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  Racing the Clock - Running...

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  An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime 
   
  Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age.  
  Why do some bodies age differently than others? How much control do we have over that process and what effect, if any, does being active have? Bringing to bear research from his entire career and in the spirit of his classic Why We Run, Heinrich probes the questions of how we use energy and continue to adapt to our mutable surroundings and circumstances. Beyond that, he examines how our bodies change while we age but also how we can work with, if not overcome, many of these changes—and what all this tells us about evolution and the mechanisms of life, health, and happiness. 
  Racing the Clock offers fascinating and surprising conclusions, all while bringing the reader along on Heinrich’s compelling journey to what he says will be his final race—a fifty-kilometer race at age eighty. 

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  Strong is the New Beautiful -...

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  Lessons in strength, fitness, food, and attitude from the popular world champion skier and beauty icon—Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.  
  Olympic Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn wants women to stop thinking about ""losing weight fast,"" and instead focus on loving their bodies for what they are and what they can do. Lindsey is a small-town Minnesota girl at heart turned world-champion skier, but that didn't come without hard work. In Strong Is the New Beautiful, Lindsey lays out the never-before-seen training routines and her overall philosophy that have helped her become the best female skier in the world—tailored for women of all shapes and sizes. Lindsey backs up her fitness program with advice on what to eat and how to work out, and kicks readers into high-gear, helping bolster their self-confidence and build a better body image, with the tips and tricks she's learned as a pro. 
  This is Lindsey's regimen, and she encourages people to take from it what will work for them. She bounced back from injury not by doing every single thing a trainer said, but instead, by thinking about the fitness plan that would work for her, and eating the right foods that would make her feel and get healthy. In Strong Is the New Beautiful, she interweaves her training and diet regimen with compelling stories of her life growing up in the heartland, her love of skiing, the challenges she's faced—including injuries, illness, and depression—and her secrets to wellness, fitness, and recovery. 
  Supported by cutting-edge science and the latest studies on health and exercise, filled with routines even those hitting the bunny hill of working out can master, and illustrated with dozens of workout shots and photos from Lindsey's own collection, Strong Is the New Beautiful will inspire and motivate you–whether you're an aspiring athlete, want to get back into shape, or are eager to up your game—to make your body stronger than ever before, inside and out.

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  Cuba's Baseball Defectors - The...

  Peter Costa Bjarkman

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  “Takes an inside look into the wave of player departures that has rocked the game both in Cuba and the U.S., while providing historical perspective.” —USA Today   The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers has become part of Major League Baseball history. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, AL rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home run derby champion Yoenis Céspedes, radar-gun busting Cincinnati fast-baller Aroldis Chapman, and a handful of others have been further enhanced by feel-good tales of desperate Cuban superstars risking their lives to escape Fidel Castro’s communist realm and chase an American Dream of financial and athletic success. But a truly ugly underbelly to this story has also slowly emerged—one that involves human smuggling operations financed by Miami crime syndicates, operated by Mexican drug cartels, and conveniently ignored by ball clubs endlessly searching for fresh waves of international talent.   Given rare access to Cuba and its ballplayers, Peter C. Bjarkman has spent over twenty years traveling to all corners of the island getting to know the top Cuban stars and witnessing their struggles and triumphs. In this book, Bjarkman places events in the context of Cuban baseball history and tradition before delving into the stories of the major Cuban stars who have left the island. He reveals their personal histories, explains the events that led them to defect from their homeland, and details their harrowing journeys to US shores. Players whose big-league dreams failed are also discussed, as are Cuba’s efforts to stem the defection tide through working agreements with the Japanese and Mexican leagues. Cuba’s Baseball Defectors will fascinate baseball fans, those interested in the history of US-Cuba relations, and those wanting to learn more about the unsavory story of human trafficking in the name of baseball glory.   “A revelation . . . an original social history for sports enthusiasts and readers interested in past and future Cuba–U.S. ties.” —Library Journal Includes photos

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  Official US Army Survival Guide...

  US Army, Rick Carlile

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  Over 15 hours of life-saving survival information: the most extensive and comprehensive survival audiobook available anywhere.
  
  Created and trusted by US military forces, expertly adapted for the audiobook format.
  
  Essential preparedness for any survival situation. Listen and learn survival skills while you work, rest, or travel, and store it on your personal device so you'll have it when you need it.
  
  The indispensable field manual for preppers, hunters, campers, outdoorspeople, hikers and more.
  
   
  PREFACE
  
   
  As a soldier, you can be sent to any area of the world. It may be in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region. You expect to have all your personal equipment and your unit members with you wherever you go. However, there is no guarantee it will be so. You could find yourself alone in a remote area—possibly enemy territory—with little or no personal gear. This manual provides information and describes basic techniques that will enable you to survive and return alive should you find yourself in such a situation. 
   
  If you are a trainer, use this information as a base on which to build survival training. You know the areas to which your unit is likely to deploy, the means by which it will travel, and the territory through which it will travel. Read what this manual says about survival in those particular areas and find out all you can about those areas. Read other books on survival. Develop a survival-training program that will enable your unit members to meet any survival situation they may face. It can make the difference between life and death.
  
   
  CONTENTS
  
   
  Chapter 1. Introduction.
   
  Chapter 2. Psychology of Survival.
   
  Chapter 3. Survival Planning and Survival Kits.
   
  Chapter 4. Basic Survival Medicine.
   
  Chapter 5. Shelters.
   
  Chapter 6. Water Procurement.
   
  Chapter 7. Firecraft.
   
  Chapter 8. Food Procurement.
   
  Chapter 9. Survival Use of Plants.
   
  Chapter 10. Poisonous Plants.
   
  Chapter 11. Dangerous Animals.
   
  Chapter 12. Field-Expedient Weapons, Tools, and Equipment.
   
  Chapter 13. Desert Survival.
   
  Chapter 14. Tropical Survival.
   
  Chapter 15. Cold Weather Survival.
   
  Chapter 16. Sea Survival.
   
  Chapter 17. Expedient Water Crossings.
   
  Chapter 18. Field-Expedient Direction Finding.
   
  Chapter 19. Signaling Techniques.
   
  Chapter 20. Survival Movement in Hostile Areas.
   
  Chapter 21. Camouflage.
   
  Chapter 22. Contact with People.
   
  Chapter 23. Survival in Man-Made Hazards.
   
  Appendix A. Survival Kits.
   
  Appendix B. Edible and Medicinal Plants.
   
  Appendix C. Poisonous Plants.
   
  Appendix D. Dangerous Insects and Arachnids.
   
  Appendix E. Venomous Snakes and Lizards.
   
  Appendix F. Dangerous Fish and Mollusks.
   
  Appendix G. Ropes and Knots.
   
  Appendix H. Clouds: Foretellers of Weather.
   
  Appendix I. Evasion Plan of Action Format.
   
  Glossary.
  
   
  Provided for information purposes only. Any action you take is at your own risk.
  
   
  Published in the U.S.A. by CARLILE MEDIA.

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  National Park Mysteries &...

  Steve Stockton, Bill Melder

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  Some of the most visited national parks in the country have a dark side. 
   
   
   
  Aside from crowds of hikers, campers, and general tourists, there’s a dark side to many that can be found in the great states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. From strange disappearances, grisly murders and bone-chilling paranormal hauntings and ghost sightings; these pristine locales have a lot more to offer than just serene hiking trails or camping. In this third installment of National Park Mysteries & Disappearances, Steve Stockton, along with Bill Melder, presents the listener with a side to these locations you've never heard before. 
   
   
   
  So, put aside your nature guidebooks, forget about the pretty leaves, and the relaxing streams as well as the miniature golf, the funnel cakes and all the other "tourist traps" and prepare for a wild ride on the dark side of these major national parks.

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  Vegan Ketogenic Diet - High Fat...

  Sam Kuma

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  If you are vegan you might already know… …Each vegan spares the lives of about 30 animals each year. …being vegan cuts your carbon footprint in half. …vegans save 1,100 gallons of water each day. If you are not following a vegan diet yet, this one will convince you… Vegans live longer… …if you do it right. When you look in the mirror, you might wonder where your little muffin top came from. That´s because not all vegan foods are as healthy as you think. Being vegan is not enough if you tend to put on weight. Even worse, by now supermarkets are full of vegan junk food as bad as McDonald´s Cheeseburgers. If you want to stay healthy, keep up your vegan diet and lose weight without ever feeling hungry, there is only one magical formula. In the 19th century, scientists found the ultimate non-prescriptive drug to cure epilepsy, diabetes and reduce the risk of cancer. And that´s when the whole hype around the ketogenic diet started. Guess what… saying yes to keto is not another “you eat, you starve, you gain, you lose“ weight cycle or a one week buzz. It is scientifically proven that the ketogenic diet is not only one of the healthiest, but also most effective diets around the globe. In “Vegan Ketogenic Diet: High Fat and Low Carb Vegan Recipes for Weight Loss“, you´ll discover: Dozens of keto vegan recipes to kickstart your day Hearty, steaming bowls and soups to warm your bones Green vegetables from all around the globe mixed in one meal to get rid of all toxins in your body Over 20 lunch meals that guarantee weight loss Superfoods to boost your mood Dozens of no-guilt desserts …and much more.

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