Stephen Curtis

This textbook presents a novel approach to addressing the challenges faced by individuals living with histories of chronic stress, trauma, or addiction. It describes how stress, trauma, and/or addiction can cause semi-permanent imbalances in the brain and endocrine systems that give rise to disruptive symptoms. To address these imbalances, the book recommends a variety of rebalancing methods proven in sports and performance psychology settings that can be used to improve day-to-day performances and life quality—and as a pre-treatment for talk therapy.

Life Performance for Students: Creating Your Best College Experience guides students through the process of setting academic and life goals and then building the skills, personal knowledge, and optimal mind frame to achieve those goals. The text features neuroscience and psychology research to help students better understand the natural biological and psychological barriers to success. Building upon this scientific knowledge, the book features effective and sustainable interventions that improve individual performance.Initial chapters challenge students to set large educational goals and identify the new study habits and personal living choices required to attain those goals. In following chapters, the book uses neuroscience and psychology findings to explain why they are likely to resist these new behaviors in favor of more comfortable, longstanding but less effective old habits. The final section provides students with a proven, interactive mental strength training program that helps them cultivate optimal conditions for the creation of the new thoughts and behaviors required for high levels of academic performance and life quality.Designed to help students transition into college and achieve long-lasting personal success, Life Performance for Students is ideal for courses in college success and freshman orientation. It can also be used in courses which focus on performance psychology for music or sports psychology.

This is an amazing collection of poetry from sixteen different poets

Inside my father's bowler hat/ Once lived a most peculiar cat.So begins The Thinking Cat, a long poem, composed in rhyming couplets, about a young boy and the mysterious talking cat living in the attic of his family's home. The family uses the attic as a place to store unwanted items, including the less-than-desirable trinkets bestowed upon them by a great aunt. When the aunt comes to call, the boy volunteers to go up to the top of the house to fetch down all the unwanted gifts so that they can be on display during her visit.However, the boy opens the trapdoor to the attic to find a large pair of green eyes staring back at him-eyes belonging to a cat who not only speaks, but claims to be a great thinker. The boy fetches the cat some milk, sits down to listen to his tale, and a very special relationship is born. Exploring the differences between real life and imagination, growing up, and the role animals play in our lives, The Thinking Cat will delight anyone who has ever wished their pet could talk-and makes an excellent bedtime story for adults and children alike.

Perfect Party Games is essential reading for anyone who has a party to plan. With easy-to-follow instructions for everything from 'Alphabet tales' to 'Yes or no', and an indispensable guessing games section offering film, book and TV programme titles, Perfect Party Games will help provide hours of fun for everyone.

Perfect Punctuation is an invaluable guide to mastering punctuation marks and improving your writing. Covering everything from semi-colons to inverted commas, it gives step-by-step guidance on how to use each mark and how to avoid common mistakes. With helpful examples of correct and incorrect usage and exercises that enable you to practise what you've learned, Perfect Punctuation has everything you need to ensure that you never make a mistake again.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

The Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you're composing an essay, sending a business letter or an email to a colleague, or firing off an angry letter to a newspaper, this guide will help you to brush up you communication skills and write correct and confident English.