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Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the best-selling series, Younger Next Year for Women now includes two new chapters on the link between physical exercise and brain health. Their message is straightforward: A program of consistent exercise and eating right not only helps us physically but improves memory, cognition, mood, and more.

NOMADS 16 - Ground Zero Después de que el gigante Durana se estrelle en una llanura desértica de Nuevo México, los ojos de muchas partes se vuelven hacia la nave siniestrada y hacia la Tierra. Facciones poderosas de los humanos, los Akkato y numerosos grupos pequeños, de los que apenas se sabía nada hasta ahora, entran en la batalla que se libra contra los Akkato y que podría cambiar el destino de la Tierra para siempre. Serwan Brooks también tiene un secreto que podría cambiar el futuro de la humanidad para mejor y liberar al sistema solar del dominio Akkato. NOMADS Así llaman a ...

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange, and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician - compassionate but also pragmatic - struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions.

The Cross & The Crib. When Calvary Becomes the Nursery. A Journey of Discovery with Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen In this special collection of writings, Archbishop Sheen presents an array of meditations on Our Blessed Lord’s words spoken from the Cross; "Woman behold your son; behold your Mother (John 19:26-27).” This anthology contains fifteen reflections taken from nine of Sheen’s best-selling books. These meditations offer insightful perspectives regarding the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in salvation history, and the theology behind the term “spiritual adoption”. Woman, ...

A nonfiction narrative/memoir of living in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories in 2022 and 2023, through repeated conflicts and escalations, up to, including and beyond the October 7 attack on Israel and the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza. Leading a $10 million health and humanitarian assistance program there, Mr. Wind shares insights about the realities and paradoxes of Gaza and struggling to provide humanitarian assistance in the face of conflict and the dangers to innocent civilians. The insights of Allan J. “Alonzo” Wind retired USAID Foreign Service Officer and ...

America's political leaders have considered suffrage not a natural right but a privilege restricted by wealth, sex, race, residence, literacy, criminal conviction, and citizenship. Today, voter identification laws, political gerrymandering, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement, and voter purges deny many millions of citizens the opportunity to express their views at the ballot box. We cannot blame the founders alone for America's embattled vote. Best-selling author Allan Lichtman notes that subsequent generations have failed to establish suffrage as a universal right.

Kennedy’s Horror Collection series continues with Book 15. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time, they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will listen to this year.

In the distant future, Spaceways Incorporated detects a scarce and expensive mineral on a planet far beyond our galaxy. They send a well-trained crew on the spaceship Odyssey to mine the minerals; however, a major malfunction changes everything. The crew must escape the ship and head for the nearest planet. They find themselves marooned on a world that is millions of years younger than earth and have to fight for survival on the Planet of Dinosaurs.

China, a challenge that looms large, is often depicted as a menacing force to be met with confrontation and containment. In some circles, there is even talk of an inevitable or imminent conflict. The Chinese Communist Party is often cast as a unique axis of evil, a threat to liberal democracies and emerging democracies in Asia and beyond. The Belt and Road Initiative, a sprawling infrastructure project that spans continents, is viewed with suspicion, seen either as a tool for economic subjugation or a pathway to conquest. What if this need not be the case? What if we were to calmly assess, ...

La gente ha encontrado por fin la forma de sacudirse el yugo de Akkato. Algunos buscan fortuna en un nuevo mundo alienígena. Otros ven la oportunidad de recuperar la Tierra y todo el sistema solar por la fuerza de las armas.

NOMADS 3 - Entre guerreros Dostra es un mundo minero con condiciones climáticas extremas. Hay un invierno, con olas de frío de 180 grados bajo cero, y un verano en el que las temperaturas pueden derretir el plomo. Fuertemente armados, Dominic y sus compañeros permanecen junto a los trabajadores de Akkatos. Son atacados repetidamente por Keymon y necesitan la protección de los humanos que pueden sentir la presencia de los Keymon. El invierno llega a su fin y comienza el deshielo. Una época turbulenta, de inundaciones primaverales y tormentas de fuego que arrasan el planeta. Es una ...

Die Rebellen von Sculpa Trax. Drei Bücher in einem Download – Eine epische Space-Opera von Allan J. Stark. (Reihenauftakt). Buch 1 – Vergeltung. Aseera ist eine junges Mädchen, fast noch ein Kind und gehört der Kriegergemeinschaft der Tengiji an. Aseera dient dem Hause Zimaroo, bis dieses vom Kaiser Asgaroons an die feindlichen Gulduri verraten wird. Ihr bleibt nur noch die Flucht in ein fernes Sternensystem, um ihr Leben zu retten und eine Gelegenheit abzuwarten, ihren Herrn zu rächen.

Los preparativos para crear una élite guerrera están en pleno apogeo. Una unidad de combate bajo el mando de Akkato, en la que sólo servirán humanos. Aunque Dominic sólo ha aceptado este plan a regañadientes, ofrece la única oportunidad de supervivencia a la moribunda raza humana. Incluso parece que los humanos son la última esperanza para el Akkato con cabeza de caballo. Al parecer, los Keymon también se han dado cuenta de ello y han puesto sus miras en la Tierra...

NOMADS 10 - The Uprising After years of fighting, the signs of fatigue among the soldiers of the Durana fleet are undeniable. Some surrender to a bleak fate, full of battles and hardships, with no prospect of a peaceful life, on one of the many worlds of the galaxy. Others join together in groups with the goal of starting a mutiny to find a new home for the humans. Dominic is still undecided whether to side with the insurgents. Time is running out. But to which of the many groups, sometimes representing very extreme ideologies, should he declare his allegiance? NOMADS This is what humans ...