Treat your feet!If you've ever uttered the words 'My feet are killing me!' you need this book. This fun, concise guide will teach you how to pamper your feet and enjoy the total body benefits of good foot health - even when you're always on the go.With its easy-to-follow advice, The Little Footcare Book shows you how to soothe your aching feet to reduce stress, promote relaxation, and restore energy.

States of Mind is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside our brains. The book covers the sources of depression and how it can be treated; the effects of stress on our brains and general health; how memory works and the phenomenon of false memory; why we dream and the role dreams play in our lives; how genes and life experience combine to shape our personalities and temperaments; and more.

This book offers an extensive and up-to-date review of market risk measurement, focusing particularly on the estimation of value at risk (VaR) and expected tail loss (ETL). Measuring Market Risk provides coverage of parametric and non-parametric risk estimation, simulation, numerical methods, liquidity risks, risk decomposition and budgeting, backtesting, stress testing, and model risk, as well as appendices on mapping delta-gamma approximations and options VaR.

This book provides a self-contained introduction to typical properties of volume preserving homeomorphisms. Stress is given to the interrelation between typical properties of volume preserving homeomorphisms and typical properties of volume preserving bijections of the underlying measure space. An excellent introduction for newcomers, and an indispensable resource for experts.

This book teaches the basics of the Pilates method of fitness, a whole body workout that strengthens the abs and back and straightens the posture. Practiced worldwide by dance companies, physical therapists, and health clubs, the method is especially good for pregnant women, for people who have special fitness needs because of chronic back pain, joint stress, or obesity, and for anyone wishing to prevent osteoporosis.

Today’s new breed, eXtreme projects are different. They feature high speed, high change, high complexity, high risk, and high stress. While traditional projects follow the classic model of ready, aim, fire, eXtreme project managers succeed by shooting the gun and then redirecting the bullet while not loosing sight of their moving target.

Examining how to incorporate and organise all aspects of a successful training event, this guide gives a practical mix of tips, plans and checklists on saving time, money, effort and stress when presenting a course.

The cost to businesses of stress, both for workers and managers is enormous, but it is the legacy of successful business. This book provides a collection of good practice examples to allow comparison between firms in the US and Europe.

Brings together current research results to offer a rare in-depth look at the medical, psychological, and policy dilemmas attendant to HIV- positive women. Includes information on the epidemiology, manifestations, and treatment of HIV; psychosocial stress and adaptation processes for coping; interve

As an adult who leads a busy life, you have to deal with the stresses of home, work, and family. The Buddhist idea of Zen seeks to help you reduce stress so that you can remain calm when conflicts arise. This book begins with the basics, telling you what Zen is and how you can use it to deal with the situations that come up in your fast-paced life.

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome Sourcebook is a guide to taking control of this debilitating condition from creating a journal, to tracking IBS triggers (food, drink, and stress), to finding the right diet and exercise to counteract the condition. You will also learn how alternative therapies may be helpful and how simple stress relievers can improve your daily life.