Bøger af Elizabeth O'Brien

Meet Liz O'Brien, a young Irish girl whose thirst for adventure leads her to the mystical land of India; This is not just a travel memoir; it's a story of self-discovery that's brimming with humour and a love that defies cultural boundaries.

Stressors are everywhere. Each and every day, we run into situations that constantly test us, rob us of our patience, strip us of our sanity, impact our focus, and cause us to lose control of our days. Although stress can be challenging, it can also be easy to handle if you have a system to deal with it. This system would knock out these stressors, shut down your anxiety, and curb fear so you can take back control of your life. Inside "The Stress-Free You: How to Live Stress-Free and Feel Great Every Day, Starting Today" is an easy-to-implement system which you can use today to knock out the stressors in your life one by one. You'll discover why a little stress is good for you, why your body becomes "overloaded" with chronic stress, how to assess your stress level and take definite action steps to tame the wild beast of stress, how simple meditation and such gentle exercises as yoga and Tai Chi can help you beat stress, stress management tips you can use at work, school and home to relieve stress nearly instantly, how the simple act of sleep (when done properly!) works as a great stress-buster, and more. Get your copy of "The Stress-Free You: How to Live Stress-Free and Feel Great Every Day, Starting Today" and begin knocking out your daily stressors today!

Los factores de estrés están en todas partes. Todos y cada uno de los días nos encontraos con situaciones que nos ponen a prueba constantemente, nos hacen perder la paciencia, nos quitan la razón, merman nuestra concentración y hacen que perdamos el control de nuestros días. Si bien el estrés puede ser un desafío, también puede ser fácil de manejar si tiene un sistema con el cual lidiar con él. Este sistema derribará los factores de estrés, apagará su ansiedad y alejará el miedo para que usted pueda tomar el control de su vida. Dentro de "Usted Libre De Estrés: Cómo Vivir Sin Estrés Sintiéndose Genial Cada Día, Empezando Hoy" hallará un sistema fácil de implementar que puede usar hoy para derribar los factores de estrés presentes en su vida uno por uno. Descubrirá por qué un poco de estrés es bueno para usted, por qué su cuerpo se "sobrecarga" con estrés crónico, cómo analizar su nivel de estrés y tomar acciones para domar la salvaje bestia del estrés, cómo la simple meditación y ejercicios suaves de yoga y Tai chi pueden ayudarle a derrotar el estrés, consejos de gestión del estrés que puede usar en el trabajo, la escuela y el hogar para aliviar el estrés casi instantáneamente, cómo el simple acto de dormir (¡si se hace correctamente!) es una forma genial de vencer el estrés, y más. ¡Consiga su copia de "Usted Libre De Estrés: Cómo Vivir Sin Estrés Sintiéndose Genial Cada Día, Empezando Hoy" y empiece a vencer sus factores de estrés diarios ya!

¿Siempre se ha preguntado por qué algunas personas parecen llevársela fácil en la vida mientras que otros luchan y nunca alcanzan todo su potencial? Con frecuencia, la diferencia está en una sola cosa: su pensamiento. Mire a su alrededor. Estudie a aquellos que experimentan el éxito en casi todo aspecto de sus vidas. Descubrirá que son pensadores positivos - optimistas. Aquellos que tienen problemas, se encuentran con obstáculos impenetrables y nunca siguen adelante, usualmente tienen una perspectiva negativa. Si se identifica con el segundo caso, pero aún desea algo más grande, no se desespere. Puede cambiar su patrón de pensamiento relativamente fácil y rápidamente. Y este libro, " Un Tú Positivo: Cambie Su Vida con el Poder del Pensamiento Positivo", le enseñará cómo hacerlo. No sólo le brinda una explicación de la razón científica detrás del éxito de los pensadores positivos, además le dará un planteamiento paso a paso que puede transformar hasta a la persona más pesimista en un optimista. Además del capítulo dedicado a este enfoque sistemático, este libro le ofrece muchos consejos y técnicas para darle ese impulso de optimismo que ocasionalmente necesita durante su ocupado día. ¡Adquiera "Un Tú Positivo: Cambie Su Vida con el Poder del Pensamiento Positivo" hoy para cambiar su vida de más o menos a asombrosa!

Us is a collection of deeply felt and passionately created poems by Carl and Elizabeth O'Brien. These rich poems are the products of tears and joy, aches and exhilaration.

Have you always wondered why some people seem to sail smoothly through life and others struggle and never reach their full potential? More often than not, the difference comes down to just one thing: their thinking. Look around you. Study those who experience success in nearly every aspect of their life. You'll discover that they are positive thinkers - optimists. Those who struggle, hit impenetrable roadblocks and never get ahead usually come from a negative perspective. If the latter describes you, but you still yearn for something greater, don't despair. You can change your thinking pattern relatively easily and quickly. And this book, "A Positive You: Change Your Life with the Power of Positive Thinking," will show you how to do just that. It not only provides you with an explanation of the scientific reasoning behind the success of positive thinkers, it'll give you a step-by-step approach that can turn even the most pessimistic person into an optimist. In addition to the chapter dedicated to this systematic approach, this book provides you with plenty of tips and techniques to give you that shot of optimism you occasionally need throughout your busy day. Pick up "A Positive You: Change Your Life with the Power of Positive Thinking" today to change your life from so-so to sizzling!

Do you find yourself struggling with constant feelings of fear, worry, and dread just facing each day? Do you frequently tell yourself to "buck up," only to find that the attempt is impossible? Do you blame yourself for your failed efforts and feel you'll never overcome your tirelessly chattering and obsessive mind? Anxiety affects 40 million Americans every year, and the numbers aren't getting better. Many anxiety sufferers feel "cursed" by their overwhelming fears. Eventually, many become physically depleted from the side effects of anxiety, including insomnia, muscle tension, heart palpitations, headaches, and digestion problems, among others. The good news is that there are a multitude of ways to address anxiety and ease its effects on your mind and body. Many artists, public figures, scientists, and others have learned to manage their anxiety and to transform all of that negative energy into success. You can too! Inside Turning Stress into Success: Understanding, Managing, and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder, you'll come to understand what anxiety, panic, worry, and fear mean in your life and how to address each. You'll learn different mental and physical strategies that can alleviate stress and bring your mind back to focus. You'll also look at the different schools of psychology and how to choose a psychologist or therapist that can help you on your journey to become anxiety-free. And lastly, you'll learn about how nutrition and physical health can turn your body and your mind around. You don't have to live behind a wall of fear anymore. Pick up Turning Stress into Success: Understanding, Managing, and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder today, and use the tools within not just to defeat anxiety, but to transform that energy into positive, creative expression and success!

Knowing grammar will help you write and speak with confidence, and sentence diagramming is an amazing tool for mastering grammar. This book includes definitions, examples, and sentence diagrams of the eight parts of speech, phrases, clauses, gerunds, infinitives, participles, and much more. I created this resource for 5th graders through adults, but I've heard from many teachers and parents using it successfully with students in 3rd and 4th grade as well. Do yourself and your students a favor. Learn or teach grammar with sentence diagrams, and use this book to make it easy! I have a class of fifth graders, and they just can't get enough of sentence diagramming! -Jennifer, Teacher I am amazed at all of your great resources. I'm now developing my sentence diagramming skills and learning how to use proper grammar. Your information is a big help for me as I teach my two lovely daughters at home. You've given me grammar knowledge and confidence in myself! - Lynn, Homeschool Teacher I highly recommend this program. We bought the book, and my eight-year-old son has caught on very quickly. He actually enjoys grammar work now. - Sasha, Homeschool Teacher

(This student workbook does not contain the answer key and is to be used in conjunction with the Stay Smart Answer Key.) Did you know that many students today aren't taught grammar? It's true. That was my experience through high school, and it lead me to feel self-conscious about my writing and speaking for a very long time. Things changed for me when I entered one of my English classes in college. I was lucky enough to have a fabulous professor who taught me grammar and sentence diagramming. Finally, everything made sense, and it felt great! I assume that since you're looking at this book, you were also lucky enough to have a fabulous teacher teach the same things to you. You know how important grammar is to a person's thought process, and you've seen the positive effects that grammar and diagramming have had on your writing and your confidence. As with most things in life, it's easy to forget what we've learned if we're not putting it into practice every day. That's why I wrote this book of sentence diagramming exercises. The material in this book will enable you to remember and review all of the information you've already learned. This book will help you continue to be a knowledgeable student who's ready to take on the world! Enjoy these sentence diagrams!

In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity, O'Brien argues that present-day claims about fetal personhood are rooted in the use of surgical force against marginalized and racialized women. This history illuminates the theological, patriarchal, and epistemological roots of obstetric violence and racism today.O'Brien illustrates how ideas about maternal worth and unborn life developed in tandem. Eighteenth-century priests sought to save unborn souls through cesarean section, while nineteenth-century doctors aimed to salvage some unmarried women's social reputations via therapeutic abortion. By the twentieth century, eugenicists wished to regenerate the nation's racial profile, in part by sterilizing women in public clinics. The belief that medical interventions could redeem women, children, and the nation is what O'Brien refers to as "salvation though surgery." As operations acquired racial and religious significances, Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mixed-race people's bodies became sites for surgical experimentation. Even during periods of Church-state conflict, O'Brien argues, the religious valences of experimental surgery manifested in embodied expressions of racialized, and often-coercive, medical science.

These exercises teach you step-by-step how to diagram the eight parts of speech, independent clauses, dependent adverb clauses, dependent noun clauses, dependent adjective clauses, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, gerunds, infinitives, participles, and more. You'll learn grammar and diagramming with these short, simple lessons and exercises, and you'll find all of the answers in the back so that you can easily check your work. These grammar exercises will work for you whether you're a teacher, a student, a writer, an editor, a businessman, a parent, a grandparent, or just a person who loves learning. When you're done with this book, you'll possess a powerful tool for using and understanding language. You'll be able to write with clarity, and you'll actually enjoy grammar. My son just started diagramming sentences. He really enjoys it and says grammar is now his favorite subject! Thanks for inspiring my son and me. - Margaret, Homeschool Mom I have started using your grammar exercises in my writing classes, and the students are quite engaged. - Susan, ESL Teacher I didn't "get" grammar at all growing up, and I was scared of it. Teaching it is terrifying for me. However, diagramming is helping me, so I am teaching it to my students as well. Thank you for inspiring me to love grammar and to feel more confident. - Megan, High School English Teacher I have all your materials, and I think it's all superb. It is a great way to make grammar tuition more dynamic/interactive and less didactic. It also appeals to visual learners. - Terry, Literacy Program Coordinator When I think of the complete breezing-over of this subject in my school years, I'm amazed I can communicate at all. Although I actually get paid to write, I have always felt that my underlying grammatical strength was missing. I love the fact that this material is a confidence-boosting exercise as well as an educational one. I feel more equipped to explore a whole new world of knowledge, simply because I am armed with a fuller understanding of how the sentence works and what the author is saying with style, content, and syntax. - Phil, Writer I find sentence diagramming fun, and my confidence is slowly but surely growing. I think I've missed out on a lot since my teachers never taught me this brilliant way of learning English when I was in school! I would definitely recommend my friends use this method. - Carol, Grammar Lover To be honest with you, the only only way I can stomach studying grammar is through sentence diagramming. I have a "normal" grammar book, but I get so fed up trying to learn all of the rules and the exceptions to the rules. - Elizabeth, (Reluctant) Grammar Lover

Do you and your students already know how to diagram sentences? If you're looking for a fun, easy way to keep your grammar and sentence diagramming skills sharp, these daily advanced sentence diagramming exercises are for you! In this answer key, you'll find over 188 interesting sentences to diagram, answer keys for each sentence, grammar tips, and extensive review material. This book makes it easy to see the answers and correct the sentence diagramming exercises from the Stay Smart Workbook! Enjoy being a confident, amazing grammar teacher without having to do any preparation. Everything you need is in this book! "I am studying for the GMAT and have found your website and diagramming books to be invaluable!" - Karen-Kim, Student "I feel more equipped to explore a whole new world of knowledge simply because I am armed with a fuller understanding of how the sentence works." - Phil, Writer "I operate a small school in Thailand. I recently bought your book and have been using it to teach my students and myself. My students and I love it." - Charles, Teacher & Principal

"In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity, O'Brien argues that present-day claims about fetal personhood are rooted in the use of surgical force against marginalized and racialized women. This history illuminates the theological, patriarchal, and epistemological roots of obstetric violence and racism today. O'Brien illustrates how ideas about maternal worth and unborn life developed in tandem. Eighteenth-century priests sought to save unborn souls through cesarean section, while nineteenth-century doctors aimed to salvage some unmarried women's social reputations via therapeutic abortion. By the twentieth century, eugenicists wished to regenerate the nation's racial profile, in part by sterilizing women in public clinics. The belief that medical interventions could redeem women, children, and the nation is what O'Brien refers to as 'salvation though surgery.' As operations acquired racial and religious significances, Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mixed-race people's bodies became sites for surgical experimentation. Even during periods of Church-state conflict, O'Brien argues, the religious valences of experimental surgery manifested in embodied expressions of racialized, and often-coercive, medical science"--

A Journey Through My Soul is a collection of one passionate, thoughtful, lyrical young woman's path from early adolescence to the present day. Many of the poems reflect her teenage years, giving wonderful insight about the wonder and wisdom of emerging maturity, with experiences ranging from the ecstatic thrill of first love and crushes, the deep comfort and bonding of true friendship, and the heartbreak of learning to deal with betrayal and the end of relationships. You will be carried along on an expanding world view that includes the quiet despair of longing for loved ones stationed overseas, the joys and fears of motherhood, and the multifaceted discovery of true and lasting love. These poems reflect experience that is both universal and unique, illuminated by a personal voice and sensitivity that allow the reader both a sense of community, and a glimpse into something beyond the everyday. Moving, inspiring, and honest, A Journey Through My Soul is a perfect companion for every life path.