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The Athlete's Way: Training Your Mind and Body to Experience the Joy of Exercise
" The Athlete's Way is amazingly informative and complete with a program to get and keep you off the couch. Bravo, for another exercising zealot who has written a book that should be read on your elliptical or stationary bike. He pushed me to go farther on a sleepy Sunday." - John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science in Exercise and the Brain, and co-author of Driven to Distraction .
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The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss
Make Exercise a Pleasurable Habit The Athlete’s Way presents a practical, motivational fitness program by an ultra-endurance athlete that incorporates brain science, positive psychology and behaviorism to transform lives from the inside out. It is the antidote to the imbalances created by living a sedentary, inactive existence. Christopher Bergland, the son of a neurosurgeon, has created a program that uses neurobiology and behavioral models to help improve life through exercise. The Athlete’s Way program, focusing on cardio, strength, stretching, nutrition and sleep, uses neurobiology and behavioral models to enable you to think, train and behave like an athlete, making you more optimistic, resilient, and intense. You will want to get a glow on every day to increase your daily bliss quotient. Exercise will no longer be something to dread but something to enjoy and experience to the fullest. The Athlete’s Way teaches you how to make exercise a source of joy and something you will want to engage in daily. Sweat will become a symbol of your striving for a standard of excellence and a solid work ethic that is synonymous with peak performance. The stamina, tenacity, and drive fortified through athletics--and this program--can be applied to any dream, obstacle, or goal you aspire to achieve. Christopher Bergland is a Manhattan-based world-class endurance athlete. He holds a Guinness World Record for treadmill running (153.76 miles in 24 hours) and has won the longest nonstop triathlon in the world three times. He completed The Triple Ironman, a 7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike, followed by a 78.6-mile run (done consecutively) in a record breaking time of 38 hours and 46 minutes. He directs the triathlon program at Chelsea Piers and has been sponsored by Kiehl's since 1996. He has been featured in dozens of TV, magazine, and newspaper articles including CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, Fox, Men's Journal, ESPN magazine, and the L.A. Times. He currently manages a specialty sporting goods shop in New York City called "JackRabbit Sports." Inspiring Lessons from a World-class Endurance Athlete“I love to sweat. All told, I have run distance equal to four trips around the world on a treadmill and on the streets of Manhattan where I live. I have biked to the moon and back, dueling it out with a red, blinking pacer light on a LifeCycle control panel or logging countless laps in Central Park. I’ve even crossed the Atlantic a few times – in the pool – and I’ve swum in almost every ocean around the world competing in Ironman triathlons. When I am running, biking, or swimming, happiness pours out of me. I am not alone. Everyone who exercises regularly experiences this bliss. And it is available to you, too, anytime you break a sweat. The Athlete’s Way is an individual process but ultimately a universal experience. We feel good when we sweat. I have learned how to find Nirvana on the treadmill, and I am going to teach you my secrets.” --Christopher Bergland .
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Baby Washcloths to Knit (Leisure Arts #4352)
A tender touch and a little splash of color -- Melissa Bergland Burnham knows what Baby likes at bath time! These 9 knit washcloths are patterned with friendly shapes, created with easy knit and purl stitches. Cotton yarn makes these durable designs soft enough for an infant s skin. Trims are optional, but may include a bow or a pom-pom. Want to see a new mom s eyes light up? Gift her with a selection of the sweet cloths, all bundled up with popular products for Baby s bath. 9 washcloths made using cotton medium/worsted weight yarn and size 7 straight knitting needles: Sailboat, Little Lamb, Baby Bunny, Butterfly, Rubber Ducky, Stork, Baby Bottle, Baby Buggy, and Rocking Horse. Each cloth is approximately 7" square..
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Garden Dishcloths to Knit (Leisure Arts #3934)
Love to knit? Want projects that are quick and fun to do? In just a few minutes here and there, and using only knit and purl stitches, you can create one of a dozen garden dishcloths! From bees in flight to a hummingbird poised before a flower, you can clearly see the clever designs on these reversible squares. Thick and thirsty, 100% cotton medium/worsted weight yarn makes these cloths as practical as they are pretty. And they’re wonderful as gifts! Just tuck them into a basket with a few kitchen supplies, and you’ve got a great gift for a housewarming party or a bridal shower. So take a little time from your busy day to relax while you knit a garden dishcloth — you’ll be rewarding yourself twice! 12 Designs: Frog, Hummingbird & Trumpet Vine, Bee Skep, Sunflower, Rose, Topiary with Heart, Butterfly, Michigan Cherries, Ladybug, Tulip, Cardinal, and Birdhouse..
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Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics
New England blossomed in the nineteenth century, producing a crop of distinctively American writers along with distinguished philosophers and jurists, abolitionists and scholars. A few of the female stars of this era—Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, and Susan B. Anthony, for instance—are still appreciated, but there are a number of intellectual women whose crucial roles in the philosophical, social, and scientific debates that roiled the era have not been fully examined. Among them is the astronomer Maria Mitchell. She was raised in isolated but cosmopolitan Nantucket, a place brimming with enthusiasm for intellectual culture and hosting the luminaries of the day, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Sojourner Truth. Like many island girls, she was encouraged to study the stars. Given the relative dearth of women scientists today, most of us assume that science has always been a masculine domain. But as Renée Bergland reminds us, science and humanities were not seen as separate spheres in the nineteenth century; indeed, before the Civil War, women flourished in science and mathematics, disciplines that were considered less politically threatening and less profitable than the humanities. Mitchell apprenticed with her father, an amateur astronomer; taught herself the higher math of the day; and for years regularly "swept" the clear Nantucket night sky with the telescope in her rooftop observatory. In 1847, thanks to these diligent sweeps, Mitchell discovered a comet and was catapulted to international fame. Within a few years she was one of America's first professional astronomers; as "computer of Venus"—a sort of human calculator—for the U.S. Navy's Nautical Almanac, she calculated the planet's changing position. After an intellectual tour of Europe that included a winter in Rome with Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mitchell was invited to join the founding faculty at Vassar College, where she spent her later years mentoring the next generation of women astronomers. Tragically, opportunities for her students dried up over the next few decades as the increasingly male scientific establishment began to close ranks. Mitchell protested this cultural shift in vain. "The woman who has peculiar gifts has a definite line marked out for her," she wrote, "and the call from God to do his work in the field of scientific investigation may be as imperative as that which calls the missionary into the moral field or the mother into the family . . . The question whether women have the capacity for original investigation in science is simply idle until equal opportunity is given them." In this compulsively readable biography, Renée Bergland chronicles the ideological, academic, and economic changes that led to the original sexing of science—now so familiar that most of us have never known it any other way. "The best thing in its line since Dava Sobel's Longitude. Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science tells a great, if too little known, story of an intellectual woman in 19th century New England. And it is beautifully told: I simply could not put it down. Anyone who cares about women's education in America should read this compelling and indispensable book." —Robert D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism "Renée Bergland recounts the story of Maria Mitchell's life and work in glorious and careful detail. One feels and hears the sounds of Mitchell's native Nantucket, her adopted Vassar, and comes to understand how one of the 'gentler sex' advanced astronomy in her day." —Londa Schiebinger, author of Has Feminism Changed Science?.
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Libertarianism in One Lesson
Chapters include: The Nature of Government, The Alternative to Coercive Government, Obstacles to Clear Thinking About Government, The Development of Libertarianism as an American Political Movement, The Libertarian Difference, Libertarian Analysis of the Issues, Foreign Policy, Free Trade and National Defense, Taxation as Theft, Education: State Control or Freedom of Choice?, Prohibition Revisited: The War on Drugs, Social Insecurity, What About the Poor People?, Economic Freedom: Personal Freedom, Pollution and Environmental Values, Guns, Crime and Personal Responsibility, The Therapeutic State..
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Idle Curiosity
A tiny old man dressed in a red-and-white-striped bathrobe stands outside the white clapboard hotel that for ninety years housed the transients of Half Moon. A former farmer, and ex-husband of two very different women, Ed Check surveys the land that used to be his. He thinks about his daughters: the one who stays close to home and who "keeps what she thinks and feels so deep inside her that it's too far from her face to have any effect"; the one who has come home without her husband and is falling for the new optometrist in town, Nelson Alvin (rhymes with ball peen). But how could he know that his youngest daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she was a small child, is currently on her way to delivering him his biggest surprise. She is working her way down a list of "musts" before she can call him: "wait for bruise to clear up / let roots grow out, cut off blond / get two outfits and a suitcase."
As lives unravel around him, Ed's age-old practice of looking out for his own is put to the test and earns him a pacemaker. To everyone's surprise however, family ties prove to be longer, and stronger, than expected. Despite their status as "grown-ups" Ed finds his daughters need him now more than ever.
In Idle Curiosity, Martha Bergland has created a feisty and compassionate novel that understands that while modern families are certainly more complicated, their need for simple love and understanding is no less compelling than before. Bergland's observations are fresh and illuminating, her humor is earthy, and her characters are full-hearted. Idle Curiosity will delight readers new to Bergland's work, as well as the many fans of her first novel, A Farm under a Lake.
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Finding Comfort in God's Embrace
Because grief’s journey can feel dark and overwhelming, Finding Comfort in God’s Embrace offers support from others who have traveled this road and from God, who longs to walk with the bereaved. Each meditation concludes with a suggested application and space for journaling..
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