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Would you ever wanted anything so desperately that it was the greatest challenge for your own mind? Elizabeth Clor also tried to qualify for the coveted Boston Marathon. Boston Bound is the tale about how Elizabeth learned how the perpetrator is her own head, and describes the measures she took to change her attitude about her running and her existence fully. The narrative provides practical resources and a helpful guide for finding and overcoming psychological roadblocks for those trying to achieve their full potential.

Keep your running career in the perfect shape with the aid of Daniels’ Running Formula, the guide that Runner’s World Magazine calls the best book for fitness. Premier running trainer Jack Daniels presents you with his iconic VDOT plan to help you to run better, longer and quicker by practicing at just the right pace. Prep for 800 meters, 1500 meters to 2 miles, cross-country runs, 5K to 10K, 15K to 30K, and marathon events. Each plan combines training intensities to help you develop stamina, strength and speed. With Daniels’ Running Formula you will train more consistently and efficiently, and you will maximize your potentail and performances. Whether you are competing or simply training, get the results you’re seeking every time you put your shoes on with the programs detailed in Daniels’ Running Formula.

Growing up in California’s desert, Jim Doty was poor, with an drunk father and a depressed mother. He met Ruth in a Magic Shop, a woman who taught him a series of techniques to relieve his own pain and express his deepest desires. Her main goal was to keep his heart open and show other people these methods. She offered him his first glipse into the special brain-heart connection. Part history, part theory, part motivation, and part pragmatic advice, Into the Magic Shop teaches us that by first transforming our minds and hearts we can radically change our lives.

Spin Sucks will show you how to connect with your clients, partners, investors, and cultures respectfully, professionally, freely, and authentically. Gini Dietrich runs the world’s number one PR website, spinsucks.com, where she posts cutting-edge ideas and resources for efficient, ethical interaction. Now, she’s distilled what she’s learned into a detailed, actionable roadmap for any company owner who wishes to master the modern rules of communications.

The legendary runner details his historic Boston Marathon victory, in 1975, that started the modern running boom.
This victory made Bill Rodgers a a living legend, changing him from Bill Rodgers to Boston Billy. He immediately became an idole for many runner of the 1970s. Having won four times each for the Boston Marathon and New York Marathon, he is the first marathon competitor to star twice on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Winning the Holy Grail of Marathons in an unprecedented fast time changed Bill’s life forever But his stunning victory in Boston has changed the lives of many others, instilling in many American athletes the hope they might lead in his footsteps, and encouraging thousands of ordinary people to lace up their sneakers and chase their own goals. Twenty thousand men had run a marathon in the United States in the year preceding Rodgers’ win at the 1975 Boston Marathon. Thirty-seven years later, Bill Rodgers still has the same dry, endearing and whimsical attitude that made him one of the most beloved athletes in America. He describes this iconic race in Marathon Man for the first time and the circumstances that took him there.

Are you ready to make your dreams a reality and create a highly profitable business? At the age of 20, Carrie launched her first online company, but she also understands the complexities of launching and running a business, and the worries, obstacles, uncertainty, and barriers that entrepreneurs face. The book will have the truthful, rational and pragmatic resources you need to pursue your heart and take your dreams to life whether you are a talented and successful women entrepreneur and consider the entrepreneurial path.

Nike CEO and board member Phil Knight tells the inside story of the early days of the company as an intrepid start-up and its transformation into one of the most popular, game-changing, and lucrative companies in the world for the first time in this candid yet riveting autobiography. Old, ambitious, fresh from business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his dad and started up a company with a basic mission: to manufacture high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from his Plymouth Valiant’s boot, Knight grossed the first year, 1963, eight thousand dollars. Today, Nike’s over $30 billion in global revenue. Knight’s Nike is the gold standard for the era of start-ups, and his swoosh is more than a mark. This is one of the only symbols immediately remembered in any part of the world, a sign of beauty and greatness. Yet Knight, the guy behind the swoosh, has been since then a total mystery. Now he’s actually sharing his story in a memoir that’s unexpected, honest, unfiltered, sweet, and beautifully written. Twenty-four years old, backpacking around the world, wondering about with the Great Questions of Life, Knight determines that he must pursue the unconventional path. Knight provides descriptions of the most frightening dangers he faced along the way, the crippling defeats, the relentless rivals, the countless doubters and haters and aggressive bankers. He remembers, above all, the fundamental connections that shaped Nike’s heart and soul, with his longtime track mentor, the irascible and energetic Bill Bowerman. Together, harnessing a visionary mindset and a common faith in sport’s redemptive, they built a product and culture that changed everything.

Norman Vincent Peale was one of the most prominent clergy in the United States for half a century. Combining the teachings of Christianity beautifully with a deep knowledge of human nature, Peale conveyed a message about the importance of religion that resonated with citizens from all religions. The Power of Positive Thinking, the most popular of his forty-six novels, has been in print for fifty years, selling fifteen million copies, and translated into forty languages. The legacy of Peale persists today in the efforts of the Peale Institute for Christian Living, the Guideposts Outreach Department, which is now run by family members, and the Guideposts newspaper, which has a circulation of over 3.2 million individuals.

The Wild Diet teaches the body to use fat as its primary source of energy by relying on pure, healthy foods and nutrient-dense meals. Eating Wild, thousands of people around the world lost 20, 60, or even more than 100 pounds without starvation and sometimes very little exercise. In The Wild Diet you will learn that we’re not meant to stay hungry, keep track of our calories, or resist tasty temptations. We are designed to eat sumptuously without being obese and live well. The Wild Diet paints a different vision in which we have the ability to change our genetic expression by taking charge over the type of food we consume, the way we walk, etc. We once had access from small, regional suppliers to a large range of fresh seasonal foods. Today we have access to a few types of processed foods, mostly thousands of miles from where we live from a huge manufacturing infrastructure. Actually returning to our natural roots and eating organic, wild food grown on a farm and not in asepticized greenhouse, is the key to great health. The body should use fat instead of sugar for energy by prioritizing foods found in the natural world, abundant in fiber and nutrients. The Wild Diet proves that by eating tasty foods such as chicken parmesan, bacon cheeseburgers, and even chocolate cake, you can stay be in the best shape of your life. It’s time to read The Wild Diet if you want to learn how to lose more calories by indulging in delicious foods and running less.

New York columnist James Surowiecki discusses a deceptively basic theory with vast consequences in this endlessly interesting book: large masses of people are smarter than most leaders, no matter how clever they are to solve issues faster, promote creativity, make wise choices, and forecast the future. Surowiecki reaches through subjects as varied as culture, sociology, behavioral economy, artificial intelligence, military history and politics to illustrate the ways this concept apply in real life. Surowiecki introduces them in a beautifully entertaining manner, given the strength of his claims. The Wisdom of Crowds is a genius yet open biography of an idea, one with valuable lessons in living our lives, choosing our leaders, running our business, and talking about our environment.