Böcker av Alan Jackson

Weight Wisdom is probably the most comprehensive weight-management book ever written, with twenty-five years of research and practice distilled into a complete, pragmatic, and reader-friendly resource written by a renowned weight management practitioner.Weight Wisdom understands that no two people are overweight for the same reasons, with each complex back story as unique as our fingerprints - as are the solutions. The truth is, that only you can find the critical path to permanent weight loss, and that is by becoming a subject expert and specialist in managing your own weight. Weight Wisdom will guide you through the process of change, and by following the Five Insights of Weight Wisdom, enduring weight loss for people of all sizes, is not only possible, but probable. This is borne out by the results attained by the author in practice. No gimmicks, no get fast thin remedies, instead only the truth is offered from one of the leading authorities on weight management.This book is suitable for the dieting beginner or the seasoned professional, for the social over eater or the entrenched food addict. This is because Weight Wisdom will not teach you how eat, but instead, how to think, and to overcome the 'yearning enigma', that is desperately wanting something, knowing what to do, but not being able to do it. By accessing Weight Wisdom, you will be taking the first logical step to achieving your goal of permanent weight loss.

Toronto is not only Canada's economic capital, but it also has one of the most diverse populations and has been classified as one of the world's most livable cities. But Toronto's past and present are full of weird facts and tidbits from the truly trivial to the seriously strange: * The name ''Toronto'' first appeared on a French map as ''Lac de Taranteau,'' derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto. * Today, Yorkville is a trendy downtown shopping area but it was once a cemetery for those who could not afford a church burial; the cemetery was removed in the 1870s, but human remains keep turning up at every modern-day Yorkville construction project. * The land on which Toronto was built was purchased from the Mississauga First Nation band for a few hundred British pounds, 2000 gun flints, two dozen each of kettles and hats, all the hand mirrors they could carry and 100 gallons of excellent navy rum. * Olympic sculler Ned Hanlan got in lots of midnight practice rowing crates of whisky for his bootlegger dad. * William Davies, whose pork-processing company earned Toronto the nickname ''Hogtown,'' died after being butted by a goat. * The abandoned Queen Street underground streetcar station is a location for the latest remake of the slasher movie Nightmare on Elm Street. * And many more fascinating facts.

This volume includes essays by writing specialists who are concerned with their own failure to improve their students' writing skills. These contributors examine why entering college students still write poorly and why our various attempts to improve such poor writing skills have largely failed.