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Cold Therapy Made Simple: A 5-Step Guide to Using Cold Exposure to Heal Better, Recover Faster, and Live Longer
Unlock the life-changing power of cold with this science-backed guide to healing, supporting, and improving the body through cold exposure. Are you ready to transform your health, supercharge your recovery, and sharpen your mental edge--just by getting a little uncomfortable? Cold Therapy Made Simple is your ultimate guide to harnessing the scientifically proven benefits of cold exposure for total-body wellness. Whether you're an athlete seeking faster recovery, a busy professional looking to beat stress and boost focus, or someone exploring natural ways to reduce inflammation and slow aging, this breakthrough guide has everything you need to get started. Grounded in cutting-edge research and written in clear, accessible language, this book reveals how strategic cold exposure--also known as cold therapy or cryotherapy--can:- Accelerate healing and reduce pain
- Strengthen your immune system
- Burn fat and boost metabolism
- Enhance mental clarity and resilience
- Relieve symptoms of anxiety and depression
- Improve sleep and longevity
More than just the science, Cold Therapy Made Simple delivers a practical, step-by-step plan to integrate cold exposure into your daily routine safely and effectively--no expensive equipment or extreme methods required. You'll learn exactly how to get started with cold showers, ice baths, cryo chambers, and outdoor cold immersion, plus tips for optimizing your mindset, breathwork, and recovery.
Cold therapy has been used for centuries around the world--now it's gaining momentum as a cutting-edge wellness practice. This book is for anyone curious about the cold and ready to tap into its powerful physical and mental benefits. -
Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time--And How to Fix It
A powerful investigation into American bureaucracy, how it wastes our time and drives inequality, and what we can do to make paperwork work for us
Everyone knows that dealing with government bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Doing your taxes is bad enough, but for those applying for financial aid, housing assistance, unemployment, disability, or Medicaid, it's worse--and the stakes are infinitely higher. If time is money, the hoops we must jump through to access government services or comply with the law are just one more bill we as citizens are forced to pay.
Journalist Annie Lowrey has termed this the "time tax" the paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens to access their rights and benefits. So how did the world's wealthiest country end up with such a convoluted, punitive, and inept system of public administration? Lowrey traces the pathbreaking history of administrative burdens in the United States from the Civil War to today, revealing how they were historically built as a tool of discrimination. She examines the effect of time taxes on civic life in the US, from how they amplify inequality and entrench poverty to how they reduce trust in the government.
Lowrey not only diagnoses the problem and gives this miserable experience of interacting with our government a name; she also shows that it doesn't have to be this way. Countries from Estonia to Vietnam have made it a priority to reduce administrative burdens for their citizens, and she argues there's no reason we can't do the same. The Time Tax will enrage you, enlighten you, and, most important, provide a point-by-point guide for reclaiming our precious time.
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Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy
Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy is the definitive biography of Ben Johnson (1918-1996), the only man to win both an Academy Award and a world rodeo championship. Born on a historic Oklahoma ranch, Johnson could rope cattle before he could read, and his horsemanship took him straight to Hollywood when tycoon Howard Hughes needed horses for The Outlaw in 1943. What started as a behind-the-scenes gig turned into an acting career that spanned six decades. Discovered by legendary director John Ford, Johnson became a fixture in classic Westerns alongside John Wayne, before stepping into more complex roles with filmmakers like Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and Peter Bogdanovich--who guided him to his Oscar-winning performance in The Last Picture Show. Though he worked with Hollywood greats like Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, and Clint Eastwood, Johnson remained rooted in the authenticity of the American West, both on and off screen. Drawing from a wealth of interviews with costars, directors, and rodeo companions, Kathryn Jones captures the grit, grace, and enduring legacy of a man who didn't just play a cowboy--he was one. Tall in the Saddle is a rich, cinematic portrait of a Hollywood legend whose real-life story is as unforgettable as any role he played. -
Essential Home Apothecary Handbook: Herbal Remedies to Know, Grow, Make, and Use
Master the healing power of plants and build your own thriving home apothecary.
The Essential Home Apothecary Handbook is your go-to guide for growing, harvesting, preparing, and using herbal remedies to support everyday wellness. Whether you're a curious beginner or an experienced plant enthusiast, this practical, hands-on book provides step-by-step guidance, research-backed insights, and time-tested recipes for making effective teas, tinctures, salves, and extracts--from garden to medicine cabinet.
Discover how to cultivate medicinal herbs in any space, properly harvest and preserve their potency, and turn them into powerful remedies for immune support, digestive health, better sleep, stress relief, and radiant skin. With detailed plant profiles, dosage guidelines, and safety information throughout, this comprehensive guide makes herbal medicine accessible, reliable, and deeply rewarding for anyone seeking greater self-reliance and a natural path to wellness.
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Ted Bell's Warmonger
Lord Alexander Hawke is used to going after big game, but his pursuit of a mysterious figure code-named Warmonger brings him up against his most deadly foe--Vladimir Putin--in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. Lord Alexander Hawke's hunt for the Warmonger--a shadowy figure orchestrating chaos across the globe--is put on hold so that he may undertake an urgent mission for the Crown. His assignment: Travel to Russia, escorting the lovely Dr. Ariadne Silk; confront his archnemesis, Vladimir Putin; and recover a secret document that threatens to shake the British monarchy to its core. While Hawke makes a perilous journey across Europe, his good friend Ambrose Congreve's routine investigation of a bizarre murder takes a deadly turn, pulling him into a cat-and-mouse game with Silence, a cold-blooded assassin who may be targeting Hawke himself. Hawke will soon discover that he is a pawn in the Warmonger's Byzantine plot to bring the world to the brink of total war and resurrect a fallen empire. -
Globemaster Down: Soviet Espionage and the Doomed American Attempt to Sneak Nukes Into Europe
Just in time for the 75th anniversary comes the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly carrying an atomic bomb over the Atlantic Ocean disappeared, along with the U.S. military and nuclear specialists on board. Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter Tod Robberson examines this shocking true story from the early days of the Cold War and the origins of the ongoing, icy relationship between the United States and Russia. 1951. The Cold War is heating up. With Soviet troops amassing across Eastern Europe and the arrests of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spilling nuclear secrets, President Harry Truman assigned General Curtis LeMay the task of installing nuclear forces in Britain. On March 22, a massive C-124 Globemaster cargo plane--possibly carrying a "Fat Man" bomb--was dispatched to Britain with 53 passengers and crew including elite specialists in atomic warfare. Then tragedy struck . . . The Globemaster never reached its destination. After radio communications ceased over the Atlantic, the plane took a sudden turn, flew hundreds of miles, and was ditched. Survivors disappeared before they could be rescued. Was this the work of Soviet saboteurs? Was the mission compromised from the very start? And is a "broken arrow" bomb still lying on the bottom of the ocean? These are just a few of the questions that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tod Robberson attempts to answer in the first-ever in-depth investigation into this yet-unsolved mystery. Drawing from classified archives and personal accounts, Robberson reconstructs LeMay's mission in riveting detail, exploring possible security leaks including a brigadier general whose bigamy may have compromised the top-secret mission. Meticulously researched and brilliantly told, Globemaster Down tells the fascinating story of two global superpowers in a reckless race toward the brink of nuclear disaster. A must-read for fans of military adventure, Cold War intrigue, and world-class espionage. -
Healthy Living High-Protein Cookbook: 85 Recipes and Meal Plans to Build Muscle, Balance Metabolism, and Thrive at Any Age
Support Your Strength. Balance Your Metabolism.
Feel stronger and support your health--one delicious meal at a time. The Healthy Living High-Protein Cookbook helps you meet your health goals with easy, satisfying meals powered by protein. Whether you're strength training, navigating metabolic shifts, or preserving muscle as you age, this book delivers practical, science-backed solutions tailored to your needs.
These delicious, balanced recipes diversify your protein sources to naturally strengthen muscles and improve body composition--creating a foundation for long-term vitality without sacrificing flavor or time in the kitchen.
Invest in Your Strength--At Every Age
- 4 Ready-to-Use Meal Plans: Take the guesswork out of your week with plans tailored to different life stages and activity levels.
- Total Body Support: Higher-protein recipes designed to support lasting energy, lean muscle, and healthy weight management.
- 85+ Recipes from Breakfast to Dessert: Enjoy protein-packed bowls, easy dinners, snacks, and even guilt-free desserts.
- Hassle-Free Cooking: One-pot and sheet-pan meals that deliver maximum nutrition with minimal cleanup.
- Expert Meal Planning Tips: Learn professional strategies for grocery shopping and prep so you never have to wonder what's for dinner.
From Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, FAND--award-winning dietitian with over 20 years of experience. Toby proves that food for strength and metabolic health can also be food you truly enjoy.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Untold Mysteries, Myths, and Marvels of the World's Most Popular Landmarks
Discover the interesting, outlandish, and dark secrets you wish your tour guide would tell you about all the world's most popular landmarks.
Everything you thought you knew about your favorite travel destinations? There's so much more.
Curated by the relentlessly curious travel journalist and National Geographic regular contributor, Ronan O'Connell, Hidden in Plain Sight invites you on a photographic tour of the world's most popular landmarks showcasing the most mystifying, intriguing, and jaw-dropping stories from all the places on your bucket list.
You're invited to travel to more than 20 popular landmarks, including:
- Bali's Uluwatu Temple, which overlooks a sea of demons in the Indian Ocean.
- The Edinburgh Castle, where a supernatural stone (most recently incorporated into King Charles's coronation ceremony) resides.
- The Berlin Wall, where MLK Jr. quietly passed across its border under the dark of night.
- Amsterdam's Dam Square, where tourists stroll at the spot "witches" were once burned at the stake.
Learn all the stories and marvels you wish your tour guide would tell you, all without leaving the comfort of your own home. Featuring over 150 photographs, this spectacular coffee table book is the perfect gift to give to the history lovers, globetrotters, and armchair travelers in your life.
Whether you're traveling to Prague, Sydney, Kyoto, or beyond, you do not want to miss the marvelous stories hidden in plain sight.
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Cats in Pants
A quirky illustrated flip book featuring a myriad of mix-and-match cats. Cats in Pants is a hilarious swing through the underwear preferences of several cats with lots of personality. Uniquely hand-illustrated in a charming and textured style by Naomi Tipping, this book is guaranteed to be a hit with children and adults alike. Each page is equally divided into three parts so that the head, body, and (clothed) tail end of the cat can be swapped around with the respective parts from other pages to create a huge number of cats. Whether you're looking to buy this for a child, a cat lover, or yourself, this book provides a new and refreshing look at one of the most important questions of our time: What do cats look like in pants? The video posted by the author/illustrator showing the book concept has almost 2.5 million views and over 100,000 likes on Instagram. -
They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
"Prodigiously researched, the work is a compelling braid of its subtitles. Cineastes will savor the detailed descriptions of the genesis and filming of the famous movie; historians, the backstory of America's romance with guns and violence; and Hollywood history buffs, the ways in which Bonnie and Clyde upended production codes and changed on-screen depictions of sex and violence for good." - Alta On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker met their end in a hail of semiautomatic gunfire on a rural road in the Louisiana backcountry. The duo had terrorized Depression-era Middle America with a string of robberies and a brazen daylight prison escape, killing nearly a dozen police officers along the way.
A legend was born. Thirty-two years later, a movie crew gathered on a Warner Bros. studio ranch to re-create the scene of Bonnie and Clyde's violent demise. It was the end of a difficult shoot. Almost everyone involved knew they were on to something, but getting there had taken a toll on relationships both professional and personal. The result was destined to become what is arguably the landmark film of the New Hollywood era. Nothing like it had ever been attempted anything similar had, in fact, been forbidden by censorship. When the lights finally came up after an agonizing moment of black, Hollywood would never be the same. Almost sixty years since it exploded onto American screens, Bonnie and Clyde still retains the power to shock, amaze, and provoke, as fresh and relevant today as when it was first released in 1967. The movie's resonance goes well beyond the peerless filmmaking of director Arthur Penn, producer-star Warren Beatty, and their talented team of collaborators. Bonnie and Clyde taps into a dark wellspring in the American psyche. Produced in a time of great social upheaval, with a country divided under a deeply polarizing president, the film addresses troubling questions about our country's founding myth and its obsession with firearms, questions that remain part of our national debate. They Kill People is the story of the making of Bonnie and Clyde. It is the story of the outlaws whose real lives were anything but glamorous. Most of all, it is the story of how violence and a predilection for firearms became a fundamental part of American identity. -
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Case of Life and Limb: The Trials of Gabriel Ward
"A thoroughly appealing yuletide mystery" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and the second installment in The Trials of Gabriel Ward series--now in paperback.
Christmas Eve, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London's most famous music hall star, Topsy Tillotson, and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, the Nation's Voice, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until a severed hand arrives in the post. While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive--one with fatal consequences--Gabriel realizes that it is not Sir William who is the target, but the Temple itself. Someone is holding a grudge that has already led to at least one death. Now it's up to Gabriel, and Constable Wright of the City of London Police, to find out who, before an old death leads to a new murder. -
Smoke and Seasoned Bread: Recipes from Tu]rkiye
With over 80 recipes, this cookbook is a deep dive into the heart of Turkish cuisine--a love letter to those who cherish food, travel, and the stories that bind them. Though language, culture and flavors are shared, Hasan Semay's Turkish Cypriot upbringing meant mainland Turkey felt distant and exciting. Arriving on the south coast of Turkey, he travels across mountains to the corners of the country; not only unveiling culinary traditions, but unearthing the very history that flavors them. Along the way, he discovers kebabs that bridge generations, stews that tell tales, breads that warm your soul, and desserts that are sweet escapism--draped in buttery layers of history and dripping with syrup. The result is an honest, unfiltered and meticulously researched blend of recipes, travelog, history & memoir. -
Marvel Creator Collection No. 1: Back to the Savage Land Barry Windsor-Smith at Marvel Vol. 1
From the moment Marvel brought him to the U.S. in 1969, Windsor-Smith was a creative force to be reckoned with. A passionate devotee of Jack Kirby, Windsor-Smith's earliest drawing at Marvel reflected that influence, but he quickly developed his own unique, eye-opening style, combining intricately detailed realism with the dreamlike lushness of art nouveau and late-1960s psychedelia.This volume focuses on the earliest of his work, including memorable storylines on The Avengers, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and individual stories for Chamber of Darkness, Tower of Shadows, and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. All new benchmarks of comics art, culminating in what may be the highlight of this period: Windsor-Smith's collaboration with writer Gerry Conway on an epic tale of civil war in Ka-Zar's Savage Land. Future volumes will trace Windsor-Smith's career through such milestones as Machine Man and Weapon X.