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Tuning Your Body and Mind to Achieve Performance Longevity

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"The gap between what really matters and what has become fitness-as-entertainment is growing wider by the day—and Rob is reaching across the divide with a steady hand. What we need is a framework. A model. A lens to help us make sense of it all. We need a dashboard—one that can help us better understand our inputs and outputs, our biology and our psychology, our feelings and our potential. ... Read more

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"The gap between what really matters and what has become fitness-as-entertainment is growing wider by the day—and Rob is reaching across the divide with a steady hand. What we need is a framework. A model. A lens to help us make sense of it all. We need a dashboard—one that can help us better understand our inputs and outputs, our biology and our psychology, our feelings and our potential.
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5 Days to Power

The Journey to Coalition Britain

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A remarkable and important account of the negotiations that led to the birth of the Coalition. ... Read more

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A remarkable and important account of the negotiations that led to the birth of the Coalition.
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The Eye of the Storm

The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

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MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the ... Read more

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MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the
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Kittens Are Evil II

Little Heresies in Public Policy

Edited by Toby Lowe, Jan Myers, Charlotte Pell, Rob Wilson ...

The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This is the second published collection of talks given at those seminars. Both books takes their title from the first seminar, Kittens are Evil: it is still widely believed that private sector management methods and policies work well in the public sector. To suggest that they create ... Read more

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The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This is the second published collection of talks given at those seminars. Both books takes their title from the first seminar, Kittens are Evil: it is still widely believed that private sector management methods and policies work well in the public sector. To suggest that they create
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Undercover Conversations: Eavesdrop on the Natural World

by Eleanor Spicer Rice PhD ...

Illustrated by Rob Wilson ...

Series series Your Hidden Life
Did you know that turtles are great singers? Or that trees love to gossip with their fungi friends? Or that fish farts almost started a war? The world around us is full of chatter—it turns out that we just aren’t listening.Did you know that whether humans are paying attention or not, the rest of nature is busy communicating through sound, sight, chemicals, and touch? Crackling with tongue-in-cheek ... Read more

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Did you know that turtles are great singers? Or that trees love to gossip with their fungi friends? Or that fish farts almost started a war? The world around us is full of chatter—it turns out that we just aren’t listening.Did you know that whether humans are paying attention or not, the rest of nature is busy communicating through sound, sight, chemicals, and touch? Crackling with tongue-in-cheek
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Your Pets’ Secret Lives

The Truth Behind Your Pets' Wildest Behaviors

by Eleanor Spicer Rice PhD ...

Illustrated by Rob Wilson ...

Series series Your Hidden Life
From poop-eating pups to supersmooth spy snakes, get a glimpse of our pets’ amazing secret lives with this funny and fact-filled exposé!Butt-sniffing dogs. Terrified tarantulas. Canaries with invisible force fields? Yep—it turns out our pets experience the world in totally different ways than we do. Unlock some of your nonhuman family members’ wildest behaviors in this hilarious (and sometimes ... Read more

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From poop-eating pups to supersmooth spy snakes, get a glimpse of our pets’ amazing secret lives with this funny and fact-filled exposé!Butt-sniffing dogs. Terrified tarantulas. Canaries with invisible force fields? Yep—it turns out our pets experience the world in totally different ways than we do. Unlock some of your nonhuman family members’ wildest behaviors in this hilarious (and sometimes
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The Blank Page

How a Piece of Paper Connects to Everything

by Alberto Blanco ...

Illustrated by Rob Wilson ...

Is a blank page really blank? Beloved poet Alberto Blanco pulls back the curtain and illuminates all of the elements hidden in a single piece of paper: the tree it was made from, the rain and sun that allowed the tree to grow, and the people that created it. An enlightening read for readers young and old, it soon becomes clear that a blank page contains the whole cosmos.In The Blank Page, world ... Read more

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Is a blank page really blank? Beloved poet Alberto Blanco pulls back the curtain and illuminates all of the elements hidden in a single piece of paper: the tree it was made from, the rain and sun that allowed the tree to grow, and the people that created it. An enlightening read for readers young and old, it soon becomes clear that a blank page contains the whole cosmos.In The Blank Page, world
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Oceanic Becoming

The Pacific beneath the Pavements

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From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene. In Oceanic Becoming, Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood as interconnected to the other oceans. Wilson frames this interconnection as “Oceania,” reconceiving the world ... Read more

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From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene. In Oceanic Becoming, Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood as interconnected to the other oceans. Wilson frames this interconnection as “Oceania,” reconceiving the world
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Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World

Illustrated by Rob Wilson ...

by Eleanor Spicer Rice PhD ...

Series series Your Hidden Life
This lively peek into the amazing world of microbes, replete with a kid-pleasing “ick” factor**, is chock-full of facts, humor, and fun illustrations.**Microbes are everywhere: outside, indoors, on your body, in your body. In fact, only about half of our bodies' cells are human cells—the rest are microbes. Whether helping people digest their food or using mind-control techniques to lure mice into ... Read more

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This lively peek into the amazing world of microbes, replete with a kid-pleasing “ick” factor**, is chock-full of facts, humor, and fun illustrations.**Microbes are everywhere: outside, indoors, on your body, in your body. In fact, only about half of our bodies' cells are human cells—the rest are microbes. Whether helping people digest their food or using mind-control techniques to lure mice into
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Futures in Public Management

The Emerging Relational Approach to Public Services

Edited by Rob Wilson, Hannah Hesselgreaves, Max French, Melissa Hawkins, David Jamieson, Martin King, Jonathan Kimmitt ...

Series Book 8 - Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management
The prevailing orthodoxy of public service management is that it should be marketized, commissioned, contracted, managed, measured, and evaluated. Futures in Public Management introduces and develops the alternative argument that the objectives for and outcomes sought by institutions working with the public in contexts of health, care and welfare are inherently relational phenomena – they are ... Read more

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The prevailing orthodoxy of public service management is that it should be marketized, commissioned, contracted, managed, measured, and evaluated. Futures in Public Management introduces and develops the alternative argument that the objectives for and outcomes sought by institutions working with the public in contexts of health, care and welfare are inherently relational phenomena – they are
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Torkildsen's Sport and Leisure Management

Edited by Rob Wilson, Chris Platts, Daniel Plumley ...

For nearly 40 years Torkildsen’s Sport and Leisure Management has been the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to sport and leisure management available to students at all levels. Now in its seventh edition, it is still the only textbook that covers all the key topics taught within contemporary sport and leisure management courses.This new edition includes expanded coverage of the ... Read more

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For nearly 40 years Torkildsen’s Sport and Leisure Management has been the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to sport and leisure management available to students at all levels. Now in its seventh edition, it is still the only textbook that covers all the key topics taught within contemporary sport and leisure management courses.This new edition includes expanded coverage of the
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E-Communication Skills

A Guide for Primary Care

by Simpson Louise, Robinson Paul, Fletcher Mark, Wilson Rob ...

This is a practical, easy-to-use, patient-centred approach to e-communication that can be read from cover to cover, or dipped into as a quick reference guide. It covers potential issues both internally (patients and practice) and externally (the primary care trust and the wider community) and considers both clinical and non-clinical settings and is also a very useful teaching resource. e ... Read more

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