On Submitting a Proposal to a Publisher

The first step in publishing a college textbook is usually the submission of a proposal. Currently, textbook publishers are cutting back the number of books they are contracting, but "over-the-transom" proposals continue to flood editors'desks. Very few proposals are properly prepared since few would-be authors are aware of the precise information a publisher needs. This article suggests both guidelines for a "good" proposal, as well as some additional hints for textbook publication.     

Your Money or Your Life: Managing Health,Managing Money

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper examines the relationship between non-collateralized debt (NCD) and health behaviors. The results reveal that households whose members tend to lead less healthy lifestyles are more likely to hold NCD. There are three possible underlying hypotheses that may explain these relationships: (a) common factors, such as preferences, shaping both debt and poorer health behaviors; (b) poorer health and health behaviors causing debt; and (c) debt causing poorer health behaviors. Our findings are not consistent with a causal relationship between health behaviors and NCD. It is likely that other factors, such as time preferences, risk aversion and self-control may underlie the observed correlation.

Humor Your Way to Good Health

ABSTRACT

Although humor has been used in many ways, humor practices have not been fully conceptualized or utilized as a means to impact major concerns on a societal level. In this intergenerational model demonstration, humor practices were re-conceptualized and used as an effective vehicle for communicating messages to impact a societal issue, overweight and obesity among children. This objective was operationalized through an intergenerational project of the Legacy Leadership Institute on Humor Communication and Health (LLIHCH). Legacy Leaders were trained to use humor practices to convey messages about healthy eating and physical activity to children. They participated in interactive instruction on key topics (nutrition, humor practices, intergenerational relationships, children and schools, leadership, and instructional methods. Legacy Leaders used this training to conduct the Humor Your Way to Good Health program in two public elementary schools. Assessments indicate the children benefit significantly from the Humor Your Way to Good Health intergenerational program in terms of the knowledge acquired and its application to making choices that support healthy behaviors. The unique humor approach captures the attention and imagination of children. The intergenerational approach unites children and adults in a joint quest for healthier lifestyles. Together, they are addressing the epidemic of overweight and obesity among children.     

亚健康试试推拿(英文)

现代社会发展迅速,人们的社会压力、心理压力不断增加,使机体常常处于疲劳状态.大脑、内脏器官就会出现功能失调或功能减退,或机体组织结构老化变快,这种没有疾病而又有自我不适的状态被称为亚健康状态。推拿疗法为治疗亚健康提供了一种有效的保健手段,它具有中医疗法的优越性——简便有效、易为人接受。推拿治疗的过程,让人感觉到机体的轻松、心情的舒畅。     

Your Money or Your Life: Behavioral and Emotional Predictors of Money Pathology

This study sought to examine self-reportedemotional and behavioral correlates of money pathology,defined as inappropriate behavior with respect to moneyand associated material goods. In all, 267 British adult subjects completed a battery ofquestionnaires including Rubinstein's (1981) extensivePsychology Today survey on money and Forman's ipsativemeasures that describe five Money Pathology Scales(miser, spendthrift, tycoon, bargain hunter, gambler),an overall pathology scale combining the five and hisshort moneysanity measure. The former measure was factoranalyzed and selected factor scores regressed on to the moneysanity measure along withdemographic measures in order to attempt to establishwhich individual difference factors best predicted thedifferent types of money pathology. Thus females were more extravagant, prone to depression, but lesslikely to take moral risks for money, while richer, moreright-wing people tended to be more materialistic. Thosewith overall less money sanity tended more to believe luck and dishonesty were moreimportant in making money; were self-denying andeconomically pessimistic, and had powerful negativeemotions like anger and anxiety around money. Multiple regressions on to the money types showed thatbetween 15 and 30% of the variance could be explainedand accounted for, by the selected independent variables(demographic, religious and political belief, illness, and more general attitudes towardwealth). Demographic variables like age, and negativeemotions about money were consistent predictors of moneypathology. Results are discussed in terms of the small, but growing literature on the psychologyof money (Furnham, 1997; Furnham & Argyle,1998).     

Shaking Your Way to a Trimmer Figure

SHAPING is a kind of indoorsport which gives definition to thebeauty of the human body byharmonizing one’s health,figure,carriage,deportment and dressaccoding to one’s character.shapingnot only effectively builds up goodbody shape,but also improves one'sability to dress and apply make-upwith bodily proportions in mind. Shaping is not quite as in vogue     

Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

Marlene Dumas's exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, reveals a complicated economy of seeing as her paintings and drawings reject any easy recognition or simplification of aesthetic, cultural, or political meanings. The multiple series of faces rendered in eerie washes of watercolor and oil seem to suspend representation, projecting a discomforting knowledge of subjectivity as an always tense agitated terrain within which the viewer must stand complicit in relational contestation.     

Derwent's Doors: Creative Acts

Children's early word learning is not usually considered creative in the same sense as artistic productions of later life. Yet early word learning is a creative response to the intrinsic instability of word meaning. As the child acts to participate in her community, she strives for intersubjectivity, manifest in neologisms and under- and overextensions, commonly characterized as errors. Young children's innovative productions, as those of second-language learners, may raise new possibilities for rich understandings of linguistic creativity, if from dialogical approaches to linguistics the local quality of interpretations is properly incorporated into theory. Language use into adulthood, including for literary functions, continues to interplay routines and innovations; semiotic transformation is a central process of human creativity.

Derwent extends the idea of Door so far that he not only [calls] the Lids of Boxes Doors, but even the Covers of Books/a year & 8 months. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [1802] as cited in Perry, 2002 Perry, S., ed. 2002. Coleridge's notebooks: A selection, Oxford, , England: Oxford University Press.  [Google Scholar], p. 25)     

择“优”而食之(英文)

如何吃出健康、吃出长寿?其中的奥秘在于择"优"而食之。     

My Discipline is Better Than Your Discipline: Some Barriers to interdisciplinary Research*

Les frontières traditionnelles entre les champs du savoir se sont estompées au cours des dernières années. Le vent est à la collaboration étroite entre chercheurs de même persuasion et l'on accorde une importance croissante aux recherches que poursuivaient des équipes mixtes. Ces dernières tentative sont cependant en butte à bien des obstacles qu'il faudra vaincre avant que la recherche de caractère mixte atteigne sa majorité L'auteur fait état de quelques-uns de ces obstacles et suggère une méthode pour avoir raison d'eux.