From a psychologist and stand-up comedian comes a practical, yet laugh-out-loud guide to embracing humor to reduce stress and live a happier, fuller life.Dr. Brian King got a degree in psychology before becoming a world-touring comic and the host of humor therapy seminars attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In this brilliant guide he presents hands-on techniques for managing stress by rewiring our brains to approach potentially difficult situations...

What does it really take to transform a broken culture?Not a new strategy. Not a reorganization. Not another all-hands meeting with a slick slide deck. It takes a leader willing to do the hard, human work of building trust, naming the truth, and sailing into uncertainty with a team that believes in the journey.Navigate: Guiding Teams Through the Voyage of Culture Change tells the story of Lucy Beag, a seasoned technology executive who joins a techn...

Dundee is a modern city with a long history. It became a royal burgh in the late twelfth century, but the town itself long predates this, and human settlement in the area can be traced back many hundreds of years earlier. In its eight centuries of official existence, Dundee has been a medieval burgh subjected to invasion and conflict, a thriving seaport and centre of trade, and a booming industrial town known worldwide for its ‘Jute, Jam and Journalism’. It officially became a city in 1889...

Dundee’s official history as a burgh stretches back more than 800 years, though there is much evidence of settlement in the area long before that. The nineteenth century saw the town’s expansion into a large industrial city. Dundee suffered more than most cities in the mid-twentieth-century drive for modernisation as not only long-established buildings but parts of the ancient street pattern were swept away in large-scale demolitions in the 1960s and 1970s. At the same time, the city lost ...

To say Wiess Fagan has lived a strange life is an understatement. Contracted with a succubus at the age of four. Meeting Azrael the Grim Reaper at the age of six and the deaths of his family that happened over the years on a specific day. Entering the military and being seriously wounded in battle he becomes a medical visionary in the field of cybernetics and nanotechnology. At the age of seventy-five, his old friend Azrael comes to collect his soul. though it's not for his final judgment ...

Psychologist, stand-up comedian, and best-selling author Dr. Brian King reveals the techniques he used to lose one hundred pounds, and provides guidance and humor to make your weight loss journey a healthy, sustainable, and even enjoyable one.Dr. Brian King studied neuroscience and psychology before touring the world as a stand-up comedian and public speaker. Yet despite giving life guidance to others, he was carrying an extra one hundred pounds, taking up too much...

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate ch...

Performance Assurance for IT Systems emphasizes the importance of addressing performance and technology-related issues from the beginning of the planning process, at the feasibility and bid stages. It promotes the concept of Performance Assurance throughout the entire system lifecycle, covering technology, relevant processes, and people-related top

Communities of Practice in Language Research provides an up-to-date and critical introduction to the community of practice framework and how this can be applied to language research. Critiquing and offering alternative suggestions for the ways in which researchers frame research participants as members of communities of practice, with the goal of inspiring use of the Community of Practice (CofP) model in new areas of research, this book:engages in extended critical a...

Edinburgh was founded as a royal burgh by David I in the early twelfth century, though there had been a settlement on what became Castle Rock for centuries before that. King David is also thought to be responsible for the city’s oldest building, a chapel built in honour of his mother, Queen Margaret, who was later declared a saint. Churches of Edinburgh looks at the city’s churches, from this earliest surviving example to the award-winning Chapel of Saint Albert the Great, which opened som...

What if a group of infantry soldiers simply refused to fight? That is the question at the center of the novel about three young Americans drafted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Based on actual events, experiences, and sentiments of U.S. soldiers who served in Vietnam, it's also a book that ponders a reality that could have been. A unique look into the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement that existed not only at home, but within the Army's own ranks.

Taking the girls to Earth for a brief vacation and to fulfill a promise to an old friend. Wiess and the girls arrive back on Orta to find an unwanted visitor on his doorstep. The Queen of the elves and her daughter. The only thing more troublesome than the queen is her hatred towards the human race and Wiess himself. Having to deal with that, Wiess is tasked with helping the elven people with an issue in their homeland. Can Wiess overcome the divine entity that is out for his blood