Author : Mac Marshall
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
In a unique blend of historical investigation, cross-cultural comparison, and in-depth analysis, Weekend Warriors draws parallels between past traditions of aggression and the present-day problem of drunkenness on the Pacific island of Truk. Marshall demonstrates that many of our beliefs about drinking and drunkenness may be faulty and that a genuine understanding demands a social and cultural approach as well as a medical one.
Author : Jacques Steinberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1101544317
A New York Times bestselling author takes readers inside the Ironman triathlon. As he did so masterfully in his New York Times bestseller, The Gatekeepers, Jacques Steinberg creates a compelling portrait of people obsessed with reaching a life-defining goal. In this instance, the target is an Ironman triathlon-a 2.4-mile open-water swim followed by a 112-mile bike ride, then finally a 26-mile marathon run, all of which must be completed in no more than seventeen hours. Steinberg focuses not on the professionals who live off the prize money and sponsorships but on a handful of triathletes who regard the sport as a hobby. Vividly capturing the grueling preparation, the suspense of completing each event of the triathlon, and the spectacular feats of human endurance, Steinberg plumbs the physical and emotional toll as well as the psychological payoff on the participants of the Ford Ironman Arizona 2009. His You Are an Ironman is both a riveting sports narrative and a fascinating, behind-the scenes study of what makes these athletes keep going..
Author : Kevin Mervin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780574444
Kevin J. Mervin was one of over 2,000 British Territorial Army soldiers called up to fight in the Iraq War in February 2003. Based on a diary kept throughout his tour of duty, the author's personal account of the conflict illustrates what it was like for a 'part-timer' to fight alongside the regular army. Weekend Warrior chronicles the difficulties and traumas Mervin and his colleagues endured while carrying out their work, including situations in which they literally had to fight for their lives. The author also describes how he and his companions dealt with the horrific sights, sounds and realities of war. Thrust unexpectedly into the middle of a dangerous conflict, Mervin's memoirs relate not only the fear and excitement he experienced but also his sadness at the scenes of poverty he witnessed and his anger towards the media, which, he feels, reported the conflict to the world with an anti-war bias. On his return home, Mervin faced further challenges when he lost his job because of his call-up and he also received criticism from an often hostile public. Weekend Warrior paints a startlingly vivid picture of fear and confusion on the front line and highlights the problems faced by those lucky enough to return home.
Author : Haylie Pomroy
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0804141053
Haylie Pomroy, the powerhouse nutritionist behind the #1 New York Times bestseller The Fast Metabolism Diet, breaks new ground and gives anyone trying to lose weight new tools for busting through plateaus. Using targeted micronutrients to incinerate weight-loss roadblocks, Haylie will help you remove the problem—and lose up to 3, 5, and 10 pounds in as many days! The Burn offers three eating plans, therapeutically designed to achieve highly specific results. The I-Burn targets the body’s inflammatory reactions to food and flushes out toxins and subcutaneous fat, producing prominent cheekbones and a glowing complexion in three days. In five days, the D-Burn unblocks the body’s digestive barrier and torches torso fat, to create a flat belly and tighter waistline. The 10-day H-Burn addresses the hormonal system, repairing and facilitating the proper synthesis of hormones to reshape lumps and bumps into gorgeous curves, sleeker hips, and thinner thighs. The Burn also unveils: · I-Burn, D-Burn, and H-Burn eating and living plans, complete with detailed grocery lists and daily menus to keep the process simple and easy-to-follow. · Dozens of delicious recipes for meals in a flash. · Simple success boosters: foods, teas, tips, and practices that are easy to incorporate and stoke up your body’s ability to heal. · How to live your life on fire – road maps that help readers recognize what their bodies are saying to keep their metabolisms blazing!
Author : Haylie Pomroy
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 080414107X
“Fast Metabolism Food Rx gives you real practical programs to nurture the body back to health.”—DEEPAK CHOPRA From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet comes “a complete guidebook that will help you regain your health and reverse chronic disease with your own kitchen pharmacy” (Alan Christianson, NMD, New York Times bestselling author of The Adrenal Reset Diet). Want to feel great, disease-proof your body, and live at your ideal weight? Then eat your medicine! Celebrated nutritionist Haylie Pomroy has just the prescription for you, offering solutions for the seven most common ways your metabolism misfires and leads to exhaustion, excess weight, and illness. After multiple health challenges threatened Haylie’s life, she set out on an investigative journey that was life-changing—and lifesaving. She shares her personal story for the first time in Fast Metabolism Food Rx and presents the powerful food programs she created based on the methods and philosophies that saved her life and helped her thrive. For decades, these food therapies have provided profound clinical results for thousands of patients. Our bodies are always talking and communicating their needs; we just need to learn how to listen. Maybe our energy is off, we don’t feel right, we have indigestion, or our body shape is morphing in ways we don’t recognize or like. Or our biochemistry is changing, raising our cholesterol, making us irritable, reactive, or “foggy.” These—and other, more serious medical issues, like pre-diabetes and immune complications—hide a specific problem, for which food, not drugs, is the answer. So, if you’re suffering from GI issues, fatigue, out-of-whack-hormones, mood and cognition difficulties, elevated cholesterol, blood sugar control problems, or an autoimmune problem, Fast Metabolism Food Rx has the solution for you. With targeted eating plans, you can feed your body back to a vibrant, energetic, and thriving state.
Author : Mariko Tamaki
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1779511205
From New York Times bestselling author Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass) and artist Yoshi Yoshitani (Zatanna and the House of Secrets) comes a story about Mandy, the daughter of super-famous superhero Starfire. Seventeen-year-old Mandy, daughter of Starfire, is not like her mother. Starfire is gorgeous, tall, sparkly, and a hero. Mandy is not a sparkly superhero. Mandy has no powers. She’s a kid who dyes her hair black and hates everyone but her best friend, Lincoln. To Starfire, who is from another planet, Mandy seems like an alien, like some distant, angry, light-years away moon. And ever since she walked out on her SATs, which her mom doesn’t know about, Mandy has been even more distant. Everyone thinks Mandy needs to go to college and become whoever you become at college, but Mandy has other plans. Or she did until she gets partnered with Claire, the person she intensely denies liking but definitely likes a lot, for a school project. When someone from Starfire’s past arrives, Mandy must make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and risk everything to save her mom. I Am Not Starfire is a story about teenagers and/as aliens; about knowing where you come from and where you are going; and about mothers.
Author : Haylie Pomroy
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0770436234
Turn your kitchen into a secret weapon for losing up to 20 pounds in 28 days through the fat-burning power of food, with more than 200 simple, effective, mouthwatering, family-pleasing recipes, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet “Haylie Pomroy provides real-life solutions for the problems plaguing our nation’s health.”—Mark Hyman, MD This essential companion to The Fast Metabolism Diet shows you how to cook your way to health through a plan that celebrates food, thrives on variety, and has you eating five to six times a day according to a three-phase plan strategically designed to keep your metabolism burning at lightning speeds. In Phase 1, you’ll cook to unwind stress and support your adrenals with hearty, nourishing breakfasts like Piping Hot Quinoa Cereal or Buckwheat Flapjacks and warm, home-style comfort food like Pasta and Simmered Tomato-Meat Sauce and Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie. During Phase 2, you’ll be cooking to unlock stored fat and feed the liver with huge, leafy salads like the Warm Asparagus and Turkey Bacon Salad and luxurious, protein-rich entrées like Lemon-Pepper Filet Mignon and Cabbage and Rosemary Pork Tenderloin with Mustard Greens. Then in Phase 3, it’s time to use your kitchen to unleash the burn and ignite the Fast Metabolism hormones with savory, high-healthy fat dishes like the Breakfast Burrito, Steak Fajita Avocado Lettuce Wraps, and Slow-Cooked Chicken Curry. You’ll prepare silky, dairy-free soups and stews like Creamy Leek and Cauliflower Soup and serve crowd-pleasing dinners like Gingered Shrimp and Veggie Stir Fry. The recipes in The Fast Metabolism Diet Cookbook include vegetarian and vegan dishes that even meat-lovers will enjoy, a wealth of gluten-free and allergy-friendly options, dozens of slow cooker meals that can be prepared in under five minutes, and more! Plus, Haylie offershelpful and affordable hints for cooking on each of the three phases and suggests food swaps to add even more variety to your cooking repertoire. Whether you’ve already achieved results on the Fast Metabolism Diet or are trying it for the first time, this is the ideal tool for making delicious, nutritious, home-cooked food for part of your Fast Metabolism lifestyle. So join Haylie in the kitchen and get ready to cook your way to a thinner, healthier you!
Author : David Griffiths
Publisher : Reedswain Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781890946654
Author : Andrea Sfiligoi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781530798599
Advanced Song of Blades and Heroes is the updated incarnation of the award-winning Song of Blades miniatures system. Play fantasy skirmishes in any scale, with any models you already own. With an expanded magic system, an exciting turn sequence, an optional setting, weapon rules, an open-source point system, and combat mechanics that keep players involved at all times, there is no limit to the epic stories you can create. 88 full-color pages.
Author : James William Gibson
Publisher : Hill & Wang
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Militarism
ISBN : 9780809015788
Vietnam signaled the end of America's long history of martial victories. In Warrior Dreams, James William Gibson argues that the shame of defeat by a technologically inferior enemy, compounded by challenges to the status quo from feminism and minority groups, created a profound crisis in American identity - particularly for the white American male - and gave birth to a disturbing and reactionary new war culture designed to make America well again. Armed with a journalist's curiosity and a critic's precision, Gibson sets out to map this new American war zone. He plays paintball with Los Angeles's weekend warriors, learns to shoot like a pro at Arizona's elite Gunsite Ranch, and parties with soldiers of fortune at their annual convention in Las Vegas. Gibson surveys the combat magazines and weapons advertisements, films and novels that fuel the sexual, violent fantasies of millions of would-be warriors across the country. And he shows how this mythology, far from harmless consumer entertainment, has indeed started a new war with real warriors - Aryan Nation, contract killers, mercenaries in Central America - and with dangerous consequences for our democracy.
