Download or read book Keep Calm and Cowboy written by Autumn Piper and published by Autumn Piper. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If love is friendship set on fire, sex between best friends is a torch to tinder. In second grade, he asked her to be his girlfriend. She said yes, and that was the end of that. Keep calm and help a girl out: Fourteen years of friendship later, Colin relishes living up to his reputation as a player, until fooling around takes priority over his grades. Losing his scholarship gets him booted out of college and lands him back home on the ranch with some strongly worded advice from his dad about staying away from women. Speaking of women, though… He’s barely ever noticed his childhood pal Violet is female, let alone one he’d like to get horizontal with, but now that he’s back, he can’t seem to think of anything else. Keep calm and learn from the best: When none of her relationships move past first base, Violet knows she’s doing something wrong. Lucky for her, Colin the Casanova is back in town. He seems like a natural choice to tutor her, until she realizes he’s the only guy she’s ever wanted to get physical with. Too bad they agreed they’ll go back to being friends once her final exam is over. Openly dating would destroy both of their reputations and break up their group of friends, so they have to finish this ride through the last lesson, then keep calm and cope.

Download or read book Peaceful Like a Panda 30 Mindful Moments for Playtime Mealtime Bedtime or Anytime written by Kira Willey and published by Rodale Kids. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of BREATHE LIKE A BEAR comes a new collection of Mindful Moments! These easy-to-follow exercises help kids calmly and mindfully navigate their day, from sunrise to sunset. With sections dedicated to key activities in a child's routine--waking up, traveling, learning, playing, eating, and bedtime--kids can learn techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions anywhere, anytime. Wake up bright and sunny, no matter the weather! Explore the world around you during travel. Boost your brain before learning. Make the most of your imagination at playtime.

Download or read book The Monuments of Panda Johnson Book 1 written by Harry H Batsford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panda, a burger flipping alien, is cast into a battle of the relatively good Vs frustrated evil. Follow him and his five friends as they are transported through time and space. Meet Bob, the bored Jellyfish God...

Download or read book The Bitter Half written by Simon and published by One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Sumit, life was on the right track with a successful and promising career ahead, so, little did he expect it to hit him so hard, that it would disrupt normalcy and force him to take a path least traversed. With shattered dreams and no hopes of resuscitation, he collects back those pieces and starts rebuilding everything from scratch in order to recoup his honour and dignity. Alternating between timelines of the past and present, set against the backdrop of Haldia, Rourkela and Mumbai; Simon's debut novel The Bitter Half : a dichotomy of Trust & Betrayal' is inspired by a set of true events that provides a poignant view into the dark world of a litigant’s melancholic sufferings.

Download or read book Knitted Wild Animals written by Sarah Keen and published by Potter Craft. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents patterns and step-by-step instructions for knitting different types of wild animals.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Language Literature and Media AICOLLIM 2022 written by Rohmani Nur Indah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. AICoLLiM is the annual conference on the area of language, literature and media. It provides a forum for presenting and discussing the expanding paradigm, latest innovations, results and developments in language, literature and media. The conference provides a forum for lecturers, students, researchers, practitioners and media professionals engaged in research and development to share ideas, interact with others, present their latest works, and strengthen the collaboration among academics, researcher and professionals.

Download or read book Adrift written by Rob Boffard and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An edge-of-the-seat epic of survival and adventure in deep space." -- Gareth L. Powell, BSFA Award-Winning author Sigma Station. The ultimate luxury hotel, in the far reaches of space. For one small group, a tour of the Horsehead Nebula is meant to be a short but stunning highlight in the trip of a lifetime. But when a mysterious ship destroys Sigma Station and everyone on it, suddenly their tourist shuttle is stranded. They have no weapons. No food. No water. No one back home knows they're alive. And the mysterious ship is hunting them.

Download or read book Please Mr Panda written by Steve Antony and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the proper way to ask Mr. Panda for doughnuts? Patiently and politely, Mr. Panda asks the animals he comes across if they would like a doughnut. A penguin, a skunk, and a whale all say yes, but they do not remember to say "please" and "thank you." Is anyone worthy of Mr. Panda's doughnuts?Steve Antony has captured a cute panda, delightful animals hungry for doughnuts, and a manners lesson. With the black-and-white animals, plain backgrounds, and brightly colored doughnuts, Antony's art is bold, striking, and engaging.

Download or read book Me and Sam Sam Handle the Apocalypse written by Susan Vaught and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Edgar-winning Vaught, a neuropsychologist, has both personal and professional experience to draw on in crafting a narrator who is admirably smart and resilient despite an ‘itchy’ brain and a compulsion to count things.” —Booklist (starred review) “Deeply smart and considerate.” —BCCB “An absorbing mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews “A strong addition to help diversify realistic fiction collections to include neuroatypical characters and heroines.” —School Library Journal In this Edgar Award–winning novel by mystery superstar Susan Vaught, Jesse is on the case when money goes missing from the library and her dad is looking like the #1 suspect. I could see the big inside of my Sam-Sam. I had been training him for 252 days with mini tennis balls and pieces of bacon, just to prove to Dad and Mom and Aunt Gus and the whole world that a tiny, fluffy dog could do big things if he wanted to. I think my little dog always knew he could be a hero. I just wonder if he knew about me. When the cops show up at Jesse’s house and arrest her dad, she figures out in a hurry that he’s the #1 suspect in the missing library fund money case. With the help of her (first and only) friend Springer, she rounds up suspects (leading to a nasty confrontation with three notorious school bullies) and asks a lot of questions. But she can’t shake the feeling that she isn’t exactly cut out for being a crime-solving hero. Jesse has a neuro-processing disorder, which means that she’s “on the spectrum or whatever.” As she explains it, “I get stuck on lots of stuff, like words and phrases and numbers and smells and pictures and song lines and what time stuff is supposed to happen.” But when a tornado strikes her small town, Jesse is given the opportunity to show what she's really made of—and help her dad. Told with the true-as-life voice Susan Vaught is known for, this mystery will have you rooting for Jesse and her trusty Pomeranian, Sam-Sam.

Download or read book Neurotransmitter Imaging of the Human Brain written by Sofie Tapper and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: In this thesis, MEGA-edited Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) has been used for the purpose of non-invasive detection of !- aminobutyric acid (GABA) within the brain. GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the human central nervous system, and glutamate is the corresponding main excitatory neurotransmitter. A balance between GABA and glutamate is crucial for healthy neurotransmission within the brain, and regional altered concentrations have been linked to certain neurological disorders. However, it is challenging to measure GABA, and special editing approaches are needed in order to allow reliable quantification. In addition, the GABA measurement is further complicated due to disturbances such as movements during the acquisition that may lead to artifacts in the resulting spectrum. This thesis can be divided into two sections, where the first section focuses on three clinical applications (narcolepsy, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and essential tremor (ET)), which were all investigated using MEGA-edited single- voxel spectroscopy (SVS). The second section focuses on method development, where two statistical retrospective approaches were investigated for the purpose of improving MEGA-edited data. In addition, a new MRS imaging (MRSI) pulse sequence with the purpose of GABA detection using a high spatial resolution, short acquisition time, and full brain coverage was also investigated. Materials and Methods: In total, 164 participants were included and 272 MRS measurements were performed with the voxel placed in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC, 136), thalamus (32), and cerebellum (104) using two different but “identical” MR systems. Nineteen narcolepsy patients and 21 matched healthy controls performed an fMRI working memory task using a simultaneous EEG followed by an mPFC GABA-edited MRS measurement. Sixty-four IBS patients and 32 matched healthy controls underwent an mPFC GABA-edited MRS measurement followed by resting state fMRI. In addition, psychological symptoms were assessed using questionnaires. Ten ET patients and six matched healthy controls underwent four GABA-edited MRS measurements with the voxels placed in the thalamus and cerebellum. In this study, the symptom severity was investigated using the essential tremor rating scale (ETRS). All clinical MRS datasets were analyzed using conventional methods for post-processing and quantification. Furthermore, 12 volunteers were recruited for the purpose of investigating statistical retrospective approaches for artifact detection and elimination of MRS data. Each participant underwent three reference measurements and three measurements with induced head movements conducted according to a movement paradigm. Order statistic filtering (OSF) and jackknife correlation (JKC) were investigated as regards to the elimination of artifact-influenced spectra and reliability of the resulting concentrations. Finally, phantom measurements were performed for the purpose of investigating MEGA-edited MRSI. Results: In narcolepsy, a trend-level association was observed between the mPFC MRS concentrations and increased deactivation within the default mode network during the working memory task. A significantly higher mPFC GABA+ concentration was observed in IBS patients with a high severity of comorbid anxiety. In ET, a positive correlation was observed between cerebellar GABA+/Glx ratios and tremor severity. Moreover, movements during the measurement decreased the concentration estimates due to signal loss in the spectra. Both OSF and JKC resulted in trend-level improvement of the signal- intense metabolites in spectrum when artifacts were present in the data, while performing equally as well as conventional analysis methodology when no intentional movements were present in the data. Finally, using the fast MEGA- edited multi-voxel sequence developed for a conventional clinical scanner, our phantom measurements showed that GABA was detectable using a 1:45 min acquisition time and an MRSI voxel size of 1 mL. Discussion: Several challenges such as time constraints, large voxel sizes, and protocol design were encountered when performing SVS MEGA-PRESS in the clinical research settings. In addition, artifacts in the MRS data originating for example, from motions, negatively impacted the resulting averaged spectra, which was evident in both data from clinical populations and healthy controls. In the presence of artifacts in the data, both OSF and JKC improved the SVS MEGA-edited spectra. In addition, the implemented JKC method can be used not only for artifact detection, but also as a generally applicable retrospective technique for the quality control of a dataset, or as an indication of whether a shift in voxel placement occurred during the measurement. Using the MEGA-edited MRSI pulse sequence, there are many technical challenges, including detrimental effects from eddy currents, spurious echoes, and field inhomogeneities. Even though there are many technical challenges when using MEGA-edited MRSI, an optimized version of the MRSI sequence would be extremely valuable in clinical research applications where high spatial resolution and short acquisition times are highly desired. Conclusions: OSF and JKC improved the metabolite quantification when artifacts were present in the data, and JKC was preferable. Although there are many technical challenges, MEGA-edited MRSI with full brain coverage in combination with a minimal voxel size for the purpose of GABA detection, would be extremely useful in clinical research applications where disorders such as narcolepsy, IBS, or ET, are investigated.

Download or read book LAKE BARCROFT written by Jeffrey Marcus Oshins and published by Deep Six. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leader's 16-year old daughter is pregnant. Can rock and roll save Beck Lyons? The birth of garage bands in the late 60's in Northern Virginia. A slanted and occasionally humorous look at the dying proprieties of traditional Virginia culture at the dawn of the counter-culture, the lives of the children of politicians, teen pregnancy, the Catholic underground railroad to hide young pregnant unmarried women, adoption, faith and forgiveness, the music business, and how lies can shape and destroy lives.

Download or read book Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee written by Megan Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary of a young woman dated from Jan. 2, 2009 to July 3, 2010, selected and published in book form, originally saved in her unpublished blog posts.

Download or read book Positive Panda written by Shaula Maitland and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panda introduces children to meditation, helps them to relax with breathing exercises and visualisations, before sharing twelve inspiring and uplifting journeys. Each one focusing on positive attributes such as self-belief, perseverance, independence and curiosity. Enjoy the benefits of meditation with journeys that spark the imagination. Explore the delights of 'Mermaid Cave', feast on a delicious 'Midnight Picnic' and discover what is inside the mysterious 'Green Egg'. Age 4+ 'Highly Commended' in Soul and Spirit Magazine Book Awards 2020 About the Author: Shaula is a Primary Teacher, Mummy and Author, passionate to create a vibrant range of well-being resources for children. Also a Meditation Teacher and Children's Mindfulness Coach, Shaula creates scripts that entice children's endless curiosity, imagination and wonder!

Download or read book Big Panda and Tiny Dragon written by James Norbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Food for the soul.” —CBS Mornings A thought-provoking journey of companionship, courage, tenderness, and tea. Big Panda and Tiny Dragon embark on a journey through the seasons of the year together. They get lost, as many of us do. But while lost, they discover many beautiful sights they'd never have found had they gone the right way. Told through a series of beautiful drawings and quiet, sometimes silly, conversations, the panda and the dragon explore the thoughts and emotions, hardships and happiness that connect us all. In nature, they learn how to live in the moment, how to be at peace with uncertainty, and how to find the strength to overcome life's obstacles together. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy and spirituality, British author and artist James Norbury created the adventures of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon to share ideas that have helped him through difficult times. The book’s series of vignettes can be read cover to cover or dipped into whenever inspiration is needed. James hopes the book’s words and images will inspire others to pause, enjoy the stillness, and look at life in a positive new way. WORDS OF WISDOM: The seemingly simple, and often silly, conversations between Big Panda and Tiny Dragon reveal meaningful insights on friendship, inner wisdom, and self-acceptance. INSPIRING IMAGES: Depicted in bold brush strokes reminiscent of calligraphy, big, fluffy Panda and tiny, wiry Dragon journey through rolling hills, wooded forests, and blooming meadows in more than 120 elegant black-and-white and full-color scenes. FOR READERS OF ALL AGES: From youngsters at story time to new graduates with the world ahead of them to adults in moments of challenge or transition, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon offer comfort, inspiration, and a wry smile for every reader. WORK OF ART: Featuring a beautiful cover and a collection of stunning illustrations, each one more beautiful than the next, every page in this book is worthy of framing. HEARTFELT GIFT: Full of wisdom and touching humor, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon makes a thoughtful gift to be treasured.

Download or read book Zendoodle Coloring Presents Keep Calm and Color On written by Meredith Mennitt and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t panic during times of uncertainty: Color your cares away! Color away the stress with this stunning book of relaxing designs that offer a therapeutic retreat into your own personal world of beauty, inner peace, and relaxation. Each exquisite design allows you to fall deep into the calming experience of coloring, providing the tranquility and comfort that we so often miss in the tension and uncertainty of our daily lives. · Soothing designs perfect for art therapy and everyday relaxation · Instant stress reliever and time consumer · Unique illustrations · 8.5 x 10 tear-out pages fit for framing · Personalized artwork for home-decorating, framing, or gift-giving

Download or read book The Last Panda written by George B. Schaller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's five year study of giant pandas and the problems facing those who are trying to save the species from extinction.

Download or read book Mindful Monkey Happy Panda written by Lauren Alderfer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful picture book for children and adults alike introduces the powerful practice of mindfulness in a fun and exciting way. With the delightful Monkey and his serene friend Happy Panda guiding readers to a calmer and more attentive mind, this whimsical yet warm presentation will delight all readers. As our story begins, Monkey is not so mindful - his Monkey Mind constantly jumping from one thing to another - but he encounters a mysterious and playful friend in Happy Panda. Panda helps Monkey recognize the simple joy of doing what you're doing while you're doing it.