A revolutionary program for utilizing wearable weights to take your gym-free workout to the next level.Are you ready to take your body-weight workouts to the next level? This book shows how wearable weights can supercharge every exercise for the ultimate in fat burning and muscle building. The program in Weighted Vest Workouts offers a far more effective approach to total-body fitness, yet maintains the convenience of do-anywhere body-weight workouts, incl...

Cuba stands on the brink of revolution.Long before he became the famous archaeologist who discovered the tomb of King K'inich Janaab' Pakal, Alberto Ruiz arrived in Cuba to reclaim his family's fortune. There he fell in love with Calixta Gutiérrez, whose brother Antonio was a revolutionary determined to overthrow the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado.As political violence engulfs Havana, Alberto and Calixta are forced into exile, fleeing to the jungles of sou...

**"A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'"—PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAward–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson** digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh ...

•Thompson's unique blend of journalism, historical nonfiction, and memoir drawn from a lifetime of spending time in this landscape and a career of covering the area and the pertinent issues resonated with readers in 2018 with River of Lost Souls•The line between citizen and activist is blurring. Now more than ever, readers want and need to know the powers at play behind energy development, environmental injustice, and land and water use. This book explores how landscapes sh...

In the not so distant future, as the planet burns, the nation reels from the effects of a pandemic, Truth is on the brink of extinction, and the late-president tweets madly from the grave, Durango artist Peter Simons heads into Utah's Canyon Country to scout locations for his biggest project ever. When Peter fails to return on time, and mercenaries working for the federal government start asking questions about him, Peter's wife Eliza Santos launches a search. She calls on Peter's old frie...

I have never been impressed with knowledge that has no practical use.Music theory is the study of how music is made, and helps us to communicate with other musicians effectively. Practical music theory, combined with intentional practice, is the key to breaking through the parrot phase of musicianship into actual understanding. The information prevented here will help you overcome and prevent plateaus without drowning you in unnecessary details useful only in a cla...

Providing a practical, current, evidence-based approach to all aspects of perioperative care for the patient with vascular disease, Vascular Anaesthesia is an essential read for all vascular anaesthetists, anaesthetic nurses and anyone else involved in the care of vascular patients throughout the world. Vascular Anaesthesia summarizes current knowledge, particularly on interventional procedures (radiological, diagnostic, and surgical). This book also equips the trainee an...

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine**For over 40 years, this award-winning textbook has been the core text for anaesthetists new to the specialty and other healthcare professionals involved in perioperative care. Now in its eighth edition, this high quality, clinically relevant resource continues to offer essential reading covering all aspects of anaesthesia in surgery.Covering day-to-day clinical practice in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, fro...

When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist’s greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.Malcolm Brautigan’s prose is rou...

When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist’s greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.Malcolm Brautigan’s prose is rou...

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnold’s desk.   Luzie Hatch had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung...

One starry night, a cow watches over her calf, a nanny goat watches over her kid, and a pig watches over her piglet. For this one moment, every family in the animal kingdom is peaceful, just like Mary and Joseph watching over their own newborn nearby. This simple yet profound book perfectly captures the universal nighttime vigil of parents everywhere while gently alluding to the presence of a nurturing creator who watches over all of us.Lauren Thompson is at her lyrical best, while...