Are you ready to change your life? In this essential companion to Re-Size America, New York Times best-selling author Jordan Rubin provides you with the keys to finding and maintaining your perfect weight. More than just a daily log of activities, the Re-Size America Journal is a guide to sustaining your inspiration, your focus, and most of all, your perfect weight as you move through the sixteen-week program and beyond. Included in the Re-Size America Journal: A perfect weight checklist The Perfect Weight Eating Plan A health assessment table A daily diary Continuing support and education, and more! Change your diet. Change your life. Change your world.

Re-Size Your LIFE! Look around. What do you see? American obesity is at an all-time high, even while eating disorders plague teenagers, and the stick-thin model is touted as the pinnacle of beauty. Does this seem right? New York Times best-selling author Jordan Rubin certainly doesn’t think so. His 16-week health plan isn’t about losing ten pounds to look like a picture in a magazine. It’s about finding the perfect weight for you. This may not be what you weigh right now. It may not be what you best friend weighs, or what your mother weighs. But somewhere inside you, there is a perfectly thin you just waiting to be revealed. Based on a landmark study conducted by Rubin in “one of the unhealthiest cities in America,” Re-Size America has been created as a program to help you achieve your perfect weight. With solid medical advice from Bernard Bulwer, MD, an advanced clinical fellow at one of the premier teaching hospitals at Harvard Medical School, this book contains the blueprint for re-sizing your life!

We planned this book as a Festschrift for Smitty Stevens because we thought he might be retiring around 1974, although we knew very well that only death or deep illness would stop Smitty from doing science. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly - after a full day of skiing at Vail, Colorado on the annual trip with wife Didi to the Winter Conference on Brain Research. Smitty liked winter conferences near ski resorts and often tried to get us other psychophysicists to organize one. Every person is unique. Smitty would have said it's mainly because each of us has so many genes that two combinations just alike would be well-nigh impossible. But most of us strive in many ways to be like others, and to abide by the norms (some smaller number try even harder to be unlike other people); as a result many persons seem to lose their uniqueness, their individuality. Not Smitty. He tried neither to be like others nor to be different. He took himself as he found himself, and ascribed peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses to his pioneering Utah forebears, in whom he took much pride. His was the true and right nonconformity. He approached each task, each problem, ready to grapple with the facts and set them into meaningful order. And if the answer he came up with was different from everyone else's, well that was too bad.

Making complex methods more accessible to applied researchers without an advanced mathematical background, the authors present the essence of new techniques available, as well as classical techniques, and apply them to data. Practical suggestions for implementing the various methods are set off in a series of practical notes at the end of each section, while technical details of the derivation of the techniques are sketched in the technical notes. This book will thus be useful for investigators who need to analyse censored or truncated life time data, and as a textbook for a graduate course in survival analysis, the only prerequisite being a standard course in statistical methodology.

Describes in detail how the physical size of an organism affects its biology. Presents the largest single compilation of inter-specific size relations and instructs the reader on their comparison, combination, and criticism.