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University of Nebraska Press Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from
Book SynopsisRate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain.Trade Review"If this isn't the book that we in the pain community need in 2017, I don't know what is."—Matt Mendenhall, Pain-Free Living Magazine"The theorist Elaine Scarry, in her magnum opus The Body in Pain, writes, 'The utter rigidity of pain itself is that its resistance to language is not simply one of its incidental or accidental tributes but is essential to what it is.' One can see Sonya Huber's Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System as a glorious refusal of what Scarry puts forth. With ardor and valor, Huber renders the lived experience of chronic pain and all that attends it in a language all her own, written—as she so wonderfully phrases it—using 'pain's alphabet.' These essays make imprecision their enemy as they comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Pain Woman further establishes Sonya Huber as one of the most exciting voices writing creative nonfiction today." —Vincent Scarpa, Electric Literature "Sonya Huber has restored my faith in chronic illness narratives. . . . Now, if I have my way, this book will sneak its way into the lives of many future readers, regardless of their personal experience with chronic illness."—Taylor Wilke, Rumpus“Sonya Huber works magic by articulating the indescribable. With her lyrically written and witty account, she better describes her own pain experience than a patient rating scale of 1 to 10 ever could.”—Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head “This is an important book, a necessary book, a book that, in the right hands, could change how our medical establishment deals with pain. These essays are at once vulnerable and fierce, funny and smart, unflinching and dappled with stunning metaphor.”—Gayle Brandeis, author of Fruitflesh “Huber has captured what it is to be a woman who lives with chronic pain in all its nuanced complexity.”—Sarah Einstein, author of Mot: A MemoirTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I. Pain Bows in Greeting What Pain Wants The Lava Lamp of Pain Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick The Alphabet of Pain Prayer to Pain II. Side Projects and Secret Identities My Alternate Selves with Pain in Silver Lamé Bodysuits The Cough Drop and the Puzzle of Modernity From Inside the Egg Cupcakes Amoeba Girl III. My Machines The Status of Pain Peering into the Dark of the Self, with Selfie Augmentation Interstate and Interbeing Pain Woman Takes Your Keys IV. Bitchiness as Treatment Protocol On Gratitude, and Off Life Is Good1,2,3 Dear Noted Feminist Scholar V. Intimate Moments with the Three of Us A Pain-Sex Anti-Manifesto The Joy of Not Cooking Kidney Stone in My Shoe If Woman Is Five A Day in the Grammar of Disease VI. Measuring the Sky Vital Sign 5 Alternative Pain Scale In the Grip of the Sky Between One and Ten Thousand Inside the Nautilus Sources
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Random House USA Inc Knitting Block by Block
Book SynopsisBlocks are quick to knit, portable pieces perfect for group and charity projects. In this volume, the author reimagines the humble block with 150 patterns and masterfully demonstrates how to mix, match, and easily combine them into one-of-a-kind garments and accessories.
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University of Pennsylvania Press A Knights Own Book of Chivalry
Book SynopsisComposed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry is an invaluable guide to fourteenth-century knighthood.Trade Review"Of exceptional interest for the light shed on the ethos, style, and tastes of the secular aristocracy of the later Middle Ages. Charny's book offers an exploration and explanation of the values and proper manner of life for Christian knights and men at arms by someone who was a knight himself. . . . A real boon to the historian." * London Review of Books *"Kaeuper and Kennedy have done scholars a tremendous service in their publication of the excellent 1996 edition. . . . This slimmed-down version now provides teachers of chivalry, warfare, and gender with an excellent resource for the classroom." * The Medieval Review *
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Stanford University Press Formations of the Secular
Book SynopsisOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism. The focus is on major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes towards Islam in the modern West and the Middle East.Trade Review"A dark but brilliantly original work, Formations of the Secular is one of the most important books on religion and the modern in recent years."—H-Net Reviews"Formations of the Secular is also a difficult if stunningly eloquent book, a response both elusive and forthright to the many shelves of 'books on terrorism' which this country's trade publishers are rushing into print."—Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature"This wonderfully illuminating book should be read alongside the author's Genealogies of Religion . . ."—Religion"...Asad's brilliant study remains a defining piece of intellectual and scholarly contribution for all of those interested in exploring the religious and the secular in the modern era."—The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences"...one of the most interesting scholars of religious writing today."—Christian Scholar's Review
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David C Cook Bible Old Man Jumbo Card Games
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University of British Columbia Press Japans Motorcycle Wars An Industry History
Book SynopsisAssesses the historical development and societal impact of the motorcycle industry, from the influence of motor sports on vehicle sales in the early 1900s to the postwar developments that led to the massive wave of motorization sweeping the Asia-Pacific region.Trade Review"This book is very much at the cutting edge of current scholarship. Besides demonstrating the role of the Japanese military and empire in the early development of the industry, it illuminates the intense competition among motorbike makers in the first decade and a half after the Second World War. - Steven Ericson, author of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why the Motorcycle?1 Japan’s Transportation Revolution, 1896-19312 Motorcycle and Empire: A Study in Industrial Self-Sufficiency3 Know Your Customers: Designing Products for an Impoverished Postwar Market4 Know Your Competitors: Finding a Niche in a Crowded Manufacturing Field5 The Rise of the Big Four6 Bitter Realities: Going Bankrupt in Japan7 Sales versus SafetyAppendicesNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Lets Make Comics
Book SynopsisThis activity book uses humorous and informative one-page comics and exercise prompts to guide young readers (and readers who are young at heart) through easy-to-master lessons on the skills needed to make comics.
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Princeton University Press Historical Dynamics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important, original, and timely book—richly detailed and beautifully thought out."—Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis"This book is clearly the state of the art in formal modeling and computer simulation of long-term historical changes in territorial states. Elegantly formulated and clearly written, it takes an important topic to a new level of formal sophistication."—Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
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THE PUPPET COMPANY Cow Hand Puppet
Book SynopsisCow Puppet from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. With its distinctive colours of black and white and its soft body, the Cow puppet captures a delightful, gentle representation of this iconic farm animal. Ideal for children.
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Haynes Publishing Group Yamaha Yz125 19942001
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Haynes Publishing Group Honda TRX300Fourtrax 300 TRX300FWFourtrax 300
Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:TRX300/Fourtrax 300 88-00; TRX300FW/Fourtrax 300 4x4 88-00
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Haynes Publishing Group Ducati MK III Desmo Singles 69 76 Haynes Repair
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The Crowood Press Ltd Essential Study Guide to BHS Stage 2
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume in a series of course books for career students and exam candidates preparing for the Stage 1 exam of the British Horse Society.
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F&W Awakening Your Creative Soul
Book SynopsisA guidebook to using art and creativity for working through life's questions on personal growth and soul change.
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F&W Gradient Style
Book SynopsisGradient yarns and colorful color-shifting patterns are everywhere in knitting today!
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The Catholic University of America Press Eschatology Death and Eternal Life
Book SynopsisPresents a balanced perspective of the doctrine at the center of Christian belief - the Church's faith in eternal life. This work brings together recent emphasis on the theology of hope for the future with more traditional elements of the doctrine. It also includes a preface by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI.Table of ContentsContents; Preface to the German Original; Preface to the English Edition; A Note on the Current Volume; I. Introduction: The State of the Question; Part One. The Eschatological Problem as a Question About the Very Essence of Christianity; II. The Exegetical Data; III. Word and Reality in Contemporary Appreciation; Part Two. Death and Immortality. The Individual Dimension of Eschatology; IV. The Theology of Death; V. The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Dead; Part Three. The Future Life; VI. The Resurrection of the Dead and the Return of Christ; VII. Hell, Purgatory, Heaven; Appendix I. Between Death and Resurrection; Appendix II. Afterword to the English Edition.
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University of Pennsylvania Press History Begins at Sumer
Book Synopsis"Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists... The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader."-Religious Studies BulletinTrade Review"Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists. . . . The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader." * Religious Studies Bulletin *"[Kramer] possesses the enviable ability to speak authoritatively in a lively and captivating style." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition List of Illustrations Photographic Sources Introduction Chapter 1 Education: The First Schools Chapter 2 Schooldays: The First Case of "Apple-Polishing" Chapter 3 Father and Son: The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency Chapter 4 International Affairs: The First "War of Nerves" Chapter 5 Government: The First Bicameral Congress Chapter 6 Civil War in Sumer: The First Historian Chapter 7 Social Reform: The First Case of Tax Reduction Chapter 8 Law Codes: The First "Moses" Chapter 9 Justice: The First Legal Precedent Chapter 10 Medicine: The First Pharmacopoeia Chapter 11 Agriculture: The First "Farmer's Almanac" Chapter 12 Horticulture: The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening Chapter 13 Philosophy: Man's First Cosmogony and Cosmology Chapter 14 Ethics: The First Moral Ideals Chapter 15 Suffering and Submission: The First "Job" Chapter 16 Wisdom: The First Proverbs and Sayings Chapter 17 "Aesopica": The First Animal Fables Chapter 18 Logomachy: The First Literary Debates Chapter 19 Paradise: The First Biblical Parallels Chapter 20 A Flood: The First "Noah" Chapter 21 Hades: The First Tale of Resurrection Chapter 22 Slaying of the Dragon: The First ''St. George" Chapter 23 Tales of Gilgamesh: The First Case of Literary Borrowing Chapter 24 Epic Literature: Man's First Heroic Age Chapter 25 To the Royal Bridegroom: The First Love Song Chapter 26 Book Lists: The First Library Catalogue Chapter 27 World Peace and Harmony: Man's First Golden Age Chapter 28 Ancient Counterparts of Modern Woes: The First "Sick" Society Chapter 29 Destruction and Deliverance: The First Liturgic Laments Chapter 30 The Ideal King: The First Messiahs Chapter 31 Shulgi of Ur: The First Long-Distance Champion Chapter 32 Poetry The First Literary Imagery Chapter 33 The Sacred Marriage Rite: The First Sex Symbolism Chapter 34 Weeping Goddesses: The First Mater Dolorosa Chapter 35 U-a A-u-a: The First Lullaby Chapter 36 The Ideal Mother: Her First Literary Portrait Chapter 37 Three Funeral Chants: The First Elegies Chapter 38 The Pickaxe and the Plow: Labor's First Victory Chapter 39 Home of the Fish: The First Aquarium Corrigenda and Addenda to the Second Edition Glossary Appendix A. A Curse and a Map: New Gleanings from the Tablets of Sumer Appendix B. The Origin and Development of the Cuneiform System of Writing and Other Comments on the Illustrations
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University of Minnesota Press Noise The Political Economy of Music
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University of Minnesota Press Lifeblood Oil Freedom and the Forces of Capital
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lifeblood offers a radically alternative way of thinking about ‘cheap oil’ and ‘oil addiction’ and in so doing peers beneath the liquid surfaces of petroleum to see how the long century of American oil consumption has been central to the rise of American neoliberalism itself. An original and masterful account of oil in contemporary American capitalism."—Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley"Compellingly presented and enlivened by fascinating archival research, Huber’s arguments about the ‘ecology of politics’ and the centrality of oil to the making of ‘entrepreneurial life’ are important and intriguing."—Gavin Bridge, Durham University"Huber offers a poignant analysis of how oil shapes “the American way of life” and neoliberal hegemony in the US."—CHOICE"Huber makes it abundantly clear that the problems with patterns of oil consumption are not fundamentally technical and economic but cultural, social, and political."—Economic Geography"An incisive look into how oil permeates our lives and helped shape American politics during the twentieth century."—New Books in Geography"The most succinct, theoretically grounded critique of the culture of oil yet in print."—Humanities and Social Sciences Review Online"[Lifeblood Oil] is a compelling account, and is highly recommended."—Urban Studies"Huber takes us. . . into Americans’ own subconscious minds, to their un-thought-out daily patterns, and their emotional attachments to a sense of entrepreneurial success--and shows how these are linked materially to oil."—Environmental History"An elegantly written and empirically rich account which joins economic history, cultural analysis, and Marxist political economy."—Human GeographyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Oil, Life, Politics1. The Power of Oil? Energy, Machines, and the Forces of Capital2. Refueling Capitalism: Depression, Oil, and the Making of “the American Way of Life”3. Fractionated Lives: Refineries and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life4. Shocked! “Energy Crisis,” Neoliberalism, and the Construction of an Apolitical Economy5. Pain at the Pump: Gas Prices, Life, and Death under NeoliberalismConclusion: Energizing FreedomAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Manifestly Haraway
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These are crucial manifestos that changed the discourse and clarified our situation in the postmodern in stunning and beautiful ways. That we are animal and machine and human and full of potential is Donna Haraway’s enduring and inspirational message."—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora and the Mars trilogy "Here Donna Haraway’s manifestos are marvelously composted in the rich humus of reflection, erudition, and reasons for laughter that makes thinking with other people so generative. The brilliance that sparks between Cary Wolfe and Haraway illuminates everything that is between, around, underneath, and beside two most profound moments in critical thought."—Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge "Donna Haraway’s essays are invitations to scientists, artists, and everyone-who-must-improvise for respectful play with chimeras, hybrids, cyborgs, GMOs, holobionts, mosaics, allies, and fusions. They are invitations to generate new creative relationships for flourishing during and after the Anthropocene. As always, when presented with essays by Haraway, accept the invitation at the risk of becoming a different person."—Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College"The social relations of science was a whole movement in the 1930s...It did not survive the cold war purges of intellectual life. Science studies has reinvented many of its themes and in many ways improved upon them. Yet perhaps, as Haraway once noted in passing, the “liberal mystification that all started with Thomas Kuhn…” has erased a little too much of its radical past. We are very fortunate that Donna Haraway and her kith reinvented it."—Public Seminar"Unusual and exciting. Every word adds a new detail, facet, nuance, reflection, to an infinitely detailed, faceted, nuanced reality."—London Review of Books"Manifestly Haraway is a timely and necessary publication in response to our own political moment if we are to link up with past failures, and explore new affinities for the future."—Arcadia"Widely influential."—Science Fiction Studies"Important, feminist, bio-political work."—Annals of Science "Manifestly Haraway is illuminating and engaging. Donna Haraway contextualizes the manifestos and considers how some of these early ideas are developing alongside fresh concepts and influences." —SociologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Cary WolfeThe ManifestosA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant OthernessCompanions in ConversationDonna J. Haraway and Cary WolfeAcknowledgmentsIndex
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University of Toronto Press The Discovery of Insulin Special Centenary
Book SynopsisThis special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.Trade Review"The Discovery of Insulin deserves a place on the bookshelf alongside such eye-openers as James Watson's The Double Helix." * Washington Post *"Scrupulously researched and compellingly readable ... I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with an interest in diabetes, medical history, or medical scandal and gossip." * British Medical Journal *"The definitive history ... well written, highly readable." * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface to the Special Centenary Edition Foreword by Alison Li Introduction: What Happened at Toronto? 1. A Long Prelude 2. Banting’s Idea 3. The Summer of 1921 4. “A Mysterious Something” 5. Triumph 6. “Unspeakably Wonderful” 7. Resurrection 8. Who Discovered Insulin? 9. Honouring the Prophets 10. A Continuing Epilogue Notes Sources Index
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University of Minnesota Press Native American DNA
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Native American DNA is a book of far wider scope than its title, establishing the author as a leading authority on the topic. The politics of tribal DNA is but the starting point of a complex analysis that encompasses the whole framework in which DNA is appropriated in the study of human populations. Molecular geneticists, science studies researchers, legal scholars—and of course Native Americans—will find their horizons considerably broadened and newly engaged."—Troy Duster, New York University"Native American DNA is a gracefully written, powerfully argued, and urgently needed examination of indigenous identity and politics after the genomic turn. This is pathbreaking work."—Alondra Nelson, Columbia University"Provocative and incisive. . . Native American DNA is undoubtedly a key text."—Medical Anthropology Quarterly"TallBear’s description of the science of DNA testing is remarkably clear, and her skepticism about its claims is well founded."—Journal of American History"Essential reading for researchers in all fields of Indigenous studies."—American Indian QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Indigenous, Feminist Approach to DNA Politics1. Racial Science, Blood, and DNA 2. The DNA Dot-com: Selling Ancestry3. Genetic Genealogy Online4. The Genographic Project: The Business of Research and RepresentationConclusion: Indigenous and Genetic Governance and KnowledgeNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Disidentifications
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Duke University Press The Feminist Bookstore Movement Lesbian
Book SynopsisKristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and fall, showing how the women at the heart of the movement developed theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability that continue to resonate today.Trade Review"An oft-forgotten chapter in the women's lib movement of the 1970s was the rise of independent, women-owned bookstores, many of which created safe spaces for conversations that spurred second-wave feminism. Hogan has written a history of those thought-leading small businesses and the lesbians and women of color behind them, in which she celebrates the power of the feminist printed word." * Ms. *"It’s difficult to write the history of women’s bookstores without romanticizing a complex world of books, ideas, feelings, and feminist community that many of us miss. Hogan describes the pleasures of these communities, as well as the anger and factionalism that their commitments provoked. A literary history that opens and closes with Hogan’s own experience working at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, The Feminist Bookstore Movement leads us through the rise and fall of this network, which, at its peak, included 130 businesses in North America." -- Claire Bond Potter * Chronicle Review *"Hogan gives us a more complicated narrative; she focuses on a broad base of women from different backgrounds working together as activists, rather than on a few commercially successful writers. It is a history from the bottom-up rather than a female-adjusted Great Man style of history. . . .Hogan’s story should make us think about how we can build the communities that will give us the next books that will change our lives." -- Laura Tanenbaum * The New Republic *"[A]n eminently readable text that traces the history of feminist bookstores from their rise in the 1970s through the 1990s. . . . This work will appeal to scholars and everyday readers who enjoy microhistories. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." -- M. Martinez * Choice *"In some ways, The Feminist Bookstore Movement is a classic Second Wave recovery project, casting a loving glance backward as it seeks to uncover a series of lost moments obscured by the financial fate (and fight) of feminist bookstores in the ’90s. But Hogan’s account also spills beyond generational borders." -- Stephanie Young * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Feminist Bookstore Movement offers more than a chronicle of the rise and fall of feminist bookstores from 1970 to 2003. Drawing from archival documents, interviews, and scholarship, Hogan delineates the infrastructure that housed a lesbian, antiracist, anticapitalist, community-oriented culture, and she textures her account with thick descriptions of lived experience." -- Ellen Messer-Davidow * American Historical Review *"Hogan's richly researched text is resplendent with photos that commemorate the 1970s-1980s era of feminism....Indeed, the engaging narrative prompted winsome memories of my brief, mid-1980s stint as an employee at Womanbooks in New York City while in journalism school. The passage of three decades has not dimmed my affection for the colourful posters, shelves of dazzling books and smiling co-workers that greeted me when I began my shift. I'm honoured to have been a part of the tradition that Kristen Hogan recounts, to sublime effect, in her outstanding contribution to lesbian and feminist letters." -- Evelyn C. White * Herizons *"Carefully researched and highly engaging. . . . The Feminist Bookstore Movement is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of feminist writing and publishing, as well as anyone seeking to understand how feminist alternative economies and communities took shape and survived in the late twentieth century." -- Kate Eichhorn * Journal of American History *“A radical contribution to contemporary feminist dialogue. . . . This book will be of potential relevance to feminist, queer and antiracist readers both within and beyond the North American context.” -- Chiara Xausa * Women's Studies International Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. Reading the Map of Our Bodies xiii 1. Dykes with a Vision 1970–1976 1 2. Revolutionaries in a Capitalist System 1976–1980 33 3. Accountable to Each Other 1980–1983 69 4. The Feminist Shelf, A Transnational Project 1984–1993 107 5. Economics and Antiracist Alliances 1993–2003 145 Epilogue. Feminist Remembering 179 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 261
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Duke University Press Slaves to Fashion
Book SynopsisA work on the history of black dandyism. It examines the pivotal role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African diasporic identity formation.Trade Review“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” - Jaime Hanneken, Comparative Literature“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” - Alisa K. Braithwaite, Modern Fiction Studies“Monica L. Miller's book is the first of its kind: a lengthy written study of the history of black dandyism and the role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African and African American identity. She draws from literature, film, photography, print ads, and music to reveal the black dandy's underground cultural history and generate possibilities for the future. . . . [U]ncanny feats of scholarship that illustrate ways in which the figure of the black dandy has been an elephant-in-the-room — albeit a particularly well-dressed one.” - D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian“A model for cultural studies, Slaves to Fashion brings the rich,interdisciplinary scholarship of the black dandy into the twenty-first century, serving the fields of both black and American studies.” - Pamela J. Rader, MELUS“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” - Kristin Moriah, Callaloo“Monica L. Miller’s close readings dazzle, and her historical reach—confident and unforced—is as long as the transnational arc of black dandyism here is wide. Arresting, discerning, responsible, and urgent, Slaves to Fashion is path-breaking. Literary criticism, visual history, and black Atlantic studies never looked so good.”—Maurice O. Wallace, author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995“Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and black sartorial aesthetics and visual culture, Slaves to Fashion is an impressive and meticulously researched treatise on the history of the black dandy. It fills a gap in the scholarship on the cultural politics of black self-fashioning.”—E. Patrick Johnson, author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” -- Alisa K. Braithwaite * Modern Fiction Studies *“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” -- Kristin Moriah * Callaloo *“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” -- Jaime Hanneken * Comparative Literature *“Monica L. Miller's book is the first of its kind: a lengthy written study of the history of black dandyism and the role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African and African American identity. She draws from literature, film, photography, print ads, and music to reveal the black dandy's underground cultural history and generate possibilities for the future. . . . [U]ncanny feats of scholarship that illustrate ways in which the figure of the black dandy has been an elephant-in-the-room — albeit a particularly well-dressed one.” -- D. Scot Miller * San Francisco Bay Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Stylin' Out 1 1. Mungo Macaroni: The Slavish Swell 27 2. Crimes of Fashion: Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom 77 3. W. E. B. Du Bois's "Different Diasporic Race Man 137 4. "Passing Fancies": Dandyism, Harlem Modernism, and the Politics of Visuality 176 5. "You Look Beautiful Like That": Black Dandyism and the Histories of Black Cosmopolitanism 219 Notes 291 Bibliography 347 Index 371
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Insight Editions Friends: 12-Month Undated Planner
Book SynopsisCelebrate your love of the classic television series FRIENDS with this 12-month undated planner.This 12-month undated planner features iconic imagery and beloved quotes from the legendary show Friends. Compact and completely customizable, this is a perfect gift for the Friends fan in your life. Undated Planner: This 12-month planner is undated for maximum personal customization. Perfect for Students and Adults: Get organized like the boss you are! This undated planner is perfect for students and adult professionals looking to keep their lives organized. Convenient 7” x 9”: This undated planner is 7 x 9 inches, perfect for a desk or easy to throw in a bag and take on the go. Bonus stickers included: Includes monthly stickers, one sheet of functional planning stickers, and one sheet of decorative stickers. Build Your Friends Collection: Part of Insight Editions’ massively popular Friends collection, this planner stands alongside Friends: The Official Cookbook, Friends: Central Perk Softcover Notebook, Friends Blank Boxed Note Cards, and many more gifts and merchandise.
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Duke University Press Cold War Anthropology
Book SynopsisDavid H. Price uses information from CIA, FBI, and military records to map the connections between academia and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the U.S. military and outline the major influence the American security state has had on the field of anthropology.Trade Review"Others have written on the entanglement of the social sciences with the military-intelligence complex, but none as energetically, from as many angles, or with as sensitive an eye for connections and overarching themes. ... Just as [Price] insists that HTS matters less than the underlying trends it represents, he cares less about the dramas of individual anthropologists in Cold War Anthropology and more about the subtle, systemic changes throughout the field—changes that threatened to make the discipline itself a security-state collaborator, sucking in individual researchers without their full knowledge." -- Peter C. Baker * The Nation *"In the course of twelve years Price has written three books which have helped redefine anthropology’s understanding of itself. And now, with Cold War Anthropology, Price brings his massive, precedent-make (and -busting) history of anthropology and American power to a close. It’s a defining moment in the history of anthropology, and deserves wide attention. . . . We have much to learn from our discipline’s recent past, and thanks to David Price we have the opportunity to see our field as it really was, warts and all. The stories in this book, and the issues that it raises, need to be discussed by the discipline as a whole." -- Alex Golub * Somatosphere *"Readers will benefit from Price’s careful attention to the impact of funding streams on scholarly decision-making, his dedication to amassing hard-to-locate source material, and his cogent moral compass." -- Margaret Flood * History of Anthropology Newsletter *"Cold War Anthropology restarts a conversation that should have never stopped. Anthropologists unaware of their discipline’s history will nodoubt find its lists of CIA and military projects eye-opening. Veterans of campaigns to rid the discipline of ties to the military and intelligence agencies will appreciate its recounting of battles lost and won within the AAA. Historians of science, too, have much to learn from the book’s methodology, especially its use of FOIA applications and tracings of blown CIA fronts." -- Audra Wolfe * Anthropological Quarterly *"Cold War Anthropology forces the reader to confront in blunt detail the ways in which ethnographic work exists in tandem with political-economic forces, especially the agendas of funding bodies and special interests. It is a book I encourage anthropologists everywhere to read, but, more importantly, to discuss its implications with colleagues and students." -- Joseph Anderson * LSE Review of Books *"With regard to US anthropology, perhaps no other scholar has done more to unsettle the by now defunct representation of the anthropologist as hero than David H. Price." -- Sindre Bangstad * Anthropology of This Century *"Price names names in abundance, carefully weighing researchers' awareness, or not, of hidden agendas; few records exist about unfunded research disfavored by state agencies. Illuminating shadows and obscured influences, Price brings realpolitik into anthropology’s history. . . . Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries." -- A. B. Kehoe * Choice *"Price’s work has been marked by extensive use of governmental archives, including many sources declassified through the Freedom of Information Act. Simply bringing this information to light should be reckoned as a major achievement....Price has written, if not a fully sufficient book (who has?), then a profoundly necessary one that challenges what American anthropology has been and what it remains." -- Robert Oppenheim * Journal of American History *"Cold War Anthropology is an exceptionally valuable book, based on impressive scholarship. It deserves the thoughtful attention of anthropologists interested in where their discipline has been and where it may be headed." -- Robert A. Rubinstein * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Historians of anthropology will welcome this volume, but it is relevant for every anthropologist working today. . . . We have much to learn from our discipline’s recent past, and thanks to David Price we have the opportunity to see our field as it really was, warts and all. The stories in this book, and the issues that it raises, need to be discussed by the discipline as a whole." -- Alex Golub * Savage Minds *"Price critically analyzes the rapid growth of American anthropology during the Cold War ... [and] masterfully contextualizes these tranformative years in anthropology." -- Roberto J. González * Anthropos *"The publication of David Price’s Cold War Anthropology concludes a trilogy of volumes that, taken together, constitute one of the most important and unprecedented contributions to the intellectual and political history of American anthropology." -- Mark Goodale * American Anthropologist *"Price has gone to extensive lengths using the FOIA to secure previously secret documents that complement his comprehensive survey of open source material and the secondary literature. No stone is left unturned, no shallow defense of complicity left unchallenged." -- John Krige * Diplomatic History *"This is a work of superb and relevant scholarship that deserves to be read and heeded by every undergraduate student let alone scholars across the anthropological discipline. It is a moral call to examine the nature and value of knowledge and of conducting independent research rather than following the pathways opened up by the imperial state." -- Inderjeet Parmar * Social History *"David Price is convincing; his arguments are nuanced and reveal the breadth and degree of US anthropology’s involvement in CIA and Pentagon efforts." -- Julie McBrien * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xxv Abbreviations xxix Part I. Cold War Political-Economic Disciplinary Formations 1. Political Economy and History of American Cold War Intelligence 3 2. World War II's Long Shadow 31 3. Rebooting Professional Anthropology in the Postwar World 54 4. After the Shooting War: Centers, Committees, Seminars, and Other Cold War Projects 81 5. Anthropologists and State: Aid, Debt, and Other Cold War Weapons of the Strong 109 Intermezzo 137 Part II. Anthropologists' Articulations with the National Security State 6. Cold War Anthropologists at the CIA: Careers Confirmed and Suspected 143 7. How CIA Funding Fronts Shaped Anthropological Research 165 8. Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and Buying a Piece of Anthropology 195 9. Cold War Fieldwork within the Intelligence Universe 221 10. Cold War Anthropological Counterinsurgency Dreams 248 11. The AAA Confronts Military and Intelligence Uses of Disciplinary Knowledge 276 12. Anthropologically Informed Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia 301 13. Anthropologists for Radical Political Action and Revolution within the AAA 323 14. Untangling Open Secrets, Hidden Histories, Outrage Denied, and Recurrent Dual Use Themes 349 Notes 371 Bibliography 397 Index 433
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Watson-Guptill Publications Draw 50 Magical Creatures
Book SynopsisSuitable for children aged 5 to 11 years old, this title is targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects. It shows readers how to draw dozens of legendary creatures with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach.
£8.54
Duke University Press Other Planes of There
Book SynopsisIn addition to being a renowned artist, Renée Green is also a prolific writer and a major voice in the international art world. Other Planes of There gathers for the first time a substantial collection of the work she wrote between 1981 and 2010.Trade Review“[B]y interweaving an astounding diversity of tones, modes, subjects, and genres into a single body of writing, Green reveals many of the underlying interactions and interconnections that would seem to shape our contemporary moment. In the pieces collected in the volume, Green oscillates between the poles of academic and literary ambition, combining the poetic with the analytic, the diaristic with the theoretical, the autobiographical with the systematic, the tentative with the polemical. . . . Other Planes of There offers both a critical genealogy of and a reflexive corrective to our present art-historical and political moment.” -- André Rottmann * Artforum *“Anticipating the artist’s expanded function—the various ‘turns’ of the 2000s—Green wears many hats, acting at once as a curator, archivist, events organizer, and independent distributor (a role she calls ‘free media agent’). . . . An important resource for those seeking to understand what has happened in progressive art discourse for the past twenty years. Other Planes of There also offers a model for how artists might situate their work through a critical, process-intensive writing practice.” -- Thom Donovan * BOMB *“The book is evidence of what remains an ongoing process, which continues to grow in the minds of those that read it or come to encounter Green’s work. Rooted within the fabric of every text is Green’s voice, which remains one of questioning the world, through a continual prodding and reexamination of methods of understanding, transmission, and communication.” -- Maia Nichols * Full Stop *“Complete with an extensive Publishing History, Curriculum Vitae and Index that indicate clearly the rich scope of this anthology, this certainly is a beautiful example of what thinking through and with work can lead to.” -- Edith Doove * Leonardo Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introductory Essays Other Planes, Different Phases, My Geometry, Times, Movements: Becomings Ongoings 1 Remarks on the Writings of Renee Green, by Gloria Sutton 19 Genealogies 1. Sites of Criticism: A Symposium. Practices: The Problem of Division of Cultural Labor. Statement (1992) 35 2. Discourse on Afro-American Art: The Twenties (1982) 42 3. I Won't Play Other to Your Same (1990) 53 4. What's Painting Got to Do with It? Representing Gender and Sexuality in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction (1990) 57 5. From Camino Road (1994) 64 Circuits of Exchange 6. Open Letter #1: On Influence (1992) 73 7. Open Letter #2: Another Attempt (1993) 78 8. Collectors, Creators, and Shoppers (1994) 83 9. Peripatetic at "Home" (1995) 89 10. Free Agent Media / FAM (1995) 94 11. Situationist Text (2001) 99 12. Introductory Notes of a Reader and "A Contemporary Moment" (2001) 103 Encounters 13. Trading on the Margin (1991) 119 14. Democracy in Question (1991) 128 16. Spike Lee's Mix: Calculated Risks and Assorted Reckonings (1996) 141 17. Compared to What? (1998) 152 18. Notes on Humanist and Ecological Republic and Lac Mantasoa (2000) 156 19. Other Planes of There (2004) 163 20. Archives, Documents? Forms of Creation, Activism, and Use (2008) 176 21. On Kawara's Solutions to Living (2010) 191 Positions 22. "Give Me Body": Freaky Fun, Biopolitics, and Contact Zones (1995) 197 23. Dropping Science: Art and Technology Revisited 2.0 (1995) 210 24. Site-Specificity Unbound: Considering "Participatory Mobility" (1998) 225 25. Slippages (1997) 230 26. Affection Afflictions: My Alien/MySelf, or More "Reading at Work" (1998) 256 27. Survival: Ruminations on Archival Lacunae (2001) 271 28. Beyond (2006) 289 29. Place (2006) 297 Operations 30. Sites of Genealogy (1990) 309 31. VistaVision: Landscapes of Desire (1991) 312 32. Tracing Lusitania: Excerpts from an Imagined Prototype (1995) 317 33. Secret, Part 1. Practiced Places (1992-1993) 320 34. Secret, Part 2. Scenes from a Group Show: Project Unite (1993) 323 35. Inventory of Clues (1993) 335 36. Eighteen Aphoristic Statements (1994) 340 37. Collecting Well Is the Best Revenge (1995) 346 38. The Digital Import/Export Funk Office (1995) 354 39. Wavelinks Transmitted amidst "Dangerous Crossings": Reflections in 2006 (2000, 2006) 364 40. Standardized Octagonal Units for Imagined and Existing Systems (2002) 375 41. Sound Forest Folly: Intermediary Units of a Variable Number (2004) 379 42. Why Systems? (2004) 381 43. Relay (2005) 388 44. Index (From Oblivion): Paradoxes and Climates. Thought Experiments: Warm-up Notes (2005) 392 45. Climates and Paradoxes (2005) 396 46. Why Reply? (2007) 403 47. Now It Seems Like a Dream (2007) 408 48. Imagine This Wherever and Whoever You Are (2008) 411 49. Come Closer: Prelude to Endless Dreams and Water Between (2008) 419 50. Come Closer (2008) 422 51. Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009) 428 Plate Captions 453 Publishing History 463 Curriculum Vitae 469 Index 491
£35.10
University of New Mexico Press Nine Years among the Indians 18701879
Book SynopsisAs a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story.Trade ReviewLehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that rare breed of book, the first-person 'captivity story' . . . One of the values of Lehmann's book is its no-holds-barred, unapologetic tone." —Rocky Mountain News"A fascinating account of [Lehmann's] subsequent life among both the Apache and Comanche people. . . . this is an engaging read." —German Life"Lehmann's true-life story features suspense and excitement that surpass even the skill of the most imaginative fiction writer." —Books of the Southwest
£18.86
Human Kinetics Publishers Smarter Workouts
Book SynopsisSmarter Workouts delivers effective workouts designed around a single piece of equipment. From mobility to core strength to metabolic conditioning, you'll learn how to create workouts for your goal, your schedule, and the equipment you have access to.Trade Review"Pete's been a leader in the industry for years. His work in both fitness and sports makes him uniquely qualified to write Smarter Workouts."—Michael Boyle, Author of New Functional Training for Sports"Pete is a masterful trainer and educator who has the ability to simplify complex exercises and workout programs. Pick your favorite at-home exercise tool and let Pete teach you a smart, effective, efficient, and safe workout to perform on your own."—Rick Richey, DHSc, MS, LMT, NASM Faculty, Owner of RēCOVER and Independent Training Spot“Stop struggling with exercises that don’t work for you. Smarter Workouts provides you with the workouts that are best for your body and will give you the results you’ve been looking for.”—Lisa Wheeler, Owner of Wheels in Motion Productions, Former Vice President of Fitness for Daily Burn“Exercise doesn’t have to be hard to figure out. Pete McCall teaches you to train smarter, not harder.”—Amy Dixon, Director of Group Fitness Programming for Equinox"Pete has been an industry influencer, a respected partner, and a trusted friend for more than a decade. He has a great ability to distill complex concepts into simple, bite-sized morsels for his clients, and he does just that in Smarter Workouts. If Pete is doing it, you know it's going to be great.”—Randy Hetrick, Founder and CEO of TRX“For many individuals, starting an exercise program can be a rather daunting task. As a result, far too many individuals remain physically inactive. In Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Pete McCall, a fitness industry veteran of over 20 years, provides a straightforward roadmap to help individuals safely experience the joys and innumerable benefits of a physically active lifestyle. Clearly written and well-illustrated, this book is must reading for anyone interested in protecting their most valuable asset—their health.” —Cedric X. Bryant, PhD, FACSM, President and Chief Science Officer of American Council on Exercise Table of ContentsPart I. The Science and Why It MattersChapter 1. How Exercise Changes Your BodyChapter 2. Movement and Intensity in PracticePart II. Exercises and WorkoutsChapter 3. Mobility TrainingChapter 4. Core Strength TrainingChapter 5. Metabolic ConditioningPart III. Get Fit and Stay FitChapter 6. Designing Your Exercise ProgramChapter 7. Lifetime Programming
£18.99
THE PUPPET COMPANY Dalmatian Hand Puppet
Book SynopsisSweet little Dalmatian from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. This puppet showcases the iconic black spots on a pristine white coat, capturing the charm and elegance of these delightful dogs. Ideal for children.
£11.02
University of Toronto Press Transform with Design
Book SynopsisWritten by a team of experienced innovators and researchers, Transform with Design provides unique case studies with lessons learned by organizations when building their innovation muscle.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why Implementing Design Thinking Remains a Challenge Jochen Schweitzer, Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, and Sebastian Fixson 2. Reimagining Healthcare: Implementing Design Thinking in a Health Insurance Company Matt Templeton, Sebastian Fixson, and Molly Mazzaferro 3. Design Thinking Recipe in a Food Company: The Case of Danone Sabine Gourmain, Julie Deschamps, and Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini 4. Keeping the Momentum: The First Decade of Design Thinking at Intuit Wendy Castleman 5. Design for Joy: How Kaiser Permanente Created a Human-Centered Design Movement Christi Zuber and Lisa Carlgren 6. Throwing a Hand Grenade at the Bureaucracy: MindLab and Wicked Problems in Government David Dunne 7. The Making of a Design-Led Innovation Strategy: How Mirvac Launched the Hatch Program Natalia Nikolova, Jochen Schweitzer, and Christine Gilroy 8. From Department to Consultancy: Building Human-Centered Design Capabilities at Swisscom Katja Bürki 9. From Underdog to Design-Led Innovation: Scaling Design Thinking at Thales Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini and Didier Boulet 10. An Army of One: How One Person Set Off a Grassroots Movement at the U.S. Department of Labor Virginia Hamilton and Lisa Carlgren 11. Veteran-Centered Healthcare: Navigating Change at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Aaron Strienstra, Amber Schleuning, Veronica X. Vela, and Jaryn Miller 12. Transform with Design in Seven Lessons Jochen Schweitzer, Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, and Sebastian Fixson
£22.49
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Epidemiology Beyond the Basics
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£72.90
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Draw Your Day Sketchbook A Guided Drawing Journal
Book SynopsisA stylish watercolor sketchpad featuring creative prompts and art by artist and Instagram sensation Samantha Dion Baker.A sketchbook featuring prompts and inspiration that will get you sketching, painting, collaging, and drawing life's beautiful and mundane moments to create a vibrant record of your daily life. The sketchbook paper is suitable for pencil, ink, watercolor, collage, and more, and the blank cover is fully customizable--make it your own! Created by artist Samantha Dion Baker, the Draw Your Day Sketchbook is sure to get your creative juices flowing.
£14.39
Human Kinetics Publishers Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology
Book SynopsisAdvanced Environmental Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, offers physiology students and exercise science professionals a complete look at the major topics and debates in the field of environmental physiology. In this second edition, Dr. Stephen Cheung is joined by the coauthor Dr. Phil Ainslie, who has extensive professional expertise in mountaineering and high-altitude physiology and has led numerous high-altitude research expeditions. Among the issues explored in this text are the effects of heat, hydration, and cold in the thermal environment; diving, altitude training, and other pressure effects on the human system; and the influences that pollution and air quality have on exercise. The text also explores the microgravity (space) environment and chronobiological rhythms. The second edition includes new chapters on heat adaptation and therapy, breath-hold diving, physiological adjustments to acute hypoxia, sex differences in environmental response, and cross-adaptation. Through Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, readers will learn the following: The initial physiological responses upon exposure to an environment that a person is not adapted to How the body adapts to repeated exposure to an environment How various environments affect the ability to exercise and work Individual variability in response to stressful environments Countermeasures that people can take to minimize the impact of environmental stressors Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, contains twice the number of figures and illustrations from the previous edition to offer better visualization and explanation of the content. New learning aids include chapter objectives, chapter summaries, and review questions to enhance reader comprehension. Sidebars throughout the text highlight lively areas of current research and debate to stimulate further investigation. Supported by evidence-based information and numerous references, Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, addresses the primary environmental factors affecting people when they are working, exercising, and competing in sport. By linking research with recommendations for real-world situations, this text serves as an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike.Trade Review“Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, bridges the gap between laboratory research and real-world application, providing a definitive and accessible overview of current knowledge in environmental exercise physiology—including rapidly developing areas such as breath-hold diving and heat adaptation.”—Alex Hutchinson, Science Journalist and Author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance“The authors have successfully collated the most important aspects of various environmental exercise physiology and positioned it into one book. This was done through appropriate choice of information to cover, while also using exceptionally good figures/images throughout the book to help readers gain an understanding of the complex interplay at work during environmental exercise physiology.”—© Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Cody Dulaney, Kent State University (4-star review) Table of ContentsChapter 1. Fundamentals of Temperature Regulation Heat Balance Equation Models of Thermoregulatory Control Thermal Stress Scales SummaryChapter 2. Heat Stress The Problem With Heat Mechanisms of Hyperthermia Thermal Perception and Exercise Individual Variability Cooling Strategies SummaryChapter 3. Heat Adaptation Heat Adaptation Heat Therapy SummaryChapter 4. Hydration Strategies for Exercise Hydration Terminology Impact of Fluid Balance on Performance Developing a Hydration Strategy Hydration Strategies Following Exercise SummaryChapter 5. Cold Air Exposure Hypothermia Physiological Responses to Cold Exposure Exercise in the Cold Cold Injuries to the Extremities Thermal Response in the Extremities SummaryChapter 6. Cold Water Immersion Phase 1 Immersion and Cold Shock Phase 2 Muscle Failure Phase 3 Hypothermia Phase 4 Postrescue Collapse SummaryChapter 7. Breath-Hold Diving Gas Laws Disciplines of Apnea Diving Static Apnea Dynamic Apnea Depth Training Apnea Diving Indigenous Diving Populations Medical Consequences of Apnea Diving SummaryChapter 8. Diving and Hyperbaric Physiology Physics of Diving Diving Systems Decompression Sickness Inert Gas Narcosis Saturation Diving SummaryChapter 9. Physiological Adjustments to Acute Hypoxia Normoxia and Hypoxia Physiological Consequences of Exposure to Acute Hypoxia Neurological Effects of Acute Hypoxia Fatigue and Hypoxia Clinical Consequences of Acute Hypoxia SummaryChapter 10. High-Altitude Physiology Acclimatization High Altitude and the Oxygen Cascade Cardiovascular Response High-Altitude Illnesses Hemoglobin and Oxygen Transport American Medical Research Expedition to Everest Metabolism and Body Composition Adaptation to High Altitude SummaryChapter 11. Altitude Training and Performance Living-Training Hypoxic Models Genetic Basis of Altitude Performance Hyperoxia Considerations in Applying Altitude Training SummaryChapter 12. Microgravity and Spaceflight Physiological Responses to Microgravity Microgravity Simulations Spaceflight Countermeasures Extravehicular Activity Physiology Spacesuit Design SummaryChapter 13. Exercise in Polluted Environments Major Pollutants Air Quality Indices Pollution Effects on Exercise Managing Air Pollution for Athletes SummaryChapter 14. Chronobiology Nomenclature Circadian Rhythms and the Sleep–Wake Cycle Sleep Sleep Deprivation Transmeridian Travel Fatigue and Jet Lag SummaryChapter 15. Cross-Adaptation Nomenclature Cold and Hypoxia Cross-Acclimatization Heat and Hypoxia Cross-Acclimatization Other Cross-Adaptation Themes SummaryChapter 16. Individual Variability: Sex and Age Sex Differences in Thermoregulation Sex Differences in High-Altitude Physiology Children Aging Aerobic Fitness Summary
£89.30
Crossway Books The Holy Spirit
Book SynopsisIn this addition to the Short Studies in Systematic Theology series, Fred Sanders teaches readers how to hold a proper understanding of both the person and power of the Holy Spirit, exploring his role in both the Old and New Testaments.
£10.44
Crossway Books Big Picture Bible Crafts
Book SynopsisThis book of 101 reproducible Bible crafts will supplement Bible lessons for children of a variety of ages, helping them engage with God's Word in fun and creative ways.
£16.99
Pluto Press A Certain Amount of Madness
Book SynopsisCelebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa’s most important anti-imperialist leadersTrade Review'The legendary Thomas Sankara - hero, revolutionary leader, anti-imperialist - receives deserving analytical treatment from the most prominent radical voices here assembled for one the greatest sons of Africa. The book enhances our understanding of the pragmatism of politics, the rhetoric of revolutionary actions, and the resurgence of reactionary forces. A must read' -- Toyin Falola, Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town, University Distinguished Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, The University of Texas at Austin'This book by a wide range of committed scholars, including, crucially, a significant number of African scholars, is a necessary and illuminating intervention. The Sankara that emerges here is more than 'Africa's Che Guevara', a man whose ideas and politics are 'rich with a thousand nuances' that distinguish them from other forms of Marxism and Pan-Africanism. Sankara comes alive in all his complexity' -- Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School and Founder and Editor, Africa is a CountryTable of ContentsForeword by Horace G. Campbell Acknowledgements Introduction by Amber Murrey Part I: Life and Revolution 1. Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?: Contextualising the Revolutionary Ideological Courses of Thomas Sankara and the National Council of the Revolution - De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Moussa Traore 2. The Perils of Non-Alignment: Thomas Sankara and the Cold War - Brian Peterson 3. Thomas Sankara and the Elusive Revolution - Leo Zeilig 4. When Visions Collide: Thomas Sankara, Trade Unions and the Revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 - Craig Phelan 5. Africa’s Sankara: On Pan-African Leadership - Amber Murrey 6. Who Killed Thomas Sankara? - Bruno Jaffré 7. ‘Incentivized’ Self-Adjustment: Reclaiming Sankara’s Revolutionary Austerity from Corporate Geographies of Neoliberal Erasure - Nicholas A. Jackson Part II: Political Philosophies 8. Madmen, Thomas Sankara and Decoloniality in Africa - Ama Biney 9. With the People: Sankara’s Humanist Marxism - Ernest Harsch 10. Thomas Sankara & Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem: The Untimely Deaths of Two New Generation African Visionaries - Patricia Daley 11. Women's Freedoms are the Heartbeat of Africa's Future: A Sankarian Imperative - Patricia McFadden 12. Re-Reading Sankara’s Philosophy for a Praxeology of Debt in Contemporary Times - Sakue-C. Yimovie 13. Sankara’s Political Ideas and Pan-African Solidarity: A Perspective for Africa’s Development? - Felix Kumah-Abiwu and Olusoji Alani Odeyemi 14. ‘Revolution and Women’s Liberation Go Together’: Thomas Sankara, Gender and the Burkina Faso Revolution - Namakula E. Mayanja Part III: Legacies 15. Balai Citoyen: A New Praxis of Citizen Fight with Sankarist Inspirations - Zakaria Soré 16. La Santé Avant Tout: Health Before Everything - T. D. Harper-Shipman 17. Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso - Bettina Engles 18. To Decolonize the World: Thomas Sankara and the ‘Last Colony’ in Africa - Patrick Delices 19. ‘Daring to Invent the Future’: Sankara’s Legacy and Contemporary Activism in South Africa - Levi Kabwato and Sarah Chiumbu Part IV: Contestations and Homages 20. The Academy as Contested Space: Disappearing Sankara from the ‘Acceptable Avant-Garde’ - Nicholas A. Jackson 21. Art and the Construction of a ‘Sankara Myth’: A Hero Trend in Contemporary Burkinabè Urban & Revolutionary Propaganda Art - Sophie Bodénès Cohen 22. Slanted Photography: Reflections on Sankara and My Peace Corps Experience in Burkina Faso - Celestina Agyekum 23. ‘We Are the Children of Sankara’: Memories as Weapons during the Burkinabe Uprisings of 2014 and 2015 - Fiona Dragstra Afterword by Aziz Salmone Fall Notes on Contributors Index
£26.99
Duke University Press The Universal Machine
Book SynopsisIn the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being Fred Moten uses the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Franz Fanon to explore the relationship between blackness and phenomenology, theorizing blackness as a way of being in the world that evades regulation.Trade Review"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"consent not to be a single being, titled after a phrase of Édouard Glissant’s, ranges across an impressive number of disciplines: black studies, performance studies, aesthetics, phenomenology, ontology, ethnomusicology, jazz history, comparative literature, critical theory, etc. Without announcing its intervention as interdisciplinary–Moten deftly renders discipline beside the point. . . . Taken together, the series amounts to a powerful argument for black study—as an analytic, an impetus, a mode, the collective shout from a radical vista, whose bellow requires nothing less than 'passionate response' (Moten 2003)." -- Mimi Howard * boundary 2 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix 1. There Is No Racism Intended 1 2. Refuge, Refuse, Refrain 65 3. Chromatic Saturation 140 Notes 247 Works Cited 271 Index 281
£20.69
C & T Publishing WashAway Applique Sheets
Book SynopsisDraw applique motifs or print them on these handy sheets with an ink-jet printer, fuse the paper to your applique fabric, sew on the motif, then just wash away the paper after stitching. Appliques are soft and flexible without the need to cut your quilt or remove freezer paper. Wash out for a softer end result or simply leave it in...it will soften over time.
£29.69
The University of Chicago Press What Editors Do
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£22.80
Human Kinetics Publishers Archery Drill Book
Book SynopsisThe Archery Drill Book features over 120 drills to help archers refine their routine and increase accuracy and precision in their shots with step-by-step instructions, detailed photos, coaching tips, and variations to fit their skill level.Trade Review“I’m excited about this great collection of drills. The Archery Drill Book is a solid gold resource for archers, coaches, and instructors.”—Bob Ryder, President of Shenandoah Valley Target Archers, Tournament Director for U.S. National Indoor Archery Championships, and Level 4 NTS CoachTable of ContentsIntroduction. Integrating Drills Into Your Archery PracticeChapter 1. Recurve and Longbow EssentialsChapter 2. Compound EssentialsChapter 3. Flawless ExecutionChapter 4. Timing and RhythmChapter 5. Strength and StaminaChapter 6. ConsistencyChapter 7. Balance and StillnessChapter 8. Training Mind-SetChapter 9. Competition Pressure and Ailments
£19.79
Ten Speed Press Women in Science: 100 Postcards
Book SynopsisGorgeous illustrations of fifty fearless female pioneers who changed the world—with duplicates of each postcard Collecting the fifty most iconic illustrations from the book Women in Science, this box of 100 postcards is the perfect gift for fans of Rachel Ignotofsky’s work, budding scientists, and anyone who wishes to champion the great contribution women have made to all branches of science. From well-known figures like Marie Curie to unsung heroes like Rachel Carson, these cards are perfect to send as greetings or hang as mini artistic masterworks—and with two sets of each card, there are plenty of cards to go around.
£17.27
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Write On My Story Journal
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£14.27
Duke University Press In the Meantime Temporality and Cultural
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.Trade Review"In The Meantime reads like a novel. Sharma’s sharp attack on speedup believers is accentuated with detailed portraits of the lives at the core and at the margins of global capital. It is this vivid composite of detailed narratives that describe the social fabric of time which drives you through the pages.... Sharma has found a very convincing perspective in which the human body becomes the nexus of the shift from spatial to temporal power relations. Her image of the social fabric of time is great in its vividness and physicality." -- Hartmut Wilkening * Institute of Network Cultures blog *"In the Meantime persuasively argues a provocative thesis about temporality in society. The thesis is bold, compelling, and would be widely interesting to scholars in cultural studies and media studies.... Sharma achieves a sophisticated balance of cultural theory, ethnographic research, and personal prose." -- Timothy Ballingall * Itineration *“Any scholars interested in the work of those theorists or who are engaging with issues of temporality, globalization, neoliberalism, governmentality, labor, and/or embodiment will find valuable insights and discussions in this book.” -- Josh Smicker * International Journal of Communication *"There are hugely enjoyable moments in this book. Many will recognise the 'public display of busyness' of people on their laptops in cafes and transport hubs (p. 53).... Sharma's portraits and vignettes are required reading for academics and non-academics alike." -- Ben O’Loughlin * Media, Culture & Society *“Sharma’s call for a collective sharing of time, a reimagining of the temporal that would free it from our individual fixations on having too little time, and thus incorporate those who live in the shadows or margins of our global, temporal, capital world, is an ambitious and laudable project. In the Meantime , then, provides, through a mix of personal anecdotes and interviews, an engaging account from both the margins and heart of global capitalism.” -- Johannes Grow * Spectra *"In providing rich insight into temporal inequalities and interdependencies, this book surely deserves a place in the canon of eye-opening, empirically rich but theoretically sweeping forays into the social, cultural, political, and market structures that dictate the terms of everyday life." -- Melissa Mazmanian * ILR Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Tempo Tantrums: Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time 1 1. Jet-Lag Luxury: The Architecture of Time Maintenance 27 2. Temporal Labor and the Taxicab: Maintaining the Time of Others 55 3. Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker 81 4. Slow Space: Another Pace and Time 108 Conclusion. Toward a Temporal Public 137 Notes 151 Bibliography 177 Index 187
£18.99
Watson-Guptill Publications Classic Human Anatomy in Motion
Book SynopsisClassic Human Anatomy in Motion offers artists everything they need to realistically draw the human figure as it is affected by movement. Written in a friendly style, the book is illustrated with hundreds of life drawing studies, along with charts and diagrams showing the various anatomical and structural components.
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Fordham University Press Girl Head
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Plates and Figures | ix Introduction: The Body of Medusa | 1 1 China Girls in the Film Laboratory | 33 2 Gone Girls of Escamontage | 73 3 Gradivan Footsteps in the Film Archive | 102 Afterword | 129 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 165 Index | 181 Color plates follow page 84
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