Product Description: Many questions come to mind concerning running and runners and public health. Here are a few. 1. Why do runners live an estimated 2 to 2.5 years longer than non-runners? 2. Why are runners rarely overweight? 3. Among runners do they have the same incidence of the following problems compared to non-runners that so far the causes of which are basically unknown? Muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, amelanotic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease? 4...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (also wrote as: Mrs. Whitney) (1824-1906) was an American poet and writer of books for girls. She started on her writing career in her thirties; after a period producing poems and stories for local journals, she published her first book Mother Goose for Grown Folks in 1870. She wrote mainly for young girls, championing conservative values, and purveying the message that a woman's happiest place is in the home, which is the source of all goodness. This proved very popular among parents, and her books sold extremely well throughout her life. Whitney was a staunch opponent of women's suffrage, though took no part in public life. Aside from her writing, she patented a set of alphabet blocks for children. Amongst her other works are The Boys of Chequasset (1862), Faith Gartney's Girlhood (1862), A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life (1866), We Girls: A Home Story (1870), Hitherto: A Story of Yesterdays (1871), Real Folks (1871) and The Other Girls (1873).

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Product Description: Contains all of the information in Health: Making Life Choices, Regular Edition, PLUS two chapters on understanding sexuality and preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.Health: Making Life Choices gives students the important decision-making skills and information they need to promote their own good health...read more

Product Description: Everything a family needs to collect and maintain a medical file at homeAs insurance companies and HMOs grow increasingly complicated, and doctors become too harried and too specialized to answer questions, patients are often left to their own devices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 164. The Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State are underlain by Middle Proterozoic (Neohelikian) rocks of the Grenville Province, exposed in a breached Cenozoic dome...read more

In order to escape the prophecy that a new-born baby would deprive him of his fortune, Marko the Rich determines to destroy the child.