Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment. The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detailed discussions of spirituality, suffering, and healing from scholars from around the world. Within each chapter, the authors address a different cultural and religious focus by examining how this topic relates to questions of inherent dignity, both ethically and theologically, and how different spiritual lenses may inform our interpretation of medical outcomes. Mental health practitioners, allied professionals, and theologians will find this a useful and reflective guide to palliative care and its connection to faith, spirituality, and culture.

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with bipolar disorder. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today—including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder—with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced this mood disorder in their own children. Among other topics, the book addresses the roots of bipolar disorder, red flags to look out for, treatment options for young people, and practical strategies for helping a teen cope at home and at school. It concludes on a hopeful note, by reviewing the latest scientific evidence on treating this mood disorder. A growing body of research now shows that early diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder may reduce the severity of the disease, both now and in the future. Including chapters on sex, drugs, and social media, and life after high school, this book will provide the information and tools parents need to help adolescents achieve the best possible outcome.

Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment. The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detailed discussions of spirituality, suffering, and healing from scholars from around the world. Within each chapter, the authors address a different cultural and religious focus by examining how this topic relates to questions of inherent dignity, both ethically and theologically, and how different spiritual lenses may inform our interpretation of medical outcomes. Mental health practitioners, allied professionals, and theologians will find this a useful and reflective guide to palliative care and its connection to faith, spirituality, and culture.

The influence of nutrition on cognition and behaviour is a topic of increasing interest. Emerging evidence indicates that nutrition in early life can influence later mental performance and that diet in later life can reduce cognitive decline. Lifetime nutritional influences on cognition, behaviour and psychiatric illness reviews the latest research into the effects of nutrition on cognition and behaviour across the lifespan and on psychiatric illness. Part one investigates nutritional influences on brain development and cognition including the effects of early diet and the impact of key dietary consistuents including long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and iron. Part two explores the link between diet, mood and cognition discussing carbohydrate consumption, mood and anti-social behaviour, hydration and mental performance and the neurocognitive effects of herbal extracts, among other topics. Part three examines nutritional influences on behavioural problems, psychiatric illness and cognitive decline, including the role of nutrition in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, vitamin status and psychiatric disorders, antioxidants and dementia, and depression, suicide and fatty acids. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Lifetime nutritional influences on cognition, behaviour and psychiatric illness is a valuable reference tool for researchers working on the effects of diet on the brain in both academia and industry and may also appeal to dieticians and nutritionists.

An Advanced Study Institute on the Biology of Aggression was held in glorious weather between the twenty-first and thirtieth of July 1980, at the Chateau de Bonas, Gers, France. The Institute was arranged by a scientific organizing committee consisting of Drs. Paul Brain and David Benton of the University College of Swansea, Wales, U.K. This book reflects the papers presented at the A.S.I., and the arrangement of the book parallels the pro gramme. The particular objective was to concentrate on recent research on aggression from the viewpoint of the diverse biological disciplines that have examined the topic. A major theme that emerged was the failure of direct reductionist approaches that look for simple relationships between biological variables and 'aggression'. As may have been predicted, there was also con siderable debate about the definition of the term aggression and its associated positive and negative implications. The organizers would like to express their appreciation to Professor and Madame Simon for their foresight in founding the Association Scientifique Cu1tu e11e et Educative de Bonas and their enthusiasm in designing and converting the Chateau de Bonas to produce a unique conference centre, a venue that greatly facilitated this A.S.I.'s objectives. Greatfu1 thanks are also due to the Faculty who selflessly gave of their time; to Dr."

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with bipolar disorder. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today-including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder-with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced this mood disorder in their own children. Among other topics, the book addresses the roots of bipolar disorder, red flags to look out for, treatment options for young people, and practical strategies for helping a teen cope at home and at school. It concludes on a hopeful note, by reviewing the latest scientific evidence on treating this mood disorder. A growing body of research now shows that early diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder may reduce the severity of the disease, both now and in the future. Including chapters on sex, drugs, and social media, and life after high school, this book will provide the information and tools parents need to help adolescents achieve the best possible outcome.

Good and Evil - I Walk A Crooked Line is a not like any book you have ever read. It is about a person's internal battle to do good over evil. This book is about YOU Listen - "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practice; but what I hate, that I do. But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good. So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not. For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practice. But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?" This book discusses good and evil, good vs evil, of good and evil, beyond good and evil, evil good and good evil, the good and the evil, and good from evil. Written by one of the nation's leading behavioral scientists, Dr. Leland Benton is a best-selling Amazon author with over 200-books published on Amazon alone. You need to read this book

This study explores whether the current United States military strategy should focus more on a comprehensive interagency approach as a more efficient way of focusing all elements of national power to defeat our enemies in the Long War on Terrorism. The method used to determine this question is initially accomplished by framing the scope of the current operating environment in the context of Fourth Generation Warfare. The definition of Fourth Generation Warfare is developed based on Col. Thomas X. Hammes' writings and then is further developed to show relevance and applicability to current operations in the Long War on Terrorism. A comparative analysis is conducted by utilizing a single case study of the United States experience during Vietnam. This is done to develop an understanding of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program in order to gain an understanding of the lessons learned while conducting interagency operations during the Vietnam conflict. The analysis identifies how the collaboration and coordination of all governmental agencies was used to conduct operations during Vietnam. These lessons are then compared to the current written policy and guidance and then assessed to determine if an appropriate level of synchronization and coordination are currently being utilized to meet our National objectives in the Long War on Terrorism within the context of the current operating environment. The findings of this study are that the current United States military strategy is making considerable progress within this context. This study also concludes that the national strategy, however, should focus even more on a comprehensive interagency approach as a more efficient way of focusing all elements of national power to defeat our enemies in the Long War on Terrorism.

"Where is a land called Colored or Negroland or Blackland?" In Search for the Truth is an amazing read, as it traces roots and ancient heritage. Mr. Louis D. Benton II opens the doors, which have been shut tightly for so long. Unravel the truth with each engrossing page. Here is an untapped minefield of valuable knowledge. Wouldn't you like firsthand access to such eye-opening details? This goes beyond what you know. Yes, here is a path yet untrodden. Walk upon it and be enlightened.

Mind Sciences - The Power of Focus & Application - Targeting the Human Mind describes in detail the science behind the power of focus and application, how to improve focus, improving focus, focus power, increase focus, and memory improvement. The human mind concentrates or is targeted on something or some object but can be focused on something else. A good example of this is reading a book but your mind is wandering on another subject; maybe a problem or a person or whatever. I know everybody has had this occur in their lifetime; many all too often. Focus & Application, when taken in concert, will allow an individual the ability to achieve whatever is focused upon. Written by one of the nation's leading behavioral scientists, Dr. Leland Benton is the author of over two dozen self-help books and nonfiction behavioral science texts. He is a best-selling Amazon author with over 200-books published on Amazon alone. This fascinating study is a must-read book because it unlocks the power of the human mind. Get your copy today

ISBNS - International Standard Book Numbers: A Desktop Resource For Self-Publishing Authors is an author's resource about a subject they hear about all of the time and that publishing platforms require but most authors really don't know anything about ISBNs. I have 10-years of college and five degrees. People expect me to know things that I simply don't know and sometimes don't want to know. I sincerely could have done without the knowledge of colonics and what a "Brazilian" is when the girls in my office began gabbing about these two subjects. I always thought a Brazilian was a tiny little dude from Rio de Janero...no it's not...go with me on this one. I'm still trying to figure out the lyrics to the 60s song "Louie Louie" and I have no idea where flies sleep at night (lol). So much for 10-years of college Here's my point: there are some things we encounter daily that we know little about but use these things daily too. Furthermore, we also use words in our speech and writing that we don't REALLY know what they mean or have a very slight understanding to their meaning. ISBNs are one such subject. When I woke up to this realization, I decided to publish desktop compendiums where readers could access information quickly and learn things that they needed to know. My first compendium was titled "Latin Phrases." I was amazed at how often we use Latin phrases in the English language but even more amazed how many of these phrases the users didn't know the meaning of but used them anyway. Phrases like "carpe diem (seize the day), non-sequitar (it does not follow), or quid pro quo (this for that). To add some zest to my Latin Phrases book, I even included some funny Latin phrases: Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam - I want my rubber ducky Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio - Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway. Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire - I came, I saw, I want to go home. Vale, lacerte - See you later, alligator Vah Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur - Oh Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out. Tum podem extulit horridulum - You are talking crap. Since I wrote Latin Phrases I have introduced three other "phrase" compendium books: Investment Phrases, Legal Phrases, Real Estate Phrases. ISBNS - International Standard Book Numbers: A Desktop Resource For Self-Publishing Authors is the fifth book in this series and teaches a subject that all authors should know about in detail. This book also addresses where authors can get ISBNs. The prices are all over the board and I have provided resources where you can acquire them reasonably.

Latin Phrases - Translate Latin Phrases to English is a book that takes business and everyday Latin phrases and translates them into English. Have you ever wondered what "Quid Pro Quo" means or any of the Latin phrases that are used daily in business terminology? Business quotes phrases abound in the English language. How about "non sequitar?" Well now there is a handy desktop compendium and Latin phrase dictionary of thousands of Latin phrases to use as a reference resource right at your fingertips so you won't be left wondering any longer. Perfect for business and investing, legal and medical professions. Latin Phrases comes in alphabetical order so finding the Latin phrase/word is easy and quick. It translates Latin phrases in English with sentences too so you get the most complete Latin phrases translation the first time. Now, that is about it so "Abbsum." Don't know what this means? Okay I will give you this one: "I'm outta here "