Bøker av Paul Thomas

An accessible and reassuring guide to childhood health and immunity from a pediatrician who’s both knowledgeable about the latest scientific research and respectful of a family’s risk factors, health history, and concerns In The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, Paul Thomas, M.D., presents his proven approach to building immunity: a new protocol that limits a child’s exposure to aluminum, mercury, and other neurotoxins while building overall good health. Based on the results from his pediatric practice of more than eleven thousand children, as well as data from other credible and scientifically minded medical doctors, Dr. Paul’s vaccine-friendly protocol gives readers • recommendations for a healthy pregnancy and childbirth • vital information about what to expect at every well child visit from birth through adolescence • a slower, evidence-based vaccine schedule that calls for only one aluminum-containing shot at a time • important questions to ask about your child’s first few weeks, first years, and beyond • advice about how to talk to health care providers when you have concerns • the risks associated with opting out of vaccinations • a practical approach to common illnesses throughout the school years • simple tips and tricks for healthy eating and toxin-free living at any age The Vaccine-Friendly Plan presents a new standard for pediatric care, giving parents peace of mind in raising happy, healthy children.Praise for The Vaccine-Friendly Plan“Finally, a book about vaccines that respects parents! If you choose only one book to read on the topic, read The Vaccine-Friendly Plan. This impeccably researched, well-balanced book puts you in the driver’s seat and empowers you to make conscientious vaccine decisions for your family.”—Peggy O’Mara, editor and publisher, Mothering Magazine “Sure to appeal to readers of all kinds as a friendly, no-nonsense book that cuts through the rhetoric surrounding vaccines. It offers validation to those who avoid some or all, while offering those who do want to vaccinate help on how to do so safely. This is a great book for anyone with children in their lives.”—Natural Mother “A valuable, science-supported guide to optimizing your child’s health while you navigate through complex choices in a toxic, challenging world.”—Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School “An impressively researched guide, this important book is essential reading for parents. With clear and practical advice for shielding children from harmful toxins, it will compel us all to think differently about how to protect health.”—Jay Gordon, M.D., FAAP “Rather than a one-size-fits-all vaccine strategy, the authors suggest thoughtful, individualized decisions based on research and collaboration between parents and clinicians—a plan to optimize a child’s immune system and minimize any risks.”—Elizabeth Mumper, M.D., founder and CEO, The Rimland Center for Integrative Pediatrics“This well-written and thought-provoking book will encourage parents to think through decisions—such as food choices and the timing of vaccines—that affect the well-being of their children. In a world where children’s immune systems are increasingly challenged, this is a timely addition to the literature.”—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Dance of Anger and The Mother Dance

The Dinosaur who Didn't Play: is an enchanting children's book that takes young readers on an exciting journey into a school filled with adorable dinosaur characters. This heartwarming tale revolves around the values of acceptance and understanding in the face of differences, with a particular focus on special needs.Meet Robert, a dinosaur who is different than his other friends. As Robert plays on his own at the Dinosaur School, he gets the attention of a friend who is interested in learning more about Robert. the friend quickly realizes that Robert has his way of playing.Throughout the story, readers witness the other dinosaurs learn and develop an understanding about what makes their classmate Robert so unique.The Dinosaur Who Didn't Play is not only an engaging adventure but also an educational journey that fosters empathy, acceptance, and friendship among young readers. Through lovable dinosaur characters, this book encourages children to celebrate diversity, embrace their own unique qualities, and cherish the wonderful differences that make each of us special.With its brightly colored illustrations, relatable characters, and a heartfelt message, "The Dinosaur Who Didn't Play" is a delightful tale that will captivate children, while teaching them the values of inclusivity and empathy that are crucial for building a compassionate and accepting society.

Strange events have been happening in the air above Antarctica, baffling to the scientific team that has detected them. A world away in Britain, a brilliant prize-winning and intuitive young scientist, Erin Stone, has been drawing some strange conclusions from this data. So too, unknown to Erin, has a multinational security company, with dark political connections and ambitions. While delivering her award speech at a science festival, something extraordinary happens to her that will radically change her life ... and upend science itself.

This booklet explores the mystery of biblical marriage as a type of the relationship between Christ and His bride, the Church. The uniqueness of this relationship is witnessed in the creation of the woman, from the rib of the man. This corresponds to the bride of Christ, the Church, which was similarly purchased with blood and water issuing from the side of her husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul's command for husbands to love their wives and wives to respect their husbands are twin pillars central to the success of a marriage.

This book can perhaps be usefully perceived as an invitation to reflect on aspects of the principles of the government of God through the ages. In this present time, when authority has been compromised - partly because of the misuse of power and partly because of rebellion - there is an urgent need to reclaim sound biblical principles of authority and leadership. As the idiom says, we cannot throw out the baby with the bathwater. God has always had principles of governance for the people of His covenant. Each epoch or dispensation had a specific set of divine edicts drawn up between God and His people. The content varied but the principles always reflected the holy and moral nature of God. We can ascertain from the pages of the Bible that there has never been a time when God operated without principles of governance.

"When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves. Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand cricketer to play 450 international matches. He's the first player from any country to make 100 international appearances in all three formats of the game: test cricket, one-day internationals and Twenty20. The numbers are extraordinary but they don't tell the whole story. They don't capture the unlikely, if not unique, aspects of Ross Taylor's journey to becoming one of our true sporting greats: the part-Samoan youngster, brought up in humble circumstances and a loving and supportive family environment, who quickly made his mark in a predominantly white sport; the dashing batsman who found fame and fortune amidst the glitz and glamour of the Indian Premier League, then adapted his game in order to realise his ambition of becoming a champion in the most demanding format, test cricket; the young captain whose dream of leading his country turned into a nightmare that took a heavy toll on his well-being; the resilient performer who overcame rejection and adversity to play a central role in New Zealand cricket's golden era. Here is the whole story - in black and white."--Publisher.

Simulated test collections may find application in situations where real datasets cannot easily be accessed due to confidentiality concerns or practical inconvenience. They can potentially support Information Retrieval (IR) experimentation, tuning, validation, performance prediction, and hardware sizing. Naturally, the accuracy and usefulness of results obtained from a simulation depend upon the fidelity and generality of the models which underpin it. The fidelity of emulation of a real corpus is likely to be limited by the requirement that confidential information in the real corpus should not be able to be extracted from the emulated version. We present a range of methods exploring trade-offs between emulation fidelity and degree of preservation of privacy.We present three different simple types of text generator which work at a micro level: Markov models, neural net models, and substitution ciphers. We also describe macro level methods where we can engineer macro properties of a corpus, giving a range of models for each of the salient properties: document length distribution, word frequency distribution (for independent and non-independent cases), word length and textual representation, and corpus growth.We present results of emulating existing corpora and for scaling up corpora by two orders of magnitude. We show that simulated collections generated with relatively simple methods are suitable for some purposes and can be generated very quickly. Indeed it may sometimes be feasible to embed a simple lightweight corpus generator into an indexer for the purpose of efficiency studies.Naturally, a corpus of artificial text cannot support IR experimentation in the absence of a set of compatible queries. We discuss and experiment with published methods for query generation and query log emulation.We present a proof-of-the-pudding study in which we observe the predictive accuracy of efficiency and effectiveness results obtained on emulated versions of TREC corpora. The study includes three open-source retrieval systems and several TREC datasets. There is a trade-off between confidentiality and prediction accuracy and there are interesting interactions between retrieval systems and datasets. Our tentative conclusion is that there are emulation methods which achieve useful prediction accuracy while providing a level of confidentiality adequate for many applications.Many of the methods described here have been implemented in the open source project SynthaCorpus, accessible at: https://bitbucket.org/davidhawking/synthacorpus/

This is a story seeking to change evil into good, gaining success today from past tragedy. A rags to riches tale mixing 15th century history with 21st century excitement, romance, manipulation and mystery - with "e;a finale as unpredictable as it is intriguing."e;Nicoleta is born a simple Romanian village girl. But from childhood, she is more - indeed in that country, her name translates to "e;a victor for the people."e; And she sets out to prove it when she targets the world - including by singing and winning over men. Turning the evil of her country's legendary vampire Dracula into 21st century goodness. > >Skills from the oldest profession help her to London where she meets PR man Mark who aids her quest, changing her image to that of Ilona, 15th century wife of Vlad the Impaler, factual inspiration of the fictitious Dracula. > >With Mark, and a rich, mysterious English Lord, entranced by her beauty, charm and singing, she inspires a new character for Romania. And Dracula. Can the world be persuaded he was good as well as bad?> >She sings to international success - but then tragedy, as she is betrayed in romance. And life changes. Back to her village existence - and a new life, literally. But then suddenly, an even greater challenge... offering goodness and triumph. Where now for Nicoleta?

A practical book, based on sound theoretical models, which explores the main criteria available for evaluating social care and health services. The book explains why the various criteria are used, identifies the problems inherent in using them, and offers specific guidance on how to use each of the criteria.

This book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims.

Examines Marx's disputes with, and attacks upon, those anarchist theoreticians he encountered at various stages of his career. This study discusses and analyzes the formative influences upon Marx's writings and his political activity.

Offering a history of Marxist and socialist thought, this book explores the development of the idea of scientific socialism through the nineteenth and twentieth century from its origins in Engels to its last manifestation in the work of Althusser.

Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policy-making process, yet in reality they are often disregarded. This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating public policies and services. It further examines the nature of evidence and its use and non-use by decision-makers and assesses the work of influential academics in the USA and UK in the context of evaluation and policy making. The book emphasises the 'real world' of decision-makers in the public sector and recognises how political demands and economic pressures can affect the decisions of those who commission evaluation research while providing recommendations for policymakers on adopting a different approach to evaluation. This is essential reading for under-graduate and post-graduate students of policy analysis and public sector management, and those who are involved in the planning and evaluation of public policies and services.

This clear and expert guide shows how to safely cure, smoke and hang your own pork and other meat and fish products, with 300 photographs.

Covers the whole range of German light tanks used in WW2 including technical specifications along with superb, fully captioned images.

A comprehensive examination of a neglected area of WW2 equipment.

Colour profiles illustrating major variants of the Panzer IV

Comprehensive coverage of all German WW2 anti-tank vehicles.

This clear and comprehensive guide addresses all that ministers need to know to about conducting weddings well. Ideal for curates, training incumbents, ordinands and those who teach them, it combines information on legal requirements, service planning, pastoral practice and hassle-free organisation together in one place.