Now, a full-body workout program, based on the phenomenally successful fitness video series Buns of Steel, is available in this easy-to-follow, completely illustrated book. Each chapter focuses on firming and strengthening a different area of the body, and exercises are arranged into 10-, 15-, and 20-minute workouts suitable for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. 100 photos.

Body Matters approaches the material world directly; it seeks to remind people that they are the matter of their bodies. This volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon and co-create human bodies. This lively collection foregrounds myriad material influences interacting with and shaping the human body; the chapters come together to illustrate the fundamental fleshy, bony, suppurating, leaky and oozing physicality of being human. Ultimately, by reminding readers of their indisputable materiality, Body Matters seeks to draw people and the rest of the material world together to illustrate that bodies not only seep into (and are part of) the landscape, but equally that people and the material world are inextricably co-constitutive.

The surprising story of Pilates-the man and the method.

A book that goes into detail about various internal martial arts iron body conditioning exercises and protocols. This book seeks to archive this information for future generations of practitioners.

Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.