From a psychologist and stand-up comedian comes a practical, yet laugh-out-loud guide to embracing humor to reduce stress and live a happier, fuller life.Dr. Brian King got a degree in psychology before becoming a world-touring comic and the host of humor therapy seminars attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In this brilliant guide he presents hands-on techniques for managing stress by rewiring our brains to approach potentially difficult situations...

Dr. Brian King is a psychologist and stand-up comedian whose humor therapy seminars are attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In The Laughing Cure, King combines wit with medical research to reveal the benefits of laughter and humor on physical and emotional health.King’s language is humorous and uplifting, and his advice is backed in science. The Laughing Cure features clinical studies and interviews with some of the nation’s top doctors that prove...

In the early eighteenth century, Lochee consisted of a small community of weavers who had settled along the banks of a burn. By the late eighteenth century, such was the growth of industry in the area that, a few decades later, Lochee firm Cox Brothers’ Camperdown Works had become the largest jute factory in the world, employing some 5,000 people. This booming industry saw the local population rise, bolstered by Irish immigrants, many of whose descendants still live in the locality today. ...

Broughty Ferry has gone through many changes since its origins as a small fishing village nestled in the shadow of a fifteenth-century castle. The industrial age saw wealthy jute barons arrive and build their grand residences there, while the coming of the train saw the town become a popular destination for holidaymakers. The twentieth century and beyond has seen Broughty Ferry evolve into a popular and affluent suburb. This compilation of images follows Broughty Ferry through all of these...

Two months have passed since Wiess arrived on Orta. Having established himself as an adventurer based in the small town of Quint, life has been quite enjoyable. Tasked with traveling to the kingdom's capital city, Wiess is asked to heal a friend's mother of her paralysis. on the way there he has a run in with the last person he wanted to meet. the princess of the kingdom, Lilliana Altest. What starts as a simple meeting leads Wiess and his family into getting entangled in a violent take ov...

What does it really take to transform a broken culture?Not a new strategy. Not a reorganization. Not another all-hands meeting with a slick slide deck. It takes a leader willing to do the hard, human work of building trust, naming the truth, and sailing into uncertainty with a team that believes in the journey.Navigate: Guiding Teams Through the Voyage of Culture Change tells the story of Lucy Beag, a seasoned technology executive who joins a techn...

To say Wiess Fagan has lived a strange life is an understatement. Contracted with a succubus at the age of four. Meeting Azrael the Grim Reaper at the age of six and the deaths of his family that happened over the years on a specific day. Entering the military and being seriously wounded in battle he becomes a medical visionary in the field of cybernetics and nanotechnology. At the age of seventy-five, his old friend Azrael comes to collect his soul. though it's not for his final judgment ...

Gauguin has arrived at last and now the Yellow House can surely now be the great Studio of the South that Van Gogh had dreamed of. But – with two such volatile artists living and working under the same roof – can his vision of a united effort to create the next movement in art become a reality? This is a humorous dramatization of the famous story.

This work studies tropical island resorts, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. The author includes, but goes beyond the more commonly encountered marketing and economic analyses of resort destinations, by examining social, cultural, mythical, environmental, organizational and political dimensions.

Dundee’s official history as a burgh stretches back more than 800 years, though there is much evidence of settlement in the area long before that. The nineteenth century saw the town’s expansion into a large industrial city. Dundee suffered more than most cities in the mid-twentieth-century drive for modernisation as not only long-established buildings but parts of the ancient street pattern were swept away in large-scale demolitions in the 1960s and 1970s. At the same time, the city lost ...

What if a group of infantry soldiers simply refused to fight? That is the question at the center of the novel about three young Americans drafted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Based on actual events, experiences, and sentiments of U.S. soldiers who served in Vietnam, it's also a book that ponders a reality that could have been. A unique look into the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement that existed not only at home, but within the Army's own ranks.

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate ch...