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Book SynopsisThis beautiful keepsake box features three hardbound journals for a grandmother to record her memories: Grandmother's Words of Wisdom, Grandmother's Recipe Journal, and the bestselling Grandmother's Journal.Meaningful writing prompts and charming illustrations make this deluxe boxed set of guided journals the perfect gift for every grandmother. Encourage grandmothers to create a unique and treasured family heirloom to share with her grandchildren: Each page includes thoughtful prompts to inspire her to record her most memorable and meaningful experiences as a child, young woman, mother, and grandmother, plus the traditions, life lessons, recipes, and family stories that she most wants to share with her grandchildren. THREE COMPLETE JOURNALS: Three hardcover journals offer Grandmothers unique opportunities to share their wisdom, memories and recipes. GRANDMOTHER’S WORDS OF WISDOM JOURNAL: Guided prompts encourages Grandmothers to share the lessons they’ve learned. A special pocket in the back holds a “Letter to My Grandchild” to share are cherish. GRANDMOTHER’S MEMORIES JOURNAL: Filled with fill-ins for Grandmothers to reflect and record the moments that impacted their lives as children, young women, mothers and grandmothers. Includes a beautiful fill-in family tree and pocket for storied photos and mementos. GRANDMOTHER’S RECIPE JOURNAL: Share secret ingredients and family favorites from grandma’s kitchen so they can be savored for generations to come. INSPIRING QUOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS: Each journal is interspersed with thoughts from writers and thinkers, and charming illustrations, create a beautiful setting for priceless advice. DELUXE DETAILS: Each journal features thick paper and a sturdy cover that will last for years. The set is packaged in a beautiful slipcase that makes a perfect gift. • 3 Interactive 96-page hardcover journals including a Recipe Journal, Grandmother''s Journal, and Words of Wisdom

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Book SynopsisAn unprecedented cultural alliance is underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that gender is a social and cultural construction. This so-called “anti-gender” movement—which also travels under names such as “gender-critical feminism”—has found immense international power and is especially active in Latin America, continental Europe, and Russia, with different but no less pernicious strains revitalizing longtime trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) communities in England, Canada, the United States, and Australia. Contributors to this special issue consider what the global rise of trans-exclusionary politics and the envelopment of these politics into global right-wing movements might mean for changing understandings of transgender experience, science and medicine, and legal protections. Topics include the emergence of TERF rhetoric in eva

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Book SynopsisVelocity-Based Training takes an in-depth look at the science of VBT as well as its programming and application. Strength coaches, personal trainers, and athletes will learn how and when to incorporate VBT into training programs to help maximize strength, speed, and power gains throughout the year.Trade Review“Nunzio has done an excellent job of blending athleticism with technology. I highly recommend his book, Velocity-Based Training.”—Brian Cashman, General Manager of the New York Yankees“Nunzio's understanding and practical application of velocity-based training are revolutionizing the field of strength and conditioning. This book will be a valuable addition to any strength and conditioning coaches’ library!”—Will Franco, MS, CSCS, Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Baltimore Orioles“Velocity-based training is a highly effective and useful tool for any athlete. Nunzio provides great insight into its benefits for any coach, at any level, and at any time of the year.”—Ian Kadish, RSCC, CSCS, Director of Strength and Conditioning for the Minnesota Twins“This book is sure to become a staple for strength coaches worldwide and will be a game changer for anyone preparing for a high-intensity athletic endeavor.”—Randy Sullivan, MPT, CSCS, CEO of Florida Baseball RanchTable of ContentsPart I. What Is Velocity-Based Training?Chapter 1. Breaking the VBT CodeChapter 2. Understanding the MetricsChapter 3. Tools of the TradePart II. Getting StartedChapter 4. The Special Strength ZonesChapter 5. Calculating a One-Rep MaxChapter 6. Using Autoregulation and Velocity LossPart III. ProgrammingChapter 7. Yearly Periodization Using VBTChapter 8. Early Off-Season: Tissue Prep and HypertrophyChapter 9. Mid–Off-Season: Submaximal and Maximal StrengthsChapter 10. Late Off-Season and Preseason: Transfer to Sport-Specific PowerChapter 11. In-Season: Strength and Power MaintenanceChapter 12. Sample Programming

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Book SynopsisTrade Review" [A] marvellous, labyrinthine book." * Times Literary Supplement *"Philosophers weary of banal abstraction will find fresh sources of inspiration within Pippin’s poetic importations... Pippin makes a strong case not only for a philosophic reading of art, but also for an artistic reading of philosophy." * Athwart *“This collection of essays addresses the perennial question of the relation between philosophy and aesthetic criticism with cogency and originality. It’s hard to think of anyone better qualified to explore this question, as Pippin has made major contributions both to the study of modern German philosophy and to philosophical approaches to aesthetic objects, notably painting, literary fiction, and film.” -- Derek Attridge, University of York“When seeking to bring together two distinct practices or disciplines it is all too easy to confuse them or lose sight of what is most interesting about each. Pippin avoids this fate with remarkable grace and precision. His philosophical questions illuminate literature and art, and his interpretations of particular works invite a philosophical connection without depending on it. A wonderful, infinitely interesting project.” -- Michael Wood, Princeton University“These essays display the enormous range of Pippin’s intelligence as a commentator on philosophy and literature. Whether as an expounder of Hegel’s aesthetics or an interpreter of self-knowledge in What Maisie Knew, he offers discoveries that always reward the attention he demands.” -- David Bromwich, Yale University"Artworks are neither aesthetically rendered content ripe for philosophical articulation at a later stage, nor mere particulars resisting interpretation, but are revealed here as the friction that any thinking needs to make its concepts come alive for us. In this way, this book offers the finest compliment philosophy could give to art, not by defining it or grasping it in a comprehensive theory, but by engaging it and letting it offer us something to understand, again and again." * The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *"The book should likewise prove a rewarding read for those working in the field of literature and philosophy more generally, as Pippin treats the literary more seriously and with greater precision than just about any other contemporary American philosopher." * ALH Online Review *Table of ContentsPart One: The Arts in Philosophy 1. Philosophical Criticism 2. Kant and the Problem of Tragedy 3. The Status of Literature in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: On the Lives of Concepts 4. The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel’s Aesthetics 5. Hegel on Painting 6. Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried’s Art History 7. Photography as Art: Fried and Intention 8. Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of IdealismPart Two: Philosophy in the Arts 9. On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind 10. Subjectivity: A Proustian Problem 11. The Shadow of Love: The Role of Jealousy in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu 12. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee 13. Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello Acknowledgments Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisInstitutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus. Simply Institutional Ethnography is written by two pioneers in the field and grounded in decades of ground-breaking work. Dorothy Smith and Alison Griffith lay out the basics of how institutional ethnography proceeds as a sociology. The book introduces the concepts Discourse, Work, Text that institutional ethnographers have found to be key ideas used to organize what they learn from the study of people’s experience. Simply Institutional Ethnography builds an ethnography that makes this material visible as coordinated sequences of social relations that reach beyond the particularities of local experience. In explicating the foundations of IE and its principal concepts, Simply Institutional Ethnography reflects on the ways in wTrade Review"This book serves as a fitting legacy of the work of authors Smith and Griffith, two pioneers in the field of institutional ethnography, both of whom passed away prior to this book's publication. The authors encapsulate decades of their efforts to create and develop this particularly unique form of sociology and document its conceptual and theoretical refinement along the way. The result is a sophisticated, comprehensive overview that, although rather complex at times, nonetheless lays out for readers the promise and potential of this approach to studying human lived behavior an.d the myriad institutions in which such behavior is embedded." -- J. R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University * CHOICE *“In this slim volume, the authors encapsulate decades of their efforts to create and develop this particularly unique form of sociology and document its conceptual and theoretical refinement along the way. The result is a sophisticated, comprehensive overview that lays out for readers the promise and potential of this approach to studying human lived behavior and the myriad institutions in which such behavior is embedded.” -- J.R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Introducing Institutional Ethnography 1. Introduction 2. People’s Experience as the Ethnographic Resource Part II: Useful Concepts 3. Concepts but Not Theory 4. Discourse 5. Work 6. Texts Part III: The Ethnographic Dialogue 7. Transition to the Ethnography 8. Exploring Ruling Relations 9. Institutional Circuits: From Actual to Textual 10. Making Change from Below Part IV 11. In Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The lucidity of Daniel’s razor-sharp prose is surpassed only by the boldness and sensitivity of his thought. Joy of the Worm resists the easy logic of secularization, whereby classical valorization and Christian condemnation of self-killing sequentially give way to a modern understanding of suicide as a cry for help. Instead, Daniel attunes us to materialist understandings and aesthetic representations of self-destruction in which cruelty and tenderness, sorrow and mirth, ugliness and beauty mingle conceptually and tonally. Daniel’s meticulous and humane readings attune us to a complex affective and social landscape surrounding suicide.” * Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania *“What happens if we take seriously the failed seriousness of literary scenes of self-killing? ‘Joy within death’ is the ambit of Daniel’s revelatory book, which gathers instances on both sides of Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici (1643)—the work that debuted the word ‘suicide’—to show this ‘contrary aesthetic tendency’ accreting generic force. By reckoning with the levity that animates the choice not to bear what must be borne, Joy of the Worm offers a brilliant and necessary meditation on the resources early modernity furnishes for finding pleasure in an age of destruction and setting down the burden of false hope.” * Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago *“Joy of the Worm is a brilliant, deeply thoughtful, conceptually agile, ethically serious, and surprisingly funny work. Before the emergence of suicide as the pathologized act we currently understand it to be, self-killing enabled a wider set of affective and aesthetic responses. Alert to the difficulty of this topic, Daniel moves deftly back and forth between our twenty-first-century present and the early modern past so that we can understand our own assumptions for what they are: historically contingent ways of framing and perhaps diminishing a fundamental human possibility.” * Timothy M. Harrison, author of 'Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England' *"The book is rich with references to literary critics, philosophers, and thinkers both ancient and modern; present-day thinking about suicide; and aspects of current popular culture but is always accessible and easy to follow. Undergraduates will find the sections on Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra especially enlightening. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This monograph is of value to students and teachers of early modern literature and culture, yet no review can adequately encapsulate the experience of reading it. Like the joy of the worm, the book itself evades the expected experience of its genre (the academic monograph) and instead offers—less dramatically than self-killing but with notable acuity—the indulgence of playful prose and the invitation to ponder life and death with indecorous delight. Many of its findings enlighten us about living as much as about dying." * Review of English Studies *"Drawing on intellectual and literary history, Daniel explores how voluntary death - distinguishing between suicide and self-killing - in literature goes beyond tragedy." * Renaissance and Reformation *"It is a testament to the sheer brilliance of Drew Daniel’s new book—and by 'brilliance' I mean not only its impressive intelligence but also the delightful sparkle of its prose—that I found myself, while reading it, frequently giggling with glee over his meditations on the topic of [suicide] . . . Above all else — even beyond the persuasiveness of its arguments and sharp-eyed close readings — the enjoyment the book generates stems largely from the wit and eloquence of its writing." * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Renaissance Self-Finishing Chapter 1 Failed Seriousness in the Old Arcadia and Gallathea Chapter 2 Slapstick and Synapothanumenon in Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 3 Trolling Decorum in Hamlet and Timon of Athens Chapter 4 The Open Window in Biathanatos Interlude Inventing Suicide in Religio Medici Chapter 5 A Cartoon about Suicide Prevention in Paradise Lost Chapter 6 Smiling at Daggers in Cato, a Tragedy Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewVultures of the World is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about vultures and the conservation efforts being made to protect these important and wonderful birds. * IBIS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Origins and Evolution of Vultures 1. Essential Ecology of Scavengers 2. Species Descriptions and Life Histories New World Vultures Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Greater Yellow-headed Vulture King Vulture California Condor Andean Condor Old World Vultures Palm-nut Vulture Bearded Vulture Egyptian Vulture Hooded Vulture Indian Vulture Slender-billed Vulture White-rumped Vulture Griffon Vulture Rüppell's Vulture Himalayan Vulture White-backed Vulture Cape Vulture Red-headed Vulture White-headed Vulture Cinereous Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture 3. Pair Formation and Reproduction 4. Food Finding and Feeding Behavior 5. Movement Behavior 6. Social Behavior 7. Vultures and People

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Book Synopsis"Herzen's novel played a significant part in the intellectual ferment of the 1840s. It is an important book in social and moral terms, and wonderfully expressive of Herzen's personality."—Isaiah Berlin Alexander Herzen was one of the major figures in...Trade Review"Herzen's only novel is as much a social document as a fiction, since the many characters personify the major issues and types of the time. . . . Herzen's humorous and ironic development of plot and character suggests an answer to the title question: all are to blame for the injustice and aimlessness of Russian life."—Library Journal"This edition of Who Is to Blame? demonstrates genuine involvement in the translator's craft by duplicating Herzen's barbed style and preserving the natural strengths of his prose."—Slavic Review"The translation is excellent. . . . Katz catches the epigrammatic wit of the original—quite an accomplishment."—The New Republic"Herzen was one of the most lucid, realistic, and gifted thinkers of his age and a founder of Russian socialism. . . . Who Is to Blame? remains of value for its acute social insights and Michael Katz has rendered it fluently into English."—Times Higher Education Supplement

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Book SynopsisAnatomical guide leverages exceptional dissection images to elucidate the biomechanics of the hand and upper extremity The hand is a unique instrument that executes the commands of the brain and expresses the nuances of the mind. The Grasping Hand: Structural and Functional Anatomy of the Hand and Upper Extremity by Amit Gupta and Makoto Tamai is a state-of-the-art book that details the functions of the hand to feel, receive, gather, collect and hold, as well as the complex role that the whole upper extremity plays in enabling these actions. The anatomical structures intrinsic to these functions are detailed through illuminating cadaveric dissections and succinct text. Organized in 5 sections and 38 chapters, the book begins with a chapter detailing the intriguing history of hand anatomy, followed by a section encompassing the structural and functional fundamentals. The third section covers general anatomy and function, with discussions of the nerves and vascularity of the upper extremity, as well as the brachial plexus. The fourth section features 26 anatomically organized chapters from the shoulder to the fingertip with anatomical and functional insights on the joints, fascia and retinacula, interosseus membrane, tendons and more. The single chapter comprising the final section covers imaging and anatomy. Key Highlights Pioneers in modern hand surgery share vast collective knowledge and pearls on hand and upper extremity anatomy and biomechanicsOver 1,100 exquisite, original dissections of lightly embalmed fresh cadaveric arms provide unique visual insights about underlying tissues and structuresHigh quality, never before published original photographs enhance understanding of anatomy, physiology, and pathology This practical resource is ideal for reviewing anatomy and biomechanics prior to performing hand, wrist, arm, elbow, and shoulder surgery, making it essential reading for orthopaedic surgeons, fellows, and hand specialists. This book is also useful for students of human anatomy, physical and occupational therapists, medical students, and anyone interested in upper extremity anatomy and function. This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for computational scientists and engineers in addition to researchers in numerical linear algebra community, this title includes an introduction to tensor computations and fresh sections on: discrete Poisson solvers; pseudospectra; structured linear equation problems; structured eigenvalue problems; and, polynomial eigenvalue problems.Trade ReviewProblems, solutions, and discussions of the formulas, methods and literature surrounding matrix computations make for a reference that is specific and well detailed: perfect for any college-level math collection appealing to engineers. Midwest Book Review Written for scientists and engineers, Matrix Computations, fourth edition provides comprehensive coverage of numerical linear algebra. Anyone whose work requires the solution to a matrix problem and an appreciation of mathematical properties will find this book to be an indispensable tool. MathWorksTable of ContentsPrefaceGlobal ReferencesOther BooksUseful URLsCommon NotationChapter 1. Matrix Multiplication1.1. Basic Algorithms and Notation1.2. Structure and Efficiency1.3. Block Matrices and Algorithms1.4. Fast Matrix-Vector Products1.5. Vectorization and Locality1.6. Parallel Matrix MultiplicationChapter 2. Matrix Analysis2.1. Basic Ideas from Linear Algebra2.2. Vector Norms2.3. Matrix Norms2.4. The Singular Value Decomposition2.5. Subspace Metrics2.6. The Sensitivity of Square Systems2.7. Finite Precision Matrix ComputationsChapter 3. General Linear Systems3.1. Triangular Systems3.2. The LU Factorization3.3. Roundoff Error in Gaussian Elimination3.4. Pivoting3.5. Improving and Estimating Accuracy3.6. Parallel LUChapter 4. Special Linear Systems4.1. Diagonal Dominance and Symmetry4.2. Positive Definite Systems4.3. Banded Systems4.4. Symmetric Indefinite Systems4.5. Block Tridiagonal Systems4.6. Vandermonde Systems4.7. Classical Methods for Toeplitz Systems4.8. Circulant and Discrete Poisson SystemsChapter 5. Orthogonalization and Least Squares5.1. Householder and Givens Transformations5.2. The QR Factorization5.3. The Full-Rank Least Squares Problem5.4. Other Orthogonal Factorizations5.5. The Rank-Deficient Least Squares Problem5.6. Square and Underdetermined SystemsChapter 6. Modified Least Squares Problems and Methods6.1. Weighting and Regularization6.2. Constrained Least Squares6.3. Total Least Squares6.4. Subspace Computations with the SVD6.5. Updating Matrix FactorizationsChapter 7. Unsymmetric Eigenvalue Problems7.1. Properties and Decompositions7.2. Perturbation Theory7.3. Power Iterations7.4. The Hessenberg and Real Schur Forms7.5. The Practical QR Algorithm7.6. Invariant Subspace Computations7.7. The Generalized Eigenvalue Problem7.8. Hamiltonian and Product Eigenvalue Problems7.9. PseudospectraChapter 8. Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems8.1. Properties and Decompositions8.2. Power Iterations8.3. The Symmetric QR Algorithm8.4. More Methods for Tridiagonal Problems8.5. Jacobi Methods8.6. Computing the SVD8.7. Generalized Eigenvalue Problems with SymmetryChapter 9. Functions of Matrices9.1. Eigenvalue Methods9.2. Approximation Methods9.3. The Matrix Exponential9.4. The Sign, Square Root, and Log of a MatrixChapter 10. Large Sparse Eigenvalue Problems10.1. The Symmetric Lanczos Process10.2. Lanczos, Quadrature, and Approximation10.3. Practical Lanczos Procedures10.4. Large Sparse SVD Frameworks10.5. Krylov Methods for Unsymmetric Problems10.6. Jacobi-Davidson and Related MethodsChapter 11. Large Sparse Linear System Problems11.1. Direct Methods11.2. The Classical Iterations11.3. The Conjugate Gradient Method11.4. Other Krylov Methods11.5. Preconditioning11.6. The Multigrid FrameworkChapter 12. Special Topics12.1. Linear Systems with Displacement Structure12.2. Structured-Rank Problems12.3. Kronecker Product Computations12.4. Tensor Unfoldings and Contractions12.5. Tensor Decompositions and IterationsIndex

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Book Synopsis Through the years a wealth of information has been accumulated in soccer. Experiential and science-based knowledge abounds in the sport. Yet the scientific information has not been sufficiently disseminated to those who would benefit most from it. Soccer Science fills the void with the best and most up-to-date research in the sport. With editor Tony Strudwick and a who's-who list of international experts on the sport, Soccer Science offers you an unprecedented wealth of advanced yet accessible information on biomechanics, physiology, psychology, skill acquisition and coaching, tactical approaches and performance and match analysis. It is simply the most significant and comprehensive published work on the sport. Table of ContentsPart I. Foundations of Soccer Science Chapter 1. Evolution of Soccer Science (Neil Carter) Chapter 2. National and Cultural Influences (Craig Duncan and Tony Strudwick) Part II. Talent Identification and Player Development Chapter 3. Practical Aspects of Player Selection and Development (Iñigo Mujika and Carlo Castagna) Chapter 4. Development of the Young Soccer Player (Viswanath Unnithan and Jon Iga) Chapter 5. Skill Acquisition and Learning Through Practice and Other Activities (Paul Ford)Part III. Biomechanics and Technological Applications Chapter 6. Biomechanical Principles of Soccer: Translating Theory Into Practice (Anthony Blazevich and Sophia Nimphius) Chapter 7. Refining Techniques and Skills Through Scientific Analysis (Neal Smith) Chapter 8. Practical Biomechanics for Optimal Performance and Injury Prevention (Martin Haines and Daniel Cohen) Chapter 9. Soccer Boots and Playing Surface (Thorsten Sterzing) Chapter 10. Soccer Ball Dynamics (Andy Harland and Henry Hanson) Part IV. Physiological Demands in Training and Competition Chapter 11. Targeted Systems of the Body for Training (Greg Dupont and Alan McCall) Chapter 12. Conditioning Programmes for Competitive Levels (Tony Strudwick and Gary Walker) Chapter 13. Environmental Stressors (Donald Kirkendall) Chapter 14. Nutritional Needs (Mayur Ranchordas) Chapter 15. Injury Frequency and Prevention (Dr. Mario Bizzini and Dr. Astrid Junge)Part V. Psychology and Mental Demands Chapter 16. Psychology and Elite Soccer Performance (Geir Jordet) Chapter 17. Mental Game Interventions (Matt Pain) Chapter 18 Performance Mindset (Mark Nesti)Part VI. Tactics and Strategies Chapter 19. Popular Systems and Styles of Play (Jens Bangsbo and Birger Peitersen) Chapter 20. Defensive Pressure and Goal Prevention (Sam Erith and Gary Curneen) Chapter 21. Key Transitions and Midfield Maneuvers (Dave Tenney and Sigi Schmidt) Chapter 22. Essential Elements of Attacking Soccer (Richard Hawkins and Darren Robinson)Part VII. Match Performance and Analysis Chapter 23. Player and Team Assessments (Rob Mackenzie and Chris Cushion) Chapter 24. Match Evaluations: Systems and Tools (Chris Carling) Chapter 25. Statistical Evaluations in Soccer (Ron Smith) Epilogue: The Future of Soccer Science (Tony Strudwick)

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Critique and Postcritique evaluate literary critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations while assessing the merits of the post-critical turn and exploring a range of alternate methods of literary criticism that may be better suited to the intellectual and political challenges of the present.Trade Review"A thorough study that charts the changing landscape of literary studies without throwing out the old maps." -- Matthew Mullins * Symploke *"This volume will be a crucial reference for scholars in literary studies (especially those in American Studies), cultural studies, and more generally those interested in getting a sense of the state of the humanities." -- Maite Marciano * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski 1 Part I. Countertraditions of Critique 1. "Nothing Is Hidden": From Confusion to Clarity; or, Wittgenstein in Critique / Toril Moi 31 2. The Temptations: Donna Haraway, Feminist Objectivity, and the Problem of Critique / Heather Love 50 3. The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Critique / Simon During 73 Part II. Styles of Reading 4. Romancing the Real: Bruno Latour, Ian McEwan, and Postcritical Monism / Jennifer L. Fleissner 99 5. Symptomatic Reading Is a Problem of Form / Ellen Rooney 127 6. A Heap of Cliché / C. Namwali Serpell 153 7. Why We Love Coetzee; or, The Childhood of Jesus and the Funhouse of Critique / Elizabeth S. Anker 183 Part III. Affects, Politics, Institutions 8. Hope for Critique? / Christopher Castiglia 211 9. What Are the Politics of Critique? The Function of Criticism at a Different Time / Russ Castronovo 230 10. Tragedy and Translation: A Future for Critique in a Secular Age / John Michael 252 11. Then and Now / Eric Hayot 279 Bibliography 297 About the Contributors 313 Index 317

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative go-to resource for students and clinical nutrition practitioners that covers over 270 conditions. Each section provides an overview followed by essential evidence-based information on nutrition management of each condition. Nutrition therapy and practical guidance is presented in a style that is easy-to-navigate and implement.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDowty's book will serve as an accessible and important work in the field of the history of the Yishuv during the Ottoman period and the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The combination of attention to detail and a broad overview means that this work will be useful to scholars and students for years to come, and the author deserves every praise for this. -- Tamir Karkason * H-Judaic *A seminal work of impeccable and meticulous scholarship, Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide by Professor Alan Dowty must be considered a core addition to community, college and university library Turkish, Palestinian, and Israeli history collections and supplemental studies curriculums. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *The rigorous research and scholarly perspective of Alan Dowty's Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine shines a light on issues of the Arab-Israel conflict that others have overlooked. * Jewish Press.com *Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine is a study rich with insight and information that is skillfully put into a broader context. You will finish the book with a wealth of knowledge about the past and greater insight into the present. -- Dinah Rokach * HaShomer *Table of ContentsPreface1. Palestine before Zionism2. Russian Jews before Zionism3. Two Worlds Collide4. Unneighborly Relations5. Truth from the Land of Israel6. The Arena Expands7. Battle LinesEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAt once historical and allegorical, Light in Dark Times is an illustrated ride crossing time, space, and place as the characters walk a difficult path while grasping a lifeline of hope on a journey through knowledge.Trade Review"Light in Dark Times contributes to our understanding of why the US is facing similar strategies of ‘conflating opinion with truth’ and the rise of ‘alternative facts’ that were used in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. It also offers a number of important remedies to counter them: be introspective, avoid the trivial, participate in envisioning an alternative world, and engage in activities without exaggerated self-importance." -- Rachel Breunlin, University of New Orleans * Anthropology and Humanism *“Light in Dark Times is one of the few books, anthropological or otherwise, I would call transcendent. Rarely has a volume been timelier, more engaging, or more accessible.” -- Robert Myers, Alfred University * General Anthropology *"This is a unique, non-fiction graphic novel that focuses on what anthropology study can lend to society. The artwork is particularly illuminating." -- 2020 VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award Committee“If I were teaching graduate students in anthropology about the alluring, messy complexities within and about the discipline, this book would be a fine introduction. If I were teaching qualitative research methods and other means of narrating experience, the format and content would undoubtedly expand the student’s repertoires of representation.” -- Sue E. Estroff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Journal *Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Anthropology Characters Reflections On Being Introspective On Thinking in Dark Times On Truth, Lies, and the Danger of the Trivial On Envisioning an Alternative World A Lament To the Present To Posterity

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Book SynopsisExplores the uses of the abandoned Hudson River docks in New York City by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture between 1971 and 1983. Trade Review“An alluring homage to a time, a community, and a landscape that have long since vanished.”—Jeremy Allen The New York Times“Eminent queer art historian Jonathan Weinberg makes the case for how powerfully gay male social life, cruising, and public sex were of a piece in the early days of LGBT liberation. In the wake of oppression that brutally enforced queer invisibility, a newly burgeoning movement sought to colonize public spaces for queer desires. Merging the political with the erotic, queer public spaces such as the piers have become quasi-mythic embodiments of gay life before AIDS changed everything. Weinberg here strips away the myth with a careful social history of the most influential, if unseen, crucible of gay liberation at the moment when the full meaning of that term was only beginning to be realized.”—Jonathan D. Katz,author of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture“A compelling memorial to a lost world.”—Barry Reay Times Higher Education“Weinberg’s careful research of these diverse practices makes for a meandering read, but one that offers surprising moments of beauty and coincidence as artists encounter each other on the waterfront.”—Kyle Croft Art in America“Powerfully moving and full of life, Pier Groups immerses the reader in an episode on the literal fringe, the derelict Hudson waterfront of lower Manhattan, and makes it central to the legendary art scenes of the 1970s and 1980s. Vividly illustrated with new photographic discoveries, Jonathan Weinberg’s fluent and searching work captures a vibrant lost community in which he plays a part as chronicler, interpreter, and participant.”—Thomas E. Crow,author of The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930–1995“Weinberg looks deeply into sexual cultures and artistic practices unfolding on the piers in the 1970s and considers the ways the art and cruising scenes are intercalated. His understanding of history, which rejects the logic of cause and effect, and his nonlinear approach to historical narration open new perspectives on artists about whom much has already been written.”—Tirza Latimer,author of Women Together / Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris“The strength of Weinberg’s book lies in its ability to illustrate to the reader the verisimilitude of life and activity at the piers . . . while also offering significant interpretations and reinterpretations of artworks, installations, and happenings.”—Jeffrey Patrick Colgan Gotham Center for New York History“Visuals and stimulating text . . . will be a fascinating surprise to younger readers unaware of the activity in 1970s gay Manhattan. For older readers who remember this era of danger, sex, desire, and public cruising, the book is a time capsule from a bygone era where on the fringes of a vibrant city thrived a microcosm of the gay community where sex and art reigned supreme.”—Jim Piechota Bay Area Reporter“An incredible contribution to gay history in particular and to American art history in general. . . . A valuable work of scholarship, but also a fascinating glimpse at a place and time that may be gone but which, thanks to Weinberg, will not be forgotten.”—Martin Wilson The Gay & Lesbian Review“This game-changing book by Jonathan Weinberg draws on about a decade of research into the art made along Manhattan’s West Side piers. It’s an important commentary on how—and to whom—value is assigned.”—Maximilíano Durón ARTNews“What makes reading Weinberg’s book significant within writing on queer art history is his specific focus on relation, both among the many queer men, such as David Wojnarowicz and Leonard Fink, who cruised and created within the piers and the ‘straight’ artists, ranging from Gordon Matta-Clark to Vito Acconci, who made art there as well and responded to the same spaces.”—Gabriel Chazan The Expanded Field“The author candidly frames his history with the admission that he, as an occasional participant in the life of the waterfront, may be prone to a certain nostalgia. Admirably, then, his book offers a markedly ambivalent picture of the piers.”—Jack Parlett Burlington Magazine“Through first-person narration Weinberg delivers a captivating account of these intercalated boundary-pushing groups, merging over two decades of academic research with interviews, photographic documentation and his own vivid memories of cruising on the city’s derelict waterfront as a youth.”—Kabir Jhala The Art Newspaper“Along with its plentiful illustrations, the innovative tone of the book makes it an engaging read suitable for a wide readership in and outside of academia.”—Daniel Fountain QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking“The most comprehensive look into a key period in New York City’s queer history which has long deserved to have its story told.”—Ashleigh Kane Dazed“On the surface, the story of the Hudson Piers in the ‘70s was salacious. But it’s also a case study in occupying public space to create a community that became synonymous with artistic and sexual freedom.”—CNN Style“Pier Groups is a work of scholarship that is both rigorously researched and movingly personal. But it is also, and no less urgently, a work of art.”—Richard Meyer Art BulletinTable of ContentsContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Initiations 2. Material for Blackmail 3. Degenerate Structure 4. David Wojnarowicz in New York 5. The Pickup Machine 6. Something Possible Everywhere Epilogue Notes Index

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Book Synopsis Exercise Biochemistry brings an admittedly difficult and technical subject to life. Extremely user- and student-friendly, it is written in conversational style by Vassilis Mougios, who poses and then answers questions as if in conversation with a student. Mougios does an excellent job of making the information interesting by using simple language without compromising scientific accuracy and content. He also uses ample analogies, related works of art, and numerous illustrations to drive home his points for readers. The result is that Exercise Biochemistry is a highly informative and illuminating text on the effects of exercise on molecular-level functioning. It presents the basics of biochemistry as well as in-depth coverage of exercise biochemistry. The book uses key terms, sidebars, and questions and problems posed at the end of each chapter to facilitate learning. It also covers metabolism, endocrinology, and assessment all in one volume, unlike other exerTable of Contents Part I. Biochemistry Basics Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Chemical Elements 1.2 Chemical Bonds 1.3 Molecules 1.4 Ions 1.5 Radicals 1.6 Polarity Influences Miscibility 1.7 Solutions 1.8 Chemical Reactions 1.9 Chemical Equilibrium 1.10 pH 1.11 Acid-Base Interconversions 1.12 Buffer Systems 1.13 Classes of Biological Substances 1.14 Classes of Nutrients 1.15 Cell Structure Chapter 2. Metabolism 2.1 Free-Energy Changes of Metabolic Reactions 2.2 Determinants of Free-Energy Change 2.3 ATP, the Energy Currency of Cells 2.4 Phases of Metabolism 2.5 Redox Reactions 2.6 Overview of Catabolism Chapter 3. Proteins 3.1 Amino Acids 3.2 The Peptide Bond 3.3 Primary Structure of Proteins 3.4 Secondary Structure 3.5 Tertiary Structure 3.6 Denaturation 3.7 Quaternary Structure 3.8 Protein Function 3.9 Oxygen Carriers 3.10 Myoglobin 3.11 Hemoglobin Structure 3.12 The Wondrous Properties of Hemoglobin 3.13 Enzymes 3.14 The Active Site 3.15 How Enzymes Speed up Metabolic Reactions 3.16 Factors Affecting the Rate of Enzyme Reactions Chapter 4. Nucleic Acids and Gene Expression 4.1 Introducing Nucleic Acids 4.2 Flow of Genetic Information 4.3 Deoxyribonucleotides, the Building Blocks of DNA 4.4 Primary Structure of DNA 4.5 The Double Helix of DNA 4.6 The Genome of Living Organisms 4.7 DNA Replication 4.8 Mutations 4.9 RNA 4.10 Transcription 4.11 Delimiting Transcription 4.12 Genes and Gene Expression 4.13 Messenger RNA 4.14 Translation 4.15 The Genetic Code 4.16 Transfer RNA 4.17 Translation Continued 4.18 In the Beginning, RNA? Chapter 5. Carbohydrates and Lipids 5.1 Carbohydrates 5.2 Monosaccharides 5.3 Oligosaccharides 5.4 Polysaccharides 5.5 Carbohydrate Categories in Nutrition 5.6 Lipids 5.7 Fatty Acids 5.8 Triacylglycerols 5.9 Phospholipids 5.10 Steroids 5.11 Cell Membranes Chapter 6. Vitamins and Minerals 6.1 Water Soluble Vitamins 6.2 Fat Soluble Vitamins 6.3 Metal Minerals 6.4 Nonmetal Minerals 6.5 Elements in the Human Body Part II. Biochemistry of the Neural and Muscular Processes of Movement Chapter 7. Neural Control of Movement 7.1 Two Ways of Transmission of Nerve Signals 7.2 The Resting Potential 7.3 The Action Potential 7.4 Propagation of an Action Potential 7.5 Transmission of a Nerve Impulse from One Neuron to Another 7.6 Birth of a Nerve Impulse 7.7 The Neuromuscular Junction 7.8 Changes in Motor Neuron Activity During Exercise 7.9 A Lethal Arsenal at the Service of Research Chapter 8. Muscle Activity 8.1 Structure of a Muscle Cell 8.2 The Sliding-Filament Theory 8.3 The Wondrous Properties of Myosin 8.4 Myosin Structure 8.5 Actin 8.6 Sarcomere Architecture 8.7 Mechanism of Force Generation 8.8 Myosin Isoforms and Muscle Fiber Types 8.9 Control of Muscle Contraction by Ca2+ 8.10 Excitation-Contraction Coupling Part III. Exercise Metabolism III.1 Principles of Exercise Metabolism III.2 Exercise Parameters III.3 Experimental Models Used to Study Exercise Metabolism III.4 Five Means of Metabolic Control in Exercise III.5 Four Classes of Energy Sources in Exercise Chapter 9. Compounds of High Phosphoryl Transfer Potential 9.1 The ATP-ADP Cycle 9.2 The ATP-ADP Cycle in Exercise 9.3 Phosphocreatine 9.4 Watching Exercise Metabolism 9.5 Loss of AMP by Deamination 9.6 Purine Degradation Chapter 10. Carbohydrate Metabolism in Exercise 10.1 Carbohydrate Digestion and Absorption 10.2 Glycogen Content of the Human Body 10.3 Glycogenesis 10.4 Glycogenolysis 10.5 Exercise Speeds Up Glycogenolysis in Muscle 10.6 The Cyclic-AMP Cascade 10.7 Recapping the Effect of Exercise on Muscle Glycogen Metabolism 10.8 Glycolysis 10.9 Exercise Speeds Up Glycolysis in Muscle 10.10 Pyruvate Oxidation 10.11 Exercise Speeds Up Pyruvate Oxidation in Muscle 10.12 The Citric Acid Cycle 10.13 Exercise Speeds Up the Citric Acid Cycle in Muscle 10.14 The Electron Transport Chain 10.15 Oxidative Phosphorylation 10.16 Energy Yield of the Electron Transport Chain 10.17 Energy Yield of Carbohydrate Oxidation 10.18 Exercise Speeds Up Oxidative Phosphorylation in Muscle 10.19 Lactate Production in Muscle During Exercise 10.20 Is Lactate Production a Cause of Fatigue? 10.21 Is Lactate Production Due to a Lack of Oxygen? 10.22 Features of the Anaerobic Carbohydrate Catabolism 10.23 Utilizing Lactate 10.24 Gluconeogenesis 10.25 A Shortcut in Gluconeogenesis 10.26 Exercise Speeds Up Gluconeogenesis in the Liver 10.27 The Cori Cycle 10.28 Exercise Speeds Up Glycogenolysis in the Liver 10.29 Control of the Plasma Glucose Concentration in Exercise 10.30 Blood Lactate Accumulation 10.31 Blood Lactate Decline 10.32 “Thresholds” Chapter 11. Lipid Metabolism in Exercise 11.1 Triacylglycerol Digestion, Absorption, and Distribution 11.2 Digestion, Absorption, and Distribution of Other Lipids 11.3 Fat Content of the Human Body 11.4 Triacylglycerol Synthesis in Adipose Tissue 11.5 Lipolysis 11.6 Exercise Speeds Up Lipolysis in Adipose Tissue 11.7 Exercise Speeds Up Lipolysis in Muscle 11.8 Fate of the Lipolytic Products During Exercise 11.9 Fatty Acid Degradation 11.10 Energy Yield of Fatty Acid Oxidation 11.11 Degradation of Unsaturated Fatty Acids 11.12 Degradation of Odd-Number Fatty Acids 11.13 Fatty Acid Synthesis 11.14 Synthesis of Fatty Acids Other Than Palmitate 11.15 Exercise Speeds Up Fatty Acid Oxidation in Muscle 11.16 Changes in the Plasma Fatty Acid Concentration and Profile During Exercise 11.17 Interconversion of Lipids and Carbohydrates 11.18 Brown Adipose Tissue 11.19 Plasma Lipoproteins 11.20 A Lipoprotein Odyssey 11.21 Effects of Exercise on Plasma Triacylglycerols 11.22 Effects of Exercise on Plasma Cholesterol 11.23 Exercise Increases Ketone Body Formation Chapter 12. Protein Metabolism in Exercise 12.1 Processing of Dietary Proteins 12.2 Protein Content of the Human Body 12.3 Protein Turnover 12.4 Effects of Exercise on Protein Turnover 12.5 Amino Acid Degradation 12.6 Amino Acid Synthesis 12.7 Effects of Exercise on Amino Acid Metabolism in Muscle 12.8 Effects of Exercise on Amino Acid Metabolism in the Liver 12.9 The Urea Cycle 12.6 Amino Acid Synthesis 12.10 Plasma Amino Acid, Ammonia, and Urea Concentrations During Exercise 12.11 Contribution of Proteins to the Energy Expenditure of Exercise 12.12 Effects of Training on Protein Turnover Chapter 13. Effects of Exercise on Gene Expression 13.1 Stages in the Control of Gene Expression 13.2 Stages in the Control of Gene Expression Affected by Exercise 13.3 Kinetics of a Gene Product After Exercise 13.4 Exercise-Induced Changes That May Modify Gene Expression 13.5 Mechanisms of Exercise-Induced Muscle Hypertrophy 13.6 Mechanisms of Exercise-Induced Increase in Muscle-Mitochondrial Content 13.7 Exercise and Epigenetics Chapter 14. Integration of Exercise Metabolism 14.1 Interconnections of Metabolic Pathways 14.2 Energy Systems 14.3 Energy Sources in Exercise 14.4 Choice of Energy Sources During Exercise 14.5 Effect of Exercise Intensity on the Choice of Energy Sources 14.6 Effect of Exercise Duration on the Choice of Energy Sources 14.7 Interplay of Duration and Intensity: Energy Sources in Running and Swimming 14.8 Effect of the Exercise Program on the Choice of Energy Sources 14.9 Sex Differences in the Choice of Energy Sources During Exercise 14.10 How Sex Influences the Choice of Energy Sources During Exercise 14.11 Effect of Age on the Choice of Energy Sources During Exercise 14.12 Effect of Carbohydrate Intake on the Choice of Energy Sources During Exercise 14.13 Effect of Fat Intake on the Choice of Energy Sources During Exercise 14.14 Adaptations of the Proportion of Energy Sources During Exercise to Endurance Training 14.15 How Endurance Training Modifies the Proportion of Energy Sources During Exercise? 14.16 Adaptations of Energy Metabolism to Resistance and Sprint Training 14.17 Adaptations of Exercise Metabolism to Interval Training 14.18 Effect of the Genome on the Choice of Energy Sources in Exercise 14.19 Muscle Fiber Type Transitions 14.20 Effects of Environmental Factors on the Choice of Energy Sources in Exercise 14.21 The Proportion of Fuels Can Be Measured Bloodlessly 14.22 Hormonal Effects on Exercise Metabolism 14.23 Redox State and Exercise Metabolism 14.24 Causes of Fatigue 14.25 Recovery of the Energy State After Exercise 14.26 Metabolic Changes in Detraining Chapter 15. Exercise to Fight Disease 15.1 Health, Disease, and Exercise 15.2 Exercise to Fight Cardiovascular Disease 15.3 Adaptations of the Heart to Training 15.4 Adaptations of the Vasculature to Training 15.5 Exercise to Fight Cancer 15.6 Diabetes, a Major Metabolic Upset 15.7 Exercise to Fight Diabetes 15.8 Obesity, a Health-Threatening Condition 15.9 Why Obesity Is Harmful 15.10 Exercise to Fight Obesity 15.11 Exercise to Fight Osteoporosis 15.12 Exercise to Fight Mental Dysfunction 15.13 The Detriments of Physical Inactivity 15.14 Exercise for Healthy Aging and Longevity 15.15 Benefits From Regular Exercise in Other Diseases 15.16 A Final Word on the Value of Exercise Part IV. Biochemical Assessment of Exercising Persons IV.1 The Blood IV.2 Aims and Scope of the Biochemical Assessment IV.3 The Reference Interval IV.4 Classes of Biochemical Parameters Chapter 16. Iron Status 16.1 Hemoglobin 16.2 Hematologic Parameters 16.3 Does Sports Anemia Exist? 16.4 Iron 16.5 Total Iron-Binding Capacity 16.6 Transferrin Saturation 16.7 Soluble Transferrin Receptor 16.8 Ferritin 16.9 Iron Deficiency Chapter 17. Metabolites 17.1 Lactate 17.2 Estimating the Anaerobic Lactic Capacity 17.3 Programming Training 17.4 Estimating Aerobic Endurance 17.5 Glucose 17.6 Triacylglycerols 17.7 Cholesterol 17.8 Recapping the Lipidemic Profile 17.9 Glycerol 17.10 Urea 17.11 Ammonia 17.12 Creatinine 17.13 Uric acid 17.14 Glutathione Chapter 18. Enzymes and Hormones 18.1 Enzymes 18.2 Creatine Kinase 18.3 Glutamyltransferase 18.4 Antioxidant Enzymes 18.5 Steroid Hormones 18.6 Cortisol 18.7 Testosterone 18.8 Overtraining Syndrome 18.9 Epilogue Part IV Summary

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Book Synopsis"The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the bodybuilding contest preparation process from the start of contest preparation, through show-day, and into the transition to the offseason"Trade Review“Cliff and Peter have established themselves as among the best at precompetition coaching. Together, they have written the most comprehensive book on the topic to date. Anyone interested in physique competition would benefit from giving it a read.”Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, CSCS,*D, CSPS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, FNSCA, Author of The M.A.X. Muscle Plan and Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy "This book is the how-to of bodybuilding! I'm a firm believer in knowing the science behind every aspect of competition; Cliff and Pete provide just that in Bodybuilding.”Cyd Gillon, Two-Time Ms. Figure Olympia"While there are other books on bodybuilding and contest prep out there, this is THE book that covers every topic in complete detail and has become the new standard for the sport. I recommend Bodybuilding not only to all my clients but also to any coach or athlete who wants to take their knowledge to the next level."John Gorman, Co-owner of Team Gorman, Elite Trainer for 1st Phorm, and Author of Metabolic Capacity and Reverse DietingTable of ContentsIntroduction. Evolution of the Sport of BodybuildingEarly Physique CompetitionsThe Early 1900sPre–Golden EraGolden EraIs it possible for bodybuilding competitors to compete in another strength sport (powerlifting, for example)?The Late 20th CenturyChapter 1. The Art and Science of BodybuildingNew DivisionsDrug-Tested BodybuildingMisinformed Approaches to Contest PreparationMany competitors at my gym use methods you do not recommend yet have been successful in their competitions. Why should I follow the approaches discussed in this book rather than what the guys at my gym are doing? Chapter 2. Sorting Through the SanctionsDrug Use in BodybuildingUntested Amateur SanctionsIf I am drug-free, can I compete in untested competitions?Untested Professional SanctionsDrug-Tested SanctionsAre banned substances taken for diagnosed medical reasons allowed in drug-tested competitions? If I win a pro card in one sanction, can I compete in professional competitions in other sanctions?Chapter 3. Breaking Down the Divisions and ClassesCriteria DefinedMen’s DivisionsWomen’s DivisionsCan a competitor compete in more than one division at a show?Final Word on Division CriteriaI feel like I may be able to compete in more than one division. How do I choose the best division for me?ClassesWhy are there multiple classes within the same show? For example, why are there three open men’s bodybuilding classes? Can competitors make a living from prize money earned in professional competitions? Can a competitor compete in more than one class at a show?Chapter 4. The Reality of ReadinessNew CompetitorsAs a new competitor attending a competition for the first time, is it important for me to attend a competition in the sanction in which I plan to compete?Experienced CompetitorsWould you ever recommend competing with less time between shows?Readiness for Contest PrepPatience and Time Pay OffChapter 5. Show Selection and Timing: The Secrets of PreparationSelecting the Right ShowWhat is the best time for me to start contest prep?Appropriate Rate of LossDoes my weight need to decrease to get stage-lean?Benefits of Longer Prep TimeDetermining Needed Prep TimeDo I need to select a show before starting contest prep? Could I achieve stage-lean levels of body fat in less time than you recommend?Chapter 6. Fueling Your Physique for Contest PreparationEnergy BalanceCaloric IntakeWhat do I do if I fall off my nutrition plan for a day?MacronutrientsAre high-protein diets safe? Should I be concerned about sugar intake during contest prep?Individual Differences in Macronutrient NeedsWhat is the best way to accurately measure my food?FiberVitamins and MineralsCan I have artificial sweeteners during contest prep?Meal FrequencyProtein TimingCarbohydrate TimingRefeedsDiet BreaksMonitoring ProgressHow should a woman handle weight fluctuations due to her menstrual cycle?PlateausChapter 7. Tweaking Your Physique for Contest PreparationIncreasing Energy ExpenditureShould I do cardio fasted? If I am lifting weights and doing cardio in the same workout, which should I do first?Resistance TrainingWhat is the mind-muscle connection I have heard about? How many days a week should I be in the gym? Do I need to train to failure? If so, should I do it in every workout?Monitor the Need for RecoverySample Training ProgramsChapter 8. The Art of PosingBodybuilding (Men and Women)Classic Physique (Men)Men’s PhysiqueWomen’s PhysiqueFigure (Women)Bikini (Women)Posing Routines and T-WalksEffective Practice PosingShould I practice the poses in my posing suit? Should I pose in a sauna?Chapter 9. The Finishing Touches and Final PreparationPracticeMusicPosing SuitShoesJewelryHair RemovalTanningDo all competitions allow the same type of tan? Do I need to get a base tan in a tanning bed before my competition?Makeup and HairOther Logistical DetailsChapter 10. Peak Week ExplainedThe Mysterious Peak WeekPrerequisites for Effective PeakingTerminology and DefinitionsPeak Week ObjectivesPeak Week Objective NonstartersCarbohydratesWaterWould you ever recommend that a competitor cut water during peak week?Sodium-Potassium BalancePeaking NetworkPeak Week StrategiesLearning Your Load Look and Choosing a Peaking StrategyPeak Week TrainingPeak Week CardioManaging Your Physique on Show DayWhat if I mistime my sodium, sugar, and pump up backstage, and I am too early?The Perfect Peak?Chapter 11. Contest Weekend: Strategizing for SuccessFocus on What You Can ControlThe Day Before the ShowShow DayHow ready should I be when I arrive at the venue on show day? Can I go out to eat after prejudging?After the ShowChapter 12. After the Event: Recovery and RecommendationsPostshow AnalysisCompeting in Multiple ShowsPhysiology of Being Stage-LeanTransitioning to the Off-SeasonDoes everyone need to regain body fat after a show?

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Book SynopsisThrough the experiences of Wander, this creative retelling of the parable of the prodigal son teaches children ages 68 about the love of the heavenly Father and biblical truths about worth and identity.

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Book SynopsisReveals a little-known history of 1917: the Ukrainian anarcho-communist MakhnovistsTrade Review'Utilising numerous sources, some only recently available, Colin Darch produces an admirably lucid account of complex events, supported by penetrating analysis' -- Gary Littlejohn, author of 'A Sociology of the Soviet Union' (1984)'A timely and welcome contribution. Detailed and balanced, Darch's narrative succumbs to neither a romanticisation nor demonisation of Makhno. Readers will encounter a multifaceted Makhno attempting to navigate his movement through the furies of revolution and civil war' -- Sean Patterson, author of 'Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917-1921''Before Rojava, before Spain, there was Ukraine. Darch's brilliant study recovers the intertwined stories of the anarchist Nestor Makhno, factory worker and son of freed serfs, and the revolution that swept Ukraine. This highly recommended study of an epic time shows another revolution was possible’ -- Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Economic & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes UniversityTable of ContentsList of Maps List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements The Deep Roots of Rural Discontent: Guliaipole, 1905–17 The Turning Point: Organising Resistance to the German Invasion, 1918 Brigade Commander and Partisan: Makhno’s Campaigns against Denikin, January–May 1919 Betrayal in the Heat of Battle? The Red–Black Alliance Falls Apart, May–September 1919 The Long March West and the Battle at Peregonovka Red versus White, Red versus Green: The Bolsheviks Assert Control The Last Act: Alliance at Starobel’sk, Wrangel’s Defeat, and Betrayal at Perekop The Bitter Politics of the Long Exile: Romania, Poland, Germany, and France, 1921–34 Why Anarchism? Why Ukraine? Contextualising Makhnovshchina Epilogue: The Reframing of Makhno for the Twenty-First Century Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | ix Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition | xiii Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller | 15 Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller | 37 Preface | 41 Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment | 45 Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era | 50 The Intermedia Network as Nature | 54 Popular Culture and the Noosphere | 57 Art, Entertainment, Entropy | 59 Retrospective Man and the Human Condition | 66 The Artist as Design Scientist | 70 Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama | 75 Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software | 78 Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites | 81 Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage | 84 Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness | 92 Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience | 97 Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction | 106 Synaesthetics and Synergy | 109 Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism | 112 Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality | 122 Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age | 128 Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness | 135 2001: The New Nostalgia | 139 The Stargate Corridor | 151 The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson | 157 Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films | 179 The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis | 180 The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild | 183 Hardware and Software | 185 The Aesthetic Machine | 189 Cybernetic Cinema | 194 Computer Films | 207 Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium | 257 The Videosphere | 260 Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics | 265 Synaesthetic Videotapes | 281 Videographic Cinema | 317 Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments | 337 Part Six: Intermedia | 345 The Artist as Ecologist | 346 World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality | 352 Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium | 359 Intermedia Theatre | 365 Multiple-Projection Environments | 387 Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World | 399 Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography | 400 Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion | 404 Limitations of Holographic Cinema | 407 Projecting Holographic Movies | 411 The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies | 414 Technoanarchy: The Open Empire | 415 Selected Bibliography | 421 Index | 427

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Book Synopsis Over 110 proven drills in Tennis Skills & Drills demonstrate appropriate technique with descriptions for players to master a skill and then use that targeted skill during competition. From singles and doubles coverage to movement and tactical drills, the comprehensive coverage and full-color photos will lead you to more victories on the court. Trade Review “Tennis Skills & Drills offers the tools needed for superior strokes and more victories on the court.” -Mardy Fish 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Table of Contents Chapter 1: Forehand Skills Chapter 2: Backhand Skills Chapter 3: Forehand and Backhand Drills Chapter 4: Serve Skills Chapter 5: Return Skills Chapter 6: Serve and Return Drills Chapter 7: Net Skills Chapter 8: Specialty Skills Chapter 9: Net and Specialty Drills Chapter 10: Singles Strategy and Drills Chapter 11: Doubles Strategy and Drills

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs - communication and signification - and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.Table of ContentsForewordNote on graphic conventions0. Introduction—Toward a Logic of Culture0.1. Design for a semiotic theory0.2. 'Semiotics': field or discipline?0.3. Communication and/or signification0.4. Political boundaries: the field0.5. Natural boundaries: two definitions of semiotics0.6. Natural boundaries: inference and signification0.7. Natural boundaries; the lower threshold0.8. Natural boundaries: the upper threshold0.9. Epistemological boundaries1. Signification and Communication1.1. An elementary communicational model1.2. Systems and codes1.3. The s-code as structure1.4. Information, communication, signification2. Theory of Codes2.1. The sign-function2.2. Expression and content2.3. Denotation and connotation2.4. Message and text2.5 Content and referent2.6. Meaning as cultural unit2.7. The interpretant2.8. The semantic system2.9. The semantic markers and the sememe2.10. The KF model2.11. A revised semantic model2.12. The model "Q"2.13. The format of the semantic space2.14. Overcoding and undercoding2.15. The interplay of codes and the message as an open form3. Theory of Sign Production3.1. A general survey3.2. Semiotic and factual statements3.3. Mentioning3.4 The prolem of a typology of signs3.5. Critique of iconism3.6. A typology of modes of production3.7. The aesthetic text as invention3.8. The rhetorical labor3.9. Ideological code switching4. The Subject of SemioticsReferencesIndex of authorsIndex of subjects

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Book SynopsisThis timeless treasure from Charles Spurgeon reminds readers to place their hope in the finished work of Jesus Christ as they navigate trials on this earth. Part of the Crossway Short Classics series.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is a series of essays on the luminaries of African American political thought, across the history of the United States, by some of the most impressive scholars currently working. It is as close to a comprehensive overview of the African American political tradition as I’ve read, with chapters on figures from Phillis Wheatley and David Walker (two of the most important Black political thinkers of the early American republic) to Angela Davis and Clarence Thomas." -- Jamelle Bouie * The New York Times *"Melvin Rogers’s and Jack Turner’s magisterial volume African American Political Thought comprises thirty essays on thirty different thinkers, each grappling with a shared set of questions and themes. . . . As 'collected history,' African American Political Thought offers a rich point from which to begin. Transfiguring the history of American political thought and democratic political theory, the volume proposes a canon of political thought that might itself be a starting point for democratic politics. . . . What they have achieved here does not only augment our existing canons, but works to transform those canons, and indeed the project of canon formation itself." * Comparative Political Theory *"For those wishing to learn more about the broader significance of black social-political thought . . . African American Political Thought: A Collected History is the go-to volume. . . . All of the thirty essays in African American Political Thought generate original scholarship and insights . . . all are invaluable sources for future scholarship on these important political thinkers’ contributions to political theory. Overall, this collected history works to reshape understandings of politics, history, culture, economics, institutions, social relations, and human beings in the United States by adding missing political theorists’ voices and views and illustrating problems with some of the dominant political theorists’ voices and views." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"African American Political Thought, co-edited by Brown political scientist Melvin Rogers, reveals the outsize impact many Black thinkers, from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, have had on American society." * Brown University (News from Brown) *"Melvin Rogers’s and Jack Turner’s highly anticipated volume African American Political Thought: A Collected History promises to transform how we read and teach the history of Black political thought. An impressive collection, it fills large gaps in our understanding of this tradition and sets a new foundation for further research... The volume sets a new standard for study of African American political thought and makes a persuasive case for the tradition’s important contributions to political theory broadly." * European Journal of Political Theory *“For far too long, mainstream white American political theorists, whether in political science or political philosophy, have gotten away with the construction of a Jim Crow canon for which black thinkers are separate, unequal, and invisible. This groundbreaking and comprehensive overview of the African American political tradition should henceforth make such intellectual ghettoization impossible.” -- Charles W. Mills, The City University of New York“African American Political Thought should become an instant classic. So much to mine here. So many lines of inquiry to follow. Rogers and Turner have masterfully curated a collection of essays that will guide the field of African American political thought for generations. The study of American political thought will never be the same.” -- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University“This book is an essential intervention in political theory and expands the notion of the canon of American political thought in ways that are both necessary and profound. Herein we begin to understand the richness of the legacies of politics reasoned from margin to center and the critical impact that can have on conceptions of democracy and justice. A must-read for those interested in understanding American politics and seriously engaging political theory.” -- Deva Woodly, The New School"Rogers and Turner have assembled a collection of African American political thought covering a stunning range of time and ideas... Given its scope, the book maintains a sense of continuity through a plethora of resonances between its chapters. The collection boasts a variety of interpretative approaches and scales of analysis and is notable for its attention to a range of rhetorical strategies and expressive genres: sermons, slave narratives, satire, Supreme Court opinions... The time and care Rogers and Turner invested in this project from its conception in 2007 and compilation over 10 years is evident in its comprehensiveness and thorough introduction. The credentials of the contributors to this collection are astonishing and the oeuvre of each in their own right is worth reading further." * MAKE Literary Magazine *Table of ContentsPolitical Theorizing in Black: An Introduction Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner 1 Phillis Wheatley and the Rhetoric of Politics and Race Vincent Carretta 2 David Walker: Citizenship, Judgment, Freedom, and Solidarity Melvin L. Rogers 3 Martin Delany’s Two Principles, the Argument for Emigration, and Revolutionary Black Nationalism Robert Gooding-Williams 4 Harriet Jacobs: Prisoner of Hope Nick Bromell 5 Frederick Douglass: Nonsovereign Freedom and the Plurality of Political Resistance Sharon R. Krause 6 Alexander Crummell’s Three Visions of Black Nationalism Frank M. Kirkland 7 Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Deception Desmond Jagmohan 8 Anna Julia Cooper: Radical Relationality and the Ethics of Interdependence Carol Wayne White 9 Ida B. Wells on Racial Criminalization Naomi Murakawa 10 W. E. B. Du Bois: Afro-modernism, Expressivism, and the Curse of Centrality Paul C. Taylor 11 Marcus Garvey: The Black Prince? Michael Dawson 12 A. Philip Randolph: Radicalizing Rights at the Intersection of Class and Race Michael McCann 13 Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Individualism Farah Jasmine Griffin 14 George S. Schuyler: Post-Souls Satirist Jeffrey B. Ferguson 15 C. L. R. James: Race, Revolution, and Black Liberation Anthony Bogues 16 Langston Hughes’s Ambivalent Political Expressivism Jason Frank 17 Thurgood Marshall: The Legacy and Limits of Equality under the Law Daniel Moak 18 Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West Tommie Shelby 19 Bayard Rustin: Between Democratic Theory and Black Political Thought George Shulman 20 Ralph Ellison: Democratic Theorist Danielle Allen 21 James Baldwin: Democracy between Nihilism and Hope John E. Drabinski 22 Malcolm X: Dispatches on Racial Cruelty Nikhil Pal Singh 23 Martin Luther King: Strategist of Force David L. Chappell 24 Toni Morrison and the Fugitives’ Democracy Lawrie Balfour 25 Audre Lorde’s Politics of Difference Jack Turner 26 Stokely Carmichael and the Longing for Black Liberation: Black Power and Beyond Brandon M. Terry 27 Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony Cedric G. Johnson 28 Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom Neil Roberts 29 Clarence Thomas: Race Pessimism and Black Capitalism Corey Robin 30 Cornel West and the Black Prophetic Tradition Mark D. Wood Acknowledgments Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An unexpectedly delightful and rewarding jaunt into once-cherished, now-decaying living history. Each chapter gives a quick sketch of a species or genus that was formally described from a museum specimen, often decades after it was collected. Most of the creatures--which include lightning cockroaches, squeaker frogs, pygmy bandicoots from New Guinea, ruby seadragons, and 'atomic' tarantulas caught at a nuclear test site in Nevada--have been identified in the past fifteen years or so."--Ira Flatow "Wall Street Journal" "As part of the rising concern for global biodiversity, Christopher Kemp makes clear the value of preserved specimens in basic research. He successfully presents their study as part science, part history, and part adventure."--Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor, emeritus, Harvard University "Forbes, Best Biology Books of 2017" "The natural history museums of the world are full of surprises--undescribed species, from flying foxes to king crabs--sitting on their shelves waiting for someone to notice. Kemp vividly brings to life the stories of these specimens, and the people who collect and describe them. The Lost Species will delight any reader who cares about discovery, adventure, and the little-known planet that sustains us."--Richard Conniff, author of The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth "Forbes, Best Biology Books of 2017" "Natural history museums and their collections come alive with Kemp's inside stories of new species formerly hidden away in museum drawers and jars. Anyone who appreciates discovery and has an interest in museums, history, and biodiversity will find plenty to enjoy in The Lost Species, an intriguing, engaging, and conversational read."--Marty Crump, author of Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles "Forbes, Best Biology Books of 2017" "Natural history collections are vast, backlogged, error-riddled, or incompletely described. Think of all those expeditions in the 1800s and 1900s. Imagine drawers with thousands of beetles and flies, countless jars of marine invertebrates. What other treasures could those collections still be holding? Well, biologist Kemp wondered about that, too. And he went on a quest to uncover the forgotten collections and chronicled his findings in a book, The Last Species--new species that were only found with the help of natural history museums. . . . Amazing story."--Ira Flatow "Science Friday" "At a time when funding for natural history collections is under siege, Kemp's The Lost Species, which champions the irreplaceable value of these collections in the identification of new species, is a refreshing endorsement of both biodiversity and curatorial taxonomic expertise. . . . Kemp ably demonstrates the vital role that natural history collections and curators with taxonomic expertise play in the documentation of new species and ultimately in the preservation of biodiversity. These collections require maintenance to ensure the preservation of specimens and documentation for the next generation of taxonomists, who will discover more new species. It is my hope that The Lost Species will engender broader public interest and support for these efforts."--Bonnie Styles "Science" "As Kemp showcases these inspiring discoveries, you'll find yourself wondering what undiscovered treasures can be found in your local natural history museum. Clearly there is plenty of unknown biodiversity: currently, only 2 million species have been named out of the estimated 10 million that are thought to be out there (some credible estimates go as high as 30 million unnamed species), but I was amazed to learn that as many as half of all museum specimens are misidentified. Yeow! Clearly, there's a lot of taxonomic and systematic work to be done. This engaging book is a compelling argument for the overall value of natural history museums, and for the importance of studying these collections."--GrrlScientist "Forbes, Best Biology Books of 2017" "Major natural history museums of the world today collectively hold an enormous, irreplaceable collection of scientific objects numbering in the billions. Among this library of life and culture that has been assembled over several centuries, each piece has its own tale to tell. Christopher Kemp vividly brings several of these stories to life in The Lost Species. He chooses pieces ranging from a lowly nematode worm to the mighty dinosaur Apatosaurus (formerly known as Brontosaurus) to engage us. He presents these specimens to us not only as voucher specimens of Earth's biodiversity, but also as examples of human endeavor surrounding their discovery and eventual study. A great read for anyone interested in natural history museum collections, how they came to be, and what we can learn from them." --Lance Grande, author of Curators "Forbes, Best Biology Books of 2017"Table of ContentsIntroduction The Vertebrates 1. Pushed up a Mountain and into the Clouds: The Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) 2. Beneath a Color 83 Sky: The Ucucha Mouse (Thomasomys ucucha) 3. Going on a Tapir Hunt: The Little Black Tapir (Tapirus kabomani) 4. A Taxonomic Confusion: The Saki Monkeys (Pithecia genus) 5. Scattered to the Corners of the World: The Arfak Pygmy Bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini) 6. The One That Got Away for 160 Years: Wallace’s Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla monicae) 7. Here Be Dragons: The Ruby Seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) 8. A Century in a Jar: The Thorius Salamanders 9. From a Green Bowl: The Overlooked Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua) 10. A Body and a Disembodied Tail: Smith’s Hidden Gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus) The Invertebrates 11. Treasure in the By-Catch: The Gall Wasps (Cynipoidea species) 12. The Biomimic: The Lightning Cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae) 13. Sunk beneath the Surface in a Sea of Beetles: Darwin’s Rove Beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi) 14. The Spoils of a Distant War: The Congo Duskhawker Dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica) 15. A Specimen in Two Halves: Muir’s Wedge-Shaped Beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri) 16. Mary Kingsley’s Longhorn Beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae) 17. The Giant Flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus) 18. It Came from Area 51: The Atomic Tarantula Spider (Aphonopelma atomicum) 19. The Host with the Most: The Nematode Worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira) 20. From a Time Machine on Cromwell Road: Ablett’s Land Snail (Pseudopomatias abletti) 21. In Sight of Land: Payden’s Isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae) 22. A Ball of Spines: Makarov’s King Crab (Paralomis makarovi) Botanical 23. In an Ikea Bag: The Custard Apple Family (Monanthotaxis Genus) The Others 24. Waiting with Their Jackets On: The Fossils (Paleontology Specimens Collected by Elmer Riggs) 25. The First Art: The Earliest Hominin Engraving (a 500,000-Year-Old Shell) Epilogue Illustration Captions and Credits Notes Index

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