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  Fun Short Stories For Seniors:...

  Tenlee Graham

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  Nurture your mind and relationships through feel-good tales set in nature. 
  As we age, it's natural for memories to fade. Names, faces and events start to slip away without regular mental stimulation. 
  One enjoyable and effective way to support your memory retention through your golden years is through reading stories. 
  Not only is it a fun and relaxing activity, according to the American Academy of Neurology, the brain-stimulating activities from reading have been shown to slow down cognitive decline. It helps spark brain activity, bolster memory pathways, and cultivate a sense of self and connectivity.  
  This book provides you a simple way to exercise your memory and help you bring details back into focus. With short stories set in familiar outdoor settings like parks, lakes, and gardens, you’ll find yourself transported into the great outdoors from the first chapter. 
  Here’s a fraction of what you’ll discover inside: 
  ●	A delightful collection of short easy reads that jog your memory and support your brain health from the inside out   
  ●	Tales with familiar themes and relatable details that tap into nostalgia  and bridge the past with the present 
  ●	Prompts that encourage reflection and spark conversation between friends and family – these are perfect for bringing generations together! 
  ●	An easy-to-digest format that gets you into the habit of reading, without any pressure 
  ●	Stories designed not just to engage your mind but also boost your mood and reduce feelings of isolation 
  And much, much more! 
  Whether you read this solo with a cup of tea or share the tales with family, this book creates the perfect low-pressure way for you to keep your brain sharp long into retirement while strengthening bonds that really matter. 
  Invest in your health and relationships by adding this collection of short stories to your bookshelf.

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  Salleyland - Wildlife Adventures...

  Whit Gibbons

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  Following his retirement from academic life, renowned naturalist and writer Whit Gibbons and his family purchased a tract of abandoned farmland where the South Carolina piedmont meets the coastal plain. Described as backcountry scrubland, it was originally envisioned as a family retreat, but soon the property became Gibbons's outdoor learning laboratory where he was often aided by his four grandchildren, along with a host of enthusiastic visitors. 
   
   
   
  Inspired by nature's power to excite, educate, and provide a sense of place in the world, Gibbons invites listeners to learn about their surrounding environments. Peppered throughout with colorful personal anecdotes and told with Gibbons's affable style and wit, Salleyland: Wildlife Adventures in Swamps, Sandhills, and Forests is more than a personal memoir or a record of place. Rather, it is an exercise in learning about a patch of nature, thereby reminding us to open our eyes to the complexity and wonder of the natural world. 
   
   
   
  With Gibbons's guidance and encouragement, listeners will learn to embrace their inner scientists, equipped with the knowledge and encouragement to venture beyond their own front doors, ready to discover the secrets of their habitat, regardless of where they live.

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  Fear of Flying Hypnosis -...

  Adrian Berry

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  What you are dealing with is real. 
  It is not silly. It is not weak. It is not something you should be over by now. It is one of the most common, deeply rooted, neurologically powerful fears a human being can have. And almost no one in your life truly understands what it feels like for you. 
  They see the calm cabin. The flight attendants smiling. The other passengers reading. They cannot understand why your hands have gone cold. Why your heart is racing for no visible reason. Why every small sound makes you flinch. 
  This fear has cost you. Not just in the moments on the plane, but in the slow narrowing of your life. The wedding you did not attend. The family reunion you skipped. The job opportunity you turned down because of the travel. The honeymoon that became a road trip. The dream of seeing the world that you started, quietly, to fold away. 
  Hear me clearly. 
  You are not weak. You are a nervous system trying to keep you safe in the only way it knows. 
  The reason you cannot logic your way out of this fear is that it does not live in the part of your brain that responds to logic. It lives in the amygdala, the ancient, lightning-fast threat-detection center of your brain that does not speak in numbers or evidence. Knowing the statistics has not helped because all that knowledge is happening in the wrong part of the brain. 
  To change the fear response, you have to reach the layer where the fear actually lives. The subconscious. 
  For the next four hours you will not be lectured. You will not be shamed. You will be guided gently into the deeply relaxed state where your subconscious opens, and 200 carefully crafted affirmations will begin to retrain your nervous system. This program was designed to be used at home, at the gate, during boarding, and even during the flight itself. 
  One day soon, you will board a plane and notice your hands are not shaking. Your chest is not tight. The door will close, and your stomach will not drop. The plane will taxi, and your body will relax.

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  Outline of Science Vol 1 The (Solo)

  J. Arthur Thomson

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  In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological. With straightforward language intended for a general audience, this book covers astronomy from the Solar System to the Milky Way, the submicroscopic makeup of matter from protons and electrons, and the evolution of simple living beings into the varied fauna of the world today. Thomson cites many examples that would have been familiar to his readers of the day and notes where scientific understanding leaves off and conjecture begins. He clearly shows how the accumulation of observation and experiment stacked up to form the body of knowledge reported in the book. For even the scientifically well-versed, there will be interesting nuggets, for investigation into how the world came to be as it was, was both wide and deep.  
   
   To a modern listener, what was not known may be as interesting as what was. With the 100-inch Mt. Wilson reflector the largest telescope in the world, the existence of galaxies outside the Milky Way was suspected but not confirmed. Neutrons, soon to become important in the field of nuclear energy and atomic bombs, were as yet unguessed-at, yet the prospect of liberating the immense energy of the atom was already a keen interest. Although the famous Michaelson-Morley experiment had already been seen as disproof of an all-pervading "ether" which facilitated the flow of energy across empty space, scientists still retained ether as a place-holder for properties they could measure but not explain - an approach very similar to the "dark matter" of modern cosmology. 
   
   Regardless of your personal sentiments on Darwin's theory of evolution, Thomson provides well-chosen examples that illustrate why this theory arose. He examines not only the fossil record but the evidences present in modern living beings that the process of evolution is by no means finished, but ongoing.  
   
   Even at that time, Thomson worried over the future of energy sources. He contemplated the exhaustion of the coal fields and indeed, the eventual exhaustion of all usable energy in the universe, foreshadowing our concept of entropy.  
   
   This book has been consistently among the "Top 100 E-Books" published by Project Gutenberg.  
  Summary by Mark F. Smith.

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  The Pareto Principle

  Introbooks Team

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  The Pareto principle or the 80/20 ratio rule is a great way by which an individual, as well as a company with thousands of employees, can take the benefit and utilize the 80/20 ratio rule. This rule is all about the 20 percent of the causes or the inputs with the help of which the 80 percent of the outputs are received. This principle by Pareto, states that the 20 percent of the causes are responsible for any result which is received by an individual or a company. The Pareto principle is significantly very important and it is commonly used in the business purposes in order to enhance and develop the business and the product sales as well as the customer relationship of a company. This principle is easy to use and it can also be applied to a number of fields. It is great for business as well as academics. 

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  EATING DISORDERS FOOD ADDICTION...

  Marty Lerner Ph.D

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  Food Addiction and Ulta-Processed Food Dependency are diseases typified by loss of control over the ability to stop eating certain foods. Scientifically, food addiction is a cluster of chemical dependencies on specific foods or food substances. After ingesting highly palatable foods, such as those containing significant amounts of sugar, flour, excess fat, and/or salt, some people’s brains crave these foods. In addition, the more processed a food or substance is, the greater its addictive potential. Over time, the progressive eating of these foods distorts a person’s thinking and leads to negative consequences they do not want but cannot stop. What follows is a description of these phenomena and how they are like and different from eating disorders. Further, the book explores the utilization of a substance abuse treatment model as it applies to recovering from these addictive and compulsive disorders.

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