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Reflexive Emotions: Shame, Humor, Humility (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy)

This book looks closely at three first-order reflexive emotions—shame, humor and humility—that are shown to be not only exclusively human, but definitive of major aspects of human selfhood, agency and normativity. A separate chapter that covers second-order emotions, shows that when negative, they display a crucial and equally exclusive aspect of human normative self-critique. In addition to jointly delineating agency, sapience, normativity, rationality, and the ability to critically self-reflect, this book further demonstrates the inevitable role of the we in the I (to paraphrase Axel Honneth), namely, how realizing one&’s full human potential necessarily requires engaging others. This book appeals to students as well as researchers and looks closely at how these three reflexive emotions bestow categorical value on otherness, rendering normative diversity not merely something to be tolerated or rationally overcome, but a rare and necessary blessing.

Reflexology (Idiot's Guides)

Reflexology is a safe and gentle therapy that uses pressure points to combat stress, boost the immune system, and stimulate the natural healing process. Idiot's Guides: Reflexology is geared to the absolute beginner and uses dozens of full-color, step-by-step photographs to teach techniques for the hands, feet, and ears. Readers will learn how to treat specific ailments (headaches, back pain, asthma, and more) by using easy-to-understand, expert methods. Coverage also includes how to read a reflexology chart, how to perform the techniques on children, and more.

Reflexology Made Easy: Self-help techniques for everyday ailments

Rapid relief for minor ailments Reflex zone massage can be a direct and effective aid for many small daily complaints, but you have to learn ‘the how’ and ‘the where’. This handy reference book explains just how to find relief from headaches, colds and fear of flying, along with coping with long car journeys or lengthy days at your computer, all with just a few reflex zone massage strokes. You’ll never want to be without your helpful companion!

Reflexology Plain & Simple: The Only Book You'll Ever Need (Plain & Simple Series)

Reflexology is an ancient healing system that helps relieve existing health conditions and detect future ailments. <P><P>Reflexology Plain & Simple introduces the history and basics of this form, from beginner&’s techniques to more specialized treatments and the use of aromatic oils. Discover which areas of the feet and hands correspond to the body&’s tissues, glands, and organs; how much pressure to apply and when not to proceed at all; and how to get started indulging friends, family, and even yourself or move on to your own practice. Detailed instructions guide you through each step of the process and helpful hints throughout provide additional insight.

Reflexology for Fertility: A Practitioners Guide to Natural and Assisted Conception

This is the first book to be published on the treatment of the male and female reproductive conditions using reflexology. There are no other treatment protocols that have been written that allow practitioners to work with clients in this way.

Reflexology, Orion Plain and Simple (Plain and Simple)

A practical guide on using the ancient healing system of reflexology to relieve existing health conditions and detect future ailments.Sonia Jones introduces the history and basics of this form of ancient healing; from beginner's techniques to more specialised treatments and the use of aromatic oils. Discover which areas of the feet and hands correspond to the body's tissues, glands, and organs; how much pressure to apply and when not to proceed at all. Jones' easy and straightforward approach includes detailed instructions that will guide you through each step of the process and her helpful hints throughout provide additional insight to this ancient practice.

Reflexology: Hands-on Treatment For Vitality And Well-being

Reflexology is a global best-seller by two of the most-recognized authorities on this holistic therapy. This comprehensive yet approachable guide explains how reflexology works: by applying pressure to "reflex" points on the hands and feet, you can help to stimulate the body's natural powers of self-healing. Reflexology features more than 100 step-by-step techniques and treatment sequences, detailed foot and hand reflex charts, and a directory of treatment for 30 common ailments, from back pain to constipation, arthritis to high blood pressure. Visualizations and meditations are suggested throughout, to enhance the healing treatments. As the first fully-illustrated step-by-step guide, Reflexology remains one of the most trusted resources on this ancient art. Author Bio: Kevin and Barbara Kunz are internationally recognized authorities in the field of reflexology. They have researched, taught, practiced and documented reflexology for more than 30 years. Barbara and Kevin Kunz have written 17 reflexology books available in 57 foreign editions and 19 languages.

Reforming America's Health Care System: The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare

Health policy experts from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe discuss both what to expect from the recent health reform legislation and alternatives that should still be considered. The contributors argue that Americans already have a superior health care system and that if Congress enacts reforms that remove artificial barriers and constructively open markets to competition, private-sector creativity will generate innovative, low-cost insurance products for tens of millions of consumers.

Reforming Long-term Care in Europe (Broadening Perspectives In Social Policy Ser.)

Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system. Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform agendas in Europe Compares countries comparatively less studied with the experiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and portrays a description and analysis of each system Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for an exceptionally broad perspective

Refuel

THIS IS NOT A DIET. IT'S A REBOOT. Throughout much of their lives, men have a weight advantage over women, whose bodies are naturally designed to hold more fat. Fair or not, men's hormonal make-up, muscle mass, and unique metabolic profile make it easier for them to stay lean. But certain conditions can overturn that gift--the passage of time, the pressure of work and others, the wrong 'fuel'--and lead men to a hormonal state that more closely resembles, well, women. If you have a beer gut, fatty pecs and are 'softer' then you used to be, especially where it counts the most, keep reading. Help is in your hands. Designed to restore optimal testosterone levels, eliminate dangerous visceral fat and improve sexual performance, REFUELTM gives you the rules, skills, and step-by-step plan needed to optimize the male biochemical blueprint, including: -- How to boost T-levels and supercharge sex naturally, without hormones or drugs --Gender-specific nutritional engineering--or why a generic weight-loss approach just doesn't work --No sweat tactics to jumpstart your metabolism, build strength and maximize energy, naturally --The 5 commandments for getting it up and dropping the gut --How to man a kitchen--with 15 great tasting dishes anyone can and should make --How to engage and include the women in your life as partners in your program With this book, New York Times bestselling author Dr. John La Puma reveals the breakthrough 24 day fat-loss plan specifically engineered for the male brain and body that is dramatically changing lives. Reboot, rebuild: REFUELTM. From the Hardcover edition.

Refuerza tus defensas: Consigue un sistema inmunitario fuerte de forma natural

A través de estas páginas, conoceremos qué es y cómo funciona el inmunitario y aprenderemos qué comer y qué no para tenerlo fuerte y combatir posibles infecciones. El sistema inmunitario es el conjunto de elementos y procesos biológicos en el interior de un organismo que le permite mantener el equilibrio interno frente a agresiones externas, ya sean de naturaleza biológica (agentes patógenos) o físico-químicas (como contaminantes o radiaciones), e internas (por ejemplo, células cancerosas). Con este libro descubrirás los diez alimentos fundamentales a los más perjudiciales, cómo nos ayudan los probióticos y prebióticos, así como los hábitos que le benefician y los que lo debilitan. Álvaro Vargas nos presenta un libro práctico y útil. Lleno de información sencilla, directa, pero rigurosa y necesaria en un momento como el actual. Para cerrar, encontraremos un delicioso, cómodo y fácil recetario para cuidar nuestros intestinos y reforzar las defensas, con veinte platos que conseguirán convertir nuestro organismo en una barrera contra virus y bacterias perjudiciales. Álvaro Vargas, periodista y técnico superior en dietética, ha conseguido seducir a cientos de miles de seguidores en redes sociales que día a día siguen sus consejos sobre nutrición y recetas. Su objetivo es difundir un modelo de alimentación sencilla, sana y sostenible. Es autor de A comer se aprende y Vegesanísimo (Planeta 2018 y 2019).

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Refugee Displacement, Disability and Human Rights: The Production, Processing and Power of Data (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, ‘Statistics and data collection’.The study provides detailed explorations of the legal and practical demands of article 31, how these have been interpreted and the practice of human rights research with marginalised communities. It describes the history of the article’s drafting in detail, uncovering the tensions at its heart today. This analysis provides the foundations for an alternative doctrinal reading of the obligations in article 31 and an exploration of a potential group right. The book's detailed analysis is assisted by a new conceptual framework that illustrates the relationship between visibility and power. The work demonstrates that data is not inert but powerful and may be used in ways that are helpful and harmful to rights holders. Through closely examining disability human rights data practices in refugee contexts, it concludes that human rights protections are being ignored in the urgency to create more data to identify and address inequality. The author identifies immediate actions that may be taken to remediate current practices.The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in disability studies, human rights law, refugee and migration studies, technology and society.

Regain Be Gone: 12 Strategies to Maintain the Body You Earned After Bariatric Surgery

Regain Be Gone is the only resource readers need to help them keep weight regain at bay after bariatric surgery. With 20 years of training in the field of bariatrics, trusted dietitian Sameera Khan shares strategies toward a balanced, stress-free weight-loss journey so that readers can feel confident, powerful, and successful. Weight regain is a manageable setback that can be reversed with a little effort and guidance. The longer one ignores it, the harder it is to regain lost ground, so act now. Regain Be Gone is the only resource people need to help them keep weight regain at bay after bariatric surgery.

Regaining Your Self: Understanding and Conquering the Eating Disorder Identity

"I wish there had been a book like this when I was sick. Dr. Sacker truly understands this complex disorder." – Tracey Gold, actress and author of Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life "Regaining Your Self offers a logical approach to understanding eating disorders. The emphasis on deficits in identify and trust will open doors for therapists who treat anorexia, as well as make constructive demands on them. Above all, Regaining Your Self will remind us that psychotherapy must have a personal element to succeed." – Steven Levenkron, M.S., Author of The Best Little Girl in the World and Anatomy of Anorexia "Dr. Ira Sacker is an innovator in his treatment approach. His in-depth and heartfelt understanding of the minds and souls of people struggling with eating disorders is a breath of fresh air. This book will serve as an invaluable tool for those who work with eating disorders and body image issues." – Jessica Weiner, Author of A Very Hungry Girl and Do I Look Fat in This? You Are Not What You Don't EatNever has there been a mental disorder so controversial in the theories surrounding its causes, treatments, and recovery than that of the eating disorder. Its mysterious nature, onset, and lack of predictability make this an elusive epidemic that causes frustration and fear in those who are afflicted and those who love and treat them. This is exactly why patients, families, and treatment professionals need to be privy to the observations of one of the foremost eating disorder specialists in the world and bestselling author of Dying to Be Thin, Ira M. Sacker, M.D. It is he who continues to be at the forefront of true treatment breakthroughs, the latest of which is evidenced in his latest book Regaining Your Self. Over the last several decades, as theories and books circulated and speculated on whether it is perfectionism, trauma, genetics/biology, or social pressures of the media that has caused the rapid spread of anorexia, bulimia, and related disorders, Dr. Sacker was busy making a breakthrough in identifying the true culprit in eating disorders--The Eating Disorder Identity. With Eating Disorder Identities victims attach to their disorder and view it as part of who they are, ultimately coming to identify with that persona exclusively. (Sometimes individuals will even name the disease "Ana," "Mia," or "Ed," in order to personify the new identity.) Just as a musician cannot live without his instruments, an eating disorder individual will feel inauthentic and lost if ever they give up their eating disorder, contributing to a higher rate of relapse. In Regaining Your Self, Dr. Sacker explains the phenomenon of the Eating Disorder Identity and describes why this is the least identified concept in traditional treatment methods, yet most detrimental aspect of the disorder. Further, Sacker explains how in an attempt to substitute their former identity, many eating disorder patients adopt their eating disorder as a more acceptable definition of who they are; therefore blurring the lines between their disorder and their self. Like any thing that is viewed as intrinsic, the eating disorder becomes nearly impossible to cut off and turn away from. To combat this crisis, Sacker lays out his effective program called PIRT or Personal Interaction Rational Therapy, which assists families, clinicians, medical doctors, and therapists in identifying the issue of identity (the lack of one, the disdain for the one they have) exhibited by patients and offers them techniques on replacing the eating disorder identity with a new and healthier one--the major component in facilitating recovery. In addition, Dr. Sacker created a brand-new workbook section exclusively for this paperback edition, which offers both interactive and introspective exercises to help treatment professionals and patients successfully execute the bold new approach of Regaining Your Self.

Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

"This book is a revolution! It goes way beyond the beliefs that have fueled modern pharmaceutical medicine for decades and gives you all the science you'll ever need to prove that there is another way." - Christiane Northrup, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Goddesses Never AgeModern medicine and human health are at a critical crossroads, and the truth is that you and not your genes are in the driver's seat. You are the one who gets to make informed decisions on how you use and nourish the evolutionary miracle that is your body.Combining analysis of cutting-edge scientific findings with our deepest ancestral wisdom and health-promoting practices, Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo, offers a time-tested program to help prevent and manage the most common health afflictions of our day-cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic syndrome.Antiquated thinking and scientific dogma have long obstructed our understanding of our innate untapped potential for self-regeneration and radical healing. But the New Biology explains why biological time is not a downward spiral and how chronic illness is not inevitable when you implement nature's resiliency tools.In his thorough and thoughtful exploration of the New Biology, Sayer Ji illuminates: • the fascinating new science of food as information • the truth about cancer and heart disease screening and what real prevention looks like • how to reverse the most common forms of degeneration using food-based approaches • how the body extracts energy from sources other than food, including water and melanin; and • how to make sense of conflicting dietary recommendations and out-of-date food philosophiesEncoded within every tissue of your body is your ability to regenerate. Unlock your radical resiliency through this roadmap for diet, exercise, stress reduction, and the cultivation of the environment in which you choose to live.

Regenerative Health: Discover Your Metabolic Type and Renew Your Liver for Life

The authors of Skinny Liver offer a new look at liver disease through four types of conditions and deliver practical plans for liver health. Your liver plays a key role in your health, affecting chronic inflammation, heart health, mental health, cognitive health, and metabolic health (including type 2 diabetes). Yet most people aren&’t aware of its power—and are unknowingly sabotaging their liver health. Medical understanding has evolved to reveal that metabolic health is the best indicator of fatty liver risk, meaning that treating fatty liver disease is less about losing weight (and the unhealthy diet culture that accompanies it) and more about adopting smart lifestyle habits to reduce your risk. Based on the most up-to-date research, Regenerative Health introduces the four metabolic profiles—the Preventer, the Fine-Tuner, the Re-calibrator, and the Regenerator–and an easy assessment. Once you determine your type, you&’ll follow easy steps to customize your Regenerative Health eating and lifestyle plan. With practical tips on nutrition, exercise, and wellness; meal suggestions; recipes; and recommended snacks, Regenerative Health will help you treat your current liver issues and also help you prevent more from developing. Whether you already have a diagnosis or simply want to be feel as good as you can, experts Kristin Kirkpatrick and Ibrahim Hanouneh give you the knowledge and the tools to take charge of your health.

Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology: Bench To Bedside (Learning Materials in Biosciences #0)

This textbook covers the basic aspects of stem cell research and applications in regenerative medicine. Each chapter includes a didactic component and a practical section. The book offers readers insights into: How to identify the basic concepts of stem cell biology and the molecular regulation of pluripotency and stem cell development. How to produce induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the basics of transfection. The biology of adult stem cells, with particular emphasis on mesenchymal stromal cells and hematopoietic stem cells, and the basic mechanisms that regulate them. How cancer stem cells arise and metastasize, and their properties. How to develop the skills needed to isolate, differentiate and characterize adult stem The clinical significance of stem cell research and the potential problems that need to be overcome. Evaluating the use of stem cells for tissue engineering and therapies (the amniotic membrane) The applications of bio-nanotechnology in stem cell research. How epigenetic mechanisms, including various DNA modifications and histone dynamics, are involved in regulating the potentiality and differentiation of stem cells. The scientific methods, ethical considerations and implications of stem cell research.

Regime Paleo : Plan De Repas Du Régime Paleo Sur 7 Jours Pour Les Débutants

Régime paléo : Plan de repas du régime paléo sur 7 jours pour les débutants par Kim Wilson Plan de repas du régime paléo sur 7 jours pour les débutants Le régime paléo est peut-être simple mais cela ne signifie pas que vous devez consommez un repas ennuyeux ! Le petit-déjeuner est assez simple quand on suit un régime paléo. Avec plein d’oeufs et de viande, il est facile de faire un mélange. Le petit-déjeuner d’un régime paléo n’est pas vraiment différent des autres plats paléo. La clé pour planifier votre petit-déjeuner paléo est de déterminer comment analyser les groupes d’aliments que vous devriez éviter et ceux qui sont autorisés. Ensuite, vous pouvez vous amuser à créer des recettes. Parallèlement à tous ces noyaux de sagesse paléolithique se trouve une archive virtuelle de recettes paléo qui couvre le petit-déjeuner, le déjeuner, le dîner et tout ce qu’il y a entre les deux ! Cassidy non seulement souligne les ingrédients qui sont bons pour tous ces repas, mais aussi pourquoi il sont bons.Vous serez étonné par le souci du détail de cet auteur. Si vous n’avez jamais entendu parler du régime paléo de votre vie auparavant, ce livre est tout ce qu’il vous faut. N’attendez plus pour découvrir VOTRE CLÉ d’une vie nouvelle et meilleure !

Regimens of the Mind

In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for curing, ordering, and educating the mind toward an ethical purpose, an idea she tracks back to the ancient tradition of cultura animi. Corneanu traces this idea through its early modern revival and illustrates how it organizes the experimental philosophers' reflections on the discipline of judgment, the study of nature, and the study of Scripture. It is through this lens, the author suggests, that the core features of the early modern English experimental philosophy--including its defense of experience, its epistemic modesty, its communal nature, and its pursuit of "objectivity"--are best understood.

Regine's Book

Regine's blog about living with Leukemia gained a huge following, and eventually became this book. She writes openly about emotional and physical aspects of her 15-month struggle to recover, and explains how her disease impacts her life. In the course of her illness, Regine has photography exhibits, goes to concerts, enjoys her friends & family, and advocates for registering as a blood and bone marrow donor. She was a typical teenager with an amazing will to live; and the lessons she learned have relevance for all of us. She died at home on December 3, 2009 with her family and cat by her side. Originally published in Norway, the book was selected by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture for a translation grant. Norwegian sales are as follows: 30,000 copies hardcover (May - Dec 2010); 17,000 copies paperback (Jan - Sept 2011)

Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last Words

Regine’s blog about living with Leukemia gained a huge following, and eventually became this book. She writes openly about emotional and physical aspects of her 15-month struggle to recover, and explains how her disease impacts her life. In the course of her illness, Regine has photography exhibits, goes to concerts, enjoys her friends & family, and advocates for registering as a blood and bone marrow donor. She was a typical teenager with an amazing will to live; and the lessons she learned have relevance for all of us. She died at home on December 3, 2009 with her family and cat by her side.

Regional American Food Culture

For general readers, Long (international studies and American culture studies, Bowling Green State U.) provides an overview of regional American food cultures. She discusses the history of food cultures in various regions of the US, and major foods and ingredients, cooking traditions, typical meals, dining habits, special occasions, and diet and health in the East, South, Midwest, and West, with some recipes. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Regional Cooperation, Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines: A Holistic Approach for Least Developed Countries (Routledge Research in Health Law)

This book examines the potential for regionalization of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries. The challenge of sustainable access to pharmaceuticals continues to be an issue of global significance. While much has been written on emerging economies in this context, least developed countries have been largely overlooked. This book fills this gap by taking the East African Community as a case study of developing and least developed countries to illustrate why and how a regional collective approach is preferred. It adopts a holistic approach in finding sustainable solutions to both IP and non-IP barriers to pharmaceutical access across a range of inter-related issues through a regional cooperative scheme. It evaluates factors that are necessary for successful regional cooperation, such as legal and policy coherence, WTO rule compliance, the threat of protectionism, regional competition rules, and so on, in order to produce relevant legal and policy recommendations to both existing and intending regional coalitions desiring to improve pharmaceutical access. It also looks beyond the scope of IP barriers to pharmaceutical access, examining non-IP-related factors such as pharmaceutical market intelligence, local pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, economies of scale and purchasing power, medical regulation and quality assurance, technology transfer, and market size amongst others. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Public Health Law, International Trade Law, Intellectual Property Law and Development Studies.

Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Exam Preparation Sixth Edition

Confidently prepare for the RHIT exam with Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Exam Preparation. The exam experience is simulated in this textbook with 850 multiple choice questions, including two complete practice exams based on the RHIT competency statements. Whether you're still learning or ready to test your skills immediately, RHIT Exam Preparation will help prepare you for exam day.