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Ritual as Resource: Energy for Vibrant Living
: :Michael Picucci has survived HIV, heart attacks, cancer, and the loss of many loved ones. Beyond merely coping, he has thrived—but how? This book explains. Mixing vivid life stories and simple, step-by-step creative ritual exercises, Picucci offers readers a self-empowering path to energetic healing through contact with what he calls 'healing resources.' These resources are varied but center on a higher power that can be accessed through ritual. Ritual, he explains, allows anyone to tap into the 'instinctual brain' that is traumatized by the unnatural demands of modern life, and further into ...
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The Power of I Am: Creating a New World of Enlightened Personal Interaction
: :Fear, anger, anxiety, negativity, rudeness, information overload — the stressors of modern life can make just getting through the day a daunting task. Since 1985, John Maxwell Taylor has been moving through the collective madness with joy, spirit, and strength. The Power of I Am invites the reader to join him on this journey. Combining principles from martial arts, mindfulness, body-centered awareness, and spiritual and scientific principles, this engaging mix of practical tools, stories, and life lessons teaches personal empowerment through gaining inner strength in social situations and dealing effectively with negative ...
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Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
from: Harvard University Asia Center
: : Huizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he wrote poetry and created his own distinctive calligraphy style; collected paintings, calligraphies, and antiquities on a large scale; promoted Daoism; and involved himself in the training of court artists, the layout of gardens, and reforms of music and medicine. The quarter century when Huizong ruled is just as fascinating. The greatly enlarged scholar-official class had come into its own but was deeply divided by factional strife. The long struggle between the Chinese state and its ...
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The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
from: Jossey-Bass
: :The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike. It combines rich case material from many cities and types of institutional settings with careful reflection on core principles. It generates hope for a renewed democracy, tempered with critical scholarship and political realism. Most important, this handbook opens a spacious window on the innovativeness of citizens in the U.S. (and around the world) and shows how the varied practices of deliberative democracy are part of a larger civic renewal movement.
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One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School (Series on School Reform)
: :Through the lens of a remarkable urban high school, One Kid at a Time weaves compelling stories and a clear narrative into new possibilities for American education. All students at the Met School have a personalized curriculum and complete real-world internships based on their interests. Students stay with the same teacher for four years, and parents help to plan and assess their child's learning. There are no classes, tests, or grades, but high achievement is expected of all students -- regardless of their background. Every student in the Met's first two graduating ...
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It Won't Hurt Forever: Guiding Your Child Through Trauma
: :After a painful or fearful experience, children may endure such symptoms as unexplainable stomachaches, pains, nightmares, bedwetting, nervousness, aggression, distractibility, and other problems. On It Won’t Hurt Forever, Dr. Peter Levine offers his 35 years of expertise in healing emotional trauma to show you a breakthrough approach for helping your child. Created especially for parents and caregivers, here are the skills you need to help a child recover from frightening events in a healthier, more natural way – using the body’s own healing mechanisms.
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Skeletal Trauma: Expert Consult: Online and Print, 2-Volume Set (Browner, Skeletal Trauma)
: :Obtain the best outcomes from the latest techniques with help from a 'who's who' of orthopaedic trauma experts! In print and online, you'll find the in-depth knowledge you need to manage any type of traumatic injury in adults. Major updates keep you up to speed on current trends such as the management of osteoporotic and fragility fractures, locked plating technology, post-traumatic reconstruction, biology of fracture repair, biomechanics of fractures and fixation, disaster management, occupational hazards of radiation and blood-borne infection, effective use of orthotics, and more. A DVD of operative video clips ...
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Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls
: :Mira Rothenberg pioneered both the clinical distinction and treatment protocol for autistic and severely disturbed children as separate from those for the mentally retarded. Winner of a Woman of the Year award from the New York City Chamber of Commerce and the National Organization for Mentally Ill Children, she writes here eloquently of a lifetime of taking on seemingly hopeless cases and bringing these children, through painstaking therapy and love, back into the world. Children with Emerald Eyes includes case histories ranging from incarcerated teenagers to a profoundly autistic six-year-old, told with ...
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Arizona Trails Northeast Region
: :This handy 6 x 9 guidebook is a new, full color volume that navigates 1153 miles of backcountry trails in Northeast Utah, near the towns of Vernal, Logan, Salt Lake City, Price, Wendover, Beaver, and Milford. See ghost towns, old mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the 35 off-road trails. Directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, remoteness and more. Descriptions highlight places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee. Histories recount the days of the Wild West. 1930193300; 16.95
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Planet Medicine, Revised Edition: Modalities
: :Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative medicines actually work. Illustrated throughout, this is the standard on the history, philosophy, and anthropology of this subject.
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