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The keto reset diet : reboot your metabolism in 21 days and burn fat forever / Mark Sisson ; with Brad Kearns.

Mounting scientific research suggests that eating a ketogenic diet could represent one of the greatest nutritional breakthroughs of our time--and that it might be the healthiest and most effective weight-loss strategy ever. Going "keto" by eating in a high-fat, moderate-protein, and low-carb pattern enables you to break free from the disastrous effects of carbohydrate dependency. Instead, you'll reset your metabolism to promote metabolic flexibility--where your body learns to burn fat instead of sugar for energy, even when you take a break from the plan. Many ketogenic programs require challenging restrictions and deprivation or offer misinformation, but Mark Sisson, bestselling author of The Primal Blueprint and publisher of the number one paleo blog MarksDailyApple.com, presents a unique, two-step, scientifically validated approach for going keto the right way. He first reveals the real secret to rapid and sustained weight loss, which is in becoming "fat-adapted" before entering full nutritional ketosis, a process that allows your body to learn to burn fat more efficiently. It takes as little as twenty-one days to reprogram your metabolism to burn fat for fuel by ditching processed grains, sugars, and refined vegetable oils in favor of nutrient-dense, high-fat, primal/paleo foods--and you'll see immediate results. Next, you'll fine-tune with Intermittent Fasting and then foray into full ketogenic eating for a further weight-loss boost and improved health. With The Keto Reset Diet, you can eat to total satisfaction by enjoying rich, high-satiety foods, and even weather occasional slipups. You'll use keto as a lifelong tool to stay trim, healthy, energetic, and free from the disastrous health conditions caused by the typical American diet.
Author: Sisson, Mark, 1953-
Published: Richmond, Victoria : Hardie Grant Books, 2018.
Published: ©2017.
viii, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 613.25 SIS - Health & Well-being - Available - L10302204266

Why we sleep : the new science of sleep and dreams / Matthew Walker.

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world -- Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes -- has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life -- eating, drinking, and reproducing -- the purpose of sleep remained elusive. Now, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, "Why We Sleep" delves in to everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.
Author: Walker, Matthew P.
Published: [London] : Penguin Books, 2018.
Published: ©2017.
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

Coolbellup Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 612.821 WAL - Available - 31111069481602
Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 612.821 WAL - Available - L10302505436
Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 612.821 WAL - Health & Well-being - Onloan - Due: 03 Apr 2024 - 31111078784137

Saga land / Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason.

A gripping blend of family mystery, contemporary stories and the beautiful and bloody Viking tales, set against the starkly stunning landscape of Iceland.
Author: Fidler, Richard, 1964-
Published: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2017.
Published: ©2017.
xxviii, 447 pages, 32 pages of numbered plates : illustrations (some colour), map ; 22 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 839.6 FID - Available - 31111070325665

Christopher Hitchens : the last interview and other conversations / with an introduction by Stephen Fry.

"From Hitchens's earliest interviews to his final published interview with Richard Dawkins just before his death, this collection covers the brilliant career of Christopher Hitchens and tackles everything from atheism, his controversial support of the Iraq War, to America's march toward theocracy."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Hitchens, Christopher
Published: Brooklyn : Melville House, [2017]
Published: ©2017.
xii, 156 pages ; 21 cm.
Last interview series

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 818.609 HIT - Society & Culture - Available - 31111070624927

Atlas Obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders / Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton.

Get off the beaten path, and brush off your bucket list! Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, this volume celebrates the strangest and most curious places in the world. Covering natural wonders, architectural marvels, and mind-boggling events, you'll revel in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious.
Author: Foer, Joshua
Published: New York : Workman Publishing, 2016.
Published: ©2016
470 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - Q 910.41 FOE - Countries: History & Geography - Available - L10302118300

Scale : a novel / Keith Buckley.

"Ray Goldman will outdrink you, out-party you and, unfortunately for him, probably outlive you. As a hopeless and struggling indie rock musician, Ray's best chance of discovering any beauty and purpose in his dysfunctional life will come only when he ceases to struggle against life itself. These are his memoirs. Scale chronicles Ray Goldman's journey downward through the adversarial trials that sometimes prove necessary in facilitating an eventual ascent into truth and happiness. The odd chapters of the novel find Ray, now a 31-year-old guitar player, seeking fulfillment in the wake of a life-altering tragedy while the even chapters see him reflecting on the depravity and selfishness that hastened his descent towards it. Scale is about the relationship between instability and balance, death and resurrection, perception and reality, but ultimately it is about the endless war waged between our disquieted minds and our noble hearts."
Author: Buckley, Keith
First trade paperback original edition.
Published: Los Angeles, Calif. Rare Bird Books, [2015]
Published: ©2015.
241 pages ; 22 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F BUC - General Fiction - Available - L1030198490X

Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians - collecting scalps as their bloody trophies - they too are stalked as prey. Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful and savagely beautiful, it has emerged as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.
Author: McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Picador classic edition / introduction by Philipp Meyer.
Published: London : Picador, 2015.
Published: ©1985.
xiv, 352 pages ; 20 cm.
Picador classics

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F MCC - Available - 31111080423898

The further adventures of an idiot abroad / Karl Pilkington ; photography by Freddie Claire ; illustrations by Dominic Trevett.

Our favourite idiot is back. Safely home from his latest travels, Karl has decided it is time to share his hard-earned wisdom of the world. Taking the Bucket List of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' as his starting point, Karl combines brilliant stories from his recent adventures to Alaska, Siberia and beyond with entertaining, highly-opinionated views on what other people aspire to do with their lives. Why on earth would anybody want to run with the bulls in Pamplona, go 'storm chasing' through Tornado Alley, have lunch with the Queen, or touch hands with the Pope? The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad is a fitting finale to two years of eventful globe-trotting. Frank, funny and strangely inspiring, this is Karl's final word on travel.
Humour.
Travel Writing;
Author: Pilkington, Karl
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2012.
380 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 910.4 PIL - Travel - Available - 31111051162731

On the road / Jack Kerouac.

'What's your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow'. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
Author: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Published: London : Penguin Classics, 2011.
280 p. ; 23 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F KER - General Fiction - Onloan - Due: 05 Feb 2024 - Long overdue - considered lost (Set: 11 Mar 2024) - 31111048371791

No country for old men / Cormac McCarthy.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, has made a grim discovery - a load of heroin, $2 million in cash and a lot of dead bodies. But when two more men are found murdered, Moss himself becomes a target - transforming his life and destiny.
Author: McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Published: London : Picador, 2005.
309 p. ; 23 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F MCC - Thrillers & Crime - Available - L10301374842

Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts.

Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay.
Author: Roberts, Gregory David
1st U.S. ed.
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004, c2003.
936 p. ; 25 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F ROB - Thrillers & Crime - Available - 31111043582475

The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book / by Bill Watterson.

Author: Watterson, Bill
Published: London : Warner Books, 1995.
208 p. : ill.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Graphic Novels - YA - F WAT - Available - L10302237210