Who wants to live how? The most diverse life patterns and lifestyles are reflected in the way a person designs his or her home. Architects and interior designers have to get involved with the individual character of their clients, they have to understand how their clients want to live and implement this in their room concepts and designs. From the seating furniture via the wall design to the orientation of the bed to the window, all of this provides information about the inhabitants on the most diverse levels. Wood or stainless steel, filigree plants, pink lampshades - or even the motorbike next to the fridge - make very different statements about the self-image and the sought-after external image of the residents. This book celebrates life in all its diversity through magnificent interiors.
The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families while suggesting modern approaches for the new millennium. The Handbook looks at how changes within the contemporary family have been reflected in family law, family education, and family therapy. The Handbook of Contemporary Families is an excellent resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, educators, and practitioners who study and work with families in several disciplines, including Family Science, Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Social Work.
Living the Christian life requires a strategy. Most of us won’t get to heaven through heroic feats of sanctity, but by learning to live the devout life through our everyday activities. St. Francis de Sales has developed for you a spiritual plan of action — a plan that will help you acquire holiness despite the many responsibilities and mundane realities that take up all your time and effort. In these pages, Fr. Thomas Dailey — an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales — gently guides you through St. Francis de Sales’s spiritual plan, showing how you can balance time devoted to God with the time needed to complete your many tasks each day. You’ll learn St. Francis de Sales’s technique of daily prayer and grace-filled awareness that will transform your life one day at a time — no matter how busy your lifestyle. From making a spiritual retreat during the day to fending off the many temptations you face, Live Today Wellwill help you commune with God throughout your day. And by practicing the little virtues you learn here, you’ll soon find yourself moving toward the heavenly heights as you become the saint you are called by God to be. You’ll also learn: Four ways to become aware of God’s presence Tips for spiritual time-management Simple methods of praying, whether in Church or not How to avoid the three dangerous tendencies that appear in conversations How to conquer your greatest temptations The one virtue which gives greatest assurance for reaching perfection The two critical elements of any good confession
'Today's Public Relations' works to redefine the teaching of public relations by discussing it's connection to mass communication, but also linking it to it's rhetorical heritage.
We all want to make more money, that too with minimum effort and without too much hassle. Ever wondered what life would be like if we had a simple, proven system to create cash flow and generate real wealth with little risk or complexity? This book helps you: • Manage your finances better, by directing you to a well-structured plan • Reduce investment-related risks • Create a sturdy cash flow • Streamline passive cash flow to multiply your wealth Get set to live life on your own terms, and fulfil all that you aimed to achieve. "Warren Buffett of Lifestyle Investing." – Entrepreneur Magazine
In the past decade, depression rates have skyrocketed, and one in four Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Where have we gone wrong? Dr. Stephen Ilardi sheds light on our current predicament and reminds us that our bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of twenty-first century life. Inspired by the extraordinary resilience of aboriginal groups like the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Ilardi prescribes an easy-to-follow, clinically proven program that harks back to what our bodies were originally made for and what they continue to need. The Depression Cure program has already delivered dramatic results, helping even those who have failed to respond to traditional medications.
What is better to be in life, a prince or a pauper? A prince, certainly, since this is life, the tedious process of becoming a prince in life, or the tedious process of slowly modifying, adjusting, and improving your own lifestyle in order to achieve to live the life of a prince or princess, all done according to everyone’s living conditions. Since this is what everybody seems to do and desire throughout life, while slowly changing their life and lifestyle towards better, easier, richer, and more abundant living conditions. But is it good to be rich and have everything that you ever desire, or it is better to be poor and live a freer, denser, more unpredictable, more adventurous, and therefore more exciting life? Let us see, but who should ever decide your own lifestyle and living conditions, along with your own standards and meaning in life? And then, what exactly defines excitement, adventure, freedom, and fulfillment in life, along with all advantages and disadvantages of all lifestyles? Who exactly can tell what lives are better and what are worse, determining you now to adjust your own lifestyle matching whatever they assume that is best for you? Because it is your life, it is your lifestyle, and no one should control these, but you. Yet everybody does so, including authorities, hiding behind fancy words as democracy, recession, rights, chaos, evil, and criminality. And now, because of them, you have to live the lifestyle of someone else, it does not fit your own nature, needs, meanings, and fulfillment, while you never know what happens, just because you tend to associate lifestyles stereotypically with glamour, addicts, fashion, dictators, extraordinary wealth, and very important people. What can you do? Just learn everything about lifestyles in all details, and so you may design your own lifestyle as you please, in order to match your own meanings, needs, and desires in life. Because as long as princes are in control of this world and not paupers, then yes, princes will certainly control your life, along with your lifestyle and desires in life, as they please. And this is why being a prince will always be more desirable for you than being a pauper, while you might not even know it. This is what you seek and expect in life, but in vain, since you can never achieve it, because you are never allowed. And this is how you miss on everything else there is for you to witness and discover in life and in this world, since today, lack of money and lack of resources affect your life drastically, even causing you to stagnate or decay altogether. Because your development relates to your lifestyle, making possible your meaning, and therefore assuring your fulfillment, with an entire world focusing on addictions and social supremacy instead, altering the overall human lifestyle, while keeping the entire world unfulfilled. Throughout this book, we make an entire model of the human lifestyle, through empiric, cognitive, social, and higher perspectives, and then we run this model throughout a multitude of conditions, in order to identify and depict your current and envisioned lifestyles, adjusting them in a positive manner according to your needs, meanings, and fulfillment.
The Book of Secrets is a unique manuscript that aims to help its reader focus on different mindful thoughts for each day of the year. Each day's entry includes a focus point and that point is emphasized and supported by specific citations from The Bible. The author hopes to invite the reader to explore different aspects of their life, and to find meaning and support for that exploration through God's words. Each day is structured with a thought starter, and at least one Bible reference to support the idea that this thought starter is not unique, but rather something that originates from God's words. The format of this manuscript is engaging. The daily entries give the reader a new thought to ponder each day. The inclusion of a Bible citation further solidifies the importance of that thought, and gives the reader the motivation to think deeply about that prompt, as well as feel comfort knowing that God's words support this thought.
