Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality
What would it mean to queer contemplation? To disentangle contemplative spirituality from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity, and instead engage with openness, curiosity, and a little weirdness? The world of contemplative Christianity has yielded to the same voices for far too long, many of whom are from centuries before our time, ......
Knitting holds a warm place in many people’s hearts as they fondly remember their grandmother knitting toys and clothing for them when they were children. But now, knitting is coming into its own. In Quick & Easy Knitting, learn the basics and take on projects to liven up your home and wardrobe, or create heirlooms that you can pass down through ......
The first edition won first prize in Anaesthesia in the 2019 BMA Medical Book Awards! Here's what the reviewers said: "It is so easy to pick up and check things, and the illustrations and drawing instructions have allowed me to do my own drawings and learn how to label them." This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and ......
Receiving This Life offers devotional reflections, prayers, practices, and liturgies that seek the meaning inside experiences and create ways to embrace and rehearse meaning. Kara K. Root empowers the reader to embrace life as sacred and to practice receiving life as a gift by attuning to meaning in the ordinary.
Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice. Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient's health record, and this pocket guide is full of ......
The Towards Outstanding series offers essential resources for health and social care services regulated by the Care Quality Commission, built around the five questions that inspectors use (are services safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led?).
Reenvisioning Approaches Within a Global Framework
Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam examines the variety of strategic peacebuilding and conflict resolution activities conducted by Muslim practitioners and nongovernmental organizations in Muslim-majority communities. Qamar-ul Huda explores ways that Muslim scholars, civil society members, and communities interpret ......
Using Guided Reflection to Strengthen Relationships and Improve Outcomes
Provides an overview of the science and practice of relational savoring, a brief, guided reflection exercise that helps clients reconnect with memories of being closely connected with another person.
