Discipline is a concept that refers to the training and behavior of a person to follow rules, standards, or guidelines in a particular area of activity or pursuit. It is the practice of training oneself to follow a particular set of rules, standards, or guidelines in order to achieve a goal or achieve excellence in a particular area. Discipline can be applied in many different areas of life, including work, school, sports, and personal relationships.There are many different approac...

Behavioral mind control is a term that is sometimes used to describe techniques or methods that are intended to manipulate or influence the thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors of an individual or group in a manipulative or deceptive manner. It is important to note that there is no scientific evidence to support the existence of a specific technique or method that can be reliably used to control the thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors of another person.There are, however, various techniques...

The Canadian legal system is broken, and perhaps no other lawyer epitomizes that more than Ottawa lawyer John Summers.What can be said of a lawyer who takes money from an undisclosed source that exploits a disoriented elderly man with diabetes and chronic high blood pressure to embolden his abuse of his wife? This is a man so disoriented that he has run through stop signs when driving, drifted between lanes on an urban expressway, and become confused as to his location in both driv...

After a prolonged battle with a strange sleep disorder, Philip Stokes becomes one of the patients at IRIS - International Research Institute of Sleep. He comes to realize even this exclusive institution doesn't have all the answers, and sometimes, its highly capable specialists must rely on unconventional expertise to solve their patients' problems.

'Mixed ecology' is a term use to describe how traditional parishes co-exist with fresh expressions, church plants and pioneer ministries.Ed Olsworth-Peter explores what an integrated mixed ecology of Church looks like in a post pandemic world. As society begins to come to terms with the cultural and financial impacts of the last couple of years, the way we meet as church and how we reach out to those within our communities needs to be reconsidered.The Churc...

Doctors, including psychiatrists, prescribe antidepressants, neuroleptics ("antipsychotics"), mood stabilizers, tranquilizers and psychostimulants all over the world, and, in most cases, without providing information about the risks of taking them and problems when stopping, for example, adverse effects, tolerance formation, bodily and psychological dependence and withdrawal symptoms. Nor they tell people about ways to avoid or minimize the risks. +++ This volume presents a collaboration o...

Was the “first” UFO abduction the result of a genuine alien encounter or the product of some well-primed imaginations?September 1961: Near Indian Head, New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill have a disturbing encounter with a UFO while driving home from a short vacation. Later, under hypnosis, the couple recall having been abducted by aliens.October 1966: John Fuller’s book, The Interrupted Journey, based on the Hills’ story, is published, and becomes an imm...

Music theory need not be dreary! Edly's Music Theory for Practical People Level 2 is the second in a two-part e-series of the well-loved paperback, picking up where Level 1 leaves off, with a bit of review for good measure. Its clear and friendly writing and wry humor, coupled with fun illustrations throughout, makes the topic that music students often think of as dry and boring, into something approachable, attainable, and yes, even enjoyable. For players of all instruments and singers, i...

Ed Tarkington's debut novel draws you into a small-town American Gothic story of coming-of-age, brotherhood, and family fealty, first love, scandal, and murder. In Virginia in the 1930s, 6-year-old Rocky lives in awe of Paul, his juvenile delinquent older brother, until Paul disappears with his delicate girlfriend Leigh. Nine years later we find a teenage Rocky discovering first love (and first sex) with the neighbors' daughter, trying to come into his own, discovering his own talents, whe...

This book outlines a cutting-edge form of program delivery which the authors term SIP-Form or Strategic Integrated Program delivery. Using the Melbourne Level Crossing Removal Program (LXRP), consisting of the removal of 85 dangerous level crossings throughout metropolitan Melbourne, including rail station upgrades, signalling and track work, and other associated capital works, as an exemplar, the book sets out four features that the authors argue define the SIP-form concept as follows:

Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (translated in English as 'Scattered Rhymes') is a collection of 14th century poems famed for their deep exploration of love, grief, spirituality and nature. Written over the course of forty years (approximately between 1328-1368), this collection includes 317 sonnets, 29 canzoni, 9 sestine, 4 madrigals and 7 ballate.These Scattered Rhymes almost always return to Laura, a women who Petrarch loves deeply, whom he first saw on...

Promoting Effective Group Work in the Primary Classroom, 2nd ed. is designed to enhance teachers’ and teaching assistants’ confidence in engaging their children in effective group work, allowing for more active participation, more on-task focus and higher levels of achievement.This accessible second edition is packed full of valuable strategies for teachers and fun activities for children, offering guidance on how to create an inclusive and supportive classroom by developi...