This work is aimed at bodybuilders strength training enthusiasts & as a reference for fitness professionals. It is a new addition to the best-selling Anatomy" series. The original text " Strength Training Anatomy" has sold over 500 000 copies worldwide & has been translated into over 20 languages. This book has enough detail for any serious strength training enthusiast with training for specific body image goals & key emphasis on technique to avoid injury. It is a combination of top medical & anatomical knowledge with 280 illustrations to guide the reader. Organised by muscle group each body part is subdivided into muscle target zones allowing the reader to select the specific exercises they need to emphasise hard-to-hit target spots in their physique. Each chapter

Includes:: detailed variations on modifying grip body position exercise trajectory & range of motion in order to emphasise different muscle groups."

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The Bodybuilding.com Guide to Your Best Body is a plan that promotes health from the inside out starting by breaking down the mental blocks that are holding you back then by building up the muscles on your body & finally by fortifying you with delicious healthy food. Rather than subtracting things from your life-cutting out calories losing weight banishing your belly-heres how to add more of the right things: more muscle more support & more success. Motivation is the key factor that drives permanent change & The Bodybuilding.com Guide to Your Best Body helps you activate your inner motivation & find the proper balance of weight training to make fit happen forever. Even people who have struggled with fitness for their entire lives can achieve spectacular lasting results. Based on the best practices found at Bodybuilding.com (the worlds leading online fitness site with more than 2 million members worldwide) The Bodybuilding.com Guide to Your Best Body shows that amazing things can happen when people get the tools they need to achieve their personal fitness goals. ...

Craig Summers had one of the most dangerous jobs in television. His task? Keeping adventurous celebrities alive! Summers was the BBCs security adviser a job which took him to war zones scenes of natural disaster & big international sporting events as well as on undercover operations involving child trafficking football hooliganism & narcotics. Using his extensive military experience
- he served with the British forces in both the Falklands War in 1982 & the Balkans Conflict in Bosnia & Herzegovina
- he has been the right hand man confidant & enforcer to many adventurous celebrities including Sir Ranulph Fiennes Gary Lineker John Simpson & Matthew Pinsent. In Bodyguard Summers talks extensively about these relationships & how he helps make demanding television look so easy to the viewer back home demonstrating how his knowledge & experience have been vital in keeping BBC casualties to a minimum a fact directly acknowledged by John Simpson among others. From Kabul to Gaza to Zimbabwe Summers has escorted & protected some of our biggest stars through testing & hazardous conditions
- always remaining a stalwart reassuring presence behind the camera. Bodyguard tells the unknown stories behind some of the biggest news & sports events of our time from the inside out. This is not just another book about life in the danger zones; it is much much more.


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In a dangerous world everyone needs protection. Bodyguard: Hostage" is the new thriller from Chris Bradford bestselling author of " Young Samurai". " Bodyguard" is a bulletproof action-adventure series that fans of Cherub & Alex Rider will love. This is Lee Child for younger readers
- Jason Bourne for the next generation. With the rise of teen stars the intense media focus on celeb families & a new wave of billionaires adults are no longer the only target for hostage-taking blackmail & assassination
- kids are too. That's why they need a young bodyguard like Connor Reeves to protect them. Recruited into the ranks of a covert young bodyguard squad 14-year-old Connor Reeves embarks on a rigorous close protection course. Training in surveillance anti-ambush exercises hostage survival & unarmed combat he's put through his paces & wonders if he will actually survive the course. But when the US President summons Connor to protect his impulsive teenage daughter Connor's training is put to the ultimate test. For Connor discovers that the First Daughter Alicia doesn't want to be guarded. She just wants to have fun. & with no clue Connor is her bodyguard Alicia tries to elude her Secret Service agents & lead Connor astray. But unknown to her a terrorist sleeper cell has been activated. Its mission: to take the president's daughter Hostage... And don't miss " Bodyguard: Ransom" coming soon."

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In 1932 Englands cricket team led by the haughty Douglas Jardine had the fastest bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific batsman the game had ever seen: the young Don Bradman. He had to be stopped. The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted by Larwood & Bill Voce with a ring of fieldsmen waiting for catches caused an outrage that reverberated to the back of the stands & into the highest levels of government. Bodyline as this infamous technique came to be known was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers. It was also potentially lethal
- one bowl fracturing the skull of Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield
- & the technique was outlawed in 1934. After the death of Don Bradman in 2001 one of the most controversial events in cricketing history
- the Bodyline technique
- finally slid out of living memory. Over seventy years on the 1932-33 Ashes series remains the most notorious in the history of Test cricket between Australia & Engl&. David Friths gripping narrative has been acclaimed as the definitive book on the whole saga: superbly researched & replete with anecdotes Bodyline Autopsy is a masterly anatomy of one of the most remarkable sporting scandals.



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In the 20 years since the publication of the first edition of Bodyspace" the knowledge base upon which ergonomics rests has increased significantly. The need for an authoritative contemporary & above all usable reference is therefore great. This third edition maintains the same content & structure as previous editions but updates the material & references to reflect recent developments in the field. The book has been substantially revised to include new research & anthropometric surveys the latest techniques & changes in legislation that have taken place in recent years. New coverage in the third edition
Includes:: Guidance on design strategies & practical advice on conducting trials; overview of recent advances in simulation & digital human modes; dynamic seating; recent work on hand/handle interface; computer input devices; laptop computer use & childrens use of computers; design for an aging population & accessibility for people with disabilities; and; new approaches to risk management & new assessment tools legislation & standards. As the previous two editions have shown " Bodyspace" is an example of the unusual: a text that is a favourite among academics & practitioners. Losing none of the features that made previous editions so popular the author skilfully integrates new knowledge into the existing text without sacrificing the easily accessible style that makes this book unique. More than just a reference text this authoritative book clearly delineates the field of ergonomics."
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When the Boeing 747 first flew commercially in 1970 it ushered in a new era of affordable air travel. Often referred to by the nickname Jumbo Jet the 747 was the worlds first wide-body commercial airliner & its advent has proved to be one of the major milestones in aviation history. The centrepiece of this Haynes Manual" is the 747-400 which is the most numerous version. As well as being the highest-selling model in the 747 family there are more 400s currently in service than any other version." ...

Spearhead of the US 8th Air Forces daylight bomber offensive over Germany & north-west Europe in the Second World War the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress has become one of the most famous & best-known bomber aircraft of all time. The B-17 is the latest classic aircraft to receive the Haynes Manual treatment with French-owned & operated B-17G Pink Lady & the Imperial War Museums B-17G Mary Alice providing this manuals centrepieces. Author Graeme Douglas gives a full insight into owning servicing & flying the USAAFs formidable Second World War bomber. ...

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British as Kipling said 'no end of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest the costliest the bloodiest & the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 & 1914. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand & largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine the author has constructed a narrative as vivid & fast-moving as a novel & a history that in scholarship breadth & impact will endure for many years. ...

Victorious in her previous campaigns in Africa Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. As this book explains the Boers proved themselves formidable opponents masterfully compensating for interior numbers through their resourcefulness grim determination strong religious faith & above all their expert use of cover mobility & the power of long-range magazine rifles firing smokeless powder. With inadequate transport insufficient numbers of mounted troops & poor intelligence the British were to be severely tested in a distant & inhospitable land of immense size & extremes of climate. ...