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Author Event (Sacramento): Not Fit for Our Society by Peter Schrag
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
    Not Fit for Our Society: Is a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored our national history, with the fear—and loathing—of newcomers that provides one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic "science" to ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform, and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who decides, and on what basis.   Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor and later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California: America's High-Stakes Experiment (both from UC Press) and Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. Peter Schrag is the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California Studies Association.
Author Event (Davis): Happy Body by Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
  Professional trainers ANIELA and JERZY GREGOREK have developed a proven way to help people lose weight, reverse serious health conditions, and slow down the aging process. In their comprehensive new book, The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation, with a foreword by Stanford University School of Medicine’s Eric Weiss MD, this dynamic husband and wife team introduce readers to the successful and innovative fitness program they’ve become famous for among the hundreds of athletes, celebrities, and ordinary people whose bodies, lives, and health they’ve transformed. Based on standards and goals established over the course of three decades of practice, and backed by sound scientific study, The Happy Body program features structured exercise sequences (simple weightlifting and floor exercises), relaxation techniques, and nutrition guidelines. The program slows down the aging process by restoring six qualities of youthfulness— flexibility, strength, speed, leanness, ideal body weight, and good posture—making you feel as youthful as you were at 20. Using detailed step-by-step photographs, easy-to-follow charts and formulas, and concise written instructions, the Gregoreks show how to design a personalized fitness plan consisting of 18 exercises you can do in your own home with a set of inexpensive hand weights. They demonstrate how to do each exercise the right way so as to avoid injury, and include guidelines that enable you to customize a routine for your own body type, fitness and health goals, and progress.    ANIELA and JERZY GREGOREK came to the U.S. from Poland in 1986 as political refugees during the Solidarity Movement, and have since built a successful personal coaching and athletic training practice in LA. Aniela is a five-time World Weightlifting Champion who holds six world records, and Jerzy is a four-time World Weightlifting Champion with one world record. The Gregoreks founded the UCLA weightlifting team in 2000 and are its head coaches. They have devoted the last three decades of their lives to researching and designing The Happy Body program. Using these techniques, they have transformed hundreds of people—from housewives and physicians to athletes and celebrities—who came to them with every conceivable body shape and desire.  The Happy Body is the recipient of many awards, including Winner of the USA Book News 2009 Exercise and Fitness Book of the Year, finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year 2009, and a Gold Award Winner in the 2010 Best Of Expo in San Francisco, 2010 Eric Hoffer Award Winner, and Winner of the Living Now Book Awards
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