Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer mentors can provide a variety of peer-appropriate, course-specific mentoring, tutoring, facilitation and leadership roles and activities that complement the roles of the course’s instructor and ...

Breathing well can bring about improvements in a surprising number of areas of your life. This skill is usually taken for granted. Surely you just breathe in ... and then you breathe out...? But experienced physiotherapist and breathing dysfunction specialist Tania Clifton-Smith has been helping people correct their breathing patterns for over 30 years and has seen at first hand what a difference it makes. Includes chapters on: Why breathe well? Self-awareness and self-checks The stress co...

The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model programs; the countermapping movement and colle...

A 500 años de distancia de concluir el asedio que un ejército hispano-indígena impuso a las ciudades hermanas de Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco sigue siendo impactante tal acontecimiento, por este motivo se convocó a un grupo internacional de investigadores para reflexionar colectivamente sobre la materia. Los autores reunidos en esta obra aportan el resultado de sus propias investigaciones para acercar al público en general a este apasionante episodio de la historia.

A revolutionary book from top Ear, Nose & Throat surgeon, Dr Jim Bartley, and highly-regarded breathing expert,Tania Clifton-Smith, who believe that good breathing patterns can dramatically improve the lives of people with major diseases such as heart disease, asthma and depression. Breathing well helps us relax, normalises body biochemistry, reduces muscle pain and allows the re-establishment of normal posture and movement. Part I discusses the role of smell and the "nose...

Break the cycle of tension and exhaustion in the workplace and learn how to have greater energy through correct breathing.Workers today are becoming more sedentary. We are thinking more and using our bodies less - we communicate all day with a computer screen, becoming so absorbed that our shoulders tense, our breathing changes, we hold our breath too much and, by the end of the day, we're exhausted.Extensive research has linked dysfunctional breathing patterns to problems such as occupati...

Ich schreibe, also bin ich Schriftstellerin: Wenn es so einfach wäre, gäbe es die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung nicht. Ist Dichten das große Glück, ein großer Kraftakt - oder beides? Wie entstehen Ideen, aus welchen Situationen und Begegnungen schöpfen Autorinnen ihre Inspiration? Wie finden sie ihre Form? Und wie ergeht es Schriftstellerinnen im Literaturbetrieb? In den Erzählungen, Essays und Gedichten dieses Bandes lassen sich die Autorinnen beim Schreiben über die Schulter gucken. Sie...

Estrategias accesibles para controlar la ansiedad social¿Te sientes abrumado en eventos sociales o tus pensamientos te impiden iniciar una conversación? No estás solo. Ansiedad social para gente normal ofrece consejos prácticos para ayudarte a afrontar estos desafíos. Escrito en un lenguaje claro y accesible, este libro brinda soluciones prácticas y herramientas que puedes aplicar en situaciones sociales cotidianas...

A showcase of Australian authors. This collection of crime short stories includes gumshoe detectives, cosy cooking killers, fresh-faced cops, cunning crooks and even a criminal croc. All set in Australia but with many different twists, turns and styles. There's sure to be something to appeal to every mystery lover.*Rainforest Writing Retreat is an annual event attended by up to seventy writers who enjoy three days of intense masterclasses presented by industry experts on top of a m...

UNA PODEROSA EXPLORACIÓN DEL DOLOR Y LA RESILIENCIA DESPUÉS DE LA PÉRDIDACada quien lidia con el duelo a su manera: Helen Macdonald halló consueloal entrenar a un halcón salvaje; Cheryl Strayed encontró fuerza en una caminata a través de Estados Unidos, mientras que Carol Smith, periodista nominada al Premio Pulitzer y autora de este audiolibro, afrontó la muerte de su hijo pequeño entregándose a su trabajo.Con un bello estilo narrativo, Carol Smith ...

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make them perplexing and frustrating to work with.The model is designed to identify key indicators and explanatory mechanisms of child maltreatment: disorganized attachment in the child, a parent's unresolved loss or trauma, disconnected and e...

Knight believes that he lives on the best side of the book, but Viking disagrees.Their solution … build walls to keep their side safe from the other. But in their quest to build the better wall, will Knight and Viking fail to recognise the immediate danger that could impact both sides of the book?A thought-provoking story about fear, prejudice and seeing the bigger picture.