The People Who Change Us Show Up in Surprising WaysSome people enter our lives for only a moment. Others stay for years. Few realize the marks they leave behind.Fingerprints on My Soul follows a colorful cast of accidental mentors (a prostitute, a jailhouse philosopher, a dolphin named 232) who each left their fingerprint on neuroscientist Nick Hall’s life without meaning to. By the end, you may find yourself reflecting on your own unplanned life a...

Do you want to be more alert? Do you experience symptoms that have no obvious cause? Discover why countless health problems may have inflammation as a common denominator. Learn about the link between allergy and suicide and how too much immunity can trigger depression and fatigue Heart disease and cancer are also linked with too much immunity in the form of inflammation. But too little immunity can result in infection. This book will provide a clear understanding of how t...

What's Your Excuse?Life becomes complicated when you realize that the motivation to start or delay a task is a tug-of-war between positive and negative emotions. Don’t blame lack of willpower, laziness, or low motivation if you aren’t achieving your goals.Motivation is not a skill. Like a muscle, it’s subject to fatigue when stretched. That’s why fascinating research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed another reason you may feel paralyzed to...

In Winning the Stress Challenge, you will: Learn the ways stress can trigger illness and sap your motivation. Discover how to counter stress by taking control of emotions. Learn how touch, aromas, and balanced breathing can counter stress. Learn a stress-recovery workout that will train you to automatically overcome stress. Learn techniques for dealing with toxic relationships.

The brain likes the familiar, and that includes your body weight, even though it may not be healthy. This book, I Know How to Lose Weight so Why Can't I Keep It Off?, describes the biological obstacles that can make it extremely difficult to keep those lost pounds from coming back as your body fights to regain its comfort zone. Understanding how it all works is the first step in achieving your wellness goals. With this understanding, you'll realize there are ways ...

This unique guide to teaching English Language empowers teachers to lead a successful course that will encourage students to be independent and analytical linguists. Covering all areas of linguistic investigation across different exam board specifications and rooted in theoretical perspectives, this accessible text is underpinned by years of teaching experience and is full of practical ideas for classroom activities.Now in its third edition, this bestselling title has been fully up...

Millions of people set goals every year, only to fall short of achieving them (if they ever begin at all) over and over again. There are scores of books on how to set goals, but few if any that deal what to do when your best laid plans never materialize. In this cutting-edge book by Dr. Nick Hall, I Know How to Set Goals, So Why Don't I Achieve Them?, you'll learn the latest in neuroscience and psychology on how to make sure you reach every goal you set. In order ...

“Our prayer for you, as you make your way through this book, is that your life would be the next one changed. . . . Jesus really does change everything. Whatever you need ‘reset’ in your life can be changed here and now, today.”—From the book’s foreword#JesusChangesEverything#JesusIsTheResetLet Jesus Be Your ResetDo you want to make a difference with your life, but you’re having trouble moving on from your past? “Follow me,” ...

Jesus is the Reset is a 64 page booklet. Look for the complete book, Reset: Jesus Changes Everything also by Nick Hall.**"Each one of us has given our lives for the very message embodied in these pages, which is that Jesus really does change everything.” –Josh McDowell, Luis Palau, and Ravi Zacharias (from the foreword of Reset: Jesus Changes Everything)Do you ever wish life had a reset button li...

From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television. From late 1920s silent features to the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s and beyond, the book de...

Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar is an easily accessible, practical guide full of ideas to support teachers in making the learning of grammar a natural part of developing their students as writers and as readers. Written for those teaching years 5,6,7 and 8, the authors’ approach concentrates on the individual needs of students rather than of a year group as a whole.Split into two main sections, the first looks at creative ways of exploring grammar and includes more...

Stress. It can harm you or help you. Pull you down or propel you forward. Stress is one of the greatest mental health challenges of our day. How you handle stress may be the deciding factor of success in your personal and professional life.Did you know not all stress is bad? Research reveals an Optimal Stress Zone where you will not simply survive, but thrive! Grounded in science, The Stress Recovery Effect equips you with proven strategies to bounce back from stress’s negative eff...