These days it can be hard to smile. But what if happiness was something you could learn? We know now that certain behaviors can, when done regularly, increase our positivity, gratitude, and help us overcome difficult situations. But changing our perspective can be both the most effective and most difficult thing to do. In this book, Dr. Robert Cole draws on his years as a critical care physician to offer insights about true happiness. He shows readers how simple actions can reduce frustration and anxiety, help people to overcome the fear of failure, and handle adversity. There is light at the end of even the darkest tunnel, and the power of finding it lies within each of us.
This book, "Performance-Focused Smile Sheets," completely reimagines the smile sheet as an essential tool to drive performance improvement. Traditional smile sheets (i.e., learner response forms, student reaction forms) don't work! Decades of practice shows them to have negligible benefits. Scientific studies prove that traditional smile sheets are not correlated with learning results! Yet still we rely on smile sheets to make critical decisions about our learning interventions. In this book, Dr. Will Thalheimer carefully builds the case for a new methodology in smile-sheet design. Based on the learning research, "Performance-Focused Smile Sheets" shows how to write better questions, more focused on performance. The book also shows how to deploy smile sheets to our learners to get valid feedback--feedback that can be used to help us as trainers, instructional designers, teachers, professors, eLearning developers, and chief learning officers build virtuous cycles of continuous improvement.
In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Bear and Smile are always together. They wake up together, swim by the waterfall together, and eat honey together. But one day, Bear wakes up and Smile is nowhere to be found. With the help of his woodland friends, will Bear be able to find his Smile again? This tender and special debut picture book explores sadness with a light touch and shows that sometimes a good friend can make all the difference.
Jonathan B. Levine DMD presents a new volume designed to introduce practitioners to aesthetic dentistry with the goal of safely expanding his or her current scope of ethical dental practice. Richly illustrated in full colour throughout, this beautiful yet practical volume introduces the subject of smile design to the reader with topics ranging from aligners and veneers to space management. Smile Design Integrating Aesthetics and Function will be suitable for dental practitioners worldwide. Experts of international renown present the latest scientifically authoritative and evidenced-based information, amply supported by a high-quality line artwork and photographic illustration Describes in detail assessment techniques for smile design, the use of trial procedures and the use of photography, aligners, and ceramic veneers. Highlights the way in which high quality esthetics can be achieved with a range of techniques. Emphasizes the importance of effective communication between the dentist, the oral healthcare team and the patient to ensure the patient's and team's expectations are appreciated, managed and met Designed to challenge traditional thinking, advance knowledge and expand the clinical approach to a growing discipline Offers a highly visual, practical approach in a unique series format Aims to strengthen, enhance and expand the scope of aesthetic professional practice Essentials in Esthetic Dentistry - a beautiful new book series from Elsevier - is under the editorial leadership of Professor Brian J. Millar, BDS, FDSRCS, PhD, FHEA, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Professor of Blended Learning in Dentistry, King's College London Dental Institute, London, UK. Each volume in the series is edited by the highest-profile practitioners and specialists from the USA and Europe and has guest contributors from throughout the world. The series aims to provide both a basic and advanced body of knowledge of the many and varied procedures used in esthetic dentistry that are considered by many to be paramount to successful modern-day clinical practice. The series includes a broad range on invasive and non-invasive procedures to suit individual philosophies and international trends.
The updated bestselling guide to laid-back beekeeping for all, naturally! Are you a beginner beekeeper curious about bees or a practicing beekeeper looking for natural alternatives that work? Then this book is for you! In the second edition of the bestselling beekeeping guide Keeping Bees with a Smile , Fedor Lazutin, one of Europe's most successful natural beekeepers, shares the bee-friendly approach to apiculture that is fun, healthful, rewarding, and accessible to all. This new edition includes dozens of color photographs, new hive management techniques, and an updated version of "Lazutin hive" plans. Additional coverage includes: Keeping bees naturally without interfering in their lives Starting an apiary for free by attracting local bee swarms Building low-maintenance hives that mimic how bees live in nature Keeping colonies healthy and strong without any drugs, sugar, or gimmickry Helping bees to overwinter successfully even in harsh climates Enhancing local nectar plant resources Producing truly natural honey without robbing the bees Reversing the global bee decline... right in your backyard! Keeping Bees with a Smile is an invaluable resource for apiculture beginners and professionals alike, complete with plans for making bee-friendly, well-insulated horizontal hives with extra-deep frames, plus other fascinating beekeeping advice you won't find anywhere else.
Renowned dentist and creator of the GoSMILE product line Dr. Jonathan Levine offers this complete guide to getting a whiter, brighter smile. A perfect smile is the latest, hottest,must-have accessory. It’s bright, it’s white, and just flashing it makes anyone feel like a celebrity. And now, it’s easier to get than ever before. With over 20 years of experience, Jonathan Levine, creator of GoSMILE and aesthetic dentist to the stars, offers readers a groundbreaking program to help improve and care for their smiles. Complete with home tips, guidance on how to find the right dentist, nutritional advice, the psychology behind the right smile, and much more, readers will have more reason than ever to flash their smile!
Of the over 200,000 primary care dentists in the U.S., most have little to no formal educational training in orthodontics. Those who do seek training often have to resort to expensive and time-consuming weekend services. You learn on the job through trial and error, but those errors can be expensive and unfortunate for both patients and doctors. An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice fills that gap by helping you reduce your cost and your trial and error period by providing valuable solutions for doctors and their teams.Author Amanda Wilson, MDS, DDS has been in the field of dentistry for nearly two decades. She is an orthodontist, dental consultant, and dental advisor by profession; she previously served as dental director for SmileDirectClub and is the founder and CEO of StraightSmile Solutions. Wilson has seen almost everything, wants to give back to the field, and has made it her mission to help doctors build out their practices, educating them on how to create healthy and happy smiles for their patients. That's where the idea for An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice was born. Within the pages of this book you'll learn about how to start up, what machines to buy, training a competent dental assistant and treatment coordinator, how to maximize time and revenue, various kinds of invisible aligners, IDB and functional appliances, diagnosing and treatment planning, how to upsell necessary services to your patients, how to market your new orthodontics menu of services in a variety of ways, and so much more. If you're looking to make your practice more lucrative and need practical tools, tips, and tricks of the trade then you need to pick up a copy of An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice.
"Who Else Wants A Serious Dose of Confidence and Self-Esteem?" Self esteem troubles and confidence troubles? it sucks doesnt it? What if I were to tell you that there is an easy fix? That you will be able to look beyond the negative opinions of others and create a better self image? You'll be able to get to know yourself better, bring out your strengths, focus on them, and through your mindsets and actions, raise up your self-esteem and self confidence in a natural and consistent way. This is designed to be practical and useful to children, teens and even adults alike. This is not merely changing your mindsets through artificial means i.e. hypnosis, nlp techniques. This is how normal people build up their self esteem and self confidence through competence, experiences, self-worth and successes. This is a book on building character by which, a good dose of self confidence and a healthy self-esteem are the by-products. Aside from practical advice, exercises will also be provided in this book.This course isn't meant to make you just feel good and learn--it's designed to deliver results and change lives! Grab your copy today!
"No other book to date presents facial animation concepts, theory, and practical application with the authority that Stop Staring does." —TIEM Design Crafting believable facial animation is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding aspects of 3D graphics. Done right, this art breathes life into otherwise deadpan faces. In this extraordinary book, professional animator Jason Osipa teaches you how to achieve realistic facial modeling and animation. Using detailed practical examples complemented with high-quality images and a touch of humor, Osipa leads you from design and modeling to rigging and animation. The CD and full-color insert demonstrate techniques you can use to fine-tune your facial animations. Reviewed and approved by Alias|Wavefront, Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, uses the Academy Award(r) winning Maya(r) 3D animation and effects software as the focus for its examples, yet the principles and techniques are described in ways that will be helpful to anyone working on facial modeling and animation. Mastering the Face Start out by getting familiar with the range of possible facial expressions, then focus on animating and modeling the mouth, eyes and brows. When you're ready to bring it all together, you can generate a scene from concept to completion. Topics covered include: Understanding how the whole face affects expression Learning visimes and lip sync techniques Constructing a mouth and mouth keys Building emotion through the eyes and brows Building interfaces to easily connect and control your models Skeletal setup, weighting, and rigging Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.
