Author : Rachel Cosgrove
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1718220774
Age Strong: A Woman's Guide to Feeling Athletic and Fit After 40 empowers women with a practical, proven approach to gain muscle, improve body composition, increase metabolism, lose body fat, and boost stamina through strength training.
Author : Ashton Applewhite
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1250297249
Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0465080979
From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, renowned Oxford politics professor Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders -- meaning those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process -- are the most successful and admirable. In reality, only a minority of political leaders will truly make a lasting difference. Though we tend to dismiss more collegial styles of leadership as weak, it is often the most cooperative leaders who have the greatest impact. Drawing on extensive research and decades of political analysis and experience, Brown illuminates the achievements, failures and foibles of a broad array of twentieth century politicians. Whether speaking of redefining leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Margaret Thatcher, who expanded the limits of what was politically possible during their time in power, or the even rarer transformational leaders who played a decisive role in bringing about systemic change -- Charles de Gaulle, Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela, among them -- Brown challenges our commonly held beliefs about political efficacy and strength. Overturning many of our assumptions about the twentieth century's most important figures, Brown's conclusions are both original and enlightening. The Myth of the Strong Leader compels us to reassess the leaders who have shaped our world - and to reconsider how we should choose and evaluate those who will lead us into the future.
Author : Emory Strong
Publisher : Binford & Mort Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1982-05
Category : Columbia River Valley
ISBN : 9780832304033
Author : Sheel Tangri
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1552124371
The one constant in life is change. We change physically, chemically, and emotionally as the "jungle" of life progresses, constantly trying to interpret, adapt, and respond to the world as best we can. The nervous sytem is the human computer that regulates the function of the body. When it becomes dysfunctional or overloaded via physical, chemical, or emotional stresses, the overall health of the individual is significantly diminished. My approach is to identify the cause of the overload, reset the switches, and let it flow. The body is then able to resume it's function of staying in balance with it's environment. The hands-on techniques described in this book are cutting edge and relatively unknown as very little has been written on the subject of Applied and Specialized Kinesiology to date, however, there are practitioners around the world practicing these methods and making dramatic changes in people's lives. This book is a must read for every person, as it relates to all of us. It applies to every health condition whether there are symptoms or not, and describes new treatments and a model for the health care systems to incorporate globally. These methods involve very few treatments, while at the same time educate and give responsibility and power back to the individual.
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Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :
Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0698138163
Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation. The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and that means a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over. In Average is Over, Cowen lays out how the new economy works and identifies what workers and entrepreneurs young and old must do to thrive in this radically new economic landscape.
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Cancer
ISBN :
Author : Chris J. Main
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0702049220
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It deals specifically with the management of potentially chronic l pain, how to assess patients with pain, the factors involved in the development of chronic pain and the setting up and running of a pain management programme. The main focus is on musculoskeletal and fibromyalgic type pain. Cancer pain is not addressed. The authors address not only what is recommended in the management of pain but also whether and why it is done, thereby covering not only the content of interdisciplinary pain management but also the processes involved. - Provides extensive background material and covers broad issues which other books lack - Focuses on not only what is done with the management of pain but whether and why it is done - Includes the nuts and bolts of setting up and running a pain management programme - Addresses the application of pain management programmes in a wide range of fields - Has a multidisciplinary approach and therefore appeals to a multidisciplinary market - Two new co-authors: Kay Greasley and Bengt Sjolund. - Major restructuring of chapters and rewriting of content with new authors for many of them. - Greatly increased discussion of biopsychosocial management in individual clinical practice. - Addresses the needs of the individual practitioners as well as those working in specialised pain management units. - Includes more on primary care and secondary pain prevention. - Expanded discussion of the clinical-occupational interfaces. - Particular emphasis on the identification and targeting of modifiable risk factors for chronic pain and prolonged disability. - The following topics stregthened throughout: communication, the nature of groups, medication and iatrogenics. - Potential of an evidence-based biopsychosocial approach to pain management highlighted.
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Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2019-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0444641513
This is one of a two-volume work on neurocognitive development, focusing separately on normative and non-normative development. The normative volume focuses on neurology, biology, genetics, and psychology of normative cognitive development. It covers the development of intellectual abilities, visual perception, motor function, language, memory, attention, executive function, social cognition, learning abilities, and affect and behavior. The book identifies when and how these functions develop, the genetics and neurophysiology of their operation, and their evaluation and assessment in clinical practice. This book will serve as a comprehensive reference to researchers in cognitive development in neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, as well as to clinicians and allied health professionals focused on developmental disabilities (child neurologists, pediatric neuropsychologists, child psychiatrists, speech and language therapists, and occupational therapists.) - Summarizes research on normative neurocognitive development - Includes intellectual abilities, language, memory, attention, motor function, and more - Discusses genetics and environmental influences on development - Provides interdisciplinary information of use to both researchers and clinicians
