Exercise can help improve a wide variety of health problems including obesity heart disease depression & mobility disorders & GPs are increasingly referring their patients to local fitness professionals as part of their treatment. These GP referral schemes are one of the key pillars in the governments ten-year plan to improve levels of physical activity & the number of schemes in the UK has risen by 500% over the last ten years: there are now over 800 schemes in operation. This book gives fitness professionals everything they need to know to manage a referred client from fulfiling government recommendations to motivating & retaining clients &
Includes:: an outline of government policy; exercise guidelines for different medical conditions; working with GP referral clients; designing a programme; sample client evaluation & assessment questionnaires; client starter packs.
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Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology youve dreamed of & GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it. If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one GPS For Dummies 2 nd Edition helps you compare GPS technologies units & uses. Youll find out how to create & use digital maps & learn about waypoints tracks coordinate systems & other key point to using GPS technology. Get more from your GPS device by learning to use Web-hosted mapping services & even how to turn your cell phone or PDA into a GPS receiver. Youll also discover: Up-to-date information on the capabilities of popular handheld & automotive Global Positioning Systems How to read a map & how to get more from the free maps available online The capabilities & limitations of GPS technology & how satellites & radio systems make GPS work How to interface your GPS receiver with your computer & what digital mapping software can offer Why a cell phone with GPS capability isnt the same as a GPS unit What can affect your GPS reading & how accurate it will be How to use Street Atlas USA Topo Fusion Google Earth & other tools Fun things to do with GPS such as exploring topographical maps aerial imagery & the sport of geocaching Most GPS receivers do much more than their owners realize. With GPS For Dummies 2 nd Edition in hand youll venture forth with confidence! ...

This book focuses exclusively on the GPST / GPVTS Stage 3 selection centre & contains comprehensive details on how to approach the role play & prioritisation tasks which characterise the new format. Containing 45 practice role plays & 30 prioritisation exercises & a wide range of techniques that candidates can use to optimise their mark on the day it consttitutes an ideal preparation tool for any aspiring GP. ...

For decades Grace Coddington's personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue" magazine. Then came " The September Issue" the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude & an unerring visual instinct. Overnight the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders & the general public alike. Witty & forthright & illustrated throughout with vintage photographs & exclusive line-drawings " Grace: A Memoir" shares the excitement & vision that go into producing so many unforgettable fashion images. Here are the designers models photographers hairstylists make-up artists & celebrities with whom Grace has created her 'stories in pictures'
- whether it be Jerry Hall conquering the USSR or Tom Ford falling down a rabbit hole in Annie Leibovitz's version of " Alice in Wonderland". Grace's own life has been as dreamlike as one of her madcap fashion spreads. Brought up in windswept wartime Anglesey she arrived in London aged eighteen & quickly became a face of the Sixties. The muse behind Vidal Sassoon's Five Point Cut she posed for Bailey Donovan Duffy & Norman Parkinson in Swinging London & jumped into a pool in Saint-Tropez for Helmut Newton. Surviving a serious car-crash she later became a fashion editor at British " Vogue" & during the Seventies & the Eighties started to create the fantasy travelogues that would become her trademark. Friendships bloomed
- with Bruce Weber & Calvin Klein whose offer of a job took Grace to New York. While two early marriages to restaurateur Michael Chow & photographer Willie Christie were brief her romance with the hairstylist Didier Malige has endured. & her professional partnership with Anna Wintour
- with whom she has collaborated for over twenty years
- continues to have an astonishing influence on modern style."



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It is nearly fifty years since the horrific assassination in Dallas & during that time the appeal of John & Jackie Kennedy a uniquely glamorous presidential couple frozen in eternal youth by the terrible & sudden truncation of their reign has if anything only deepened. Until now however no single book has gone beyond the gossip & the conspiracy theories to tell the whole story of the Kennedy White House
- soberly comprehensively & compellingly. In a major work of history Sally Bedell Smith now does just that. Grace & Power is a compassionate & poignant chronicle of pivotal historical events seen from the inside out behind the headlines & the carefully staged television appearances. When John Kennedy entered the White House he was only 43; his stunning wife Jackie astonishingly was just 31. Amidst all the superficial opulence & lavish partying we see political crises like the Bay of Pigs & the burgeoning clamour for civil rights from the perspective of a president often barely well enough to appear in public & a lonely young woman wounded by her husbands insouciant philandering & trying to build a new identity for herself. We see how John Kennedy constructed his circle of advisers lieutenants & officials with equal measures of altruism & expediency & the claustrophobic dynamics of the Camelot court. With immense pathos Sally Bedells narrative shows how at the very moment when the President & First Lady had come through the first difficult years of his term & could begin to contemplate a campaign for re-election a snipers bullets ended everything & forced Jackie Kennedy to assume the biggest role of her life. Above all Grace & Power enables us to see the Kennedys & their inner circle beset by the sudden turns of history while at the same time their style & politics were shaping the history of America & indeed the world. For those too young to remember the era of the Kennedys as much as for those who will never forget it Grace & Power is the classic account of a historical moment that left an indelible mark on the last four decades.
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John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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Like many young women Grace Barnum's life is a precarious mix of sensible choices & uncomfortable compromise. She dutifully edits children's textbooks that she fears may be more harmful than helpful. She is engaged to a patent attorney with whom she has a reliable relationship. She's wary of her fascinating father a renowned New York painter & she prefers her mother slightly drunk. Always organised always a planner Grace carries her life around in a handbag
- that is until the responsibility-challenged Tyler Wilkie shows up with his warm eyes & a smile that makes Grace drop things. Worst of all he writes tender loving devastating songs
- about her. Tyler reaches something in Grace something she needs but can't admit to. Something she wants but won't succumb to. Falling in love with him would ruin everything. & yet...

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A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor & finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them & ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing a heroine to thousands hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hoppers later years the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper & the Invention of the Information Age Kurt Beyer reveals a more authentic Hopper a vibrant & complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Both rebellious & collaborative Hopper was influential in male-dominated military & business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework & childbearing. Hoppers greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones & zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming & software design & laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers. ...

An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly one of Hollywoods brightest stars is already long overdue. This book will also coincide with two significant anniversaries: 2006 sees 50 years since she married Prince Rainier & 2007 is the 25th anniversary of her death. The book will include a detailed biography & over 160 pictures & contact sheets many of which are reproduced for the first time. H&-written documents & famous"es on & from Grace Kelly complement impressive iconographic research (family pictures national archives private collections press agencies newspapers). Also included are images & contact sheets from prestigious photographers all of which give us a highly individual portrait of a cinematic legend. ...