suggested. The skill of awareness and self-critical thinking enables us to understand what is true and what is false. In observing that we are one with oneness of it all, we act with compassion towards everyone.
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Quality Assurance in the Management of Examinations Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Navigate the intricacies of examination management across Sub-Saharan Africa with Quality Assurance in the Management of Examination Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. This comprehensive guide is tailored for both mass testing institutions and professional credentialing bodies operating in the public and private sectors.Discover effective strategies in planning, programming, and budgeting, bolstered by system practices and theories of implementation. Learn how to harness data for evaluation, manage time efficiently, and assess the real-time needs of your institution.The book provides an in-depth look at field administration, curriculum development, and innovation, which serve as vital support systems. Special emphasis is placed on marking services and quality assurance protocols, ensuring control and credibility in all examination processes.Leadership traits essential for CEOs overseeing examination bodies are highlighted, while the text underscores the values of accountability, transparency, and integrity in service delivery. Additionally, the book addresses the importance of fire hazard strategies, considering the risk of ignitable material generation in institutional premises.
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Progress, What Progress? Britain on the Skids
Technologically, Britain is moving forward in leaps and bounds. We can buy everything we could possibly need online from Tesco, Amazon or a plethora of other outlets – and have the goods delivered within hours. Words like gigabyte and Netflix are as familiar to us as tea and coffee. We can talk to our friends on the other side of the world, at no cost, in real time, fully visible and stark naked if we like. Everything’s on tap, 24/7. But is downloading a blizzard of smartphone apps and consuming Deliveroo-ed pizza just because we can, making us appreciative, happy souls – or turning us into arseholes?
What happened to our green and pleasant land – or is it more colourful and lovelier than ever?
From politics to parenting and schooling, the honours system to the state of our national game (football), from the way we build our housing estates to how we behave at horse races, Progress, What Progress? offers up a wry and humorous commentary on what it means to live in 21st-century Britain. Is this a country we can be proud of and feel safe to live in? Has social media been our saviour, or has it set us on a course where, in a few years from now, the art of conversation will be lost forever and we’ll barely be able to string a sentence together? As long as you can still read, see what you think…
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