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Cook Share Eat Vegan: Delicious plant-based recipes for Everyone

With an emphasis on great flavours and fresh, seasonal dishes that don't rely on substitutes or hard-to-source ingredients, Áine's style of cooking will appeal to everyone, from vegan-cooking enthusiasts to those simply wanting to dabble now and then. In Cook Share Eat Vegan, Áine has created the ultimate vegan bible, with more than 125 recipes that prove there's a place for plant-based food at every table.

Blitz: Blender Recipes Without a Smoothie in Sight

Blenders, liquidizers and juicers are the obvious choice when you need to make a smoothie, but they also hold untapped potential for delicious cakes, batters, dips and soups. Few people realise it, but simple, nutritious bakes, puddings and sauces can be made just as effortlessly as more traditional smoothies and juices. In Blitz, Juliet Baptiste-Kelly explains how to get more from your blender or liquidizer.

A Little Bite of Happiness: 42 short stories, 24 French recipes

42 stories about food and its simple pleasures 24 recipes from a French pastry chef Food is vital. It sustains us. And yet it also comes to define us. It expresses who we are and want to be. It anchors memories. It provides rituals. It is sensual. It can pleasure and surprise us.

Try Not to Suck: The Exceptional, Extraordinary Baseball Life of Joe Maddon

With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch.

Hockey Goaltending
Hockey Goaltending Sented by Paul

Awareness, anticipation, physical conditioning . . . these are just some of the qualities a goaltender needs to bring onto the ice at game time. Excellence requires practice, consistency, and understanding-of the position, the situation, and your talents.

Bump, Bike & Baby: Mummy's Gone Adventure Racing

In Bump, Bike & Baby, Moire O Sullivan charts her journey from happy, carefree mountain runner to reluctant, stay-at-home mother of two. With her sights set on winning Ireland's National Adventure Racing Series, she manages to maintain her post-natal sanity, and slowly learns to become a loving and occasionally functioning mum.

Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life

In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world-and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness.

Principles and Themes in Yoga Therapy

Yoga has become increasingly popular in mainstream culture, with varied interpretations of how it should be taught and practiced, and increased awareness of its beneficial effects as a healing modality. As a result, yoga therapy has emerged as an effective alternative approach to health and wellness. Explaining the principles and underpinning ideas presented by the yoga therapy movement, James Foulkes identifies the methods leading to the most effective practice.

How to Build Self-Discipline to Exercise: Practical Techniques and Strategies to Develop a Lifetime Habit of Exercise

Everywhere you go, you see gyms, videos, and books about exercise, advertising how they can help you get in shape fast and easy. You've probably even put some money down before, vowing that THIS was the year you'd get in shape, lose that extra weight, and become the energetic person you know is hiding inside you. Unfortunately, life happens, and you fall into the habit of "I'll start tomorrow."

Concepts of Fitness And Wellness: A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach, 11 edition, Loose Leaf Edition

Concepts of Fitness & Wellness provides readers with the self-management skills necessary to adopt a healthy lifestyle. A pioneering text in the field, Concepts of Fitness & Wellness is designed to deliver a comprehensive text and digital program that continues to be at the cutting edge of physical activity and health promotion, empowering students to make positive steps towards developing a lifelong commitment to being active. The fully updated eleventh edition is supported by Connect, the only integrated digital learning environment that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Fourth Edition

The ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine provides general practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the field of sports medicine. This highly illustrated and thoroughly revised and updated new edition:

Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure: Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness

A collection of meditations in the Stoic tradition. Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure provides access to the ruminations, practices, and applications of ancient Stoic philosophy as deployed by a contemporary professional philosopher with twenty five years of experience teaching, researching, and publishing articles in academic journals. Each meditation is presented in the second person, encouraging the reader to examine their struggles and failures in the pursuit of self-improvement and enlightenment.

Emotional Processing: How to Work Your Way Through Almost Anything

Emotional Processing: How to Work Your Way through Almost Anything is a practical guide to identifying, understanding, and managing your emotions. It will help you become more aware of your inner processes, lessen your emotional pain, and help you to be less emotionally reactive. The information in this book can also help you resolve inner conflicts that entrap you and rob you of your inner peace. The first half of the book gives you a step-by-step guide to understanding your mental and emotional processes. The second half focuses on overcoming self-attack, which can manifest as depression, anxiety, self-recrimination, guilt, shame, and worthlessness. You will learn how to deal with these painful feeling states in a simple, understandable manner and return to a better state of mind.

The Everything Guide to a Healthy Home

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the air in our houses is up to five times more polluted than air outside--so it's clear that our homes have become fundamentally unhealthy places. But there is hope! With this guide, you'll learn the immediate changes that make your home--and your life--healthier and safer by neutralizing the toxins, radiation, and chemicals that threaten the average house.

Leslie Beck's Nutrition Guide for Women

Backed by the latest scientific research, this accessible guide explains how women can manage their most pressing health concerns-from migraines, anemia, and fibromyalgia to urinary tract infections and thyroid disease-through diet, vitamins, minerals, and herbs.

31 Deliciously Easy Lunchbox Recipes & Ideas

Are you in a rut with packing school lunches? Are you short on time but worry about whether your child is getting a nutritious meal at school? Then this is the place for you. "Deliciously Easy Lunchbox Recipes & Ideas" will take the sting out of the early-morning-lunch-packing routine with simple, delicious, and healthy meal ideas for your childs' lunchbox. As a busy mom of three girls, author Tracey Bybee noticed the lunchbox quandry among moms she knows was common and on-going. Now she wants to share with you the ideas and recipes she has collected and developed over many groggy mornings packing lunches so that you have an easier time making the school bus!

The Effective Low-Carb Instant Pot Cookbook: Fast & Easy Low Carbohydrate Recipes to Help You Lose Weight and Start Living...

The link between lifestyle and health has long been established in scientific research. Among the various aspects of lifestyle, dieting is confirmed to be the most significant factor that directly affects the health. A poor diet can increase the risk of many health problems, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes and many others. To avoid all these problems, it's important to adopt a healthy lifestyle, starting with a nutritious and well-balanced diet.

A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity

Inspired by the author's personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close engagement with the lives and experiences of ABI survivors.

Diet, Nutrition and Health

The role of diet in health and disease has been the subject of much general discussion in the media

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