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Get Fit, Stay Well! Brief Edition offers one of the most modern, student-focused, flexible, and technology-enhanced approaches to fitness and wellness available today. It is the only fitness and wellness textbook to employ integrated student-case-studies throughout each chapter. It presents a thoroughly fresh art and photo program featuring strength training photos depicting real, contemporary students, modern-day equipment, and options for those with limited access to equipment. A unique three-pronged (skill acquisition, self-assessment, and plan-for-action) approach to labs helps students bridge the gap between what they know they ought to do and how they actually act. The powerful supplements package provides a comprehensive suite of classroom presentation tools, additional lab activities, and unsurpassed resources for those teaching online or hybrid classes-including audio/visual lectures, online quizzes, lab worksheets, 80+ exercise videos, and an E-book. The Brief Edition contains chapters 1-11 of the "full edition" of Get Fit, Stay Well!, with a focus on fitness topics, nutrition, weight, stress, and preventing cardiovascular disease.

Individuals who consider themselves both scholars and fans represent not only a subculture of fandom but also a subculture of academia. These liminal figures seem suspicious to many of their colleagues, yet they are particularly positioned not only to be conduits to engaged learning for students but also to transform the academy by chipping away at the stereotypes that support the symbolic walls of the Ivory Tower. Because they are growing in number and gaining influence in academia, the scholar-fans of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy) and other texts by creator Joss Whedon are one focus of this dissertation. Though Buffy academics or Whedon scholars are not the only ones of their kind (e.g., academic- fan communities have cropped up around The Simpsons, The Matrix Trilogy, and the Harry Potter franchise), they have produced more literature and are more organized than any other academic-fan community. I approach all of my subjects--fandom, academia, fan-scholars, and scholar-fans--from a multidisciplinary perspective, employing various methodologies, including autoethnography and narrative inquiry. Taking several viewpoints and using mixed methods best allows me to begin identifying and articulating a rhetoric of scholar-fandom. Ultimately, I claim that Whedon academic-fans employ a discourse marked by intimacy, community, reciprocity, and transformation. In other words, the rhetoric of Whedon scholar-fandom promotes an epistemology--a way of knowing--that in Parker J. Palmer''s paradigm is personal, communal, reciprocal, and transformational.

A detailed guide to the planning and execution of home building or renovation, with tips on design, pouring foundations, installing floors, walls, and roofing, hiring subcontractors; and includes checklists on an accompanying CD-ROM.

Book & CD-ROM. Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. You will learn the development process, governmental issues, environmental issues, demographics and trends, market research, site selection, feasibility analysis, due diligence, preliminary pro forma, property acquisition, project design/refined pro forma, entitlements, financing/final pro forma, construction, operation, feasibility studies, financing, market analysis, construction, and asset management. The companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format.

Book & CD-ROM. Starting a construction company, even a small one, can be a very profitable venture. In good times and bad construction is an industry that will always be in demand, and construction is not an industry where technology will replace or undermine it. The construction field is growing rapidly. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction firms are expected to be one of the fastest growing business segments in the U.S. economy. There has never been a better time to start a construction company and get ahead of the competition. This is a comprehensive, detailed study of the practical side of starting and operating a construction firm. It will take you step by step through every aspect and prepare you with everything you need including sample business forms, leases, contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, starting, and running day-to-day operations. You will get dozens of other valuable, timesaving tools of the trade that every entrepreneur should have. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author help you find a location and business name that will bring success, take you through the process of drawing up a winning business plan (the Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word TM), and teach you how to start and manage your construction company. You will find guidance on obtaining licenses and permits, drawing up contracts, hiring subcontractors, meeting governmental regulations, attracting new clients and referrals, applying for financing, tracking utilities, employing basic cost control systems, dealing with pricing issues, and staying ahead of the competition. You will avoid trial by error when setting up equipment layouts, meeting legal and IRS requirements, and tapping into the best sales and marketing techniques and pricing formulas. The book will even help you set up computer systems to save time and money, teach you how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, use the best computer software, network with publishers and associations, do your own sales planning, customer service, keep your own books, compile monthly profit and loss statements, and prepare taxes. You will become adept at media planning, pricing, and public relations. You will be able to manage and train employees, motivate workers, generate high profile public relations and publicity, and learn low cost marketing ideas and low cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. You will learn how to keep bringing customers back and build referrals the secret of continued success as well as getting thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The manual delivers literally hundreds of innovative demonstrated ways to operate and streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. The secret of continued success as well as getting thousands of great tips and useful ideas. In addition, you will appreciate the valuable CD ROM resource in your daily activities as a source of ready-to-use forms, templates, worksheets, business plan, surveys, letters, web site resources, everything you will need to get up and running. We also went the extra mile and spent an unprecedented amount of time researching, interviewing, e-mailing, and communicating with hundreds of today s most successful construction company executives. Aside from learning the basics you will be privy to their secrets and proven successful ideas. Instruction is great, but advice from experts is even better, and the construction experts chronicled in this book are earning a great deal of money for their expertise.

Children spend a significant amount of time in school. While programs do exist for school settings to assist children diagnosed with Asperger''s Disorder, they focus on individual aspects or symptoms related to the disorder and often lack a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, early intervention approach. There remains a need to apply treatment strategies utilizing a comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary approach in school settings. The purpose of this dissertation is to create a comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary treatment program to be utilized in school settings as early as possible with children diagnosed with Asperger''s Disorder. This program''s interventions could be implemented in a variety of early intervention settings both public and private.

"Cognitive Evaluation Theory was developed by Deci & Ryan, (1985) to explain factors that affect intrinsic motivation. This study was done to test this theory by having volunteers engage in direct and indirect competition while working on a simple task in a time-pressured environment."--Leaf iv.

Have you ever thought about what it means to really serve like Jesus? Are we reflecting His love and sacrifice, or just following the crowd? The iSERVE Reflection Booklet asks you to take a deep dive and see for yourself. At Cornerstone Christian Center, we’re all about Loving God, Loving People, and Going to Revolutionize the world. The iSERVE Booklet is your chance to experience that for real. The lowercase "i" in iSERVE is a reminder that it’s not about you—it’s about surrendering, being humble, and putting others and God first. This booklet challenges you to think about how serving can change you. It’s not just something you do; it’s how you love, how you connect with people, and how you grow in your relationship with Christ. Can you truly love someone if you’re not willing to serve them? iSERVE shows you how to live out your faith with action, just like Jesus did. When you serve, you create a ripple effect that can transform lives—including your own. So, are you ready to make a real difference? Upload your reflection booklet, and let’s grow!