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The Pilates Body : The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without Machines
The exercises in The Pilates Body can be performed with just an exercise mat. While all parts of the body are used in the exercises, the focus is on the abdominals, or "powerhouse," which support the back; this makes Pilates an ideal exercise for those with back problems--or those hoping to prevent them.
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Cuss Control : The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing O'Connor makes a case for the role of cursing in the dumbing-down of our language. He argues that in using profanity, the speaker is usually just being lazy, avoiding having to choose more descriptive words to express himself. Cursing, O'Connor writes, "does little to convey our real message or the fact that our education continued beyond fifth grade."
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A Cursing Brain? : The Histories of Tourette Syndrome A Cursing Brain? examines the history of Tourette's syndrome with exceptionally interesting historical detail and reflection. Howard Kushner, professor of the history of medicine at San Diego State University, traces the history of the syndrome from before the time of the famed neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825 to 1893) and his student Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857 to 1904) through the 1980s.
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