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Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting is a protest against the extreme mindlessness or thoughtlessness of our age, a malaise covered by manipulative cleverness and by minds filled to the brim with opinions, doctrines, marching orders, and ideologies. Rather than concentrating on a self-contained "mind, " Fred Dallmayr pleads for an act of "minding" about oneself, one's fellow beings, society, and the world. What is require...

American society centers on individualism, celebrating personal choice even at the expense of collective progress. As part of this emphasis on agency, Americans value freedom for health decisions, and individual health professionals and consumers are held responsible for the nation's health, often at the expense of improving the overall healthcare system. Such individualistic discourse, disseminated and reinforced through American media, has c...

The Arctic is a place of great challenges and great rewards. A century ago, it was whale oil, today, it is motor oil. The increasing open water in the warmer months is attracting cruise ships to tour the Arctic. Significant offshore oil and natural gas deposits are of great interest to an oil-dependent economy. But the history of the Arctic is full of surprises for the unwary and the unprepared, despite native peoples having managed to live th...

Bob Boring, great-grandson of the Civil War veteran who lent his name to the community, says, "Boring is a name, not a condition." The recent pairing of Dull, Scotland, and Boring, Oregon, has created worldwide multimedia reports, including articles in Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal that published the same week. Never incorporated as an official entity, Boring has been a thriving farm, logging, and sawmill community since Joseph and...

This book examines young people¿s political engagement in the Anglo-American democracies.

The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry¿s content, attitudes and practices have regularly been under the microscope. This book attempts to offer a broader and less Anglocentric understanding of the recording industry. Sev...

The Twelve Signs o'Christmas is a special verse inspired by the well-known 18th-century carol The Twelve Days of Christmas. This Christmas special, however, is set in the world of the Broons of No. 10 Glebe Street - Scotland's best-loved family who have appeared in The Sunday Post every week since 1936. The humorous verses also have new Broons illustrations. A nostalgic Christmas card pamphlet to send to friends and family. The third sign o'Ch...

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The Talmud--an ancient and seminal text central to Rabbinic Judaism--is the focal point of this reference book. With more than 6, 000 entries, this book serves as a path finder for those interested in the Talmud and a useful tool for scholars when searching for a particular Talmudic subject. The book also contains stories, anecdotes, and sayings recorded in the Talmud while placing an emphasis on topics of ethics, morality, charity, decency, a...

When two friends—a sock monkey and a plush toy dog—get into an argument during playtime, Monkey gets his feelings hurt and proclaims, "You are not my friend!” But when he takes his ball to find someone new to play with, he quickly learns that maybe he hasn't been a very good friend, either.Bestselling author/illustrator Daniel Kirk uses bold and humorous illustrations to convey the important message that sharing and other acts of friendship ar...

The corpus of art from the Pleistocene has grown substantially in recent decades, and with it, the earliest evidence of visual art has become much older than previously anticipated, going back over 100, 000 years. This new information has rendered some traditional ideas about the recent origins of visual art obsolete. Existing archaeological and evolutionary models that aim to explain the mergence of visual art should now be reassessed in ligh...

One of the most harrowing episodes in the history of the West Country began on June 11, 1685, when Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth sailed into Lyme Regis harbour with 81 hopeful followers. This period of loyalty to the Duke later became known as 'The Duking Days'. Based on true accounts of the battle this story tells of lies and deceit, love and loss. Of course as with all Dominic Buffery stories this does not end in our w...

Psychotherapist and counselor Pat Thomas puts her gentle, yet straightforward approach to work in this new addition to B.E.S. highly acclaimed A First Look At...Series. Here, autism is explored in a way that encourages positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers.

Mick Rock is the foremost rock photographer of his generation. In Exposed, he reveals his definitive collection of images, telling the story in his own words of his early career and the larger-than-life characters with whom he mixed. As well as being a retrospective of his work, it is a cultural journey through a time when rock ruled. It is a compendium of experiences, eyewitness accounts, and intimate detail, all culminating in candid inciden...

An exploration of ways to connect worship practices with the call of Christian disciples to care for the earth. Discussion of earth stewardship is largely absent from modern Sunday services, and this re-examination and re-reading of scripture for earth imagery provides a foundation for a renewal of worship.

In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. Covering the Diaspora populations of the US and UK as well as Israel itself, this book delves into the complex relationship between Judaism and the mass media to provide a comprehensive examination ...

Die Nachfolgebände der "Gynäkologischen Endokrinologie" (1987) signalisieren bereits im Titel die Erweiterung des Fachgebiets, die aus den zahlreichen Neuentwicklungen der letzten Jahre resultiert. Hierzu zählen z.B. der Nachweis und die Bedeutung neuer Hormone, neue Funktionsteste, die Therapie mit weiblichen Sexualhormonen, die Untersuchung von Umwelteinwirkungen sowie diagnostische und operative Techniken der Fertilitätschirurgie. Damit ist...

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Every year, an estimated 1.6 million Americans participate in short-term mission trips, spending over one billion dollars-figures that have increased exponentially in the last two decades. About one third of U.S. congregations sponsor such trips each year. While they are referred to as "mission" trips, many trips focus not on conversion or evangelism, but on service projects-building a playground, providing medical care, or serving free meals ...

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State' aims to understand and explain the transformation of the old welfare state into the new competition state taking place in the context of the globalized economy.