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Book Synopsis A BATTERED OLD BRAIN by : Dennis A. Hooker
Download or read book A BATTERED OLD BRAIN written by Dennis A. Hooker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the poetic ramblings of a very creative man. They are humorous, tragic, uplifting and deeply spiritual (but not "religious"). You will love the people and situations that gave Dennis the "oomph" to put on paper the thoughts that someitmes run slipshod thourgh his mind. You may be amazed that poerson under such a load can think in the medium of thyme! A wonderful glimpse into a creative man's brain that has gone through Hell - and Back!
Book Synopsis Baffling Case of the Battered Brain by : Pendred Noyce
Download or read book Baffling Case of the Battered Brain written by Pendred Noyce and published by Tumblehome Learning. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With time travel and mysteries that need solving, the Galactic Academy of Science (G.A.S.) series instructs readers on how to think like scientists. Under the guidance of a Dude or Dudette from the future, the middle school characters are faced with treacherous, present-day crimes that require a historical knowledge of science in order to be solved. From investigating problems to analyzing data and constructing explanations and solutions, this series blends elements of sci-fi with educational methods that distill the key thinking habits of scientists and engineers. Medical science combines with mystery in this G.A.S. adventure about concussions Is the awkward stranger taking bribes to throw games? When Clinton hits his head in the championship soccer game, the stranger gets him benched, and Clinton’s team loses. Determined to nail the bribe-taker, Clinton and Mae take on a new G.A.S. mission—a journey across three continents and 4,000 years to learn about concussion and the brain.
Book Synopsis Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain by : Phyllis Stien
Download or read book Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain written by Phyllis Stien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore interventions and treatment methods designed to help curb the alarming trend toward violence in today's youth! Written in jargon-free lucid prose, Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children specifically shows how positive early experiences enhance brain development and how traumatic life experiences, especially child abuse and neglect, can affect a child's brain and behavior. Through carefully selected case studies, the book offers basic principles of treatment and a broad range of interventions that target the multiple symptoms and problems seen in children with a history of childhood trauma. Offering a new psychobiological model of child development, this book incorporates the influence of both genes and the environment and conceptualizes normal and pathological development in terms of common underlying processes. For readers concerned with promoting healthy development in children and helping children recover from childhood trauma, this engagingly written book describes exactly how a child's social/interpersonal environment can positively or negatively influence brain development. Throughout the book, the authors highlight the interrelationship between neurobiology and psychology. They present basic information about brain development and organization, describe exactly what is going on inside the brain at each stage of development, and illustrate these concepts through a detailed case study of a preschooler with severe problems in communicating and relating. They discuss the pernicious effects that traumatic stress has on brain and behavior, differentiating between simple and complex PTSD, and review the specific brain impairments currently attributed to a childhood history of maltreatment. Using their unique psychobiological perspective and illustrative case studies, the authors evaluate the principles and strategies of treatment, showing how relationships and experiences can mitigate the effects childhood trauma. After fleshing out the shocking cost to society of child maltreatment, the authors offer broad policy prescriptions that promote healthy development, including basic strategies for prevention and early intervention. Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children will show you: how interpersonal experience shapes brain development what is going on in the brain during the critical first six years how therapeutic relationships and interpersonal experience can promote emotional and cognitive development how childhood maltreatment can damage the brain and impair the developing mind what types of experiences and therapeutic strategies can mitigate the effects of childhood trauma what policy prescriptions, programs, and early intervention strategies can be implemented to promote healthy development
Book Synopsis AARP The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain by : Judith Horstman
Download or read book AARP The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain written by Judith Horstman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. Scientific American and Scientific American Mind have good news about getting older! AARP The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain taps into the most current research to present a realistic and encouraging view of the well-aged brain, a sobering look at what can go wrong––and at what might help you and your brain stay healthy longer. Neurologists and psychologists have discovered the aging brain is much more elastic and supple than previously thought, and that happiness actually increases with age. While our short-term memory may not be what it was, dementia is not inevitable. Far from disintegrating, the elder brain can continue to develop and adapt in many ways and stay sharp as it ages. Offers new insights on how an aging brain can repair itself, and the five best strategies for keeping your brain healthy Shows how older brains can acquire new skills, perspective, and productivity Dispels negative myths about aging Explores what to expect as our brains grow older With hope and truth, this book helps us preserve what we’ve got, minimize what we’ve lost, and optimize the vigor and health of our maturing brains.
Book Synopsis The Manual that Never Came with your Child by : Jane Jarvis
Download or read book The Manual that Never Came with your Child written by Jane Jarvis and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents and caregivers struggle to cope with the demands of modern day living and need practical ways to help them raise happy, well-adjusted and independent children. This book includes invaluable and practical advice on how to improve a child's planning and organisational skills, how to tackle homework, and general discipline. The Manual That Never Came With Your Child shows parents/caregivers: how to create an appropriate environment for the child to do his or her homework; the setting up of routines; how to organise weekly and monthly planners; how to teach a child to study; how to devise the ultimate homework diary; ideas on games and activities to improve a child's visual and auditory perceptual skills, their reading, spelling and times tables as well as fine and gross motor skills; what children need to eat to optimise brain power. The sticky issue of discipline is also covered comprehensively. Written in easy laymen's terms, the often-humorous text is accompanied by full-colour cartoon illustrations throughout, which 'lightens' the approach to issues that are often regarded as nightmares by despairing parents. Where necessary, there are also colour photographs. Regular 'Handy Hints' boxes are included to summarise the preceding concepts in a nutshell.
Book Synopsis The Oldest Living Things in the World by : Rachel Sussman
Download or read book The Oldest Living Things in the World written by Rachel Sussman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.
Download or read book Derelict Days . . . written by Irv Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here under one cover are the previously scattered tales of my hitch-hiking life. As the sub-title implies, however, they are more than mere travel tales; for the common, unremarkable act of hitch-hiking cloaks a quite remarkable instrument of personal growth and guidance. This is so because it is uniquely capable of removing the hitch-hiker from the realm of the planned and predictable. Life happens, then, on a course of events over which we have only the barest remnant of control (accepting or rejecting an offered ride). In this rarefied state of being, amazing things become visible for the perceptive observer. Without the protective shield of control, one begins to see elements of real life most often otherwise hidden by the myopia of pursuing a goal under one’s own drive and handling – the normal circumstance of daily life. The ‘real life’ I invariably discover, when hitch-hiking, has been filled with instances of providence and synchronicity. So much so, that it has implanted in me a deeper, richer understanding of how life really works – if we let it. These tales are packed with such instances, making this book both a pleasure and an enlightenment to read.
Book Synopsis The Mindblower Families by : Randall Edward Foss
Download or read book The Mindblower Families written by Randall Edward Foss and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battered Woman Syndrome by : Lenore E. Walker
Download or read book The Battered Woman Syndrome written by Lenore E. Walker and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Lenore Walker has provided a thorough update to her original findings in the field of domestic abuse. Each chapter has been expanded to include new research. The volume contains the latest on the impact of exposure to violence on children, marital rape, child abuse, personality characteristics of different types of batterers, new psychotherapy models for batterers and their victims, and more. Walker also speaks out on her involvement in the O.J. Simpson trial as a defense witness and how he does not fit the empirical data known for domestic violence. This volume should be required reading for all professionals in the field of domestic abuse. For Further Information, Please Click Here!
Download or read book No Name written by Wilkie Collins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: No Name by Wilkie Collins
Download or read book Night Terror written by Chandler McGrew and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys vanish and the mother of one is convinced her son is still alive and that somewhere in her own past lies the key to his disappearance. She must confront the tortuous maze of her memory. As she and the local Sherriff both move closer to the truth in their own ways, they are aware someone knows exactly what happened–and who must die next.
Download or read book Soulburner written by Derek Mathias and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan joins his brother Dan's private investigation agency in the hopes of reconnecting with his older sibling. Although he doesn't know the first thing about private investigation and he's hopeless with a gun, Dan convinces him to help him out on a covert mission for Dan's former commanding officer. But the mission is far more dangerous than either brother realizes. The officer and his soldiers are seeking to recover an insidious device used to manipulate Earth's history. Humanity is under attack . . . and doesn't even realize it. Alan and Dan are ill-equipped to face this invisible invasion . . . but they're the only chance Earth has to survive. Audiobook at podiobooks.com. Kindle version at amazon.com.
Download or read book Mother Angelica written by Raymond Arroyo and published by Image. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “In this dramatic page-turner, Raymond Arroyo has captured the life and lessons of Mother Angelica, a woman who may well be the patron saint of CEOs.”—Lee Iacocca, The Iacocca Family Foundation, former CEO of the Chrysler Corporation In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and two hundred dollars, launched what would become the world’s largest religious media empire. In the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery, the Eternal Word Television Network grew at a staggering pace under her guidance. Mother Angelica (1923–2016) remains on the air, offering faith-filled advice, hope, and laughter to her audience through rebroadcasts of her original homilies. Raymond Arroyo, through more than five years of exclusive interviews with Mother Angelica, traces her tortuous rise to success and exposes for the first time the fierce opposition she faced, both outside and inside her church.
Download or read book No Name written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End Of Science written by John Horgan and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As staff writer for Scientific American, John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Who else routinely interviews the likes of Lynn Margulis, Roger Penrose, Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Chris Langton, Karl Popper, Stephen Weinberg, and E.O. Wilson, with the freedom to probe their innermost thoughts? In The End Of Science, Horgan displays his genius for getting these larger-than-life figures to be simply human, and scientists, he writes, "are rarely so human . . . so at there mercy of their fears and desires, as when they are confronting the limits of knowledge."This is the secret fear that Horgan pursues throughout this remarkable book: Have the big questions all been answered? Has all the knowledge worth pursuing become known? Will there be a final "theory of everything" that signals the end? Is the age of great discoverers behind us? Is science today reduced to mere puzzle solving and adding detains to existing theories? Horgan extracts surprisingly candid answers to there and other delicate questions as he discusses God, Star Trek, superstrings, quarks, plectics, consciousness, Neural Darwinism, Marx's view of progress, Kuhn's view of revolutions, cellular automata, robots, and the Omega Point, with Fred Hoyle, Noam Chomsky, John Wheeler, Clifford Geertz, and dozens of other eminent scholars. The resulting narrative will both infuriate and delight as it mindless Horgan's smart, contrarian argument for "endism" with a witty, thoughtful, even profound overview of the entire scientific enterprise. Scientists have always set themselves apart from other scholars in the belief that they do not construct the truth, they discover it. Their work is not interpretation but simple revelation of what exists in the empirical universe. But science itself keeps imposing limits on its own power. Special relativity prohibits the transmission of matter or information as speeds faster than that of light; quantum mechanics dictates uncertainty; and chaos theory confirms the impossibility of complete prediction. Meanwhile, the very idea of scientific rationality is under fire from Neo-Luddites, animal-rights activists, religious fundamentalists, and New Agers alike. As Horgan makes clear, perhaps the greatest threat to science may come from losing its special place in the hierarchy of disciplines, being reduced to something more akin to literaty criticism as more and more theoreticians engage in the theory twiddling he calls "ironic science." Still, while Horgan offers his critique, grounded in the thinking of the world's leading researchers, he offers homage too. If science is ending, he maintains, it is only because it has done its work so well.
Download or read book The Entitled written by Frank Deford and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Entitled is a baseball masterpiece, like The Natural and Field of Dreams." —Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame From legendary six-time National Sportswriter of the Year and NPR commentator Frank Deford comes a richly detailed, page-turning tale that takes you deep into America's game. Howie Traveler never made it as a player-his one major league hit and .091 batting average attest to that. He was cursed with that worst of professional maladies, the ill fortune of almost. Now after years of struggling up the coaching ladder, Howie's finally been given his shot as manager of the Cleveland Indians. But whether Howie can spot a small flaw in a batter's swing won't matter if he can't manage his superstar outfielder Jay Alcazar, a slugger with enormous talent (and an ego to match). No crisis on the field fazes Jay and no woman off the field rejects him. But one night at a hotel Howie sees something at Jay's door he wishes he hadn't...and it leaves Howie with an impossible choice. Praise for THE ENTITLED: "I loved The Entitled...reminded me of the many people I've known and played with-pure baseball." —Lou Piniella, Manager, Chicago Cubs "Frank Deford is not just an immensely talented sportswriter, he's an immensely talented American writer." —David Halberstam "In men like Traveler and Alcazar we find the beating heart and struggling soul of baseball..." —Jeff MacGregor, Sports Illustrated; author of Sunday Money "Engrossing...Readers are exposed to a richly textured understanding of baseball and, no less, of estrangement, ambition, mendacity and the search for one's destiny-notwithstanding the cost in human or financial terms." —Library Journal "...proves once again that Deford can play at the highest level in any league." —Michael Mewshaw, author of Year of the Gun "Deford scores another hit with this novel of athletes behaving badly...tackles timely and provocative issues without flinching." —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Wide World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
