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Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more.Written by Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Sophie Scott, and composed of ten mind-blowing yet accessible essays, The Brain guides you through the astounding complexities of the organ that makes you, you. From diving into the networks of neurons that are vital to our functioning, to the way our brains differ from one another and how neuroscience is shaping up for the future; this book is a guide to our most powerful and awe-inspiring body part.If you have ever wondered what's going on inside your head (or someone else's), this book will be a fascinating and enthralling read.
Sophie was a nice Christian teenager, the much-loved daughter of decent hardworking parents. One night she came back from babysitting and, almost without conscious motive, hit her leg with a coathanger. Then she tried whipping herself with a belt. The following day she scratched her arm repeatedly with the point of a compass. The sensation produced a warm sense of wellbeing, a release of tension. Thus began an eight-year struggle to conceal what was happening from her parents and friends; to reconcile this addiction with her faith; to find a stronger sense of self-worth; to find healing. Slowly, with lapses, she learned to identify the triggers and to realise that Jesus does not reject the self-harmer. Today Sophie works with teenagers and has considerable insight into how this very common problem can be tackled.
The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire, welfare, and affluence- compelled a rapid rethinking of what it meant to 'be political' along with a series of experiments in democracy and democracy education. The Radical Fifties examines the distinctive 'activist politics' emerging from this by focusing on the entwined histories of its main protagonists: the Freedom Press anarchists, the New Left Club socialists, and the Direct Action Committee pacifists. Instead of gaining or influencing power in a traditional sense, these groups wanted to dispense with it all together and transform democracy into a whole way of life, a quality of interaction between people. While this upturned conventional political thinking, it also posed a dilemma: conceding the practice of democracy also meant conceding the ability to determine its ends and direct it activities. In contrast to the assertive radicalism of the sixties, this appeared dismally unambitious, yet it confronted more directly and seriously the defining questions of the times: could democratic means produce democratic ends? If not, was it still democracy?
Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward’s life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods and charting the legacies of his enduring influence.Colin Ward (1924–2010) was the most prominent British writer on anarchism in the 20th century. As a radical journalist, later author, he applied his distinctive anarchist principles to all aspects of community life including the built environment, education, and public policy. His thought was subtle, universal in aspiration, international in implication, but, at the same time, deeply rooted in the local and the everyday. Underlying the breadth of his interests was one simple principle: freedom was always a social activity.This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers with an interest in anarchism, social movements, and the history of radical ideas in contemporary Britain.
Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward’s life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods and charting the legacies of his enduring influence.Colin Ward (1924–2010) was the most prominent British writer on anarchism in the 20th century. As a radical journalist, later author, he applied his distinctive anarchist principles to all aspects of community life including the built environment, education, and public policy. His thought was subtle, universal in aspiration, international in implication, but, at the same time, deeply rooted in the local and the everyday. Underlying the breadth of his interests was one simple principle: freedom was always a social activity.This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers with an interest in anarchism, social movements, and the history of radical ideas in contemporary Britain.
This is a poignant, practical and accessible book aimed at the partners, parents, siblings and children of people who are suffering with their mental health. It will help readers understand their loved one better, to start difficult and often necessary conversations, to set boundaries and to remind them to value their own mental health throughout. You Are Not Alone in This will explore: The most common mental health issues and how to navigate them. Getting real about your difficult feelings, from anger, irritation, powerlessness, fear, guilt, shame, resentment to wanting to leave. What to say and what not to say – how to use therapeutic tools and insights to overcome communication challenges. How to implement healthy boundaries, untangle from codependent relationships and recognize if you have a saviour complex. Making a crisis/emergency plan for if something goes wrong. With practical advice from an expert psychotherapist featuring real stories from her clinical practice, as well as from her personal experience with loved ones, this book will help readers find the right balance between supporting their loved one and taking care of themselves. It'll teach them to find the line between what’s in their control and what isn’t, empowering them to ask for help when they need it.
Sophie and Scottie's Adventures of the Monarch Mystery
Cindy C. Murray
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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**THIS BOOK IS A MOM'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER and a FAMILY CHOICE AWARD WINNER**It's finally summer at Shear Heaven Ranch, and Sophie and Scottie are looking forward to swimming in the cool ponds, climbing the huge oak trees, riding their horses, and taking care of their ewe, Fuzzy Mama. Scottie tells Sophie that she feels as if "something is going to happen to us," and says they should both be alert to things on their ranch that don't seem normal. So when Mr. Wilson delivers a special package from their globetrotting and eccentric Auntie Jill, they can't wait to open it Inside is a magical, multicolor crystal frame with a letter attached explaining that this special gift will show them "many places." This mysterious present makes the girls wonder what the letter means and if an adventure is ahead. As night falls on Shear Heaven, the photo in the frame of the strangely familiar Rancho de La Joya hotel starts to move Will Sophie and Scottie follow the call to adventure? Will they leap into the portal that will transport them thousands of miles away to solve a mystery in Mexico? And will they learn to rely on their instincts with a rather mischievous map that doesn't trust grownups? An enchanting story highlighting the beauty and balance of nature, the Mexican culture, and the bravery that girls can display, especially when they work together, Sophie and Scottie's Adventures of the Monarch Mystery will delight fans of magic and mystery of all ages.This engaging book is recommended for elementary school-aged readers ages 8-12.
Sophie and Scottie's Adventures of Something's Fishy
Cindy C. Murray
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Sophie and Scottie's Adventures of the Monarch Mystery
Cindy C Murray
Cynthia C. Murray
2018
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Sophie and Scottie live on a ranch and receive a package from their globetrotting Auntie Jill, which acts as a portal to amazing adventures The gift is a picture frame that glows in multicolored crystals and then grows when a picture is put into it that is also provided by their Auntie. The courageous sisters must empower themselves to navigate where they are in the picture of the frame. Since the frame is magical, each girl develops a talent to help them in their adventure.The girls walk through the frame, finding themselves in Mexico with Dr. Drake, who is engaged to Auntie Jill and can be trusted. He says that he's been "waiting" for them and asks if they will help him to find the missing monarch butterflies. They start their action-packed journey early in the morning where they meet their guide, Diego, and will help them on their adventure. They stop to camp and Sophie can't sleep, so she sneaks out of her tent and with some help from a mischievous map and stumbles upon an amazing secret canyon where a toucan speaks to her and a cat-like creature named Jinx wants to help them find the butterflies too. Can Sophie convince the group to follow her to the canyon? Will they be able to solve where the monarch butterflies have disappeared to?Join Sophie and Scottie as they use a touch of science and a bit of magic to solve this monarch mystery
This is Book 2 in the series - Sophie and Scottie have returned home from their amazing adventure in Mexico. While helping to solve the mystery of the missing monarch butterflies, they'd met Dr. Drake. So, when he shows up at the ranch with a mysterious envelope, the sisters almost fall over with surprise Could their globetrotting Auntie Jill have sent another photograph to activate thier magical frame once the picture is put into it? Was another mysterious adventure about to begin?As the summer sun continues to climb over Shear Heaven Ranch, the girls excitedly open the envelope. Auntie Jill's intrucions are very detailed. Do they really ride their horses though the frame? Sophie and Scottie developed special talents in their last adventure. What new talents will now help them to solve why the ocean currents and fish are acting strangely around a remote Pacific Island, where an otter can't resist shiney objects and a purple dolphin constantly blows bubbles?These brave sisters once again use their trusty map, curiosity, and team work - all with a dash of science and a bit of magic - to help solve the island's "fishy" mystery
This is Book 3 in the series - Sophie and Scottie's adventures on a remote pacific island was amazing, but it was now time to return to Shear Heaven Ranch by riding on horseback through their magical crystal picture frame As the fraternal twin sisters look to the sky, they could tell that a powerful storm was coming and they needed to use their clever skills to help Ma and Pa during and after the storm.The storm had passed and the summer sun began to dry out the ranch, but who was the boy helping ranch-hand Jack? Whoever he was, the girls knew this kid must never find out about the magical frame, or would he?Sophie and Scottie were ready for their next adventure. Luckily Auntie Jill's instructions were simple to follow. But, oh no, their dog Molly ran through the frame before they could go through to a land consisting of snow covered mountains and massive pine trees. All three find themselves on a boat with their Uncle Drake heading towards a mountain with an enormous rock shaped like a front tooth that was balancing ever so carefuly on the mountaintop Once at their destination called the Colossal Candy Castle, Sophie and Scottie learn that Samuel McSweet lives at the castle but why is he there? Join the girls as they must interact with the largest grizzly bear they'd ever seen and why a bald eagle is constantly watching them. The curious sisters rely on their bravery and wit along with their trusty map to solve this sugar mystery of Sweet Tooth Rock
Destined for the hangman's noose, love is a dream he cannot afford... When Blayne MacNeil agrees to be Miss Charlotte Russell's bodyguard, he doesn't expect her to expand the job description to fake fianc . After twenty years in hiding, announcing his engagement to a viscount's daughter could prove fatal. For if anyone were to recognize him, he'd be charged with murder. Determined to keep her independence in order to safeguard her writing career, Charlotte must avoid marriage. After all, no respectable gentleman would ever permit his wife to pen outrageous adventure novels. But when her most recent manuscript disappears, the roguish Scotsman posing as her fianc becomes her closest ally - and the greatest threat to her freedom. Diamonds in the Rough, volume 7Pages: aproximately 350
Scottish Holiday: A Contemporary Short Read Christmas Escape
Sophie Mays
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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A journey of self-discovery leads New Yorker Jillian on a quest across the Atlantic to a small Scottish Isle. Will her Christmas holiday home provide the quaint getaway she has in mind...or will a chance occurrence with a local Scotsman change her plans completely? Traveling from New York to a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides was not what Jillian had expected when she'd first started looking into her family tree. After traveling over 4000 miles, she finds herself on the Isle-of-Lewis, stunned by its breath-taking views and friendly islanders. After meeting James, she sets out on a journey of discovery, growing ever closer to the handsome islander as they search for her family's past. James is intrigued by the beautiful American, offering to give her the grand tour of the island and help her in her search. Wary of anything more than friendship, James finds himself drawn to Jillian, eventually wondering if he can convince her to stay. When a woman from his past threatens to shatter what they've built, can Jillian and James find a way through, to make this Christmas their happiest one yet? AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a stand-alone short story with a HEA ending Story is a clean romance with no offensive language.
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Marina Abramovic; Carine Fol; Scott Samuelson; Sophie Whettnall
Yale University Press
2019
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This unconventional publication explores the process of making art through the work and studio practice of Sophie Whettnall (b. 1973), a contemporary Belgian artist whose works range from video art, installation, and performance to sculpture and drawing. In addition to copious illustrations of Whettnall’s artwork that highlight its relationship to the studio and the artist’s creative process, the book features three conversations. The first, between Whettnall and fellow artist Marina Abramovic, explores transmission, violence, and femininity. The second, between Emiliano Battista and Scott Samuelson, situates Whettnall’s work and practice in the broader context of contemporary art and the theoretical framework that shapes it. In the third, Carine Fol and Whettnall share with the reader the behind-the-scenes discussions and decisions that go into the mounting of an exhibition.Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels (04/04/19–08/04/19)
Hit the road, Thelma. An analysis of the road movie with focus on gender mobility in Ridley Scott's "Thelma & Louise"
Sophie Fischer
GRIN Verlag
2020
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Plough Quarterly No. 22 - Vocation
Will Willimon; Rachel Pieh Jones; Anne-Sophie Constant; Mike Rowe; Stephanie Saldaña; Scott Beauchamp; Nathan Schneider; Phil Christman; Michael Brendan Dougherty; Julian Peters
Plough Publishing House
2019
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Your job is not your vocation. Everyone hungers for work that has meaning and purpose. But what gives work meaning? Vocation, or “calling,” is the answer Protestant Christianity offers: each person is called by God to serve the common good in a particular line of work. Your vocation, evidently, might be almost anything: as a nurse, a wilderness guide, a calligrapher, a missionary, an activist, a venture capitalist, a politician, an executioner… Yet, as Will Willimon writes in this issue, the New Testament knows only one form of vocation: discipleship. And discipleship is far more likely to mean leaving father and mother, houses and land, than it is to mean embracing one’s identity as a fisherman or tax collector. This issue of Plough focuses on people who lived their lives with that sense of vocation. Such a life demands self-sacrifice and a willingness to recognize one’s own supposed strengths as weaknesses, as it did for the Canadian philosopher Jean Vanier. It involves a lifelong commitment to a flesh-and-blood church, as Coptic Archbishop Angaelos describes. It may even require a readiness to give up one’s life, as it did for Annalena Tonelli, an Italian humanitarian who pioneered the treatment of tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa. But as these stories also testify, it brings a gladness deeper than any self-chosen path. Also in this issue: - Scott Beauchamp on mercenaries - Nathan Schneider on cryptocurrencies - Stephanie Saldaña on Syrian refugee art - Peter Biles on loneliness at college - Phil Christman on Bible translation - Michael Brendan Dougherty on fatherhood - Insights on vocation from C. S. Lewis, Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, Dorothy Sayers, Jean Vanier, and Gerard Manley Hopkins - poetry by Devon Balwit and Carl Sandburg - reviews of books by Robert Alter, Edwidge Danticat, Matthew D. Hockenos, Amy Waldman, and Jeremy Courtney - art and photography by Pola Rader, Dean Mitchell, Mark Freear, Timothy Jones, Pawel Filipczak, Mary Pal, Harley Manifold, Sami Lalu Jahola, Marc Chagall, and Russell Bain. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.
Uncharted Waters
Richard Damania; Sébastien Desbureaux; Marie Hyland; Asif Islam; Scott Moore; Aude-Sophie Rodella; Jason Russ; Esha Zaveri
World Bank Publications
2017
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The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces - burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas across the globe. And with climate change, rainfall will become more fickle, with longer and deeper periods of droughts and deluges. This report presents new evidence to advance understanding on how rainfall shocks coupled with water scarcity, impacts farms, firms, and families. On farms, the largest consumers of water in the world, impacts are channeled from declining yields to changing landscapes. In cities, water extremes especially when combined with unreliable infrastructure can stall firm production, sales, and revenue. At the center of this are families, who feel the impacts of this uncertainty on their incomes, jobs, and long-term health and welfare. Although a rainfall shock may be fleeting, its consequences can become permanent and shape the destiny of those who experience it.Pursuing business as usual will lead many countries down a 'parched path' where droughts shape destinies. Avoiding this misery in slow motion will call for fundamental changes to water policy around the globe. Building resilience to rainfall variability will require using different policy instruments to address the multifaceted nature of water. A key message of this report is that water has multiple economic attributes, each of which entail distinct policy responses. If water is not managed more prudently--from source, to tap, and back to source--the crises observed today will become the catastrophes of tomorrow.
The Hurt of my Pain Behind my Smile: Smiling on the Outside but Wounded on the Inside
Sophia Scott
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Are you hiding behind your smile? Do you want to be free from the hurt of your past? Well, this book is for you Let go of the pain from your past and move forward