by Kristoph Thompson (2011)
"Weight training can help you to build a leaner, stronger physique as well as supporting fat loss goals and is an essential part of every exercise programme. Knowing exactly how to achieve these results, in a safe and effective way, can be a little more confusing. There's no shortage of advice around, but it can be difficult and time consuming to sift through it and work out what's out what's applicable to you. This book explains the step by step process of devising your own weight training programme, helping you to understand the reasons behind the best route to success. It shows readers how to perform various exercises, as well as including ready-made programmes for beginners, intermediate and advanced levels with instructions and diagrams. You can begin training immediately and will start seeing results in just a few weeks." --Back cover.
Ambika Wauters
Describes how to gain holistic control of both body and mind through harnessing chakras--energy centers in the body that can influence personal development and health--using meditation and other techniques and exercises.
Yukio Noguchi and David A. Wise
Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countries. In addition, as the populations age, baby boomers in the United States will face diminishing financial resources as the ratio of retirees to workers sharply increases. The result of a joint venture between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, this book complements Housing Markets in the United States and Japan (1994) by integrating research on housing markets with economic issues of the aged in the United States and Japan.
Paula Snyder
"The first sourcebook on women in Europe, The European Women's Almanac is a handy and easy-to-use compilation of information on women's rights and status and how they live in a continent that stretches from Iceland in the north to Malta in the south, from Portugal in the west to Bulgaria in the east." "A central aim of this essential guide is to present not the promises of where women ought to be but the facts of where they are. How do women in twenty-six countries fare in education and employment? What are their legal rights? What health care are they offered?" "Arranged alphabetically by country, each section of the almanac includes an introductory "snapshot" of the country, with such general statistics as area and population density. Then, fascinating and detailed statistics on women are presented:" "The Scandinavian countries have a higher percentage of women in their national parliaments than other European countries. Finland is first with 38.5 percent. The United Kingdom ranks twenty-first out of twenty-six with 6.3 percent." "The country with the highest death rate from cancer of the cervix is Romania, followed by Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the former East Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom." "Before German unification in 1989, 90 percent of women with children in East Germany were employed. In West Germany in 1988 the figure was 38 percent." "For each country The European Women's Almanac provides addresses readers can write to obtain further information, and letters from individual women to add an essential element: the voice of personal experience. The volume concludes with tables that compare how all the countries included measure up on population, health, and lifestyle trends."--BOOK JACKET.
Michael Howell and Peter Ford
The touching story of Joseph Merrick, a ninteenth-century cripple, who became the most famous "professional freak" in history.