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Margaret Overton's Hope for a Cool Pillow is a passionate argument for planning end-of-life care. As physician, daughter and student of American health care, Overton pulls from all corners, showing us the emotional, financial and physical costs of not being prepared. Her daily rounds reveal harrowing consequences, her studies at Harvard highlight the industry's limits, and her own aging parents make her case universal. Deeply felt, frankly told, this book will challenge you–and then help you–make your own choices about end-of-life care.
Kama
Kama is a young woman living in a Viking settlement midway between Constantinople and southern Denmark in 900 AD. Her father is the son of King Gnupa, her mother a former slave. Tragic events set Kama on a journey to fulfill her destiny in Hedeby. Crossing the Baltic Sea to reach her grandmother, Queen Astrid, she heroically withstands the brutal laws and rites that govern and tyrannize women. KAMA is not a historical novel, although many aspects are true-including the ritual slaying of slave girls.
Devotion
An excellent choice for book clubs: A novel of intergenerational marriage and the lingering ripples of Old World values, with unique Brooklyn-Midwest settings, by an accomplished essayist/novelist.
The Marble Army
An intimate family epic that's also a primer on modern Brazil – with strong headline ties to the Rio 2016 Olympics and the epicenter of the Ziko virus. This lyrical novel lends deep-felt context on Brazil's place on the current world stage.
Meaningful Living Across the Lifespan
‘Meaningful Living across the Lifespan is an important book for the 21st Century.Educators, students and the general public will find much to ponder in the discussions of Victor Frankl and other ideas about meaning and how meaning is connected with occupation broadly defined as all human activity. Whereas the first parts of this book are theoretical, the final parts offer a detailed guide for practical action targeted to occupational therapists and occupational scientists. This is an important textbook for those who are concerned with occupation-based practice.’ Elizabeth Townsend, PhD, Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University Canada
‘This book by the brilliant team of Ikiugu and Pollard takes an occupational lens to the problem of how human beings achieve meaningful lives, given the challenges they face as individuals and in communities over time. A magisterial rethinking in occupational terms of social science and behavioral science,politics and the humanities, Meaningful Living across the Lifespan is a coming of age story for occupational therapy and occupational science. This is a book to help the world’s 350,000 occupational therapists—and generations of students—to expand and justify practice for more humane and sustainable lifestyles for all people and their cultures.’ Gelya Frank, Ph.D., Professor, Mrs. T. H. Chan Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California
Occupational therapy and occupational science are based on the basic idea that participation in meaningful occupations is essential for health and a sense of well-being.However, there is no agreement regarding what constitutes meaningful occupation, or exactly how participation in meaningful occupation works to produce good health and a sense of well-being. In this book we attempt to bridge the gap between the postulation that meaningful occupations are related to health and a sense of well-being, and an understanding of how people use meaningful occupations to create and to discover meaning in their lives. Key topics in the book are:
· An understanding of meaningfulness from multiple perspectives
· Exploration of how people search for meaning throughout their lives using the analogy o fthe quest for meaning as a life-long journey
· Examination of how occupations are used to help people create and discover meaning at different stages in this life-long journey
· Illustration of a step-by-step application of a theoretical conceptual practice model that can be used to guide people in examining their lives and using occupations to optimize meaning in their lives
· Some thoughts about how occupational therapists/scientists can use occupation-based interventions not only to help people optimize meaning in their lives, but also to address the outstanding global problems of our times
This book is an important resource for occupational therapists and scientists who really want to understand meaningful occupations both conceptually and operationally.
This book is the first in the new series Critical Studies in Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science
Rainforest Asylum
Malaysian psychiatric services and policy show some similar developments to those of the West. Yet much of the rhetoric that has informed these changes internationally have yet to be fully embraced in a modern, industrialised nation seeking to develop services congruent with the complex and rich diversity of ethnicity, culture and geography in the region.
The relevance of this unique and extensive ethnographic study is that it captures the fascinating and otherwise lost voices of Malaysian service users, in a cultural context where a scientific, positivistic discourse prevails.
However, its aims are more far reaching in that while providing an account that straddles the fault lines of both medical sociology and medical anthropology, it also critically engages with intriguing historiographic accounts of imperial and colonial psychiatry. These serve to illuminate the ideologies and practices underpinning the colonial psychiatric mission across the nineteenth century in Asia and Africa, and which today hold identifiable influences, both for good and ill, in contemporary psychiatric services in post-colonial nations, such as Malaysia. As such this book will appeal not only to social scientists but also to mental health professions working with a culturally diverse client base.
Get More
One of the largest challenges facing youth sports today is the lack of sufficiently trained athletic coaches. Studies report that less than 1/3 of coaches have any training in sports skills, tactics and motivational techniques. In his new book Get More, award-winning coach Joby Slay lays out the groundwork for equipping coaches in the fundamentals of their craft. “The difficulty in our society in training effective motivational techniques,” says Slay, “is the complexity of the current motivational processes or educational platforms. They require a significant investment of time, energy, and money that the average youth coach just can’t spare.” Slay has put together a formula in Get More that is simple to teach and easy to apply for a winning motivational coaching style. The book organizes these winning principles so that coaches can apply his simple formula with any team. With his effective motivational formula, a player’s talents and potential are empowered with new self-confidence to take initiative, to do more, be more, get more and to fuel their creativity, imagination, and passion, creating greater momentum and motivation. Whether a new coach or a 30-year veteran, the GET MOR3EE formula will help every coach to improve their coaching acumen, resulting in their team achieving breakthrough performance results.
Risen From Prison
Winner of Castle Quay Books and Word Guild Best New Manuscript of 2019
Chinese-Canadian pastor Bosco H. C. Poon, stage name B.O.Z, was an aspiring Canadian recording artist. Through a series of unfortunate associations and choices, he ended up involved in criminal activity, eventually becoming an accomplice to the kidnapping of a Vancouver college student in April 2004. He was arrested and entered a lengthy trial, where he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping, extortion, and conspiracy. Risen From Prison is B.O.Z’s autobiography and chronicles his early life as an immigrant to Canada; the challenges he faced in his journey from musical success to gang involvement, arrest, trial, and incarceration; his spiritual redemption; and the many miracles that occurred after his decision to follow Jesus Christ. From the top of the world to the pits of prison life and back out by the hand of God, B.O.Z calls everything that happened in his life “beyond his wildest imagination.” B.O.Z recounts this fascinating story with openness and vulnerability in the hope that others who have separated from God may find their way to Him also. His story won the Castle Quay Books and Word Guild Best New Manuscript award in 2019. His case was featured prominently in the Canadian press.
Make Way for the Christmas Hush
Make Way for the Christmas Hush is a timeless book for children of all ages. This vibrant and artfully crafted storybook knits together contemporary Christmas themes with traditional old-school charm. Readers quickly discover that the Christmas Hush is more than just a “what” but is likewise a “who.” While the lively story-telling and vibrant illustrations make this unique children’s book great fun, the true magic is in the tender reminder about the importance of quiet moments spent thinking of and caring for others and about the truest meaning of Christmas. Follow adorable little Hush on his wild journey through a panorama of festive scenarios, meeting a host of characters along the way, like Hoopla, Frenzy, and Hustle and Bustle. It’s a fun and important adventure that guides children and grown-ups alike to create a special time and place set apart just for the Christmas Hush.
Dancing on a Razor
a) Dancing on a Razor chronicles, through a series of dynamic short personal stories, the life and God’s redemption of Kevin John White, son of internationally known author and lecturer Dr. John White. Despite his conversion experience at age fourteen Kevin becomes a hopeless alcoholic, an addict and a wandering minstrel—riding freight trains and hitchhiking coast to coast, singing his own music for forty-five years. But all-the-while he lives this derelict lifestyle Kevin experiences the relentless pursuit and personal revelation of God's love to him. During his rebellious years, despite his fear and rebelliousness against God, the story examines the many astonishing miracles God continued to performed throughout his lifetime to draw him back to Himself. These are the stories of the answered thousands of prayers that went up for Kevin across the globe during this astonishing odyssey of God's unimaginable love. The book is honest, highly humorous, and loaded with astounding stories of miracles. God never gives up!