This indispensable guide shows you how to:* Jump-start your career as a freelance or staff science writer* Develop stories and hooks that editors can’t resist* Find ideas, pitch stories and report narrative* Navigate the emotional side of writing (envy, loneliness, rejection)* Handle the business details (contracts, taxes, retirement saving, insurance)* Balance freelance work with the rest of your …
Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life
“Thrive focuses on vegan foods that help fuel your way to uber athleticism.”- CNN”The Thrive Diet feeds your body all the nutrients it needs without empty calories and with minimal stress.”- Chicago Tribune “Mr. Brazier’s vegan principals have garnered a cult following.”- Globe & Mail”…The Thrive Diet, a guide to vegan diets in sports…has become something of a bible…”- The Wall …
Travis Macy summited glacial peaks in the French Alps, rappelled into vast limestone caves in China, and ran through parched deserts in Utah. Most famously, he won one of the country’s marquee ultra-distance events: Leadman, a high-altitude series of super-long-distance races, culminating with a 100-mile mountain biking race and a 100-mile trail run. Macy accomplished it without exceptional …
Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100–and Beyond, revised edition
Do You Want to Ride to 100—and Beyond?BIKE FOR LIFE!Now with training plans, worldwide adventures, and more than 200 photosRide a century when you turn a century: that was the promise Bike for Life offered when it was first published. A decade later, this blueprint for using cycling to achieve exceptional longevity, fitness, and overall well-being has helped …
From a bestselling author, a groundbreaking program exploring the roots of anger with practical, easy-to-use management …
Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behavior—including tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity—becomes chronic, it causes big problems within the family. In 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, family and child psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein shares a groundbreaking ten-day …
Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer’s theory has been applied to a wide number of …
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, “fat” has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, “I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat.” How did …
The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs
In the past decade, depression rates have skyrocketed, and one in four Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Where have we gone wrong? Dr. Stephen Ilardi sheds light on our current predicament and reminds us that our bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of twenty-first century life.Inspired …
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition
Ask any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother’s death as she was by her mother’s life. Although a mother’s mortality is inevitable, no book had discussed the profound, lasting, and far-reaching effects of this loss–until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic. Twenty …