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With the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are that you may live up to a decade longer. What’s the prescription for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity found in the Blue Zones: places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives. And in this dynamic book he discloses the recipe, blending this unique lifestyle formula with the latest scientific findings to inspire easy, lasting change that may add years to your life.

Buettner’s colossal research effort, funded in part by the National Institute on Aging, has taken him from Costa Rica to Italy to Japan and beyond. In the societies he visits, it’s no coincidence that the way people interact with each other, shed stress, nourish their bodies, and view their world yields more good years of life. You’ll meet a 94-year-old farmer and self-confessed "ladies man" in Costa Rica, an 102-year-old grandmother in Okinawa, a 102-year-old Sardinian who hikes at least six miles a day, and others. By observing their lifestyles, Buettner’s teams have identified critical everyday choices that correspond with the cutting edge of longevity research—and distilled them into a few simple but powerful habits that anyone can embrace..
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Humans have been discovered on the Outworlds And the Army decides to send emissaries Emissaries like Jason Wander.


As intraplanetary conflicts rage around him, and the personal stakes get ever higher, Jason finds that playing planet-hopping politician can be harder than commanding armies.


When united mankind squares off to battle the Slugs for a precious interstellar crossroad, Jason will discover that the most dangerous enemy may be the one he least expects..
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At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only alien conflict Now, after long years in space, he's coming home...but to what? Earth's desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defense budgets. There's just one problem with this new worldwide policy-the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.


Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attacked by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviving craft and a single guerrilla strike force...a suicide squad led by Jason Wander..
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Jason Wander is ready to lead the final charge into battle.

After forty years of fighting the Slugs, mankind's reunited planets control the vital crossroad that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, lie within humanity's grasp.

Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth's garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence.

When an enemy counter stroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy, but the reality of what a lifetime as a soldier has made him..
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The use of peripheral anesthesia and regional nerve blocks is rapidly increasing, as physicians and patients gain firsthand experience of the benefits these techniques offer. Practitioners have an ever increasing number of options at their disposal as the range of techniques continues to expand and become more sophisticated. The techniques described in this unique atlas and DVD in word, pictures and on film, provide the ideal step-by-step guide to peripheral regional anesthesia. The experienced practitioner will find standard techniques complemented by the latest developments and alternative techniques which can significantly broaden the clinical spectrum. Full-color line drawings, helpful schematics, and clearly labeled, detailed photographs of cadaver dissections provide accessible, visual explanations of the required basic anatomical knowledge. Organized by anatomical region, the atlas also features - Clear, step-by-step instructions on how to perform the techniques, including the best approaches and insertion points - Brilliant illustrations of the nerve blocks, sensory and motor effects; indications, contraindications; complications, side effects, and method-specific problems - Strategies for patient and procedure selection, and tips on patient communication - Full coverage of peripheral nerve blocks, including hygiene requirements, informed consent, patient positioning and monitoring, and more - Tips on successful handling of needles and catheters - Detailed description of catheter techniques for long-term pain management ensure reliable results Designed for clinicians wishing to improve their skills in this rapidly evolving specialty, this atlas is indispensable to any anesthesia library. The authors are recognized experts in the field of regional anesthesia and organize many training courses on this topic. New in the 2nd Edition: DVD with more than 200 video films of the techniques helps put theory into practice New techniques.
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It's Christmas! And despite Huey, Dewey, and Louie's lament, Uncle Scrooge is going on Carl Barks' "Search for the Cuspidoria"... a sunken ship hidden where Santa Claus could never find it! Next, Noel Van Horn gives us Mickey Mouse's Yuletide "Tradition": to climb steep Ominous Hill, cut a live christmas tree, then carry it down on a breakneck sled ride! Finally, in Janet Gilbert's "All Work and No Christmas," Donald's getting into the spirit of the season - but his nephews are too busy earning money as computer game programmers!.
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At 25, Jason Wander could be called the Grand Old Man of space conflict, having survived Earth's very first alien attack. Launched in 2039 from Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the alien race called the Slugs devestated Earth's surface and slaughtered millions. Humanity's massive counterstrike tore directly into Ganymede, halting the invasion. And Wander, who, onlyfour years earlier, joined the military to escape jail, found himself the defacto acting general of the defining Battle of Gandymede - and commander of Earth's rag-tag surviving force. Earth'sappreciation comes slowly... if at all. Marooned on the icy moon's surface and out of radiocontact for five months, Wander and his troops receive a welcome suprise in the form of a relief ship Excalibur. But that suprise quickly turns bitter as their home-coming reveals an Earth no longer under Slug assault, but still quaking from the wreckage. Economic recovery - not a better defense - is the hard rule of the day, and anyone not in step with the times is quickly shunted aside. Not suprisingly, veteran soldiers do not fit into this new world order, Jason Wander least among them. But humanity's indifference to those who served is overturned when an undetected Slug fleet launches terrifying assaults on an Earth already in rubble. With the focus of the attack on the space defenses at Cape Canaveral, the still-intact Excalibur is suddenly cut off - and with it, Earth's few remaining ships in orbit. Galvanized, Wander sets in motion a daring recall of his own; scavenging together both a mission crew and a military shuttlenot consigned to teh post-War scrap heap, he will make his way to the Excalibur - and back into space. there, he will turn the immensecarrier into a floating blockade against the advancing invasion. But there's just one problem: the mission is pure suicide.....
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