Little Sunshine wakes up in a bad mood. When she roars like a lion instead of being her sunny self her Mum finds a positive way to help her restore her usual happy mood. Parents and children alike respond to this story; each one of us has had a day like this Ideal for working through how to choose a positive attitude, and entertaining as a story. The black and white illustrations may be coloured to personalise the story.
Can, so-called, 'superfoods' really help you be healthier and feel better? Good question. Author, Donna Davidson, says, 'I'm often asked things like, "Can learning how to make chocolate recipes and homemade chocolates from a costlier raw, organic version of chocolate really be so much better for you?" Or, "Can Cacao and other so-called 'superfoods' seriously contribute to a low cholesterol diet or help someone trying to achieve weight loss, or battle debilitating health problems?"Actually, that's exactly what happened for me. Today, 5 years on from my first tentative superfoods 'experiments', I'm healthier and feeling better than I had felt for years, in my 'pre-superfoods' days. And I'm not alone.'Here are just 3 stories from ordinary people trying out superfoods for themselves: Annemarie: Nick, my husband, has been using the green smoothie powder and is really noticing the benefits - he is a landscaper so needs the energy - plus he has sinus problems and this has really helped with that as well. Brilliant.Sigrid: Still going strong with the smoothies and have one most days. Really like them and I think they are helping me cope with the stresses of my current life - very sick husband, work, coping with ten staff, visitors and the rest of the daily grind.Michele M: I am having a smoothie every morning and my Green Smoothie Shot and the great thing is, I have been able to stop taking the Laxsol tablets that I have had to take for years. I decided to stop taking them straight away because they aren't life threatening (just uncomfortable if this didn't work) to see if the Chia seeds and Green Smoothie Shot made any difference immediately. I'm pleased to say it has and I'm (as) 'regular as clock-work' without medication... wahoo (But) Now for the extra good news, I have lost 2kgs in just under 2 weeks of using the Chia Seeds, Cacao Powder and Green Smoothie Shot - so the products are obviously cleansing my body well. I'm using all natural 100% pure coconut water in my smoothies and a frozen banana which is awesome. Thank you so much for your recommendations and supplying such great products.'These stories are typical of the feedback we get from people open enough to give superfoods a try. Over the past 5 years, I discovered a talent for persuading superfood sceptics to give them a try, by simply relating my own story. Almost all report experiencing the same increased sense of well-being and improved mental acuity that I'd found; while others also gained relief from persistent and debilitating health issues - which I similarly achieved after adding superfoods into my regular diet (not changing anything else in my diet at the time) by the simple means of drinking a delicious green smoothie every morning.'Donna and Kay both agreed that Cacao would be the perfect superfood for book #1 - because everyone loves chocolate right? Cacao is Nature's healthy and delicious superfood chocolate you can enjoy even on a weight loss or low cholesterol diet And healthy, or certainly healthier, ways to enjoy chocolate have got to be a great addition to any chocolate lover's recipe book collection. So, with Kay cracking the whip and Donna creating, making, baking, eating and perfecting the recipes, this 'Discover Superfood Series #1: 21 Best Cacao Recipes' was born. Kay says, 'Just try some of these wonderful Cacao (natural organic chocolate) recipes for yourself and I think you'll love them as much as we do Enjoyed in moderation, (for sadly, you can even eat too much raw organic chocolate) these 21 best cacao recipes will be a lot healthier and better for you than the sugar and chemical-filled, commercial chocolate products at your local supermarket.'This book (and the rest of the Discover Superfoods series) is designed to be an easy introduction to superfoods; simple recipes, easy to make, absolutely delicious. This book is perfect for both 'superfood newbies', or existing fans looking for some new recipe ideas.
What did you have for breakfast? Could a morning smoothie actually help you feel better and be healthier? Good question. Gone are the days of the 'nutritionally void' cup of tea and piece of toast for breakfast Instead, say 'hello' to 21 nutrient-rich smoothies that are delicious and will satiate even the best appetites. These superfood smoothies are especially designed to nourish our organs, cells and immune system to help keep us safe from health irritations and diseases. They will charge your energy and help slow your body's degeneration from the ageing process. For 'superfood newbies', I usually recommend starting with a daily green smoothie (or at least 5 days a week) to ensure you adequately alkalise your digestive system, in order to receive the best nutrition to charge your body for a healthy, happy and energy-enhanced day.Whether you found this book via my first book, '21 Best Cacao Recipes', or you're a member of my online community at Facebook.com/Superfoodies.co.nz, or you're hooking up with me here for the first time; I'd like to welcome you to this introduction to the wonderful world of 'superfood smoothies'. It's a world that's very special to me because it's the place where my own true health journey began. In this book ... You'll experience the pleasures of delicious superfood smoothies; as well as quick-and-easy recipes that I've simplified over the years so they're fast and easy to make while retaining maximum potency to deliver all the health-promoting nutrition you're expecting. I invite you to share my daily journey to better health ... Simply by adding these 21 delicious superfood smoothies to your diet; they're powerful and, if you're looking to give your brain, body and immune system extra support, like me, they might even change your life - Donna DavidsonAuthorSuperFoodies.co.nz
At seventy years old, Kay Fraser slowly began to recall the sexual abuse she experienced as a young child, and considered the impact it had on her life. Twenty years previously, her mother had hinted at the abuse and some details were revealed, but Kay had buried it deep inside herself. After publishing her first book, It's part of who I am, about her mother's sixty-year spiritual journey, Kay realised something was not right. She went on to write two further chapters, and in doing so revealed the perversions of her father and the abuse she suffered in his care. Originally conceiving a screenplay, with an aim to encourage openness about sexual abuse in families, Kay soon found that the detailed recall required to write these scenes resulted in more memories surfacing from her subconscious. She now tells her full story in this memoir, and her original objective has not wavered.From her home on a picturesque mountain in Queensland, Kay looks back, and remembers a lifelong comfort - Paul Gallico's tale of a snow goose who is healed and flies high and free.
Easy-to-follow color-coded charts and simple instructions for creating unusual Native American designs depicting buffalo, kachinas, eagles, feathers, and more. Designs can be adapted for use in appliqu� 9 work, embroidery, stained glass projects, and other crafts.
It's been ten years since Spencer Wyatt jilted Drew Haviland for another man. Now she is free--and Drew will do anything to get vengeance and take what's been promised to him. But closer inspection tells him that Spencer is in dire straits--and in desperate need of his help.
Within the FBI, there exists a team of psychics whose powers cannot be denied. But these agents are feared--by a cabal of conspirators with only one weapon: to blind the psychics to the evils all around them. Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldn't control. They changed her life and cost her the man she loved. And now, someone is playing games with Sarah's mind. It begins with Sarah's home being destroyed by fire--an act of arson that draws novelist Tucker Mackenzie into Sarah's confidence. But he has other reasons for pursuing a woman who can see what others can't. So does a mysterious enemy intent on eliminating Sarah, and everyone she cares about. Because it's only a matter of time before her visions lead her and Tucker to a secret many will kill to hide. Only then will they begin to discover the scope of a terrifying conspiracy so deep and complex they can trust almost no one.
A desperate underground war with the survival of millions at stake looms in the electrifying conclusion of the New York Times bestselling Bishop Files Trilogy. Tasha Solomon's world turned upside-down when the psychic abilities she had tried so hard to live with in secret suddenly made her a target stalked by unseen enemies. John Brodie is by nature, by training, and by instinct a Guardian. He is a member of an intricate and secretive network of individuals who have devoted their lives to the deadly struggle of saving psychics in danger of being taken or being killed. It is a war very few other people even know exists, and yet its tentacles stretch deeply and dangerously into every aspect of society. Tasha has abilities not even she is aware of, abilities that the other side would give virtually all they possess to destroy. And if being hunted like an animal were not bad enough she has to learn how to become a warrior in a battle she did not choose, to save people she does not know, and possibly even the very world around her. If John Brodie can keep her alive long enough.
In New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper's latest Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel, an SCU team investigates a disturbing string of disappearances... How do you find someone who has vanished without a trace? Something strange is happening in the small mountain town of Serenity, Tennessee. People going on routine errands never reach their destination. Over the past few weeks, it's happened to five men and women--and now a child. A team from the FBI's Special Crimes Unit is immediately sent in. Agents Lucas and Samantha Jordan, partners in work and in life, have very different abilities. Samantha is clairvoyant and Lucas is able to find the lost or abducted. With them are new partners Dante Swann, a medium, and Robbie Hodge, a telepath. The town is already on the edge of panic, but when a cop is killed, the team's hunt for the lost turns into something very personal...and very dangerous.
An SCU team investigates a string of accidents, only to uncover a deadly and deliberate monster in this novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. In Clarity, North Carolina, the residents have fallen victim to an unfortunate series of events. Seemingly random accidents have taken the lives of several citizens in the small mountain town. But these deadly coincidences are anything but. Something is on the hunt in Clarity, and the only clue is a cryptic note given to the victims 24 hours before they meet their ends: "Wait for dark." Sheriff Mal Gordon knows how to handle his town, but he has no idea how to handle this. Hollis Templeton and her team from the Special Crimes Unit--including her partner and lover, telepath Reese DeMarco--are called in to investigate. But while the SCU has prepared them for the unknown, the incredible evil stalking Clarity shakes the team to its core when one of their own is targeted. Now Hollis, the "cat with nine lives," finds herself facing death again. And this time, not even her partner can protect her...
The Chosen have been warned. Powerful psychics across the globe have gotten the same eerie and insistent message- Go to Prosperity. Because in this small North Carolina mountain town, madness has taken hold...Trapped in a nightmare they can't escape, the residents of Prosperity are killing one another, waking up with no memory of the monstrous acts they've committed-or the reasons why. Chief Deputy Katie Cole knows that whatever evil is afoot is beyond her expertise, and beyond the understanding of Sheriff Jackson Archer. They need help.The Special Crimes Unit is called in for its specific brand of investigation, to aid the Chosen as well as the once-peaceful mountain town. It will take all the agents' training, all their experience, and every extra sense they can call on to get to the bottom of things in Prosperity. And as a sinister pattern begins to emerge, even the most experienced and hardened SCU agents must brace themselves for a flood of darkness unlike any the world has ever seen...
The 1972 Munich Olympics - remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team - were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chronicle the impact of the Munich Games on West German society.
The 1972 Munich Olympics - remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team - were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chronicle the impact of the Munich Games on West German society.
A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundations, universities, and mega nonprofit organizations. Yet many bipartisan reforms constitute deceptive sleights of hand that not only fail to produce justice but actively reproduce structural racial and economic inequality. Carceral Con pulls the veil away from the reform public relations machine, providing a riveting overview of the repressive US carceral state and a critical examination of the reform terrain, quagmires, and choices that face us. This book vividly illustrates how contemporary bipartisan reform agendas leave the structural apparatus of mass incarceration intact while widening the net of carceral control and surveillance. Readers are also provided with information and insights useful for examining the likely impacts of reforms today and in the future. What can we learn from reforms of the past? What strategies hold most promise for dismantling structural inequalities, corporate control, and state violence? What approaches will reduce reliance on carceral control and also bring about community safety? Utilizing an abolitionist lens, Carceral Con makes the compelling case for liberatory approaches to envisioning and creating a just society.
A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundations, universities, and mega nonprofit organizations. Yet many bipartisan reforms constitute deceptive sleights of hand that not only fail to produce justice but actively reproduce structural racial and economic inequality. Carceral Con pulls the veil away from the reform public relations machine, providing a riveting overview of the repressive US carceral state and a critical examination of the reform terrain, quagmires, and choices that face us. This book vividly illustrates how contemporary bipartisan reform agendas leave the structural apparatus of mass incarceration intact while widening the net of carceral control and surveillance. Readers are also provided with information and insights useful for examining the likely impacts of reforms today and in the future. What can we learn from reforms of the past? What strategies hold most promise for dismantling structural inequalities, corporate control, and state violence? What approaches will reduce reliance on carceral control and also bring about community safety? Utilizing an abolitionist lens, Carceral Con makes the compelling case for liberatory approaches to envisioning and creating a just society.
First published in 1968, this monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of ?j?or (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of Southern Nigeria. The dialect described, Kolokuma, is a central one, quite widely understood. The most interesting features of the language, on which the monograph concentrates, are its syntax and its tonal system. An attempt is made to treat them according to a generative-transformational theory of language. The tonal system is of an unusual type whereby the tones that words bear in isolation are considerably modified according to the syntactic context the word appears in. Syntax and tones are therefore bound closely together, and the grammar is written so as to give rules first for the syntactic sequences of words and then for the tone patterns that will occur on these sequences.
ART treatment is vulnerable to the hazard of potential infection from many different sources: patients, samples, staff and the environment. Culture of gametes and embryos in vitro provides multiple targets for transmission of potential infection, including the developing embryo, neighbouring gametes and embryos, the couple undergoing treatment and other couples being treated during the same period. This unique situation, with multifaceted opportunities for microbial growth and transmission, makes infection and contamination control absolutely crucial in the practice of assisted reproduction, and in the laboratory in particular. Originally published in 2004, this practical book provides a basic overview of microbiology in the context of ART, providing a guide to infections in reproductive medicine. The relevant facets of the complex and vast field of microbiology are condensed and focused, highlighting information that is crucial for safe practice in both clinical and laboratory aspects of ART.
This 1975 book presents the fundamental ideas of fluid flow, viscosity, heat conduction, diffusion, the energy and momentum principles, and the method of dimensional analysis.
Images of Australian identity, and of Australian nationhood, are social and cultural constructs. There are several dominant themes and elements, one of the most pervasive being the Australian bushman confronting a vast and barren landscape. This is a specifically Australian conception of the battle between Man and Nature. Throughout the myths, traditions and literary creations of Australia are underlying assumptions about gender and sexual difference: assumptions about masculinity and femininity within the nationalist tradition, which affect perceptions today. In this new critique, Kay Schaffer applies the insights of feminist scholarship and of literary analysis to examine the national character. She looks at how the concept of ‘the typical Australian’, and the woman who stands in relation to him, has evolved across a range of cultural forms, including historical and literary texts, film and the media. She concentrates in particular on the writings of Henry Lawson and of Barbara Bayton. The circulation of ideas about these writers, their contribution to a national mythology, and the different ways their importance has been represented to modern readers, is explored and discussed. This thoughtful and provocative study will interest readers concerned with Australian literary and cultural history, as well as the broader questions of Australia’s changing self-image. It will be of particular value to those interested in feminist approaches to culture and society.
