Manual Básico e simples de como proceder numa massagem Geotermal, como se preparar e o que utilizar.
Este mesmo manual, foi utilizado nas minhas aulas e uma cópia dada aos alunos.
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The Luck Uglies: Dishonour Among Thieves - Review and Competition
Published in March 2015, Dishonour Among Thieves is the latest installment in
the Luck Uglies Trilogy from celebrated children’s author, Paul Durham.
Reenter the mysterious world of Village Drowning with Rye and her fellow cohorts as she battles to save those she loves from the real monsters. How will Rye overcome these challenges when all the odds are stacked against her?
As the second story in the celebrated Luck Uglies series, the book follows the adventures of eleven-year-old Ryley O’Chanter as she gets caught in a dangerous feud between her father, Harmless, and a menacing masked man who goes by the name of Slinister Varlet.
Add to the mix an unforgiving son, a mystical curse, and a band of sinister thieves and you’ve got yourself another suspense-filled story from Durham!
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Praise for Paul Durham:
‘The Luck Uglies has it all: a feisty heroine, monstrous creatures, and a brim-full of humour and horror, to keep the readers turning the pages’, Joseph Delaney, author of The Spook’s Apprentice series.
‘Made me stay up too late reading because I was so gripped… impossible to put down! Overall a great read and would definitely recommend this book to anyone, it’s that good!’, Joel 12.
‘Everything I look for in a book’, Cai, age 11
My Review:
Paul Durham will definitely be one of the authors that I will start to check now.
Even if you think these books are only entitled for pre-teens or teens, fear not since I am a Mom that loves Harry Potter, and these Lucky Uglies are already in my bed side table.
Many Thanks to Paul Durham and Harper Collins for these beautiful books!
AND COMPETITION TIME:
Don't forget to enter HERE to win a copy of this fabulous book
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Mesotheraphy: The Manual - Learning the Basics, How to apply and Protocols by Shana Fidalgo
New Book and Ebook version on Amazon.
Mesotheraphy is used nowadays, all around the World.
It’s been used in treatments, from Athletes to replacement of the Liposuction's and weight loss and the most know treatment is the Face Lifting’s with excellent results.
In this book I will let you know which types of treatments are, the tools you need to be a Mesotherapist and what products to apply: from Chemicals to Homeopathy.
Inside this book are the three most used fields of work:
. Weight Loss (Detox, Obesity, firming the body);
. Pain treatment (Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Phlebitis, etc; and
. Aesthetics (Treatment for Wrinkles, Varicose veins, Firming several areas of the body).
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The Bell Witch Legend
In the early 1800s, John Bell moved his family from North Carolina to the Red River bottomland in Robertson County, Tennessee, settling in a community, Red River, which became Adams, Tennessee many years later. Bell purchased some land and a large house for his family. Over the next several years, he acquired more land, increasing his holdings to 328 acres, and cleared a number of fields for planting. He also was made an Elder of Red River Baptist Church. The Bells also had three more children after moving to Tennessee. Elizabeth (Betsy) was born in 1806, Richard in 1811, Joel in 1813.
One day in 1817, John Bell was inspecting his corn field when he encountered a strange-looking animal sitting in the middle of a corn row. Shocked by the appearance of this animal, which had the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, Bell shot several times. The animal vanished. Bell thought nothing more about the incident, at least not until after dinner. That evening, the Bells began hearing "beating" sounds on the outside walls of their log house.
The mysterious sounds continued with increased frequency and force each night. Bell and his sons often hurried outside to catch the culprit but always returned empty-handed. In the weeks that followed, the Bell children began waking up frightened, complaining that rats were gnawing at their bedposts. Not long after that, the children began complaining of having having their bed covers pulled from them and their pillows tossed onto the floor by a seemingly invisible entity.
As time went on, the Bells began hearing faint, whispering voices, which too weak to understand but sounded like a feeble old woman singing hymns. The encounters escalated, and the Bells’ youngest daughter, Betsy, began experiencing brutal encounters with the invisible entity. It would pull her hair and slap her relentlessly, often leaving welts and hand prints on her face and body. The disturbances, which John Bell told his family to keep a secret, eventually escalated to such a point that he decided to share his "family trouble" with his closest friend and neighbor, James Johnston.
Johnston and his wife spent the night at the Bell home, where they were subjected to the same terrifying disturbances that the Bells had experienced. After having his bedcovers removed and being slapped repeatedly, Johnston sprang out of bed, exclaiming, "In the name of the Lord, who are you and what do you want!" There was no response, but the remainder of the night was relatively peaceful.
The entity's voice strengthened over time to the point that it was loud and unmistakable. It sang hymns, quoted scripture, carried on intelligent conversation, and once even quoted, word-for-word, two sermons that were preached at the same time on the same day, thirteen miles apart. Word of this supernatural phenomenon soon spread outside the settlement, even to Nashville, where then-Major General Andrew Jackson took a keen interest.
John Bell, Jr., Drewry Bell, and Jesse Bell, John Bell's eldest sons, had fought under General Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. In 1819, Jackson decided to visit the Bell farm and see what all the hoopla was about. Jackson's entourage consisted of several men, some well-groomed horses, and a wagon. As they approached the Bell property, the wagon stopped suddenly. The horses couldn't pull it.
After several minutes of cursing and trying to coax the horses into pulling the wagon, Jackson proclaimed, "By the eternal, boys! That must be the Bell Witch!" Then, a disembodied female voice told Jackson that they could proceed and that she would see them again later that evening. They were then able to proceed across the property, up the lane, and to the Bell home where Jackson and John Bell had a long discussion about the Indians and other topics while Jackson’s entourage waited to see if the entity was going to manifest.
One of the men claimed to be a "witch tamer." After several uneventful hours, he pulled out a shiny pistol and proclaimed that its silver bullet would kill any evil spirit that it came into contact with. He went on to say that the reason nothing had happened to them was because whatever had been disturbing the Bells was "scared" of his silver bullet.
Immediately, the man screamed and began jerking his body in different directions, complaining that he was being stuck with pins and beaten severely. A strong, swift kick to the man's posterior region, from an invisible foot, sent him out the front door. Angry, the entity them spoke up and announced that there was yet another "fraud" in Jackson’s party, and that he would be identified and tormented the following evening.
Now terrified, Jackson’s men begged to leave the Bell farm. But Jackson, on the other hand, insisted on staying so that he could ascertain who the other "fraud" was. The men eventually went outside to sleep in their tents, but continued begging Jackson to leave. What happened next is not clear, but Jackson and his entourage were spotted in nearby Springfield early the next morning, presumably enroute to Nashville.
Over time, Betsy Bell became interested in Joshua Gardner, a young man who lived not far from her. With the blessing of their parents, they decided to marry. Everyone was happy about their engagement. Well, almost everyone. The entity, for reasons unknown to this day, repeatedly told Betsy not to marry Joshua Gardner.
Betsy and Joshua's former schoolteacher, Richard Powell, had been noticeably interested in Betsy for some time and had expressed interest in marrying her when she became older. By some accounts, Powell, who was eleven years Betsy's senior, was a student of the occult, although it has not been proved. He was secretly married to a woman in nearby Nashville, Esther Scott, during the time he spent at Red River expressing his fondness for Betsy. According to old accounts, Powell politely expressed his disappointment with Betsy's engagement and wished her a long and prosperous marriage with Joshua Gardner.
Betsy and Joshua could not go to the river, the field, or the cave to play without the entity taunting them persistently. Their patience finally reached critical mass, and on Easter Monday of 1821, Betsy met Joshua at the river and broke off their engagement. The disturbances decreased after Betsy ended the engagement, but the entity continued to express its dislike for John Bell and vowed relentlessly to kill him.
Bell had been experiencing episodes of twitching in his face and difficulty swallowing for almost a year, and the malady seemed to grow worse with time. By the fall of 1820, his declining health had confined him to the house, where the entity commenced removing his shoes when he tried to walk and slapping his face when he experienced seizures. Her loud, shrill voice could be heard all over the farm, cursing and chastising "Old Jack Bell," as she often referred to him.
John Bell breathed his last breath on the morning of December 20, 1820, after slipping into a coma the day before. Immediately after his death, the family found a small vial of unidentified liquid in the cupboard. John Bell, Jr. gave some of it to the cat, which died instantly. The entity then spoke up, exclaiming joyfully, "I gave Ol' Jack a big dose of that last night, which fixed him!" John, Jr. quickly threw the vial into the fireplace, where it burst into a bright, bluish flame and shot up the chimney.
John Bell's funeral was one of the largest ever held in Robertson County, Tennessee. As family and friends began leaving the graveyard, the entity laughed loudly and began singing a song about a bottle of brandy. It is said that her singing didn't stop until the very last person left the graveyard. The entity's presence was almost nonexistent after John Bell's demise, as if its purpose had been fulfilled.
In April of 1821, the entity visited John Bell's widow, Lucy, and told her that it would return for a visit in seven years. The entity returned in 1828, as promised. Most of its visit centered around John Bell, Jr., with whom the entity discussed such things as the origin of life, civilizations, Christianity, and the need for a mass spiritual reawakening. Of particular significance were its nearly accurate predictions of the Civil War and other events.
The entity said farewell after three weeks, promising to visit John Bell’s most direct descendant in 107 years. The year would have been 1935, and the closest living direct descendant of John Bell at that time was Nashville physician, Dr. Charles Bailey Bell. Dr. Bell himself wrote a book about the "Bell Witch," published in 1934. No follow-up was published, and Dr. Bell died in 1945.
The entity that tormented the Bell family and the Red River Settlement almost 200 years ago is often blamed for unexplainable manifestations that occur near the old Bell farm today. The faint sounds of people talking and children playing can sometimes be heard in the area, and it's not uncommon to see "candle lights" dance through the dark fields late at night. Photography is especially difficult; some pictures taken in the area show mist, orbs of light, and other phenomena, including human-like figures who were not present when the pictures were taken.
The cause of the Bells’ torment almost 200 years ago, as well as today's horrid, unexplainable manifestations, remains a mystery. Numerous theories abound, but there is no one theory that is universally agreed upon by Bell Witch enthusiasts and researchers -- and there probably never will be. Different people have different standards of proof. Most do agree that there was "something" very wrong at the Red River Settlement in the early 1800s, and that there may very well be "something" wrong there today.
Just as a curious note, the Death of John Bell was investigated by the US Government and since they (or as they say) didn't found anything still they declared that this Murder was of supernatural causes.
i wonder what those files say...
Thank you to Pat Fitzhugh, Author / Historian
Geek Girl 4 - All That Glitters by Holly Smale
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a Geek.”
The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners has high hopes for the new school year she’s a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different. But with Nat busy falling in love at college and Toby preoccupied with a Top Secret project, Harriet soon discovers that’s not necessarily a good thing…
The fourth book in the hugely successful Geek Girl series!
• GEEK GIRL was THE No. 1 children’s UK debut of 2013
• GEEK GIRL – INNER of the teen category of the Waterstones Children’s Books Prize 2014
• Geek Girl sales have been going from strength to strength. Book 1 has now sold over 100, 000 copies while book 2 has almost sold 45, 000 as of May 2014
• The smart and sassy new voice in teen fiction – Geek Girl defined the new clean teen’ genre
• GEEK GIRL shortlisted for the RAD DAH FUNN PRIZE 2013
• Geek Girl has a fantastic and engaged following on Facebook – now with more than 13,000 likes!
“Wise, funny and true, with a proper nerd heroine you’re laughing with as much as at. Almost”. James Henry, writer of Smack the Pony and Green Wing
“A feel-good satisfying gem that will have teens smiling from cover to cover, and walking a little taller after reading” – Books for Keeps
“I would highly recommend Geek Girl to anyone who likes a good laugh and enjoys a one of-a-kind story”. Mia, Guardian Children’s Books website
The Author:
Holly Smale is the author of Geek Girl, Model Misfit and Picture Perfect. She was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she couldn’t afford to replace.
By the time Holly had graduated from Bristol University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare she had given up modelling and set herself on the path to becoming a writer.
Geek Girl was the no. 1 bestselling young adult fiction title in the UK in 2013.
It was shortlisted for several major awards including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and won the teen and young adult category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
The Review
I didn't knew Geek Girl series, till I was reached out by Harper Collins.
I have to say that I don't know Holly Smare in person but for what I researched, Geek Girl could be (part) her life story.
It's a Young Adult series and if you like fun things and really learn somehing fun and educational (and you're an adult) go ahead and read it because it's funny and could represent part of our teenage years with all the dramas... and true facts!
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A Huge Thank You to Harper Collins
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The Witch of Napoli by Michael Schmicker
Italy 1899: Fiery-tempered, seductive, medium Alessandra Poverelli levitates a table at a Spiritualist séance in Naples.
A reporter photographs the miracle, and wealthy, skeptical, Jewish psychiatrist Camillo Lombardi arrives in Naples to investigate.
When she materializes the ghost of his dead mother, he risks his reputation and fortune to finance a tour of the Continent, challenging the scientific and academic elite of Europe to test Alessandra’s mysterious powers.
She will help him rewrite Science. His fee will help her escape her sadistic husband Pigotti and start a new life in Rome.
Newspapers across Europe trumpet her Cinderella story and baffling successes, and the public demands to know – does the “Queen of Spirits” really have supernatural powers?
Nigel Huxley is convinced she’s simply another vulgar, Italian trickster. The icy, aristocratic detective for England’s Society for the Investigation of Mediums launches a plot to trap and expose her.
Meanwhile, the Vatican is quietly digging up her childhood secrets, desperate to discredit her supernatural powers; her abusive husband Pigotti is coming to kill her; and the tarot cards predict catastrophe.
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Inspired by the true-life story of controversial Italian medium Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918), The Witch of Napoli masterfully resurrects the bitter,19th-century battle between Science and religion over the possibility of an afterlife, while earning praise from Kirkus Reviews as an "enchanting and graceful narrative that absorbs readers from the first page."
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Michael Schmicker is an investigative journalist and co-author of The Gift: ESP: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People (St. Martin’s Press).
He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Special thank you to Michael Schmicker for this wonderful book.
The Zig Zag Girl
Plot:
Brighton, 1950.
When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.
The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men.
Max is still on the circuit, touring seaside towns in the company of ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls. Changing times mean that variety is not what it once was, yet Max is reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate. But when the dead girl turns out to be known to him, Max changes his mind.
Another death, another magic trick: Edgar and Max become convinced that the answer to the murders lies in their army days. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another 'trick', the Wolf Trap, he knows that they are all in danger...
About the Author:
Elly Griffiths was born in London. She read English at King's College, London and worked in publishing for many years.
Her crime novels are based in Norfolk and feature Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist.
She lives near Brighton with her husband, an archaeologist, and their two children.
"It’s Not Me, It’s You" - Mhairi McFarlane
An achingly funny story about how to be your own hero when life pulls the rug out from under your feet.
From the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO
Delia Moss isn’t quite sure where she went wrong.
When she proposed and discovered her boyfriend was sleeping with someone else – she thought it was her fault.
When she realised life would never be the same again – she thought it was her fault.
And when he wanted her back like nothing had changed – Delia started to wonder if perhaps she was not to blame…
From Newcastle to London and back again, with dodgy jobs, eccentric bosses and annoyingly handsome journalists thrown in, Delia must find out where her old self went – and if she can ever get her back.
About the Author
Mhairi was born in Scotland in 1976 and her unnecessarily confusing name is pronounced Vah-Ree.
After some efforts at journalism, she started writing novels.
It’s Not Me, It’s You is her third book.
She lives in Nottingham, with a man and a cat.
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November is the month of...
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Historic Personalities!
This month I will focus on Historic personalities (politics, writers, movie directors, painters, etc)
Do you have someone you would like to see here on Arts?
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The Shadow of War: The Great War Series Book 1 (Great War 1)
Ok....my love for History has no end...but for the both Great Wars... They are simply magic to my ears, eyes and intellect.
What about a First World War series, each book talks about one year of the First World War.
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June 1914.
The beginning of another long, prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath the clear skies, all is not as it seem - as the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptred isle.
Shots ring out in a distant European land - the assassination of a foreign aristocrat. From that moment the entire world is propelled into a conflict unlike any seen before.
This is the story of five British communities, their circumstances very different, but who will all share in the tragedy that is to come. All that they have known will be changed for ever by the catastrophic events of the Great War.
This is a story of love and comradeship, of hatred and tragedy - this is the story of the Great War.
The Shadow of War, the first novel in The Great War series from Stewart Binns, is a thrilling read and perfect for those who enjoy the writing of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell.
This book is
The Alter Ego of Marjorie Primm - Penny Hart-Wood
Plot:
When Marjorie married George and moved to the country, she never imagined she would be trading her career and independence to spend the next 15 years pandering to his every chauvinist whim. To further add to her discontent, her daughter, on the verge of hormone infested teenagedom has begun to treat her like George does – with contempt. Marjorie has ended up with no friends, no social life and an unhealthy fear of the local village.
Realising that if something doesn’t change, she will be swallowed into an abyss of anti-depressants and wine, she decides it’s time to venture out into the big wide world again.
This is a story of one woman’s search to reclaim her identity. Her antics are: hilarious, erotic, tragic, self-affirming and massively entertaining.
About the Author:
Marjorie Primm is my first novel, although I have been writing for more years than I care to remember.
My youth was misspent writing deep and meaningful poems that no one would ever read. I then further hindered any hope of progress by believing I could be the next Jane Austen and write beautiful romantic literature. This was never going to happen and several failed manuscripts found their way into the WPB.
Having almost given up hope of ever producing a book, I turned to writing a blog. www.grumpywoman.co.uk This is how I found my voice. My style won't be everybody's cup of tea, because it's simple and straight to the point, bit like me really.
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Frederic Ayers
Frederic Ayers is one of the authors that I've met that surprised me.
Firstly because he writes in English and Spanish, secondly because not many authors can write a mix of "Poe" and Twilight Zone...
For those who know me, not only in books but in movies, the unexpected and the surprise element is exactly what I love to feel, hear and see.
About this author:
Frederic Ayers is an author, world traveler, and lover of fiction. He wrote his first short story at the age of fourteen after reading Edgar Allen Poe in school. He has been attracted to writing short stories ever since. He also worked as a mechanic in the Navy, but writing has always been his calling.
Originally hailing from California, he has lived in more cities than he can count, including stints in Europe and Latin America. He currently lives in sunny south Florida with his wife and two daughters. When he is not working on a new short story, he is probably researching the latest beer trends at the local pub.
These are 2 of his works I have read so far:
Something in the Mist
Charles Clark wasn't as simple as he looked. He had scars, deep scars going back to childhood. When a new gas station opens up on the route to work, Charles panics.
Will Charles be able to control his fears, or will he just blow up?
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Mother Knows
Donna Black is a housewife who hates going to her mother-in-laws house. But when she gets to the house and sees the glossy porcelain face of the doll staring back at her, she tells her husband Walter that it is staring at her. Walter scoffs at her fear of clowns and reminds her that his mother is 79 years old.
Now, when Donna's mother-in-law shows her an article in the newspaper of a man who looks exactly like the doll. When the doorbell rings Donna has even more to worry about as she goes to answer it. Will Donna ever survive what is behind the door?
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Alex Campbell - Land
Today's book is another impressive one that I received.
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Plot:
A tense and passionate novel about choices, obsession, destiny and power
The sea rose. Civilisation was wiped out, countries drowned. Out of the ashes of a desperate refugee camp, a new society was born, with a new place to call home: Land. Trapped by an aggressive sea, its citizens were bound to rules that saw the weak removed, marriage and children by approval only, and designated work for all. All for the greater good ...
Decades later, and seventeen-year-old Christy's life is on the cusp of irrevocable change. She has become eligible for The Pairing, a carefully selected marriage of political and social convenience where romance is out of the question. Her grandmother, Cons, has also reached a significant age - sixty-six: soon the Selection Truck will arrive to take her away forever.
Christy's only hope for protection lies with her errant rebel father ... but nothing goes as it's supposed to. As Christy finds a Pairing that might offer a new opportunity for love and security, she also uncovers a destiny that has been hidden from her; truths that have been disguised as childhood lies. With Cons' life under threat, Christy is forced to face a whole new world, one where she must choose between those she cares about and the greater good. A new life where she must play the reluctant rebel, revolutionary, lover ... and assassin.
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About the Author
Alex Campbell announced she was going to be a writer at eight years old.
But no one took much notice. After a nomadic education daydreaming in back rows across Luton, Chester, London, Sheffield and Middlesbrough - and one English degree later - Alex moved into the world of PR and copywriting.
Here she worked on getting other people noticed instead.
Now, living near Bath with one husband, two children and an armful of untold stories, Alex's eight-year-old self's ambition has finally been realised with the publication of her debut novel, LAND.
When she's not gazing dreamily out of windows, Alex can usually be found, notebook at the ready, in dark art-house cinemas, propping up coffee bars, or worse.
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