Baron is a guy with a job. Annie is a girl with a boyfriend. Rutherford has some sweet sideburns. Can they unravel the mysteries of their social circle before this shift ends? Rocky River is the restaurant where graphic characters like these three have novel adventures while they work. Sidestepping the distracting behavior of certain regulars, placating people who swear they know the owner, and making change for those paying cash - the food service personnel at this place definitely earn their two bucks an hour.
Fitness Program: This fitness book has one useful and time efficient exercise routine. It offers the reader a sample of the Swing Set Fitness books. This time efficient workout was created to help the reader increase strength and become more fit. Perfect for athletes, firefighters, police officers, military, or anyone who enjoys a good challenge! This workout is not in any of our Swing Set Fitness Books. See nearly 50 exercises and another twelve workouts when you order our other Swing Set Fitness books!
Fitness Book: Fitness on a Swing Set: A great variety of the exercises that range in difficulty. Each chapter focuses on a different body area in addition to a chapter with stretching exercises. This unique fitness book is filled with exercises that will prove to be a challenge to even the most fit. Many of the exercises in this book were taken from Karen Goeller's gymnastics training programs. Other exercises are the more traditional exercises. Relax at the end of your workout with some of the stretching exercises! How much would you pay a very experienced fitness expert to teach you nearly 50 new exercises? That could cost well over a thousand dollars! Get several exercises and create your own great workouts by performing one exercise from each section. You'll feel like you hired a personal trainer and in the process, you'll reach a remarkable fitness level. People will ask your secret! Order now!
Fitness Book: Fitness on a Swing Set with Training Programs: You get nearly 50 exercises and at least a dozen workouts, more than enough to make a real difference. This book is perfect for firefighters, police officers, rescue workers, military personnel, nurses, construction workers, athletes, or anyone who relies on their strength. Use these exercises and workouts to gain strength, flexibility, and become more fit. This fitness book is truly original and unique. Many of these exercises were taken from Karen Goeller's gymnastics training programs while others are more traditional exercises. The workouts range in difficulty with full body training and split routines. Most people reviewing this book will find several exercises they could never have imagined. Wait until you see the exercises and workouts performed on a regular playground swing. You will not believe your eyes! Order today and accept the challenge!
You get a great variety of workouts that range in difficulty. There are at least a dozen new workouts, more than enough to make a real difference! Perfect for athletes, military personnel, fire fighters, police officers, rescue workers, nurses, construction workers, competitive athletes, or anyone who relies on their strength on a daily basis. Use these workouts to gain strength and become more fit. Many of the exercises in this book were taken from Karen Goeller's gymnastics training programs. You will gain strength and become accustomed to supporting your own body weight in motion. There are full body workouts and split routines. Once you learn these exercises, you can create your own workouts. You'll reach a remarkable fitness level after performing these workouts frequently and consistently. People will ask your secret. Wait until you see the workouts performed on a regular playground swing. You will not believe your eyes! Order this book and accept the challenge!
Learn quick and effective techniques for developing blockchain-based distributed ledgers with ease Key FeaturesDiscover why blockchain is a game changer in the technology landscapeSet up blockchain networks using Hyperledger FabricWrite smart contracts at speed with Hyperledger ComposerBook Description Blockchain and Hyperledger are open source technologies that power the development of decentralized applications. This Learning Path is your helpful reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. Blockchain Development with Hyperledger will start off by giving you an overview of blockchain and demonstrating how you can set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll then explore the de facto language Solidity, which you can use to develop decentralized applications in Ethereum. Following this, you'll be able to configure Hyperledger Fabric and use it to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Toward the later chapters, you'll learn how to design and launch a network, and even implement smart contracts in chain code. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by addressing the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Blockchain Quick Start Guide by Xun (Brian) Wu and Weimin SunHands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger by Nitin Gaur et al.What you will learnUnderstand why decentralized applications are necessaryDevelop and test a decentralized application with Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger ComposerWrite and test a smart contract using SolidityDesign transaction models and chain code with GolangDeploy the Composer REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Gateway to access Composer transactionsMaintain, monitor, and manage your blockchain solutionsWho this book is for This Learning Path is designed for blockchain developers who want to build decentralized applications and smart contracts from scratch using Hyperledger. Basic familiarity with or exposure to any programming language will be useful to get started with this course.
Through 250 exquisite full-color and black-and-white photos, photographer David Muench presents a superb visual interpretation of what the North American continent was like before the arrival of Europeans. Printed on high-quality paper with excellent reproduction, this is a stunning collection that will appeal to photographers as well as nature lovers.
Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls creep through pages of spooky flash fiction. Discover critically acclaimed authors that will make your skin shiver and have you flinching at bumps in the night. Whenever the mood strikes for something creepy, this collection will leave you looking over your shoulder.
It's everything a serious reader would want from a novel. Suffice to say I read it spellbound. The novel is perfect, a classic, satisfying love story. Being language driven, the love story itself is transformed into an epic. Regardless of any plot or theme, it's the voice, the acerbic, relentless observations, the exhilarating metre of sociological dissection, the skewed homecoming poetry of it, the anger and energy and bitterness. It's superb, every word of it held me enthralled. Making this the fuel of a love story is a supreme achievement. It's more than the great Irish novel; its very language is dependent on a narrator's voice corrupted by his wandering. You take a scene to its linguistic origins, refract its meanings and create myth, the voice is contemporary and so compelling in its delivery. Delighted in the puns, the literary and cultural references, the brilliance of the wit and one liners, the put downs to die for and the absurd and crazy, surprising twists of storyline." -- UK Writers Workshop review
Part of the Illustrated Color Text series, this highly visual and concise textbook presents topics in clinical medicine and related areas that will likely be encountered in general practice. Taking an evidence-based approach, this atlas-style resource discusses the differences between general practice and hospital-based care. Featuring an accessible presentation of material with a double-page spread for each topic, it also makes use of dynamic color for both clinical photographs and graphics. Familiarizes readers with the context of general practice and how it differs from hospital-based care. Provides a simple overview of clinical work carried out in the primary care/general practice setting. Offers a framework for learning. Fills in the gaps of clinical knowledge that are often not adequately covered in other textbooks. Features easy-to-access, double-page spreads. Uses an attractive, highly visual layout with full-color photos and graphics. Includes summary boxes for examination preparation.
“We are not worth more, they are not worth less.” This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson’s story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a “Commie-hating, baseball-loving Baptist,” moves through life-changing experiences in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and elsewhere, and culminates with his commitment to a localized, sustainable lifestyle. In telling his story, Willson provides numerous examples of the types of personal, risk-taking, nonviolent actions he and others have taken in attempts to educate and effect political change: tax refusal—which requires simplification of one’s lifestyle; fasting—done publicly in strategic political and/or therapeutic spiritual contexts; and obstruction tactics—strategically placing one’s body in the way of “business as usual.” It was such actions that thrust Brian Willson into the public eye in the mid-’80s, first as a participant in a high-profile, water-only “Veterans Fast for Life” against the Contra war being waged by his government in Nicaragua. Then, on a fateful day in September 1987, the world watched in horror as Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks and arrested. Losing his legs only strengthened Willson’s identity with millions of unnamed victims of U.S. policy around the world. He provides details of his travels to countries in Latin America and the Middle East and bears witness to the harm done to poor people as well as to the environment by the steamroller of U.S. imperialism. These heart-rending accounts are offered side by side with inspirational stories of nonviolent struggle and the survival of resilient communities Willson’s expanding consciousness also uncovers injustices within his own country, including insights gained through his study and service within the U.S. criminal justice system and personal experiences addressing racial injustices. He discusses coming to terms with his identity as a Viet Nam veteran and the subsequent service he provides to others as director of a veterans outreach center in New England. He draws much inspiration from friends he encounters along the way as he finds himself continually drawn to the path leading to a simpler life that seeks to “do no harm.&rdquo Throughout his personal journey Willson struggles with the question, “Why was it so easy for me, a ’good’ man, to follow orders to travel 9,000 miles from home to participate in killing people who clearly were not a threat to me or any of my fellow citizens?” He eventually comes to the realization that the “American Way of Life” is AWOL from humanity, and that the only way to recover our humanity is by changing our consciousness, one individual at a time, while striving for collective cultural changes toward “less and local.” Thus, Willson offers up his personal story as a metaphorical map for anyone who feels the need to be liberated from the American Way of Life—a guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect and empathy.
This book does not offer any miracles, although it does offer a better opportunity for someone to get results, for one who is prepared to get out of the victim role and take a positive step into seeing what they can do for themselves. By reading this book, you will realise the significance of continuous learning. And that’s how philosophy tries to discover the nature of truth and knowledge, to find what is of basic value and importance in life. This is about the relationships between humanity and nature and between the individual and the society.
Joining forces with two leading scientists, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra offers a quantum leap for improving our physical and mental health. In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today’s most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D., and endocrinologist Brian Fertig, M.D., to bring readers a visionary work that delves into the innovative world of quantum science and shows how unlocking its secrets can revolutionize how we live and age—and, ultimately, how we can eradicate disease. The key is the quantum body. Unlike our physical body, which is subject to aging, injury, and decay, the quantum body exists on a sub-atomic level and is the infinite, invisible source of everyday reality that affects your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and biological responses. Without your quantum body, there is no physical body. And this lack of awareness of the most crucial part of ourselves negatively impacts our lives every day. Through a powerful combination of prescriptive exercises and innovative research into the quantum world, the authors unveil seven breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of everyone’s well-being. Central to this revolution is a groundbreaking understanding of metabolism—the way our cells process energy—that promises to challenge our understanding of modern medicine as we know it. Though all too familiar in the physical world, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease do not exist at the fundamental level of quantum reality. By harnessing the power of the quantum body, we can significantly improve our physical and mental well-being, including supporting healthy cell, tissue, and organ function, boosting immunity, promoting mental resilience, and expanding our understanding of what it means to live a happy and purposeful life. In this groundbreaking book, Chopra, Tuszynski, and Fertig show you the way by unveiling the “real” reality of your body and mind as never before and providing a vision for a tomorrow that is already here.
Confessions of an American Male: Hilarious Moments from the Life of a Member of that Diminishing Species By: Brian Dickens Barrabee Confessions of an American Male is about one man’s recognition of the absurdities that happen in every man’s existence. Some of these stories are fact, some embellished, some astronomically embellished, but all are based on truth. The author takes great delight in sharing these tales of his life and hope the readers will be delighted as well.
MLB Network host and commentator Brian Kenny uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic, even when directly contradicted by evidence.
Major accomplishments are often completed by unknown, extraordinary people. The vision and determination of the founding members of the Special Commission on State Parks swayed the 1913 Connecticut General Assembly to create the Connecticut State Park Commission. Seven years later, Hammonasset Beach State Park finally opened. In the early 1920s, many enjoyed the beach fully clothed (the norm for the day), while some opted for rental bathing suits. With an emerging middle class in the late 1920s, the park started seeing campers using homemade and "modern" manufactured trailers throughout the 1930s. Despite budget constraints, local opposition, economic depression, the devastating 1938 hurricane, and conversion to a war training facility in 1942, the park commissioners and staff ensured that Hammonasset Beach State Park would be enjoyed by generations to come. Because of their efforts, millions of Hammonasset visitors and campers have treasured experiences and memories that transcend generations--made possible by crusaders for the people.
Professional sports in America: it’s all about fair play and the goal of winning championships. At least that’s the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation filled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible? Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of the corruption that has infected the storied histories of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NASCAR. With reality obscured by a complacent and often complicit sports media, The Fix Is In shines a light on a hidden history of clandestine arrangements between television networks and sports leagues, all against a background of drinking, drugging, and crime. Finally, here’s a book that unflinchingly examines the sordid underbelly of the American sports industry. Brian Tuohy maintains the website thefixisin.net and is a frequent contributor to the CBS Sports website bleacherreport.com, where he chronicles sports scandals and conspiracies as the stories break. Brian has been interviewed by The New York Times, ESPN, Fox Sports, and The Power Hour radio program.
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