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Sequel to the big-budget reboot of the comic book series following
the anthropomorphic ninjutsu-trained turtles Leonardo (Pete
Ploszek), Michelangelo (Noel Fisher), Donatello (Jeremy Howard) and
Raphael (Alan Ritchson). The turtle's arch nemesis Shredder (Brian
Tee) has returned and employed Techno Cosmic Research Institute
scientist Dr. Stockman (Tyler Perry) to create some mutants of his
own in the form of ferocious duo Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and
Rocksteady (Stephen Farrelly). Meanwhile, the evil Kraang (voice of
Fred Armisen) has arrived from Dimension X to lead an invasion of
New York City. With the help of journalist April O'Neil (Megan Fox)
and vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell), the turtles face a fight
on two fronts to save the city from certain destruction.
Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one
of the greatest physicians of the ancient world The second-century
Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after
Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented
doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, teacher, pharmacologist, and
inventor, Galen attended the court of Marcus Aurelius, living
through outbreaks of plague (likely smallpox) that devastated the
Roman Empire. He also served as physician for professional
gladiators, boasting that only two fighters died during his first
year (his predecessor had lost sixteen). In writings that provided
the foundation of Western medicine up to the nineteenth century,
Galen created a unified account of health and disease. In How to Be
Healthy, practicing physician and classical historian Katherine Van
Schaik presents a collection of Galen’s enduring insights about
how we can take care of our bodies and minds, prevent disease, and
reach a healthy old age. Although we now know that many of
Galen’s ideas about physiology are wrong, How to Be Healthy shows
that much of his advice remains sound. In these selections from his
writings, presented in fresh translations, Galen discusses the art
of medicine, exercise and diet, the mind-body connection, the
difficulty of applying general medical principles to individuals,
and much more. Featuring an introduction, brief commentaries that
connect ancient medical practices to modern ones, and the original
Greek on facing pages, How to Be Healthy offers an entertaining and
enlightening new perspective on the age-old pursuit of wellness,
from the importance of “the exercise with a small ball†to the
benefits of “avoiding distress.â€
Keep calm, be skillful--and take control! Dialectical Behavior
Therapy (DBT) is one of the most popular--and most
effective--treatments for mental health conditions that result from
out-of-control emotions. Combining elements of Cognitive Behavior
Therapy with Eastern mindfulness practice, DBT was initially used
as a powerful treatment to address the suffering associated with
borderline personality disorder. It has since proven to have
positive effects on many other mental health conditions and is
frequently found in non-clinical settings, such as schools. Whether
you struggle with depression, anger, phobias, disordered eating, or
want to have a better understanding of emotions and how to focus
and calm your mind, DBT practice serves the needs of those facing
anything from regular life challenges to severe psychological
distress. Written in a no-jargon, friendly style by two of Harvard
Medical School's finest, DBT For Dummies shows how DBT can teach
new ways not just to reverse, but to actively take control of
self-destructive behaviors and negative thought patterns, allowing
you to transform a life of struggle into one full of promise and
meaning. Used properly and persistently, the skills and strategies
in this book will change your life: when you can better regulate
emotions, interact effectively with people, deal with stressful
situations, and use mindfulness on a daily basis, it's easier to
appreciate what's good in yourself and the world, and then act
accordingly. In reading this book, you will: Understand DBT theory
Learn more adaptive ways to control your emotions Improve the
quality of your relationships Deal better with uncertainty Many of
life's problems are not insurmountable even if they appear to be.
Life can get better, if you are willing to live it differently. Get
DBT For Dummies and discover the proven methods that will let you
take back control--and build a brighter, more capable, and
promising future!
Galen of Pergamum (129–?199/216), physician to the court of the
emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical
historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote forcefully and
prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose impact
on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. Galen synthesized the
entirety of Greek medicine as a basis for his own doctrines and
practice, which comprehensively embraced theory, practical
knowledge, experiment, logic, and a deep understanding of human
life and society. This volume presents three works of the greatest
importance to Galen’s theory and practice of medicine. On
Temperaments sets out Galen’s concept of the combination (krasis)
of the four elemental qualities (hot, cold, wet, and dry), which is
fundamental to his account of the structure and function of the
human body and of animal and plant bodies generally, and is in turn
essential to his theory of medical practice. The two related works,
On Non-Uniform Distemperment and The Soul’s Traits Depend on
Bodily Temperament, deal with specific aspects of dyskrasia, which
is a disturbance in the combination of these qualities. Appended
are two related short treatises, On the Best Constitution of Our
Body and On Good Bodily State.
"This assessment of the consequences of rural electrification in
developing areas, covers projects in two Latin American countries.
In one of these electricity is supplied by a cooperative, in the
other by a state-owned company. The authors examine a wide range of
variables and find that only living standard and occupational
status had a consistent positive association with electricity use.
The cooperative had little, if any, significance for its members,
aside from its function as an energy supplier. Household
electricity consumption levels were low, rarely exceeding 100
kilowatts per month and largely limited to use for lighting and
ironing. Farm consumption was minimal. The authors discuss energy
costs at the household level and look at alternative energy
sources, such as privately operated diesel generators, for
businesses and industries. Consideration is given to the
relationship between electricity and infrastructure development.
The study is unique in that it focuses on both social and economic
impacts of rural electrification and examines policy implications
from both social-benefits and economic-benefits approaches."
Financing distribution of electric energy to rural areas in
developing countries is a relatively recent activity. The United
States Agency for International Development (AID) was the first to
loan funds for this purpose. In 1963 it authorized $400, 000 to
establish an electric cooperative in Nicaragua. Since then 15 loans
have been made by AID for establishing or expanding electric
service in nonurban areas of nine countries in Latin America. In
this book, the emphasis has been placed on identifying benefits
and, within the time and resources available, developing social
indicators to place beside economic measurements. The authors have
attempted to write this report in as nontechnical a style as
possible and to provide a full exposition of all variables and
methods employed so as to make it accessible to a general audience.
This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical
world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the
profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the
appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection
mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including
sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue,
illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea,
Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands
identify the structural (engineered), non-structural
(nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea
level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood
risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case
study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to
combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new
and existing communities. It is important for those located within
the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and
those responsible for land use, developmental, and
population-related activities within these areas to strategically
implement a series of integrated constructed and green
infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately
protect threatened areas. As a result, this book is beneficial to
both academics and practitioners related to multiple design
professions such as urban designers, urban planners, architects,
real estate developers, and landscape architects.
The discovery of the fifteenth-century codex Vlatadon 14 in 2005
was an extraordinary moment for scholars of Graeco Roman antiquity,
as it brought to light a new witness to a large collection of
Galen’s medical and philosophical works. Among them is the moral
essay De indolentia (On Avoiding Distress), a text long deemed
lost, and the De propriis placitis (On My Own Opinions), a
doxographical piece with a complex textual tradition, up to that
point known only through a corrupt medieval Latin translation and
some passages preserved in Greek. This volume provides a new
critical edition of the two Galenic treatises, which represents a
significant improvement on earlier editorial attempts by offering
more accurate readings of the codex, including supplementation of
previously unrestored lacunae, and many emendations to thorny
passages owed to physical damage in the manuscript as well as
perhaps careless scribes and/or the poor quality of their model.
The more authoritative version of the two texts is accompanied by
fresh English translations and brief introductions, making both
works widely accessible not just to Classicists but also to
scholars and students of ancient medicine, ancient philosophy and
Roman Imperial literary culture.
Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to
the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to
evolve as a national and global priority issue. To keep up with
this rapidly changing and vital field we must establish the current
state-of-the-science on countermeasures to form a platform from
which to offer perspectives, policies, and procedures that will
assist the United States and other nations to defend themselves
from future threats. An up-to-date assessment of the technologies
and strategies for providing countermeasures to biological and
chemical terrorism, Advances in Biological and Chemical Terrorism
Countermeasures integrates vastly disparate disciplines, calling on
authors that are directly and currently involved in the research to
present their own data as well as their educated opinions and
advice. It draws heavily on the findings and conclusions from
research conducted through the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical
Threats, which is partially funded through the U.S. Army Research,
Development, and Engineering Command. This book focuses on four
general areas of research: modeling, simulation, and visualization;
environmental protection; personal protection and therapeutics; and
the mechanistic and toxic effects of weapons. Individual chapters
discuss the relationship between risk and vulnerability, threat
agent dispersal through the environment, threat agent sensor
development, the use of phage display for detection and therapeutic
intervention, and an overview of recognized threats and their toxic
effects. Heavily referenced, this science-based work is an
excellent tool to assist military and homeland security personnel
and first responders to improve their ability to develop and
implement countermeasures to the potential biological and chemical
threat agents that continue to emerge.
The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and
BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive
genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical
programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in
the UK, US and Europe. The book provides a coherent structure for
examining the diversity of practices and discourses that surround
developments linked to BRCA genetics, and to the evolving field of
genetics more broadly. It will be of interest to students and
scholars of anthropology, sociology, history of science, STS,
public health and bioethics. Chapter 8 of this book is freely
available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415824064_oachapter8.pdf
NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices
and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new
century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the
Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a
crisis-management organization to suppress conflicts on Europe's
periphery - and perhaps beyond.
Is NATO suited to playing such a role, or is the alliance a Cold
War anachronism? How will Russia react to an enlarged NATO focused
on out-of-area peacekeeping and conflict-prevention missions? Are
there alternative security institutions that might better address
Europe's security needs in the post-Cold War era?
NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices
and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new
century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the
Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a
"crisis-management" organization to suppress conflicts on Europe's
periphery - and perhaps beyond.
Is NATO suited to playing such a role, or is the alliance a Cold
War anachronism? How will Russia react to an enlarged NATO focused
on out-of-area peacekeeping and conflict-prevention missions? Are
there alternative security institutions that might better address
Europe's security needs in the post-Cold War era?
Small businesses now constitute the most dynamic element of growth
in the emerging markets of the Central and Eastern European region.
This book argues that the small and medium sized enterprise (SME)
sector has contributed more to the growth of these countries in
transition than have privatized state enterprises and the public
sector. In 1989 most of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe
were still under an economic system dominated by state-owned
enterprises. Since then a process of liberalization has been
unleashed to promote free market policies. This has involved
programs of privatization and restructuring of public enterprises,
as well as the promotion of policies to enable a private sector to
develop. Small businesses are creating thousands of new jobs while
large companies are "retrenching and downsizing" their work
force.
In some countries of the region this process is much further along
than in others. However, the SME sector has developed at a more
rapid pace than has the privatization of the large public
companies. There has been a flurry of new enterprises springing up
throughout the region which are "trickling up" in a frequently
hostile environment against tremendous odds, and yet managing to
have a pronounced impact on their respective economies. Small
businesses have taken over in sectors that used to be dominated by
big enterprises, primarily in services and consumer products. They
have provided a crucial outlet for pent-up entrepreneurial talent
that had remained dormant during the long period of state
domination.
This work urges legislators, policy-makers, and development
agencies alike to take account of the importance of the SME's in
their legislation and planning. Given a more favorable environment,
these small businesses will provide even greater impetus for
economic growth. Equally important is for entrepreneurs themselves
to be convinced of the rightness of their path in societies that
have traditionally looked down upon profit-seekers as unscrupulous
and selfish. If the CEE region is to achieve its full potential of
economic growth, policies and support mechanisms to promote the SME
sector will be needed to assure a favorable environment.
The end of the Cold War has raised questions about the future of
NATO. Now that the threat from the Warsaw Pact has disappeared,
there seems little need for a Western military alliance of such
magnitude. The contributions here offer various views on NATO's
future.
The end of the Cold War has raised questions about the future of
NATO. Now that the threat from the Warsaw Pact has disappeared,
there seems little need for a Western military alliance of such
magnitude. The contributions here offer various views on NATO's
future.
In this book which was first published in 1970, author Galen
Broeker traces the events of a crucial period in the struggle of
the British government to bring law and order to rural Ireland. He
demonstrates that throughout the forty years following the union a
major challenge to government in Ireland was the sporadic violence
that seemed endemic to the rural south and west. Organizations of
Irish peasants terrorized the countryside in protest against a
political and economic system that seemed to threaten their very
existence. The formation in 1814 of the Peace Preservation Force is
examined. This was the first in a long series of experiments aimed
at an efficient and impartial system of law enforcement. This title
will be of interest to student of history and criminology.
This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical
world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the
profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the
appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection
mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including
sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue,
illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea,
Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands
identify the structural (engineered), non-structural
(nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea
level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood
risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case
study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to
combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new
and existing communities. It is important for those located within
the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and
those responsible for land use, developmental, and
population-related activities within these areas to strategically
implement a series of integrated constructed and green
infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately
protect threatened areas. As a result, this book is beneficial to
both academics and practitioners related to multiple design
professions such as urban designers, urban planners, architects,
real estate developers, and landscape architects.
In this book which was first published in 1970, author Galen
Broeker traces the events of a crucial period in the struggle of
the British government to bring law and order to rural Ireland. He
demonstrates that throughout the forty years following the union a
major challenge to government in Ireland was the sporadic violence
that seemed endemic to the rural south and west. Organizations of
Irish peasants terrorized the countryside in protest against a
political and economic system that seemed to threaten their very
existence. The formation in 1814 of the Peace Preservation Force is
examined. This was the first in a long series of experiments aimed
at an efficient and impartial system of law enforcement. This title
will be of interest to student of history and criminology.
First published in 1999. Small businesses now constitute the most
dynamic element of growth in the emerging markets of the Central
and Eastern European region. This book argues that the small and
medium sized enterprise (SME) sector has contributed more to the
growth of these countries in transition than have privatized state
enterprises and the public sector. In 1989 most of the countries of
Eastern and Central Europe were still under an economic system
dominated by state-owned enterprises. Since then a process of
liberalization has been unleashed to promote free market policies.
This has involved programs of privatization and restructuring of
public enterprises, as well as the promotion of policies to enable
a private sector to develop. Small businesses are creating
thousands of new jobs while large companies are "retrenching and
downsizing" their work force. In some countries of the region this
process is much further along than in others. However, the SME
sector has developed at a more rapid pace than has the
privatization of the large public companies. There has been a
flurry of new enterprises springing up throughout the region which
are "trickling up" in a frequently hostile environment against
tremendous odds, and yet managing to have a pronounced impact on
their respective economies. Small businesses have taken over in
sectors that used to be dominated by big enterprises, primarily in
services and consumer products. They have provided a crucial outlet
for pent-up entrepreneurial talent that had remained dormant during
the long period of state domination. This work urges legislators,
policy-makers, and development agencies alike to take account of
the importance of the SME's in their legislation and planning.
Given a more favorable environment, these small businesses will
provide even greater impetus for economic growth. Equally important
is for entrepreneurs themselves to be convinced of the rightness of
their path in societies that have traditionally looked down upon
profit-seekers as unscrupulous and selfish. If the CEE region is to
achieve its full potential of economic growth, policies and support
mechanisms to promote the SME sector will be needed to assure a
favorable environment.
The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and
BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive
genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical
programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in
the UK, US and Europe. The book provides a coherent structure for
examining the diversity of practices and discourses that surround
developments linked to BRCA genetics, and to the evolving field of
genetics more broadly. It will be of interest to students and
scholars of anthropology, sociology, history of science, STS,
public health and bioethics. Chapter 8 of this book is freely
available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415824064_oachapter8.pdf
A tribute to Robert S. Wyer, Jr.'s remarkable contributions to
social psychology, Foundations of Social Cognition offers a
compelling analysis of the underlying processes that have long been
the focus of Bob Wyer's own research, including attention,
perception, inference, and memory. Leading scholars provide an
in-depth analysis of these processes as they pertain to one or more
substantive areas, including attitudes, construct accessibility,
impressions of persons and groups, the interplay between affect and
cognition, motivated reasoning, and stereotypes. Each chapter
reviews and synthesizes past scholarship with the assessment of
current understanding and cutting-edge trends and issues. A "must
have" for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in the
fields of social and cognitive psychology, as well as those in
related fields such as consumer, organizational, and political
psychology, neuroscience, marketing, advertising, and
communication.
Galen of Pergamum (129 ?199/216), physician to the court of the
emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical
historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who wrote forcefully
and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose
impact on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. Galen synthesized
the entirety of Greek medicine as a basis for his own doctrines and
practice, which comprehensively embraced theory, practical
knowledge, experiment, logic, and a deep understanding of human
life and society.
New to the Loeb Classical Library is "Method of Medicine," a
systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating
injury and disease and one of Galen s greatest and most influential
works. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical
and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal
reflections.
Through his extensive research, editorial activities, and his
enormous impact on students and colleagues, Robert S. Wyer, Jr. has
established himself as a prolific scholar in the history of social
psychology. This book is a tribute to his contributions. It
provides an introduction to the major issues and current thinking
in the field, offering an analysis of the underlying processes that
have long been the focus of Bob Wyer's own research including
attention, perception, inference, and memory. In each of the
chapters, scholars provide an in-depth analysis of these processes
as they pertain to one or more substantive areas including
attitudes, construct accessibility, impressions of persons and
groups, the interplay between affect and cognition, motivated
reasoning, and stereotypes, among other topics. Each chapter traces
the development of ideas in the field by combining the review and
synthesis of past scholarship with the assessment of current
understanding and cutting-edge trends and issues. This work should
benefit scholars, researchers, and advanced students in the fields
of social and cognitive psychology.
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