An Introduction to Neuroendocrinology

How does the brain regulate sexual behavior, or control our body weight? How do we cope with stress? Addressing these questions and many more besides, this thoroughly revised new edition reflects the significant advances that have been made in the study of neuroendocrinology over the last twenty years. The text examines the importance of the hypothalamus in regulating hormone secretion from the endocrine glands, describing novel sites of hormone release including bone, heart, skeletal muscle and liver. The role of steroid hormone, neurotransmitter and peptide receptors, and the molecular responses of target tissues, is integrated into the discussion of the neuroendocrine brain, especially through changes in gene expression. Particular attention is attached to neuropeptides, including their profound influence on behavior. Complete with new full-color figures throughout, along with review and essay questions for each chapter, this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of neuroscience, psychology, biology and physiology.

Science & Math

Wilkinson, Michael

Brown, Richard E.

Biological Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Many religious scholars have noted a decline in institutional forms of religion in Canada. With fewer Canadians regularly attending church or following denominational proscriptions, is institutionalized religion becoming a thing of the past?  In A Culture of Faith, Sam Reimer and Michael Wilkinson argue that evangelical Protestants continue to show strong allegiance to their congregations. Through a national study, including interviews with over five hundred pastors and an analysis of financial resources, the authors argue that evangelical Protestant congregations demonstrate greater resiliency within a broader context of declining religiosity. According to their findings, weekly church attendance among evangelicals is substantially higher than the national average, church attendees say they get significant enjoyment from their religious groups, youth participation is high, and evangelicals are more likely to volunteer. While there may be signs of decline on the horizon, Canadian evangelical congregations seem to remain vital at a time when most other Christian traditions are waning.   A clearly presented study of evangelical beliefs, organizations, leaders, and finances, A Culture of Faith reveals the current strength of evangelical Protestantism and its implications for the future of religion in Canada.

A Culture of Faith: Evangelical Congregations in Canada

History

Reimer, Sam

World

McGill-Queen's University Press

Many religious scholars have noted a decline in institutional forms of religion in Canada. With fewer Canadians regularly attending church or following denominational proscriptions, is institutionalized religion becoming a thing of the past? In A Culture of Faith, Sam Reimer and Michael Wilkinson argue that evangelical Protestants continue to show strong allegiance to their congregations. Through a national study, including interviews with over five hundred pastors and an analysis of financial resources, the authors argue that evangelical Protestant congregations demonstrate greater resiliency within a broader context of declining religiosity. According to their findings, weekly church attendance among evangelicals is substantially higher than the national average, church attendees say they get significant enjoyment from their religious groups, youth participation is high, and evangelicals are more likely to volunteer. While there may be signs of decline on the horizon, Canadian evangelical congregations seem to remain vital at a time when most other Christian traditions are waning. A clearly presented study of evangelical beliefs, organizations, leaders, and finances, A Culture of Faith reveals the current strength of evangelical Protestantism and its implications for the future of religion in Canada.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in conflict resolution, consulting, managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.

The Secrets of Facilitation: The S.M.A.R.T. Guide to Getting Results With Groups

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Most sales professionals spend all their time and energy trying to perfect their own style of selling. Yet they fail to recognize that buyers all have their own individual “buying styles”...and when sellers learn how to adapt their own methods to best suit each buying style, they can dramatically increase their success rate. Presented as a “learning adventure,” Buying Styles begins with a fictional situation in which a salesperson has just lost a major sale...and decides to find out why. Readers are then brought along on an interactive lesson that shows them how to: • recognize the four key buying styles • understand what to do (and not to do) when selling to customers exhibiting each • quickly spot the tell-tale signs that they are using the wrong approach • gain the confidence of prospects • improve their relationships with existing clients • develop a strategy for approaching new prospects • increase their chances of closing each and every sale This quick and easy read, packed with tips, checklists, and on-the-go references, unveils powerful new insights for successfully selling to anyone.

Buying Styles: Simple Lessons in Selling the Way Your Customer Buys

SMITH, RICHARD

CHORBA, Tierah

SOKLER, Lynn

Marketing & Sales

Amacom Books

Most sales professionals spend all their time and energy trying to perfect their own style of selling. Yet they fail to recognize that buyers have individual “buying styles,” and a one-size-fits-all approach--even your own--won’t win them over. Buying Styles reveals that the key to dramatically increasing your success rate is learning to adapt your own methods to best suit one of the four main customer buying styles. Presented as a “learning adventure,” this easy-to-follow guide takes readers through fictional situations in which salespeople have just lost a major sale and deciphers why, how, and what could have been done to prevent it. Readers will learn how to: understand what to do (and not to do) when selling to customers exhibiting each of the four main buying styles; quickly spot the tell-tale signs that they are using the wrong approach; gain the confidence of prospects; improve their relationships with existing clients; develop a strategy for approaching new prospects; and increase their chances of closing each and every sale. This easy and fun read, packed with tips, checklists, and on-the-go references, unveils powerful new insights for successfully selling to any buyer.

Buying Styles: Simple Lessons in Selling the Way Your Customers Buys

AMACOM

North America has experienced dramatic changes with the arrival of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America since the 1970s. Some of the most important and often neglected aspects of migration are religious. In this case study of Pentecostal immigrants in Canada, Wilkinson shows how global religious networks transform social relationships and religious organizations while contributing to new translocal identities.

The Spirit Said Go: Pentecostal Immigrants in Canada (American University Studies)

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

The Phar Lap Story

Budget Books

A recent phenomenon of charismatic renewal took place in Toronto in the mid-1990s. Commonly known as the "Toronto Blessing" and operated by the former Vineyard Church leaders John and Carol Arnott, the renewal was defined by reports of uncontrollable laughter, weeping, speaking in tongues, animal noises, and falling on the floor during worship. Sympathetic Christians embraced these practices while others who believed that this form of worship boarded on spectacle rejected them. By the end of the 1990s most people thought that the renewal was over.  Yet, in the first decade of the 21st century, the authors―a sociologist and a theologian―heard rumors that the Toronto church, now known as "Catch the Fire," was still holding mass meetings with upwards of 2,000 people in attendance. They also learned of an emerging practice of "soaking prayer," an adaption of Pentecostal-charismatic prayer that, participants and leaders claim, facilitates and expands the reception of divine love in order to give it away in acts of forgiveness, reconciliation, compassion, and benevolence. Soaking, the authors reveal, is a metaphor for practices like resting in the Spirit, prayer for spiritual gifts, healing, prophecy, impartation, and supports overall charismatic spirituality. Attending "Catch the Fire" conferences, churches, and house meetings in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, Wilkinson and Althouse observed first-hand how people soak, what it means to soak, and why soaking is considered an important practice among charismatics.

Catch the Fire: Soaking Prayer and Charismatic Renewal

Religion & Spirituality

Althouse, Peter

Christian Books & Bibles

Northern Illinois University Press

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