Download or read book The Joy of Small Things written by Hannah Jane Parkinson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.' JOJO MOYES 'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.' MARINA HYDE 'The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson's company.' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts ('you'll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice'), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn't enjoying. Parkinson's everyday exaltations - selected from her immensely successful Guardian column - will utterly delight. FEATURES BRAND NEW MATERIAL 'A compendium of delights.' OBSERVER 'Delightful . . . a love letter to those little moments of bliss that get us through the daily grind.' RED

Download or read book Warm Rainy Sensations written by Brian Robinson Sr and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Robinson Sr., shares with us his erotic writings titled Warm Rainy Sensations...Urban Fiction love tales at its best!!! Inside you will find three short stories, and they will keep you wanting more. Brian introduces to you Where She Wants to Be, SHY, and The Sadie Hawkins Surprise and you won't be disappointed. Especially the ladies.

Download or read book Radical Compassion written by Tara Brach and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us. A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE

Download or read book Chinese Internal Medicine written by Jianqun Xie and published by PMPH-USA. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Internal Medicine is an international collaboration of Chinese medicine experts from both China and the West, covering the theory and practice of Chinese Internal Medicine in greater depth than any English language textbook available today. The material in this text comprises course material for a professional course of training in TCM, also being the basic material for studying and comprehension of other more advanced courses in TCM. The scope of the material contained in this textbook is approximately equal to that for students of TCM colleges in China, and coincides with the requirements in the Examination Syllabus for TCM Professional Practitioners Worldwide. Individual chapters contain forty nine common conditions as well as annexes or associated pathologies. Each chapter is composed of an overview of the pathology, causative factors, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, pattern identification and treatment, a summary, a case study, prevention and life-style recommendations and acupuncture treatments for each category of disease. An abundance of classical references are also included here.

Download or read book Bring the Rain written by JoAnn Franklin and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dart Sommers knows something is wrong. Intelligent, resourceful, and ambitious, the renowned psychology professor and founder of the prestigious Raindrop Institute doesn't understand her sudden fascination with patterns, her disinterest in a job she loves, and her obsession with a small, stuffed brown bear. The diagnosis? Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), an often misdiagnosed disease that is destroying the best part of her: her brain. And she knows that whatever symptoms she’s experiencing now, they’re only going to get worse—that as time goes on, the essence of who she is will disappear. Bring the Rain is a story of courage, hope, love, friendship, and determination to beat the odds—at least for a little while. This emotional sequel to The Raindrop Institute can easily be read as a stand-alone novel.

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Download or read book The Concordance Repertory of the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia Medica written by William Daniel Gentry and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hot Cocoa on a Rainy Day written by Caron Asgarali and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot Cocoa on a Rainy Day, 10 (+1) Stories to Warm Your HeartHEARTWARMING STORIES TO INSPIRE AND MOTIVATESet in the land of the Trinitario cocoa, this tastefully compiled collection of fine flavoured stories appeals to the senses of anyone, especially those who may be anxious, burdened or sad.These true stories capture the warmth of our people. They reflect the power of community, culture and faith through the collaboration of authors from different walks of life who share how they overcame challenges ofcircumstance, health, child abuse, faith, andfear.Hot Cocoa on a Rainy Day, 10 (+1) Stories to Warm Your Heart speaks quietly to the heart of its readers, stirring the beauty, hope and resilience already within them. "This is an inspiring collection drawn from the remarkable lives around us..."Hot Cocoa on a Rainy Day" leaves you feeling warmed, comforted and grateful for the guidance quietly offered by each of these humbling stories." - Dr Gabrielle Hosein, Lecturer and Head, U.W. I. Trinidad."Like the 'fine flavour' cocoa of the verdant valleys of Trinidad, these stories are full of depth and complexity, and are touched by the sweetness of resilience." - Dr Joy Mahabir, Professor of Caribbean Literature, Suffolk County Community College of the State University of New York, USA.Compiled by Caron Asgarali. Co-edited by Rodney Yamin-Ali and Caron AsgaraliContributing authors include Winston Dookeran, Deborah Maillard, Lynda Banks-Khan, Marc Ramlal, Jeanine Gervais, A.C.Lang, Alex, Lynette Sinanan and Zyda Mohammed-Jimdar.

Download or read book Beyond Rain of Gold written by Victor Villaseñor and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Rain of Gold is the incredible story behind the writing and publication of Victor Villaseñor’s national bestseller Rain of Gold. It captures the difficult and courageous path the author followed to ensure that his family’s saga would be published as the authentic, true account it is. The real power of this book lies in the sacred relationship that Villaseñor has with his father, mother, and ancestors. In other words, Beyond Rain of Gold encompasses the magical messages that Villaseñor’s indigenous ancestors told him are universal themes common to native peoples everywhere on this planet . . . and at one time we were all indigenous. This is an exciting, raw, and honest work, with events occurring that transcend the boundaries of what we normally call reality. And like Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan trilogy, Beyond Rain of Gold explores altered states of consciousness, revealing the wisdom and magic inherent in everyday existence. This is a book that will make you see the world in an entirely different way, and which will stimulate your mind and emotions to create a New Earth way of thinking and being!

Download or read book Small Steps Huge Changes written by Phyllis Reed and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a sacred moment? Is it a big, sudden change in the direction of your life or your physical or mental state? Or is it a moment in which you understood your fears or made a choice to let something go? We may find our lives full of fear, hurt, or pain of loss, and even though these daily experiences have not caused major earthquakes or volcanic eruptions around the world, it is in these moments of our daily lives that we must look for our answers. In Small Steps, Huge Changes: The Extraordinary Moments of an Ordinary Life, writer Phyllis Reed shows us how it is possible to discover healing and joy by choosing to take just one small, courageous step. Through reflections, remembrances, poems, and vignettes, Reed tracks her own small steps through realms as varied as love, parenthood, loneliness, fear, and connecting to places, other people, and holy presence. Each true story, told in Reeds conversational, nurturing tone, is a tribute to those who have found ways to live happily and healthily after great difficultiesto see the extraordinary in their everyday experiences. Taken as a whole, these moments of rising and falling, of joy and defeat, become our sacred lives. Our sacred moments are our greatest gifts, and the choice is ours to step forward and accept and learn from them.

Download or read book The Smell of Fresh Rain written by Barney Shaw and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph – so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to self-experiment, author Barney Shaw goes in search of the hidden meanings of smells. Using plain words to describe what he finds, he investigates the chemistry, psychology, history and future of this underappreciated sense. Journeying around boatyards, perfume shops and memories, Shaw opens your nose to the world, breaking down "chords" of smells into their component notes and through them revealing new ways of understanding the spaces through which we move. An investigation into the biology, psychology and history of smell, and a search for effective ways to put into words scents that we instantly relate to, but find strangely ineffable, THE SMELL OF FRESH RAIN includes a 200-entry thesaurus of succinct descriptions of common smells.

Download or read book Special Report Series written by Great Britain. National Health Insurance Joint Committee. Medical Research Committee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Report Series written by Great Britain. Medical Research Committee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exercises for the improvement of the Senses for young children By the author of Arithmetic for young children written by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Overcome Pain written by Leon Chaitow and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with pain can provoke frustration, anxiety, depression and sometimes even a reliance on pharmaceutical painkillers. In this important and highly accessible book, registered osteopath and naturopath Leon Chaitow outlines a wide range of tried and tested natural approaches to pain relief, as well as groundbreaking research including the role played by fascia in the experience of pain and a whole host of breakthrough mind-body techniques. The author begins by explaining the nature of pain and why it is that the more you understand about it, the greater an ability you tend to have to overcome it. He then goes on to outline key pain relief approaches including meditation, hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, light and colour therapy, breathing techniques, massage, stretching, hydrotherapy and herbalism. There is also extensive information on the importance of nutrition and supplements. And a special feature is the extensive pain directory that provides treatment advice for the most common problems including headaches, neck and shoulder pain, and backache. Featuring step-by-step self-help exercises and occasional helpful diagrams, this is an essential book for everyone wanting to take control of pain, get their health and vitality back, and enhance their sense of comfort, ease and freedom in everyday life.

Download or read book Finding Peddie in a State of Grace written by Eamon Kolarity and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Holy Week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a young boy named Pedro "Peddie" Martinez turns up missing. At Palm Sunday Mass, Father Andy Leary has a sixth sense that a parishioner is involved. When the parishioner comes to confession the next day, Father Andy's suspicions are confirmed. But is the boy's disappearance an abduction for immoral purposes, or something else entirely? To complicate matters, Father Andy is faced with his weakness of the flesh. He is impossibly attracted to the nun who is principal of their parochial school. Even as he gallantly fights his lust, the nature of their relationship comes to a head as he involves her in the search for Peddie. But in finding Peddie, Father Andy also finds himself-his real limitations and his true vocation.