I was fat, I was unfit, and I was over 40. At my maximum, I probably weighed around 252 pounds (114 kg), but the truth is I am not really sure. Today, I am close to my ideal weight at just 182 pounds (83kg), fitter than I have probably ever been, regularly play competitive sport, and have completed several extremely demanding physical challenges.
This book is the story of how I did it, and how I believe you can too
Part personal story, part guidebook, inside you will find a "no holds barred" account of exactly how I permanently changed my lifestyle so eating healthily and doing...

This book is a complete introduction to learning, understanding, and mastering working with fractions (sometimes known as "common fractions," "simple fractions," or "vulgar fractions"), and is based on the author's personal experience providing 1:1 mathematics tuition to both school students and adult numeracy students.
Topics covered include:

• What is a fraction
• Names of fractions
• Fractions as division (converting a fraction into a division calculation and back)
• Mixed numbers
• Improper ("top heavy") fractions
• Converting mixed numbers to top heavy fractions...

This book is a guide to the 5 Platonic solids (regular tetrahedron, cube, regular octahedron, regular dodecahedron, and regular icosahedron). These solids are important in mathematics, in nature, and are the only 5 convex regular polyhedra that exist.
Topics covered include:

• What the Platonic solids are
• The history of the discovery of Platonic solids
• The common features of all Platonic solids
• The geometrical details of each Platonic solid
• Examples of where each type of Platonic solid occurs in nature
• How we know there are only five types of Platonic solid...

This book is a complete introduction to repeating decimals (also known as "recurring decimals"), including how to convert repeating decimals into fractions, and is based on the author's personal experience providing 1:1 mathematics tuition to both school students and adult numeracy students.
Topics covered include:

• What is a terminating decimal
• What is a repeating decimal
• Different types of repeating decimal notation (including common US and UK notations)
• The disadvantages of using ellipses to represent repeating decimal numbers
• Converting between the different...