Helps to discover how easy it is to achieve a slimmer body and trimmer waistline with 3-step weight loss program combining diet, exercise and lifestyle planning and motivation guidance.

Helps to add a fresh dimension to muscular development with its 'Core-Power' Conversion Training System that takes the guesswork out of training and offers a different learning experience for achieving the ultimate athletic body.

Presents practical, easy-to-follow exercises to develop your speed, agility, and reactions. This title features more than 100 training drills using agility poles, mini hurdles, and speed ladders, as well as sample speed training sessions that help to maximize your speed potential, both as an individual and as part of a team.

Presents practical, easy-to-follow exercises to condition your body for athletic and sports performance. This title - for men and women - provides step-by-step coaching advice and workouts utilizing body weight, fitness balls, medicine balls, plyometrics, resistance bands, stability and speed training equipment.

Intended for men and women, this volume presents readers with practical exercises to strengthen and tone your tummy, improve your posture, and increase vitality as well. It provides more than 100 exercises using the body's own weight for strengthening, toning and reshaping various major muscles group.

Rushed out to mark the election of the new Pontiff, here is a book with three distinct purposes - an assessment of Pope John Paul II, an account of the Conclave, and a portrait of the new Pope. This compelling new book is an assessment of Pope John Paul II, an account of the Conclave and a portrait of the new Pope written by one of the most experienced and perceptive commentators on the Catholic .

This publication addresses key governance issues in the management of development, drawing seminal papers from the 1999 Jubilee conference proceedings of the journal Public Administration and Development. It provides a review of the state-of-the-art.

Josh has always dreamed of finding a lamp with a genie in it. He settles for second best when he saves a ladybird from sudden death.

Offers an easy-to-follow, illustrated guide to drills, test, and training routines - used by Olympic and other world-class athletes - that helps improve power and performance. This book contains more than 80 exercises to develop training programmes that helps keep the readers fit and strong.

An historical snapshot of a moment in time for London's transport scene, when the 1948 Olympic Games were staged in the capital and the immediate postwar road and rail networks were put to the test.

A guide to achieving a more supple and flexible physique using your own body as resistance. It provides an introductory guide for stretching and flexibility for sport, lifestyle, and injury prevention. It includes step-by-step illustrated instructions for more than 50 exercises.

Between the 9th and 7th centuries BC the small kingdom of Assyria in northern Iraq expanded through conquest to dominate the region from Egypt to Iran. This book presents visual introduction to some of the greatest works of art from the ancient world, showcasing a series of photographs of the British Museum's collection of Assyrian sculptures.

The years 1500-500 BC represent a period of internationalism. From the Aegean and Egypt, through Canaan, Syria and Anatolia, to Mesopotamia and Iran, the region was linked by military expansion, diplomatic exchanges and movements of goods and peoples over enormous distances, resulting in cultural transfers and technological and social revolutions.

The modern lifestyle - whether you're working full-time, raising a family or both - is not always beneficial to health and wellbeing. This volume presents a variety of strength-training exercises - designed specifically for women - that may not only improve strength and posture, but also aid in fat burning, and increase energy levels.

Contains over 70 easy-to-follow exercises using your own body weight as well as fitness balls, medicine balls and abdominal machines that gives you leaner abs, a stronger lower-back, better posture and a trimmer waistline.

Provides advice on one of the most widely used pieces of gym/fitness equipment in the world - the fitness ball. This work presents step-by-step illustrated instructions to improve posture, balance, co-ordination, strength and flexibility. It also includes a series of routines with a special emphasis on the abdominal and lower back regions.

Based on a true story, 'Home Run' is about a lonely boy, Robbie, who longs for the day when the other kids will play with him.

A typical book about a major historical figure doesn't start at a gay piano bar and almost end in a drainage ditch. But then, Tom Paine wasn't a typical historical figure.