Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts of Europe

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Throughout the 19th century, European royalty built extraordinary palaces to which they retreated from their "official" lives in St. Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, and elsewhere. This book offers a panorama of these fantastic estates, where leading architects, craftsmen, muralists, garden designers, and naturalists were employed at enormous expense to create a life of unsurpassed luxury. Many of the palaces are now legendary: Ludwig II's famous Neuschwanstein, which dominates the Bavarian Alps; the "Alexandra Cottage" of Peterhof, the gift of Nicholas I to his wife; the lovely Castle of Miramare built for the ill-fated Archduke Maximilian, the short-lived emperor of Mexico. The palaces are "romantic" in every sense, as creations of their time, and as places suffused with nostalgic memory.

Author Jérôme Coignard provides a brief overview of each royal family and their palace's architecture and decoration, drawing on contemporary memoirs and letters. Marc Walter's color photographs are accompanied by period interior views, watercolors, and family photographs. With information on visiting hours and directions to each of the palaces, this book offers a private tour through the last courts of Europe. AUTHOR BIO: Jérôme Coignard is a novelist, essayist, and contributor to numerous French magazines. Marc Walter is a photographer and graphic designer whose most recent books include Voyages around the World and Toile de Jouy. Markus of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Austrian archduke, is the current resident of Kaiser-villa in Bad-Ischl, built for his ancestor, the emperor Franz-Joseph I, in 1834.

Customer Reviews:

Mediocre, but has a some redeeming qualitites.......2005-12-16

This book does have SOME nice pictures, but the bottom line: there is an unacceptable amount of room for improvement. The authors of this book had great potential to create something extraordianry, but wasted space by including too much text for a coffee table book and devoting entire pages to average photographs. Despite its many flaws, I do have to admit that their selections were truly fresh and original. The authors use several palaces that I had never heard of and avoid using cliches like Versailles, Schonbrun, or the Catherine Palace. If you are looking for a different lineup of palaces you might want to give this book a second thought. If you do decide to but it, DO NOT, under any circumstances, pay retail for this book. I found a used one at $28.00, and I experienced some buyer's remorse.

Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts Of Europe

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Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts Of Europe
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Manufacturer: Vendome Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VSRNQ0

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A beginning wildlife photographer's dream guide........2001-05-10

Leonard Lee Rue III turns this `how-to' book into a beginning photographer's dream guide. Without losing any important material, Rue is able to guide the reader through the technical aspects of photography with much ease. In this book Leonard Lee Rue (the most published wildlife photographer in N. America) shares many of his trade secrets from the equipment he uses to the best areas to photograph wildlife. As a naturalist, he is able to delve into animal behavior and discuss a few species in detail to ensure the reader and novice photographer a better understanding and respect for nature and wildlife. It is this aspect to the book that I appreciate the most. Leonard Lee Rue III is a naturalist who is a master of photography. His insight into the wonders of nature and his technical expertise in photography make this book a must have for any aspiring wildlife photographer.

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How I Photograph Wildlife and Nature
Leonard Lee III Rue
Manufacturer: World Almanac Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NUZ4K8

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For years, Kunislayer Shujo's sexy adult manga stories have thrilled thousands of readers in Milk and on the Slipshine adult comic site. Now, this saucy tale is collected into one handy volume! Polyp is just your average bounty hunter, with a taste for kinky adventure - and in this book, she finds it in spades! Lesbian encounters, bondage, huge orgies - nothing will stop this bodacious babe from getting her money shot. 128 pages of soaking wet shiny fun! From the Sin Factory imprint of Adults Only material. This publisher is a new client to Diamond Book Distributors!

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This work follows upon the author's previous volume, The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil, and investigates the general workings of the Mexican oil industry in relationship to the economics and politics of Mexico. Specifically the author examines Mexico's state-run oil concern, PEMEX, and the costs and benefits of Mexican oil policy--for the nation as a whole and for special groups. Using in-depth interviews and extensive data from PEMEX and other sources, Randall explores issues such as PEMEX's relationships with workers and the oil union, with suppliers of capital goods and services, with the regions in which oil is produced, and with specific groups of oil consumers. Given the critical and negative publicity PEMEX has received over its lifetime, Randall also seeks to answer questions regarding the extent of corruption, overstaffing, and lax management within PEMEX, which she finds to be less than is often alleged. Students of energy and development economics will find Randall's study an important contribution to the literature of Latin American economic policy. In addition to examining the internal workings of PEMEX, Randall describes and analyzes measures taken to correct earlier abuses and to increase efficiency. She reveals the intricate relationships among Mexican oil production, OPEC, the United States, and other nations, and explores the contradictory aspects of Mexican economic and oil policies that inhibit the ability of the oil industry to reach official goals. Throughout, Randall traces the transformation of PEMEX from a nationalized industry that mainly produced crude oil for export to one that has expanded to include refined products and petrochemicals. As a result of this expansion, Randall demonstrates, PEMEX has had a major impact both on the market for labor and capital goods and on the regions in which it operates. Her conclusions regarding the current and future prospects for PEMEX have important implications for the study of economic and energy development throughout the Third World.

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The Political Economy of Mexican Oil
Laura Randall
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group 01/1//1989
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5QSTE

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The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and the emergence of opportunity-enhancing employee participation programs reconfigured occupations, career paths, and labor market opportunities. Vicki Smith analyzes this shift, asking how workers navigated their way across the divide between bad jobs and good jobs, between jobs organized hierarchically and jobs requiring greater worker involvement, and between temporary and stable work.

Crossing the Great Divide uses original case study data from four diverse organizational settings around the country. Smith compares the situations of nonunionized, white-collar workers at a photocopy service firm; unionized blue- collar workers in a wood-products processing factory; temporary assemblers and clerical workers in a high-tech firm; and unemployed managers, technical workers, and professionals participating in a job search club.

The very different experiences revealed in Crossing the Great Divide highlight the way diverse new relationships between companies and their employees play out in workplaces, where new forms of work organization simultaneously create opportunity, instability, and risk for workers. Smith's goal is to construct a new framework of employment that accommodates the unpredictability and turbulence of the 21st century, but that is also "characterized at its core by attachment, reward, protection, commitment, and dignity."

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An Exposition on the New Work Order.......2004-10-04

Deindustrialization, downsizing, retooling, and retraining, are just a few of the words that have crept into the American lexicon as related to work and occupations. From approximately 1944 to 1973, American workers and owners of capital participated in what pundits refer to as the "labor/capital accord." This unwritten "accord" has been generally accepted, after the fact, as an implicit agreement between labor and capital due to a need for compliant workers because of America's manufacturing preeminence after World War II; a war that left many of the participating nations with little or no manufacturing infrastructure. As America and the American worker stepped in, the world's light and heavy manufacturing fell to the country with the greatest intact infrastructure: America.

Given war arenas did not include American soil, i.e. the United States, the means to serve the world's manufacturing needs were simply retooled, from war machinery manufacture to consumable goods production, to fit an emerging economy; one that allowed the bourgeoning middle class to partake in wide-scale manufacturing work as not previously experienced in America. However, as all good economists, historians, and none-to-few sociologists have observed, the only constant is consistent change. With the emergence of 1980's and 1990's downsizing and outsourcing, American workers faced new concerns that impacted not only their pockets, but also their psyche. In this work, Sociologist Vicki Smith seeks to "address these issues by untangling the contradictory strands present in contemporary transformation of jobs and work organizations and weaving them back together into a coherent but variegated whole."

To accomplish her goal of providing meaningful answers, Smith examines three companies, "because they had undertaken one or more of the reforms I was interested in, such as an employee involvement, quality, or participative management program, or temporary hiring practices." The companies researched are Reproco, WoodWorks International, and CompTech. Of her first company, Smith writes, "Reproco had fashioned a service-delivery workplace that in key respects matched an ideal blueprint for a less hierarchical, decentralized organizational structure, one designed to enable workers to self manage and to coordinate their efforts." Of WoodWorks, International, a "timber-products plant in Madison, Montana" Smith writes, they "had been undergoing construction and cutbacks for a full decade before I began my research in 1992." In this case, she writes, "in distinct contrast to Reproco, then, work reform was introduced under conditions of economic and organizational crisis." This case is telling in that we witness how the potential loss of work altogether provides the substrate "for making individuals more flexible, heightening their engagement and holding workers more accountable for production and output." Such a position illustrates how companies can coerce workers into accepting certain concessions under the premise of some employment is better that no employment; an instance of this is observed as a textile mill in Anytown USA seeks to relocate to Hinter Country Earth to reduce wages and increase profits. In our fictional case, to retain possible lost jobs, workers or union members may accept belt-tightening concessions from the company as a compromise (Fictional names aside, this has and is happening in America). Of CompTech, "a high-technology company," Smith indicates that they employ, "a progressive or enabling approach to worker involvement, collaboration and team work, constant learning, and career development is deeply ingrained in the organizational employment practices at CompTech." She further writes, "although the company, like many others, has experienced a squeeze on its products and profits, top management has endeavored to preserve the company's progressive work traditions." In observing such policies in action, we note how CompTech has employed a key component in attracting and retaining solid employees: identity formation and maintenance. Consider the following, if an employee believes that they possess a level of imbrication in the company's core mission, they become, bifurcation or "obscured inequality" notwithstanding, a willing participant in the company's growth model; even if that model requires some "belt-tightening" at the worker's expense.

In addition to the aforementioned three companies, Smith visited a Sacramento, California "job search club organized by the California Employment Development Department" to better understand "uncertainty, risk, and opportunity from the other side of the coin: the situations of unemployed managerial, technical, and professional workers." In so doing, we obtain a peek behind the curtain of uncertainty as it relates to members of an arguably declining middle-class.

Outsourcing and job-relocation are quickly becoming the status quo in and among American businesses. Reading Smith's work, I considered Saskia Sassen's work titled Cities in a World Economy, and her argument, where she calls cities "strategic places," and "three types of places above all others symbolize the new forms of economic globalization: export processing centers, offshore banking centers, high-tech districts, and global cities." Applied to Smith's work, we see how there will be a need for retooling in a global marketplace where not only "place matters," but people matter. In so retooling, we, as thinkers in America will need to revisit how we have conducted business up to today. As we revisit social, political, and economic structures, we must also consider the future implications of a need for fewer employees in the global marketplace and what will a vastly unemployed populace do with the coming spare time?

Within these pages Smith does an admirable job of giving a voice to the disenfranchised, but nonetheless astute, worker. She not only highlights their ability to make due, as in the case of the Reproco photocopiers, she keenly allows readers, via qualitative research methods, to enter the lives of her respondents and feel their angst. An act not easily achieved. In one instance she interviews Madeline Cox, "a forty-six-year-old white woman with a bachelor's degree in environmental science." What Madeline shares is not unlike an ice-water facial, wherein the recipient is shocked into a new and ever-present reality. Madeline says in part, "most of us are facing the prospect we're not gonna make the salary we made before, not gonna have the promotability, we're not gonna have the opportunity."

While some researchers will argue whether her research is generalizable to other workplace settings and companies, Smith is quite cogent when she writes, "although four organizational case studies do not allow me to make definitive generalizations about the organizational conditions or political consciousness of all American workers, each does open a window into the mechanisms of a wide variety of workplaces where work reform is coupled with uncertainty and flexibility." For this reviewer, this work provides an enterprising researcher with a method for examining organizations to determine if like consciousness exist or is Smith's study relegated to these four case studies alone. I am of the opinion that this is a snapshot that may be found with merit in other places as it relates to uncovering worker angst in the "brave new world of work."

The Brave New World of Work.......2001-07-06

In "Crossing the Great Divide," Ms. Smith explores four organizations and sizes up their employment and personnel practices against the rhetorics of social science and global economy theorists. What she finds is a much more complex picture than the theorists allow for. In and of itself, this is a great service to readers interested in the "Brazilianization" of the Western work force(see Ulrich Beck's "The Brave New World of Work for a good companion read), because, as Smith notes, most of the writing on this phenomenon tends to either demonize those companies who practice "perma-temp" strategies as exploitative, or to praise them as leading-edge companies which are reacting to the exigencies of global capitalism.

An example from Smith's book may be helpful. One of the companies where she conducts research, a new company which she pseudonomously calls "Reproco," contracts with firms (such as law firms and other organizations) to provide copying service -- a complete service including copiers and copy machine operators. The machine operators are paid a little more than minimum wage, are shuttled from one location to another every six months, are given little chance of advancement, but they are given training in interpersonal relations, scheduling, business goals, etc. For many Reproco employees -- most of whom worked in low-paying jobs in the service industry flipping burgers and have a high school education or less, this training gives them insight into business and handling business relationships that they never had before. So, while the constant shuttling from location to location works to prevent the formation of unions, the lessons in business practices activates a new sense of self-regard and potentiality the employees have rarely experienced.

Smith then contasts these workers at "WoodWorks" an old economy "extractive" business in the Pacific Northwest which manufactures building materials (plywood, studs, etc.) The workforce has been downsized through technology upgrades and in reaction to the global market, and employees hopes for lifetime employment are coming to an end. "Woodworks" has employed a quality control program which attempts to engage workers more fully into all aspects on the business -- from understanding balance sheets, improving manufacturing quality -- as a means to creating teamwork. Theorists have charged that the devolution of authority makes workers work harder than ever, that it disrupts traditional worker/employer identities in ways that privelege employers and disadvantage workers, and Smith does find evidence of that. Yet at the same time, she notes that workers, under the gun of the global economy, choose the quality program as the best option in that it demonstrates their desire to keep the factory productive so that they can maintain the lifestyles and their local economy. Many workers to whom she spoke claimed to have learned much about business from the training programs, and some thought they could use this training if (or when) the plant finally shut down. While middle-class managers found the quality program an affront to their business acumen -- just another program cooked up by some distant consultant that didn't understand their business -- the plant workers, with some notable exceptions,were willing to try and some found the knowledge they gained useful.

The third case study "Computech" looks at a high tech firm with "MicroSerf" temporary/permananent employment practices. The fourth, and the most dispiriting of the 4 organizations examined, is a special job search service for out of work executives based in Sacramento. It is the most dispiriting because the executives -- for instance a nuclear engineer, an environmental consultant -- are told they must become non-specialist multi-taskers, remodeling themselves in lieu of the latest buzzwords of the employment market. Smith points out that this rhetoric is a roundabout way of telling the mostly 40 years plus people who frequent this organization that they need to lower their sites and to get used to lower wages and less job stability. She also notes that most of them do not find the jobs at the salaries with the benefits they want. There is no upside for these workers, it's almost all downhill.

Smith does a good job of putting a human face on the Brave New World of Work. She demonstrates today's workers are more resourceful, and their reactions to their new work situations more complex than are presumed by theorists. Not exactly earth-shattering -- people are always more complex than theorists would have it, but a nice corrective to the high-flown rhetorics and partisanship usually encountered in such discussions. In short, Smith shows us examples of the willingness of business and government to renege on the "worker-citizen" model(the post-war Keynesian model) and substitute to "worker-capitalist" (the post-modernist conservative, Friedman model). She treats the devolution of risk downward, examines the American "jobs miracle" (where lots and lots of low-paying service jobs are created for those who can stay out of the vast penal colony) through the real work lives of real American workers.

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The Abs Diet Get Fit Stay Fit

Simply Super

Very educational.

Great for workout techniques.

Quick way to lose weight

The Abs Diet Get Fit Stay Fit Plan: The Exercise Program to Flatten Your Belly, Reshape Your Body, and Give You Abs for Life!
David Zinczenko , and Ted Spiker
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1594864098
Release Date: 2005-12-13

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Tens of thousands of Americans have changed their bodies - and their lives - with the help of The Abs Diet, the New York Times bestseller from David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men's Health magazine. Now, to meet the demand for more information about exercise, Zinczenko and coauthor Ted Spiker present readers with dozens of workouts and hundreds of exercises that they can do any time and any place for fabulous body-altering results.The Abs Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan introduces a new workout system - ABS3 - based on simple, highly effective principles: A: Abdominal exercises strengthen your coreB: Big muscle groups increase metabolismS: Speed intervals, not slow cardiovascular exercise, burns fat faster3: 3 days a week is all you need to see results In The Abs Diet Get Fit Stay Fit Plan, workouts are flexible, varied, and quick - you can complete them in less than 20 minutes. Designed to strengthen your core, flatten your gut, and get you in the best shape of your life, this exercise guide demonstrates why David R. Pearson, director of the strength-research laboratory at Ball State University, has called the Abs Diet program "a must for anyone who is serious about building a healthy body."

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The Abs Diet Get Fit Stay Fit.......2007-08-05

I would like to review the book, but unfortunately I have not received the book. My order was suppose to be in on the 17th of July. I called customer service, they did try to trace it. Someone called me back and told me the books had been shipped to Pgh. but no one seems to know what has happened to them. I have been charged for the books but have not received any books. Perhaps whoever reads this from the co. can try to trace this order. The order no. is 102-76546986002524. This book is one of three that were ordered on July 5th.

Simply Super.......2007-03-21

David's books hit the target straight on. No fuss, no muss, no fancy this or that. The plan is simple. Eat right and start moving. Change your life and lifestyle forever. Not once did I feel I was deprived of any particular foods. I went from 240 to 222 and am still re-shaping. Lots of new muscle and definition (and I'm 55, imagine that!). I like to do sprint triathlons and this book has helped me improve tremendously. Can't recommend this book and the sister books enough. Get it, read it, do it. You'll love it.

Very educational........2007-02-22

This book was great and it brought to attention how much terrible things are used to mass produce foods today. I know have a better idea of what to avoid and what to eat a lot of. I have noticed a big difference in my life and the way I feel on an everyday basis.

Great for workout techniques........2006-11-04

This book offers a tremendous strengh training circuit routine, full of pictures, anecdotes, and facts.

Quick way to lose weight.......2006-09-24

This book is for anyone who would like a quick enjoyable read that will show them how to lose weight and keep it off with no counting calories, carbs, are eating rabbit food.this book also shows you 245 excellent exercises for your abs and for strength training. The exercises are shown as pictures and are described to easily learn. The diet consists of eating 3 meals and 3 snacks a day with a focus on the 12 power foods:
Almonds (nuts)
Beans
Spinach (Greens)
Dairy (Low fat)
Instant Oatmeal
Eggs
Turkey (lean meats)
Peanut Butter (all natural)
Olive oil
Whole grain breads and cereals
Extra-protein (whey) powder
Raspberries and other berries

I have read 50 other diet and nutrition books and this one contains many of the best principles of the zone, ultrametabolism, Super foods RX, and others in one place. This book gets right down to business and does not go into the detail of most other books about why it works, most people will like that. It is filled with testimonials and before and after pictures of the people that this diet was successful for. I highly recommend this book if you are ready to get serious and get healthy.

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Get Fit - Stay Fit
William E. Prentice
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 007304685X

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This brief, user-friendly text is designed for students with little or no background in developing a personal fitness program. Topics covered in Get Fit, Stay Fit include principles of cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, limiting body fat, and nutrition. Key points have been emphasized to explain why certain aspects of physical fitness should be important to individuals, and how to become an informed consumer of physical fitness equipment and services

Body Conditioning for Men: Get Fit and Stay Fit Using the Progressive 12-Week Program (Hamlyn Health S.)

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Body Conditioning for Men: Get Fit and Stay Fit Using the Progressive 12-Week Program (Hamlyn Health S.)
Paul Stephen Lubicz
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
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ASIN: 0600610055

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Complete mental and physical fitness is the goal, and this comprehensive holistic program has been designed to achieve maximum results for men in only 12 weeks-without going to a gym or buying expensive equipment. Three graduated four-week plans address every level of fitness...or lack thereof. The Starter program is perfect for men who haven't exercised regularly for some time; it focuses on gradually improving flexibility and fostering essential core strength. Next, a challenging and varied Intermediate program develops stamina and takes overall physical strength to new levels. Finally, the Advanced workout offers a high-intensity body blast that burns fat and builds muscle to sculpt a better, stronger, healthier body that will make any man proud.

The Best of Prevention: The Self-Help Advice You Want Most to Eat Right, Get Fit, Stay Sharp, and Look and Feel Your Best-- From America's Leading Health Magazine

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The Best of Prevention: The Self-Help Advice You Want Most to Eat Right, Get Fit, Stay Sharp, and Look and Feel Your Best-- From America's Leading Health Magazine
Mark Bricklin , and Susan G. Berg
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Enthusiasm Is The Enemy - Get Fit Stay Fit

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Incorporating both physical and psychological strategies

Enthusiasm Is The Enemy - Get Fit Stay Fit
Joe Arrigo
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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I believe this is the first book to address how to stay on an exercise program, since anyone can start one. It includes the actual program also. It\'s a strategy.

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Incorporating both physical and psychological strategies.......2002-09-07

Joe Arrigo's Enthusiasm Is The Enemy: Get Fit Stay Fit is a book written especially for people who have trouble sticking with a fitness regimen. Incorporating both physical and psychological strategies to keep exercising regularly, Enthusiasm Is The Enemy is a "must-read" for anyone seeking to stay fit and healthy in a contemporary society which is plagued with life-style temptations fostering chronic obesity.

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THANKS FOR AN EASY TO FOLLOW FITNESS GUIDE!
EXCELLENT NO-NONSENSE FITNESS GUIDE!
AN EXCELLENT FITNESS GUIDE FOR GETTING STARTED!

How To Get Fit and Stay Fit
William S. Hovey
Manufacturer: William S. Hovey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: 0968537804

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THANKS FOR AN EASY TO FOLLOW FITNESS GUIDE!.......2000-08-12

I really have gotten a lot out of personal trainer, Bill Hovey's fitness guide. It's not a big book, only 51 pages but it's packed with good advice and tips as well as pictures of the author actually doing the exercises, which really helps. I'd recommend this fitness guide to anyone who is having trouble getting started on a fitness program, or staying with it. He's got tips on nutritian as well, and I really love his approach to the spiritual side of a person. Buy it! Mindy Fox

EXCELLENT NO-NONSENSE FITNESS GUIDE!.......2000-08-07

I just wanted to say thanks for writing such an excellent book -- GET FIT AND STAY FIT really got me up and motivated. Well illustrated with the photos of yourself doing the exercises, and plenty of great tips. I highly recommend GET FIT AND STAY FIT for anyone who wants to get in shape. And it's slim enough that I can take it to the gym (when I go) or to the beach. Keep up the good work. Gail

AN EXCELLENT FITNESS GUIDE FOR GETTING STARTED!.......2000-08-02

[P]ersonal trainer Bill Hovey has written an excellent fitness guide for beginners, or even those who just need to stay motivated. This slim volume is filled with great tips and advice for staying in shape, with many photos of personal trainer, Bill Hovey, doing the exercises to illustrate proper form and method. If you need something to get you going and keep you motivated GET FIT AND STAY FIT, is the guide for you. I've been following the exercises and tips for a few months now, and have lost weight and toned up. I finally like looking in the mirror. If after buying his book, you have questions, or comments, you can email him from his website and he'll answer. Thanks Bill.

The Millionaire Workout: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Fit Forever... In Just 21 Days

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The Millionaire Workout: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Fit Forever... In Just 21 Days
Ryan Lee
Manufacturer: Okenzie Publishing
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Are you living at your absolute peak level right now? Are you happy with your health and your physique? Are you satisfied with how much money is in your bank account? The Millionaire Workout is no ordinary self-help book. And to be honest, we really don t like calling it a book it s really a full coaching program disguised as a book. You will literally be led step by step through Ryan Lee's entire accelerated success system. You will discover exactly how to get into the best shape of your life, while simultaneously, building an automatic cash machine on the Internet. *You will still discover new exercises and strategies that can cut your workout time in half! *You ll discover methods to create more passive income so you don t have to trade your hours for dollars. Join Ryan Lee as he teaches you: *How to burn fat quickly with the 'World's Fastest Workouts (only 4 minutes flat!) *How to turn your hobbies, passions and skills into automatic income online *How to eat more to lose more weight *How to automate your internet business so you earn money while you sleep *And much, much more... If you are looking to live at the highest level, check out this book.

FitKid7- 7 Simple Steps for a Fit & Healthy Child!

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6 stars

FitKid7- 7 Simple Steps for a Fit & Healthy Child!
Nutritional Consultant Sirkka Wolke
Manufacturer: FitKid7.com
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FitKid7 is guaranteed to help children lose weight and/or get fit! The bonus is that children who live healthily tend to sleep better, have fewer behavior problems, experience less illness and are able to concentrate better in school! The FitKid7 book contains- 7 Simple Steps for a Fit & Healthy Child. Looks into reasons of why kids are unfit &/or overweight. How to get our kids on board to make the positive changes. Harmful Food Additives List. Shopping List. Great Ideas for Meals & Snacks. Recipes. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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6 stars.......2007-08-22

Fitkid7 is a great book on childhood fitness & health. It covers the issues of exercising, healthy eating and much much more.

I found it was easy to read (unlike a few others I've tried).

I love all the sections on Recipies, Shopping lists, meal ideas etc.

I would recommend FitKid7 to anyone looking for a book on kid's health. Your kids would love to read it just as I have.

Sirkka Wolke has done a great job on this one.****** 6 stars from me!

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Rolling, rolling, rolling: get and stay fit with skating.(BODY TALK): An article from: Ebony

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Rolling, rolling, rolling: get and stay fit with skating.(BODY TALK): An article from: Ebony
Stephanie N. Johnson
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Title: Rolling, rolling, rolling: get and stay fit with skating.(BODY TALK)
Author: Stephanie N. Johnson
Publication: Ebony (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 61 Issue: 12 Page: 90(3)

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