Amy: 4691 books
A Still Quiet Place for Athletes
Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sports and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Find flow and reach peak performance—in sports and in life. Based on the groundbreaking Still Quiet Place mindfulness program, this workbook provides practical, step-by-step exercises and skills to help you gain present-moment awareness and achieve your athletic goals.
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Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
Cookoff
Recipe Fever in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America is an anecdotal and entertaining look at the amazingly extensive subculture of cooking contests in America. Such contests range in importance from Spam contests at county fairs to the granddaddy of them all, the Pillsbury Bake-Off in San Francisco, where the grand...
by Amy Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
You may not realize it, but you probably rely pretty heavily on other people just to live your life. For many people, reliance on others for things like food, clothes, and medicine is not a problem but some people want to strike out on their own and become self-reliant. If you are one of those, you might...
Eyes on Spies
Congress and the United States Intelligence Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress—the institution, not the parties or personalities—showing...
Practical Virtualization Solutions
Virtualization from the Trenches
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
The 100% Practical Guide to Making Virtualization Work in Real Enterprise Environments If you’re involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you’ll need. Packed with examples and case studies,...
Gendered Vulnerability
How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections—a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term “gendered vulnerability.”...
The Future of Happiness
5 Modern Strategies for Balancing Productivity and Well-Being in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Technology, at least in theory, is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it’s not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction.
But we can change that.
Knowing that technology is here to...
by Amy Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Breastfeeding can be and usually is a pleasant experience for the mother and the baby. Even if you are a first time mother, you can enjoy breast feeding. Like any other thing you wish to and can do in your life, you need to be aware of various possible issues.
Find out:
- How to be prepared...
Decolonizing Museums
Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye...
Fat Shame
Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety...
Gendered Paradoxes
Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005
Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses...
It's Personal
Surviving and Thriving on the Journey of Church Planting
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Every aspect of planting a church is personal. Like giving birth to a child, church planters give all they have to start new churches. So when people leave the church or criticize it, it’s hard not to take it personally. And while many pastors feel called by God to plant new churches, few are prepared...
by Amy L. Sayward
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century...