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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Drop Dead Healthy
Author: A. J. Jacobs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439110158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world. Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and get healthy. And he didn’t want only to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far greater: maximal health from head to toe. The task was epic. He consulted an army of experts— sleep consultants and sex clinicians, nutritionists and dermatologists. He subjected himself to dozens of different workouts—from Strollercize classes to Finger Fitness sessions, from bouldering with cavemen to a treadmill desk. And he took in a cartload of diets: raw foods, veganism, high protein, calorie restriction, extreme chewing, and dozens more. He bought gadgets and helmets, earphones and juicers. He poked and he pinched. He counted and he measured. The story of his transformation is not only brilliantly entertaining, but it just may be the healthiest book ever written. It will make you laugh until your sides split and endorphins flood your bloodstream. It will alter the contours of your brain, imprinting you with better habits of hygiene and diet. It will move you emotionally and get you moving physically in surprising ways. And it will give you occasion to reflect on the body’s many mysteries and the ultimate pursuit of health: a well-lived life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439110158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world. Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and get healthy. And he didn’t want only to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far greater: maximal health from head to toe. The task was epic. He consulted an army of experts— sleep consultants and sex clinicians, nutritionists and dermatologists. He subjected himself to dozens of different workouts—from Strollercize classes to Finger Fitness sessions, from bouldering with cavemen to a treadmill desk. And he took in a cartload of diets: raw foods, veganism, high protein, calorie restriction, extreme chewing, and dozens more. He bought gadgets and helmets, earphones and juicers. He poked and he pinched. He counted and he measured. The story of his transformation is not only brilliantly entertaining, but it just may be the healthiest book ever written. It will make you laugh until your sides split and endorphins flood your bloodstream. It will alter the contours of your brain, imprinting you with better habits of hygiene and diet. It will move you emotionally and get you moving physically in surprising ways. And it will give you occasion to reflect on the body’s many mysteries and the ultimate pursuit of health: a well-lived life.
Dropped Dead Stitch
Author: Maggie Sefton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425227749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Surviving a physical assault from which she recovers by leaning on Kelly and her knitting-circle buddies, Jennifer decides to take a retreat at a mountain ranch with her friends and is shocked when the ranch owner turns out to be her attacker, a situation that is further complicated when Jennifer is accused in the man's subsequent murder.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425227749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Surviving a physical assault from which she recovers by leaning on Kelly and her knitting-circle buddies, Jennifer decides to take a retreat at a mountain ranch with her friends and is shocked when the ranch owner turns out to be her attacker, a situation that is further complicated when Jennifer is accused in the man's subsequent murder.
Drop Dead
Author: Hillary Miller
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810133903
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Winner, 2017 American Theater and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award Winner, 2017 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a severe reduction in grants in the mid-1970s. A scholar and playwright, Miller skillfully synthesizes economics, urban planning, tourism, and immigration to create a map of the interconnected urban landscape and to contextualize the struggle for resources. She reviews how numerous theater professionals, including Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. and Julie Bovasso, Vinnette Carroll, and Joseph Papp of The Public Theater, developed innovative responses to survive the crisis. Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each of Miller’s chapters is a case study focusing on a company, a production, or an element of New York’s theater infrastructure. Her expansive survey visits Broadway, Off-, Off-Off-, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, community theater, and other locations to bring into focus the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day. Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller’s lively account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an essential chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810133903
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Winner, 2017 American Theater and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award Winner, 2017 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a severe reduction in grants in the mid-1970s. A scholar and playwright, Miller skillfully synthesizes economics, urban planning, tourism, and immigration to create a map of the interconnected urban landscape and to contextualize the struggle for resources. She reviews how numerous theater professionals, including Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. and Julie Bovasso, Vinnette Carroll, and Joseph Papp of The Public Theater, developed innovative responses to survive the crisis. Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each of Miller’s chapters is a case study focusing on a company, a production, or an element of New York’s theater infrastructure. Her expansive survey visits Broadway, Off-, Off-Off-, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, community theater, and other locations to bring into focus the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day. Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller’s lively account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an essential chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.
Drop Dead
Author: Babette Cole
Publisher: Red Fox
ISBN: 9780099659112
Category : Children's stories - Pictorial works
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
'Bald and wrinkly' Grandma and Grandad recall to their grandmother their entire lives which have been more colourful and bizarre than anyone could possibly imagine. Adventurous babies, outrageous school children, disastrous and experienced teenagers who grow up to be a stunt man film star. . . But despite the hazards they have survived, they expect one day to just drop down dead like everyone else. But their story doesn`t stop there, because once dead, they could be recylced as anything. . .
Publisher: Red Fox
ISBN: 9780099659112
Category : Children's stories - Pictorial works
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
'Bald and wrinkly' Grandma and Grandad recall to their grandmother their entire lives which have been more colourful and bizarre than anyone could possibly imagine. Adventurous babies, outrageous school children, disastrous and experienced teenagers who grow up to be a stunt man film star. . . But despite the hazards they have survived, they expect one day to just drop down dead like everyone else. But their story doesn`t stop there, because once dead, they could be recylced as anything. . .
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Author: Kim Erickson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780658017933
Category : Beauty culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exposing the truth behind the cosmetics industry, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" reveals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified many ingredients found in modern cosmetics as hazardous.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780658017933
Category : Beauty culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exposing the truth behind the cosmetics industry, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" reveals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified many ingredients found in modern cosmetics as hazardous.
The Know-It-All
Author: A J Jacobs
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407097334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound familiar? Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at Esquire, Jacobs had built up a rather impressive knowledge of celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time. While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend, Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. All 33,000 pages of it. Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407097334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound familiar? Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at Esquire, Jacobs had built up a rather impressive knowledge of celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time. While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend, Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. All 33,000 pages of it. Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.
The Freethinker
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness
Author: Susan Dugan
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846947774
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In mid argument with a loved one, as we stand unfairly accused, we would much rather be right than happy. As practising forgiveness raises our awareness of our attraction to and identification with the ego''s sneaky ways, our pain often increases. Some of these essays are reports from the eye of just that storm, accounts of my own fear, paralysis and mistaken belief in and attraction to a false, ego controlled self. But in each case, I got through by continuing to ask for help from the part of our mind that sees only our one true self and can never fail us. Today I am spending far less time in the eye of the storm and far more embracing the instant of release that reflects the real world available when we have forgiven all that would hurt us. You can, too.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846947774
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In mid argument with a loved one, as we stand unfairly accused, we would much rather be right than happy. As practising forgiveness raises our awareness of our attraction to and identification with the ego''s sneaky ways, our pain often increases. Some of these essays are reports from the eye of just that storm, accounts of my own fear, paralysis and mistaken belief in and attraction to a false, ego controlled self. But in each case, I got through by continuing to ask for help from the part of our mind that sees only our one true self and can never fail us. Today I am spending far less time in the eye of the storm and far more embracing the instant of release that reflects the real world available when we have forgiven all that would hurt us. You can, too.
The Feathered Serpent
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This novel follows Reporter Peter Dewin as he tries to solve the mystery of a warning card with a drawing of a Feathered Serpent on it. Peter has been tasked with covering the story of actress Ella Creed who had been knocked outside of her home. She is given a warning card with an illustration of a Feathered Serpent on it. Peter soon discovers that millionaire, philanthropist, and African explorer Gregory Beale, boxing promoter Joe Farmer, and newly wealthy stockbroker Leicester Crewe all received a similar card. Who is threatening them? Will Peter Dewin, a reporter, solve the mystery of the feathered serpent?
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This novel follows Reporter Peter Dewin as he tries to solve the mystery of a warning card with a drawing of a Feathered Serpent on it. Peter has been tasked with covering the story of actress Ella Creed who had been knocked outside of her home. She is given a warning card with an illustration of a Feathered Serpent on it. Peter soon discovers that millionaire, philanthropist, and African explorer Gregory Beale, boxing promoter Joe Farmer, and newly wealthy stockbroker Leicester Crewe all received a similar card. Who is threatening them? Will Peter Dewin, a reporter, solve the mystery of the feathered serpent?
The Rite Way to Immortality.
Author: F. Catanza Rite
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438961936
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438961936
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description