Mindful activities are a life skill that can help children and young adults to manage stress. In this follow up to her best-selling book 'calm kids', expert and international author, Lorraine Murray, presents a range of meditation tools to help you support children and teenagers who may have additional support needs or are on the autistic spectrum.This book is ideal for educators, parents, carers and professionals; accessible for all levels of experience. It offers advice and guida...

It is almost impossible to think about Italy without recalling its Renaissance art masterpieces, its spectacular landscapes, or its widely loved cuisine. Although these combined elements hint at a united Italian culture, Italy is truly a country comprised of individual regions, each with their own identities, histories, and traditions. Readers will follow Italy’s trajectory from a land of disparate barbarian kingdoms to a republic, discovering along the way the glories of the Medici period...

At school, we believe education should touch the whole child. This includes the physical, emotional, spiritual, social and cognitive aspects of the child's life. We teach children quietness as a skill to reflect and recharge their inner lives. Lorraine Murray helped us on this journey.' -- Sheila Laing, Head Teacher. Stress and behavioural disorders are common in children, who are increasingly bombarded by marketing campaigns, faced with school and peer pressure, and able to sense the stre...

Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia share a remarkably similar trajectory on their individual paths to becoming the nations they are today. Each had ties to the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires in earlier times, all became Eastern-bloc countries in the 20th century, and all successfully emerged from Communist rule in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. These multi-layered lands—where folk traditions still exist alongside the hallmarks of modern life and th...

Although vastly different in many ways, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia together form the heart of Central Europe. Austria has historically been much more visible in European politics than either Croatia or Slovenia, but as with the latter two, it has also been a part of various alliances over the centuries. Despite that, however, all three have retained their own sense of national identity through it all, weathering the fall of Austria-Hungary, both World Wars, the collapse of Yugoslavia, ...

“When they cried for help, God heard them.” Step into the ancient tale of Exodus, where the cries of the oppressed Israelites pierce the heavens, awakening God’s boundless compassion. In Exodus 2:23, we witness the eternal truth that God heard them when they cried for help. Nevertheless, this is not just a story from the past; it is a timeless echo, echoing through the ages, urging us to heed its call. It is a call to break free from the chains of our personal Egypt, to relinquish the attr...

Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans); "self-chosen" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); "gender-related" (the Lubovitcher); "religious" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puer...

“A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami HeraldA disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love wit...

Improve your life fearlessly with this essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps—from psychologist and kaizen expert, Dr. Robert Maurer."A peaceful and simple way of handling all the difficulties in our lives. You will breathe a sign of relief as you read it!" —Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It AnywayThe philosophy is simple: Great change ...

A healthy lifestyle guru helps readers unlock new ways to relax and learn to celebrate life now instead of later.Do you remember what you did last Thursday? What about two weeks ago Monday? It’s all a big blur! Our lives are so consumed with emails, telephone calls, errands, social media, texts, and to-do lists that entire days go by without a single moment of joy.Lifestyle and wellness innovator David Romanelli (aka Yeah Dave) offers simple, immediate tips...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While she was there, she began to understand...

“Chung celebrates the introvert’s natural magnetism, loyalty, intuition, and empathy. She covers coping skills for introverts to cultivate.” —Publishers WeeklyOne third to one half of Americans are introverts in a culture that celebrates—even enforces—an ideal of extroversion and a cult of personality. Political leaders are charismatic, celebrities bask in the spotlight, and authority figures are assertive. It is no surprise that a “quiet revolution” has b...