Beyond Basics

Beyond the Basics offers the tools to teach young people about sexuality and sexual health from a sex positive, human rights perspective. Covering topics that range from anatomy to consent and healthy relationships, Beyond the Basics approaches sexuality education across all gender identities and sexual orientations with activities that help move students from receiving information to making decisions based on critical thinking skills and empowerment. Recognizing the time pressures educators face, Beyond the Basics is written to easily move in and out of chapters, modules, and activities that suit the particular age, maturity, and trust in each classroom. About the Publisher: Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights is a progressive, pro-choice charitable organization committed to advancing and upholding sexual and reproductive health and rights in Canada and globally. A key part of Action Canada's work is advocating for the highest quality of comprehensive sexuality education, regardless of where you live.

Featuring standard notation and tablature, this new book & audio package introduces basic accompaniment patterns, how to use the thumb and fingers, Travis" picking, and much more. Readers learn the applications of folk, blues, ragtime and new age styles to solo guitar while learning beautiful new chord voicings."

Bronze Medal Winner of a 2009 National Health Information Award Stop your pelvic pain . . . naturally! If you suffer from an agonizing and emotionally stressful pelvic floor disorder, including pelvic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, prostatitis, incontinence, or discomfort during sex, urination, or bowel movements, it's time to alleviate your symptoms and start healing--without drugs or surgery. Natural cures, in the form of exercise, nutrition, massage, and self-care therapy, focus on the underlying cause of your pain, heal your condition, and stop your pain forever. The life-changing plan in this book gets to the root of your disorder with: A stretching, muscle-strengthening, and massage program you can do at home Guidelines on foods that will ease your discomfort Suggestions for stress- and pain-reducing home spa treatments Exercises for building core strength and enhancing sexual pleasure

Topics covered include choosing the right slide, open blues" tunings, stylistic licks and patterns, standard tuning techniques and more. The book contains a full-color photo section showing all types of slides, and it includes 32 music examples in standard notation and tablature."

This book introduces you to the world of Blockchain with an interesting AI perspective to the Blockchain, and with detailed associated videos to make concepts easier to understand. This book provides you with hands-on technical details to guide you to create your own smart contracts, NFTs, Tokens, Flash-loan algorithms, and AI and Machine learning algorithms. This book is aimed at newcomers to the concept of Blockchain, enthusiasts, explorists, who would like to learn about the concepts of Blockchain in simple terms, with easy to understand stories. This book provides a practical guidance and approach for utilizing Blockchain and its associated technologies in the real world scenario. You are not expected to be an expert in Solidity, Web3, Javascript or Python at all. What’s inside? The Story of Blockchain Solidity Programming Create your own tokens (coins) Create your own NFTs Web3 on node.js Web3 using python AI perspective to Blockchain Flash Loans Honestly speaking, this book is meant for those “lazy” engineers, aspiring blockchain, solidity developers, Web3 engineers, experienced IT professionals in other fields, who like the authors hate reading through lengthy books with several hundreds of pages of mathematical models and equations to even getting started with Blockchain. Many of us are looking for a book with not more than 170-180 pages to gain a very fundamental understanding of the Blockchain ecosystems, create your own contracts, NFTs. There are many books, articles, guides and documents published on Blockchain, and most of them either focus on smart contracts solely, or web3 reference books and most often they tend to be very lengthy, spanning several hundred pages. Of-course, they are aimed at serving an exhaustive content for readers to get a deep understanding on the subjects. As you go through the book, you will learn the concepts of Blockchain with simply explained stories, use cases for each technology and then set up your development technical environment to dive deeper in Solidity, Web3js, Web3py, Flash loans, Tokens, NFTs and last but not the least, an AI perspective to the blockchain. As you read through the book, hopefully the myths of cryptocurrencies, tokens, NFTs would be debunked, and you will get a very granular/basic to an implementation level understanding and approach of developing decentralized applications on the blockchain. Let us start learning!

Say goodbye to commercial yeast, and hello to a healthier body! With allergies to gluten and commercial yeast on the rise, natural yeast is a fun and healthy solution to baking all the foods you love—while improving your body's antioxidants, breaking down grains, and making your bread taste more delicious than ever. "Bread Geek" Melissa Richardson, coauthor of The Art of Baking with Natural Yeast, is back with new and refined techniques and tips that will take your natural yeast breads to the next level. Try over 60 new recipes, including vegan, diabetic-friendly, and no-wait recipes like: -Cranberry Ginger Loaf -Vegan Waffles -Cracked Pepper Spelt Crackers -Basil Dinner Crepes -Salted Chocolate Sourdough Bread From troubleshooting tips to artistic finishing touches, this guide will make baking with natural yeast fail-proof, healthy, and delicious—every time. So grab your starter, flour your hands, and get ready to bake!

Once ideas and images come to mind, the next step in weaving your tapestry--interpreting these into effective compositions--may be challenging. Learn here, in ways that relate specifically to tapestry art, the design basics you need to make your best work. Renowned master weaver Scanlin offers 60 step-by-step "explorations" that lead you from understanding design concepts in your head to using them on your loom. Be inspired to explore "weavable" ways to manage line, shape, color, texture, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and more for results that bring your tapestries to a new level. In Part 1, dive into the fundamentals of design. Parts 2 and 3 hold explorations--exercises with a tapestry twist. Part 4 teaches ways to turn designs into cartoons. A resource treasure trove offers ideas for finishing tapestries (essential to the design's completeness), helpful templates, glossaries, and other core information to carry forward on your creative path.

Take your tarot reading to a higher level. With an emphasis on tarot’s astrological influences and a number of detailed sample readings, Tarot Beyond the Basics shows the way to becoming an advanced practitioner. Here, Anthony Louis shares how-to instructions for working with reversals, number symbolism, intuition, the four elements, and the philosophical roots of tarot. Explaining astrology for tarot readers clearly and in a way that makes sense, Louis shows how to use the tarot to give powerful readings that change people’s lives. The “real” tarot exists in the mind of each reader and is interlaced with his or her stories and experiences. The abundance of knowledge presented in Tarot Beyond the Basics is sure to make your readings come alive with meaning and significance.