Authors:Claudia Sagona, Isabelle Vella Gregory, Anton Bugeja
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: ancient, studies, eastern, supplement, series, collections, private, antiquities, malta, artefacts, punic
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2003-06-30
List price: $113.00
ISBN-10: 9042917032
ISBN-13: 9789042917033

Ancient artefacts that comprise the private collections of Malta came largely from the Phoenician and later Punic burial grounds of the archipelago. In many respects, the perception of the island’s ancient population as depicted in recent historic accounts has suffered from a limited knowledge of what has been found in the islands over the last few centuries. Co-authored with Isabelle Vella Gregory and Anton Bugeja, this book forms a companion volume to Claudia Sagona’s «The Archaeology of Punic Malta (2002, Peeters) and «Punic Antiquities of Malta and Other Ancient Artefacts

Author: Jane Vella
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: learning, educating, adults, dialogue, power, listen, teach
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0787959677
ISBN-13: 9780787959678

In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics. Vella sees the path to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. She uses engaging, personal stories of her work in a variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult

Author: Jane Vella
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: teaching, adults, strategies, creative, learning, task, taking
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0787952273
ISBN-13: 9780787952273

"Reading this wonderful book is like having Jane Vella at your side. She gives us the courage to risk changing our established habits of teaching."--Clifford Baden, director of programs for professional education, Harvard University"By marrying theory and practice, Vella has shown how to design learning that takes hold of the learner--mind, heart, and muscles."--Jack McCall, professor, Principals’ Executive Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"You’ll feel as though you’ve found the keys to creating profound and powerfully effective learning experiences. Anyone r

Author: Mark Vella
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: training, fitness, strength, women, anatomy
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-01-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 007149572X
ISBN-13: 9780071495721

See How Your Muscles Work Before You Work Your Muscles! Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women provides magnificent visual insight into what happens to your muscles when you exercise. You’ll be able to isolate specific muscle groups and design the most targeted program possible. Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women gives you: 100+ muscle-by-muscle illustrations for an inside look at how exercise affects your muscles 70+ exercises--ranging from free weights to machines to yoga and aerobics--that will sculpt your entire body and will give you a sexy chest, toned

Author: Mark Vella
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: guide, muscles, action, illustrated, training, strength, fitness, anatomy
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071475338
ISBN-13: 9780071475334

Learn how your muscles work before you work your muscles Perfect for beginning and advanced fitness practitioners alike, this is an in-depth look into the most magnificent machine ever created--the human body. Using detailed anatomical illustrations, Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training provides you visual insight into what happens to this organic machine during exercise--muscles and tendons working in concert to strengthen your body’s building blocks. With a basic knowledge of how the body works, you can buff up your body with the book’s 90 exercises, grouped by bod

Author: Christina Vella
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: pontalba, baroness, worlds, enemies, intimate
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2004-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0807129623
ISBN-13: 9780807129623

Against a richly woven historical background of two centuries and two vivid societies, Christina Vella unfolds the compelling story of the marital alliance between the Almonester and Pontalba families of Louisiana. Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795, Micaela Almonester was married into misery in France sixteen years later. Intimate Enemies gives the amazing true account of this resilient woman’s life—and the three men who most affected its course: her father, Andrés, an illustrious New Orleans builder in whose footsteps she eventually followed with great distinction; her father-in-l

Author: Mark Vella
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Keywords: women, training, strength, anatomy
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-01-25
List price: $27.11
ISBN-10: 1845379527
ISBN-13: 9781845379520

Research in the last ten years has made it clear that a woman’s body should be exercised differently from a man’s, and that her training programme should be adjusted to suit her body type and transformations as she moves through the various life stages. "Anatomy & Strength Training for Women" is unique guide, reference and graphic education tool suitable for any woman interested in understanding her own body and formulating a personal exercise programme.Over 90 exercises, involving gym weights, free weights and stretching, are featured in detail, grouped by chest, back and shou