78351Your genes : 100 things you never knew
Explore the incredible advances in DNA analysis, which provide insight on historical gene patterns, in the newest special edition from the editors at National Geographic. You'll learn more about the age-old debate of nature versus nurture, our human genetic roots, and what our genes can tell us about humanity's past. Some highlights include: Recommendations for your own genetic research; the latest findings and analysis; informative graphics; and maps of the human family tree.
78352Your health today : 4th ed.
Chapter 1. Sefl, family and community; Chapter 2. Mental health and stress; Chapter 3. Social connections; Chapter 4. Sleep; Chapter 5. Nutrition; Chapter 6. Fitness; Chapter 7. Body weight and body composition.
78353Your health today : choices in a changing society
This exciting new text presents personal health in the context of a changing social and cultural environment. Going beyond behavior change and individual responsibility, it offers a broadened view of health that includes the impact of family, community, and society. It's a new way of looking at health: Personal health is not only the choices we make.
78354Your next move : the leader's guide to navigating major career transitions
1. The promotion challenge; 2. The leading-former-peers challenge; 3. The corporate diplomacy challenge; 4. The onboarding challenge; 5. The international move challenge; 6. The turnaround challenge; 7. The realignment challenge; 8. The STARS portfolio challenge; 9. Conclusion : designing companywide transition-acceleration systems.
78355Your personal fiction-writing coach
This book will walk you through the process of pre-book planning, plotting a page-turner, and writing a novel around your busy schedule, all in digestible bites of advice you can draw on every day! Don't buy into the stereotypical myths of writing--creating a great, entertaining novel doesn't have to be out of reach, scary, or gut-wrenching. Writing a novel should be fun, inspiring, and life-enriching! The information in this book will help you get your mind around your ideas and bring the prospect of writing a novel down to a manageable, achievable, and fulfilling project.
78356Your personality : exploring the science of identity
This magazine is a perfect compliment for my upcoming course that I am teaching on Educational Psychology. Understanding the brain is an important piece for educators.
78357Your stomach : what is really making you miserable and what to do about it
Most Americans suffer stomach problems. Many lead lives of utter misery. Whether you call it heartburn or acid reflux, this painful affliction is also associated with throat cancer. Shockingly, the problem may not be too much stomach acid, but too little! And antacids and acid blockers may actually be making the problem worse. This powerful little book offers solid scientific information about one of the most common and distressing ailments in America. There is also fascinating information about little-used all-natural supplements.
78358Your wit is my command : building AIs with a sense of humor
1. Does not compute: why our machines need a sense of humor; 2. It's a joke, jim, but not as we know it: a tour of scholarly perspectives and theories of humor; 3. Tweet my shorts: twitterbots can turn our theories into simple practice; 4. Double trouble: humorous storytelling and embodied AI; 5. Practical magic: systematic approaches to joke creation; 6. Danger, danger: incongruity and the time course of jokes; 7. Wit happens: computational models of punning and wordplay; 8. Physics Envy: Quantitative Approaches to Humor Analysis; 9. Taking exception: computational treatments of sarcasm and Irony; 10. At wit's end: lessons for the Future.
78359You're gonna need a bigger story : the 21st century survival guide to not just writing
The entertainment marketplace is rapidly changing and is forcing writers and producers in all industries to find a new way forward and to stand out in an over-saturated market. Houston Howard’s signature Super Story process empowers creative minds to take an initial concept and develop it to its full potential and teaches them how to build a robust story architecture primed for 21st Century expansion and survival.
78360Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries
The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market. This ongoing problem has proved difficult to explain. Drawing on comparative data from Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, these papers go beyond examining only employment and wages and explore the effects of family background, education and training, social expectations, and crime on youth employment.