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The Self-Care Project: How to let go of frazzle and make time for you
by Jayne HardyEverything you need to know about self-care; what it is, why it's important, why it's such a struggle and how to integrate it into day-to-day life.There's a damaging misconception in society that putting ourselves first is an act of selfishness. But self-care is not just a millennial buzzword. Without the restorative power of self-care, how will we ever escape the vicious circle where we're sick and fed-up of feeling sick and fed-up? Self-care is a tool, accessible to us all, which helps us to take responsibility for our own happiness - our physical, emotional, psychological and social needs. Jayne Hardy, founder and CEO of The Blurt Foundation, argues that it is the best preventative measure available to us to combat overwhelmedness, stress and ill health, in our hectic, modern world. The Self-Care Project is for those who have been feeling off-kilter for a while but have not been able to put the finger on the 'why'. It is a no-nonsense, practical journey to help you do just that. It'll walk you through the case for self-care (why it's so darn important), why it isn't selfish at all, help you explore what self-care means for you, what your obstacles might be and provide advice on how to chisel out daily space for self-care in a practical, achievable and realistic way.
The Self-Isolation Activity Book
by Ian Doors'Extremely silly, fiendishly clever, genuinely helpful and very, very funny' Bruno Vincent, bestselling author of Five on Brexit IslandAre you stuck inside, bored out of your brain, desperate for things to do? Looking to fill the ever-diminishing gap between stopping drinking coffee and starting drinking booze? Has the incessant comforting warmth of your laptop on top of your lap started to genuinely freak you out? Then you need The Self Isolation Activity Book. Written by Ian Doors, a man who spent all of his time alone in his flat ages before you all started doing it. Packed full of quick and easy activities, including games, mental exercises and colouring in, as well as handy hints and kitchen cupboard food and drink tips, this is the only book you'll need to make the most of your time inside. Also, the last few pages can be ripped out and used as toilet paper. Can't help but feel like all other books are missing a trick there.
The Self-Isolation Activity Book
by Ian Doors'Extremely silly, fiendishly clever, genuinely helpful and very, very funny' Bruno Vincent, bestselling author of Five on Brexit IslandAre you stuck inside, bored out of your brain, desperate for things to do? Looking to fill the ever-diminishing gap between stopping drinking coffee and starting drinking booze? Has the incessant comforting warmth of your laptop on top of your lap started to genuinely freak you out? Then you need The Self Isolation Activity Book. Written by Ian Doors, a man who spent all of his time alone in his flat ages before you all started doing it. Packed full of quick and easy activities, including games, mental exercises and colouring in, as well as handy hints and kitchen cupboard food and drink tips, this is the only book you'll need to make the most of your time inside. Also, the last few pages can be ripped out and used as toilet paper. Can't help but feel like all other books are missing a trick there.
The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour
by Linda D. Cameron Howard LeventhalSelf-regulation theory focuses on the ways in which individuals direct and monitor their activities and emotions in order to attain their goals. It plays an increasingly important role in health psychology research.The Self-regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour presents an up-to-date account of the latest developments in the field. Individual contributions cover a wide range of issues including representational beliefs about chronic illness, cultural influences on illness representations, the role of anxiety and defensive denial in health-related experiences and behaviours, the contribution of personality, and the social dynamics underlying gender differences in adaptation to illness. Particular attention is given to the implications for designing effective health interventions and messages. Integrating theoretical and empirical developments, this text provides both researchers and professionals with a comprehensive review of self-regulation and health.
The Selfish Pig's Guide To Caring: How to Cope With the Emotional and Practical Aspects of Caring for Someone
by Hugh MarriottSix million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental health.Oddly, though carers by definition are anything but selfish pigs, they are liable to feelings of guilt, probably brought on by fatigue and isolation. So Hugh Marriott has written this book for them - and also for the rest of us who don't know what being a carer is all about. His aim is bring into the open everything he wishes he'd been told when he first became a carer. And he does. The book airs such topics as sex, thoughts of murder, and dealing with the responses of friends and officials who fail to understand.This is a must-read for anyone involved with caring.
The Selfish Pig's Guide To Caring: How to cope with the emotional and practical aspects of caring for someone
by Hugh MarriottSix million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental health.Oddly, though carers by definition are anything but selfish pigs, they are liable to feelings of guilt, probably brought on by fatigue and isolation. So Hugh Marriott has written this book for them - and also for the rest of us who don't know what being a carer is all about. His aim is bring into the open everything he wishes he'd been told when he first became a carer. And he does. The book airs such topics as sex, thoughts of murder, and dealing with the responses of friends and officials who fail to understand.This is a must-read for anyone involved with caring.
The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (Social Problems And Social Issues Ser.)
by Stuart A. KirkWhen it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition—univer-sally known as DSM-III—embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the pro-cess that led to the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial reconstruction of that moment concen-trates on how a small group of researchers interpreted their findings about a specific problem—psychiatric reliability—to promote their beliefs about mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian paradigm.
The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design
by Klaus KrippendorffResponding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on which to state their claims and validate their designs. It sets the stage by reviewing the h
The Sense of Taste: Of genes, molecules and the fascinating biology of one of the most fundamental senses (essentials)
by Petra SchlingIn this essential, Petra Schling gives an overview of the current state of research on the topic of taste. She regards taste as a sensory perception that allows us to distinguish essential food components from toxins. What we eat depends not insignificantly on how we like it. But how do we actually taste - and what do we taste? As omnivores, we humans have a relatively wide range of taste receptors, not only in our mouths, which provide us with important information about our food. Outside the mouth, taste receptors serve our innate immune system to "taste" bacteria, worms and other intruders. We can and should rely on this. Our sense of taste warns us of toxins and unwanted co-inhabitants and can only be deceived to a very limited extent by sweeteners, bitter blockers or similar tricks.This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials,Der Geschmack by Petra Schling, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2021.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity
by C. Nadia SeremetakisWhat has happened to regional experiences that identify and shape culture? Regional foods are disappearing, cultures are dissolving, and homogeneity is spreading. Anthropologist and award-winning author of The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani, C. Nadia Seremetakis brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics—from film to food, from nationalism to the evening news—the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity. <p><p> The contributors are Susan Buck-Morss, Allen Feldman, Jonas Frykman, C. Nadia Seremetakis, and Paul Stoller. <p> C. Nadia Seremetakis is Advisor to the Minister of Public Health in Greece and visiting professor at the National School of Public Heath in Athens. She is the author of The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani, available from the University of Chicago Press.
The Sensitive One: A Memoir
by Susan F. MorrisAt age fifty, Susan Morris is diagnosed with breast cancer—and she&’s floored. Desperate to pinpoint the cause, one night she decides to type a question into her search engine: &“What are the risk factors of getting breast cancer?&” She&’s surprised to discover research showing that long-term exposure to stress and traumatic childhood experiences can both increase the risk of breast cancer. The Sensitive One is a braided memoir that alternates between Morris&’s childhood—as a sensitive child and then teenager who shouldered the burden of caring for her younger siblings as her dad&’s alcoholism tore at the threads of their home life—and an adult who for a decade-plus has been living a trauma-free life with a caring husband and rewarding career in nursing . . . only to be diagnosed with breast cancer. This is a story of redemption—of a woman who manages to escape harrowing circumstances and start anew—but it&’s also a story of how our legacy lives within us, and how healing from the adverse effects of childhood can truly take a lifetime.
The Sensory Accommodation Framework for Technology: Bridging Sensory Processing to Social Cognition (Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health)
by LouAnne BoydThis book provides a thorough introduction to the many facets of designing technologies for autism, with a particular focus on optimizing visual attention frameworks. This book is designed to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of technology for autism. Each Chapter illustrates different parts of the Sensory Accommodation Framework and provides examples of relevant available technologies. The books first discusses a variety of skills that make up human development as well as a history of autism as a diagnosis and the birth of the neurodiversity movement. It goes on to detail individual types of therapy and how they interact with autism. The systems involved in sensory processing and their specific relation to autism are then explored, including through technologies that have addressed these areas and applications for designers. Readers will learn about designing sensory environments and sensory interactions, such as through virtual reality. This book places a needed emphasis on the hierarchy of information in technology development by exploring visual attention in neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. It also delves into the relationship between sensory perception and nonverbal communication, the bridge between sensory input and social behavior, and dynamic information. The discussion is rounded out with examinations of temporal processing as and multisensory integration as complicating factors that have existing technological solutions. Finally, the book closes with a summary of the sensory accommodation framework in respect to how each layer offers different user experience goals and specific mechanisms to promote those goals. Readers from a variety of research backgrounds will find this book informative and useful, while designers will learn essential skills for effectively designing autism technologies.
The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
by Alex C. ParrishThe Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light presents the latest research in animal perception and cognition in the context of rhetorical theory. Alex C. Parrish explores the science of animal signaling that shows human and nonhuman animals share similar rhetorical strategies—such as communicating to manipulate or persuade—which suggests the vast impact sensory modalities have on communication in nature. The book demonstrates new ways of seeing humans and how we have separated ourselves from, and subjectified, the animal rhetor. This type of cross-species study allows us to trace the origins of our own persuasive behaviors, providing a deeper and more inclusive history of rhetoric than ever before.
The Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 250 Questions Parents Ask
by Tara DelaneyThe Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book provides advice and answers to your most pressing questions about SPD. Written in a question and answer format, The Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book helps you understand SPD, conquer your fears, and seek help for your child when necessary.
The SenticNet Sentiment Lexicon: Exploring Semantic Richness in Multi-Word Concepts
by Raoul BiagioniThe research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis. It uses single-, and multi-word concepts from the SenticNet sentiment lexicon as the source of sentiment information for the purpose of sentiment classification. In 6 chapters the book sheds light on the comparison of sentiment classification accuracy between single-word and multi-word concepts, for which a bespoke sentiment analysis system developed by the author was used. This book will be of interest to students, educators and researchers in the field of Sentic Computing.
The Serotonin Power Diet
by Judith J. Wurtman Nina FrusztajerFood plan with various stages to it. Its intent is to keep serotonin levels in the body high. Contains recipes.
The Serpin Family
by Margarethe Geiger Felix Wahlmüller Margareta FurtmüllerThe book provides an comprehensive overview on biology, genetics and cellular functions of serpins (serine protease inhibitors) in health and disease. With over 1000 members serpins are the most diverse family of protease inhibitors. Latest groundbreaking research findings are presented and broaden the understanding on inhibitory and non-inhibitory serpins, not only in mammalian organisms but also in insects, worms, plants and viruses.
The Seven Ages of Death: ‘Every chapter is like a detective story’ Telegraph
by Dr Richard ShepherdThe heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful. Unflinching' THE TIMES'A finely-crafted detective story' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Enlightening, strangely uplifting' DAILY MAIL'Fascinating' DAILY EXPRESS_________Dr Richard Shepherd, a medical detective and Britain's top forensic pathologist, shares twenty-four of his most intriguing, enlightening and never-before-told cases.These autopsies, spanning the seven ages of human existence, uncover the secrets not only of how a person died, but also of how they lived.From old to young, murder to misadventure, and illness to accidental death, each body has something to reveal - about its owner's life story, how we age, justice, society, the certainty of death.And, above all, the wonderful marvel of life itself._________Praise for Dr Richard Shepherd'Gripping, grimly fascinating, and I suspect I'll read it at least twice' Evening Standard'A deeply mesmerising memoir of forensic pathology. Human and fascinating' Nigella Lawson'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that but it's fascinating' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2'Puts the reader at his elbow as he wields the scalpel' Guardian'Fascinating, gruesome yet engrossing' Richard and Judy, Daily Express'Fascinating, insightful, candid, compassionate' Observer
The Sexual Health of Men: Dealing with Conflict and Change, Pt. 1
by Laura Serrant-Green John McluskeyThis challenging critique explores the current constraints and opportunities for addressing and promoting the sexual health of men. It redresses the balance between society's traditional views and expectations of men's sexual health, compared to the sexual health of women. The wide-ranging approach critically considers all aspects of sexual health, including historic developments, social considerations, personal issues and political climates. Authoritative and evidence-based, "The Sexual Health of Men" brings together experts from the fields of sexual health research, education and practice. It is highly recommended for health and social care professionals, including nurses, doctors, social workers, health advisers and sexual health service providers. Health researchers, and policy makers and shapers will find the research of great interest, as will all those concerned about the sexual health and well-being in men.
The Sexy Years: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, For Women and Men
by Suzanne Somers Robert A. GreeneAn enlightening exploration of hormone replacement for both men and women
The Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach
by Vincent J. Palusci Stephen LazoritzDiagnose and treat shaken baby syndrome with advice from experts in the field!When an angry adult shakes a baby, the child may suffer brain damage, broken ribs, deafness, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, coma, or death. Often there are personal, ethical, and legal consequences as well for everyone involved. The Shaken Baby Syndrome: A
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
by Siri HustvedtThe author delves into the mysteries of her own neurological condition in a far-ranging memoir that is “graceful, intense, and curiously affirming” (Booklist).While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again.The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves tracks Hustvedt’s search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one of which offers a distinct perspective on her paroxysms but no ready solution. In the process, she finds herself entangled in fundamental questions: What is the relationship between brain and mind? How do we remember? What is the self?In The Shaking Woman, Hustvedt synthesizes her experience and research into a compelling mystery: Who is the shaking woman? In the end, the story she tells becomes, in the words of George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind, “a brilliant illumination for us all.”
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany (Film and Culture Series)
by Scott CurtisScott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As these specialists struggled to come to terms with motion pictures, they advanced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film. Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, The Shape of Spectatorship showcases early cinema's revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning.
The Shape of the Eye
by George Estreich"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir."--PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week] When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In this powerful memoir, George Estreich, a poet and stay-at-home dad, tells his daughter's story, reflecting on her inheritance --- from the literal legacy of her genes, to the family history that precedes her, to the Victorian physician John Langdon Down's diagnostic error of "Mongolian idiocy." Against this backdrop, Laura takes her place in the Estreich family as a unique child, quirky and real, loved for everything ordinary and extraordinary about her. "In this wise and moving memoir, George Estreich tells the story of his family as his younger daughter is diagnosed with Down syndrome and they are thrust into an unfamiliar world. Estreich writes with a poet's eye and gift of language, weaving this personal journey into the larger history of his family, exploring the deep and often hidden connections between the past and the present. Engaging and unsentimental, The Shape of the Eye taught me a great deal. It is a story I found myself thinking about long after I'd finished the final pages." --Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter "A poignant, beautifully written, and intensely moving memoir" --Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone "The Shape of the Eye is a memoir of a father's love for his daughter, his struggle to understand her disability, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth. Estreich is raw and honest and draws us each into a new view of what it means to be 'human' and what it means to be 'different.' This book is beautifully written, poetically insightful, and personally transformative. To read it is to rethink everything and to be happy because of the journey." --Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics "The Shape of the Eye personalizes Down syndrome, bringing a condition abstracted in the medical literature into the full dimensionality of one family's life. It's brave of George Estreich to make what has befallen his family so public, trusting of him to let an unknown audience second-guess the family's choices. Because he's opened his home and heart in this memoir, we are privileged to witness in chaotic, heart-wrenching, joyous detail what it means to have and to love a child with Down syndrome." --Marcia Childress, Associate Professor of Medical Education (Medical Humanities), University of Virginia School of Medicine
The Sheikh Doctor's Bride
by Meredith WebberMarried to the Sheikh... ER doctor Kate will do anything to save her family's livelihood. So when the Sultan of Amberach offers her a lifeline in exchange for her working in his state-of-the-art hospital and marrying his nephew-gorgeous, brooding sheikh Dr. Fareed Faruke-it's a deal Kate has to accept! Fareed has always known he'll never have a say in who he marries, but he's shocked to see beautiful Kate behind the gold silk veil. She's the one woman he shouldn't want-and yet the only woman he can't seem to resist...