Chase's Calendar of Events 2018

Chase's Calendar of Events 2018
Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Bernan Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1598889265

Founded in 1957, Chase's observes its 60th anniversary with the 2018 edition! Users will find everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and much more. "One of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."--Publishers Weekly.

Journeys of the Crystal Skull Explorers

Journeys of the Crystal Skull Explorers
Author: Joshua Shapiro
Publisher: Inner Light Global Communications
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781606111468

DECODE A MYSTERY THAT TIME HAS NOT FORGOTTEN! --- STRANGE CRYSTAL SKULLS HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND HAVE BECOME PART OF OUR POP CULTURE, HAVING BEEN PORTRAYED IN A BLOCKBUSTER INDIANA JONES MOVIE! --- NOW, JOIN THE AUTHORS AS THEY SEARCH THE REMOTEST PARTS OF PERU FOR A HUMAN-SIZED, TWO-PIECE, TRANSPARENT QUARTZ SKULL THAT IS CALLED "THE BLUE SKULL" AND ORIGINATES FROM A MYSTERIOUS TIME WHEN THE WORLD WAS STILL YOUNG. --- Learn how the "Blue Skull" communicated with the author and called him to come to Peru to discover its history, its amazing powers and its reason for existence as this skull is preparing to assist humankind at this critical point in our spiritual evolution. From 1997-2002 the Author made three journeys to Peru at his own expense, being guided by an inner vision, having no clue what he would find or if he would meet the "Blue Skull." Within this book are his daily journal notes, revealing the secrets to the "Blue Skull" and how it forever changed his life - and how it will change your life as well. Believe it or not, this is a true story as the "Blue Skull" asked that this book be released NOW to prepare the world for the skull's emergence. *** The Blue Skull has a living consciousness of its own and is not just a stone in the shape of a human like skull. --- *** There is a strong link to the Blue Skull with the ancient civilization of Lemuria. The Blue Skull revealed that before it traveled to Atlantis, it was held in an Lemurian Temple over 100,000 years ago. --- *** The spirit of a dead king or ruler, the Lord of Sipan, head of a city state of the Moche - appears to the Author to act as his guide and protector. --- *** Read about the UFO cloud that magically appears when a special mediation with the author's own crystal skull is done in the area where he was called to find the "Blue Skull," in an isolated area high up in the Andes Mountain in Peru near the border with Ecuador. ---

The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
Author: Jane MacLaren Walsh
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789200962

Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban; this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Chase's Calendar of Events 2019

Chase's Calendar of Events 2019
Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1641432640

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book, Chase's is the definitive day-by-day resource of what America and the world are celebrating and commemorating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical anniversaries to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2019, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2019 is packed with special events and observances, including The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements The Transit of Mercury National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Celebrations and observances of Leonardo da Vinci's 500th death anniversary The 100th anniversary of the 1919 World Series Scandal The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing The 200th birthdays of Queen Victoria and Walt Whitman The 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi and the 100th birth anniversary of Jackie Robinson Scores of new holidays and national days Birthdays of new world leaders, office holders, and breakout stars And much more! All from the reference book that NPR's Planet Money calls the "Oxford English Dictionary of holidays."

Crystal Skulls and the Enigma of Time

Crystal Skulls and the Enigma of Time
Author: Patricia Mercier
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1780281358

A fascinating, many-layered true adventure story that spans the globe and follows the author's quest to discover the meaning of various crystal skulls - which resonate with the Mayan prophecies and carry profound implications for the future of humankind.

Volatile

Volatile
Author: Daniela Elana
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387742906

An actress falls for a Watcher only to learn he's the leader of the Lemurian Order-a secret society conspiring to wage Armageddon. She must choose between marriage or stopping them before their prophecy comes to fruition destroying her realm.

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017
Author: Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-05-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476670323

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2017 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook

Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook
Author: Roger O. Weed
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1075
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1498731120

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, planning for, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with complex medical care needs over their lifetime. This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for all people involved with catastrophic impairments and chronic medical care case management. The Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, begins by defining the roles played by each of the key team members working with the life care planner. It provides planners with insights critical to successful interactions with medical and health care–related professionals as well as the team members they are most likely to encounter as they work to build an accurate and reliable life care plan. Next, the text offers up-to-date information on the medical conditions most frequently encountered by the life care planner. The contributors, who are recognized experts in their disciplines, also address issues in forensic settings, ethics, standards, research, and credentials. The fourth edition includes numerous chapters on general issues, as well as updated standards of practice from the International Academy of Life Care Planners (IALCP), Life Care Planning Consensus Statements, and valuable step-by-step charts and checklists. Completely updated and expanded, this revised handbook now includes new chapters on multicultural considerations in life care planning, admissibility of life care plans in U.S. courts, and Canadian life care planning practice. Additionally, infused in other chapters, is new information on medical coding and costing for life care planners, life care planning in non-litigated contexts, as well as research and education within life care planning.

Motor System and Motor Diseases: From Molecules to Circuits

Motor System and Motor Diseases: From Molecules to Circuits
Author: Jing-Ning Zhu
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre:
ISBN: 2889637344

Movement is the basis for many forms of behaviors, and is tightly controlled by a hierarchical system containing cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord. Each level of this hierarchy contributes to motor planning, motor initiation, motor execution, and motor coordination, respectively. However, they all receive continuous sensory inputs and generate accurate sensorimotor integrations that are necessary for both predictive and reflexive/servo controls of movements. The motor system contains various types of neurons with different morphological, neurochemical and electrophysiological properties, which are significantly dependent on many intracellular signaling molecules. Interestingly, these neurons are interconnected by intricate neuronal circuits for motor control, and even interacted with other non-motor systems to orchestrate somatic-nonsomatic integration. Furthermore, synaptic and neural plasticity endows motor system with amazing abilities for not only motor learning but also compensation and recovery from motor diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, ataxias, motion sickness and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc. Therefore, the motor system is of great importance for understanding information processing, integrative function, and neural plasticity of the central nervous system. The aim of this Research Topic is to discuss the latest advances in our understanding of motor system, motor control, motor learning and motor diseases from molecular, cellular, synaptic, circuit, and behavioral levels, especially in an integrative perspective.