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The Healthiest People

The Science Behind Seventh-Day Adventist Success

By: Elvin Adams MD MPH

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The Healthiest People

The Science Behind Seventh-Day Adventist Success

By: Elvin Adams MD MPH

There are unusually healthy people living among us. They have been rigorously studied in a scientifically accurate manner. Established facts about the good health of these people have been published in hundreds of scientific papers. The plain facts are often buried in confusing tables and complex graphs. Various analytic tools have sifted the data and complex formulas express the validity of the science. Here, Adams has pulled out for you a mountain of relevant health data from hundreds of sources. He has distilled just what you need to know to live in great health for the rest of your life. For the sake of simplicity, all information is presented in easy to understand bar graphs. Every graph is referenced so the reader can access the original source material. You can put these principles of healthful living to work for you immediately. If you practice even part of what is outlined here, you will start to noticeably improve your health. Start living your best right now.

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1532090641

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9781532090646

Jesus Was Thin so You Can Be Thin Too

Seventh-Day Adventist Edition

By: Elvin Adams

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Jesus Was Thin so You Can Be Thin Too

Seventh-Day Adventist Edition

By: Elvin Adams

This is a verse-by-verse exploration of what the Bible has to say about foods, nutrition, gluttony and obesity. The Bible contains the formula for lasting behavior change through the power supplied by Jesus Christ. Jesus struggled with appetite in the wilderness and successfully resisted the temptations of the devil. Jesus enables you to resist temptations to overeat. Jesus can give you the same victory that he had. With Jesuss help you can reach your ideal weight. Additionally, this book is enriched with 200 quotations on appetite and nutrition from the writings of the 19th chentury health reformer, Ellen G. White. This practical counsel seconds and makes practical application of the principles found in the Bible.

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iUniverse

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1462005748

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9781462005741

The Lovers' Quarrel

The Two Foundings and American Political Development

By: Elvin T. Lim

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The Lovers' Quarrel

The Two Foundings and American Political Development

By: Elvin T. Lim

Traces the core conflict of the American republic - the debate between the central government-favoring Federalists and the individual rights-favoring Anti-Federalists - from the 1790s to the present, showing how these two ideological impulses have fueled practically all of the major political debates and contests in U.S. history"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199812187

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9780199812189

Basic Mathematics

Revision and Practice

By: R. Elvin,Raymond Elvin,A. Ledsham,C. Oliver

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Basic Mathematics

Revision and Practice

By: R. Elvin,Raymond Elvin,A. Ledsham,C. Oliver

Written for mature students with an emphasis on the practical application of mathematics to everyday life, e.g. dealing with personal finance, shopping, and bills.

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310

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199142564

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9780199142569

Smashmouth

My Football Journey from Trenton to Canton

By: Elvin Bethea

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Smashmouth

My Football Journey from Trenton to Canton

By: Elvin Bethea

Smash-mouth football was just another day at the office during the heyday of professional football in the 1960s and 1970s. Elvin Bethea began his pro career with the Houston Oilers of the AFL in 1968 when the upstart league was filled with colorful characters and brilliantly gifted players who had finally proven they were good enough to compete with the NFL. After the AFL merged with the NFL in 1970, one of the most exciting decades in pro football history was underway. Smash-Mouth the story of Bethea's journey from a life of rural poverty in Trenton, New Jersey, to his All-American college football career at North Carolina A&T, where segregation still ruled the South. Smash-Mouth takes Bethea from potential Olympic track stardom in 1968 to his legendary pro football career where he earned his reputation as one of the most feared and dangerous defensive linemen in NFL history. From classic playoff battles with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1978 and 1979 to off-the-field exploits with some of football's most eccentric characters, Smash-Mouth culminates in Bethea's greatest ultimate honor--his long overdue induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003. Along the way, Bethea's story is filled with candid assessments of the talents and personalities of some of the greatest names in 1970s football--Terry Bradshaw, Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson, Archie Manning, Earl Campbell, Dan Fouts, Franco Harris, Bum Phillips, Dan Pastorini, Billy White Shoes Johnson, Chuck Noll, Hank Stram, Art Shell, Anthony Munoz, Kenny Houston, John Mackey, and many, many more.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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158261881X

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9781582618814

The Anti-Intellectual Presidency

The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

By: Elvin T. Lim

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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency

The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

By: Elvin T. Lim

Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR to a series of robotic repetitions of talking points and sixty-second soundbites, largely designed to obfuscate rather than illuminate? In The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. Lim argues that the ever-increasing pressure for presidents to manage public opinion and perception has created a "pathology of vacuous rhetoric and imagery" where gesture and appearance matter more than accomplishment and fact. Lim tracks the campaign to simplify presidential discourse through presidential and speechwriting decisions made from the Truman to the present administration, explaining how and why presidents have embraced anti-intellectualism and vague platitudes as a public relations strategy. Lim sees this anti-intellectual stance as a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of presidents' intellectual limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to dumb down. The result, he shows, is a dangerous debasement of our political discourse and a quality of rhetoric which has been described, charitably, as "a linguistic struggle" and, perhaps more accurately, as "dogs barking idiotically through endless nights." Sharply written and incisively argued, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency sheds new light on the murky depths of presidential oratory, illuminating both the causes and consequences of this substantive impoverishment.

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Oxford University Press

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019992709X

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9780199927098

Set the Action!

Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games

By: Elvin A. Hernandez

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Set the Action!

Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games

By: Elvin A. Hernandez

Create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. If you're in the habit of creating disembodied characters or adding backgrounds as an afterthought, Set the Action! will help you understand and utilize the importance of the setting in your narrative. Understand perspective, blocking, and color-and focus your narrative by establishing and designing your setting to interact with characters and story.

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Taylor & Francis

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0240820533

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9780240820538

Medical Botany

Plants Affecting Human Health

By: Walter H. Lewis,Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis

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Medical Botany

Plants Affecting Human Health

By: Walter H. Lewis,Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis

Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies. Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works. Broad coverage includes green plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Includes extensive references and citations from both conventional and complimentary-alternative medical systems when natural products or their derivatives are involved.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471628824

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9780471628828

The Flim-Flam City

By: Elvin C. Bell

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The Flim-Flam City

By: Elvin C. Bell

A sip and flip thriller. The reader will meet elected officials who rule their custom-made government through murder, corruption and cover-up. The strong determination of a victim's widow to see justice done takes matters into her own hands until, finally, the Federal Strike Force shows up.. But there are new, dangerous obstacles to face before law and order is restored.

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Archway Publishing

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1480893536

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9781480893535

A Life Beyond Infinity

By: Elvin C. Bell

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A Life Beyond Infinity

By: Elvin C. Bell

Author Elvin C. Bell began life as the fifth of ten children in a migrant farm labor family. From a one-room cabin in a cotton camp to the White House, and everything in between, hes lived a rich and colorful life. In A Life beyond Infinity, he shares a collection of essays of the people hes met from his experiences in the US Air Force, his assignments in the White House, as a reporter and writer, and as an elected representative. Bell mixes sparkling smiles, smarts, sass and sorrow in describing his visits, conversations, and friendships to provide close-ups of everyone from Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, and Carter, to Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Milton Berle, and many other notables. In A Life beyond Infinity, Bell describes his encounters with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times.

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iUniverse

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1532015968

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9781532015960

Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

A Memoir

By: Elvin C. Bell

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Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

A Memoir

By: Elvin C. Bell

Senator Robert F. Bobby Kennedy had just lost the 1968 presidential primary election in Oregon to Senator Eugene McCarthy when Elvin Bell, Fresno, Californias Mayor Pro Tem, hosted him for a breakfast meeting. As an exhausted Kennedy approached the podium to speak, Bell watched in amazement as Kennedy transformed from a frail man into a powerful speaker. Moments later as Bell rose to his feet with other audience members in a rousing standing ovation, he had no idea that he would never see his friend Bobby again. Bobby was shot the next day in Los Angeles and died within hours. Bell, a retired public official and USAF colonel, shares a compelling compilation of anecdotes that highlight the iconic personalities he has known and worked with during his assignments in the White House and the Pentagon, as well as during official foreign travels and various activities throughout America. In addition to the everyday characters and scoundrels he has encountered in his lifetime, he features nearly eighty personalities that include Gregory Peck, John Wayne, John Lennon, Eleanor Roosevelt, General Alexander Haig, Frank Sinatra, and Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. In this fascinating memoir, a former political figure takes a look back at the true-life characters he has encountered and how they made a difference in his life and the world.

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iUniverse

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1491752130

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9781491752135

The Chinese City Between Two Worlds

By: Mark Elvin,George William Skinner

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The Chinese City Between Two Worlds

By: Mark Elvin,George William Skinner

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804708533

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9780804708531

Gentrification

By: Loretta Lees,Tom Slater,Elvin Wyly

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Gentrification

By: Loretta Lees,Tom Slater,Elvin Wyly

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offering ideas for future research.

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Routledge

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1135930244

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9781135930240

Beyond Cantua Creek

A Fascinating Series of Articles That Include National and International Events That Escaped Media Attention

By: Elvin C. Bell

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Beyond Cantua Creek

A Fascinating Series of Articles That Include National and International Events That Escaped Media Attention

By: Elvin C. Bell

In Beyond Cantua Creek, a seasoned political insider with White House experience, shares some fascinating experiences during the Nixon Administration, including the Nixon-Brezhnev White House Summit Conference. During the Iron Curtain era, Elvin Bell led several intelligence missions into Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in addition to later serving two special assignments in the White House and completing a tour in the Pentagon during the Ronald Reagan administration. He utilizes his political experience to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the power structure that existed during the Nixon administrationa foundation that allowed a secretary to appoint her own boyfriend to be secretary of the interior. As he shares the contents of startling conversations and meetings with Soviet President Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, Nixons secretary Rosemary Woods, Hollywood producer Sam Peckinpah, and scores of other notables, Bell captures the drama that escaped media attention and instead thrived behind the walls of the White House and elsewhere. Beyond Cantua Creek is a compelling compilation that will encourage lively discussions about politics, a presidential administration that will never be forgotten, and the eccentricities of those who once ruled Hollywood.

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508

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iUniverse

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1450233007

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9781450233002

The Box from Braunau

In Search of My Father's War

By: Jan ELVIN

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The Box from Braunau

In Search of My Father's War

By: Jan ELVIN

A beautifully-wrought and elegiac look at one woman’s search to understand the ravages of war through the eyes of her father.

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Amacom Books

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0814410502

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9780814410509

Stages of Struggle and Celebration

A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas

By: Sandra M. Mayo,Elvin Holt

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Stages of Struggle and Celebration

A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas

By: Sandra M. Mayo,Elvin Holt

From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichés of horses, cattle, and bravado. Drawing on troves of archival materials from numerous statewide sources, Stages of Struggle and Celebration captures the important legacies of the dramatic arts in a historical field that has paid most of its attention to black musicians. Setting the stage, the authors retrace the path of the cakewalk and African-inspired dance as forerunners to formalized productions at theaters in the major metropolitan areas. From Houston’s Ensemble and Encore Theaters to the Jubilee in Fort Worth, gospel stage plays of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, as well as San Antonio’s Hornsby Entertainment Theater Company and Renaissance Guild, concluding with ProArts Collective in Austin, Stages of Struggle and Celebration features founding narratives, descriptions of key players and memorable productions, and enlightening discussions of community reception and the business challenges faced by each theatre. The role of drama departments in historically black colleges in training the companies’ founding members is also explored, as is the role the support of national figures such as Tyler Perry plays in ensuring viability. A canon of Texas playwrights completes the tour. The result is a diverse tribute to the artistic legacies that continue to inspire new generations of producers and audiences.

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