Author: Nancy TomesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241724
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Kirkbride, Thomas Story.
A Generous Confidence
Author: Nancy TomesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241724
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Kirkbride, Thomas Story.
You Are Not What You Think
Author: David RichoPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834803232
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
You and your ego: how to develop strong self-confidence without becoming an egotist—so you can be happy with who you are and make others love you too How can you build the healthy ego necessary to be effective in life—yet avoid the kind of egotism that makes people dislike you? Don’t worry; Dave Richo has the answers. You Are Not What You Think shows you how to navigate the tricky waters between egotism and selflessness in a way that avoids both extremes and makes you much more effective and loving. The key is to acknowledge your ego and to be kind to it, before you ultimately learn to let it go. As with all Dave’s books, this one is full of examples from mythology, psychology, and religion, with plenty of exercises and practical advice.
The Art of Asylum-Keeping
Author: Nancy TomesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781512808377
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. It recreates everyday life in the asylum and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.
Self-Confidence made Simple
Author: aka Margaretha MontaguPublisher: Margaretha de Klerk
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
French women are famous for their effortless elegance, their enchanting independence, their irresistible charm and their unshakable self-confidence. Would you like to discover the secrets of these consistently confident women? In Self-Confidence made Simple, 16 of Dr Margaretha Montagu closest French friends share their confidence secrets with you. Margaretha has lived in France for part of her childhood and for most of her adult life. She has spent nearly twenty-five years, first as a medical doctor and more recently as a workshop leader, empowering women to live long, happy, healthy and fulfilling lives, full of purpose and meaning. Discover the secrets of 16 supremely self-confident women. In this book, you will meet twelve French women, Anaïs, Inès, Lisa, Marie-Therèse, Claire, Régine, Amèlie, Corrine, Béatrice, Annie, Monique, Eloïse etc. who will share their stories with you. As you share these women's joys and sorrows, you will discover how they remain unconditionally self-confident, serenely sophisticated and perfectly poised no matter how challenging the situations are that they find themselves in. To each story and to every secret, Dr Montagu brings her extensive knowledge and experience, with practical suggestions to help you incorporate each of these potentially life-changing strategies into your own life. Self-Confidence made Simple is a guide to becoming a woman who knows exactly who she is, who takes excellent care of herself, who leads a balanced, purposeful and fulfilling life, who has a solid support network, who can laugh at herself, who knows she has a lot to be grateful for, who knows how to forgive, who competently handles stress, who knows how to say NO without apologising and who knows that being ageless is all about attitude. This book will empower you to make quick decisions in difficult situations based on what is really important to youaccept yourself and appreciate your unique talents and abilitiesbelieve in yourself so that you can make the changes you want to make in your lifedeal with stress before it damages your physical or mental healthcare for yourself physically, mentally and spirituallybuild strong long-lasting relationshipscreate a solid and reliable support network so that you canask for help before you feel totally overwhelmedset firm boundaries and say NO without feeling guilty or needing to explainfocus on what you can learn from an experience rather on what went wrongrealise that whatever age you are at is the best age for you to bestop criticising yourself andcelebrate your success without needing to apologise for being brilliant And much, much more. This book is for women of all ages, convictions, orientations and cultures. If you too want to master the skills you need to develop rock-solid self-confidence, this book is for you.
A Generous and Merciful Enemy
Author: Daniel KrebsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.
Generous Justice
Author: Timothy KellerPublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 1594486077
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.
Mad Among Us
Author: Gerald N. GrobPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under the pressure of too many patients and too few resources. Mounting criticism of psychiatric techniques such as shock therapies, drugs, and lobotomies and of mental institutions as inhumane places led to a new emphasis on community care and treatment. While some patients benefited from the new community policies, they were ineffective for many mentally ill substance abusers. Grob’s definitive history points the way to new solutions. It is at once an indispensable reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.
Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
Author: Samuel RichardsonThe Invisible Plague
Author: Edwin Fuller TorreyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813530031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Examines the records on insanity in England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States over a 250-year period, concluding, through quantitative and qualitative evidence, that insanity is an unrecognized, modern-day plague.
Your Guide to Public Speaking
Author: Amanda HennesseyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1507210256
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Are you part of the 73% of the population that experiences anxiety from public speaking? Face your fears with this valuable guide that combines real-world case studies and practice activities to help build your confidence. You may not be afraid of heights or spiders but making a speech in front of a large crowd—whether it’s a wedding party, an awards ceremony, or even doing a presentation in the office—is sure to get your heart pounding and your palms sweaty. But with Your Guide to Public Speaking in hand, there’s no need to fear public speaking a second longer. This practical and indispensable guide teaches you to understand and work with your audience, take control of your own emotions, and create the perfect materials to supplement your speech and help drive your message home. With practice activities, real-world case studies, tips you never thought you needed—and more!—you’ll find everything you need to become a speech master in no time at all. From preparing for a video conference, rallying for support for a cause that’s important to you, or facing down multiple interviews, you can banish those fears and feel empowered no matter what the situation with Your Guide to Public Speaking.