History’s final chapter will be written in Jerusalem.When an Iranian president thunders a murderous threat or an obscure Turkish drunkard has a dream in Mecca or a Jewish couple from Brooklyn lands at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport, these events might seem disconnected. But they’re not. In Dateline Jerusalem, CBN News correspondent Chris Mitchell connects the dots and unveils Jerusalem as the epicenter and crossroads of the spiritual, polit...

Based on his own life experiences, travels and meditations, Chris Mitchell reflects on how mindfulness practice can help people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) with daily challenges including negative thought patterns, emotional and sensory issues, and navigating the social world.This practical handbook provides advice and instruction on adopting a mindful way of living to help tune in to the present moment and each chapter provides step-by-step mindfulness exercises that allow indiv...

A lushly photographed guide to creating a home with enduring appeal and lasting valueIn this frenetic age of social media influencers, trends with an increasingly short half-life, and a misplaced emphasis on the novel rather than the enduring, it's hard to know how to embark on a renovation and make design choices that won't date. This is where Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzmán come in. Authors of Patina Modern and veteran home renovators, they reject the fl...

Understanding who you are can be a lonely and difficult process following the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness illuminates this experience as an empowering path of discovery through the teachings of Buddhism.Chris Mitchell draws parallels between the experience of his own journey towards personhood through AS and the spiritual tenants of Theravada Buddhism, as outlined through the Eightfold Path, a guideline to personal development. Worry a...

Speaking is a physical activity, and this fact should take a central role in second language learning where the physicality is different from that experienced with our native tongue. Here the authors seek to enable teachers to include meaningful work on the body and voice in the language classroom, providing both a theoretical background concerning the physicality of speech, and ready-to-use activities. Increasing learners’ awareness of what happens as they speak, through experimentation a...

The UK Catalysis Hub is a consortium of universities working together on fundamental and applied research to find out how catalysts work and to improve their effectiveness. The contribution of catalysis to manufacturing contributes to almost 40% of global GDP, making development and innovation within the field integral to industry.Modern Developments in Catalysis, Volume 2 provides a review and update of current research and practice on catalysis. Topics range from the treatment of...

This is the book we need for guidance on employment for people with Asperger's syndrome. The contributors describe their employment experiences and offer sound advice. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the success stories and took note of the words of warning of what not to do.'- Professor Tony AttwoodEmployment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent of people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are in work at any one time. The adults w...

DID YOU KNOW THAT. . . The RUSSIANS believe in the LESHI, a DANGEROUS creature who TICKLES its victims to DEATH, or that ST GEORGE was actually a ROMAN SOLDIER?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW . . . Which MYTHICAL creature SNEAKS into Japanese BATHROOMS to LICK them clean?AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS . . . With stories of MISCHIEVOUS gods, unbelievable BEASTS and the GULLIBLE people who BELIEVED in them!This book is packed with the wildest, weirdest, funniest, filthiest, foulest, wisest, grossest, brainiest and ...

People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights for family, friends and also for mental health professionals.Touching on everything from difficulties at work and college to coping with low self-confidence, self-harm, alcohol, mi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security Standardisation Research, SSR 2016, held in Gaithersburg, MD, USA, in December 2016.The accepted papers cover a range of topics in the field of security standardisation research, including hash-based signatures, algorithm agility, secure protocols, access control, secure APIs, payment security and key distribution.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2017, held in Beijing, China, in December 2017.The 43 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully selected from 188 submissions. The papers cover topics such as Formal Analysis and Randomness Test; Signature Scheme and Key Management; Algorithms; Applied Cryptography; Attacks and Attacks Defense; Wireless Sensor Network Security;...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, STM 2017, held in Oslo, Norway, in September 2017, in conjunction with the 22nd European Symposium Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2017. The 10 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The focus of the workshop was on the following topics: cryptosystems and applied cryptography; software security and risk management; authorization...