About this product: Get educated on the benefits of foam roller massage! This book will teach you the essential techniques of self-massage using the foam roller. Foam Roller Techniques is a helpful guide that contains descriptive instructions and clear photo demonstrations for each muscle group. Performing the exercises on a regular basis will help increase flexibility, reduce muscle tension and pain, and improve performance. Illustrated.
About this product: All sorts of people ride roller coasters, people over a certain height that is. Marla Frazee zooms in on one pony-tailed girl who has never experienced a roller coaster before, ever, in this start-to-finish ride. The anticipation builds much like it does in real-life: "S-l-o-w-l-y the train is pulled up the hill by a chain. Clickity, clackity. Clickity, clackity. Up. Up. Up. And then..." As the train zips and zooms and dips and dives, the pony-tailed girl in the very front seat loves every minute, or almost. In the end, "Most of these people are dizzy./ Some of them have wobbly knees./ But at least one of them is planning/ to ride the roller coaster again." Frazee's crisply detailed watercolor drawings of waiting people, happy people, terrified people, and dizzy people are fun to peruse. Youngsters who are Disneyland-bound (or who would just like to be) may be the best audience for this minute-by-minute replay of a roller-coaster ride. (Ages 4 to 7) --Karin Snelson
About this product: After reading this book, my daughter hugged it and said, 'I'm not the only one that feels like this'. That in itself made this book worth more than I paid for it!!! My daughter usually doesn't finish any book in one sitting, it doesn't matter how short it is. this book she was reading in the car while I was driving and she would say, 'listen to this momma. that's what I do.' If you have a child with bipolar this is a MUST have.
About this product: Finally, A book that explains the mysterious uses of the foam roller for the average exercise enthusiast ! On a Roll @ Home will teach you how the foam roller works to improve your core strength, what your core muscles are and how they work. You will learn how to achieve good posture, how breathing can help improve your workout and the ABC's of fine tuning your exercise technique. Learn how the roller can help decrease neck and back pain, and lastly learn massage techinques to rid you of muscle tension after a long day at your desk. This easy-to-follow manual gives beginner to advanced exercises, with precautions, clear directions and pictures.
Curious George can’t wait to ride the Turbo Python 3000 with his friends Betsy and Steve at the amusement park. But he is not tall enough! Will George figure out how to ride the roller coaster before the end of the day? Learning concepts: measurements, height Level one in Houghton's new Curious George reader line means that the text is minimal and simple, perfect for readers learning to sound out words while looking at the art for visual clues.
About this product: Learn how foam rollers can be used to challenge and improve core stability, posture and strength, as well as improving range of motion, flexibility and balance. This handbook also includes a section on Myofacial Release. 64 pgs. Color throughout.
About this product: Sheila was born in India but grew up in London and thinks of herself as English. But when herboyfriend drops her because she's Indian, Sheila begins to wonder where she belongs. Since her grandparents live in India, Sheila visits them to learn more about her native land. But she ends up learning some unexpected lessons about life . . . and about herself.
Previously published as The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Now fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce recession. In crisp, gripping prose, Charles R. Morris shows how got into this mess. He explains the arcane financial instruments, the chicanery, the policy misjudgments, the dogmas, and the delusions that created the greatest credit bubble in world history. Paul Volcker slew the inflation dragon in the early 1980s, and set the stage for the high performance economy of the 1980s and 1990s. But Wall Street's prosperity soon tilted into gross excess. The astronomical leverage at major banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients led to massive disruption in global markets. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset stripping, abusive lending, and hedge fund secrecy will go down in flames with it. Continued denial and concealment could cause the crisis to stretch out for years, but financial and government leaders are still downplaying the problem. The required restructuring will be at least as painful as the very difficult period of 1979-1983. The Two Trillion-Dollar Meltdown, updated to include the latest financial developments, is indispensable to understanding how the world economy has been put on the brink.
About this product: Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed in the arts and popular culture, from Shakespearean tragedy to paintings, opera, and movies. Despite the queen's enduring celebrity, however, many have dismissed her as a mere seductress. In this major new biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom. Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents (Cleopatra's own writings), and representations in art and coinage produced while she was alive. His compelling portrait of the queen illuminates her prowess as a royal administrator who managed a large and diverse kingdom extending from Asia Minor to the interior of Egypt, as a naval commander who led her own fleet in battle, and as a scholar and supporter of the arts. Even her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius--the source of her reputation as a supreme seductress who drove men to their doom--were carefully crafted state policies: she chose these partners to insure the procreation of successors who would be worthy of her distinguished dynasty. That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. This definitive portrait restores the Egyptian queen to her rightful historical status as a potent force in the ancient world--one whose policies and influence long survived her and played a determining role in the future course of the Roman empire.
About this product: Gain additional body awareness, develop better posture and challenge core strength by utilizing the PRO-ROLLER with Pilates exercise. PRO-ROLLER Pilates Essentials by Angela Kneale, OTR, helps you achieve these benefits with over 30 exercises to improve your balance, strength and flexibility. Clear instructions and color photographs. Booklet, 37 pages.