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The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess מאת Lou Schuler If you believe what most women's magazines tell you, muscles can be "shaped," "toned," and "sculpted" with nothing more than a little dumbbell that weighs less than a can of peas. But muscles aren't modeling clay, and the only way to transform them is to strengthen them. The New Rules of Lifting ...

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New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle מאת Lou Schuler A revolutionary method of weight lifting using today's science for maximum results. In The New Rules of Lifting, fitness guru Lou Schuler and strength-training expert Alwyn Cosgrove boil down the most recent findings on weight lifting and fitness to create a program of workouts that focuse...

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The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race מאת Barry Popkin Fast Food Nation meets The World Is Flat in this eye-opening look at the obesity epidemic. Today, the planet’s 1.3 billion overweight people by far outnumber the 700 million who are undernourished. This figure would have seemed ludicrous just fifty years ago, when hunger was t...

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Core Performance Women: Burn Fat and Build Lean Muscle מאת Mark Verstegen World-renowned strength and performance coach Mark Verstegen has trained top athletes and countless workaday warriors into the best shape of their lives. He's spent years developing a proven system for a wide range of clients, and he knows the essential keys for building lean muscle, shedding excess...

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Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security מאת Charles Farrell J.D. L.L.M. A troubled economy calls for answers. Forget complicated, abstract philosophy-- people need sound financial advice that's easy to follow and can be implemented immediately. For the first time, a leading financial adviser has developed a remarkable set of guidelines to give individuals the sam...

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Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty מאת Deirdre Fishel An inspiring look into the lives of older women. Based on research and extensive interviews, Still Doing It explores the lives of daring, outspoken, and sensual women of an older generation who actively embrace new romantic relationships and sexual experiences. Here is a beacon for wom...

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A World Without Ice מאת Ph.D., Henry Pollack A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relationship between people and ice has received little focus-until now. As one of the world's leading experts on climate change...

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Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease מאת Caldwell B. Esselstyn Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling, revolutionary idea-that we can, in fact, abolish the heart disease epidemic in this country by changing our diets. Drawing on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Dr. Caldw...

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A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind מאת Charles Fernyhough A father's intimate look at his daughter's developing mind from birth to age three. Unlike any other time in our lives, we remember almost nothing from our first three years. As infants, not only are we like the proverbial blank slate, but our memories are like Teflon: nothing sticks. In this...

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Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul מאת Stuart Brown From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our intelligence and happiness throughout our lives. We’ve all seen the happiness in the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden r...

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The Watercooler Effect: A Psychologist Explores the Extraordinary Power of Rumors מאת Ph.D., Nicholas DiFonzo A deeply revealing look at why we spread rumors, why we believe them, and how they affect our behavior. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, rumors were flying about stranded residents shooting rescue workers. In New York City, the Brooklyn Bottling Group’s business was devastated by ...

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Try to See it My Way: Being Fair in Love and Marriage מאת Ph.D., B. Janet Hibbs A deeply probing book that gets to the heart of what all healthy romantic relationships need: fairness. Most couples enter a marriage hoping it can last forever. So, why are more and more relationships failing over time? As Dr. B. Janet Hibbs explains, poor communication skills or inherent di...

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How to Make a Fortune from the Biggest Bailout in U.S. History: A Guide to the 7 Greatest Bargains from Main Street to Wall Street מאת Ron Insana For those in the know, today's financial headlines don't spell disaster--they spell the sale of the century. But it takes a trustworthy veteran of the trading trenches to guide investors through these volatile times. Drawing on his two decades as a financial reporter, plus three recent years working...

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Unexpected Blessings: Finding Hope and Healing in the Face of Illness מאת Roxanne Black When Roxanne Black was only fifteen years old, she was diagnosed with lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease that can attack the vital organs of the body. As a teenager with a frightening and sometimes life-threatening disease, she yearned to connect with others who knew firsthand what she was experi...

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The Body Fat Solution: Five Principles for Burning Fat, Building Lean Muscles, Ending Emotional Eating, and Maintaining Your Perfect Weight מאת Tom Venuto The ultimate plan for permanent weight loss. The Body Fat Solution is Tom Venuto’s complete program to lose body fat, build muscle—and keep the weight off for good. By now, we all know that we gain fat when we take in more calories than we burn. But we’re not always rational crea...

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I'm Still Here: A Breakthrough Approach to Understanding Someone Living with Alzheimer's מאת John Zeisel A glass-half-full look at Alzheimer’s that reveals how to connect with someone through the fog of the disease. As many as five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. The popular perception of the disease is that people who receive an Alzheimer’s diagnosis are lost to themselves ...

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Connected Parenting: Transform Your Challenging Child and Build Loving Bonds for Life מאת MSW, RSW, Jennifer Kolari A groundbreaking, counterintuitive parenting approach to create deep, empathic bonds with problem children. Achild and family therapist for more than twenty years, Jennifer Kolari began her career working with children suffering from severe behavioral problems. That experience taught her an i...

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Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self מאת Monica Seles For those of you tuned into this past season’s Dancing with the Stars, it’s hard to believe that spectacularly fit former tennis champion Monica Seles struggled with binge-eating and depression. Getting a Grip chronicles Monica’s success on the tennis circuit where, at age sixtee...

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A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison מאת R. Dwayne Betts A powerful debut memoir from a published poet and emerging writer. At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts- a good student from a lower-middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, ...

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Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent מאת Janis Abrahms Spring Ph.D. From a bestselling author and clinical psychologist comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter shepherding her father through his final years of life.After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring "inherited" her father (Pop) and set off on an all-consuming, fiveyear m...

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Three Times the Love: Finding Answers and Hope for Our Triplets with Autism מאת Lynn Gaston Three Times the Love is the inspiring true story of an ordinary American family who face an extraordinary challenge. Lynn and Randy Gaston were overjoyed to discover they were having triplets after many arduous years of trying to conceive. But eighteen months after their births, Lynn and Rand...

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Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare מאת Ira Rosofsky A coming of old-age story. In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. No matter how exciting or mundane their lives, they’re now occupying a hospital-style room—a public space where you can’t lock your door and strangers come ...