Perfect People Skills

Stroke is the commonest neurological disease in adults. It frequently results in serious morbidity and high mortality. It also has a significant impact on those who survive it and on their families, especially on their emotional wellbeing, personal social relationships and their ability to engage in gainful employment and to pursue leisure activities.

The prognosis for survival and for functional recovery in stroke has improved in recent years thanks to the recent advances in the management of cerebrovascular disease. A vast amount of scientific data about all aspects of stroke has been publiished in recent years and it is important that this informatiion is available to busy clinicians in a concise and the clinically relevant form. The aim of this book is provide a short, yet comprehensive, and up to date guide to the management of stroke patients. It is hoped that medical students and health professionals who care for stroke patients will find the book a useful resource. 

One of the most exciting psychological techniques in use today, neuro-linguistic programming helps you model yourself on those-or, more accurately, the thought processes of those-who are stellar in their fields. Rooted in behavioral psychology of the 1970s, the concepts of NLP are now common to such diverse areas as business, education, sports, health, music and the performing arts-and have been instrumental in helping people change and improve their professional and personal lives. In this handy, informative guide, you will acquire a basic toolkit of NLP techniques, with advice on the NLP approach to goal-setting, as well as insights on how you think, form mental strategies, manage emotional states, and, finally, understand the world.

• With new content on new code NLP, symbolic modeling, clean language in the workplace and energetic NLP-techniques developed after the first edition
• Includes updated information throughout and two new chapters: Dipping into Modeling and Making Change Easier

You can read anyone's body language-if you know how and where to look. Master the art of nonverbal communication and you'll unlock the secrets of everyone you meet-yourself included!

Learn how to:

• Identify an aggressive handshake
• Recognize a genuine smile
• Display self confidence
• Tell when your child is fibbing
• Show your date you're interested

This friendly, guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you master the basics. Filled with full-color projects and sample paintings, it shows you how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. You’ll find out how to select the best tools, materials, and supplies, practice basic brush strokes, and use the three best common techniques: flat wash, graded wash, and rough texture. Discover how to:

• Select the right brushes, pigments, and paper
• Mix colors and work with white
• Create backgrounds and foregrounds
• Transfer your drawings to watercolor
• Avoid common watercolor mistakes
• Experiment with texture using salt, sponges, plastic wrap, and more
• Find your way around the color wheel
• Practice the principles of design
• Plan compositions using thumbnails
• Work with one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective
• Paint fabrics, shiny surfaces, and organic textures
• Paint landscapes, seascapes, animals and more

When the rich and famous need to look red-carpet-ready, they call Scott-Vincent Borba, celebrity esthetician and skin-care pioneer. Why? Because Borba knows beauty, and his revolutionary approach can transform your skin whether you're battling wrinkles and brown spots, cellulite and menopausal breakouts, or clogged pores and blackheads. Skintervention shows you how to dig deeper (literally)—from your pantry to your products—to find your unique skin-care solution and the glowing skin that goes with it.

A new era of enlightenment is upon us. The Clairvoyant Path offers a golden opportunity to join the global spiritual evolution and build a new life of peace, purpose, and higher consciousness.

Discover how to access inner wisdom, higher dimensions of the self, and the power to change reality—all by using your innate clairvoyance and intuition. Explore the wondrous connections between the body, spirit, and quantum science, the personal energy climate, and the nature of the soul.

Progressive psychic exercises and stories from the author’s life as a clairvoyant medium combine to help you cultivate higher senses, explore your soul’s history, and work with your personal energy. A life of greater awareness, self-authority, and higher purpose is available to you.