In 1980 during his senior year at Wallace High School, Michael Strong was the starting point guard on the varsity basketball team and voted "Most Talented and Best All Around." But when Strong left his Bennettsville hometown for The Air Force after graduation, he had no idea that during the next 20 years he'd get married, father two children, travel to five of the world's seven continents - and become a drug addict. Strong, who lives in Baltimore and works a program manager for a facility for homeless veterans, chronicles his life in Strong Getting Stronger, a no holds barred autobiography that doesn't sugarcoat addiction but instead provides readers with a firsthand account of its destruction.

Discusses bodybuilding and sports training using free weights, Nautilus, and electronic weight training machines.

This is not your run-of-the-mill fitness book. Developed by world-renowned gluteal expert Bret Contreras, Strong Curves offers an extensive fitness and nutrition guide for women seeking to improve their physique, function, strength, and mobility. Contreras spent the last eighteen years researching and field-testing the best methods for building better butts and shapelier bodies. In Strong Curves, he offers the programs that have proven effective time and time again with his clients, allowing you to develop lean muscle, rounded glutes, and greater confidence. Each page is packed with information decoding the female anatomy, providing a better understanding as to why most fitness programs fail to help women reach their goals. With a comprehensive nutritional guide and over 200 strength exercises, this book gets women off the treadmill and furnishes their drive to achieve strength, power, and sexy curves from head to toe. Although the glutes are the largest and most powerful muscle group in the human body, they often go dormant due to lifestyle choices, leading to a flat, saggy bum. Strong Curves is the cure.

Raised by the brothers of the Sixth Order, Vaelin Al Sorna, a Warrior of the Faith, must battle the Empire and even his own father in the first book of a new fantasy trilogy.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall. It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort. Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are. ONE OF GREATER GOOD’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “[Brené Brown’s] research and work have given us a new vocabulary, a way to talk with each other about the ideas and feelings and fears we’ve all had but haven’t quite known how to articulate. . . . Brené empowers us each to be a little more courageous.”—The Huffington Post

Mass Made Simple is a concise guidebook for muscle building with a program designed to increase strength in adult men who need to gain size for athletics. This book includes a six-week typeset training journal is heavy-weight and spiral bound to lay flat.

Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth edition of the successful undergraduate textbook and reference work. It has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. You will also find augmented sections on the solar system and extrasolar planets as well as a new chapter on astrobiology. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.

Strength training for 21 sports ; General conditioning ; Body building.

This is the story of a woman who achieved and lived the dreamthe dream house, a multimillion-dollar property-investment portfolio, together with a beautiful family. Getting cancer was not part of the plan, yet life has its unexpected twists and turns. This is the result of a survivors personal journey and battle with leukaemia, major setbacks and challenges. She overcame cancer only to go through a separation from her sweetheart of twenty-eight years. She reveals the secrets to healing ourselves from adversity and maintaining health and well-being and bringing in what we want into our life. An easy to follow step by step guide to help you heal and move forward into the new. Learn how to ignite the power within you. Enabling you to discover things about yourself you never thought possible. This book is about discovering the treasures within and you can apply them to any area of your life, health, happiness, well-being, financial or relationships.

This omnibus contains two novels by Modesitt that comprise a larger story unit, "Timediver's Dawn" and "The Timegod" (expanded from his first novel, "The Fires of Paratime"). "A most skillful interweaving of old Nordic legends with a new conception".--Andre Norton.