Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that influence decisions about physical activity and modes of travel, and about how land use patterns can be changed to help overcome barriers to physical activity. Chapters examine:

In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and development in our communities has been of the low-density, automobile-dependent type known as sprawl. The authors examine the direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and...

If you wish to know your Lord in a deeper way, you are invited to join the vast host of Christians who, over three centuries, have turned to this book more than any other–except the Scriptures–in order to begin that journey to the depths of Christ.Imagine a book that is 300 years old and has never been out of print! Such is the book you hold in your hands. Other than Pilgrim's Progress, there is probably no other piece of Christian literature that has stood the test of the centurie...

Accessible to experts and non-experts alike, this text is a comprehensive entry to teaching and learning vocabulary in ESL and EFL contexts. Firmly grounded in research, it presents frameworks and methods for teaching vocabulary to English L2 speakers. Overviewing key topics as well as providing in-depth research analyses and critiques, Zwier and Boers address all major areas of vocabulary pedagogy and instruction.Organized in four parts, chapters cover the nature of vocabulary and...

Creating the ultimate healthy, toxin-free environment for your baby — without stressing out Mom and Dad — is what this e-book is all about. Full of essential tips and buying guides, it's a handy digital roadmap to the safest, healthiest options in baby décor, from cribs, mattresses, bedding and toys to paint, wallpaper, flooring, air purifiers and more. . More than 50 healthy nursery tips plus 11 buying guides help parents-to-be–and their babies–rest easy.This guide can help you f...

Tanner Fritz has it all—he's good-looking, well-liked, fabulously wealthy, and has a beautiful wife. He's a veritable well of goodwill and happiness.So why do his four best friends want him dead?Each of them believes they have a genuine reason—he stole Marty's wife, swindled Carson out of a fortune, caused Barry's traumatic brain injury, and… well, no one is exactly sure why Serena wants to kill him.The foursome's grievances quickly escalate into so...

The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert C. Post offers a new constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps.Post interprets...

This is Volume X in a series of thirty-two on Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1952. By presenting the play experiences of children within the framework of their living problems, this volume and its companion booklets will give to these adults who help shape their lives a fuller understanding of the significance of children's play, and offer them valuable aids in fostering the development of productive, well-integrated human beings.

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the a...

The demons that drive John "Mocha" Moccia to obsess, to put absolutely everyone under a microscope, and scratch away at every last clue, make him the best hardnosed detective in Brooklyn homicide. But these same demons may very well write the final chapter in his career.He isn't the kind of detective to take no for an answer, but in his most recent case answers are damn hard to come by. Partnered with the conscientious Detective Matt Winslow, Mocha endeavors to sol...

1950s Science Fiction 7 - 22 Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1950sThe Call From Beyond by Clifford D. SimakThe Thing Behind Hell's Door by Robert SilverbergCurse of the Blue Man by Lawrence M. JanniferThe Night Shift by Frank M. RobinsonThe World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. SimakTime Enough At Last by Lynn VenableEverest by Isaac AsimovFlowering Evil by Margaret St. ClairThe Star by Art...

He'd been warned against the Wild Ones, but something made him ignore the warning. They terrorized the territory, bullied and scared the settlers into cooperating with them, and from what Chet Kelvin could figure out, they seemed to be operating from the mysterious IXL Ranch. If there was anything Chet couldn’t stand it was a mystery, but once he started solving it he wished he’d let it alone.