Running Books

This book is one of the best modern text so suitable for beginners who wish to pursue the study of palmistry. A book which is free of jargon and technicalities and is so easy to learn, to follow, to understand the whole book without any difficulty at all. Illustrations in the book are so well designed especially the deck cards for students to remember all that is necessary for hand reading. This book clearly presents all the fundamental knowledge of palmistry. I strongly this excellent modern text to all students and the laymen who wish to know what palmistry is all about.

K.F. Woon from Malaysia.

I've been lucky to have my hands read by the author. Her approach to palmistry is the opposite of the clichéd generalities that the average person has had at a `gypsy fortune-teller' or psychic show. Based on scientific method, I was astounded at the accuracy of her analysis. Marion pinpointed areas of my personality that I thought were known only to myself! It's a fantastic toolkit that is now available to anyone to analyze and understand themselves.

The slant of the book is on relationships: how to find if you are compatible with your mate, what will keep you together, or help you to discover why you're not seeing eye-to-eye. What's amazing is that a lot of it comes down to some very simple differences between the sexes, and Marion Gale has included tips using psychology and scientific studies to further comprehend specific personality traits. Her chapter on shyness I found to be particularly helpful in understanding this commoner-than-you-think characteristic - which often is the spur to great achievement in life.

I would recommend the large-format book which comes with the card deck - both beautifully designed in friendly, cheerful colours and a unique magnetic box. The cards are very easy to use - no hefty book to balance while you're peering at your hands: you just pick the card that matches what's in your hand, flip it over, and the explanation is on the back. The cards are great as gifts, and fun for a `girls' night in'. The book is an in-depth companion and has been both entertaining and enlightening to me. Very highly recommended!

This book is an absolute MUST HAVE for every girl or woman, who wishes to find and keep true love with a compatible partner. The author, Marion Gale, has helped hundreds of women (including myself) to rebuild their self-confidence and find happiness and harmony in their love-life. You can spend your youth trying to figure out human character, or waste years of your life (and tons of energy), trying to make relationships "work," or you can buy this book and learn how to figure out a person in a few minutes, by simply looking at his hands.
Once you carefully read the book, you can carry the convenient deck of cards in your purse and try to read people's hands (not just palms) every time you get the chance to. I promise, you will be amazed.
The book comes in a beautiful package (colorful glossy box), and it would make the perfect gift for your best friend, sister or daughter!

Hit the road running ... hits home run. A must read for soon-to-be and graduating students. Why make the same mistakes as others when you can learn from them instead. Thanks M.L.

I just bought and used portions of this book. I found it to be extremely helpful in my post graduation job search. I had no idea there was such a straight forward and effective method for putting my degree to work.

Thanks Margot!

The good folks at Real Life Guides have once again delivered an excellent "tour guide" for life after college. Margot Lester and her colleagues provide an excellent resouce for the career and financial issues that leave many in the twenty-something crowd perplexed - and it is enjoyable at the same time.

I read the book from front to back she start out slow then will bring to high spots keep you reading the story beacuse you want to know whats going to happen next.It feels like the aurther is into the very page of each story with all her heart and feeling like living it herself very good book . I hope she working on another one .Keep up the fast pace watch out truckers .

Roadbabe keeps your engine reviving. Watch those dangerous curves and make sure your seat belt has a quick release. Morris has really crossed the double yellow line with this one. Five Stars!

Roadbabe keeps your engine reviving. Watch those dangerous curves and make sure your seat belt has a quick release. Morris has really crossed the double yellow line with this one. Five Stars!

This is the book I was looking for. Very easy to understand. I'm a 33 year old beginner, but want to get the best out of me before it's too late, it's not for the walk/run beginners plan or for those looking to loose weight, this is for those who want to take the sport seriously regardless of the current level and take it to the next. Ever wanted to have a professional/elite coach? Look for the answer inside.

There are only a few great running books out there, and no doubt is this book included onto petite list. This book really help gives you a better understanding of his philosophy of 'Adaptive Running'. The book is filled with great knowledge touching topics such as Aerobic Support, Muscle Training, Specific-Endurance Training, and etc. But it doesn't just stop there. It even touches the elements of running economy, power, fatigue resistance, self-assessment, training execution and Adaptive Training plan. If you want to help propel yourself to the next level in either an athlete, or a coach. This is the book for you!

Buy it and you won't regret it.

This is one of the best books ever written on running training. I'm a masters athlete racing mile, 5k and 10k and I think I've just about read them all -- Brad's is the clearest breakdown of what you need to do, and when, that I have ever read.

If you've struggled with Daniels and Noakes (great though they are), this is the book for you. I predict you will finally understand what you are doing!

What I loved about Brad's book is that he can explain thing so simply. In his system/no system he's got 12 most effective training methods and three - yes just 3 - basic types of training. I love it.

System/no system? Yes; the book's plan is kind of interactive. Brad insists that your schedule MUST be individualized. You need to read, absorb, plan, try stuff out -- and adjust according to the feedback you get, not just blindly follow tables of speed and distances. He gives all the tools you need to work things out.

Bear in mind, too, that Brad is not coming at this from an academic/theoretical point of view, but is a highly successful coach currently training Olympic-level runners.

Totally recommended. A caveat for fellow masters runners: the typeface is small and sans serif. It's a 278-page book that should probably be twice that size with a more readable typeface. It's the only book I've read for months for which I've had to dig out my reading glasses!

Karen, I received your book at the exact right moment. I admittedly don't really like running but I love races! Yes, I know this sounds rather bizarre but I love being involved in 5km, 10km, 1/2 marathons and even triathlons! In order to finish these I need to run to train!

Well, I am just getting over a broken foot (I can walk fast but not run much yet) and have a 1/2 marathon in a week. I got Karen's book in early December and it was the kick I needed. I have been training and will be finishing my race! It may be a lot slower than originally planned but I will do it!

I highly recommend this book for women = especially if you don't think you would like to run!

I highly recommend this book to all women. It speaks in a unique, personal tone to all ages & athletic abilities. RUN FOR IT is a comprehensive guide that will help improve your health, fitness, and well-being.

Run For It: A Woman's Guide To Running For Emotional And Physical Health by freelance journalist and three-time marathon competitor Karen Bridson (who also conducts women-only running clinics at the Toronto running shop "The Running Room") is a straightforward guide to the health benefits a running regimen can provide for women, as well as how to safely pursue this great sport and physical fitness activity. From taking precautions, to protect one's physical safety, to maintaining health and learning, to stay with running in all seasons, Run For It offers a wealth of useful, practical information and is highly recommended for women of any age or background who would like to engage in running for their personal health or pleasure.

This book is a five star must have book for runners. I have purchased the book for at least four other people (runners) to read. Good variety of stories with some poems too.
Andrew Gideon, Thompson Falls, MT

I thought this book had a great collection of running stories that just inspired me to just run and help me in my races to keep going. I enjoyed reading this book eminsly and it has something for all ages and all types of runners. I recommend that any runner get this book, especially if you're looking for inspiration

This book should be in the hands of every runner. The short stories are amazing. The different portrayals of running can appeal to anyone, from beginner to advanced. Some of the stories will bring you to your race days and get your adrenaline running as if you are runninf the race. I can only read them one at a time because I get to pumped up and have to relax.

The poems are very eclectic. They capture the crazy thoughts that go through your mind while you are running. They also are beautiful descriptions of a very basic act. I loved them all. Every once in a while I read one before i go run. They make you think, and isn't that what happens on a run. These poems give you good mind fuel.

European 5,000 meter Gold medalist Bruce Tulloh calls Running Dialogue "a nice combination of good humor and sound advice". The advice is from a 31 minute 10k runner, plus contributions from: John Babbington, Roy Benson, Scott Douglas, Jack Daniels Ph.D., Frank Horwill, John Pagliano DPM, Gary Tuttle and Harry Wilson. Their athletes include Lynn Jennings and Steve Ovett. The first 66 pages are for the new runner, with special sections showing how to make time for exercise, and how to incorporate speedwork on low mileage. The next 100 pages take you through to VERY serious training in a humane and often humorous way. Cartoons illustrate key points and messages. Comprehensive injury prevention and treatment sections follow, nutrition and marathon training closes out the advice. The last 40 pages are a bonus: essays with a point to make, followed by pace charts showing speed to run at for anaerobic threshold and for VO2 max training. The book covers 5k to the marathon. It includes full 10k coverage, but "10k running and training" by David Holt will be available in November 1998.

David got me started with my first training schedules as his book nursed me through my first 6 months of varied and interesting training. He then follows it up with all you'd ever need to know to become and expert runner at 5K to the marathon. e.g. three chapters on Interval training. Nice cartoons and injury advice was a bonus: no need to get a specialist injury avoidence and treatment book if you have Running Dialogue. Unlike most authors, he also includes nutrition advice. David backs up his advice with science and other experts. My favorite is the training heartrate calculated from your resting heartrate: Unique.

David got me started with my first training schedules as his book nursed me through my first 6 months of varied and interesting training. He then follows it up with all you'd ever need to know to become and expert runner at 5K to the marathon. e.g. three chapters on Interval training. Nice cartoons and injury advice was a bonus: no need to get a specialist injury avoidence and treatment book if you have Running Dialogue. Unlike most authors, he also includes nutrition advice. David backs up his advice with science and other experts. My favorite is the training heartrate calculated from your resting heartrate: Unique.

An interesting and intimate account of a woman discovering her dream and then remaining focused on it, until she fianlly achieves it,.. overcoming along the way, many challenges and heartbreaks in her personal and family life. It includes many valuable life lessons, and principles of success. This book was an inspiration to me!

I love this book!! Although I am not an athlete I found the author's story very fascinating and inspiring. You don't need to be an athlete to understand her message: Everything is possible if you believe in yourself.

I can only recommend this book!!

This book is all about believing in yourself and achieving goals. It is a well written story of an ordinary woman who's life had many extra challenges. She found ways to overcome the difficult things that came her way and showed that anything is possible. Her life takes several exciting and interesting paths! She is a inspiration to others especially to athletes!

I picked up this book after going to bed at about 11.00pm. The fact is, I simply couldn't drop it! I eventually finished, looked at the clock and found it was 3.40am.

I must congratulate Fr. Victor; he paints such a vivid picture with his words that I almost felt transported to the location myself. What an experience....what a story!

There are many people capable of recording facts, but it is a gift when those facts can be brought to life so acutely.

I was so touched by the many acts of kindness shown to him, which he relates so admirably. My own abiding memories of Africa will always be of a similar nature; of the very poorest members of society insisting upon sharing the very little they had with me, and my feelings of total inadequacy in ever being able to match their richness of spirit, although striving (in my ham-fisted way!) to try.

Despite the harrowing nature of Fr. Victor's ordeal, he also manages to raise a smile at the end of the book, but I won't spoil it by going into that!

I will always treasure this book and try to remember, in particular, to pray for the children caught up in the sort of living hell that was Sierra Leone a decade ago; a story - at times harrowing - perfectly illustrating the power of faith and human endeavour over adversity, told simply and with great humility.

The book, RUNNING FOR MY LIFE, by Fr. Victor Mosele S.X., is a factual account of some of what he experienced as a two time captive of the rebel forces during Sierra Leone's recent civil war. While it is not a great piece of literature, it does not pretend nor try to be one. Rather it offers an inciteful look into a horrible war through the experiences of an eye witness. While brutally frank at times as well as touchingly moving, it is never contrived and allows the reader to know Fr. Mosele's beliefs while leaving room to come to one's own.

Powerful, riveting and nearly surreal, Father Victor's story is one that stirs both an intellectual and an emotional response in the reader. Set in the late 1990s in the middle of the Bill Clinton scandal, Father Victor shows us what the news did not. In his story he opens the reader's eyes to the harsh truth of what happens to innocent people in a war-torn society. The atrocities he describes are almost unreal, but they are true and are still occuring in similar regions of the world. A truly inspiring read, Father Victor's narrative also one that gives the spiritually-weary reader hope. Through his writing the one sees the importance of faith, perseverence, and trusting completely in God. Having been captured TWICE by the RUF rebels who gouge out eyes or cut off limbs of another human being, Father Victor makes it to freedom both times with all limbs intact. An amazing story that reads almost like a fictional novel, but it is true!

Well written and easy to understand all the characters. Reminds me of the book "The Glass Castle". It's amazing to think that children grow up in so much dysfunction. I enjoyed this read.

Running from Coyote is a charming coming of age story for an Anglo family set in the late 50's on a Navajo Indian reservation. The family of five young girls and their modest income parents in their late 20's move to the reservation from Texas under interesting circumstances not to be revealed here.

The story is told through the voice of the middle child, Danalee, seven at the beginning. She is a sad little girl, not unlike the Dorothy character in Wizard of Oz. Her sadness stems from conflict within her family. Her parents are at odds and her father is in conflict with her grandfather. The grandfather Skeet genuinely adores his granddaughter but is filled with a racial scorn typical for the time.

The five girls make their adjustment to life on the reservation with a robust exchange of sibling rivalry. The two older sisters, Marilyn and Joellen are maturing physically and developing an interest in boys. This begins the sister culture of keeping secrets from dad.

The family's frail cohesion fractures when the grandmother Doris dies at an early age and Jo decides to adopt two Navajo boys, Michael and Danny. Skeet is withdrawn mourning his wife and deeply resents sharing their common home with Michael and Danny.

The family trips to Texas are unbelievable! Three adults, seven children, a dog and all the luggage in a station wagon. Poor Marilyn is stuck in middle front seat between two smoking men. What awaits the family is Texas visiting relatives is painful to read. There is also a trip to the dentist which will shock you thinking how the outcome could have been horrific.

The story progresses well and is a page turner not leaving the reader with a pause. The writing is from the memory of a child but there's a therapeutic truthfulness in the telling. You become engaged with the people and wonder what happened to the girls and the two adopted boys after they leave the reservation. This is a tender story indicative of the times and setting giving the reader pause for thought and discussion upon completion.

In Running From Coyote, Danalee Buhler gives us her childhood memory of hot dusty days living in northern New Mexico. Her family story is a strange blend of love and detachment. Her mother at times shows great openness and compassion in adopting two little Navajo boys, yet seems amazingly absent either by silence, or staying in her bedroom, or off selling Avon to the neighbors. The girls by contrast seem to provide the nurturing for each other. Their dad works and plays golf, absenting himself from family life, leaving the children again to deal with the intricacies of growing up including how to handle the slights and slurs and prejudice against their brothers.
It is an insightful story and a good read.
Suzanne S.