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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Politics in The Parish

Politics in The Parish

By: Gregory Allen Smith

Religion has always played an important role in American politics. Many ofth e earliest European settlers in the New World were motivated to cross the Atlanticby religious concerns, and the political institutions they established were influenced by their moral and religious convictions. The centrality ofr eligion in American life continued through the development ofth e colonies and the establishment ofth e United Statesas an independent nation. By the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville, by all accounts one ofth e most prescient observers of American society and culture, argued that for Americans religion should “be considered as the first ofth eir political institutions, for although it did not give them the taste for liberty, it singularly facilitates their use thereof” (1833, 292). [download]

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The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand 

By: Jonathan Stroud

The temperature of the room dropped fast. Ice formed on the curtains and crusted thickly around the lights in the ceiling. The glowing filaments in each bulb shrank and dimmed, while the candles that sprang from every available surface like a colony of toadstools had their wicks snuffed out. The darkened room filled with a yellow, choking cloud of brimstone, in which indistinct black shadows writhed and roiled. From far away came the sound of many voices screaming. Pressure was suddenly applied to the door that led to the landing. It bulged inward, the timbers groaning. Footsteps from invisible feet came pattering across the floorboards and invisible mouths whispered wicked things from behind the bed and under the desk. [download]

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Psychology

Psychology

By: G. Neil Martin, Neil R. Carlson and William Buskist

If you asked this question of several people, you would probably receive several, very different answers. In fact, if you asked this question of several psychologists, you would still not receive complete agreement on the answer. Psychologists engage in research, teaching, counselling and psychotherapy; they advise industry and government about personnel matters, the design of products, advertising, marketing and legislation; they devise and administer tests of personality, achievement and ability. And yet psychology is a relatively new discipline; the first modern scientific psychology laboratory was established in 1878 and the first person ever to call himself a psychologist was still alive in 1920. In some European universities the discipline of psychology was known as ‘mental philosophy’ not psychology even as late as the beginning of the twentieth century. [download]

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Making Sense of Business

Making Sense of Business 

By: Alison Branagan

There is a multitude of business start-up books on the market today; very few approach the important subject of acquiring enterprise skills. This book is directed towards enterprising individuals and business managers who understand what they have to accomplish, but need to acquire new skills. It could be the case that you are a student, or have recently set up a business. You may be curious about what enterprise skills are and wish to learn more about them. Equally, you may be a recent graduate applying for a managerial post in a small firm or perhaps already struggling in the deep end. Whatever the premise, the realization may have struck that the business or action plan now calls for application. [download]

Men in Relationships

Men in Relationships 

By: Victoria Hilkevitzh Bedford

Why do men and women look disbelieving when we tell them the title of the book we are editing? What is it about the juxtaposition of “men” and “relationships” that elicits an expression of bewilderment and such comments (from men as often as women) as “isn’t that an oxymoron?” But the other side of surprise and confusion is fascination followed by a flood of stories, the same motivation that launched us into delving into this topic in the first place. In this brief introduction, we will address the dissonance that ensues from the expression “men and relationships” and the life course perspective in which we chose to frame the topic. Finally, we will say a few words about the chapters themselves. Such reactions to the title of the book may lie in assumptions about the definition of what constitutes men’s relationships, assumptions that not only differ from those of the chapter authors but also reflect a controversy in the field of men and masculinities. [download]

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