Category: Mental Health

By Hilary T. Smith

ISBN-10: 1573244724

ISBN-13: 9781573244725

By Joel Levey, Michelle Levey

ISBN-10: 1611250293

ISBN-13: 9781611250299

As our global grows a growing number of advanced and demanding, constructing our ability for dynamic stability in our lives, paintings, and relationships turns into a growing number of important. according to the traditional knowledge traditions, modern neuroscience study, and the insights of indigenous cultures all through our global, Living in Balance exhibits that, in every one second, we have now the capability to have in mind of even if our options and activities are relocating towards concord and stability or clear of it. via this expertise we will make a wide awake option to proceed at the course we're on or to alter our perspective and path. With a foreword through H.H. the Dalai Lama, Living in Balance bargains a unprecedented synthesis of historical knowledge traditions with state-of-the-art study on top human functionality that issues towards mindfulness as being actually the major to residing in stability. Foreword via His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

By Richard Watson

ISBN-10: 1857885147

ISBN-13: 9781857885149

More cost-effective than a crystal ball and two times as fun.... half Jules Verne, half Malcolm Gladwell, Watson has a puckish humorousness and his booklet is a thought-provoking, laughter-inducing pride. -PublishersWeekly.com

''Provocative, enjoyable, packed with remarkable proof a booklet that can assist you make a decision even if the realm goes mad or probably changing into extra intelligent.'' --Theodore Zeldin writer of An Intimate historical past of Humanity

''Woven jointly brilliantly.'' --Richard Hytner, vice president, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide

William Gladwell meets Alvin Toffler during this vigorous, provocative and witty examine our attainable futures.Filled with provocative forecasts approximately how the realm may possibly switch within the subsequent part century destiny documents examines rising styles and advancements in society, expertise, economic climate, and enterprise, and makes knowledgeable speculations as to the place they may take us.Indispensable to enterprise analysts, strategists and agencies who have to remain prior to the sport in addition to offering wealthy and interesting fabric for banquet conversations. Will machines develop into extra clever than people, or even manage to 'read' our minds? Will foodstuff in our refrigerator converse to one another utilizing radio waves, then get a hold of recommendations for tonight's menu? Is there a looming environmental challenge the place Planet Earth is doomed? do you want a capsule that improves your reminiscence? ... or a moistened tissue which may erase a nasty day? could you are feeling more secure in case your entrance door may well inform you even if the individual knocking isn't a stranger? those are only the various provocative forecasts approximately how the area may well swap within the subsequent part century which Richard Watson explores in destiny records .

By Marzio Barbagli

ISBN-10: 0745680429

ISBN-13: 9780745680422

What drives somebody to take his or her personal existence? Why might a person be prepared to strap a bomb to himself and stroll right into a crowded market, blowing himself up even as he kills and maims the folks round him? Does suicide or 'voluntary death' have a similar that means this day because it had in prior centuries, and does it have an analogous value in China, India and the center East because it has within the West? How may still we comprehend this distressing, frequently difficult phenomenon and the way do we clarify its styles and adaptations over time?

In this wide-ranging comparative research, Barbagli examines suicide as a socio-cultural, non secular and political phenomenon, exploring the explanations that underlie it and the meanings it has bought in several cultures during the international. Drawing on an unlimited physique of analysis conducted via historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and psychologists, Barbagli indicates passable concept of suicide can't restrict itself to contemplating the 2 explanations that have been highlighted via the nice French sociologist Emile Durkheim - specifically, social integration and rules. Barbagli proposes a brand new account of suicide that hyperlinks the reasons for and importance attributed to person activities with the folks for whom and opposed to whom participants take their lives.

This new learn of suicide sheds clean mild at the cultural ameliorations among East and West and vastly raises our knowing of an often-misunderstood act. it will likely be the definitive historical past of suicide for a few years to return.

By Susan Johnson

ISBN-10: 0758209398

ISBN-13: 9780758209399

It used to be universal gossip that "Duff" D'Abernon, Marquis of Darley, had back from Waterloo a replaced guy. long gone was once the reckless formative years and in his position used to be a sullen recluse extra drawn to tending his horses than attending balls. yet now the Marquis used to be getting into the sport back, overtly flirting with the attractive, witty, and punctiliously disreputable Annabelle Foster. Annabelle's no stranger to scandal. The actress-playwright is rumoured to have had liaisons with any variety of strong males, with an illegitimate daughter to teach for it. She will not probability heartache back, even for a guy as tempting as Duff D'Abernon. What she deals as a substitute is a compromise: a real friendship among equals. each one concurs to the phrases. A discount is struck. And an idyllic summer time starts. yet what begins as friendship quickly blossoms into searing ardour. And the one factor worse than risking their hearts isn't really risking them at all...