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Writing Clearly: A Self-Teaching Guide

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:06:46 PST

By Dawn Sova, Dawn B. Sova
Publisher: Wiley ( 2003-09-12 )
256 pages
ISBN: 0471179523

Introduction

Improve your writing skills at your own pace
How do you target a specific audience in writing? What makes up a strong thesis statement? Is there a trick to maintaining clear communication in cyberspace? How do you achieve unity and coherence in a final draft? With Writing Clearly: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about the basics of communicating effectively through the written word.
Each chapter in this hands-on guide focuses on key steps in the writing process, identifying the shared and differing skills demanded by each type of writing, be it a persuasive essay, a business letter, or a scientific report. The straightforward, structured format of Writing Clearly makes it fully accessible, providing an easy-to-understand, comprehensive overview for everyone-from students beginning to build skills, to adults looking to improve their writing, to the experienced writer hoping to further hone skills in a certain area.
Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Writing Clearly allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants to develop or improve his or her basic writing skills.

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Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:36:17 PST

The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More Than 60 Countries
2nd Edition:
By: Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway, George A. Borden

Introduction
You're doing business abroad. Do you know how to understand a country's political climate? Identify how decisions are made? Negotiate effectively? Properly address and entertain your contacts? In today's rapidly expanding global marketplace, business people must understand the distinctive customs of the major nations. This guide helps you do exactly that. It's filling with important facts about business customs, behavioral styles, social customs, and much more!
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Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:21:47 PST

World Bank Publications , 2009-09-10
ISBN: 0821379615
215 pages

Introduction

Doing Business 2010 is the seventh in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies--from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe--and over time. Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business's life are measured: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. Data in Doing Business 2010 are current as of June 1, 2009. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.

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Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:08:14 PST

By Donna Freitas
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195311655

Introduction

Today's college students are fascinated by religion but they are also more sexually active than previous generations. How do these young people reconcile their spiritual longings with sexual freedom on campus?
Based on dozens of face-to-face interviews, Sex and the Soul explores the sexual and spiritual lives of today's college students. Donna Freitas crisscrossed the country, visiting a range of America's colleges and universities--from public to private, Catholic to evangelical--to find out what students had to say about these highly personal subjects. Their stories will not only engage readers, but, in many cases, move them with the painful struggles these candid young women and men face. Indeed, the book uncovers aspects of college life that may unsettle some readers, especially parents. Many campuses, for instance, are dominated by the hook-up culture of casual sex. Moreover, a surprising number of students see little connection between sex and religion. Indeed, these observations hold true even at Catholic schools. Only at evangelical colleges is religion an important factor when deciding whether or not to engage in sex. But Freitas's research also reveals that, even at secular schools, students are not comfortable with the prevalence of casual sex, and that they do want religion to speak about what they should do and who they should try to be--not just what they should avoid doing.
Sex and the Soul will offer readers the chance to hear college students speaking honestly about extremely sensitive topics, in a book that will be of great interest to students, parents, clergy, teachers, and anyone who wants to know what's happening on today's college campuses.
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Kama Sutra SEX Positions Complete Guide

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:06:53 PST

2nd Edition
Publisher: DK ADULT,2007
ISBN: 0756692661

Introduction

This revision of the bestselling Kama Sutra for 21st-Century Lovers reveals how to submit to unashamed pleasures, shows the fundamentals of successful lovemaking, and includes an exotic listing of over 100 positions from the world's most ancient sex manuals, including the Kama Sutra, Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and Tao. AUTHOR BIO: Anne Hooper is the world's bestselling author of illustrated sex manuals with sales of over 6 million books. A trained sexual and marital therapist and psychotherapist, Anne is the author of over 25 titles. Two of her titles, Ultimate Sex Guide and Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra, have sold over 850,000 copies and her two, Pocket Sex Guide and Pocket Kama Sutra, have sold over a million copies .

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Talk Less, Say More: Three Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:27:04 PST

By Connie Dieken
ISBN: 0470500867
Publisher :Wiley

Introduction

Talk Less, Say More is a revolutionary guide to 21st century communication skills to help you be more influential and make things happen in our distracted, attention-deficit world. It's loaded with specific tips and takeaways to ensure that you're fully heard, clearly understood, and trigger positive responses in any business or social situation.

It's the first book to deliver a proven method to master the core leadership skill of influence. Talk Less, Say More lays out a powerful 3-step method called Connect, Convey, Convince (R) and guides you in how to use these habits to be more influential. This succinct book solves your modern communication issues in today's demanding, distracted world at a time when interaction skills are plummeting.

Communication is the single greatest challenge in business today. It takes just 3 habits to conquer it. Talk Less, Say More will help you achieve more with less. Less wordiness. Less tune-out. Less frustration. You'll gain more time. More positive outcomes. More rewarding relationships.

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Loops: The Seven Keys to Small Business Success

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:58:00 PST

By Mike Chaet, Stephen C. Lundin, Vince Moravek, Mary Chaet,
McGraw-Hill, 2009
ISBN: 0071624872
144 pages

Introduction

Why do some small businesses succeed while others fail?
That is the question one young entrepreneur faces in this illuminating business parable for our times. Loops reveals the soul-searching story of Tony, a business student who doesn't understand why he can't quit school and work in the family business.
Then his professor surprises him with an unusual final exam— a twelve-week, summer-long study of the small businesses in his local area. This simple real-world assignment opens Tony's eyes to the most important lessons an entrepreneur can learn, such as how to:

Manage "experience zones"
Build strong customer relations through "vision moments"
Standardize key processes for employees
Innovate, improve, and maintain quality
Accomplish real results by "closing the loops"

As you follow Tony's journey, you'll receive a week-by-week crash course on the seven essential loops for small business. You will learn how to distinguish yourself from the competition, improve your operations, and close the loops. Best of all, you'll discover innovative ways to apply the loops concept to every challenge you face, with every endeavor, in any economy.

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Leadership : Essential Managers

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:38:15 PST

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Pages: 76
2008-01-01
ISBN 1405331569

Introduction
A practical pocket-sized guide to leadership which will give you the information and skills to succeed Find out how to improve your leadership skills by establishing a vision, inspiring others and championing high performance. You'll learn to focus your energy, build relationships and develop strategies. Tips, dos and don'ts, highlights on key subjects, 'SOS' hints on what to do in a particular situation, plus real-life case studies demonstrate key skills, such as communication and achieving results. Read it cover to cover, or dip in and out of topics for quick reference. Handy tips in a pocket-sized format – take it wherever your work takes you.
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Naked Finance: Business Finance Pure and Simple

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:08:37 PST

286 pages
Nicholas Brealey Publishing; illustrated edition (March 25, 2008)
ISBN: 1857883942
PDF, 3 Mb

Introduction
What managers need to know but are afraid to ask. Not a dry accounting primer, Naked Finance is an accessible and thorough non-technical guide to the fundamental elements and principles of business finance for non-financial managers and other ordinary business people. It explains the basics, from preparing budgets and interpreting financial reports to doing sales projections and making the case for buying badly-needed new equipment for the business unit you manage.
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Leadership and Business Ethics

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:29:48 PST

344 pages
Springer; 1 edition (August 28, 2008)
ISBN:1402084285

Introduction

This book seeks to contribute to a more adequate coalescence of ethics and business with innovative models for such coalescence, for the mutual benefit of business ethicists, professors teaching in the undergraduate and MBA classroom, corporate executives, and businesspeople. While each of the contributions in this collection is distinct, each invites us to examine our own mind sets about corporate responsibility and the future of free enterprise as Western multinational corporations expand into a global economy. The world has become a village and what were once thought of as externalities can no longer be dismissed as not part of the decision equation in business ventures. The alleged separation of business from ethics can no longer be a viable approach, if it ever was, as companies move into alien cultures and affect, both positively and sometimes questionably, traditional, non-western and nonindustrial mores of local communities. Globalization has challenged our parochial management thinking. This collection of essays helps to refocus our conceptual work about commerce and business practices in this new century of global enterprise.

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The Project Management Communications Toolkit

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:51:35 PST

Hardcover: 220 pages
Publisher: Artech House Publishers (April 2004)
ISBN-10: 1580537472
ISBN-13: 978-1580537476

Introduction

Effective communication is every project manager’s most powerful tool. Helping you achieve a high level of communications expertise and success is the goal of this book and CD-ROM package. This practical resource shows you how to coordinate the efforts of teams of project members and maintain an open dialog with senior executives. The book explains how to energize projects, create momentum, and achieve success by talking and listening to your staff. Moreover you learn how to effectively communicate project status and requirements to executive management.

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Writing Fantasy And Science Fiction

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:37:18 PDT

Author: Lisa Tuttle
Publisher: A&C Black
Format: PDF
ISBN: 0713672447 (0-7136-7244-7)
ISBN 13: 9780713672442 (978-0-7136-7244-2)

Introduction

What makes fantasy different from other types of fiction? How do you build a science fiction world? Does magic need rules? From outer space to cyberspace, from The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter, fantasy and science fiction are more popular with readers than ever before, and offer a unique set of challenges to the writer. Award-winning author Lisa Tuttle draws on her own experience as writer, editor and teacher to offer practical advice and encouragement to the aspiring fantasy and science fiction writer. The book covers ideas, world-building, language, structure, short stories, writing for children, finding an agent and markets.

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Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:36:19 PDT

Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 792
2009-04-27
ISBN 0470423676
PDF, 5 MB

Introduction

With 200 pages of new content, the fifth edition of this popular guide gives new or veteran project managers a comprehensive overview of all of the best-of-breed project management approaches and tools today, including Traditional (Linear and Incremental), Agile (Iterative and Adaptive), and Extreme. Step-by-step instruction and practical case studies show you how to use these tools effectively to achieve better outcomes of projects at hand. Plus, the book provides full coverage on managing continuous process improvement, procurement management, managing distressed projects, and managing multiple team projects. The companion Web site includes exercises and solutions that accompany the project management instruction in the book.

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The First 60 Seconds: Win the Job Interview before It Begins

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:25:20 PDT

By Daniel Burns
Sourcebooks, 2009
ISBN: 1402216769 ,Pages: 288

Introduction

In the first 60 seconds, interviewers can decide whether you will be moved to the top of the list… or dropped from consideration!
In today's crowded job market, The First 60 Seconds is an innovative book that shows job seekers how best to impress in that crucial first minute and gives strategies to constantly differentiate themselves from the competition. From preparing a credentials package to connecting with the interviewer, candidates will learn how to set themselves apart every time—especially essential with a 5% national unemployment rate.
Author Dan Burns has provided consulting and employee placement services to Fortune 500 companies for the past fourteen years. He'll show you how to tackle:
• The 60 Days before the Interview
• The Next 60 Minutes (after the First 60 Seconds)
• The Close and the Follow-Up
• The 60-Month Career Plan
Whether you're a new job-seeker or out on the market after years of steady employment, The First 60 Seconds gives you the best tools to win your next great career opportunity.

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Starting an Online Business For Dummies

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:41:26 PDT

By Greg Holden
432 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 5 edition (April 16, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0470107391
ISBN-13: 978-0470107393

Introduction
You’ve heard stories about people making their fortune creating Web sites and selling merchandise on the Internet. You’ve been eager to jump right in and take a shot at striking it rich, but you’re not quite sure how to get started—or if you’re business-minded and tech-savvy enough to succeed.

Starting an Online Business for Dummies will show you how easy it is to get your ideas off the ground and on the Web. You’ll be able to take advantage of everything an online business has to offer, without an MBA or years of experience! This updated, hands-on guide gives you the tools you need to:

* Establish and promote your business
* Advertise your site
* Build a business with online auctions
* Keep your business legal and lawsuit free
* Impress customers in the virtual world
* Publicize your business with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft
* Conduct electronic payments
* Utilize VoIP, site feeds, blogging, and affiliate marketing

You’ll soon begin to realize that online business is not confined to large corporations or even businesses with storefronts. With this handy, straightforward guide, you will have your business online and ready to go in no time. There’s also a chapter on hot new ways to make money online, such as selling on Amazon or promoting on Flickr. The 5th edition of Starting an Online Business for Dummies helps you help your business can reach its full potential!

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Sexual Healing: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Common Sexual Problems

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:15:48 PDT

By Barbara Keesling Ph.D.
Publisher: Hunter House; 3rd edition , 2006
400 Pages
ISBN: 0897934652

Introduction

The best-selling author of Sexual Pleasure provides countless tips and exercises to improve sexual enjoyment and increase intimacy.... Grounded in solid psychological and physical research, this is both an impressive reference and a source of support and encouragement. - Kirkus Reviews

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Guys Like Girls Named Jennie

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:20:51 PDT

By Kerri Pomarolli
Zondervan,2008
ISBN: 0310287855
256 pages ,PDF ,1,4 MB

Introduction
This book is an inspirational, comical, and honest look at the dating scene through the eyes of a Christian woman who is trying to live up to God’s standards in today’s society.
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Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:58:14 PDT

By Bob Buford
2009-01-01
ISBN: 0310284244
224 pages

Introduction

Halftime. Time to pause, midway in the game of your life, and consider how to make the transition from professional success to significance. Revised and expanded for a new generation of leaders, Bob Buford’s bestseller shows how you can make the second half of your life even more rewarding than the first.According to Bob Burford, broaching midlife doesn't have to be a crisis. In fact, in Half Time, Burford insists that it is actually an opportunity to begin the better half of life. The first half is busy with "getting and gaining, earning and learning," doing what you can to survive, while clawing your way up the ladder of success. The second half of life should be about regaining control, calling your own shots, and enjoying "God's desire ... for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with." What lies between the two is "halftime." Buford argues that whether you are a millionaire, a manager, or a teacher, you will one day have to transition from the struggle for success to the quest for significance. Halftime, then, is a quiet time of deliberate decision-making, restructuring, and passionate contemplation of your heart's deepest desires. Buford's writing is grounded in the real-life experience of success and failure, and most poignantly, the death of his son. While he has led a very successful life in the eyes of the world, Buford's personal stories reveal that his faith in Christ is his central priority. Instead of a transition to be feared, Buford makes midlife an introspective journey of abundance that will unleash God's best for you.

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Tantric Sex for Busy Couples: How to Deepen Your Passion in Just Ten Minutes a Day

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:56:15 PDT

By Diana Daffner
Publisher : Hunter House
ISBN: 0897935152
176 pages

Introduction

In Tantric Sex for Busy Couples, Diana Daffner offers readers a modern approach to intimacy based on ancient techniques. Combining age-old tantric teachings, the peaceful exercise program of t’ai chi, and meditation, the book shows couples how to energize their relationship. The basic exercises include “Solo Stillness,” which helps readers embrace the inner self; “Connected Pose,” a way for couples to simply be together; and the “Tantra T'ai Chi Trilogy,” a tri-partite system for moving sexual energy throughout the body. The author's foundational tantra t'ai chi exercises help readers prepare for the sexual practices described in the book, with things like yin and yang ceremonies of sexual massage for both partners and “Peaceful Passion” — a sexual union that requires neither a high sex drive nor a Viagra-inspired erection. Throughout these practices, readers are encouraged to maintain a sacred, respectful, loving, and ceremonial attitude toward their partner and, in the process, transform a relationship into a love affair.

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The Man Who Shock the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:58:56 PDT

By Thomas Blass
ISBN: 978-0-465-00807-0

Introduction

Stanley Milgram entered the public consciousness—with a jolt—in the fall of 1963. Newspapers around the country were reporting a startling discovery he had made in his psychology laboratory at Yale in conducting what became known as “the obedience experiments.” He found that average, presumably normal, groups of residents of New Haven, Connecticut, would readily inflict very painful, and possibly harmful, electric shocks on an innocent victim whose actions did not merit such harsh treatment. As part of an experiment supposedly dealing with the effects of punishment on learning, subjects were required by an experimenter to shock a learner every time he made an error on a verbal learning task, and to increase the intensity of the shock in 15-volt steps, from 15 to 450 volts, on each subsequent error. The results: 65 percent of the subjects continued to obey the experimenter to the end, simply because he commanded them to.

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Data Mining for Business Applications

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:43:53 PDT

Edited by: Longbing Cao; Philip S. Yu; Chengqi Zhang; Huaifeng Zhang
Publisher: SPVU
ISBN-13: 9780387794198
ISBN-10: 0387794190

Introduction

Data Mining for Business Applications presents the state-of-the-art research and development outcomes on methodologies, techniques, approaches and successful applications in the area. The contributions mark a paradigm shift from “data-centered pattern mining” to “domain driven actionable knowledge discovery” for next-generation KDD research and applications. The contents identify how KDD techniques can better contribute to critical domain problems in theory and practice, and strengthen business intelligence in complex enterprise applications. The volume also explores challenges and directions for future research and development in the dialogue between academia and business.

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The Book of IQ Test : Book 5

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:12:15 PDT

By ken Russell and Philip Carter
ISBN 0 7494 4391 X

Introduction

Of the different methods that purport to measure intelligence, the most famous is the IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test, which is a standardised test designed to measure human intelligence as distinct from attainments. Intelligence quotient is an age-related measure of intelligence level. The word quotient means the result of dividing one quantity by another, and one definition of intelligence is mental ability or quickness of mind. Usually, IQ tests consist of a graded series of tasks, each of which has been standardised with a large representative population of individuals in order to establish an average IQ of 100 for each test.

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Get Top Marks In Your Exams

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:44:43 PDT

Summersdale Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1-84024-572-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-84024-572-1

Introduction
Getting top marks in your exams could land you a place in your chosen university, help you score the job of your dreams or even just satisfy your ambition to do the best you possibly can. Whatever your motivation, we all know that exams aren’t easy: even people who are top of the class can struggle with tests in a controlled environment.By applying yourself during the course, effectively preparing for each exam and knowing how to handle the pressure of the exam room, you can increase your chances of achieving the high marks you deserve.

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Resumes For Dummies, 5th Edition

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:38:06 PDT

Introduction

Is your job search stalling out after you submit a resume but before you're offered an interview? With reinvented recruiting technology, unmanageable millions of resumes choking employer databases, and government mandates in the name of diversity, a gigantic change has occurred in the recruiting world over the past several years—and it demands a fresh look at how you write and market your resumes.

Whether you're entering the job market for the first time, changing jobs, or changing careers, Resumes for Dummies, 5th Edition will show you the ropes and rules for a new era in recruiting and job finding. With 85% new content added since the previous edition, this up-to-date guide gives you the very latest strategies on how to create, and more importantly, distribute your resume in today's new job search environment. You'll learn:

* Why most generic online resumes fail
* How to customize resumes for each job opening
* New quick ways to find the right jobs
* How to use meta search engines to your advantage
* Why both digital and print versions of resumes are still needed
* How to use resumes interactively
* The resume basics that still knock 'em dead
* How to create resumes for your life's changing phases
* What to do after you send them your resume

With a wealth of sample resumes—organized by industry and career field, experience level and age, and special circumstances—along with tips on choosing professional resume help and other valuable resources, Resumes for Dummies, 5th Edition will help you get noticed in a universe saturated with billions of resumes and more on the way.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Weight Training

noreply@blogger.com (downloadebooks) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:46:59 PDT

By Deidre Johnson, Cane, Jonathan & Glickman, Joe Cane
ISBN-10: 0028631978
ISBN-13: 978-0028631974

Introduction

Shows the proper form for dozens of exercises for all major and minor muscle groups--all illustrated. This book covers wieght-training vs. free weights and establishes how to set one's weight and reps.After finishing the book, gaps in my weight lifting knowledge that I had not known existed had been filled in. The authors came across as humble, self-effacing, genuinely helpful, and very human. The expressed human element helped to convey that weight lifting can be beneficial for everyone. Looking through the table of contents, a prospective buyer might be surprised that the specific weight lifting exercises are covered in the last half of the book. However, the first half is well worth the price of the book by itself, in my opinion, as it explains the ins and outs of proper nutrition, stretching, gym and gym equipment selection, and gym culture. The authors goals of instilling good habits, good technique, and proper mindfulness in weight lifting is well served.

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