Flirting with Boys

Flirting with Boys

By: Hailey Abbott 

Oh my God!” Celeste Tippen’s best friend almost sent her flying onto the last row of white folding chairs set up on Longbrook High School’s lawn. Under the hot Palm Springs sun, dressed-up families were filling the aisles, clutching graduation programs, and claiming rows of seats by laying jackets and purses across them. Several audience members turned to look at the crazy girls in the back, but Devon Wright didn’t let go of Celeste’s elbow. “What?” Celeste spun around, rubbing her tan arm where Devon’s nails had dug in. That was definitely going to bruise. “Stefan Napoli!” Devon hissed, frantically smoothing. her sleek, shoulder-length black hair behind her ears. “How’s my hair?” Celeste rolled her eyes. “Fabulous, of course. When does your hair ever not look perfect?” Devon was now using Celeste’s sunglasses as a mirror to apply fuchsia lipstick from an ornate gold tube. [download]

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Hands on Reflexology

Hands on Reflexology 

By: Andrew James

Balance and wholeness are all most of us want from life. We can get lost in our everyday existence; doing more ‘things’ and taking on more responsibility, and thus lose sight of our own ‘self. This is when reflexology steps in. Reflexology is one of the most accessible complementary therapies; hands and feet are all you need to bring health, happiness, fun and rejuvenation to your whole being. I have introduced reflexology to thousands of people, through individual treatment, lectures, TV and radio, conferences or talks to international companies and small self-help groups. 1 am still amazed that even with just a one-day workshop it is possible to see an instant change in people’s physical, mental and emotional state. They leave at the end of the day feeling more balanced, literally walking on air, with something achieved for themselves. [download]

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How to Develop Children as Researchers

How to Develop Children as Researchers 

By: Mary Kellett

In the adult world research process is greatly valued as an advanced learning tool and whetstone for critical thinking. The importance of research in professional and personal development is increasingly being acknowledged. So why should children not benefit in a similar way? Traditionally, children have been excluded from this learning process because research methodology is considered too difficult for them. Principal obstacles focus around three key barriers: age (and by implication, competence), knowledge and skills. If we can find ways to overcome these barriers and explore innovative approaches to engage children in the research process then we can access a rich and, hitherto, largely untapped source through which to develop creativity, critical thinking skills and analytical capability. [download]

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Engaging Minds

Engaging Minds 

By: David A. Goslin

One of the intriguing paradoxes of education in the United States is that many people believe that the nation’s schools are badly in need of reform, yet most people report that they are satisfied with the schools their children attend. Another is that nearly everyone acknowledges the importance of academic achievement for success in life, yet many Americans remain deeply ambivalent about how much time and effort their children should spend on schoolwork rather than sports, work, and other activities. American ambivalence about the amount of effort children should devote to academic achievement contributes to the fact that during much of the time most students spend in school, they are less than fully engaged in learning academic skills. It also helps to explain why the nation has made so little progress in improving education despite nearly three decades of intense effort. [download]

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Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha

Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha 

By: Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Yoga is the science of right living and, as such, is intended to be incorporated in daily life. It works on all aspects of the person: the physical, vital, mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual. The word yoga means ‘unity’ or ‘oneness’ and is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj which means ‘to join’. This unity or joining is described in spiritual terms as the union of the individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. On a more practical level, yoga is a means of balancing and harmonizing the body, mind and emotions. This is done through the practice of asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, shatkarma and meditation, and must be achieved before union can take place with the higher reality. The science of yoga begins to work on the outermost aspect of the personality, the physical body, which for most people is a practical and familiar starting point. [download]

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Why Do Men Have Nipples

Why Do Men Have Nipples

By: Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

When you’re at a cocktail party, someone inevitably asks you what you do for a living. If you say that you are a doctor, the barrage begins. Soon you’re looking at someone’s mole, consulting someone else on his brother-in-law’s painful flatulence, racking your brain to explain the etiology of your hostess’s episodic vertigo, and that’s just the beginning. You would think that after twelve years of rigorous training and sleepless nights, doctors would have all the answers. But no! Not so. The sad fact is that one of the medical establishment’s great shortcomings is its failure to teach what the general public really wants to know about medicine. This book is an attempt to rectify this unfortunate situation. Inside these pages we will begin to answer some of the medical questions that real people ask. Pressing questions such as “Why does my pee smell when I eat asparagus?” “Is it true when they say ‘beer before liquor, never sicker. [download]

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Understanding Children: Foundations for Quality

Understanding Children: Foundations for Quality 

By: Jeannette Harrison

Children’s growth and progress through life is largely dependent on the physical, social and emotional surroundings in which they spend their formative years. Early childhood care-providers have a critical role in developing social competence in young children. We have evidence that if a child is unable to develop effective social relationships with their peers by around six years of age, then that child may be at risk of encountering later academic failure and dropping out of school. Young children require quality environments in order to thrive socially, academically and emotionally. In order to determine the quality of an early childhood program, there are a number of identifying characteristics that describe a quality service. [download]

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The Sacred and The Feminine

The Sacred and The Feminine 

By: Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey Sauron

The initiating editor for this collection, Victoria Turvey Sauron, is an art historian working on the visual representation of the ecstatic woman in Western art and culture as an undecidable figure of the challenge to art and culture posed by female sexuality and subjectivity. Famously, Bernini’s sculptural installation of Teresa of Avila in her vision (13.1) has challenged interpreters to deal with the ambivalence of the image: hovering between a spiritual and an erotic experience. Tracing the genealogy of the iconography and visuality of the enraptured female body through to contemporary representations that appear more overtly sexual, Victoria Turvey Sauron identifies the problematic of a visual representation of embodied feminine subjectivity and sexuality that refuses monistic interpretations and instead brings into view shifting borderlines between interior and exterior. [download]

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Sex, Money, Happiness and Death

Sex, Money, Happiness and Death 

By: Manfred Kets De Vries

There is a well-known Zen story of two traveling monks who were trying to cross a river. When they were almost across, a young woman called out to them from the bank they had just left. She said she was afraid to get into the water because of the current. “Could one of you take me to the other side?” she asked. One of the monks hesitated, but the other returned, quickly placed her on his shoulders, took her across the river, and put her down on the other side. She thanked him and went on her way. As the monks continued their journey, one of them was troubled. Finally, unable to keep quiet, he broke out, “Brother, our Zen master has taught us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!” “Brother,” the second monk replied, “I set her down on the other side: it’s you who is still carrying her.” [download]

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Sexuality in The Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Sexuality in The Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 

By: Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge

Why should we talk about sex, or  sexuality in more general terms, as a historical phenomenon? Why would such  a sordid  topic,  as some  conservative  critics might argue, and certainly have argued throughout the centuries see the long and unbroken tradition of clerical condemnation of sexuality as one of the worst sins in human life be of any relevance fo the study of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance,  and  the  early  modern  age? To raise  this  issue  also  provides  the immediate answer because no aspect of human life is meaningless, and everything we can learn about people in the past allows us to gain a more comprehensive and more complex picture, especially if our investigation leads us into the realm of people’s motifs, secret plans, hidden agendas, emotions, and dreams. If we can explain why certain actions were taken, certain laws issued, concrete institutions established, and various programs carried out we gain considerable insight into. [download]

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Sexopedia

Sexopedia

By: Anne Hooper 

SEX CAN BE THE GREATEST source of pleasure and happiness in our lives it can boost our personal sense of well-being and health, and it also fosters precious feelings of intimacy with a partner. While sexuality used to be viewed as a “private matter,” today it is featured in magazines, newspapers, movies, and now on the Internet; indeed, our exposure to the subject is greater than ever before. While this is generally a good thing, the information is not always correct or adequate, and it can give confused messages.With so much apparent interest in sex, I felt what was needed was a reliable source of detailed and accurate information. on the topic, so I went to work on compiling this sexual encyclopedia, incorporating all the exciting new developments and the latest facts and figures. Since I first started in sex therapy 30 years ago, there has been a great surge of scientific . and academic research. Drug companies have made. [download]

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Living Life with Diabetes

Living Life with Diabetes 

By: John Keller

Diabetes what’s that? It’s when my body does not produce insulin because my pancreas has packed up and will not work. I then have to inject insulin because I can no longer produce it. So, having diabetes is just a case of replacing the insulin that your body no longer produces via injections . . . that’s easy! It just means you have to take an injection every day. Simple. End of story . . . I wish. Diabetes not only has a physical effect on the lives of those of us who have the condition it also invokes many emotions which, in turn, also play a part in our well being. The first reaction of people who have just been told they have diabetes is usually shock, fear and anxiety all emotional responses, all strong and influential feelings. These feelings also have an effect on the way we begin to think about our future lives. [download]

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My Secret Sex Life

My Secret Sex Life 

By: Fletchina Archer 

We were all a little tipsy. His wife went upstairs and I went into the kitchen. I felt his hand on my shoulder, and looked up. I was twenty four, but I didn’t know what to do when he kissed me. I mean that in the most basic sense. I’d never been kissed. I’d never dated, made out, done any of those things. I know that’s hard to believe these days when kids start having sex before they have their periods and everyone seems to be doing it by the time they’re twelve. For me, it was a combination of strict Catholic schools and upbringing for total ignorance of anything at all having to do with dating, sex, or anything on the subject of any of those things. I didn’t know what to do. He smiled and stroked my arm and said it was okay. That’s how it all started. The next Sunday morning when I answered the doorbell, he stood there smiling, a book in his hand. [download]

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Make Over Your Sex Life

Make Over Your Sex Life 

By: Susan Crain Bakos

Makeovers! They are every woman’s (and man’s) version of the fairy godmother’s wand. We all want a piece of the magic. You could transform your life today in many ways: by cutting off your long brown hair, coloring it blond, and trading those basic midheel black pumps for a pair of hot pink stilettos; by turning your cluttered office into a true workspace where creativity can flourish; by painting the living room a soft, glowing orange and adding exotic pillows, art baskets, and a huge palm tree or two. Makeovers are so appealing because they promise to change us within as well as without. We will become the Chic Blonde, the Writer, the Worldly Sophisticate that our new exteriors boast that we are. [download]

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Getting Your Kids Active

Getting Your Kids Active 

By: Claire Gillman

The good news is that you are well placed to get your children active and eating healthily, albeit that it will take some dedication and probably a change in the way that your family approaches eating and exercise. The bad news is that there is no time to lose. The statistics make pretty scary reading. Childhood obesity is at an all-time high and today’s youth are playing less sport and are involved in less activity than ever before. According to the National Audit Office, nearly one-third of children between the ages of 2 and 15 are overweight or obese. With today’s sedentary lifestyles, more children than ever before are at risk of becoming overweight and suffering from the inherent health and emotional ramifications that entails. [download]

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Female Nudes

Female Nudes 

By: Alina Reyes and Bernard Matussiere

Am I a woman? At least I have the form and lines of a woman and the indination to enjoy it. I don’t know what is to be a women, unless from the desire I have of men and the peasure I myself enjoy of being a man like any other….me, the spouse of this woman, this other me, the one whose image appears in the mirror: this woman who, every morning, I dress in underwear and clothes that make me want to undress again and whom, every night. I lay down, naked in a bed of love. Eyes closed, lying naked in the black of  night. I see myself, bright and qurvening, in the core of my shell. My flesh is an oyster shell soft pearly, tightly closed yet knowing how to open up with the slowness of a rose to allow the salt of the world to enter me eyes closed, alone in my bed at night. [download] 

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Erotic Massage

Erotic Massage

By: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D. with Louise Andree Saulnier

Basically all you need is oil fragranced ones entice the mind but may sting the skin especially membranous tissue Some prefer vegetable oils (unfragranced coconut oil is a good choice) others prefer mineral oils Visit your local lotions-and-potions store, try a health food store On membranous tissues, such as the female genitals, some consider water-based lubricants to be healthier Purchase them at a pharmacy perhaps at a sensuous boutique You can apply the oil or lubricant to your hands either from a plastic squeeze bottle a bottle with a push pump or a bowl Massage tables are great for your back and sturdy tabletops padded with foam or blankets are fine Otherwise, a padded floor a bed or the ground covered with cloth is quite suitable If you select a large bed have the recipient’s head at a corner of the foot of the bed. [download]

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Q & A Series Family Law

Q & A Series Family Law 

By: Tracey Aquino

Although the incidence of nullity petitions in practice is very small, less than 300 petitions per year, nullity nevertheless forms part of many family law syllabuses. A question can usually be guaranteed if nullity is a feature of your course, and by careful planning you should achieve a good result. Some courses highlight the conflict of laws, or foreign element, to nullity, and the following questions are a mixture of those containing entirely English nullity issues and those containing a foreign element. Nullity is still essential for those who wish to end their marital obligations, but who are opposed for religious or social reasons to divorce. It is also possible to end a marriage within one year of it taking place if nullity proceedings succeed. [download]

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Illustrated Yoga

Illustrated Yoga 

By: Maran Graphics

Yoga is beneficial for everyone, regardless of age or physical ability. The aim of practicing yoga is to improve your physical, mental and spiritual well being. This chapter introduces you to the different types of yoga and explores the fundamentals of yoga, including relaxation, meditation and poses. You will also learn about the many benefits of yoga and how to incorporate this versatile activity into your lifestyle. Yoga focuses on improving your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. The goal of yoga is to harmonize your body, mind and spirit through a combination of poses, meditation and breathing exercises. Unifying your body, mind and spirit allows you to achieve a sense of wholeness, peace and self-realization. In addition to achieving inner peace, practicing yoga has many physical and mental benefits. For example, the physical exercise involved in yoga can increase your strength and flexibility. [download]

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Go The Fuck to Sleep

Go The Fuck to Sleep 

By: Adam Mansbach

The cats nestle close to their kittens now. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep. The windows are dark in the town, child. The whales huddle down in the deep. I’ll read you one very last book if you swear You’ll go the fuck to sleep. The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep. I know you’re not thirsty. That’s bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep. The wind whispers soft through the grass, hon. The field mice, they make not a peep. It’s been thirty-eight minutes already. Jesus Christ, what the fuck? Go to sleep. All the kids from day care are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep. [download]

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