The Action Hero Body

A legendary celebrity trainer introduces his three-stage workout program that combines nutrition and physical training to increase their strength and endurance, promote weight loss, enhance cardiovascular fitness, and develop a more muscular body in just three weeks. 30,000 first printing.

Now you too can follow the exercise and nutrition plans that get the stars in shape Welcome to the action hero training system! In The Action Hero Body Hollywood's top trainer reveals how he gets the stars in shape for physically demanding roles. Here are the exercise and nutrition plans that have worked so well for so many celebrity clients including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Billy Crudup, Jeremy Irons, Angelina Jolie, Bridget Moynahan and Faye Dunaway. Jorgen de Mey explains the thinking behind every aspect of his programme; details the six weeks he spent working with Ben Affleck to get him in shape for Armageddon and Pearl Harbor; shows you how he evaluates the stars' physical status and how you can evaluate yours; and gives you the full 'Action Hero' Nutrition Plan, Workout and Lifeplan. If you follow his programme, Jorgen promises, ' you will become the best you can be'

Experienced educators share their best, classroom-tested ideas in this teacher-friendly, activity-based resource. The grade 5 book is divided into four units: Human Organ Systems Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms Properties of and Changes in Matter Conservation of Energy and Resources STAND-OUT COMPONENTS custom-written for the Ontario curriculum uses an inquiry-based scientific and technological approach builds understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives TIME-SAVING, COST-EFFECTIVE FEATURES includes resources for both teachers and students a four-part instructional process: activate, action, consolidate and debrief, enhance an emphasis on technology, sustainability, and personalized learning a fully developed assessment plan for assessment for, as, and of learning a focus on real-life technological problem solving learning centres that focus on multiple intelligences and universal design for learning (UDL) land-based learning activities and Makerspace centres access to digital image banks and digital reproducibles (Find download instructions in the Appendix of the book.)

This anthology examines a number of issues related to violence within the media landscape.

The 12 lessons in this module introduce students to the systems of the human body including the digestive, urinary, respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and integumentary systems. Students explore how the human body fights illness and how to maintain a healthy body through good nutrition and health practices.Also included:materials lists activity descriptions questioning techniques activity centre and extension ideas assessment suggestions activity sheets and visuals The module offers a detailed introduction to the Hands-On Science program (guiding principles, implementation guidelines, an overview of the skills that young students use and develop during scientific inquiry), a list of children's books and websites related to the science topics introduced, and a classroom assessment plan with record-keeping templates.

While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders? Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collective study examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity, and the problems involved in the transnational study of globally popular forms suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema's influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity.

Detecting Men examines the history of the Hollywood detective genre and the ways that detective films have negotiated changing social attitudes toward masculinity, heroism, law enforcement, and justice. Genre film can be a site for the expression and resolution of problematic social issues, but while there have been many studies of such other male genres as war films, gangster films, and Westerns, relatively little attention has been paid to detective films beyond film noir. In this volume, Philippa Gates examines classical films of the thirties and forties as well as recent examples of the genre, including Die Hard, the Lethal Weapon films, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Devil in a Blue Dress, and Murder by Numbers, in order to explore social anxieties about masculinity and crime and Hollywood's conceptions of gender. Up until the early 1990s, Gates argues, the primary focus of the detective genre was the masculinity of the hero. However, from the mid-1990s onward, the genre has shifted to more technical portrayals of crime scene investigation, forensic science, and criminal profiling, offering a reassuring image of law enforcement in the face of violent crime. By investigating the evolution of the detective film, Gates suggests, perhaps we can detect the male.