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![]() Fast Track to Aging Backwards: 6 Ways and 30 Days to Look and Feel Younger by Miranda Esmonde-White English | 2019 | ISBN: 0735275211 | 292 pages | EPUB | 42 Mb A 30-day anti-aging program for rapid results using the fundamental movements and principles of the bestselling Aging Backwards, featuring an accelerated program for turning back the clock. The field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many misconceptions about aging-including the beliefs that disease, immobility, and pain are inevitable-have been debunked. Today, we know that the choices we make, from what we eat to how much and how we move, play a critical role in healthy aging. ![]() Farid ad-Din 'Attar's Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis By Paul Losensky 2009 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0809145731 | PDF | 24 MB In Farid ad-Din 'Attār's Memorial of God's Friends, readers will explore the sole extant prose work of the great Persian Sufi poet Farid al-Din 'Attār (d. ca. 1230). Integrating the writings of generations of Sufi scholars and historians, it relates the saga of Islamic spirituality through the lives and sayings of some its most prominent exemplars. 'Attār combines popular legend, historical anecdote, ethical maxim, and speculative meditation in lively and thought-provoking biographies. 'Attār's lucid and economical style encourages readers to participate fully in the efforts of these pioneers of the sacred to live out and express their unfolding encounters with the divine. Scholars, shopkeepers, princes, and outcasts―God's friends come from all classes of medieval society and embody the full range of religious attitudes, from piety and awe to love and ecstatic union. This work merges the miraculous and the everyday in one of the most engaging and comprehensive portrayals of spiritual experience in the Islamic tradition. Highlights: This translation makes the major biographies of Memorial of God's Friends available in their entirety for the first time to a general audience in a contemporary American idiom. † ![]() Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research By Casey Burkholder (editor), Funk Aladejebi (editor), Joshua Schwab-cartas (editor) 2022 | 294 Pages | ISBN: 1032058005 | PDF | 23 MB This book examines a number of research case studies in different methodological contexts to explicate the widely discussed but undertheorized issue of research facilitation. ![]() Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar By Pam Chamberlain (editor), Matthew N. Lyons (editor), Abby Scher (editor), Spencer Sunshine (editor) 2022 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 036768117X | PDF | 10 MB This book celebrates the life and work of scholar-activist Chip Berlet. His contributions over four decades have had broad-ranging impacts on activists, independent intellectuals, and academics, from think tanks and social movements to generations of scholars.Berlet's work over the decades has covered a wide range of topics, from the Christian Right, armed militias, social movement theory, and white supremacy to conspiracism, civil liberties, and government surveillance. This book features contributions reflecting on many of these topics by leading scholars and activists who have been inspired by his work and example.This book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and activists within anti-racist, anti-fascist, and progressive social movements. ![]() Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings: Am I Being Haunted? by Michael Pye, Kirsten Dalley, Loyd Auerbach English | August 15, 2011 | ISBN: 160163174X | 224 pages | EPUB | 3.38 Mb What are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions? ![]() Experiencing Olmsted: The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Charles Birnbaum, Dena Tasse-Winter, Arleyn Levee English | October 11th, 2022 | ISBN: 1643260367 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 85.15 MB 200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America ![]() Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity By Elizabeth S. Goodstein 2005 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0804749582 | PDF | 14 MB Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways of experiencing time and thinking about human existence that are recognizably modern. By tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, Experience Without Qualities makes a contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity. In interpreting that discourse as the reflection of a specifically modern crisis of meaning, it contributes to the theorization of modernity and modern experience. And in bringing these historical and theoretical dimensions into conversation, it develops analytic strategies that are of broader application in interdisciplinary inquiry―for the methodological problems that arise in thinking about boredom as a phenomenon of both philosophical and more broadly cultural significance illuminate the constraints that confront any attempt to reflect historically on subjective experience in modernity. ![]() Exergy for A Better Environment and Improved Sustainability 2: Applications by Fethi Aloui English | EPUB | 2018 | 1173 Pages | ISBN : 3319625748 | 197 MB This multi-disciplinary book presents the most recent advances in exergy, energy, and environmental issues. Volume 2 focuses on applications and covers current problems, future needs, and prospects in the area of energy and environment from researchers worldwide. ![]() Evidence-Based School Development in Changing Demographic Contexts by Rose M. Ylimaki, Lynnette A. Brunderman English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 185 Pages | ISBN : 3030768368 | 4.4 MB This book features a school development model (Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research - AZiLDR) that offers a roadmap for schools to navigate the complexities of continuous school development. Filled with processes that balance evidence-based values with democratic, culturally responsive values, this book offers strategies to mediate the tensions and to address school culture, context and values, leadership capacity, using data as a source of reflection, curricular and pedagogical activity, and strengths-based approaches to meeting the needs of culturally diverse students. You will find: ![]() Debbie Tolson, "Evidence Informed Nursing with Older People" English | ISBN: 1444331132 | 2011 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Evidence Informed Nursing with Older People is an essential text for nursing students and registered nurses working with older people who are seeking to make connections between theory, evidence and value based gerontological practice. The rapidly rising aging global population requires that more attention is given to the needs and requirements of older people. This textbook is a key resource for nursing students and registered nurses working with older people who wish to improve their practice. |