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Why do we behave in the ways we do, especially when it doesn’t seem to help us? This book provides answers to this question. The short answer is that it is about our coping. It is about how we try very hard to live the best way we can and that sometimes we don’t feel good about the results. We...

Concerned about the planet, but not sure what to do about it? Want to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle but don't know where to start? This informative and accessible ebook can help with practical and realistic advice covering all areas of your life from energy, fashion, cleaning, gardening, health, beauty, travel and transport.

Frances was born in the year 1384, into nobility and great wealth. The luxurious life they led in their palace, did not affect the spirituality of the family. As they were deeply devout, it should have come as no surprise that Frances, at the age of only eleven years, would ask to be allowed to enter...

Highlights of this book: Saint Joseph of Cupertino - The Flying Saint and Patron Saint of Students and Aviators - Save My Church Which is in ruin Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha - Lily of the Mohawks - - Mystic of the New World - Fruit of the Martyrs Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque - Mystic and Visionary of...

Table of Contents: Journey to Sainthood Part I Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini “We were sent here by the Holy Father...we cannot go back!” There is a time and a season... Saint Leopold Mandic Saint of Reconciliation Saint Angela Merici “I want to become a Saint, because I love Jesus.” Blessed Frederic a priest and a dream

The fourth edition of Numerical Methods Using MATLAB® provides a clear and rigorous introduction to a wide range of numerical methods that have practical applications. The authors’ approach is to integrate MATLAB® with numerical analysis in a way which adds clarity to the numerical analysis and...

The great, urgent, universal wants of mankind, in all classes of society, are food, clothing, shelter, and fuel. After these come the comforts and luxuries pertaining to the condition of those in easy circumstances. Above and beyond these animal wants, but of nearly equal importance, are those relating...

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and...

From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery,...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book combines in a single volume numerous studies concerning the use of arts and culture to enhance quality of life, health and wellbeing among older people, especially in Singapore. The bibliography covers not only research conducted in Singapore (both published and grey literature), but also...

A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life.

'She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: "Tess- say it is not true! No, it is not true!"' Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming...

In this volume, the author argues that literacy is a complex combination of various skills, not just the ability to read and write: the technology of writing, the encoding and decoding of text symbols, the interpretation of meaning, the retrieval and display systems which organize how meaning is stored...