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The Chakra Cookbook: Colourful vegan recipes to balance your body and energize your spirit
by Annika PanotzkiThe chakras are an ancient system of connecting the body and spirit to the energy of the planet. Learn how to deeply nourish and balance your life through the abundance of nature with this collection of modern and delicious plant-based, gluten-free and sugar-free recipes for mindful eaters.Our energy body is attached to our physical body through seven points, which we call chakras. Each chakra represents different energies, emotions and physical organs in our bodies. The root chakra, responsible for grounding, is boosted by red foods: berries, chillies, tomatoes. Green foods such as spinach, avocado and kiwis channel the heart chakra, which opens us to trust and intimacy. By learning to recognize the imbalances in your body, and eating naturally colourful and vibrant foods, we make the most of nature's fantastic pantry, ensuring rejuvenation, nutrition and spiritual healing.In this book, chakra expert and modern medicine woman Annika Panotzki shares everything you need to know about the chakra system, along with over 80 delicious and fully vegan, gluten-free and sugar-free recipes. Including ramen, wraps, rainbow burgers, mini tacos, bliss bowls, psychedelic chia, mocktails and infusions, every occasion and time of day is catered for. A morning section includes breathing exercises, smoothies, and setting intentions for the day. A nighttime section covers hydration, gratefulness and mindfulness exercises. Annika also suggests a 5-day reset programme to kick-start incorporating the chakra system into your life.
The Chakra Energy Deck: 64 Poses and Meditations to Balance Mind, Body, and Spirit
by Olivia MillerExplore the healing power of awakening your chakras with this informative deck from the bestselling author of The Yoga Deck.Health and well-being have long been attributed to the balance of the seven primary chakras—Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown—the vital energy centers within the body through which all life energy flows.This illustrated deck offers 64 easy-to-follow exercises to help unblock and align your chakras through meditations, breath work, mudras, affirmations, and yoga poses.With a booklet that provides an overview of each chakra as well as corresponding elements, colors, crystals, essential oils, and more, this deck is an invaluable tool for anyone interested in learning more about subtle energies and harmonizing mind, body, and spirit.KNOWLEDGEABLE AUTHOR: Olivia Miller has authored several wellness and exercise card decks, as well as a hatha yoga reference book. She is a registered yoga instructor and leads workshops and classes about energy balancing and wellness techniques.BRIMMING WITH INFORMATION: 9 cards per chakra (2 meditations, 2 breathing exercises, and 5 yoga poses) plus 1 aura card. Each card features an illustration, step-by-step instructions, a list of benefits, and an affirmation. The booklet includes an overview of each chakra, including associated colors, elements, gemstones, crystals, essential oils, flower essences, and foods—plus ways to identify imbalances and simple everyday activities to promote health.EASY TO USE: Let your inner guidance direct you as there are many ways to use these cards. You can start with the first chakra and move sequentially through the deck or begin with a specific chakra that calls to you, or do a few exercises for all 7 chakras.LOVELY PACKAGE WITH GREAT GIFT POTENTIAL: Delivered in a compact, portable package, this full-color deck is an empowering tool and a thoughtful self-care gift for yourself or for the mind/body/spirit enthusiast in your life.Perfect for:• Mind/body/spirit enthusiasts, spiritually curious• People interested in self-care, holistic healing, and alternative medicine• Meditation, yoga, Reiki, Qi Gong, crystal, and acupuncture lovers• People looking for transformative tools for a happier and healthier life
The Chakra Experience: Your Complete Chakra Workshop in a Book (Experience Series #3)
by Patricia MercierThe Chakra Experience is a complete chakra workshop in one book. Interactive and practical, the step-by-step learning programme will guide you towards greater understanding and wisdom.- Exercises help you to tailor the book to your own specific needs- Journaling sections allow you to write your experiences directly into the book- Includes revision work and more advanced exercisesWith practical downloadable digital tracks featuring meditations and inspirational music to bring you into a receptive state for deeper work.
The Chakra Experience: Your Complete Chakra Workshop in a Book (Godsfield Experience Ser. #3)
by Patricia MercierThe Chakra Experience is a complete chakra workshop in one book. Interactive and practical, the step-by-step learning programme will guide you towards greater understanding and wisdom.- Exercises help you to tailor the book to your own specific needs- Journaling sections allow you to write your experiences directly into the book- Includes revision work and more advanced exercisesWith practical downloadable digital tracks featuring meditations and inspirational music to bring you into a receptive state for deeper work.
The Chakra Project: How the healing power of energy can transform your life
by Georgia ColeridgeBest Healing Book 2019 - Soul & Spirit MagazinePacked with stunning, full-colour photographs, The Chakra Project is a brilliant introduction to the power of chakras. The chakra system is an energy map, connecting your body and soul. Fine-tuning your chakras can help to strengthen your physical body, nourish creativity, fire-up motivation, nurture your heart, inspire self-expression, clarify your intuition and help you to shine. When our energy is flowing, we feel rooted, connected and joyful.Each chapter of this book is beautifully designed, with inspiring photographs to illustrate the colours, elements and practices associated with the 7 chakras. Chapters include:- An introduction to each chakra and what it represents - The symbols, colours, elements, crystals, essential oils and emotional states associated with each one- Signs of when a chakra is healthy, and signs that you might have old or blocked energy that needs to be cleared - Simple, accessible ways to cleanse, heal and nourish each chakraGeorgia Coleridge is an experienced healer. Her fresh, inspiring approach can help you experience the power of chakras, create positive energy and transform your life.'I couldn't put it down; it's very easy reading.... The best chakra book I've come across yet" -Emma Mumford, Soul & Spirit Magazine, Judge for Best Healing Book category
The Chakra Project: How the healing power of energy can transform your life
by Georgia ColeridgePacked with stunning, full-colour photographs, The Chakra Project is a brilliant introduction to the power of chakras. The chakra system is an energy map, connecting your body and soul. Fine-tuning your chakras can help to strengthen your physical body, nourish creativity, fire-up motivation, nurture your heart, inspire self-expression, clarify your intuition and help you to shine. When our energy is flowing, we feel rooted, connected and joyful.Each chapter of this book is beautifully designed, with inspiring photographs to illustrate the colours, elements and practices associated with the 7 chakras. Chapters include:- An introduction to each chakra and what it represents - The symbols, colours, elements, crystals, essential oils and emotional states associated with each one- Signs of when a chakra is healthy, and signs that you might have old or blocked energy that needs to be cleared - Simple, accessible ways to cleanse, heal and nourish each chakraGeorgia Coleridge is an experienced healer. Her fresh, inspiring approach can help you experience the power of chakras, create positive energy and transform your life.
The Chakras
by Anodea Judith Charles Webster Leadbeater Kurt LelandChakra (Sanskrit, "wheel") refers to the ancient Hindu concept of seven vortices of energy located on the spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. These centers define the physical and spiritual contact points in the human body. In yoga they are bridges to higher consciousness symbolizing the journey from the material world to the divine. Alternative-medicine healers recognize them as a dynamic resource for health.First published in 1927, this pioneering book by famed clairvoyant C. W. Leadbeater was the first to introduce the chakras to the West. With great clarity, he explains what each chakra means regarding our well-being, insight, and personal power, his color illustrations showing the chakras as they actually appear to those who can see them. Anyone can perceive the chakras, he says. We must merely become sensitive to vibrations finer than those to which we normally respond. The book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and remains a classic. The new material by Anodea Judith and Kurt Leland emphasizes its relevance for today.
The Chakras
by Anodea Judith Kurt Leland C W LeadbeaterChakra (Sanskrit, "wheel") refers to the ancient Hindu concept of seven vortices of energy located on the spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. These centers define the physical and spiritual contact points in the human body. In yoga they are bridges to higher consciousness symbolizing the journey from the material world to the divine. Alternative-medicine healers recognize them as a dynamic resource for health. First published in 1927, this pioneering book by famed clairvoyant C. W. Leadbeater was the first to introduce the chakras to the West. With great clarity, he explains what each chakra means regarding our well-being, insight, and personal power, his color illustrations showing the chakras as they actually appear to those who can see them. Anyone can perceive the chakras, he says. We must merely become sensitive to vibrations finer than those to which we normally respondThe book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and remains a classic. The new material by Anodea Judith and Kurt Leland emphasizes its relevance for today.
The Chakras in Grief and Trauma: A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness
by Karla HelbertThis innovative guide to the chakras explains how grief and trauma impacts on every level of our being, and provides the tools to help clients experiencing trauma and grief by influencing, balancing and nurturing the chakra system.The book provides thorough and clear explorations of each chakra, their connections to each other, and tantric ways of working with energy. It features over 100 expressive and experiential exercises to remedy the ill-effects of grief and trauma, including yoga poses, mudras, pranayama (breath exercises), journaling, creation of ritual, use of essential oils and crystals and stones. Drawing on expertise as a licensed counselor, psychotherapist and yoga therapist, and personal experience as a bereaved mother, the author shares the teachings, practices and philosophies of yoga's ancient wisdom in a new way, and shows how to sustain personal chakra balancing that will resonate through all areas of life.
The Chakras in Shamanic Practice: Eight Stages of Healing and Transformation
by John Perkins Susan J. WrightHow to work with the chakra centers to heal unresolved psychic wounds • Reveals how psychic injuries become lodged within the energy body • Links one major developmental stage with each major chakra • Provides a detailed guide to healing and clearing the tensions each chakra holds The chakra system identifies eight centers in the psycho-anatomy of humans, each one associated with a different part of the physical or energy body. Susan J. Wright, a practicing shaman and Gestalt psychotherapist, uses her own life journey to show that each chakra also is linked to a different stage of emotional and spiritual development. In The Chakras in Shamanic Practice, she identifies eight key developmental stages of life, from birth to old age/death. Each of these life stages has various developmental challenges and potential traumatic events that will likely occur and affect the health and well-being of the individual. Wright explains that life traumas experienced in particular developmental stages become lodged within the energy body as they cling to their corresponding chakra. By identifying and working with the chakra involved, a doorway can be opened to a world of transformative images, allowing powerful shamanic techniques to heal these psychic wounds. Providing both physical exercises and guided meditations that utilize the techniques of soul retrieval, working with power animals, and transcending trauma, Wright offers practitioners a way to gather and nurture the fragmented parts of their energy body and lead themselves to physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
The Chalice of Magdalene: The Search for the Cup That Held the Blood of Christ
by Graham PhillipsReveals the discovery of an artifact that many experts believe may be the Holy Grail • Traces the journey of the Grail from the Holy Land to Rome and eventually to a ruined chapel in Shropshire, England • Uncovers new evidence identifying the historical King Arthur and his connection to the Holy Grail The popular Arthurian stories of the Middle Ages depict the Holy Grail as Christ’s cup from the Last Supper, which was believed to have been endowed with miraculous healing powers and the ability to give eternal life to whoever drank from it. A much earlier tradition, however, claimed the Grail was the vessel used by Mary Magdalene to collect Christ’s blood when he appeared to her after rising from the tomb. While many vessels were claimed to have been the true Grail, there was only one thought to have been the chalice used by Mary. From Jesus’ empty tomb, where it remained for almost 400 years, this holy relic known as the Marian Chalice was taken to Rome by the mother of the first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great. It was then smuggled from Rome in 410 A.D., according to the fifth-century historian Olympiodorus, to save it from the barbarians who sacked the city. Well into the Middle Ages legend persisted that it had been taken to safety in Britain, the last outpost of Roman civilization in Western Europe.This journey to England, and what happened to the Chalice there, is the focus of this book. Graham Phillips’s research uncovers the secret legacy of an ancient noble family over generations and a trail of clues hidden in the English countryside that lead to a mysterious grotto, a forgotten attic, and the lost chalice. In tracing the relic, Phillips offers the inside story behind an astonishing adventure that results in the identification of the historical King Arthur and the location of one of the most powerful symbols in Western tradition.
The Challenge of Epilepsy: Take Control of Your Seizures-and Your Life-through Complementary and Alternative Solutions
by Sally FletcherDescribes alternative methods of controlling epilepsy
The Challenge of Regulating Managed Care
by John E. Billi Gail Bopp AgrawalRepresentatives of industry, government, caregivers, and consumers join scholars and policy analysts in comparing market forces to regulation as potential means for righting what is wrong with managed care. The contributors that John E. Billi and Gail B. Agrawal have gathered here quickly move the healthcare debate beyond the classroom, think tank, and statehouse to the boardroom and examining room. Some argue strongly that the solution is to be found in the democratic process and government intervention, while others maintain that only market forces in a competitive environment can respond quickly to the needs of consumers and purchasers alike. The contributors' diverse opinions about the oversight of managed care reflect an enduring divide, one that will affect how society ultimately resolves questions about the inevitable tradeoffs among health-care quality, cost, and access in an environment of limited resources. The Challenge of Regulating Managed Care will appeal to policymakers, those in the medical field, and all readers interested in the American experience with managed care.
The Champion Mindset: Access Your Power to Create Leveraging the Law of Attraction
by Ginny GaneAre you struggling to make the Law of Attraction work for you? Maybe you’ve heard of the Law of Attraction (LOA), but have you identified the way it can help you? Grounded in the teachings of Abraham-Hicks, Ginny Gane shares a simple approach to help you live your dream life now. If you have learned the basics of LOA, but are still searching for how to really see results in your life, A Champion Mindset will help you leverage what you already know to live the life of love and freedom you desire. You have the power to purposefully create the kind of life you dream of and the techniques taught within these pages will get you there. Learn the skills that will ultimately empower you to take control of your experience and truly uncover and be all that you want to be.
The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive
by Jim AfremowEven amongst the most elite performers, certain athletes stand out as a cut above the rest, able to outperform in clutch, game-deciding moments. These athletes prove that raw athletic ability doesn't necessarily translate to a superior on-field experience--it's the mental game that matters most. Sports participation--from the recreational to the collegiate Division I level--is at an all-time high. While the caliber of their game may differ, athletes at every level have one thing in common: they want to excel. In The Champion's Mind, sports psychologist Jim Afremow, PhD, LPC, now offers the same advice he uses with Olympians, Heisman Trophy winners, and professional athletes, including: • Tips and techniques based on high-performance psychology research, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble • How to progress within a sport and sustain excellence long-term • Customizable pre-performance routines to hit full power when the gun goes off or the puck is dropped
The Change Before the Change
by Laura CorioThe Essential Book for Every Woman Over 35You're in the prime of life. As far as you know, menopause could be years away. So why is your body sending you such weird messages?Women today can't afford to lose time and energy to the common, but often misdiagnosed, symptoms of perimenopause -- from mood swings and stubborn extra pounds to hot flashes and insomnia -- that precedemenopause by as much as a decade.In this lively and solution-packed book, renowned ob/gyn Dr. Laura Corio provides all the information you need to take charge of your physical and emotional well-being:* Hormone treatment before menopause, including all the new, natural, and low-dose forms that are making this a safe choice for more women* Herbs, soy, and other alternative therapies that are backed by solid medical research* How perimenopause affects fertility -- and what to do if you want to get pregnant* How your skin, hair, and nails reflect deeper changes -- and how to make them vibrant again* Ways to combat cancer fears -- and what tests you absolutely must have* Whether a high-protein diet is right for you -- and what vitamins and minerals you should be taking* What to do now to protect your breasts, uterus, bones, and heart in the years to come* Diet and exercises to prevent or minimize symptoms, and much more!
The Change Your Biology Diet: The Proven Program for Lifelong Weight Loss
by Louis J. AronneOvercome addictions to sugar, fat, and salt—and achieve permanent weight loss—with advice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Skinny. Louis J. Aronne, M.D., internationally recognized weight-management expert and director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill-Cornell Medical College, has created the Change Your Biology Diet, a proven program that helps people break through weight loss &“resistance&” to drop excess pounds and keep them off. Dr. Aronne&’s approach, unlike fad diets, focuses on biological factors that cause weight gain. For example, overeating the wrong kinds of food—namely highly processed, starchy, sweet, fatty food—damages neurons in the brain&’s appetite center that lead to weight gain. Following his plan can reverse this process. With the support of his extensive knowledge and the latest research, readers learn Twelve Breakthrough Strategies for Successful Weight Management, such as how the order in which food is eaten affects weight loss. He provides two different adaptable diets so that readers can personalize a program that works for them. There are meal plans, delicious recipes for protein shakes, soups, sauces, salad dressings, main courses, side dishes and desserts as well as three high-intensity workouts that require no equipment and can be done in less than ten minutes anywhere. Beyond diet and exercise, Dr. Aronne covers the most recent developments in weight loss medications and bariatric procedures. The Change Your Biology Diet provides readers with everything they need to know to lose weight successfully from one of the pioneers in the field of obesity medicine. &“Let Lou help how you think and eat. He might save your life as well.&”—David Letterman, from the Foreword
The Changing Disability Policy System: Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1 (Routledge Advances in Disability Studies)
by Jerome Bickenbach Delia Ferri Rune Halvorsen Bjørn Hvinden Ana Marta Guillén RodriguezBeing an ‘active citizen’ involves exercising social rights and duties, enjoying choice and autonomy, and participating in political decision-making processes which are of importance for one’s life. Amid the new challenges facing contemporary welfare states, debate over just how ‘active’ citizens can and ought to be has redoubled. Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe – what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? The Changing Disability Policy System: Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1 approaches the conditions for Active Citizenship from a macro perspective in order to capture the impact of the overall disability policy system. This system takes diverse and changing forms in the nine European countries under study. Central to the analysis are issues of coherence and coordination between three subsystems of the disability policy system, and between levels of governance. This book identifies the implications and policy lessons of the findings for future disability policy in Europe and beyond. It will appeal to policymakers and policy officials, as well as to researchers and students of disability studies, comparative social policy, international disability law and qualitative research methods.
The Changing Role of the Hospital in European Health Systems (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)
by Ellen Nolte Sherry Merkur Martin McKee Nigel EdwardsHospitals today face a huge number of challenges, including new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, ageing populations and continuing budget constraints. This book is written by clinicians for clinicians and hospital managers, and those who design and operate hospitals. It sets out why hospitals need to change as the patients they treat and the technology to treat them changes. In a series of chapters by leading authorities in their field, it challenges existing models, reviews best practice from many countries and presents clear policy recommendations for policymakers and hospital administrators. It covers the main patient groups and conditions as well as those departments that make modern effective care possible, in imaging and laboratory medicine. Each chapter looks at patient pathways, aspects of workforce, required levels of specialisation and technology, and the opportunities and challenges for optimising the delivery of services in the hospital of the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Cheat to Lose Diet: Cheat Big with the Foods You Love, Lose Fat Faster Than Ever Before, and Enjoy Keeping It Off!
by Joel MarionBurn Fat Faster with your favorite foods. Author, fitness expert, and Body-for-Life champion Joel Marion often found himself doing exactly what we all do when a diet simply isn't working: quitting. But through a series of diet "screwups," Joel discovered a startling truth: cheating on your diet can actually accelerate fat loss. Here, finally, is a diet that works with your body to help you lose fat faster than restrictive dieting ever could. The Cheat to Lose Diet includes a simple weekly plan in which more carbohydrates are deliberately added with each passing day, leading up to the "Cheat Day," when you'll cheat BIG with all your favorite foods. Never again will you feel guilty for indulging in the foods you love, because you'll learn that dietary cheating is absolutely vital to your success. This innovative new diet plan has already helped dieters around the world lose weight and keep it off-so start cheating and losing today! "Based on cutting-edge medical research, The Cheat to Lose Diet reveals the hormonal connection between strategic cheating and fat loss that will change the way you diet forever." -Muscle Magazine International
The Cheater's Diet
by Marissa LippertSmart, sneaky, and sustainable cheating tips from one of New York's top nutritionists. Award-winning nutritionist, Glamourmagazine columnist and stylish New York City chick, Marissa Lippert understands how hard it is to stick to a plan and eat a healthy diet when you're a girl-on-the go. And she knows that if you aren't allowed to cheat, you won't want to stick to any type of plan. Here, finally, is the foolproof program for eating, cheating, and losing weight permanently. You heard it from your mother many times, "Cheaters never win. " And she was right. But in this case, cheaters always win, because (winning means losing), especially if they listen to hot New York City nutritionist Marissa Lippert. Let her teach you the art of cheating and you'll be the biggest loser ever-up to twenty pounds in eight weeks. And that's just the beginning of the good news. You'll be the leanest, fittest, healthiest and happiest you've ever been on a diet because Lippert believes that life without guilty pleasures-including drinks (yes, alcohol) and desserts-just isn't worth living. There are two kinds of cheats: the ones you do on purpose and, more frequently, the ones that catch you off guard. Whether you've binged on sweets, fatty foods or booze, Marissa has the tools to help you spring into action and maximize cheating momentum. You'll feel better and healthier if you follow her plan and you won't ruin the progress you'll make on The Cheater's Diet. Getting a grip on your schedule is the first step to cheating-planning trips to the gym, stocking up on staples at the grocery store, deciding when to cook, and knowing when and how you'll likely cheat during the week. Will it be at your office happy hour on Wednesday or an indulgent dinner date on Thursday? Girl's night out on Saturday? Take your best shot-if the dinner date is at an incredible restaurant you've been dying to try, play smart with lighter meals earlier in the week and hold out for the good stuff. Lippert shows readers, in each of the eight weeks, how to shop, how to cook and how to find the best of everything within your budget. The upshot is that eating the most delicious food whether you're cheating or not, whether you're eating in or out, is the best way to stay satisfied and control your portions. You'll want to save the cheats for something that's worth it-not junk food from the snack machine, but the best red velvet cupcake you've ever had. Not house wine, but the best Pinot Noir you'll ever taste. The better the quality the more you'll savor it, and the less you'll eat--and that's true of healthy food too. Buy a great bottle of balsamic vinegar and olive oil and suddenly salads won't be a punishment for a night of cheating. They'll feel like your naughty days. Eight weeks, up to twenty pounds, and enjoying every minute of it. How can you beat that?
The Checklist
by Manny AlvarezIn the tradition of YOU The Owner's Manual, The Checklist is organized as a guide to help individuals and families take the right precautions, at the right time in their lives, to avoid the most common health pitfalls and illnesses, and put them on the path to a vigorous and sound lifestyle. Each decade in a person's life introduces new risks not seen in their previous ten years. A health plan must be tailor-made to fit a body as it matures decade to decade. Dr. Manny's friendly, easy explanations and simple maintenance breakdowns show people how to act preventively and proactively, without unnecessary fears or reliance on the abundance of outdated, counterproductive health myths. Dr. Manny's mission is to aid readers in their pursuit of living a healthy and long life, and to help close the door on future life-threatening illnesses using proven, sound medical knowledge.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul GawandeThe New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist. We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies-- neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul GawandeToday we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it - correctly, safely or efficiently.In this groundbreaking book, Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising method available in surmounting failure. Whether you're following a recipe, investing millions of dollars in a company or building a skyscraper, the checklist is an essential tool in virtually every area of our lives, and Gawande explains how breaking down complex, high pressure tasks into small steps can radically improve everything from airline safety to heart surgery survival rates. Fascinating and enlightening, The Checklist Manifesto shows how the simplest of ideas could transform how we operate in almost any field.
The Cheerleader Fitness Plan: Get fit and fabulous in just 6 weeks!
by Lindsay BrinGet the body you've always wanted-and never thought possible-with this simple, cheerleader-approved fitness plan Cheerleaders are the ultimate symbol of youth, beauty, strength and sex appeal-what woman wouldn't want to look like one? Now, with the help of The Cheerleader Fitness Plan, you can get the body of your dreams-no gimmicks, no starvation, and no props. Former NFL cheerleader and fitness expert Lindsay Brin has been helping women achieve healthier minds and bodies for over fifteen years. Using her comprehensive six-week plan, any woman can achieve their ideal weight, whether it's a busy mother of three eager to get her body back, a twenty-something woman just getting started on a fitness program, or an avid exerciser interested in trying something new. The Cheerleader Fitness Plan is loaded with valuable tips and tools to keep you looking and feeling great: * An effective combination of strength training, yoga, and cardio * Custom tweny-five minute workouts-perfect for women on the go * Nutrition advice to help you manage your metabolism * Beauty tips and advice from other NFL cheerleaders