Fitness Articles 2010
JAMES ELLIS – COVERS & ARTICLES 2010
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice $10.77 Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world–practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls–that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim?In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question … |
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Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives $4.24 What makes us the way we are? Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics—our health, our intelligence, our temperaments—are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth?That’s the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins…. |
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The Best American Sports Writing of the Century $4.96 Given the overall vigor and volume of sports writing in America throughout the 20th century, the idea of compiling a single collection dubbed the “best” requires a daring balancing act of boldness and delicacy. And that’s just what it is. Sports fans–but why limit this sparkling, spirited, passionate prose to just sports fans?–will revel in the equilibrium of David Halberstam’s and Glenn S… |