"Never Lean Too Far Over a Cliff and Other Life Lessons Learned the Hard and Hilarious Way" is a collection of crazy, true stories from the author's life . Accidents, odd situations, and weird occurrences always seem to happen to her or around her. The author uses her dark sense of humor and unique perspective to find the funny in terrible situations, offering readers a fresh perspective on life's unexpected twists.

THE MARRIAGE CARRIAGE has just arrived! Let’s climb in and take a ride. When these rhymes of rhetoric ring, then your soul will start to sing. From sunrise to sunset these jingles you will never forget!

This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice.Contributors from around the world (from India to the Netherlands and USA) grapple with ethical dilemmas and tensions, including how to: respect and learn from Indigenous values and philosophies; challenge environmental destruction; gain consent in divided communities; maintain or breach professional boundaries; and deve...

Nursing and the Experience of Illness encourages nurses to reflect on the experience of their patients, in order to improve their practice and to develop an individualised approach to care. Vivid case studies present real nursing encounters and offer a user-friendly model for independent research by the reader.This accessible introduction to phenomenology for nurses explains what has become one of the most widely used qualitative research methods within healthcare and cove...

The educational histories of mid-nineteenth century British-Métis students illuminate the transnational travels of British-Métis students and their roles in reifying and challenging British-imperial norms about race, class, and gender in the British Empire. In this paper, photographic and object-based artifacts are interwoven with family correspondence and other archival documents to explore the complexity of British-Métis children’s life stories and the extensive connections between elite...

Volume 30 of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association carries on the tradition of publishing articles based on the best papers presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association. It also introduces what the editors hope will become a new tradition of sharing the annual meeting’s keynote address, and restores an earlier practice of assembling papers under a common theme. By opening with a presidential address, this issue follows a convention that has been in pl...

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates_empirically_that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and ...

A new approach to using walking to heal emotional trauma and bring forth optimal mental functioning• Explores why and how we carry emotional wounds, and how they can be healed and resolved• Shows how walking stimulates both sides of the brain to promote and restore mental health• Provides simple, yet potent, mental exercises to use while walkingOur bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness, injury, or wound. Yet our minds and hearts often suffer for years ...

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beg...

How Patients ThinkAt age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and on health professionals who refused to believe there was anything physically wrong with her. When test after test returned inconclusive results, Atkins's doctors pronounced her sym...

Chronic pain has been correctly described as the invisible crisis at the heart of contemporary life.Despite stunning advances in other areas of medical science, no similar breakthrough in the treatment of chronic pain has resulted from an exclusive focus on the body. Dr James Alexander’s young life was redefined by a tragic car accident in his late teens, and the chronic physical and emotional trauma inspired him to become a psychologist. Now pain-free, Dr Alexander has dedicated t...

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness. How Doctors Think is ...