Amplify your stretches and exercises and prevent and rehabilitate injuries with these foam roller workouts from the bestselling health and fitness author.Once used exclusively in physical therapy settings, the foam roller has made its way into yoga and pilates studios, gyms and homes. With this simple device, you can:Improve core strengthIncrease flexibilityRelease tensionAlleviate painRehabilitate injuries...

Master the incredible versatility of the foam roller with this full-color, step-by-step guide to end pain, regain range of motion, and prevent injury.With this helpful full-color guide, you can learn how to use your foam roller to remediate muscle strain caused by everything from sitting long hours at your desk to overdoing it at the gym. In addition, special programs will enhance your sporting life, whether you hit the track, the court or the slopes.Designed...

Feel young and fit in your fifties and beyond—with a simple, illustrated workout that strengthens bones and muscles.Weight training is one of the fastest, most effective ways to lose fat, improve muscle tone, and strengthen bones. It also helps guard against osteoporosis, diabetes, and heart disease. Weights for 50+ shows how easy it is for anyone—at any age—to get started with weights.It teaches exercises suited to varying ages and degrees of streng...

Muffy is a little dog who loves people; but after a painful injury she's wary of other dogs. Valor is a lost German Shepherd who gets hit by a car.When Muffy's family brings Valor to their home to recover, no one is sure how Muff will react to this big strange dog.Discover a sweet nonfiction picture book with a Hispanic family that teaches compassion, friendship, trust, and courage (for kids ages 5 – 8, kindergarten – third...

The title of The Poverty of Philosophy has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter easily.The Poverty of Philosophy is a principal source for understanding Karl Marx’s theory of communism published in Paris and Brussels in 1847. It was written to answer the economic and philosophical arguments of French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon set forth in his 1846 book The System of Economic Contradictions.Using his groundwork for the subject of economics be...

**The definitive origin story of how tracking individual brain circuits led to a Nobel Prize-winning medical revolution.“[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.”—Nature“Beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and neuroscience.”—Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate**Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psy...

'MY FAVOURITE BOOK OF ALL TIME' JEREMY CLARKSONFire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly despe...

What if the moon landing was a Hollywood hoax, and your neighbor's cat is a government spy?Dive into the wild world of conspiracy theories with this witty, eye-opening book! From Area 51 to chemtrails, explore why we fall for the unbelievable through real-life stories, cutting-edge psychology, and laugh-out-loud exercises that let you test your own conspiracy radar.With a fresh, humorous take, this book uncovers the secrets of our pattern-seeking brains – no tinfoil hat req...

When young Ida contracts scarlet fever in 1880s Sweden, she nearly loses her sight. After another brush with death, Ida learns that life doesn't end, disease is finite, and small miracles happen every day.With new faith, Ida leaves her mother and brother and sails with her sister to America for a better life—free from poverty and persecution. But she knows no English. How will she share what she's learned in this new country?Discover a moving story ...

Venera Fanning was last seen falling into nothingness at the end of Sun of Suns. Now, in Queen of Candesce, Venera finds herself plunging through the air between the artificial continents of Virga, far from home and her husband, who may or may not be alive. Landing in the ancient nation of Spyre, Venera encounters new enemies and new friends (or at least convenient allies). She must quickly learn who she can trust, and who she can manipulate in order to survive. Queen...

This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny.Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as she recalls her humble beginnings on the streets of New York and waxes poetic about the realities of her sheltered life living in an apartment with her owners.Filled with ennui, angst, and vivid dreams, Penny proves that being a cat is more profo...

First the birds went quiet.Then the evening sky filled with strange clouds that trapped the heat below.Now Callum wakes, dripping in sweat. Something has come to his isolated Welsh farm. If he's going to keep his family alive during this single night when all hell breaks loose, he'll have to think fast. And when he sees what he's facing, he suspects even that may not be enough.Otherworldly creepiness that captures our fear of the unknown. Th...