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  Adapt

  Why Success Always Starts with Failure

  by Tim Harford

  When faced with complex problems we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action, to blaze a path to success. In this ground-breaking book, Tim Harford shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. Harford argues that today’s challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinion; the world has become far too... (more)
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  101 Essential Tips

  Yoga (101 Essential Tips)

  by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre

  Breaks down key information on yoga into 101 easy-to-grasp tips and gives quick answers to all your questions.
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  The Supple Body: The New Way to Fitness, Strength, and Flexibility

  by Sara Black

  This book presents an exercise philosophy leading to fitness, firmness, and strength without the sweat and pain that we are often told are necessary for a healthy body.
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  Racing the Beam

  The Atari Video Computer System

  by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

  The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home videogame market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a videogame console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this... (more)
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  Your Guide to Getting Fit

  by Ivan Kusinitz

  This is a practical guide to understanding fitness and developing a successful personal fitness program. It provides basic physiological information and outlines the fitness process, allowing the instructor to serve as advisor while the student creates his or her own fitness program.
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  The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

  by Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Lance Dane, Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Chaturvedi Badrinath, Lance Dane

  A classic of world literature for 1,700 years, this is the most explicit and fascinating book ever written for lovers. Its methods of cultivating sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and loving union offer a wellspring of erotic knowledge and inspiration. It also serves as a window into Indian culture and mysticism.
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  No OM Zone: A No-Chanting, No-Granola, No-Sanskrit Guide to the Healing Practice of Yoga

  by Kimberly Fowler

  If you’ve ever wanted to try yoga but felt intimidated to walk into a class—or maybe tried  it but were put off by complicated poses, foreign terminology, or chanting—The No OM Zone is for you.  The No OM Zone, a practical guide designed to make yoga accessible to everyone, is  based on the pioneering program by former professional triathlete, Kimberley Fowler  whose pioneering Yoga for Athletes® Workout and DVD... (more)
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  LIVE HEALTHY AT ANY AGE: The Wisdom of Almost Ninety Years!

  by Jerrold E. D.

  How healthy are you? Categories and stages for mind-set change. Physical exercises and benefits: equipment to use, guidelines, Good nutrition ingredients: carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, fats and oils, vegetables, fruits, vitamins and minerals, calories and serving sizes, nutrition facts labels. Other food topics: special diets and weight loss. Brain benefits: exercise, nutrition, active brain. Children: exercise,... (more)
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  Stretching

  by Bob Anderson

  When Bob Anderson first published Stretching in 1980, the fitness movement was new to most Americans. The term aerobics had just been coined in 1968, and few people outside bodybuilding circles had heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger yet. Now, fitness is such old hat that it's even had a backlash or two. Lots of the original ideas have been called into question, including the preeminence of aerobic exercise.... (more)
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  Ultimate Flexibility: A Complete Guide to Stretching for Martial Arts

  by Sang H. Kim

  Ultimate Flexibility is the book you've been waiting for. More than a collection of exercises or an explanation of technique, Ultimate Flexibility is a complete guide to stretching for martial arts, from the very basics of why you should stretch to detailed workout guidelines for every style and level of martial arts practice. Written by acclaimed author and martial artist Sang H. Kim, Ultimate ... (more)
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  Stretching in the Office

  by Bob Anderson

  Now the book STRETCHING IN THE OFFICE is available in an attractive plastic spiral binding for easy use.
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  Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (Cairoli Lectures)

  by Barry J. Eichengreen

  In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods , Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the Bretton Woods System of the period 1958 to 1973. Then, as now, it has been argued, the United States ran balance of payment deficits, provided international reserves to other countries, and acted as export market of last resort for the rest... (more)
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  Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide (Basic Bioethics)

  by David H. Brendel

  Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? Competing conceptions of mental illness as amenable to scientific explanation or as deeply complex and beyond the reach of empirical study have left the field conceptually divided between science and humanism. In Healing... (more)
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  Changes, Changes

  by Pat Hutchins

  The little wooden couple are happy in their building-block house -- until it catches fire. The solution? They transform the house into a fire engine! But then there's so much water that they have to build a boat... The very youngest can "read" this charming, wordless picture book all by themselves.