Mark Hanson: 27 books

'Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?' This is the simple question Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson ask, exploring the dominant myth that the exploding epidemic of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes can be tackled by focusing on adult life styles. Addressing the flawed approach...

Explaining the practical implications of new discoveries in 'life-course biology', Nutrition and Lifestyle for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding is an informed resource on factors that affect offspring development. The impact of parental lifestyle and behavioural choices influence not only fetal development...

Learning to play slide Guitar is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing - fast! Full colour pictures, clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice combine...

Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the field of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and epidemiology have led to the growing realisation...

Having a bad day at the office? How would you like to be CEO of a rapidly failing, 16 billion-dollar insurance corporation and you haven't a clue about what to do? Why? Because you are there by mistake. Your real life has been that of an angry, over-the-edge labor leader with a history of battling...

This book focuses on the questions of: why do some economically disadvantaged nations develop significantly faster than others, and what roles do their educational systems play? In the early 1960s Mexico and South Korea were both equally underdeveloped agrarian societies. Since that time, the development strategies pursued by each country resulted

(Guitar Solo). 15 soothing songs arranged for solo guitar in standard notation and tablature, including: Don't Know Why * Hallelujah * I'm Yours * Let It Be * Morning Has Broken * Photograph * Tears in Heaven * When I'm Sixty-Four * You've Got a Friend * and more. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.

The Silicon War is a fictional story depicting the theft and illegal export of sensitive U.S. electronic equipment and the federal government’s efforts to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice. The story begins with the discovery in the U.S. that equipment is being funneled...

A collection of short stories by Mark Lind-Hanson includes: A young Indian boy coming to grips with warfare in prairie culture, an invasion of the southern California coast, a man who wakes up one day with the ability to hear his neighbor's thoughts, and draw places he has never been, a retired...

In Bus Of Fools, Guru Abbryggdd, the co-creator of the OtherNet, attempts to regain his family's lost estate and place in the House of Lords. Joined by the pretender to the throne of England, the "terrorist" Bonny Black Prince, they join forces to recapture their respective places in history...

Catherine Lea and Brakelight Press are thrilled to bring together New York Times and USA TODAY Bestsellers Russell Blake and Diane Capri, along with Amazon #1 Bestseller Joe Konrath, Edgar nominee and Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller Austin Camacho, short story multi-award-winning author...

“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” —from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning...

Jeana Montague is “in treatment.” She’s been caught “acting out” and being “a problem to her neighbors.” At Shadow Acres, rehabilitation is measured by one’s willingness to “get with the program.”But Shadow Acres is staffed by an incongruous group of men (and women) out to prove...

Professor Guilliame Caltrop is a man with problems. He’s surrounded by people who continually bombard him them with issues of their own - seeming friends and colleagues willing to stick the knife in where they can, old warriors from the psychedelic era rampaging at heedless bureaucrats, students...