This book grapples with a basic question: How do you handle food restrictions? Suppose you had been eating pretty much whatever you wanted, and then, many foods that you once enjoyed are no longer “allowed.” My stance is: Don’t panic, you can still enjoy a varied and versatile diet. Beating Arthritis shows you a method of how to prevent and reduce the inflammation of chronic disease and an attitude of never giving up. Alternative Cooking suggests an alternative approach to cooking and of u...

"This wonderfully helpful book is sure to increase the number of happy people with its wisdom." —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of the #1 national bestseller, When Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleHow to live a happy life—made so simple and doable that you'll actually be able to achieve it.Dr. Dan Baker, director of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch, has devoted his life to teaching people how to be happy. And apparently, ...

The director of Canyon Ranch's award-winning Life Enhancement Program draws on the latest discoveries in psychology and gender-specific medicine to help all women enjoy richer, healthier, more fulfilling lives.In this innovative book about what brings women happiness, Dr. Dan Baker focuses on the five traps that can compromise happiness and leave women yearning for a better life.Unlike clinical psychology, which focuses on trying to fix what's wrong with an individual, posi...

The 2015-16 season marks the 60th anniversary of the Big 5, Philadelphia’s top men’s college basketball teams-LaSalle, Penn, Saint Joseph's, Temple, and Villanova. No other city has schools that participate in a full round robin, which has grown in popularity in such a sports-driven city.Philadelphia’s Big Five highlights the history of these five schools, their basketball programs, and their unique relationship with one another. Author Skip Clayton has interviewed promine...

There is life and death, and so there is religion. As weak as that sounds, consider this: Without the death part, it's all choreography, or so says the Messenger.In this story, there are three time-frames. In 1901, a boy lives in the streets of Cyprus, near Lebanon. His most prized possession is a tattered book in cryptic languages. Before that, in the first century CE, a single mother and her three sons wait for the return of a wise old teacher.Lastly, in 1968, a young man...

Escaping certain death—not once but several times—lies at the core of the riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II. In One Man's War, B-17 pilot Tommy LaMore vividly details his experiences in war-ravaged Germany, from the horrific to the romantic and beyond.LaMore's saga began when his plane collided with another B-17 above France—plummeting to the ground below. He then entered the French Resistance, where he employed his knowledge of explosive...

Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America's richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become ensnared by a sinister cabal that spreads from the White House all the way to Dealey Plaza. Decades later in Dallas, Alston's son stumbles across evidence from JFK conspiracy buffs that just might link his father to the shot heard round the world.

The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages, and historical transitions, this anth...

An updated edition of the text that explores the core topics in scheduling theoryThe second edition of Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling has been revised and updated to provide comprehensive coverage of sequencing and scheduling topics as well as emerging developments in the field. The text offers balanced coverage of deterministic models and stochastic models and includes new developments in safe scheduling and project scheduling, including coverage...

Arguing to Learn: Confronting Cognitions in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments focuses on how new pedagogical scenarios, task environments and communication tools within Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments can favour collaborative and productive confrontations of ideas, evidence, arguments and explanations, or arguing to learn.This book is the first that has assembled the work of internationally renowned schola...

The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. All of the famous Heroes are here: Theseus, Jason, Hercules, and all of the well known Deities. These stories tell the real detail of the myths, not the ones that have become sanitized over the centuries. These are not stories for children, as the old gods and heroes were vengeful and some might say sadistic in their treatment of minor slights and misde...

The Radiance of Grace is the true story of three women whose friendship inspired faith and courage to challenge Puritan authority restricting personal relationships with God. This uplifting narrative celebrates their persistent dedication to social and political reforms. Their lives intertwine with men who adored them, men who hated them, and the strength of their families. These engaging women reshaped the ideal of American liberty with enormous personal sacrifices. While overlooked in hi...