Bøger af Brian Copeland

Each day, it seems like another book about getting in shape hits the bookshelves. In this ocean of information, it becomes difficult to navigate to the practical, useable knowledge. Additionally, the endless volumes of information on working out and "eating right" often seem to be in conflict with one another. How is the average person supposed to know which advice to follow and which advice to ignore? The answer is that you have to go directly to the real world fitness experts, who spend their day-to-day lives working directly with their clients, helping them with their fitness and nutrition goals. The 14 working, professional personal trainers we've interviewed in this book do not spend their days on book tours, at book signings, or producing the next DVD infomercial product. The experts in this book are personal trainers who spend their days in the gym, with their clients. What You Need To Know About Getting In Shape asks the fitness and weight loss questions that you really want to know the practical answers to - and gives them to you. Inside, we've grilled each personal trainer with the tough questions and printed the uncensored results. If you're looking to gain some of the best tips and advice from personal trainers who are "in the trenches", coaching and teaching their clients each and every day, you're going to love this book.

When Brian Copeland was eight, his mother moved his family from Oakland to San Leandro, hoping to escape her abusive husband. In the early 1970s, San Leandro was 99.99% white and considered one of the most racist enclaves in the nation. This reputation was quickly confirmed when Brian was forced into the backseat of a police car for walking to the park with a baseball bat in hand. As a successful comedian and radio host, Brian spends his adult years trying to leave behind this painful childhood. But an anonymous letter ultimately forces him to face his experiences as an outsider. "As an African American," it read, "I am disgusted every time I hear your voice because YOU are not a genuine black man!" A hilarious, surprising, and poignant memoir, Not a Genuine Black Man is a moving portrayal of one man's resilience and courage in reclaiming his identity.

"When San Francisco Police Officer Mickey Driscoll is gunned down in the driveway of his suburban Bay Area home in broad daylight, the suspects are numerous. Was the murder committed by someone close to him? An arrestee seeking revenge? Or was it one of the many rioters, activists, and militant groups harassing his family since he accidentally shot and killed an unarmed African American honor student? TV investigative reporter Topher Davis, the only Black journalist on that beat, has exactly three weeks to do one final story before his position is eliminated due to corporate budget cuts. Enlisting the aid of his sister, SFPD Homicide Detective Lynn Sloan, he decides to investigate what the families of Blacks killed by police-and the families of the cops themselves-go through when tragic events like this occur. Instead, they find themselves involved in an ever-expanding mystery as more officers who've committed the same offense turn up dead. Weaving their way through a world of grieving mothers and widows, African American militias, dirty cops, and drug dealers, they search for the truth that threatens to leave one . . . or both . . . siblings dead"--