The Lean Body Promise, Gym Edition (Collins Gem)
The Lean Body Promise, Gym Edition (Collins Gem)

Author: Lee Labrada

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780060853198

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Regardless of what shape you're in, your age, or how many diets and fitness programs you've tried without success, Lee Labrada would like to make you a promise: there is a lean, strong body inside of you, and you have the power to release it. In The Lean Body Promise, this renowned fitness authority, former Mr. Universe, and trainer to thousands introduces the ultimate body fat–burning solution that will yield startling and dramatic results in just 30 minutes per day, in as few as 12 weeks. Based on revolutionary principles Lee has developed over the past 25 years and which he calls "Banex," or "balanced nutrition and exercise," The Lean Body Promise shows you how to shift your body from "fat–storing" to "fat–burning" mode, feeding lean muscle tissue while simultaneously starving excess body fat. Starting with a 12–week personal improvement challenge, Lee shows you how to continue your journey of physical and mental self–improvement and make changes that will profoundly improve your health and well–being for the rest of your life. Inside, you'll find inspirational stories of ordinary people who experienced extraordinary, life–transforming changes in their bodies by applying the principles in this book. If they did it, so can you! Short, easy–to–follow workouts for the gym or home that will strengthen your heart and lungs, burn body fat, and most important, build muscle. You'll kick your metabolism into high gear, enabling you to melt fat even while you're resting. Lee puts it all together in a day–by–day format that will help you derive maximum results from short workouts.

Bridging Worlds
Bridging Worlds

Author: Joycee Kennedy

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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A handbook for parents and other caregivers who are called upon to deal with troubled adolescents. Discusses trauma theory and treatment, attachment theory, diversity, the need for cross-training and cross-consulting, juvenile justice and public policy issues, juvenile civil rights, and the psychological impact of socioeconomic class. The emphasis is on detection and intervention in scenarios where abuse and trauma have occurred. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Human Journalist
The Human Journalist

Author: Jim Willis

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Willis examines the many orientations and perspectives of reporters that gather and present the news of the day. Debunking the notion that there are limited perspectives journalists may use, Willis examines up to 15 different orientations that reporters bring to their work. These perspectives run the gamut, from the traditional approach of distancing oneself completely from events and people involved to becoming part of the story's fabric to ascertain the story's true essence. Willis also suggests that, for many stories, it is wholly appropriate for journalists to feel what a non-professional would experience at such an event, and to allow those emotions to fuel the reporting and writing of the story. Several examples are discussed in detail, including the coverage of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson

Author: Jeffrey C. Stewart

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13:

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Paul Robeson, the towering six-foot six athlete, orator, actor, singer, intellectual, and activist, was arguably one of the most simultaneously loved and loathed American personalities of the 20th century. This collection, edited by George Mason University professor Jeffrey Stewart to serve as a companion to a traveling exhibition marking the centennial anniversary of his birth on April 9, 1898, brings together 18 scholars and historians to the most detailed and balanced look at Robeson to date. Francis C. Harris details Robeson's career as an multilettered athlete at Rutgers University, where he endured gang tackles, a dislocated shoulder, and a broken nose. In "Paul Robeson, Musician," Doris Evans McGinty and Wayne D. Shirley highlight the centrality of Negro spirituals and folk songs in Robeson's repertoire. Robeson biographer Martin Duberman chronicles the social and sexual implications of Robeson's portrayals of Shakespeare's Othello, while Charles Musser reveals the complexities of Robeson's friendship with playwright Eugene O'Neill as well as his difficulties with African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. The entries dealing with Robeson's political activities show his courage to speak out against injustice and the price he paid for it. Lawyer-writer Derrick Bell examines Robeson's "small service" to the cause of African American justice. David Levering Lewis looks at Robeson's deep, albeit naive views on the Soviet Union, which dovetailed into his support of American workers, the subject of Mark D. Naison's contribution.

The Speckled People
The Speckled People

Author: Hugo Hamilton

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1408171201

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Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, control and identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German below." An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry. The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the street who persecute him with taunts of Nazism. Above all he must free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs. Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare.