This ebook provides an approach to the resolution of runners plantar fasciitis based on improved body awareness and the dynamic nature of fascia. FitOldDog’s bout of runner’s plantar fasciitis-induced heel and foot pain resulted from his tendency to lean forward whilst standing, compounded by a tense hamstring triggering calf muscle spasms and tightening of the related fascia. How would a boot or sock help with that? They didn’t? Curing my sore heel enabled me to qualify for the Boston Mar...

Four books in one, to encourage action for environmental protection. Talk is cheap, but action is necessary to save species from ecocide. Book one, Not Just Talk, provides a series of simple actions one can take to help the health of the Biosphere. The second and third books describe how the author reduced his carbon footprint, and improved his retirement cash flow, by building a tiny house with a large vegetable garden.Book four, the author's first historical novel, "Scientist in ...

Dedicated to Earth Day, this little book is designed to encourage replacement of non-functional, bright green lawns, with more diverse plant life and vegetable gardens. There is nothing like home grown garden produce.This book will teach you how to take the hard work out of the process.The author encourages the reader to work with Nature, rather than fighting every step of the way.Having created vegetable gardens in a range of locations and climates, the author is w...

The author decided to leave his scientific career during a final invited lecture, the keynote address to a small scientific society. He realized that 40 years was quite enough. He needed to step aside for the next generation. After his lecture entitled, “Paradigm Shifts In Biology,” several young scientists in the audience came up to ask him, “What would you do if you were just starting your career in the biological sciences?”He replied without hesitation:“I would choose a ...

Would you like a better life with peripheral artery disease (PAD)? I did! Here's my tested approach to mastering claudication pain, and numb feet, to enjoy an active life again.Discover solutions, for:Numb feet during exercise.Calf pain when walking, especially uphill.Loss of your active life-style.Based on my veterinary medical training, athletic and body-movement training, I manage to continue Ironman Triathlon in spite of severe PAD...

A fugitive adventure story, created to encourage our fight against climate change and government employees who promote ecocide. The US President is a government employee.Scientist, applied mathematician, admirer of the work of Rachel Louise Carson, and her prescient book, Silent Spring, and defender of the health of the Biosphere, Jeb Newton, known to his friends as Fig, is caught up in a government-sponsored conspiracy to silence environmentalists. This covert activity was created...

Based on my personal experience of the pain of peripheral artery disease (PAD), I created this step-by-step training plan, to help anyone, not just athletes, for whom their physicians and surgeons have done all they can for their lower limb ischemia (impaired blood flow due to blocked arteries).Great Surgeon, no solutionI built on my previous work, see below, and took my research to the source of my pain, my feet and calves. I thought, maybe they can help m...

They say write about what you know. Well! I know about reading books, hundreds of them.Read well to write well!I decided to share some reading suggestions in this little book, "Precious Quiet Time: “The Novel a Week” One Year Challenge."Some of the most important moments in my life are those when nothing happens. I call it “Quiet time.” On the days when Sue goes off to work at 5:10 a.m., OMG, for one of her long days at the hospital, our three dogs,...

This book will inspire you to action. It will guide your training towards an enjoyable old age.Cover image: The author completing the Lake Placid Ironman, at age 68, as the only person to undertake such a race with an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft. Nearly 10 years later, now with peripheral vascular disease, he’s still training for Ironman, his beloved sport. Endurance training taught him how to fight the ravages of aging, by adapting to change.There are both destru...

New Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played by real jazz musicians. The sixties brought Preservation Hall, a musical institution that even a hurricane couldn’t kill. For the last 40 years, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has been celebrating New Orleans’ and Louisiana’s unique culture and music.This volume contains rar...

"Evolution and Adaptation" by Thomas Hunt Morgan explores the intricate relationship between evolutionary processes and the adaptive traits of organisms. Morgan, a pioneering geneticist, delves into how species evolve over time through natural selection and genetic variation. He emphasizes the importance of understanding heredity and the role of genes in shaping the characteristics of living beings. The book serves as a foundational text in the field of genetics, illustrating how evolution...

There are a few races of poultry that have two kinds of males, one with the feathering of the ordinary cock, the other with the feathering of the hen. The Hamburgs and the Campines are perhaps the best known races of this sort. Convention amongst breeders, in certain countries, has determined that the cock-feathered bird shall be the standard, and at other times and places that the hen-feathered males shall be the show birds. In one breed, at least, viz., the Sebright bantams, the hen-feat...