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Outlive Yourself: Top Science And Hidden Art of Longevity is a groundbreaking book that unveils the secrets to living a longer, healthier, and more fulfilling life. Drawing from cutting-edge scientific research and the wisdom of ancient practices, this book presents a comprehensive guide to unlocking the potential of longevity. With a perfect blend of science and art, it offers practical strategies, insightful anecdotes, and thought-provoking exercises...
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Outlive Your Years: The Hidden Science and Art of Longevity is an exceptional guide for anyone who wants to live a longer and healthier life. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the latest scientific research on longevity and explores a wide range of practical strategies that readers can implement to improve their lifespan. The author delves into diverse topics such as diet, exercise, social connections, cognitive health, environmental factors,...
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Outlive Your Years: Remarkable Wisdom From A 110-Year-Old Person is a captivating and inspiring book that offers a treasure trove of insights and life lessons from an extraordinary individual who has lived a century and more. Through its 15 thought-provoking chapters, the book takes readers on a transformative journey, exploring themes such as embracing the journey of life, unlocking the secrets to longevity, nurturing relationships, and finding purpose...
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Get the Summary of Peter Attia's Outlive in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Peter Attia's "Outlive" is a comprehensive exploration of longevity, emphasizing the importance of quality of life alongside lifespan. Attia's transformative encounter with a patient's death steered his career towards understanding chronic health conditions and advocating for a proactive healthcare approach. He critiques modern medicine's...
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In the last decade, the rules for "outliving" heart disease-living well with your heart until you die of some other cause-have changed dramatically.
Dr. Richard Stein, the director of Preventive Cardiology at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, cuts through the constant stream of new reports and often-contradictory information about preventing and treating heart disease with his 10 new rules:
Rule No. 1: Be Alert to Symptoms that Signal Imminent...
6) Big Jake
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Paramount Pictures
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1971.
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An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson and wound his son.
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2023
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Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey responses conducted in 126 villages in the Sichuan province, as well as 70 interviews conducted with Civil Society Organization (CSO) leaders and government...
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Unfinished projects drain creative energy. This Topic Workbook, based on Devon Ellington's popular workshop, takes you step-by-step through each unfinished project to decide if it's worth reviving, putting in stasis, or laying to rest, once and for all. Complete strong work, solve problems that got you stuck in the first place to turn it into something workable, and let go of projects that have outlived their purpose. Learn how to work revived projects...
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"Peirce tells the intriguing story of the battle for shorter hours … and why now is finally the moment for a breakthrough that would give us all more of the precious gift of time." - LINDA McQUAIG, journalist and author
You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.
Recent years have revealed just how stressed out many workers...
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Los Angeles, 2029.
The city is in chaos, reeling from a Replicant uprising led by Yotun - a genetically defective Nexus 6 who has somehow managed to outlive his four-year lifespan. With Blade Runner Ash his prisoner, the newly completed seawall defenses smashed, and the ruling elite massacred, Yotun's guerrilla army of fanatical Replicants have moved in to take control and realize Yotun's dream of a city of humans ruled by Replicants.
Now it's...
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A short thriller and a comic crime novel by the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore murderous greed in nineteenth-century Scotland.
The Wrong Box: Two elderly brothers, Joseph and Masterman, are the last surviving members of an investment agreement known as a tontine. All their two nephews have to do to inherit everything is make sure Joseph outlives Masterman. But that's easier said than done. Robert Louis Stevenson cowrote...
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The Golden Bull of Sicily was a decree issued by the Emperor Frederick II, while he was still only King of Sicily. It was composed in the Swiss city of Basel on September 26th, 1212, confirming the royal title obtained by Ottokar I of Bohemia in 1198, declaring him and his heirs kings of Bohemia and Moravia. The kingship signified the exceptional status of Bohemia as a kingdom within the dominon of the Holy Roman Empire. Ottokar's Přemyslid ancestor...
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Twenty-one-year-old Trevor Chiao is Prime Blue; he is a member of the fabulous Primes, a group of seven men and women whose mission is to protect the Earth from Enclave, an alien organization bent on taking over the world.Protected by a blue force shield that enhances his strength and speed and keeps his identity secret, he travels all over the world with his fellow Primes, battling monsters, Zoinks, and the mysterious Lily Lee, a beautiful Asian...
14) Infinite Mass
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Morna JoAnn Stahr became the town pariah at age ten. Beyond her control, she managed to pull off a religious miracle, and try as she may, absolution never came. Sure, some things can be forgotten or outlived, but not this, especially if you're a girl.
Just ask Mary of Magdalene.
Morna had been busy doing what seventeen-year-old lepers do best. She gathered what was left of the best pieces of herself and got the hell out of dodge with not a soul the...
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"Probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century" – ARTHUR KOESTLER
Karl Popper's THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth-century, and a devastating criticism of the idea that there are laws of development in history and that human beings are able to discover...
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Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans-including author Diane Foulds-are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in Salem is the first book to take a clear-eyed look at this complex time, by examining the lives of the witch trial participants from a personal perspective.
Massachusetts...
17) The Red Army's Do-It-Yourself, Nazi-Bashing Guerrilla Warfare Manual: The Partizan's Companion, 1942
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The WWII Soviet Guerilla training manual that became an essential text for freedom fighters across the globe-complete with illustrations.
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II, the Red Army began recruiting local partisans to help mount a resistance. This edition of The Partisan's Companion is the last-and-best Red Army manual used to train these men to fight Nazi invaders. Besides field craft, it covers partisan tactics, German...
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Honorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award
A powerful insight into the historical and cultural roles of the Black church
If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the US will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church's very identity?
In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately and thoroughly...
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Catherine O'Sullivan Shorr sheds light on the infamous Silver Factory's final years in the conclusion of this exhilarating, uncensored oral history The late 1960s brought seismic shifts to Andy Warhol and life at the Silver Factory. The hub of his avant-garde scene shifted from the Factory on Manhattan's 47th Street to the downtown bar Max's Kansas City; new stars like drag queens Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn, and Candy Darling began to replace Warhol's...
20) Sonata
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"I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise."
Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden's towering "Unnatural History of America" series. While his earlier volumes were suffused with violence and war, Bowden offers here a celebration of rebirth and regrowth. Rendered in Bowden's inimitable style,...
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