The Life Journal is a book for anyone seeking change. Whatever your circumstances, whatever challenges you may be facing, and whatever your dreams and aspirations, bringing about significant and lasting change requires nothing more than a notepad and pen. In this remarkable book, you'll learn how - using nothing more than a notepad and pen - you can: - Improve your memory by a factor of 7! - Achieve significantly higher grade point averages at school and college! - Boost performance and productivity at work by 20-30%! - Alleviate pain by up to 47%! - Achieve 2x more effective and sustained weight loss and - Increase the likelihood of you reaching your life goals by 50%! In addition, you'll discover how and why keeping a life journal can completely transform your physical health and wellbeing. Clinical studies have demonstrated that specific journal writing techniques can lead to significant health improvements including: - improved liver function - a strengthened immune system - reduced stress hormones - reduced high blood pressure and - improved lung function Many chronic, debilitating illnesses including asthma, alcohol and drug addiction, arthritis, cancer, eating disorders, HIV infection, cystic fibrosis, chronic pain, insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and post-operative healing, have all been shown to respond positively to the techniques outlined in The Life Journal. Patients who use these methods experience alleviated symptoms, faster recovery and significant improvements to their quality of life. Drawing from the latest research, incorporating inspiring anecdotes and quotations, and containing a step-by-step practical guide with an easy-to-follow action plan, The Life Journal is both informative and uplifting. It contains a timely message inspiring and challenging readers to transform their lives and realise their dreams with nothing more than a notebook and pen.

An illustrated and guided journal for children.

A guided journal for tweens and teens.

Includes booklet entitled: Choose your own bookbinding adventure.

Both an individual's personality and well-being are important throughout their lives. This book explores the current research on links between personality predictors of well-being and social adjustment using empirical studies to suggest that their influence can vary depending on the key developmental stage.

We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in The Life of a Virus, Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology. Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley's lab, Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have for genetics and cancer research. She examines how the experimental techniques and instruments Stanley and his colleagues developed for studying TMV were generalized not just to other labs working on TMV, but also to research on other diseases such as poliomyelitis and influenza and to studies of genes and cell organelles. The great success of research on TMV also helped justify increased spending on biomedical research in the postwar years (partly through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis's March of Dimes)—a funding priority that has continued to this day.

This study of John Calvin's ecclesiology argues that Calvin's idea of the twofold identity of the Church--its spiritual identity as the body of Christ and its functional identity as the mother of all believers--is closely related to his understanding of Christian identity and life, which are initiated and maintained by the grace of the triune God. The anthropological basis of Calvin's idea of the Church has not been examined fully, even though Calvin presents the important concepts of his ecclesiology in light of his anthropological ideas. This study offers an overall evaluation for Calvin's ecclesiology, arguing that it is ultimately his pastoral concern for the Christian and the Church under affliction that both governs his theological understanding of the Church and shapes his proposals for establishing and sustaining the life of the Church in the world.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

The rubric "Quality of Life" first came to the explicit attention of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement about its definition, or the manner in which it should be evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life, this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies, especially in health policy & health economics. The importance of individual quality of life has been neglected, in part because of a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a meaningful method of measuring individual variables. It is a fundamental belief of the editors of this book that the primary focus of quality of life is & must continue to be the individual, who alone can define it & assess its changing personal significances. The individual perspective is of vital importance not only to patients but to their doctors too, & is more & more frequently proposed as the most meaningful measure of outcome in clinical research, especially in non-remitting or chronic conditions. Workers who wish to consider wider aspects of influences on the illnesses suffered by individuals & the health care that they receive will find much to stimulate them in the methods of documentation proposed in this book. Those mainly concerned with population samples rather than individuals may also find the sensitive methods of investigation proposed here not only to be applicable to their own areas of interest, but also rewarding in perhaps unexpected ways.