Given that Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ is one of the most frequently translated and read late medieval books of devotion, it is surprising that there are few studies of the work in English...
Territorial and state legislator, governor, and United States senator, Thomas Worthington was a dominant figure in early Ohio politics. This biography-originally published in 1958-describes and doc...
Neck pain is a common musculoskeletal disorder. It can be disabling, and constitutes a high health and economic burden. A large majority of neck pains are of mechanical origin. There has been a gro...
Thoracic ultrasound is now considered an essential bedside tool in respiratory medicine. A chest ultrasound is a noninvasive diagnostic exam that produces images, which used to assess the organs an...
true account of two Civil War Union soldiers in Zouave uniforms who were wounded during the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) and brought to a stone house converted into a field hospital. Whi...
Those Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving m...
In postwar Budapest, Aldó, a 42 year-old doctor who survived the concentration camp but lost his wife and children, slowly sinks into despair. One day a new patient arrives, 16- year-old Kl...
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between metacognitive beliefs and thought control strategies with test anxiety: the mediating role of perfectionism in gifted male and female...
Our thoughts originate from the inside and the outside. The battle that rages between the flesh and the Spirit is nothing compared to the everyday battle engaged in our own minds.
Baptists in the nineteenth century grew from a small, struggling denomination to the second-largest Protestant denomination in America. They constructed conventions, schools, churches, and benevole...
"[Ryle] was a beast. His sturdy frame stood well over six foot. He was an accomplished oarsman and co-captain of a cricket team. And he wasn't just athletically disciplined-he excelled in academ...
"Thoughts for Young Men," by J. C. Ryle, is a short yet passionate appeal that, a hundred years after it was written, remains relevant for today. Replete...
A collection of bite-sized discussions of topics of relevant interest in the related disciplines of neuroscience, neurology and psychiatry. What about the mystery behind the condition of anosognosi...
In 1952 Stanley L. Miller carried out the Miller-Urey experiment which showed that complex organic molecules could be synthesized from inorganic compounds. This discovery gave a huge boo...
It is a common theme in many books and films: when people get lost in a desert or a jungle and try to walk in a -straight line, they end up walking in circles. No matter how hard they tr...
There is no strict definition of unconventional computing. Being an unconventional computist is not a matter of training but thinking and living. Phenomenologically most works on unconventional ...
An insightful investigation of how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. As patients and therapists find themselves...
Where are we heading? Worldwide there are legends of an ancient catastrophic deluge that drowned all mankind except for a few survivors. Tracing the ancestry of the world from that global flood...
This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw a...