The Healthy Workplace of the 21st Century: The Benefit of Organizational Wellness Programs on Employee Health and Absenteeism

Every year, obesity rates continue to rise and have reached epidemic proportions throughout the United States. The costs associated with obesity are staggering and many researchers feel that the workplace should be the new front line in the battle for a healthier workforce. Employers must take action to address this worsening health crisis and help reduce spiraling medical costs and absenteeism rates. This capstone reviews the current literature on wellness programs and discusses different companies' approaches to wellness programs that have special emphasis on nutrition and physical activity. It also provides strategies and recommendations for companies eager to initiate a comprehensive, dynamic and directed wellness program to improve the current and future health of their workforce.

Summary of the evolution of the fortifications of Santa Barbara Castle in Alicante from its origins to the beginning of the eighteenth century

Since ancient times, Alicante has been considered a strategic location on the east coast of Spain. Situated close to the sea, it is protected to the southeast by the Cape of Huerta and to the southwest by the Cape of Santa Pola. The city lies at the foot of Mount Benacantil, a high outcrop which has been the site of defensive buildings since time immemorial due to its naturally strong position: it was undoubtedly one of the strongest natural sites in the Levant. Its summit, lying 160 metres above the sea, is topped by a series of fortified enclosures now known as Santa Barbara Castle. This paper briefly describes the alterations made to the castle fortifications from its origins through the Renaissance, including the Muslim and Christian periods until the late fifteenth century and subsequent alterations to adapt new bastioned fortification techniques, and depicts the status of the fortress in each period. This paper is the result of doctoral research carried out at different national and international archives and leading to a thesis presented in 2011.

A series of ornamental timber gables : from existing examples in England and France, of the sixteenth century /

Plates lithographed by C. Maguire and printed by C. or J. Graf; one plate "drawn on stone by H. C. Maguire."

The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century;

Mode of access: Internet.

An eighteenth century miscellany; the classics of the eighteenth century which typify and reveal an era: Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay...[and others]

Swift, Jonathan. The Drapier's letters.--Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad.--Gay, John. The beggar's opera.--Chesterfield, Earl of. Selected letters to his son.-- Sterne, Laurence. A sentimental journey through France and Italy.--Walpole, Horace. The castle of Otranto.--Sheridan, R. B. The school for scandal.--Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of my life and writings.--Blake, William. Songs of innocence and songs of experience.

Zenon papyri; business papers of the third century B.C. dealing with Palestine and Egypt,

Vol. 2 cite as: P.Col. IV

The new American cook book : containing thousands of recipes, practical suggestions and methods for the household contributed by celebrated chefs and more than two hundred experienced housekeepers, who are recognized authorities in the culinary art, and covering every branch of cookery : with special directions for serving at table, also preserving, pickling, candy-making, etc. : presenting the most healthful, palatable, economical and approved use of the foods of the twentieth century.

Includes indexes.

The Virginians : a tale of the last century /

Added title-pages, engr. and illus.

The care of books : an essay on the development of libraries and their fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century /

Includes bibliographical references.

Cursor mundi (The cursur o the world). A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century in four versions.

"The four versions of the Cursor are from 1. Cotton ms. Vesp. A3 in the ... British Museum; 2. Fairfax ms. 14 in the Bodleian Library; 3. Ms. Theol. 107 in the Göttingen University Library; 4, Ms. R. 3. 8 in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge; supplemented by mss. Laud 416, Cotton Galba E9, and mss. in the College of Arms, the Edinburgh College of Physicians, and the Bedford Library."

Rural economy in New England at the beginning of the nineteenth century,

"This essay won the John A. Porter prize, 1915."

Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Plays, histories, and novels of the ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn : with life and memoirs /

Each volume has also, as special t.-p., a reproduction of the original t.p.; v. 1-4: Plays written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn. In four volumes, 3rd ed., London, 1724; v. 5-6: All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, intire in two volumes. Pub. by Mr. Charles Gildon.