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An increase in average life expectancy has given rise to a number of pressing health challenges for the 21st century. Age-related memory loss, whether due to a neurodegenerative condition such as Alzheimer’s disease, or as a product of the normal process of aging, is perhaps the most significant of the health problems of old age presently confronting our society. The Preservation of Memory explores non-invasive, empirically sound strategies that can be implemented to ensure long-lasting and effective retention of information. The chapters in this volume describe and evaluate both well-established and novel methods for improving and strengthening memory, for people with and without dementia...
Lifestyle medicine is a practice which adopts evidence-based lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases. The six main pillars of this specialty include physical activity, nutrition, stress resilience, cessation or risk reduction of substance use, quality sleep, and connectivity. Lifestyle Psychiatry: Through the Lens of Behavioral Medicine is grounded in the same pillars, drawing upon theories, methods, and empirical findings from health psychology and behavioral medicine. Lifestyle psychiatry is a rapidly emerging area within healthcare informed by rigorous research within the social and biological sciences, public health, and medicine. A v...
Introduces the fundamental principles of typographic theory and practice. This title offers an essential guide to the subject of typography and its role within graphic design.
She’s young, single and about to achieve her dream of creating incredible video games. But then life throws her a one-two punch: a popular streamer gives her first game a scathing review. Even worse, she finds out that same troublesome critic is now her new neighbor! A funny, sexy, and all-too-real story about gaming, memes, and social anxiety. Come for the plot, stay for the doggo.
Metrophobia, n. Fear or hatred of poetry . From urban sketches of London and warped love poems to a paean to the Boston Tea Party and a letter to an American in Afghanistan, Metrophobia establishes a poetry that is inventive, quirky and packed with humour. . Stephanie Leal's satirical verses, visual poems and prose chunks gnaw at the edges of pop culture and the everyday. Her language twists and turns in unexpected ways, revealing a bold new writer ready to 'french kiss life square in the mouth'. REVIEWS "This is a demanding, rewarding, refreshingly iconoclastic and earthy collection of poems for the way we live now." John Field, Poor Rude Lines "A searching and resourceful imagination is at work here, seeking new perspectives with vitality and insight." Penelope Shuttle. "Leal [is] playful, experimental, questioning of 'poetry' as a specialised, rarefied state enjoyed only by sensitive types, her poems with a touch of theatre and bravura" George Szirtes.
Marketing Smart is a collection of quick, easy-to-read tips on how to improve your marketing, advertising and public relations efforts. Written by marketing guru John Gumas, Marketing Smart collects years of proven techniques, industry insight and practical guidelines that you can put to use for your company right away. Increase your marketing know-how ' and your bottom line ' by Marketing Smart!
どんなに時代が揺れ動こうとも、理想とするのは心が満たされた、幸せな暮らしです。 現代が求める、そんな豊かなライフスタイルに「ジェントル」の原点・イギリスで出合いました。 今回はこの地でマインドフルな生活を楽しむ日本女性に、英国の魅力を語っていただきました。 さらには、ロンドンのフードとアートの最新情報もリポートします。 ※電子書版本與紙本雜誌的內容會有一部分不同。 有時電子書會不包含紙本上所刊載的封面或是目錄上的文字、圖片、廣告、附錄。另外,本期雜誌刊載的資訊,原則上為版權頁上所標示的出版日期當時的資訊。 ※電子書籍版は、紙の雑誌とは内容が一部異なり、表紙画像や目次に掲載している記事、画像、広告、付録が含まれない場合があります。また、本誌掲載の情報は、原則として奥付に表記している発行時のものです。
Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004--and knows firsthand their findings.
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire’s power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particular...