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Transforming Practices
Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This book examines how lawyers can find deeper meaning in their work, practice more compassionately, and discover enjoyment in what they do, all by developing a greater awareness for their inner lives. Filled with inspiring profiles of lawyers who have successfully changed their work habits and who have...
Diabetes Weight Loss: Week by Week
A Safe, Effective Method for Losing Weight and Improving Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Diabetes Weight Loss-Week by Week guides the overweight person with diabetes through the steps to lasting weight loss, better health, and perhaps even improved blood glucose control. The reader will learn to set reasonable goals; make better choices in restaurants, the grocery store, and the kitchen;...
Beyond Smart
Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Everyone is familiar with "IQ"—intelligence quotient. Most lawyers put their IQ scores up there with their SAT and LSAT scores as generally acknowledged evidence of their competence. But what is your emotional intelligence quotient? And why should you care?
“Emotional intelligence”...
Raising Twins
Parenting Multiples from Pregnancy Through the School Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Even with years working as a pediatrician, Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP, was nervous about what lay ahead when she was told she was pregnant with twins. Now, several years into parenting her twin boys, Dr Flais is sharing her wisdom and experience as a mom and her expertise as a doctor to help other...
Living with Heritage in Cairo
Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable....
by Gail Dexter Lord, Ngaire Blankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time.Soft power is the exercise of influence through attraction, persuasion, and agenda-setting rather than military or economic coercion.Thirteen...
How to Conduct a Comprehensive Medication Review: A Guidebook for Pharmacists
A Guidebook for Pharmacists
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
The medication therapy management (MTM) process gives pharmacists an opportunity to work directly with patients to optimize their medication use. A key component of MTM is the comprehensive medication review (CMR). This guidebook provides pharmacists with a detailed description of each step in the...
Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring
A User's Guide to Effective Diabetes Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A diabetes diagnosis no longer means giving up an active life. New technology, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors, can help people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes stay active and flexible and maintain healthy attitudes and lifestyles. Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...
Understanding Cairo
The Logic of a City Out of Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies...
Cairo Contested
Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but...
Stress-Free Diabetes
Your Guide to Health and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Reduce stress and its harmful complications to your disease
Diabetes is a stressful disease and only adds stress to our busy lives. Prolonged stress can cause serious and extensive harm to our hearts, kidneys, eyes, nerves, and mental well-being. Learning to manage stress well will help you...
Freedom for All
An Attorney’s Guide to Fighting Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Human trafficking is the reprehensible practice of physically or psychologically compelling an individual to work or provide commercial sexual services. An estimated 21-30 million people are currently enslaved worldwide, with fewer than one percent of these individuals ever identified. Attorneys have...
Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt
On the Peripheries of Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Little is known about Egypt's Gypsies, called Dom by scholars, but variously referred to by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi or Hanagra, depending on their location. Moreover, most Egyptians are oblivious to the fact that there are today large numbers of Gypsies dispersed from the outskirts of villages...