"NSCA's Essentials of Personal Training" is the ideal authoritative resource for personal trainers, health and fitness instructors, exercise scientists, and other fitness professionals, as well as the primary preparation source for the NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer[registered] examination. The book includes more than 250 photographs and ...
"Raid on the Sun" is the first authorized, inside account of one of the most daring--and successful--military operations ever: Israel's 1981 surprise strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant.
Kamenetz, a poet and a Jew, was invited to attend and write about a historical meeting between a delegation of American Jews and a group of Tibetan Buddhists that included the Dalai Lama. This interfaith get-together was inspired, in part, by the increasing number of Jews who have become Buddhists as well as the Dalai Lama's perception of Jews as ...
BIOLOGY, Seventh Edition by Solomon, Berg, and Martin continues to be the best-liked and most student-friendly introductory majors text available. In this edition the authors have created a learning system that makes the chapters easier to navigate and provides a variety of ways for students to learn the material. "Learning Objectives" are now ...
A third of our time on earth is spent sleeping. Yet our dreams, if remembered at all, have been relegated to nothing more than curious anecdotes. When Freud, a century ago, awakened modern interest in the dream, his theory of interpretation undermined the potential insights dreams had to offer. For Freud, dreams are nothing more than fragmented ...
In this pathbreaking book, Rodger Streitmatter takes the reader on a sightseeing tour of American history as influenced by the public press, visiting fourteen landmark events in U.S. history, from the abolitionist movement and the struggle for women's rights to the civil rights movement and Watergate. These are events that stir the political ...
Solidly grounded in current recommendations of the National Science Education Standards, this text offers teaching guidance and strategies for physical, biological, and earth science courses for middle school, junior high, and high school. The authors' extensive curriculum development experience imbues the text with a practical focus. Their ...
This book focuses on the navies of all the major Atlantic sea powers of the time, including Britain, America, France, Holland, Sweden and Russia. Arranged in chronological order and illustrated throughout with informative captions.
"A book for anyone who feels the narrowness of a wholly secular life or who wonders about the fate of esoteric spiritual traditions in a world that seems bent on destroying or vulgarizing them".--New York Times Book Review.
Ages 8 to 14 years. In 1804, on their famous expedition to explore the uncharted American West, Lewis and Clark promised the Missouri Indians peace and prosperity if they didn't make war. This fascinating new book follows Lewis and Clark and the members of their Corps of Discovery expedition describing the effects of their encounters with various ...
Drawing from the experiences of caretakers of the seriously ill--and the knowledge of medical, legal, financial, and psychological experts--this guide shows how to keep on an even keel while making a loved one's last days as comforable and fulfilling as possible. Line drawings & charts.
Illuminating two centuries of dissident presses in the United States, this study addresses several topics, including feminism, abolitionism, labor, and black power.
Electrical and computer engineers need to understand the most current technologies in the field. In order to provide the latest information, the sixth edition presents a new chapter that explores the principles of digital data transmission without the complicating factor of performance in noise. It exposes readers to digital data transmission ...
A naval history of Britain, covering the period from its unification as a state under the Saxon kings to the defeat of the Spanish Armada under the reign of Elizabeth I. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
A guide for anyone involved in actively caring for ailing friends, partners, parents, and other relatives, covering topics such as: working with the medical system, doing battle with insurance companies, locating community services, exploring experimental and alternative therapies, maintaining cash flow and coping with bills, coping with family ...
Housden offers poems that reveal layer upon layer of meaning--poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and the ineffable aspects of human experience that only poetry can convey.
An insider's look at the frenzied phenomenon of an underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town--spawning such supergroups as the B-52's and R.E.M. Party Out of Bounds is an electric tale of artists and dreams, drugs and sex, triumphs and tragedies. Advertising in Rolling Stone magazine.
Rodger describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government.
For Middle and Secondary Science Methods and Curriculum courses. Solidly grounded in current recommendations of the National Science Education Standards, this text offers teaching guidance and strategies for physical, biological, and earth science courses for middle school, junior high, and high school. The Authors' extensive curriculum ...
Now in paperback: 300 letters between Eleanor Roosevelt and her "first friend" shed new light on their legendary, passionate bond.. In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor ...
"The Rough Guide to Jamaica" is the complete guide to the Caribbeans liveliest island. The full-colour introduction includes the 'Things Not To Miss' section with photographs of the island's highlights from the Bob Marley Museum in bustling Kingston to rafting the Rio Grande. The guide contains detailed and discriminating reviews of the best ...
Winner of the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought, "Stalking Elijah" traces Rodger Kamenetz's rollicking and profound cross-country journey in search of the great teachers revitalizing Judaism today.
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