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Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Eat, Live, Thrive Diet shows women how they can not only lose excess body fat permanently but also improve their overall health in critical areas such as brain function, resistance to disease, slowing down external aging, and increasing energy. This highly effective eating plan is presented in a compassionate voice by two experienced health coaches who share personal experiences of battling weight and emotional eating issues. Whereas most diets are...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fat Nation is a social history of obesity in the United States since the second World War. In confronting this familiar topic from a historical perspective, Jonathan Engel attempts to show that obesity is a symptom of complex changes that have transpired over the past half century to our food, our living habits, our life patterns, our built environments, and our social interactions. He offers readers solid grounding in the known science underlying...
Author
Series
Sustainable urban areas volume 27
Publisher
Delft University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Publisher
Pella Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Like it or not, its a fact... life in urban areas is about to radically change due to developments most people are not aware of. Find out what the issues are and what you can do to not only survive but also thrive. Far from a "survivalist" film, Urban Danger takes a common-sense look at our roots, finding practical solutions to problems we face today. You will meet many people from all walks of life who show you the common-sense preparations they...
114) Hippie chic
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born of youth rebellion in the streets, and trickled up into the top fashion houses. Defying easy definition, hippie fashion expressed a personal style with clothing that went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Burnt out after years of doing development and conservation work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot by 12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina. Could he live a similarly minimalist way in the belly of the go-go beast - NewYork City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot micro apartment in Greenwich Village....
Author
Publisher
Homebound Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twins to move to Stahekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned for the solitude of this community of eighty-five residents accessible only by boat, float plane, or hiking. "Hiking Naked" chronicles Graville's journey through questions about...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements, providing a backdrop for social and cultural revolutionaries from Leon Trotsky to Andy Warhol, the Ramones to the Beastie Boys, W. H. Auden to Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg to the skaters of the movie Kids. Every group has maintained that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex, and that after they left--whether "they" were the Beats, the hippies, the...
120) Human footprint
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Takes a phase-by-phase journey through life from infancy to old age to illustrate the enormous imprint every American makes during his or her time on Earth. Incorporates surprising facts with playful visuals to reveal our level of consumption and the simple changes we can all make to reduce the impact of our ecological footprint on the world.