Download or read book Sockless in Sandals written by Bob Cobbing and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rules for My Unborn Son written by Walker Lamond and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RULES FOR MY UNBORN SON is a collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice for boys. From the sartorial ("If you are tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist") to the practical ("Keep a copy of your letters. It makes it easier for your biographer") to even a couple of sure-fire hangover cures ("There is no better remedy than a dip in the ocean"), the book of rules and accompanying quotations is quite simply an instruction manual for becoming a Good Man - industrious, thoughtful, charming, and of course, well-dressed. Hip and witty with a decidedly traditionalist flavor, RULES FOR MY UNBORN SON is meant to evoke simpler times when Father knew best and a suitable answer to "Why?" was "Because I said so."

Download or read book A Crime So Monstrous written by E. Benjamin Skinner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.

Download or read book How to Shine a Shoe written by Potter Gift and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-dressed men know that great style starts from the ground up, and this follow-up to How to Tie a Tie is a handsome guide to men's shoes--oxfords, brogues, loafers, and more. With a cover that looks and feels like the top of a wing-tip derby, this book includes info on how to pick out quality footwear that suits your style (for any occasion); tips on pairing shoes with patterned socks, ties, belts, and bags; and instructions for care of them, making it a great gift for anyone interested in menswear. Investing in a pair of good-quality oxfords, brogues, or loafers is a rite of passage (though not an inexpensive endeavor) for any graduate or young job seeker. With proper care, those shoes will stick by you through multiple promotions, weddings, and other special events. Here's a book on how to treat them right, with great tips and tricks for pairing them with chinos, suit pants, and denim so you always look great wherever you are.

Download or read book Barefoot Running Step by Step written by Roy Wallack and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Barefoot Ken Bob is The Master. Long before anyone else was even talking about barefoot running, he was perfecting the art . . . Now, after twenty years of teaching, experimenting, and “merry marathoning” (as he calls it), the first and best source of barefoot-running knowledge is bringing his ideas to print. And it’s about time.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and The Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen “Ken Bob Saxton, a pioneer of the modern barefoot running movement, has logged more miles in his birthday shoes than just about anyone I know, and he has helped countless people run barefoot. As one would expect, this delightful book, full of wit and wisdom, is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to run barefoot, avoid injury, and have fun.” —Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University "This is a wonderful guide from the Godfather of barefoot running!" —Irene Davis, Ph.D., director of Spaulding National Running Center, Harvard Medical School Learn Barefoot Running From the Master! Almost overnight, barefoot running has exploded onto the fitness scene. However, it involves more than simply taking off your shoes. In fact, everything you’ve learned about barefoot running is probably wrong—unless you’ve learned it from Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton. The leading instructor and proponent of unshod running, he has completed 76 marathons barefoot, survived an astounding marathon-a-month challenge in 2004, and gone on to top that with 16 marathons in 2006, including four in a 15-day period—all barefoot. Barefoot Running Step by Step separates the facts from the hype, outlines Ken Bob’s personal techniques, and details the latest research on the newest trend in mankind’s oldest sport. Whether you barefoot run occasionally, part-time, or full-time, you’ll find methods for improving your form, staying injury-free, dramatically improving your speed and performance, and having more fun. The Bent Knee: Here is the hidden secret to perfect running form. Learn how this crucial adjustment will keep you running stronger and injury-free for life. Vibrams and Minimalist Shoes: Barefoot running is not a transition from shoes to minimalist shoes to bare feet. It’s the other way around. Discover why you need to run barefoot before you use other footwear. Start From the Head: Proper barefoot form doesn’t start at the feet. Discover how to get the correct body biomechanics. Ease Into It: Here are the steps you need to take to make the transition from running in shoes to barefoot running as painless and easy as possible. Improve Speed: Barefoot running’s injury reduction benefits are well-touted; however a new landmark study proves that barefooting—even part-time—can make you faster. Barefoot Running Step by Step is filled with series photos and illustrations that show you the “do’s” and “don’ts” of barefoot running, the latest research, and Ken Bob Saxton’s personal experiences and insights for running barefoot for life.

Download or read book Ivy Style written by Patricia Mears and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of "Ivy Style" in menswear, tracing the origins and diffusion of this enduring and classic fashion

Download or read book I Go Barefoot written by Koby Deane and published by . This book was released on 2022-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going barefoot EVERYWHERE? How would THAT feel? Sounds like fun, but isn't it DANGEROUS?Join five friends in a beach town as they experience life without shoes in this delightful picture book that promotes mindfulness, adaptability and enhanced development - through the sense of touch!

Download or read book Crochet Barefoot Sandals written by Sarah Callard and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crochet the perfect addition to your summer wardrobe with this fully illustrated guide to making your own barefoot sandals. Perfect for summer beach weddings, garden parties, outdoor festivals or just longing by the pool, barefoot sandals are all the rage—and now this fun fashion trend can be your next crochet project. Crochet Barefoot Sandals features eight cute and crafty designs, including a fish motif with glass beads on the ties, asymmetric ivory stars, a bright mandala pattern, and more! Crocheted sandals are an ideal summer craft project, and these quick and easy patterns are perfect for crocheters of all skill levels. This collection features designs by four different pattern designers including crochet blogger and author Sarah Shrimpton.

Download or read book Fixing Your Feet written by John Vonhof and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the book that covers what you need to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment. Hiking, backpacking, running, walking, and other athletic endeavors, your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics—along with the finer points—of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof and physical therapist Tonya Olson share how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy (or hurting!) feet. Fixing Your Feet covers all that you need to know to care for your feet, right now and hundreds of miles down the road! Inside You’ll Find Tried-and-true methods of foot care from numerous experts Tips and anecdotes about recovery and training Information about hundreds of foot-care products for nearly every foot ailment High-interest topics such as “Barefoot & Minimalist Footwear,” “Blister Prevention,” and “Providing Foot Care for Athletes” Discussions of individual foot care and team care “From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.” —Runner’s World

Download or read book Free Your Feet written by Transcend Your Limits, and published by Stefan Z. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Your Feet is a brand new look at the lifestyle of walking barefoot. Your shoes are actually making your feet WEAKER. You’ve been training your feet to be weak, your whole life. In fact it’s worse than that, by wearing shoes you’re stopping your body discharge dangerous atoms known as ‘FREE RADICALS’ which if left untouched with no escape contribute to (or directly cause) many chronic conditions. Free radicals are BAD! They’re so bad in fact, that they’ve been linked with the causing or acceleration of dozens of really serious, fatal diseases. And we all produce them every day, in our bodies. Now you’re probably thinking, why would our bodies produce them if they’re dangerous? And it’s not that they’re so bad, it’s just that if TOO MANY are produced and left for TOO LONG in the body, they start causing problems, pretty rapidly. And that’s the problem. We used to walk everywhere with no shoes on, and discharge our free radicals into the ground every night and all throughout the day. But now, what do we do? We insulate our feet with rubber shoes, so the free radicals stay in the body. Now, feet aren’t the whole problem, it’s also diet, and I’m sure you’ve heard the term ‘antioxidant’ and know it’s good for you in some way? This is very much the same thing. So free radicals can be FLUSHED from your system by waling barefoot, IN THE RIGHT WAY and at the right times. More on that later, but there’s more... Your POSTURE when you wear shoes When you wear a shoe, you posture and muscles suffer massively. You can’t notice it though, and it can’t easily be seen by looking at someone. That’s why most people don’t know they have a problem. That is, until they end up at the doctors because their spine is out of line, or their neck is seized up, or they have knee or foot problems.. Or anything else like that! You see, posture problems aren’t obvious usually, unless they’re REALLY bad. That doesn’t mean they’re not serious though. By wearing shoes you’re actually damaging your posture and health, and you’re making your muscles weaker. You have probably been fooled by the marketing of big shoe companies to think that you need their shoes for the ‘arch support’. That’s not the case. You need the arch support BECAUSE you’re wearing the shoe.. Not the other way around. So if you just took the shoe off, you wouldn’t need the arch support. Think about it, no animal is born with shoes, and no human is either. We don’t need them, but more importantly, they’re damaging our feet and posture among other things. Every day that you wear shoes, you’re making your feet weaker, and more likely to become injured in the future. The muscles and stabilising tendons around the foot and legs are NOT used when you wear most types of shoe. In fact, they’re just left to wither, to the point that MILLIONS of people suffer every year from foot troubles that would be avoided if they didn’t wear shoes. It’s like if you broke your leg and used crutches. The crutches help at first, but if you KEEP using them, you don’t build up the strength to walk on your own. Your muscles fade away, and eventually, you’re weaker and not able to walk properly. It’s the same thing with shoes, every day you wear them, you’re making your feet weaker, because they don’t ever NEED to develop the muscles and tendons that you were born with, to enable you to walk unaided. So anyway, I obviously ended up doing a lot of research on all of this, over the years. That research became more and more in depth and interesting, and I thought I’d finally put it into a book format and offer it to you guys. I’ve presented it in a really interesting and informative way in this guide, but in a way that’s actually fun to read. I’ve created a detailed PDF book guide to walking barefooted, and why you’d want to do so. I explain lots of things in this guide.. What you’ll learn in ‘Free Your Feet’ In the detailed, concise PDF guide you’ll learn the following: Exactly how traditional shoes damage your feet, ruin your posture and cause all sorts of foot related problems How to start walking barefoot safely, and get ALL of the best benefits with none of the risks How to reduce the number of free radicals in your body which can improve many areas of your health and fight all the negative effects we mentioned before The types of shoe that AREN’T AS BAD for your feet as most (But the chances are, you’ve never heard of these, and they look TOTALLY different to what you’d expect) How to ground yourself even if you don’t live near any actual ground or soil/grass How big shoe companies trick you into needing or wanting shoes, without really having anything to back up their claims The most dangerous type of shoe you could possibly wear, and why it’s so bad for you! The strange thing you can do to release free radicals and neutralise the inflammation in your body How to carefully walk barefoot and do it safely in adverse weather conditions which most would consider too dangerous to walk barefoot in The secret to building up ‘foot armour’ that will enable you to walk over conker shells, thorns and even glass within just a few weeks My massive mistake that I made when first starting to walk barefoot, and how you can avoid doing the same thing What 90% of people who walk barefoot are actually doing WRONG and how you can do it right Plus of course, loads more.

Download or read book Letitia Baldrige s New Manners for New Times written by Letitia Baldrige and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MANNERS, REVISED AND UPDATED TO ACCOMODATE TODAY'S HIGH-SPEED LIFESTYLES, SHIFTING VALUES, AND EVER-EVOLVING DEFINITION OF FAMILY. Letitia Baldrige is universally recognized as the country's leading authority on executive, domestic, and social manners. She began writing on manners and protocol during her diplomatic service in 1949, and she has been hailed on the cover of Time magazine as "America's leading arbiter of manners." Originally published in 1989, her Complete Guide to New Manners has now been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the changing social conventions and enormous technological advances of the past fifteen years. Baldrige was the first etiquette writer to advise extensively on the subject of manners in the workplace. With her legendary background in both the government and business worlds, she remains the prime authority on the integration of goals that often seem at odds with one another -- namely, family, work, and pleasure. Baldrige provides fresh guidelines on etiquette at work and in every form of communication, from letters to emails to cell phone calls. She also updates the way we approach the traditional rites of passage -- weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, gatherings large and small. Here are authoritative answers to the etiquette questions and issues involved in nontraditional family relationships -- stepfamilies, adult children returning home, elderly parents moving in, gays and lesbians in the family, dating for the newly single, and the myriad complications that spring from divorce. Through it all, Baldrige does not forget the essence of manners: they are an expression of love and care, and they are under our control. New Manners for New Times is a comprehensive encyclopedia that will lead readers confidently and correctly through the maze of lifestyles, customs, business, and ways of relating to others in this new, complex millennium. But it is, above all, a very personal statement.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Barefoot Running written by Dr. Craig Richards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced running - naturally. For 30 years runners have been told that their only hope of salvation from injury is an expensive shoe - until now. The barefoot running and minimalist-footwear revolution is here and it is turning the world of running upside down. ? Offers expert advice on how to run barefoot and strengthen atrophied muscles and revitalize super-sensitive soles ? A Harvard University study made from early 2010 shows that barefoot running is better for the body and feet than running in expensive shoes

Download or read book Everybody Rise written by Stephanie Clifford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling debut that is “full of ambition and grit” (Emma Straub), Stephanie Clifford's Everybody Rise is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose everything to find our way back to who we really are. “Finally, a novel that admits ‘making it’ isn't just a makeover away.” -Vanity Fair Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn Beegan intended to free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s stately Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she lands a job at a social-network startup aimed at the elite, she has no choice but to infiltrate their world. Soon she finds herself navigating the promised land of Adirondack camps, Hamptons beach houses, and, of course, the island of Manhattan itself. Intoxicated by the wealth, access, and influence of her new set, Evelyn can’t help but try to pass as old money herself. But when the lies become more tangled, she grasps with increasing desperation as the ground beneath her begins to give way. Chosen as one of Summer's Best Books by People Magazine Featured in Time Magazine's Summer Reading Entertainment Weekly's Summer Must List Good Housekeeping Beach Reads Feature

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Download or read book Soledad written by Angie Cruz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Angie Cruz takes readers on a journey as one young woman must confront not only her own past of growing up in Washington Heights, but also her mother's. At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she's an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tía Gorda calls with the news that Soledad's mother has lapsed into an emotional coma, she insists that Soledad's return is the only cure. Fighting the memories of open hydrants, leering men, and slick-skinned teen girls with raunchy mouths and snapping gum, Soledad moves home to West 164th Street. As she tries to tame her cousin Flaca's raucous behavior and to resist falling for Richie—a soulful, intense man from the neighborhood—she also faces the greatest challenge of her life: confronting the ghosts from her mother's past and salvaging their damaged relationship. Evocative and wise, Soledad is a wondrous story of culture and chaos, family and integrity, myth and mysticism, from a Latina literary light.

Download or read book Front Line Librarianship written by Guy Robertson and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates. The book's author presents an unrivalled portrait of front-line librarianship that is based upon his unique experience and voice. Chapters consider workplace matters, the fate of hardcopy books, speechmaking at conferences, the effects of recessions on libraries, continuing education, and corporate gift-giving programs. This book will make an excellent and useful addition to library collections in library science. Tells stories and presents interviews, bringing color and texture to library experience Shows librarianship from the perspective of a long-term practitioner Gives different approaches to a great range of real-life workplace issues