God likes sex. He made it, and He likes everything He made. Sex is an amazing experience that can be the perfect moment in a beautiful, covenant relationship. Except when it isn't. No one likes sex that is troublesome, unfulfilling and wounding. Not even God. But sex was never designed to just be a stand-alone experience. God designed it to function within a system in the same way He created the universe to work within a system. In fact, God started the whole thing with naked-good naked, and not afraid or ashamed. Good Naked promises practical insight for sexual wholeness with a simple, seven-layer look into God's design for sex. With easy to understand theology and clear ways to apply the material learned, Good Naked can help you enjoy God's plan for a delightful and delicious sexual experience.
From veteran teacher and acclaimed author Joni B. Cole comes the revised and expanded edition of her popular writing guide Good Naked. Once again, Cole’s humor and wisdom shine through as she debunks long-held misconceptions of how we’re supposed to write, replacing them with advice that works. Feeling overwhelmed? Having trouble getting started or staying motivated? In this edition, Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit. Writers will even find help making peace with rejection. Admirers as well as newcomers to Cole’s work appreciate her uniquely cheerful approach, time tested to foster creativity and productivity. Keeping this generous and essential guide close by will provide a jump start to inspiration and a daily reminder of the meaning, humor, and happiness that can be discovered in your own writing life.
How 2 Look Good Naked was created after a decade long search to find the best way to exercise efficiently, effectively, and with results worth talking about. For the longest time I was indoctrinated with the idea that, more exercise equals better exercise, and as I've found through my journey in the last two years, this is absolutely not the case. This book is a beginners approach (the one I took) to the field of evidence based exercise. Hopefully to be used as a tool to get readers more interested in the field of Evidence Based Exercise (sometimes called High Intensity Training), or at the very least to help people convinced they don't have the time to get results from less than an hour of training per week. The diet portion of this book is a blend of my own personal experience with the Ketogenic Diet. What has worked for me (and been extremely effective) and the parts that didn't serve me. My hope is with both the exercise and diet portion of this book, people will find something different they've never experienced before. More than following my plan to the letter, I hope it invigorates readers (through some success) to inquire what else could work for them, and to pursue that. I don't proclaim to know anything (or even very much), but I hope this book offers readers an opportunity to get interested in their own health and to become experts of their own bodies. I wish everyone who reads this the best of luck on their own fitness journey, and I hope if anything, I can just help along the way.
Look Better Naked is a diet, exercise, beauty, and self-confidence plan from the editor-in chief of Women's Health, the magazine that knows how to speak to women in a smart, inspiring way. The book offers expert tips and simple plans for reshaping a woman's body quickly and easily. It reveals the powerfoods a woman should put on her plate every day and has a workout plan that delivers results in just 15 minutes a day. The plan also helps a woman: • flatten her belly • tone her legs • tighten her butt • improve her skin and hair A woman's posture, her pride, her personal power —they all go together. Look Better Naked shows a woman how to be the best possible version of herself that she can be.
What would it look like if an Avenger turned up to help in youth work? Perhaps it would breathe a fresh sense of purpose. Maybe the primary response would be relief that backup had arrived. They would certainly pull a crowd for a few weeks at least. Looking for a superhero might be a good idea. But there is a better one. It's called the church. Boring? Irrelevant? All dressed up but nowhere to go? Looking Good Naked strips off the ill-fitting outfits and recovers a biblical theology of the church as the body of Christ, drawing on the narratives of youth work and ministry. Written for the student of youth ministry, full-timer, part-timer or extra-timer, it is an engaging, practical, and deep book, seeking to renew our confidence in who we are in light of whose we are, so we can better engage with young people.
Award winning model, Yinka Bode-George breaks down his nutrition guide on how to look good naked. Find out how he keeps his 4% body fat all year round.
We all know a woman who turns heads whenever she enters a room, even though her legs are not perfect, her body not classically proportioned. And we all wonder, 'What does she have that I don't?Æ Laure's 10-step Feel Good Naked program will teach you that her magnetism has everything to do with the way she feels about herself and little to do with isolated body parts. Most women are obsessed with their bodies, never happy with how much they weigh or how they look. Laure Redmond used to be one of those women, paralyzed by female body hatred, insecure and uncomfortable with her overweight appearance. With self-motivation, her specifically designed 10-step 'no diet' program (and a few setbacks along the way), Laure changed her perspective and her appearance. She has spent the last twenty years counseling other women with her unique 10-step program that sheds pounds easily and naturally while building self-esteem. Her clients are always amazed at how good they feel-lean, energetic, and most importantly, confident! Laure's Feel Good Naked program is the secret to finally loving the way you look. For ten years, Laure operated Body Design By Gilda, one of New York City's most respected exercise studios. Her clientele included many top celebrities like Helen Hunt, Andie MacDowell, Mary Tyler Moore and Madonna. In working with such high profile clients as well as many top models, Laure realized that how you look has nothing to do with how much you weigh, and everything to do with how you feel. Her fabulous innovative program has worked for countless women all across the country, and ten of these women share their success stories in Feel Good Naked. The 10 steps are simple, gradual, and require no special equipment, foods, or gadgets. All you need is the desire to feel better about yourself. You'll meet: -Erin, who needed to eat more and exercise less in order to lose weight -Susan, who has lost 100 pounds-without dieting -Theresa, who saved her marriage by learning how to feel better about herself and her body Discover: -Why just switching from diet soda to water will cause you to lose at least five pounds -How ten minutes of exercise can change your face and your life -Why you should never deprive yourself of your favorite tastes -Why learning how to breathe consciously is essential for losing weight -Why you don't need to meet Mr. Right to receive the ideal love letter -How to trim ten pounds off your appearance instantly! Let's face it-you'll never be a size 4 if your body was made to be a size 12. However, Feel Good Naked will teach you how to change the way you feel about your body, which ultimately determines how you look. Finally, there is a program to help you celebrate and love your body, making it as healthy and balanced as possible. You can feel strong. You can feel beautiful. You deserve to look and Feel Good Naked.
A New York Times bestseller "Brilliant, funny…the best math teacher you never had." —San Francisco Chronicle Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you’ll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more. For those who slept through Stats 101, this book is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis. He clarifies key concepts such as inference, correlation, and regression analysis, reveals how biased or careless parties can manipulate or misrepresent data, and shows us how brilliant and creative researchers are exploiting the valuable data from natural experiments to tackle thorny questions. And in Wheelan’s trademark style, there’s not a dull page in sight. You’ll encounter clever Schlitz Beer marketers leveraging basic probability, an International Sausage Festival illuminating the tenets of the central limit theorem, and a head-scratching choice from the famous game show Let’s Make a Deal—and you’ll come away with insights each time. With the wit, accessibility, and sheer fun that turned Naked Economics into a bestseller, Wheelan defies the odds yet again by bringing another essential, formerly unglamorous discipline to life.
Winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by Alicia Ostriker. Schwartz's Dear Good Naked Morning explores what it is to be a woman in love with the world.
Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe (in Duncan's case, an obsession rather than an interest) is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release', a terrible demo of his most famous album, it's the last straw - Duncan cheats on her and she promptly throws him out. Via an internet discussion forum, Annie's harsh opinion reaches Tucker himself, who couldn't agree more. He and Annie start an unlikely correspondence which teaches them both something about moving on from years of wasted time. Nick Hornby's compelling new novel, four years after A Long Way Down, is about the nature of creativity and obsession, and how two lonely people can gradually find each other.
