In today's world, we are bombarded by negative situations such as war, poverty, and disease. When we allow this negativity to permeate our consciousness, it's difficult to think positively about life. We can't change the world, but we can change how we view it and how it affects us-our behavior, our success, and our contentment.

In "Is Your Glass Half Full?" author Tracy Russek provides a guidebook to help you explore who you are and help you think more positively about yourself. She presents the research and theories of Ivan Pavlov, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, B. F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura, and she shows how the study of human behavior can be easily applied to various life situations to turn negatives into positives.

"Is Your Glass Half Full?" guides you through a series of exercises to help you become more aware of the choices you make and the behavior you display in your interactions with the world. Discover your own uniqueness and worth, and understand that you deserve satisfaction and contentment. You can learn to see the glass as half full.

The ancient Chinese wisdom of emperor Fu Hsi's I Ching or The Book of Changes has served as a guide to human behaviour for millennia. Pondering the highly visual images imparted in the hexagrams of the I Ching, the seeker finds complex responses to questions or situations imbedded in the multiple layers of images that must be deciphered and applied to one's individual circumstances. Among the I Ching's remarkable qualities is its capacity to speak universally through lyrical allegories of the natural and human worlds. Photographers and collaborators Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum have long been students of the I Ching. As landscape photographers accustomed to the teachings of the natural world, the relationship between their work as visual artists and their personal experiences working with the I Ching naturally led them to create this visual companion to the hexagrams. Their photographic interpretation of the Chinese Oracle -- featuring sixty-four duotone landscape portraits paired with text from the I Ching -- offers an additional metaphorical dimension to consultations with the book.

Correlated data arise in numerous contexts across a wide spectrum of subject-matter disciplines. Modeling such data present special challenges and opportunities that have received increasing scrutiny by the statistical community in recent years. In October 1996 a group of 210 statisticians and other scientists assembled on the small island of Nantucket, U. S. A. , to present and discuss new developments relating to Modelling Longitudinal and Spatially Correlated Data: Methods, Applications, and Future Direc tions. Its purpose was to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to explore the commonalities and meaningful differences in the source and treatment of such data. This volume is a compilation of some of the important invited and volunteered presentations made during that conference. The three days and evenings of oral and displayed presentations were arranged into six broad thematic areas. The session themes, the invited speakers and the topics they addressed were as follows: * Generalized Linear Models: Peter McCullagh-"Residual Likelihood in Linear and Generalized Linear Models" * Longitudinal Data Analysis: Nan Laird-"Using the General Linear Mixed Model to Analyze Unbalanced Repeated Measures and Longi tudinal Data" * Spatio---Temporal Processes: David R. Brillinger-"Statistical Analy sis of the Tracks of Moving Particles" * Spatial Data Analysis: Noel A. Cressie-"Statistical Models for Lat tice Data" * Modelling Messy Data: Raymond J. Carroll-"Some Results on Gen eralized Linear Mixed Models with Measurement Error in Covariates" * Future Directions: Peter J.

Make a joyful Christmas quilt designed by Erin Russek using the festive colours you love. The pattern pack comes with full instructions, and the finished project makes for the perfect seasonal throw or wallhanging!

Danny Glover and Martin Short star in this comedy directed by Nadia Tass. After Valerie (Sheila Kelley), the unlucky daughter of powerful businessman Highsmith (Sam Wanamaker), disappears on the first day of her Mexican holiday, Detective Raymond Campanella (Glover) is recruited to track her down. Unable to find her, Highsmith employs the services of the equally unlucky Eugene Proctor (Short) to assist Campanella, hoping his bad luck will somehow help them in their investigation. Stumbling from one mishap to another, the pair must overcome a number of unlikely obstacles as they do all they can to retrace Valerie's steps through the streets of Acapulco.

Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. Leading practitioners and researchers in the field describe the history, principles and diagnostic processes of the Spiritist approach to mental health, and provide an extensive summary of the various methodologies used, including spiritual mediumship, energy work, prayer, homeopathy, past life regression and the practice of integrating spirituality into counselling and psychotherapy. Considering the ways in which Spiritism aligns with contemporary science, they show that the Spiritist model has the potential to bring about a positive transformation in the ways in which mental health care is conceptualized and delivered around the globe. The final part of the book explores how Spiritist centers and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with specific examples from Brazil and the USA. Providing important new insights into the rich tradition of Brazilian Spiritism, this authoritative text will be of interest to mental health professionals, counselors, therapists and alternative and complementary health practitioners.

In today's world, we are bombarded by negative situations such as war, poverty, and disease. When we allow this negativity to permeate our consciousness, it's difficult to think positively about life. We can't change the world, but we can change how we view it and how it affects us-our behavior, our success, and our contentment.

In "Is Your Glass Half Full?" author Tracy Russek provides a guidebook to help you explore who you are and help you think more positively about yourself. She presents the research and theories of Ivan Pavlov, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, B. F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura, and she shows how the study of human behavior can be easily applied to various life situations to turn negatives into positives.

"Is Your Glass Half Full?" guides you through a series of exercises to help you become more aware of the choices you make and the behavior you display in your interactions with the world. Discover your own uniqueness and worth, and understand that you deserve satisfaction and contentment. You can learn to see the glass as half full.