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Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked
Defying Gravity takes readers into the creative world of Broadway and film composer Stephen Schwartz, from writing Godspell's score at age 23 through the making of the megahit Wicked. For this first authorized biography, de Giere draws from 80 hours of interviews with Schwartz and over 100 interviews with his colleagues, friends, and family. Her sympathetic yet frank narrative reveals never-before-told stories and explores both Schwartz's phenomenal hits and expensive flops..
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
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Age Defying Fitness: Making the Most of Your Body for the Rest of Your Life
THERE IS NO DOUBT that our bodies change with age, as the baby boomer generation is now learning firsthand. But many of the problems attributed to inevitable age-related changes are in fact not inevitable and are often lifestyle induced and reversible. In this new book, Moffat and Lewis show how to overcome the aches, stiffness, and unsteadiness in your muscles and joints. Using their simple, self-administered tests, you will assess your level of physical performance in these five critical domains: posture, balance, strength, flexibility, and endurance. The authors help you develop a personal profile, according to the results of these tests. Easy-to-follow strengthening and stretching exercises, based on the latest clinical research, are included along with a Thera-Band ® resistive exercise band for use in some exercises. More than a simple how-to book, Age-Defying Fitness encourages you to take responsibility for your physical well-being, and offers an easy everyday approach to achieving better health..
Price: $11.24
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The Five Forces of Wellness: The Ultraprevention System for Living an Active, Age-Defying, Disease-Free Life
From the #1 Bestselling Author of Ultrametabolism! We all want to enjoy vibrant health all the days of our life. When you apply the strategies you'll learn in The Five Forces of Wellness, this desire moves beyond being something you merely wish for and becomes reality! This revolutionary, science-based program from bestselling author Mark Hyman, M.D. reveals that it is possible to become biologically younger while you grow chronologically older. Unavailable in book form, The Five Forces of Wellness will teach you: - What is best for your body.
- How to prevent disease from ravaging your body, using the medically proven "remove, repair, and recharge" system.
- Which foods make you thrive and which make you sick.
- How you can decrease the activity of the genes that will create illness and increase the activity of the genes that will create wellness.
- Why you should NEVER go on a diet and how to lose weight without going on a diet.
- What kinds of vitamins you need and how much.
- Whether your body does better with vigorous exercise or more gentle exercise.
- How to identify and rid yourself of toxins that make you sick.
The Five Forces of Wellness will work for absolutely everyone -- old, young, healthy, sick, or anywhere in between..
Price: $23.32
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Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
A groundbreaking history of the Southern movement for social justice that gave birth to civil rights.The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down, from a ludicrous attempt to organize black workers with a stage production of Pushkin—in Russian—to the courageous fight of striking workers against police and corporate violence in Gastonia in 1929. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights. Little-known heroes abound in a book that will recast our understanding of the most important social movement in twentieth-century America..
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Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature
Comprehensive profiles of the world's 100 most extraordinary bridges. Few humanmade structures combine the technical with the aesthetic in such an evocative way as bridges. From ancient times to the present, bridges have had a unique attraction on the imagination, eliciting awe, wonder and passion. Bridges celebrates the stunning technical and artistic achievements in the creation, design, engineering, construction and social history of 100 remarkable bridges. The book reveals the secrets and science of the timeless masonry of imperial Rome, the elegant wooden edifices of ancient Japan and the soaring steel structures of today. Organized chronologically to follow the stages in the development of bridge engineering and construction, each chapter has an introduction followed by fascinating details. The vital stats for each bridge include: - Location
- Date of construction
- Designer
- Construction materials and dimensions.
An account of the creation of each bridge includes the difficulties, hardships and disasters endured as well as the solutions and innovations conceived. Superb color photographs and specially commissioned artwork celebrate these soaring feats of engineering. The final chapter explores how future bridges will look through examining the latest groundbreaking designs and projects. Bridges is a magnificently illustrated non-technical reference to fascinating engineering discoveries and innovations. (20060401).
Price: $16.49
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Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists. Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life. There are spies, street riots, exotic settings, informers, courtroom dramas, interdictions on the high seas, ruthless businessmen, political intrigues, and more. The author traces each phase of the city’s trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and independent-minded New Yorkers. The first book to focus on New York City during the Seven Years’ War, Defying Empire reveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies’ march toward revolution. .
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler’s rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices. .
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Age-Defying Beauty Secrets (PB)
Discover the fountain of youth in your own home From beauty-industry expert Diane Irons comes the ultimate collection of tips and tricks for defying your age. Whether you’re looking to simply combat graying hair or considering something more dramatic, Age-Defying Beauty Secrets is an invaluable resource for the woman who wants to look great and feel even better--and do it all without breaking the bank. --Learn how aging celebrities keep looking great --Take off the years with foods and supplements --Discover wrinkle-fighting skin-care solutions --Concoct your own age-defying beauty bargains --Find flattering fashion over 40 --Stay positive and healthy at any age .
Price: $4.40
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