* Much needed update in field, with respected existing texts dating back almost 60 years and inaccessible for today's student. * Teaches Alloy Thermodynamics using a broader, applications driven text with a more industry-oriented lens than any other book on the market, preparing students for the real world.
Hoe betovert verliefdheid onze geest? Hoe selecteren je hersens je grote liefde? Wat zijn de verborgen signalen die we elkaar geven als we zoenen en vrijen?In dit boek ontraadselt wetenschapsjournalist Mark Mieras aan de hand van neurowetenschappelijk, psychologisch en antropologisch onderzoek verschijnselen als lust, passie, jaloezie, overspel en duurzame liefde. Hoe de liefde achter de schermen van je bewustzijn werkt. Hoe evolutionaire programma's sturen hoe jij flirt, verleidt, verliefd wordt, je bindt, jaloers bent of verlangt om vreemd te gaan. En ook waarom liefde niet altijd goed uitpakt. Het verklaart de aantrekkingskracht van 'foute' mannen en 'foute' vrouwen en beschrijft hoe medicijnen, internetdating en speed-dating de hersenen op tilt kunnen zetten.Een partner zoeken en liefhebben is een avontuurlijke taak. Op zoek naar eigenwaarde, bevrediging, passie en verbondenheid hebben we naast het standaardhuwelijk keuze uit steeds meer liefdesvormen. En dat is maar goed ook, want niemand heeft hetzelfde liefdesbrein.
Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity.In The Greatest Show on Earth Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection. Like a detective arriving on the scene of a crime, he sifts through fascinating layers of scientific facts and disciplines to build a cast-iron case: from the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects; the 'time clocks' of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology and genetics. All of this, and much more, bears witness to the truth of evolution.The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before, especially in America. In Britain and elsewhere in the world, teachers witness insidious attempts to undermine the status of science in their classrooms. Richard Dawkins provides unequivocal evidence that boldly and comprehensively rebuts such nonsense. At the same time he shares with us his palpable love of the natural world and the essential role that science plays in its interpretation. Written with elegance, wit and passion, it is hard-hitting, absorbing and totally convincing.
Waarom blijven zoveel hoogopgeleide vrouwen single?Hoogopgeleid, ambitieus, moeder van een prachtige zoon, en... single. Als Lori Gottlieb op haar veertigste nog steeds de ware niet gevonden heeft, kijkt ze om zich heen en ziet dat meer hoogopgeleide vrouwen in dezelfde situatie verkeren als zij. Ze vraagt zich af: 'Waar is het misgegaan?' De echtgenoten van haar vriendinnen mogen dan niet altijd perfect zijn, het zijn beslist wel goede vaders en echtgenoten, dus doen zij en haar lotgenoten misschien gewoon te moeilijk?Gottlieb gaat niet over een nacht ijs. Zij raadpleegt relatiebemiddelaars, dating coaches, gedragseconomen, neuropsychologen, sociologen, relatietherapeuten, scheidingsadvocaten en geestelijken, getrouwde en ongetrouwde vrouwen (tussen de twintig en zestig) - en komt tot verrassende ontdekkingen waar alle vrouwen iets aan kunnen hebben: degenen die de boot dreigen te missen, zij die de boot al hebben gemist en vrouwen die een oude boot hebben en daarover klagen.
The Almanac of New York City is an innovative companion for urban enthusiasts. Nowhere else will you find the name of the city's first comptroller (Selah Strong) and Staten Island's most recently designated historic district (Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto) next to the city's best-attended cultural institution (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with five million visitors annually) and its lowest recorded temperature (15 degrees below zero in February 1934). The Almanac identifies the borough with the most residents who relocate to Palm Beach (Queens) and the borough with the highest number of Panamanian immigrants (Brooklyn). It lists where New York currently ranks in the cost of apartment rentals, the rate of obesity in each borough, the details of executions dating back to 1639, per capita income by borough, the longest-running Broadway shows, the winners of the Wanamaker Mile, and the location of celebrated grave sites. Compiled by two longtime historians of the city, The Almanac treats readers to a real New York story, a tale that will delight anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Big Apple's complex core.
In this audio from the The UltimateA" series, international bestselling mind power author Stephen Richards has developed one of the most powerful ways to help you to win the favours of ANY man/woman you meet. This will make you feel as confident about dating as about tying your shoelaces! This technology does not use self-hypnosis or subliminals.
Durango, Colorado, situated in the four corners region of southwest Colorado, has long been an area of interest to professional archaeologists and non-professional enthusiasts alike. In addition to its natural beauty, the area has been host to a number of ancestral Pueblo Indian groups dating back to prehistoric times. In the 1930s, archeological professionals made up a small, growing group while the ranks of amateur enthusiasts and pothunters, those who dug ancient sites for artifacts out of curiosity or for monetary gain, swelled. Prehistory in Peril is the first accurate account of the early period of archeological study of the Durango area. The area, still rife with unexplored sites, drew many self-trained amateurs and pothunters. As more and more historically significant artifacts were found, bitter confrontation and animosity developed between professionals and enthusiasts. Prehistory in Peril follows the fascinating drama and re-evaluates data from two prominent archeologists of that time, and takes into account more recent research to draw new conclusions about the prehistoric cultural patterns revealed in the southern Colorado area of Durango.
In an effort to reconstruct the 'village' that once helped raise the children of the African American community, this inspiring call to arms examines several issues facing black families of today, including divorce, parenting, fatherlessness, teen pregnancy, and dating. Driven by the 66 percent divorce rate and endemic lack of fathers in African American homes, Kunjufu draws upon the resources of grandparents, aunts, uncles, other relatives, mentors, ministers, deacons, teachers, and community advocates to rebuild a safe and nurturing community in which African American children can thrive. Also provided are sound parenting strategies, techniques for building an extended family, and ways to dispel the cultural myths that shake the foundation of the black home. This book is an equally valuable resource for people of other racial backgrounds working with black families, such as social workers, teachers, psychologists, and community leaders.
Includes a representative selection of the author's writings and speeches on public policy issues with substantial scientific components. This book contains writings that deal with national security, nuclear weapons, and arms control and reflect the author's personal involvement in such issues dating back to 1960.
Shows the phenomenal success of the positive-deviance approach in alleviating some of the world's toughest, most complicated and diverse problems such as malnutrition in Vietnam, female circumcision in Egypt (a practice dating back thousands of years), and the rise of MRSA infections in hospitals around the world.
Along with identifying a toxic man in the early dating stages, this title also covers techniques that show how someone who is already in a toxic relationship can deal with her companion, and how to heal from a dysfunctional relationship.
Online matchmaking is the dating phenomenon of our times. In 2007, 7.8 million Britons used some form of online dating service in pursuit of romance. This book offers a guide to the world of online dating, showing you how to construct the perfect profile, giving tips on dating etiquette, and offering advice to help you find the right match.
This book will transform your life. With confidence you can make a success of just about anything! The second edition of this bestselling book combines the best and most effective methods from CBT, NLP, sports psychology, positive psychology and much much more, into a definitive and indispensable guide to feeling confident, acting confident, being confident and using these positive mindsets to achieve all your goals. There's no psychobabble, no confusing jargon and no demanding and unrealistic expectations, just quick and brilliant Dos' and Don'ts' that get you right to the heart of confidence. Written by a top business and life coach, this new edition features new chapters and content on dealing with conflict, holding confident conversations, confident dating and the 10 Top Tips to boost your confidence NOW.
"The Lesser Declamations", dating perhaps from the 2nd Century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from 'the school of Quintilian'. This collection - in translation - represents classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers.
Popular culture has recognised urban gay men's use of the Web over the years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows. This title explores the integration of specific techno-cultural practices within contemporary gay male sub-culture.
Q. What does everyone want from a marriage? A. For someone else to be the wife! Exploring the many cultural assumptions exposed by divorce -- sex, money, dating, love, home, and health -- Splitting Up is both a guide to the new social landscape and a serious search for personal meaning in an age of rapidly shifting cultural values. According to social theorist and lawyer Larry G Frolick, divorce is neither a legal nor a therapeutic problem -- it is a serious cultural issue. No one can perform the old social roles anymore. Drawing on his most interesting cases from twenty years practicing law, and from studies in culture, the author shows how the seventy-per-cent divorce rate is the flip side of mall marriage -- that is, a relationship based on consumption, rather than on saving -- and how divorce is part of our common destiny, a painful world many of us will one day encounter. This fascinating book takes the reader on an unsettling trip into the strange world of divorce, revealing the new social order and the roles we must play in it to survive -- Working-Warrior Mom, Treat Daddy, and the Lost Child -- as our society evolves into the next millenium.Splitting Up is a hip handbook for divorce in the twenty-first century, a guide to survival and renewal.
It's pretty exhausting searching for 'The One', dating and dating with no luck - and that's if you're lucky enough to get dates in the first place. There are thousands of women who are getting increasingly terrified about ending up alone and surrounded by cats. Let Love In can give us all hope.
Owing to increased migration dating from the 1990s, Nordic countries have gone through substantial cultural and social changes, resulting in increased debate surrounding the politics of multiculturalism. This collection looks at different aspects of the relationship between media and migration in the Nordic region.
Drawing on clinical experience of the author dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, this title charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its forced return to the market.
"The Lesser Declamations", dating perhaps from the 2nd Century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from 'the school of Quintilian'. This collection - in translation - represents classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers.
Groundwater Age is the first book of its kind that incorporates and synthesizes the state-of-the-art knowledge about the business of groundwater dating - including historical development, principles, applications, various methods, and likely future progress in the concept.
In 1995, remains of walls and mosaic floors dating to Hellenistic and Roman times were found, and on one of the walls there was a Greek inscription, known as "The Salmakis Inscription". An international symposium was held where scholars offered their views on the inscription. This book contains the contributions to that symposium.
With refreshing candour and spiritual insight, this guide helps couples build a truly great marriage -- physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Practical suggestions are included on how couples can learn to respect and communicate with each other in effective and healing ways. Spiritual guidance is offered for achieving a healthy sexual relationship, and seven positive steps any couple can take to build a great and lasting love life are detailed: attitude, attention, affection, atmosphere, attractiveness, attire/aroma/allure, and articulation. Confirmation and encouragement is included for strong marriages while hope and direction is offered for foundering marriages. Advice on dating, courtship, and engagement is included, as is an 18-page study guide with questions that will help couples discuss and apply the principles of the book.
Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synaesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence and visual illusions, this book explores the mind and its contradictions.
Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely returns to offer a much-needed take on the irrational decisions that influence our dating lives, our workplace experiences, and our general behaviour, up close and personal.
Trusted guidance on meeting Ms. or Mr. Right With new and updated content, Dating For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes all the information you'll need for navigating the contemporary, social media driven dating scene where women and men Google potential dates beforehand, Tweet after, and even meet on Facebook.
Presents rules and dating dilemmas; the secrets of online profiles, speed dating, and lock-and-key parties; the truth about Internet intimacy; and, what to wear on your first date, and when to take it off.
Why are you looking for love right now? What kind of relationship do you want? How will you know when you've found 'The One'? This book answers all these questions, and more. It offers common sense help and advice on various aspects of dating and relationships.
This bestseller has been out of print for a couple of years, but a second corrected and revised edition will appear early 2011. This very practical and informative manual gives an extensive overview and a description of all the maps that appeared in the famous first atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570. The book gives illustrated information on every map of the various editions that have appeared of Ortelius Atlas and provides valuable information on the dating and the origin of the maps. This revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.
This collection of two-minute monologues explores the values of contemporary teenagers, useful for classroom performance and discussion. Subjects include: love, sex, films, dating, friendship, drinking, accepting responsibility, divorce, internet relationships, the homeless, racism, jobs and more.
Building on the author's thirty-six years of experience with North Town, Texas, this second edition presents an ethnographic study of the ways the town's youth learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom.
Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black interview practitioners from more than fifty dating violence and sexual assault programs across the United States to provide a unique resource for effective teen dating violence prevention. Enhancing existing research with the shared wisdom of the nation's prevention community, Weisz and Black describe program goals and content, recruitment strategies, membership, structure, and community involvement in practitioners' own words. Their comprehensive approach reveals the core techniques that should be a part of any successful prevention program, including theoretical consistency, which contributes to sound content development, and peer education and youth leadership, which empower participants and keep programs relevant.Weisz and Black show that multisession programs are most useful in preventing violence and assault, because they enable participants to learn new behaviors and change entrenched attitudes. Combining single- and mixed-gender sessions, as well as steering discussions away from the assignment of blame, also yield positive results.The authors demonstrate that productive education remains sensitive to differences in culture and sexual orientation and includes experiential exercises and role-playing. Manuals help in guiding educators and improving evaluation, but they should also allow adolescents to direct the discussion. Good programs regularly address teachers and parents. Ultimately, though, Weisz and Black find that the ideal program retains prevention educators long after the apprentice stage, encouraging self-evaluation and new interventions based on the wisdom that experience brings.
Author Helen Boyd is a happily married woman whose husband enjoys sharing her wardrobeand she has written the first book on transgendered men to focus on their relationships and their female partners. Traditionally known as cross-dressers, transvestites, or drag queens, men like Helen's husband are diverse and don't always conform to stereotype. Many of the older transvestites are socially conservative, deeply closeted, and devout churchgoers. Helen addresses every imaginable question concerning the reasons for behavior that still baffles not only "mental health professionals" but the practitioners themselves; the taxonomy of the transgendered and the distinct but overlapping societies of each group; coming out; bisexuality; and homophobia. The book features interviews with some very interesting people, all of whom struggle and love: dominatrix and her cross-dressing husband; a crossdressing Reiki master and his son; a woman who after dating one cross-dresser wanted to date others and metand fell in love witha transsexual instead; a woman whose husband promised her he was only a cross-dresser and later realized that he was transsexual.This is a book about relationships that will engage the reader, and Helen's narrative is a powerful lens with which to examine our own notions of gender and equality. "
A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.
Through his research over the years, Dr Supalla, who is deaf, has identified the name sign system which has a pattern to forming and giving name signs within the deaf communities. The need for a formal name sign book has risen dramatically with the increasing use of inappropriate name signs. There is a comprehensive guide and a list of over 500 name signs to help people to select appropriate name signs according to the American Sign Language (ASL) rules of formation and use. The book is written to be both informative and entertaining, and Dr Supalla compels all who are interested to become more aware of deaf people's intriguing signed language and culture, both dating back to the early years of deaf education.
Lothagam Hill, an excavation site in Kenya, contains the world's most significant remains from the savanna grasslands of Africa. This collection of essays offers an account of the geology and dating of the site, along with descriptions of the diversity of vertebrate fossils.
There's little about finding a mate that Jo Hemmings doesn't know. The Dr Phil of England, she routinely gives advice on TV and radio on just how single people can find the single passion of their lives. And her answer is as old as scripture: To thine own self be true.
Dissecting Sun Tzu's original text, extracting his core wisdom, and applying it to picking up women, this book teaches men how to win the battle of the sexes.
First published in 1960. Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth. These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist. Although the find was made long ago, only two or three of these pieces had been translated before. Arthur Waley here translates, whole or as extracts, twenty-six pieces, making an invaluable addition to world literature.
I'm Celibate...Get Me Out Of Here! is the hysterically funny, true story of Jo Elliott, a solvent, successful and single 30-something from London who's looking for her ideal man. Having explored all the traditional avenues, she reluctantly looks at a dating website. "Oh god. That's for freaks and weirdos!", she declares, before signing up. This book is a frank, fiesty, laugh out loud account of Jo's subsequent encounters. She tells it like it is - and it ain't pretty! From a never ending succession of messages from men with fake pictures and names like Big_Cock_4U, to dull dates with blokes who've lied about everything (especially their height). Not to mention custard pies and the angry wife she didn't know existed. Hilarious REAL emails Jo received show how digital-cupid can get it SO wrong, but equally how easy it is to fall in love with someone you've never even met over the keyboard.
Chances are, you've heard about Internet dating from a friend, or an online banner ad has caught your eye. If you've given online dating a passing consideration, you may have some fears from all those graphic horror stories that jar your senses - and your sensibilities.
