5/29/2023 0 Comments Switch on your brain reviewShe shares with readers the "switch" in our brains that enables us to live happier, healthier, more enjoyable lives where we achieve our goals, maintain our weight, and even become more intelligent. Caroline Leaf gives readers a prescription for better health and wholeness through correct thinking patterns, declaring that we are not victims of our biology. Supported by current scientific and medical research, Dr. In fact, fear alone triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses in our bodies, activating more than thirty different hormones! Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic thoughts that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for illnesses. What we think about truly affects us both physically and emotionally. Over 900,000 copies sold! According to researchers, the vast majority-a whopping 75-98 percent-of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life.
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Almost all discussions of this issue by analytic philosophers have been a series of responses to Pike and this collection of John Martin Fischer’s previously published essays is a collection of such responses. Given the assumption that human free actions are causally underdetermined, this entails that such a God cannot at any time have infallible knowledge of which future actions humans will do freely. In 1965 Nelson Pike presented his very clear version of an ancient argument purporting to show that a temporal God (that is, one who exists at all moments of time), could not have infallible knowledge of any future causally undetermined contingent event, and so – if there are any such events - could not be essentially omniscient, in the sense of having infallible knowledge of all true propositions. It was my voice and not the character’s.” Although Hopkins always dabbled with poetry, she never thought of writing a verse novel until she attended a writer’s conference that planted the seed. “I started Crank as a prose novel,” she says, “but the voice was too angry. With Crank’s instant success, Hopkins says her life has been “a bit of a rocket ride.” Originally called Flirtin’ With the Monster, Crank was published in October 2004. When her oldest daughter became addicted to crystal methamphetamine, Hopkins turned to writing fiction to try to understand her daughter’s addiction and to figure out what she could have done differently. Ellen Hopkins built her list of nonfiction book credits by combining her journalism experience with her passion to convince her pre-teen daughters that they could become pilots or astronauts rather than the models and movie stars foisted on them by media and marketing conglomerates. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Owls do cry by janet frameJust how specifically Frame alludes to family disasters in her disaster-strewn fiction is never resolved in King's elegantly written, densely researched and remorselessly long biography. These events, King suggests, precipitated Frame's mental collapse, and formed much of the matter of her work, in transmuted form. Geordie became an epileptic and, eventually, a wife-smashing alcoholic Myrtle and Laura died in strange swimming accidents. With brother Geordie - doomed by their Brontë myth to Branwellesque decline - they muddied their faces and blotted the neighbourhood with shrieked obscenities. They grew up in cramped rooms in Dunedin their father a train driver, their mother a housewife and poet. The Frame sisters - Janet, June, Myrtle and Laura - felt themselves to be like the Brontës - because they held, by right, 'silk purses' of words, and because their family was an anvil on which disasters fell. Her novels, which include Owls do Cry (1957), Faces in the Water (1961) Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963) and Intensive Care (1970), are relentless sagas of distress. Born in New Zealand in 1924, to a family fallen from relative prosperity to ramshackle impecuniousness, she spent her twenties in mental asylums in New Zealand and London, diagnosed as schizophrenic. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Shipped hockmanThe book also focuses almost as much on elements outside the Graeme and Henley’s romance as it does the relationship itself. Shipped was a fun, light read – and much needed escape! I loved learning more about the Galapagos, and while the plot contained several predictable rom-com elements, the whole travel/cruise company element was something I hadn’t seen before in this genre. Henley and Graeme finally meet when they are sent on one of their company’s cruises to do research for their proposals- and the best proposal earns the promotion. The only thing standing in her way is her Graeme, a remote employee in her department who just so happens to be her biggest enemy. Shipped follows Henley, an ambitions career-driven woman who is considered for a huge promotion at the cruise company she works for. Aside from the adorable cover, I was initially drawn to this book when I saw that it was being marketed as The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game. Gideon's sly unreliability is cloaked by Robertson's mastery of language and command of the elements of fiction the combination is addictive and captivating. Gideon's struggle to find meaning in his experience leads to his undoing. His survival is miraculous, but his account of what happened is scandalous: he was saved by the devil. But he appears downstream, only slightly injured, three days later. A conflicted Gideon, while walking with another minister, falls into a gorge and is presumed dead. After his wife dies in a traffic accident, Gideon consummates a long-held obsession with old friend Elsie, whose husband, John, is also a longtime friend. Raised by a harsh minister father, Gideon abandons faith at an early age, but later discovers it's possible to "be a Christian without involving Christ very much" and secures the pulpit at a small coastal church where he proves to be a gifted preacher. A brief foreword claims the book is an autobiography penned by Gideon Mack, a Church of Scotland minister who, after allegedly encountering the devil, becomes a pariah and madman before disappearing. Robertson offers in his absorbing American debut (two novels have been published in the U.K.) the cleverly framed autobiography of a Scottish minister who confronts the devil. For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband, and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies - until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan. Only by skill and determination were the four travelers able to discover the last of the really great Whangdoodles and grant him his heart's desire. But waiting for them was the scheming Prock, who would use almost any means to keep them away from his beloved king. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres. With the Professor's help, they discovered the secret way. The Last Of The Really Great Whangdoodles By Julie Andrews Edwards - FictionDB. And when he told the three Potter children of his search for the spectacular creature, Lindy, Tom, and Ben were eager to reach Whangdoodleland. Professor Savant believed in the Whangdoodle. It was an almost perfect place where the last of the really great Whangdoodles could rule his kingdom with "peace, love and a sense of fun"-apart from and forgotten by people.īut not completely forgotten. Then he disappeared and created a wonderful land for himself and all the other remarkable animals-the ten-legged Sidewinders, the little furry Flukes, the friendly Whiffle Bird, and the treacherous, "oily" Prock. The Whangdoodle was once the wisest, the kindest, and the most extraordinary creature in the world. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The beauty myth by naomi wolf'A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. With pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession. Its the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill societys impossible definition of 'the flawless beauty.' ©2002, 1991 Naomi Wolf (P)2013 Audible, Inc. In this iconic, gripping and frank expose, Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. Wolf offers chapters on how the beauty myth functions at work, in the media and culture, in the religious sphere, and in sex and sexual relations she also discusses relationship to violence. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. Įvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. Publisher Vintage Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. Publication date 1991 Topics Feminine beauty (Aesthetics), Femininity., Sex role. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Corvus by Esther WoolfsonHer account of her experiences is funny, touching and beautifully written, and gives fascinating insights into the closeness human beings can achieve with wild creatures. Woolfson tells the darker story of way corvids have always been objects of superstition and persecution and with the lightest of touches, she weaves in the science of bird intelligence, evolution, song and flight throughout. We hear about Chicken's fears and foibles: her hatred of computers and other machines and her love of sitting on Woolfson's knee in the evening and having her neck scratched the birds' elaborate bathing rituals, springtime broodiness, and tendency to cache food in the most unlikely places. But above all, it has been the corvids (a talking magpie named Spike, Chicken the rook, and, recently, a baby crow named Ziki) that she has formed the closest attachments with, amazed by their intelligence, personality and capacity for affection.Living with birds has allowed Woolfson to learn aspects of bird behaviour which would otherwise have been impossible to know - the way they happily become part of the structure of a family, how they communicate, their astonishing empathy. Other birds have also taken their place in the household - a magpie, starling, parrot and the inhabitants of an outdoor dovehouse. That rook - named Chicken - has lived with the family ever since. Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies and ravens, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixteen years ago. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Alex & Me by Irene M. PepperbergHe sometimes became bored by the repetition of his tests, and played jokes on her. He was jealous when she paid attention to other parrots, or even people. They shared a deep bond far beyond science. They were emotionally connected to one another. Yet there was a side to their relationship that never made the papers. Together, Alex and Irene uncovered a startling reality: We live in a world populated by thinking, conscious creatures.The fame that resulted was extraordinary. He understood concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none. Yet, over the years, Alex proved many things. Alex's brain was the size of a shelled walnut, and when Irene and Alex first met, birds were not believed to possess any potential for language, consciousness, or anything remotely comparable to human intelligence. Over the thirty years they had worked together, Alex and Irene had become famous - two pioneers who opened an unprecedented window into the hidden yet vast world of animal minds. I love you."What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were "You be good. On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. |