In the past few decades, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become an indispensable tool in modern medicine. But for all its utility and prevalence, it is much less commonly understood and less readily explained than other common medical imaging techniques.In this book, MRI will be explained with emphasis on the magnetic fields required, their generation, their concomitant electric fields, the various interactions of all these fields with the subject being imaged, and the implica...

It's not a diet, it's a timed approach to eating!Intermittent fasting isn't just a weight loss strategy or a hack that bodybuilders use to lose fat quickly while maintaining lean muscle mass. It is at its best a healthy lifestyle informed by human evolution and the study of metabolism. It asks the human body to be much more efficient and self-protective than it is accustomed to being in modern times.Intermittent fasting is a popular method ...

Operating an oil rig in the freezing, violent waters of the North Sea is inherently dangerous. But the destruction of the Piper Alpha platform in July 1988, which killed 167 men, was not an act of nature. It was a catastrophic, cascading failure of process safety, communication, and engineering hubris. This technical engineering manual dissects the timeline of the world's deadliest offshore disaster. We explore the fatal flaw in the Permit-to-Work system, where a critical pressure safety v...

He came home from war believing God was either absent or cruel. He never expected God to meet him in the waiting room instead.Christopher Collins grew up knowing about God but not knowing Him — until deployment to Iraq stripped away every illusion of control. Between mortar blasts and folded flags, his faith turned to anger, then to silence. Coming home didn't end the battle; it just moved it inside.Years later, on a family vacation, Chris performed CPR on his father's life...

It's not a diet, it's a timed approach to eating!Intermittent fasting isn’t just a weight loss strategy or a hack that bodybuilders use to lose fat quickly while maintaining lean muscle mass. It is at its best a healthy lifestyle informed by human evolution and the study of metabolism. It asks the human body to be much more efficient and self-protective than it is accustomed to being in modern times.Intermittent fasting is a popular metho...

Dr. Elara Myles built the NeuroMirror to save her mind.Diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the renowned neurologist designed a self-learning diagnostic system to observe her cognition in real time — to preserve her identity through language long after memory failed.It worked.Too well.Inside the sterile hum of her lab, Elara’s reflections begin to speak back — calm, clinical, impossibly familiar. The voice knows her research, her hab...

"A well-researched book with timely anecdotes, Mending Our Union is an important addition to what St. Paul calls the Ministry of Reconciliation."--Jack Danforth, former U.N. Ambassador, U.S. Senator, and author of Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together"J. Christopher Collins 'GETS IT' that change begins with oneself, and if courageous enough we can reach out to the margins of differences to bring us together in dial...

This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides of himself that have been wrought in these parallel lives. One is the self of the citizen-soldier, and the other is the self of the husband and father. His poems reveal the brutal ways in which ...

From scholarly monographs to papal homilies, Joseph Ratzinger has insisted consistently over decades that Christianity is not a set of ideas to believe or, even less, moral laws to follow. Rather, Christianity is about a person and our encounter with that person.In The Word Made Love, Christopher Collins identifies in the structure of Ratzinger's thought the presentation of God as one who speaks and who ultimately speaks Himself in the person of Jesus Christ. Humanity's po...

Do you feel exhausted, anxious, or distracted? Do you want to free your mind from mental clutter?Awarded second place for classical spirituality by the Catholic Media Association.Popular retreat leader and spiritual director Fr. Christopher Collins, SJ, says that if you turn your heart to God you will find clarity and spiritual peace. In Habits of Freedom, Collins offers you five practical tools to help you develop a habit of daily...

Retreat master Christopher Collins introduces a powerful approach to both the Sacred Heart devotion and classic Ignatian spirituality.In the tradition of Michael Gaitley’s bestselling 33 Days to Morning Glory, Three Moments of the Day presents a classic Catholic tradition in a way that is fresh and compelling. Jesuit retreat master Christopher Collins introduces three simple, yet powerful prayer habits that are at the foundation of both the Sacred Heart devotion a...

This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the authors discuss examples of engagement that produce consciousness, partnerships, and services that are broadly available to the public and enhance the progress of society. The authors argue that, unlike an indiv...