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Inspired by champion bodybuilder and filmdom¿s quintessential Hercules--STEVE REEVES--this compact but revolutionary philosophical primer prepares anyone at any age to properly practice practical principles of total fitness, diet, nutrition and weight training to their utmost benefit for health, longevity and youthful vitality. It pays special tribute, carrying on the torch passed on by Reeves, by forcefully raising its impassioned voice against unnatural, steroidal bodybuilding. It confronts the latter-day fitness fads, frauds and gurus from Perricone to Dr. Phil by imparting proven precepts of natural fitness without worthless resort to infomerical-promoted contraptions(like Bowflex)or synthetic supplements. CONTENTS Acknowledgment Preface: Train--Don¿t Talk--For Results Foreword: Why Rely On Reeves For Verve Chapter One: Physique Critique Chapter Two: Sensible Weight Training Chapter Three: Training Tips For Select Exercises Chapter Four: How To Weight-Train Correctly(In Steve¿s Own Words To The Mass Media) Chapter Five: Practical(Not Perricone)Prescription For Youth Chapter Six: Intelligent Nutrition And Weight Control Chapter Seven: Supermarket Banking Chapter Eight: Insight Into The Steve Reeves Diet Chapter Nine: The Travesty Of Steroidal Bulk-Building(In Steve¿s Own Words To The Mass Media) Chapter Ten: Contemporary Bulk-Building--Advanced And Modern Or Deadly And Suicidal? Chapter Eleven: Steve¿s Impassioned Pleas For Sanity In Bodybuilding(In His Own Words) Chapter Twelve: Now It¿s My Turn(Or Why I¿m No Fan Of Arnold!) Afterword: A Superior And Superlative Past Appendix 1: Contacts And Stats Appendix 2: A Cautionary Warning To Parents Of YMCA Kids Appendix 3: Picking A "Personal Trainer" Appendix 4: Genetic Grounds To Refrain From Bulk-Building

With the grisly murder of a famous true crime writer and author of Zodiac books, former San Francisco homicide inspector, Dave Toski, aka Unsavory Dave, is called out of retirement to consult with two city detectives trying to track down a latter-day Zodiac Killer, who may or may not be a copycat. At the same time, the city is plagued by a separate series of serial crimes committed by a rogue gang of Black Muslims trying to extort control of the very private security company employing Toski as its operations director.

A scathing satire of the city of Berkeley, California in particular and the entire politically correct movement in general. So you're going to try your luck and tempt fate by stagnating and subsisting in the BOG--Berkeley's true essence and putrescence! Lots of un-abashed booster "guides" will bluff, huff and puff and put the falsest soft-soap slant on things. Well, this one won't. Whether you're imprisoned, serving time or trapped there now or looking for a bail-out(or a hand-out)the Berkeley BASHER will finally tell you once and for all the whole un-abashed, un-adulterated TRUTH about the Bog's utmost WORST and why NONE of it's worth your time much less your trouble--and why the "real deal" in the Bog is always the rawest of RAW DEALS! So BEWARE! This book is absolutely EVERYTHING the in-denial, victimized and ever-whining pretentiously politically correct conclave already knows full well about the Bog but is rightly too ashamed and TOO AFRAID TO ADMIT!