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Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis. You'll also discover what happens when the brain doesn't work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction. You'll learn how neuroscience is working to fix these problems, and how you can build up your defenses against the most common faults of the mind. Along the way you'll find out: · Why brain training games don't prevent dementia · What it's like to remember every day of your life as if it were yesterday · Which popular psychiatric drug was created from German rocket fuel · How you might unknowingly be sabotaging your sleep Drawing on the author's popular YouTube series, 2-minute Neuroscience , this is a friendly, engaging introduction to the human brain and its quirks from the perspective of a neuroscientist--using real-life examples and the author's own eye-opening illustrations. Your brain is yours to discover! |
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A playbook on product-led strategy for software product teams There's a common strategy used by the fastest growing and most successful businesses of our time.   These companies are building their entire customer experience around their digital products, delivering software that is simple, intuitive and delightful, and that anticipates and exceeds the evolving needs of users. Product-led organizations make their products the vehicle for acquiring and retaining customers, driving growth, and influencing organizational priorities. They represent the future of business in a digital-first world. This book is meant to help you transform your company into a product-led organization, helping to drive growth for your business and advance your own career. It provides: A holistic view of the quantitative and qualitative insights teams need to make better decisions and shape better product experiences. A guide to setting goals for product success and measuring progress toward meeting them. A playbook for incorporating sales and marketing activities, service and support, as well as onboarding and education into the product Strategies for soliciting, organizing and prioritizing feedback from customers and other stakeholders; and how to use those inputs to create an effective product roadmap The Product-Led Organization: Drive Growth By Putting Product at the Center of Your Customer Experience was written by the co-founder and CEO of Pendo—a SaaS company and innovator in building software for digital product teams. The book reflects the author’s passion and dedication for sharing what it takes to build great products. |
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Challenging behavior is one of the most significant issues educators face. Though it may seem radical to use words like love, compassion, and heart when we talk about behavior and discipline, the compassionate and heartfelt words, actions, and strategies teachers employ in the classroom directly shape who students are—and who they will become. But how can teaching from the heart translate into effective supports and practices for students who exhibit challenging behavior? In From Behaving to Belonging, Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod detail how teachers can shift from a "behavior management" mindset (that punishes students for "bad" behavior or rewards students for "good" or "compliant" behavior) to an approach that supports all students—even the most challenging ones—with kindness, creativity, acceptance, and love. Causton and MacLeod's approach * Focuses on students' strengths, gifts, and talents. * Ignites students' creativity and sense of self-worth. * Ensures that students' social, emotional, and academic needs are met. * Prompts teachers to rethink challenging behavior and how they support their students. * Helps teachers identify barriers to student success in the cultural, social, and environmental landscape. * Inspires teachers to reconnect with their core values and beliefs about students and teaching. We need to transform our classrooms into places of love. To that end, this book represents a paradigm shift from a punitive mindset to a strengths-based, loving approach and encourages the radical act of creating more inclusive and caring schools. |
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L’ouvrage offre pour la première fois un panorama complet de la littérature médiévale allemande, répondant ainsi à l’intérêt croissant que suscitent aujourd’hui le Moyen Age et sa culture. Résultat d’un travail de plusieurs décennies, il reflète, avec un souci de clarté et de concision, l’état actuel des recherches les plus érudites dans ce domaine. De la poésie germanique des origines jusqu’à la Réforme, la période étudiée couvre près d’un millénaire : les auteurs en restituent la richesse foisonnante et la complexité, tout en mettant en relief les œuvres les plus marquantes. Ils s’attachent notamment à souligner les multiples relations culturelles et littéraires qui unissaient la France et l’Allemagne à cette époque. |
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Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire 'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph His colourful cast of characters have become firm favourites: the mostly mad staff at County Hall, as well as the children themselves, who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent ease. In The Heart of the Dales , we reconvene with Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School and now Gervase's wife and mother of their son, the well-named Mrs Savage and not forgetting the Queen of Clean - Connie. Gervase Phinn has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and the latest instalment to the Dale Series is heart-warming, wry and will make you laugh out loud. |
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The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D.  into their ideal job   Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration.   Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success.  They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options.   Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers.   Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including:   -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right   The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more. |
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America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In How to Write Short , Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, How to Write Short guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters. |
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I NO ACCOUNT OF Ayn Rand's (1905-1982) sprawling, morally incoherent end-of-the-world story Atlas Shrugged (1957) (3) can begin elsewhere than in an acknowledgment of the way in which the novel's fascinating spectacle can draw a reader in despite himself. This spectacle is the book's secret, which the present essay aims to investigate. |
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The ultimate handbook for designers, students, even educators, The Pocket Universal Methods of Design is armed with 100 principles of design knowledge to keep your team sharp. This handy, pocket-version of the Universal Methods of Design  provides the same thorough and critical presentation of 100 research methods , synthesis/analysis techniques , and research deliverables for human centered design. And now it’s delivered in a concise, accessible format that fits in any bag or purse! Each method of research is distilled down to its most powerful essence , in a format that will help design teams select and implement the most credible research methods best suited to their design culture within the constraints of their projects. This valuable guide:Dismantles the myth that user research methods are complicated, expensive, and time-consumingCreates a shared meaning for cross-disciplinary design teamsIllustrates methods with compelling visualizations and case studiesCharacterizes each method at a glanceDon't wait to get your team on the same page and designing in a completely new, more effective way!  |
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Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.  Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book,  Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion . Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities.  Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the  Mercury News  and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004. |
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Find out how to convert a conventional car to battery power and drive for pennies a day! Fully documented, with lots of pictures and diagrams, this easy to read manual chronicles the conversion of a Fiat 850 sports car to electric power. This concise and no nonsense build manual explains the various key components necessary convert an old gas-guzzler to battery power. The manual also includes the best sources for component parts. |
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In July 2015, two boys approximately 14 years old went out of the Jupiter inlet and were never seen again. Distressed at this, I offered this "Safe Boating Pocket Guide" ebook, free. I now set a small fee just to keep tabs of numbers read. This is a comprehensive safe boating course that includes all Coast Guard regulations. Carry the Ebook on your smart phone for quick and easy access and get the answers you need, anytime, anywhere, just by utilizing the specifically designed Table of Contents. Refresh your knowledge, know the rules and when in doubt, go to your phone. Written in simple to comprehend terminology for persons of all ages. If you are a boater, then this is "must read information." You'll also get lots of tips and info that you may not have expected. My background includes eight years in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, followed by fifteen years as a Master Near Coastal 100 Ton Boat Captain. |
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La collection « Fichebook » vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir du roman Pars vite et reviens tard de Fred Vargas grâce à une fiche de lecture aussi complète que détaillée.  La rédaction, claire et accessible, a été confiée à un spécialiste universitaire.  Notre travail éditorial vous offre un grand confort de lecture, spécialement développé pour la lecture numérique. Cette fiche de lecture répond à une charte qualité mise en place par une équipe d’enseignants.  Ce livre numérique contient :  - Un sommaire dynamique  - La biographie de Fred Vargas  - La présentation de l’œuvre  - Le résumé détaillé (chapitre par chapitre)  - Les raisons du succès  - Les thèmes principaux  - L'étude du mouvement littéraire de l’auteur |
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Dernier survivant des grands voyous qui ont tenu le haut du pavé dans les années 1970-1980, Gérard Fauré a décidé de parler. Le film de sa vie dépasse toutes les fictions. Né au Maroc d’un père officier français et d’une mère berbère, il s’initie au trafic sur le port de Tanger et devient contrebandier. En Espagne, il s’associe avec des anciens de l’OAS pour commettre hold-up et trafic de drogue. Il côtoie la French Connection et développe une organisation criminelle aux Pays-Bas avec le parrain marseillais Gaëtan Zampa. À Paris, il devient dans les années 1980 le « prince de la cocaïne », fournisseur préféré du show-biz, qu’il reçoit dans un hôtel particulier pour des fêtes nocturnes très privées. Sa chute en 1986 provoque bien des angoisses et tractations en coulisses dans le Bottin mondain. Actrices vedettes, mannequins, princesses, animateurs télé, stars d’Hollywood : Gérard Fauré porte avec le recul un regard cruel sur les vices des stars dont il fut le fournisseur privilégié et le compagnon des nuits parisiennes et cannoises. Il évoque également les politiques de haut niveau qui furent ses clients, tout en réclamant publiquement que l’on durcisse la lutte contre la drogue. Il avoue enfin les liens troubles du Milieu avec le SAC (Service d’Action civique) de l’époque Pasqua et les « contrats » d’assassinats réalisés sur commande pour des objectifs politiques. Un témoignage unique et détonant ! |
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Ostracisés, surmédicamentés, craints, dépouillés de leur humanité, bienvenue dans le jardin secret des schizophrènes. Dans cet ouvrage émouvant, Susan Doherty nous invite à la suivre dans les couloirs de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale Douglas, allées d'un étrange jardin de fantômes qu'elle a arpentées des années durant. On y croise des âmes égarées qui luttent éperdument pour ne pas perdre pied tout à fait. L'auteure entrelace leurs histoires avec celle de Caroline, petite fille enjouée qui, à l'adolescence, a développé une sévère schizophrénie. Chaque page éveille en nous révolte et compassion, nous forçant à mettre l'un après l'autre nos préjugés aux rebuts. Voilà un jardin qu'il est essentiel de fréquenter, de soigner, de protéger. Une œuvre lumineuse qui nous chamboule pour le meilleur, et qui nous fait oublier le pire. |
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The Ottawa Anesthesia Primer is an essential primary text for medical students and residents completing a rotation in anesthesia. Written by over 40 authors and edited by Dr. Patrick Sullivan, the Ottawa Anesthesia Primer updates their previous popular text entitled Anesthesia for Medical Students . General and specific learning objectives have been carefully identified and can be tailored to the students unique needs during their rotation. In addition, each chapter begins with learning objectives and key points for the student. Throughout the text, emphasis has been given to knowledge, procedures and skills with a focus on preoperative assessment, securing intravenous access, airway management, basic resuscitation skills, acute pain management and the safe use of local anesthetics. Additionally, within the Primer’s 26 chapters, anesthesiologists, anesthesia residents and physicians from other specialties will find valuable discussions on advanced topics including management of the difficult airway, regional anesthesia, acute pain, chronic pain, obstetrical anesthesia, management of the circulation and adult and neonatal resuscitation to name just a few. The revised text was renamed the Ottawa Anesthesia Primer recognizing that the content is suitable for medical care providers practicing in a wide variety of roles. Accompanying videos and hyperlinks to reference articles provide clinicians with immediate access to up-to-date landmark articles. The reader has the option of viewing the Primer in a print or electronic format. The electronic ePrimer is available as an eBook and as an ePub version for viewing on other electronic readers. The ePrimer offers URL links, video links, and expanded case problem discussions. Selected URL addresses for additional resources are listed in the printed version of the Primer . |
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The FOCUS on Self-Regulation resource uses activities and games to teach body-based and social-emotional strategies to children. The first section of the resource provides the theoretical background on self-regulation skills, developmental domains, the stress response and the role of the co-regulator. The second section introduces 12 Concepts in Action using 31 flexible activities to build self-awareness, expand emotional vocabulary, and learn Tools to support regulation. The keystone of this resource is the unique FOCUS Sequence: a quick and engaging sequence of research-based activities that can be done by anyone, anywhere, anytime in about 5 minutes! Access to digital supporting materials included within the eBook. For PERSONAL use only. |
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Canadian OB/GYN, women's health advocate and New York Times columnist Dr. Jen Gunter: The Vagina Bible is a comprehensive, accessible antidote to the maelstrom of misinformation around female sexual health, and the ultimate guide to everything a person needs to know about the vagina and vulva. We are well into the twenty-first century and have access to more information than ever before, yet many people don't know that a vagina is self-cleaning, condoms should be used with a lubricant, eating sugar doesn't cause a yeast infection, and sex shouldn't be painful. As a physician with twenty-five years of clinical experience, Dr. Jen Gunter is all too familiar with the fears, fallacies and misinformation that abound about vaginal health. On Twitter, she hilariously exposes unscientific wellness advice and debunks potentially harmful and stunningly unnecessary products from "vagina profiteers." Dr. Gunter knows the questions women (and men) have about female sexual health, and in The Vagina Bible , she answers them all.      For:   •  the sixteen-year-old trying to figure out tampons;   •   the twenty-six-year-old wondering how to avoid a UTI;   •  the thirty-six-year-old trans woman navigating her new anatomy;   •  the forty-six-year-old worried about the changing appearance of her vulva;   •  the fifty-six-year-old looking into the HPV vaccine for her daughter (and maybe herself);   •  the sixty-six-year-old experiencing painful sex; The Vagina Bible offers a repository of accurate information based on science, and delivered with wit and wisdom. This is the fact-based, inclusive, and empowering guide you deserve to advocate for your own body. |
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L’objectif premier de ce guide est de faciliter le choix et l’application du bon pansement pour les lésions cutanées les plus fréquemment rencontrées à l’urgence lorsque l’infirmière ou le médecin sont au chevet du patient. |
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Since 2001, The Emergency Department Echo Course and The EDE 2 Course have taught EDE (pronounced “Eddie”) to over 10000 physicians worldwide, including half of the Canadian emergency medicine workforce.  The most distinctive aspect of The EDE Courses has been the focus on image generation. When clinicians first began investigating the possibility of using ultrasound themselves, a big secret was concealed from them: image interpretation is easy. The real challenge is image generation: putting the image on the screen. Before The EDE Courses, physicians learned image generation mostly by trial and error. EDE brought a rigorous methodology to the scanning of each area of the body, dramatically reducing the time needed to master this new skill.   "Essentials of Point-of-Care Ultrasound" combines The EDE Course manuals which have been written and re-written for over a decade to give health-care providers the clearest and most concise approach to bedside ultrasound.  This “how-to” guide contains over 700 illustrations, photos, and ultrasound images which show you how to perform the scan and how to recognize positive and negatives images. As well, the book focuses on how you can incorporate your findings into your clinical decision-making. The book also contains an approach to ultrasound guidance for several commonly performed procedures. This eBook version adds the following functionalities: over 40 videos, slideshows, quizzes, reference hyperlinks to Pub Med, links to EDE blog content, an interactive glossary, chapter summaries, study cards and reader-defined notes, plus the navigation for which eBooks are famous. |
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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done.” –Farheed Zakaria Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed. |
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The classic guide that helps you communicate your thoughts clearly, concisely, and effectively. Essential for every professional, from entry level to the executive suite, Writing that Works includes advice on all aspects of written communication—including business memos, letters, reports, speeches and resumes, and e-mail—and offers insights into political correctness and tips for using non-biased language that won’t compromise your message. Concise and easy-to-use, Writing that Works features an accessible, at-a-glance style, full of bulleted "tips" and specific examples of good vs. bad writing. With dozens of samples and useful tips for composition, Writing That Works will show you how to improve anything you write: E-mails, memos and letters that get read—and get actionProposals, recommendations, and presentations that sell ideasPlans and reports that get things doneFund-raising and sales letters that produce resultsResumes and letters that lead to interviewsSpeeches that make a point And much more. |
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Ray Bradbury was a prolific and influential writer of the 20th century. Ray Bradbury: On Writing is a manifesto of Bradbury's writing philosophy. It is a collection of speeches on the art and process of writing, delivered in Bradbury's entertaining, witty, and candid style.  Topics include: • processes for developing ideas • the 'hygiene' of writing • how a bad writer becomes good writer • developing your enthusiasms • how to take in inspiration • where to find your voice • and more |
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Is your closet jam-packed and yet you have absolutely nothing to wear? Can you describe your personal style in one sentence? If someone grabbed a random piece from your closet right now, how likely is it that it would be something you love and wear regularly? With so many style and shopping options, it can be difficult to create a streamlined closet of pieces that can be worn easily and confidently. In The Curated Closet , style writer Anuschka Rees presents a fascinatingly strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with style and shopping strategies that women can use every day. Using The Curated Closet method, you’ll learn to: • Shop smarter and more selectively • Make the most of your budget • Master outfit formulas and color palettes • Tweak your wardrobe for work • Assess garment fit and quality like a pro • Curate a closet of fewer, better pieces Including useful infographics, charts, and activities, as well as beautiful fashion photography,  The Curated Closet  is the ultimate practical guide to authentic and unique style. |
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Code Criminel Canadien Edition 2018 Mise à jour le 19 février 2018 La Bibliothèque Juridique présente le texte officiel du Code Criminel Canadien, dans son intégralité. Le livre numérique contient: - Le texte intégral du Code Criminel Canadien - Une table des matières dynamique contenant toutes les sections du code permettant une navigation précise - Des tables des matières en introduction pour faciliter la vue d'ensemble de la trame - Une mise en page soignée pour chaque article |
