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It’s never too late to get fit! Fitness After 50 shows you exactly how to get there, addressing all of your questions about exercise—and more. Whether you are completely new to exercise or are looking to fine-tune your existing program, this information-rich book will show you how to get started, stay on track, and have fun as you meet your fitness goals.

This easy-to-understand manual also serves as a self-paced workbook, which teaches you what to ask your doctor about physical activity, how to exercise safely, and how to fit activity into your busy schedule. If you have an existing medical condition such as heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes, you will also find ways to adapt your activity level to your condition. Sample aerobic, muscular fitness, and combination programs are provided, along with lifestyle strategies for fitting activity into your daily routine.

Fitness After 50 offers reliable advice you can trust. Authors Walter Ettinger, Brenda Wright, and Steven Blair are among the most highly regarded experts in the field of physical activity and health. And since all of them are over 50, they understand your needs and concerns firsthand. Easy to use and full of more than 50 forms, lists, and other learning tools, Fitness After 50 is the one-stop source for fitness information that you’ll reach for again and again. ... Read more

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Yes I am over 50 and need to work on fitness
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No prior level of fitness is presumed in order to use FITNESS AFTER FIFTY: ADD YEARS TO YOUR LIFE AND LIFE TO YOUR YEARS. And it's not even necessary to follow a single program of exercise to use this, either: it's a self-paced workbook manual which imparts the basics of after-50 fitness, from asking questions of a doctor and exercising safely to adapt an activity regimen to a medical limitation. From aerobic benefits and how to explore them to enlisting friends in a program to add support, any over-50 person should have this basic guide.

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GCSE Modern World History for Edexcel is designed to meet the needs of the Edexcel Modern World History specification. Each title in the series covers a popular combination of an outline and depth study - allowing for depth and skills progression throughout the course.Written by senior examiners, the series has been developed to enable students to achieve the highest possible grades through:- outlining key lines of enquiry - full coverage of the content requirements of the specification- model answers- exam-style questions and exam tips to aid exam preparation- dedicated support with assessment - with differing approaches to the outline and depth study appropriate to their different needs- a variety of activities to motivate all students. This book combines all the in-depth knowledge and exam advice needed for The Rise and Fall of the Communist State: The Soviet Union 1928-1991 outline study with a skills-centered, source-based approach for The Russian Revolution 1910-1924 depth study. This combination is designed to help students access the higher grades while giving a coherent, stimulating pathway throughout the course. ... Read more

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Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State PrinterPublication date: 1901Subjects: Georgia -- HistoryGeorgia -- Economic conditionsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This publication presents the results of 12 excavations within the Cambourne Development Area, a new settlement on the clay 'uplands'to the west of Cambridge. The excavations revealed evidence for intermittent human occupation of the Cambourne landscape from at least the Middle Bronze Age to the present day but mostly of Middle Iron Age to Romano-British date. From the Middle Iron Age, the Cambourne landscape was settled by small farming communities occupying roundhouses, set within enclosures linked by droveways to extensive field systems. Apart from the largest and most complex site investigated, at Lower Cambourne, the Late Iron Age seems to have seen something of a recession with abandonment of earlier settlements probably as a result of increased waterlogging making farming less viable. From the middle of the 1st century AD, new settlements consisting of roundhouses set within enclosures and field systems emerged. Three 'placed deposits' comprised pewter vessels, glass vessels, and the iron elements of a plough. Stock raising and some arable cultivation seem to have formed the main constituents of the economyand settlement may have continued into the early 5th century There appears then to have been a hiatus until the 12th or 13th century when the entire area was taken into arable cultivation leaving the ubiquitous traces of medieval ridge and furrow agriculture. ... Read more

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Chapters: Steven Spielberg, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sandra Bernhard, Kirby Puckett, Bob Crane, David Schweikert, Emma Stone, Glendon Swarthout, Geoff Ogilvy, David Spade, Mark Evans Austad, Jim Lane, Paul Casey, Lou Marson, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Waronker, Mike Brown, Amanda Blumenherst, Andrew Walter, Alex Ramos, Bennie Gonzales, Jim Carter, Sean Murphy, Craig Mabbitt, Sammi Hanratty, Kermit Zarley, Grey Ruegamer, Gabrielle Carteris, Tom Fogerty, Mary Manross, Curt Byrum, Kia Zolgharnain, Chris Simcox, Martin Laird, Marshall Trimble, Brady Corbet, Reggie Sanders, Diana Butler Bass, John Fought, Billie Orr, Brian Friedman, Charles Goyette, Tanner Maguire, Kevin Coble, Robert William Fisher, Ken Ross, Mike Mccullough, Nick Miller, Hamer H. Budge, T. J. Beam, Brian Dales, Katie Lohmann, Jeff Huson, Warren Adelman, John W. Peterson, Heather Farr, Kent Derdivanis, Nafeesa Deflorias, S. J. Revich, Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, John Austin, Randy Exelby, Earl D. Eisenhower, Andrea Cambern. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 334. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career spanning six decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered to be one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films - Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993) - achieved box off...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26940 ... Read more

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Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two volumes on Zen practice (The Koan and Zen Ritual) they now propose a volume on the most significant product of the Zen tradition - the Zen masters who have made this kind of Buddhism the most renowned in the world by emphasizing the role of eminent spiritual leaders and their function in establishing centers, forging lineages, and creating literature and art. Zen masters in China, and later in Korea and Japan, were among the cultural leaders of their times. Stories about their comportment and powers circulated widely throughout East Asia. In this volume ten leading Zen scholars focus on the image of the Zen master as it has been projected over the last millennium by the classic literature of this tradition. Each chapter looks at a single prominent master. Authors assess the master's personality and charisma, his reported behavior and comportment, his relationships with teachers, rivals and disciplines, lines of transmission, primary teachings, the practices he emphasized, sayings and catch-phrases associated with him, his historical and social context, representations and icons, and enduring influences. ... Read more

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This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of major schools, and compilations of monastic regulations. The second focuses on the early history of Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. Zen Classics will follow that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement to fruition.Although enormously diverse in style and structure all of the texts and genres of texts considered here were fundamental to the unfolding of Zen in East Asia. The range of genres reveals the varieties of Zen practice, from rules of daily practice to sermons and meditation manuals. The all new essays in this volume will be contributed by an international team of distinguished scholars of Buddhism. It is aimed at broad audience including college students, Zen practitioners, and scholars of East Asian history, religion, and culture, as well as specialists in Buddhist history. ... Read more

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Essential reading for every serious Zen student/practitioner
This book is a third installment of a collection of essays exploring the current state of scholarship and the most recent discoveries concerning the history and classic literature of Zen Buddhism.

The first two installments of essays, The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, and The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, both also edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, explored the classic Zen texts with an emphasis on the classic Zen koan collections and their related literature, the records of the great Zen masters, the variety of 'styles' within the main Zen 'schools', and Zen texts containing monastic regulations.

The essays in this third collection illumine the literature and history of Zen by an exploring and evaluating some of the most influential Zen texts of China, Korea, and Japan. Once again, all of the latest discoveries and advances of modern scholarship are combined to reveal a rich and diverse treasure trove of insights into the wisdom, revelations, and humor of Zen.

This rich collection of original scholarship by the most qualified masters of the field, while detailed and exhaustive, is remarkably accessible and will be appreciated by readers on any level. It, like the earlier collections will be essential reading for every serious Zen student/practitioner for decades to come.

Zen and the Art of Relying on Words and Letters
This is a fine collection of articles overall. It is clearly a sequel to Heine and Wright's prior collection "The Zen Canon" and while it maintains the same high level of scholarship as before, the essays in "Zen Classics" are vastly improved in readability. That said, I would not recommend this book to anyone not already generally familiar with Zen Buddhism to some degree at least. But with the requisite background knowledge, these articles and the issues they address are really fascinating.

1. In "Guishan Jince (Guishan's Admonitions) and the Ethical Foundations of Chan Practice" Mario Poceski convincingly demonstrates the role of good old-fashioned monastic rules & regulations and scriptural study for a Chan (Zen) temple community. This is especially pertinent because the text in question is from the Hongzhou tradition (the one usually portrayed as iconoclastic and wild).
2. In "A Korean Contribution to the Zen Canon: The `Oga Hae Seorui' (Commentaries of Five Masters on the `Diamond Sutra')" Charles Muller analyzes a key text in the Son (Zen) tradition by the monk Gihwa. This is a multilayered text consisting of The Diamond Sutra, Five Commentaries on that Sutra (by Zongmi, Huineng, Fu Dashi, Yefu Daochuan, and Yuzhang Zongjing), and then Gihwa's own subcommentary on these latter. In the process, Muller argues that Korean Son is distinct from Japanese Zen in having such a scriptural orientation, an argument that seems overstated (Hakuin's commentary on the Heart Sutra (as translated by Norman Waddell) immediately comes to mind).
3. "Zen Buddhism as the Ideology of the Japanese State: Eisai and the `Kozen Gokokuron'" by Albert Welter is definitely one of the most important articles in this collection. In it, Welter places Eisai's form of Zen firmly within the historical context of its time, both in terms of the actual Sung Buddhism active where he went when in China and in terms of the Buddhist approach to the political order as found in the Sutra of Benevolent Kings, which was widely accepted in the Heian and Kamakura periods in Japan. In trying to understand Eisai's thought without obscuring it by the assumptions of later ages (especially ideologies of a "pure Zen" a la D.T. Suzuki), we learn a lot about Zen in particular and Buddhism in general during this formative time.
4. Steven Heine's "An Analysis of Dogen's `Eihei Goroku': Distillation or Distortion?" gives us page after page of meticulous, hair-splitting textual analysis and criticism and yet can only say in answer to its own question, both and neither. Still interesting, though.
5. In "Rules of Purity in Japanese Zen" T. Griffith Foulk continues to investigate the various written monastic rules and regulations of Chan/Zen, this time tracing their history in Japan from the Kamakura period up to the present day. There is a wealth of detail here that is nicely integrated in a well-written narrative, and the careful treatment of the understudied Tokugawa and Meiji periods is especially welcome.
6. "Zen Koan Capping Phrase Books: Literary Study and the Insight `Not Founded on Words or Letters'" by Victor Sogen Hori is basically bootlegged from the intro to his book on the same subject, but if you haven't read it there already he gives a pretty good characterization of this particular genre of Zen text, a description of key works within that genre, and an explanation of them in terms of the literary games prevalent in China of the time.
7. In "Imagining Indian Zen: Torei's Commentary on the Ta-mo-to-lo ch'an ching and the Rediscovery of Early Meditation Techniques during the Tokugawa Era" Michel Mohr carefully examines this understudied text and the issues it raises. The idea of a Zen monk integrating Watarai Shinto into his interpretations of an old, possibly Sarvastivada (hinayana) sutra alone is bizarre enough to make for fascinating reading.
8. Finally, David Riggs does a great job in "Meditation for Laymen and Laywomen: The `Buddha Samadhi' (`Jijuyu Zanmai') of Menzan Zuiho" of trying to disentangle Menzan's own concerns and priorities from what later sectarian polemics have read back into his writings. Considering the fact that so much of what characterizes Soto Zen today harks back to Tokugawa reformers like Menzan, studies like this one are much needed.

No book is perfect, of course. Some bad typographical errors infect Heine's article. A glossary giving the Chinese characters for the terms, names, and titles is again missing (as it was in "The Zen Canon") despite the fact that this would be very useful for the scholar. And one wonders why no study of Hakuin (say, his "Orategama" which without doubt qualifies as a "classic" according to Heine & Wright's stated criteria) was included. But these nitpicks aside, this is a fine book that is likely to become in its own right a classic in the field. ... Read more

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Title: OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES.(Review)(Brief Article)
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Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1999
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Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant labour and plantation agriculture, led to the emergence of new social and cultural forms which are especially evident the area of health and medicine. The history of medical care in the Caribbean is also a history of the transfer of cultural practices from Africa and Asia, the process of creolization in the African and Asian diasporas, the perseverance of indigenous and popular medicine, and the emergence of distinct forms of western medical professionalism, science, and practice.

This collection, which covers the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean, explores the cultural and social domains of medical experience and considers the dynamics and tensions of power. The chapters emphasize contestations over forms of medicalization and the controls of public health and address the politics of professionalization, not simply as an expression of colonial power but also of the power of a local elite against colonial or neo-colonial control. They pay particular attention to the significance of race and gender, focusing on such topics as conflicts over medical professionalization, control of women’s bodies and childbirth, and competition between ‘European’ and ‘Indigenous’ healers and healing practices. Employing a broad range of subjects and methodological approaches, this collection constitutes the first edited volume on the history of health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean region and is therefore required reading for anyone interested in the history of colonial and post-colonial medicine.