Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and in providing them with a resource for coping.Offering an inter-disciplinary approach to spirituality and personhood in dementia care, the contributors to this book are leading practitio...

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all.Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester...

An Essential text on transforming raw data into concrete health care improvementsNow in its second edition, The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement delivers a practical blueprint for using available data to improve healthcare outcomes. In the book, a team of distinguished authors explores how health care practitioners, researchers, and other professionals can confidently plan and implement health care enhancements and changes, all wh...

Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change is an edited volume in which editor Mia Long Anderson and various contributors identify and discuss athletes who have been at the forefront of social movements to lead change in distinct areas of society, including politics, gender equity, and mental health.Contributors analyze how this activism speaks to the impact that athletes can have on raising awareness and...

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess's vision, which has deepened and broadened to include...

A dragon rider seeking revenge for the death of her brother. A ruthless fae lord with his own agenda. A love that will drive the fae kingdom to its knees.I'm nothing but an orphan, a dragon trainer in one of the many border fortresses. When beasts attack the villages, I ride, driving them back to the hellscape they crawled from.When my adopted brother's killed during battle, I discover who's controlling the invading beasts—the brutal ruler of the neighborin...

La doctrina evangélica de la adopción -descrita claramente como "un acto de la gracia gratuita de Dios, por el cual somos recibidos en el número, y tenemos derecho a todos los privilegios, de los hijos de Dios"- ha recibido un tratamiento escaso por parte de los teólogos. Ha sido tratada con una mezquindad totalmente desproporcionada con respecto a su importancia intrínseca y con una subordinación que sólo le permite un lugar parentético en el sistema de la verdad evangélica. No conozco ni...

238 Q&A cards sharpen your therapeutic decision-making skills"These cards offer concise yet detailed case studies for students to review current pharmacotherapeutic options for many of the commonly encountered disease states....Students might find these cards to be a very helpful in addition to their therapeutics courses to help them retain knowledge through the use of real-life clinical scenarios. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review ServiceThese 238 Q&A car...

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.This book concentrates on four major themes: autonomy and independence in later life, biology and ageing, food and nutrition and re...

"En Cristo: La Unión Vital que Transforma al Creyente", compilado por Jeff Pollard, es una colección de ensayos y sermones de autores como A.W. Pink, John Murray, John Gill, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, y Charles Spurgeon, que exploran la doctrina de la unión con Cristo. Este libro profundiza en cómo la unión con Cristo es el fundamento de toda bendición espiritual, desde la ...

Robert Alexander Webb nos introduce en la importancia de esta doctrina vital, dándonos tres razones por las que es tan importante. Charles Spurgeon declara que el acto de Dios de predestinar a los pecadores a la adopción de hijos es un acto de pura gracia. ¿Cuáles son las causas de la adopción? John Gill responde demostrando la obra de gracia del Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo como la causa de ese milagro de la gracia. John Murray describe la paternidad de Dios bíblicamente, distinguié...

William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland, on rough toilet paper which was confiscated and destroyed by the Gestapo. The rewritten version was published in 1947 and followed by the, now, equally famous, Undiscovered Scotland. In 1951 he was depute leader to Eric Shipton on the Everest Reconnaissance Expe...