Download or read book Aria written by S.L. Danielson and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asher and Erik are getting married, but Asher isn’t happy about the pressure being put on him by their families and unwittingly by Erik himself. Issues that have plagued him for a long time come bubbling to the surface and threaten to overwhelm him. Although he cries out for help, no one hears; instead they write it off as Asher throwing a tantrum again. Only Angel sees the cracks, but it’s too much for him to handle on his own, although he tries. The pressure builds, and even though there are breakouts, still no one sees the extent of the problem until the night before the wedding, when Asher is confronted by Erik in front of all their family and friends, and bolts. Fortunately, Asher is rescued by Vince’s Uncle Tony, who makes him an offer he can’t refuse. The Band heads off to London for a three-month tour, and not everyone is happy about it. Vince is stressed out and worried that Angel is not being entirely faithful. Should he say something? Then Connor meets an old friend, just when he starts having doubts about his relationship with Angel, and the fur starts to fly. Will any of the couples survive?

Download or read book At the Heart of Hiruharama written by Isabel Waiti-Mulholland and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the road to the heart of Hiruharama is sign-posted by separation and loss, the way forward is illuminated, made dazzling at times, by three important things: strange interventions from the unseen world, the blind courage of a good sense of humour and the strong wish to go further in life than tragedy says you can.

Download or read book Relax and Be More Like Aria written by Her Greatness and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the purchase of this interactive affirmations workbook that is unique to the named individual. By deciding to buy this affirmations notepad / notebook / workbook, you have taken a positive step forward in developing and improving yourself. This notepad & workbook has been designed to support you and your sub-conscious mind towards achieving more rewarding and positive outcomes in life. The affirmations found within this workbook will benefit you greatly and we recommend mindfully repeating them to yourself at least 10 times every morning and at night, just before bed time. You will also find a set of questions & pointers listed within which are geared towards supporting you in making the most out of this workbook, diary and notebook (whatever purpose you wish to use it for). Our aim is to help you to achieve the goals that you desire through exploring your thoughts and feelings, whilst positively growing through the affirmations. We encourage your personal growth and improvement and to have a great time as you do so. We trust that you will enjoy and benefit from the use of this workbook. You will be impressed with your purchase. Buy now to secure your copy. Good luck and wishing you all the best.

Download or read book The Pain Project written by Kara Stanley and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.”—NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger “The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane, thoughtful inquiry into the challenge of living with chronic pain and how Stanley and Paradis navigate its impact on their lives. This is a tough subject but a joyful book; it takes on a daunting topic with heart and humor and determination. It’s wonderful.”—SUSAN ORLEAN, author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book Ten years after her husband’s catastrophic injury, author Kara Stanley embarks with him on a journey to understand his chronic pain and find pathways into joy and relief. Kara and her husband, Simon, are at a desperate crossroads. In 2008, Simon fell off a scaffold, causing severe injuries to his brain and spinal cord. He made a remarkable recovery, eventually adjusting to life in a wheelchair and returning to his career as a musician, but he continues to suffer from debilitating pain that is beginning to strip away his selfhood. On the ten-year anniversary of the accident, Kara and Simon decide to confront Simon’s pain head-on by committing to a personal experiment. For one year, they will focus on researching, interviewing experts, and exploring both new, and age old, pain relief strategies. A decade ago, Simon was prescribed the pain-relieving drug hydromorphone. Can he discover an alternate therapeutic approach that is at least as effective as daily doses of opioids? As they navigate a difficult year, Kara’s tenacity and Simon’s wit shine through in their honest conversations, insightful journal entries, and affectionate banter. Throughout, they seek answers to profound questions about the nature of suffering and pain: Is it helpful to conceptualize pain as a disease, or not? What does it mean to understand that pain is always a creation of the brain? What is the difference between healing and curing? Is healing still possible even when all-better is not an option? Globally, at least one in five people suffer from chronic pain, placing an enormous burden on medical systems around the world. Not just a medical but also a social justice issue, chronic pain continues to be poorly understood and poorly treated. It is a challenging topic to discuss with friends and family because, as Simon says, no one really wants to lead with their cloud. Deciding to accept this challenge, Simon and Kara’s experiment is a wide-ranging exploration of the definitions, treatments, science, myths, and meanings of the mysterious and multi-faceted force that is pain. As difficult as the topic is, it can also provide us with an opportunity to question our current course. What can we learn when we confront our pain head-on? Honest, deeply researched, insightful, and ultimately hopeful, The Pain Project is a must-read for anyone looking for a greater understanding of pain as a phenomenon and in their own lives.

Download or read book The Awakening of Rae written by Sananda Allsgood and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rae came from a conservative, religious family and lived that life with her family until her husband, Frank, was sent to Afghanistan for nine months. Looking for something to pass that time, she signed up for a yoga class, offered through the base recreation center. Rae met another military wife who was also taking the class. Meeting Andrea started Rae down a path into a whole new lifestyle and the realization that marriage, children, and adult responsibilities didn't equal being old and stale. Doors began to open for her that had never been thought of prior. Was she prepared for the journey she was embarking on, and how would her upbringing figure into it?

Download or read book Relax Be More Like Aria Affirmations Workbook Positive Affirmations Workbook Includes written by Affirmations World and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique workbook that you will really benefit from and so many others will ask you about it. A Must Have!

Download or read book Honor Valley Romances Volume One written by Shanae Johnson and published by Those Johnson Girls. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to Honor Valley with this series of heartwarming small town, military romances that explore the power of love, growth, and healing. These stories are short and sweet -the perfect length for an afternoon pick me up or an evening escape before bedtime! With the enemies-to-lovers trope, wounded hero, and second chances at its core, “Soldier’s Surrender” will sweep you with Aria and Jace's happily ever after. With the fake dating trope, wounded hero, and the love of family and community, “Soldier’s Promise” will leave you rooting for Sarah and Alex's heartfelt ending. With the Beauty and the Beast trope, wounded hero, and the power of love to heal, “Soldier’s Courage” will make you fall for Grace and Mason's transformational romance. The Honor Valley love stories will show you that love’s fiercest battles are often won one page at a time.

Download or read book Huju written by Jonathan P. J. Stock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce, historical romance, and shadow puppetry. This study considers one of the newer operatic forms. Established just two centuries ago, huju (Shanghai opera), is renowned for its portrayal of ordinary people, not the emperors, courtesans, and heroes of older forms. Acting and make-up aim for realism rather than symbolism, and stories deal with contemporaneous themes: the struggles of lovers to marry, women's rights after the Communist revolution (1949), and life under the new social order established by Deng Xiaoping's reforms in the 1980s. Music ranges from local folksong to syncretic adoptions of Western popular music. Jonathan Stock is an authority on Chinese music, with previous books on Chinese flute and violin solos and Abing, a twentieth-century composer. Adding to his extensive research on Chinese music, Stock's eighteen months of fieldwork in Shanghai allows him to interweave material from historical reports, sound recordings, live performance, and the first-hand accounts of three generations of singers into a study of a unique Chinese opera form seen equally as historical tradition, venue for social action, and forum for musical creativity. Assessing first the roots of huju in local folksong and ballad, he looks at the enduring role of emotional expressivity. He next focuses on the rise of actresses, laying out a specially 'musical' reading of gendered performance. Further chapters reverse conventional ethnomusicological arguments that music constructs place by looking at how Shanghai's institutions before 1949 shaped the environment within which troupes developed new dramatic materials and competed for work. In considering reforms post-1949, the author shows how the infusion of explicit political content actually weakened the expressive impact of these dramas. Finally, developments since 1980 are reviewed. The book includes songs and illustrations of performance styles. An innovative combination of urban and historical ethnomusicology, the book's findings will engage the historian of China and general scholar of music alike.

Download or read book Psychology Religion and Spirituality written by James M. Nelson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. Theologians and religious practitioners have responded to this literature, producing a fascinating dialogue that deals with our fundamental und- standings about the human person and our place in the world. This book provides an introduction to the important conversations that have developed out of these interchanges. The dialogue between psychology and religion is difficult to study for a number of reasons. First, it requires knowledge of both psychology and religion. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology. Second, it requires conceptual tools to organize the material and understand the basic problems involved in any attempt to connect the science of psychology with religion. These concepts can be found in many places, for instance in the writings of philosophers of science, but they are complex and often hard to follow for those without a proper theological and philosophical ba- ground. Finally, authors who write on the topic come to the study of psychology and religion from a variety of academic and personal backgrounds. This makes for wonderful diversity in conversations, but it makes understanding and mastery of the material quite difficult.

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Download or read book Soldier s Surrender written by Shanae and published by Those Johnson Girls. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes love washes up in unexpected places. Aria and Jace couldn't be more different. Aria is a fiercely independent café owner who takes pride in her community and her strong personality, while Jace is a former soldier on a quest for inner peace and a sense of purpose. When they meet at a beach clean-up event, sparks fly as they clash over their differing approaches to the task at hand. Despite their initial animosity, Aria and Jace are forced to work together on the project, and they start to discover that they have more in common than they thought. As they navigate the ups and downs of their budding romance, they also face personal struggles that threaten to tear them apart. Will their growing attraction for each other be enough to sustain them through the challenges ahead? Soldier's Surrender is a heartwarming small town, military romance that explores the power of love, growth, and healing. With the enemies-to-lovers trope, wounded hero, and second chances at its core, this story will sweep you away and leave you rooting for Aria and Jace's happily ever after.

Download or read book An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias written by Martial Singher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A premier singer and master teacher here tells other singers how to get the most from 151 famous arias selected for their popularity or their greatness from 66 operas, ranging in time and style from Christopher Gluck to Carlisle Floyd, from Mozart to Menotti. “The most memorable thrills in an opera singer's life,” according to the author's Introduction, “may easily derive from the great arias in his or her repertoire.” This book continues the work Martial Singher has done, in performances, in concerts, and in master classes and lessons, by drawing attention “not only to precise features of text, notes, and markings but also to psychological motivations and emotional impulses, to laughter and tears, to technical skills, to strokes of genius, and even here and there to variations from the original works that have proved to be fortunate.” For each aria, the author gives the dramatic and musical context, advice about interpretation, and the lyric—with the original language (if it is not English) and an idiomatic American English translation, in parallel columns. The major operatic traditions—French, German, Italian, Russian, and American—are represented, as are the major voice types—soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, and bass. The dramatic context is not a mere summary of the plot but is a penetrating and often witty personality sketch of an operatic character in the midst of a situation. The musical context is presented with the dramatic situation in a cleverly integrated way. Suggestions about interpretation, often illustrated with musical notation and phonetic symbols, are interspersed among the author's explication of the music and the action. An overview of Martial Singher’s approach—based on fifty years of experience on stage in a hundred roles and in class at four leading conservatories—is presented in his Introduction. As the reader approaches each opera discussed in this book, he or she experiences the feeling of participation in a rehearsal on stage under an urbane though demanding coach and director. The Interpretive Guide will be of value to professional singers as a source of reference or renewed inspiration and a memory refresher, to coaches for checking and broadening personal impressions, to young singers and students for learning, to teachers who have enjoyed less than a half century of experience, and to opera broadcast listeners and telecast viewers who want to understand what goes into the sounds and sights that delight them.

Download or read book A Stormy Path written by Lindsay McCafferty and published by Lindsay McCafferty. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Aria has come a long way since surviving a near-death encounter with a wierlling and averting invaders in Torrannon, but the fight against mental illness can sometimes be one step forward, two steps back. As she struggles to overcome the health anxiety, her beloved horse, Storm, becomes lost in the wilderness. Aria will once again have to find the strength to face more challenges and figure out new ways to get more control over her mind. She must also deal with the mysteries of why a strange man who she met on the road has a troublesome connection to her mother, Amelia, and why two panthers are too close for comfort. This is the third book in the Sparks Shall Rise epic fantasy series. A tale about finding hope to keep fighting, even if the path ahead is stormy. Contains content dealing with suicide (off-screen), anxiety, and health anxiety.

Download or read book Listening to Theatre written by Elizabeth Wichmann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Wichmann's] writing has authority rarely encountered.... Not only a comprehensive study but [a] study of Beijing theater. A marvelous overview, a virtual encyclopedia." --Choice "Overall, this is a pathbreaking book in terms of contributing to our understanding of the important Chinese art form that is the Beijing opera. It is a model of production. Its wealth of detail does not prevent it from being eminently readable. The author has unparallelled mastery of knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of her subject. The book will certainly help not only to make Beijing opera better understood in the West but also to make it more widely performed and appreciated." --China Review International, Spring 1994

Download or read book Nuclear Magnetic Resonance written by G A Webb and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a spectroscopic method, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has seen spectacular growth over the past two decades, both as a technique and in its applications. Today the applications of NMR span a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics to biology to medicine. Each volume of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance comprises a combination of annual and biennial reports which together provide comprehensive of the literature on this topic. This Specialist Periodical Report reflects the growing volume of published work involving NMR techniques and applications, in particular NMR of natural macromolecules which is covered in two reports: "NMR of Proteins and Acids" and "NMR of Carbohydrates, Lipids and Membranes". For those wanting to become rapidly acquainted with specific areas of NMR, this title provides unrivalled scope of coverage. Seasoned practitioners of NMR will find this an in valuable source of current methods and applications. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage in major areas of chemical research. Compiled by teams of leading authorities in the relevant subject areas, the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, with regular, in-depth accounts of progress in particular fields of chemistry. Subject coverage within different volumes of a given title is similar and publication is on an annual or biennial basis.

Download or read book ABC Relaxation Theory written by Jonathan C. Smith, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relaxation is the world's most popular therapy--used by more psychologists, counselors, social workers, and rehabilitation specialists than any other tool. ABC Relaxation Theory offers a new treatment strategy by presenting and enhancing the effectiveness of current relaxation treatments into an approach tailored to each client. Based on the most ambitious scientific exploration of relaxation (20 studies and 5,000 subjects from all cultures and walks of life), Smith presents some of his groundbreaking findings, including the first demonstration and replication of differences among African Americans, Latinos, and Whites; men and women; those with religious and secular beliefs approaches; and more. His work is highly readable, practical, and comprehensive and will appeal to clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and students of psychology.

Download or read book The Effects of Progressive Relaxation and Music on Attention Relaxation and Stress Responses written by Peter M. Scheufele and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress management interventions have been shown to be effective adjuncts for the management of medical disorders, and for the prevention and management of occupational stress. Despite their usefulness, it is not completely understood how behavioral stress management techniques exert their effects. Benson (1975) proposed that all relaxation techniques elicit a general "relaxation response." Davidson and Schwartz (1976) suggested that stress management techniques have specific effects A compromise position suggests that the specific effects of relaxation techniques are superimposed upon a general relaxation response (Lehrer AND Woolfolk, 1993). The cognitive behavioral model of relaxation suggests that relaxation is achieved through hierarchical cognitive and behavioral factors (Smith, 1988), but has not been adequately evaluated experimentally (Lehrer AND Woolfolk, 1993). The present experiment examined relaxation within a framework of the cognitive-behavioral model. Sixty-seven normal volunteers were exposed to a stress manipulation and then to one of two relaxation (Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Music) or control conditions (Attention Control, Silence). Measurements of attention, relaxation, and stress responses were obtained during each phase of the experiment. All four groups exhibited similar performance on behavioral measures of attention that suggested a reduction in physiological arousal following their relaxation or control condition, as well as decreased heart rate. Progressive Relaxation resulted in the greatest effects on behavioral and self-report measures of relaxation. The Music condition resulted in the lowest biological measures of stress (i.e., heart rate and cortisol responses).