Chungliang Al Huang is the founder of Living Tao Foundation, an international cultural-arts network for lifelong learning, and the director of the Lan Ting Institute, a cross-cultural study and conference center at the sacred and historic Wu Yi Mountain, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the People's Republic of China, and at Gold Beach on the ......
This is an excellent review of the development of self-care deficit theory and the use of self-care in nursing practice. Explanations of the various theories and theory terms are well done and written at a level that novice theorists can relate to. The authors demonstrate how self-care science can be fiscally and effectively applied to the care of ......
Celiac disease and gluten intolerance are sensitivities to the gluten in wheat. This title provides medical-based advice with a common sense leaning that people expect from nurses. It explains the differences between celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and gluten allergy. It also includes a 'One Week Simple Healing Meal Plan'.
The ancient Near Eastern mode of thought is not at all intuitive to us moderns, but our understanding of ancient perspectives can only approach accuracy when we begin to penetrate ancient texts on their own terms rather than imposing our own world view. In this task, we are aided by the ever-growing corpus of literature that is being ......
Trouble in Mind is an introduction to psychiatry that provides an original perspective on mental life, explaining the normal processes that become disrupted in mental illness. Dean F. MacKinnon offers a biological focus on the mental nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and selfdestruction.Trouble in Mind offers alternatives to the ......
Matt Edmonds examines the latest developments in attempts of both Christian and secular health movements to remove disability from the world around us. Exploring issues such as disability theology, the ethics of genetic therapy and the prevalence of faith healing, he examines what it means to think theologically about disability.Charting the rise ......
Its Christmas Day when we meet Lewis Burkholder, a West Virginia livestock farmer and sheepdog trainer, and his talented young border collie, Nop. The usually happy holiday is shattered when Nop is stolen from his owner. This stirring novel of courage and love is a modern classic.
Gordon Faulkner is Prinicpal Instructor at the Chanquanshu School of Daoist Arts. He is a Certified International Judge of Daoyin Yangsheng Gong and President of the Scotland and Wales Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Association. Gordon is a closed-door student of Professor Zhang Guangde, founder of the modern Daoyin Yangsheng system taught at the Beijing ......
An eclectic examination of the global nature of Indian and Chinese mediaEmphasizing the global nature of Indian and Chinese film, television, and digital media, Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders provides a diverse mix of alternative perspectives that collectively shift the discussion of media globalization ......
