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To mark the 15th anniversary of the best-selling series, Younger Next Year for Women now includes two new chapters on the link between physical exercise and brain health. Their message is straightforward: A program of consistent exercise and eating right not only helps us physically but improves memory, cognition, mood, and more.

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.

It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

Repeal the Second Amendment explores both the true history and current interpretation of the Second Amendment to expose the NRA’s blatant historical manipulations and irresponsible fake news releases. Lichtman looks at the history of firearms and gun regulations from colonial times to the present to explain how a historically forgotten sentence in the Constitution has become a flash point of recent politics that benefits only the gun industry, their lobbyists, and the politicians on their payroll.

In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician - compassionate but also pragmatic - struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions.

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange, and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

The Victorian-era writers featured in this collection are known for their power of invention and command of horror and the supernatural. Included are "A Watcher by the Dead" by Ambrose Bierce; "The Body Snatchers" by Robert Louis Stevenson; "The Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving; "Dickon the Devil" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; and "The Open Watcher" by Saki.

What are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted 30 years of presidential outcomes, answers these questions, and more, in The Case for Impeachment - a deeply convincing argument for impeaching the 45th president of the United States.

A nonfiction narrative/memoir of living in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories in 2022 and 2023, through repeated conflicts and escalations, up to, including and beyond the October 7 attack on Israel and the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza. Leading a $10 million health and humanitarian assistance program there, Mr. Wind shares insights about the realities and paradoxes of Gaza and struggling to provide humanitarian assistance in the face of conflict and the dangers to innocent civilians. The insights of Allan J. “Alonzo” Wind retired USAID Foreign Service Officer and ...

In the distant future, Spaceways Incorporated detects a scarce and expensive mineral on a planet far beyond our galaxy. They send a well-trained crew on the spaceship Odyssey to mine the minerals; however, a major malfunction changes everything. The crew must escape the ship and head for the nearest planet. They find themselves marooned on a world that is millions of years younger than earth and have to fight for survival on the Planet of Dinosaurs.

Advent and Christmas with Fulton J. Sheen A Devotional Journey of Waiting, Welcoming, and Living the Mystery Experience Advent and Christmas through the timeless wisdom of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. This devotional companion draws upon Sheen’s beloved writings — including Christmas Inspirations and Life of Christ— and weaves them with new reflections, prayers, and meditations. It is designed to guide individuals, families, and parishes from the season of waiting in Advent to the joy of Christmas. Inside you will find: Daily meditations rooted in Scripture and Sheen’s insights ...

NOMADS 11 - Pas de retour en arrière Sur le Durana, les rapports de force ont changé. Des groupes idéologiques ont pris la direction de l'immense vaisseau, avec l'approbation de la commandante Zira Odana. Toutefois, Dominic Porter n'y voit que les prémices d'une nouvelle escalade. Bientôt, les parties les plus puissantes se disputeront l'exclusivité du commandement. Quelle que soit l'issue de cette affaire, elle servira comme toujours les objectifs de l'Akkato. Pour les humains, il est temps de quitter la Durana et de partir à la recherche du bonheur dans les profondeurs de l'espace...

NOMADS 7- Vers les étoiles Les préparatifs pour créer une élite de guerriers battent leur plein. Une unité de combat sous le commandement de l'Akkato, dans laquelle seuls les humains serviront. Même si Dominic n'a accepté ce plan qu'à contrecœur, il offre la seule possibilité de survie à l'humanité moribonde. Il semble même que les humains soient le dernier espoir pour les Akkato à tête de cheval. Les Keymon semblent également l'avoir compris et prennent la Terre pour cible... NOMADS C'est ainsi que les humains sont appelés par les nombreuses races de la Voie lactée. ...

NOMADS LEGACY 3 - Chez les pirates Après avoir perdu le contact avec Nea, Eric et ses deux sœurs commencent une odyssée dangereuse. Ils sont pris en otage par un groupe de pirates qui cherchent à piller le monde portuaire convoité de Sculpa Trax. Plusieurs syndicats et clans de pirates sont en train de se partager la planète lorsqu'il devient évident que les enfants sont bien plus précieux qu'il n'y paraît. Les différentes parties commencent rapidement à s'intéresser à Eric et ses sœurs. Il semble que les enfants soient le butin le plus précieux que l'on puisse obtenir sur le...

NOMADS 8 - Les Mondes intérieurs Dix ans après l'expulsion des Keymon de la Terre, la guerre contre les créatures insectoïdes touche à sa fin. Cependant, au fur et à mesure que les victoires se succèdent, les signes de dissensions autour du trône, toujours occupé par Ulan Mestray, le chef des Akkato, se multiplient. Dominic Porter se retrouve soudainement confronté à la question de savoir ce qu'il adviendra des millions de personnes qui ont été utiles aux Akkato dans leur lutte contre les Keymon, mais qui représentent désormais un poids mort coûteux. La situation semble ...

Kennedy’s Horror Collection series continues with Book 15. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time, they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will listen to this year.

As he traveled through and lived in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, the newly re-named “Doctor” Alonzo found himself surrounded by indigenous peasant leaders and communities in raucous tribal celebrations, social movements for change, wonders of nature, and marvels of human kindness and romance while hitchhiking to the very tip of South America and its glaciers and penguins. But also sometimes unexpected dangers - near-death illness in the jungle, and getting shot at in a police-military crossfire.