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Healthy ageing can lead to declines in both perceptual and cognitive functions. Impaired perception, such as that resulting from hearing loss or reduced visual or tactile resolution, increases demands on ‘higher-level’ cognitive functions to cope or compensate. It is possible, for example, to use focused attention to overcome perceptual limitations. Unfortunately, cognitive functions also decline in old age. This can mean that perceptual impairments are exacerbated by cognitive decline, and vice versa, but also means that interventions aimed at one type of decline can lead to improvements in the other. Just as improved cognition can ameliorate perceptual deficits, improving the stimulus ...
Green K. Fountain Sr. was born in 1792 in North Carolina, the son of Henry Fountain and Lucretia Booth Fountain. He married Nancy Ann Lewis, the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Lewis. He later died in Alabama. Their children included Elizabeth Mahala, Martha, Elizabeth Ann, John, Frances, Henry, Lewis, Green, Harriet, Samuel, Nancy, George and William. Other localities include South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi and Ohio.
This book is a revision of a dissertation that studies three texts--Genesis 38; 1 Samuel 25; and 1 Kings 13:11-32 + Kings 12:15-20--in which the author finds examples of the literary device, mise-en-abyme ("placement of the abyss").
Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.
King Arthur's secret daughter, Rhianna Pendragon, has faced mortal danger, ice-breathing dragons and dark magic to win Excalibur, the Sword of Light. But the sword is just one of four magical Lights that she must find to restore Arthur's soul to his body and bring him back to life. Now Rhianna must head into the wilds of the North, to find the second Light, the Lance of Truth, before her evil cousin Mordred claims it. But Mordred is holding her mother Guinevere captive. Can Rhianna stay true to her quest for the Lights and save the mother she's never known, before Mordred wreaks his terrible revenge? The second book in an epic fantasy series set in the Dark Ages.
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