Health Care & Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring (Death, Value and Meaning Series)

Few areas in life have experienced the rapid pace of change that has been the experience of health care. It's an area where nothing feels "safe" and everything is threatened with reexamination and redefinition. Accompanying this situation is a new appreciation for the human spirit and the gift of things spiritual, including the soul of the work place. Addressing this situation is a vital new book "Health Care and  Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring" an anthology of the human predicament, the health care professional's story and the health care work place. "Health Care and  Spirituality" explores this area that is continually being introduced to new treatments, new challenges, new people, new regulations, new expectations, and new time limits.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gilbert, Richard

Mental Health

Routledge

Mountaineering for All

Sports & Outdoors

Mountaineering

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Lonely Hills & Wilderness Trails

Travel

Europe

David&Charles

In southwest Florida, Roy Dixon's world is crumbling. The population is swelling rapidly. Growth has become numbing in its intensity. The laid-back fishing and farming life that Roy and several generations of his family have known has all but disappeared. He is divorced from the woman he loves. His business faces economic hardship. When a large deal comes his way, promising to see him through the slow season just ahead, he plunges into the work with a great sense of relief. Then people start dying.

Where There's a Will

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Infinity Publishing

Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the near term of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on transport will be among the major challenges facing humanity and will require a revolution in thinking about how we move people and goods.
Transport Revolutions analyzes five prior episodes of rapid and radical change in the way people and goods travel. It examines the worldwide state of transport today, especially its energy use and impacts, positive and negative. The authors then show how ample movement of people and freight could be sustained beyond 2025 with much-reduced dependence on oil, focusing on the United States and China. Preparations for the end of cheap oil include:
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<li>Substantial use of electricity for land transport, particularly through direct powering of vehicles</li>
<li>Use of wind to power water transport</li>
<li>Radical changes in aviation</li>
<li>Restructuring how transport is financed and managed</li>
</ul>
Written for transport professionals, those with a business interest in transport, and planners and policymakers, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in how transport will evolve in the years ahead.
Richard Gilbert is a consultant on transport and energy and the author of numerous books, including several for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Anthony Perl is a professor of political science and urban studies at Simon Fraser University. He has co-edited and co-authored four books, including New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy for the Twenty-First Century and The Integrity Gap: Canada’s Environmental Policy and Institutions.

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil

Business & Money

Perl, Anthony

Industries

New Society Publishers

Heartpeace: Healing Help for Grieving Folks (Consolations Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Abbey Press

Living, Loving and Loss: The Interplay of Intimacy, Sexuality and Grief (Death, Value and Meaning Series)

One of the unspoken aspects of mourning concerns the ways that loss affects our intimate relationships and our sexual expressiveness. This text opens these subjects for conversation, with the aim of promoting the trust, care, and respect that enable us to be vulnerable. It purposefully covers a range of topics, including: (1) the meaning of intimacy and the significance of sexuality, providing a basis for the use of these terms throughout the book; (2) death, grief, and differences in sexual orientation, including death and intimacy in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and the losses endured by young people due to gender issues; (3) loss of relationship and restoration of intimacy in families, including pharmacological effects on the grief processes of widowers; grieving a not-so-loved parent; the "layered losses" of infertility and intimacy; and the tolls of war--intimacy and sexuality challenges for soldiers and their families; (4) adjusting to life's losses associated with aging or illness or infirmity, including Alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, physical health losses after 50, and intimacy, sex, and hospice--self-determination and dignity at the end of life; and (5) religious bases that have shaped our perspectives for understanding intimacy, sexuality, and healing after loss, and which give us hope--including the spiritual reflections of a rabbi and a Christian voice in defining what is right. Set in a framework that is both psychological and spiritual, the well-researched contributions are intended to acknowledge these experiences both professionally and personally. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography, valuable for research and reference. This book will be of value in undergraduate and graduate courses on thanatology, as well as for anyone interested in knowing more about grief--both those currently bereaved and those who wish to support others in mourning. The contributors appreciate both the importance of our capacities for intimacy and sexuality and our inhibitions and hesitations in giving voice to our needs and concerns, perhaps especially when we are grieving. The information and compassionate understanding they provide encourage us to bridge the gap between the secret and the private and to share what is close to our hearts.

DeFord, Brad

Parenting & Relationships

This is a novel of ideas, particularly ideas about psychology and philosophy. It’s also a novel about the politics and circumstances of a particularly unsettling year – 1939 – and about travel at that time. The main character is an imagined young B.F. Skinner, who became the most influential psychologist of the twentieth century. In the novel, he made a fictional trip to Europe and back in May and June of that year. Skinner had two quests, one intellectual, one political. Both quests involved Ludwig Wittgenstein, the century's most influential philosopher. Skinner's intellectual quest was to make Wittgenstein's work on language more palatable to Bertrand Russell, the philosopher’s former teacher, who had met Skinner early in 1939. Skinner's political quest was also instigated by Russell. It was to secure information from Wittgenstein about Adolf Hitler for the U.S. president. Wittgenstein and Hitler were a few days apart in age and had been at high school together in Austria. This information could help the U.S. government make better predictions about Hitler’s behavior and the likelihood of another major war. Skinner had little interest in Wittgenstein but agreed to travel to England for the chance of meeting Sigmund Freud, who was dying in London. Skinner had congenial encounters with Freud and his daughter Anna at their London home. By contrast, his meetings with Wittgenstein in Cambridge were confrontational, almost combative. Also in Cambridge, Skinner met Alan Turing, later known for devising the computer as we know it and for wartime decryption. In New York, on his way back to his home in Minneapolis, Skinner met Edward Bernays, a founder of the public relations business. Bernays was Freud's double nephew, and his American agent and benefactor. As well as discussion and arguments with some of the intellectual giants of the period, Skinner had numerous encounters during his odyssey with entirely fictional characters. Some of the encounters were romantic. Some were merely social. Some had a sinister edge that reflected the time of his travels, one of modern history’s most fraught periods.

Skinner's Quests

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Borden House Press

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