Author: Gregory P. Fields File Type: pdf Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the works investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra--three Hindu traditions noteworthy for the central role they accord the body. Author Gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient Hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or bodymind alone. This book elucidates multifaceted views of health, and--in the context of spirituality and healing--explores themes such as mental health, meditation, and music.

Author: Scott Isaacs File Type: epub Beginning Windows Store Application Development HTML and JavaScript Edition introduces you to the Windows 8 modern app design paradigm and the new Windows 8 programming model developed around this paradigm. You'll learn to build rich, immersive applications designed to run on the many devices powered by Windows 8. The authors draw on their extensive practical experience to provide not only a comprehensive introduction to the model and its features, but guidance on best practices and a real-world sample application that you develop over the course of the book. Beginning Windows Store Application Development HTML and JavaScript Edition also emphasizes how devices will be used and applications will be built in a world that has become far more connected. The book takes you beyond the syntax of any development language and examines factors such as application design, user experience, social integration, and maintaining data and settings across multiple devices. What youll learn Apply Windows 8 modern UI style design guidelines to build effective user interfaces Use the new programming libraries available in Windows 8 Effectively use application tiles and notifications Integrate with Windows by exposing your applications data to Windows Search and Share menus Consume services to bring data into your application Use the cloud to share data and application settings across multiple devices Publish your applications in the Windows Store Who this book is for Beginning Windows Store Application Development HTML and JavaScript Edition is for the novice programmer with a basic understanding of web development who is interested in learning how to build the next generation of applications designed to run on Windows 8. Readers who already have an understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript will get the most out of the book. It also is an excellent choice for more experienced developers who want to get started programming for Windows 8. Table of Contents Welcome to a Touch First World The Microsoft Design Language Designing Windows Store Applications Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Store Application Types HTML Controls WinJS Controls WinJS Collection Controls WinJS Custom Controls Building the User Interface Transitions and Animations Data Binding Concepts Promises Web Workers Data Source Options Session State and Settings Files Handling State Changes External Libraries Windows Search and Share Printing Notifications and Tiles Sensors, Devices and Location Publishing Apps in the Windows Store

Author: Michael Hicks File Type: pdf A first-of-its-kind history, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir tells the epic story of how an all-volunteer group founded by persecuted religious outcasts grew into a multimedia powerhouse synonymous with the mainstream and with Mormonism itself. Drawing on decades of work observing and researching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Michael Hicks examines the personalities, decisions, and controversies that shaped Americas choir. Here is the miraculous story behind the Tabernacles world-famous acoustics, the anti-Mormonism that greeted early tours, the clashes with Church leaders over repertoire and presentation, the radio-driven boom in popularity, the competing visions of rival conductors, and the Choirs aspiration to be accepted within classical music even as Mormons sought acceptance within American culture at large. Everything from Billboard hits to TV appearances to White House performances paved the way for Mormonisms crossover triumph. Yet, as Hicks shows, such success raised fundamental concerns regarding the Choirs mission, functions, and image. **

Author: Paul Cavill File Type: pdf Paul Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand Whig tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested these assumptions. Drawing on extensive archival research, Cavill challenges existing accounts and revises our understanding of the period. Neither to the king nor to his subjects did parliament appear to be a waning institution, fading before the waxing power of the crown. For a ruler in Henrys vulnerable position, parliament helped to restore royal authority by securing the good governance that legitimated his regime. For his subjects, parliament served as a medium through which to communicate with the government and to shape--and, on occasion, criticize--its policies. Because of the demands parliament made, its impact was felt throughout the kingdom, among ordinary people as well as among the elite. Cooperation between subjects and the crown, rather than conflict, characterized these parliaments. While for many scholars parliament did not truly come of age until the 1530s, when-freed from its medieval shackles-the modern institution came to embody the sovereign nation state, in this study Henrys reign emerges as a constitutionally innovative period. Ideas of parliamentary sovereignty were already beginning to be articulated. It was here that the foundations of the Tudor revolution in government were being laid.ReviewDefinitive...this book is a pleasure to read and a gap-filler for any late-medieval and Tudor scholars library. DeLloyd J. Guth, Reviews in History A masterly general study marked by rigorous analysis, clarity and readability. Northern History. A book built upon impressively extensive and thorough archival research... Concise and clear in its elucidation. Lloyd Bowen, Welsh History Review. About the AuthorPaul Cavill is lecturer in early modern history at Bangor University. His research focuses on politics, government, and the constitution in the early Tudor period.