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Book SynopsisDrawing on a blend of archival sources including unit journals, interviews, oral histories, memoirs, diaries, letters, and published recollections, this book focuses on the experiences of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history.Trade ReviewIt is not a book for the faint of heart... however, I feel it is a must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust, and particularly, those who question its occurrence. Examiner.com This is the most powerful book I've read in decades. -- John Greenya The Washington Times The author excels at telling the story without sensationalizing the emotional turmoil the soldiers faced. He illustrates his scholarly integrity by including in his narrative the reprisal killings against Germans perpetrated by emotionally distraught GIs. Choice McManus [captures] the shock, anger, dismay, and other emotions of the soldiers who discovered what had been going on in the so-called 'Thousand Year Reich.' Journal of America's Military Past McManus skillfully uses oral histories as a counterweight to other sources... Michigan War Studies Review McManus has produced a fine brief survey of the American liberation of the Nazi concentration camps that is truly a compelling read. European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Encountering Ohrdruf2. The Smell of Death Was Thick in the Air"3. Treating Buchenwald4. Dachau5. "My Heart Was Going a Mile a Minute"6. DachauEpilogueNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisWar X is an explosive introduction to the discussion of modern warfare and a timely consideration of industrial warfare. It is also a deliberation on the startling world of new weapon development, and the indescribable future of war that beckons.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why X 1. Crawling Flesh: The Infant Comes to Battle 2. Breathing Metal: Armour Suited for War 3. Heavy Tread: On Track for Battle 4. Rotor Hearts: The Helicopter as War's Pacemaker 5. Dead Slow: Loitering in Battlespace 6. Wastage: War after War

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Book SynopsisOver the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. The Force of Family is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world.Trade Review'This work is beautifully crafted contribution to repatriation and critical heritage studies... Highly recommended.' -- K.S. Fine-Dare Choice Magazine vol 52:04:2014Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Departures and Arrivals Chapter 3: Family, Morality and Haida Repatriation Chapter 4: The Structural Qualities and Cultural Values of Haida Kinship Chapter 5: The Values of Yahgudang: The Relationships Between Self and Others Chapter 6: The Structuring of Kinship and History Chapter 7: The Place of Repatriation within Collective Memory Chapter 8: Conclusions and Beginnings Notes Project Interviews References

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Book SynopsisWenona Giles takes a new look at migration in this innovative study of Portuguese women by examining the gender, class, and race relations of the immigrant Portuguese population from the micro level of personal experience to the macro level of the long-lasting societal repercussions of immigrant status and welfare on their children. Comparing across two generations of Portuguese Canadian women, the book delves into issues such as cultural heterogeneity among Portuguese immigrants, the ambiguity of work and gender politics, the concept of 'home' versus nationalism, and raises concerns about the ways in which global political and economic inequities have affected Portuguese women's citizenship.Drawing on over sixty interviews with Portuguese immigrants and community workers in Toronto, Giles weaves theoretical perspectives around direct quotes to provide a complete picture of the Portuguese immigrant experience. Her case study of Portuguese women sheds new light not only on Po

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Book SynopsisA growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic framework of C.S. Peirce, Søren Brier attempts to find a unified conceptual framework that encompasses the complex area of information, cognition, and communication science. This integration is performed through Niklas Luhmann''s autopoietic systems theory of social communication. The link between cybernetics and semiotics is, further, an ethological and evolutionary theory of embodiment combined with Lakoff and Johnson''s ''philosophy in the flesh.'' This demands the development of a transdisciplinary philosophy of knowledge as much common sense as it is cultured in the humaniti

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Book SynopsisMaking use of material that has been both neglected and yet to be translated into English, Heidegger and Homecoming explains the elaborate means with which Heidegger proposed that humans are able to open themselves to others, while at the same time preserve their self-identity.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction * At Home in Metaphysics' Uncanny Homelessness The Uncanny and Da-sein: Not Being at Home The Question concerning Homelessness and Being The History of Being: Metaphysics and the Essence of Human Being * Poetic Wandering in the Foreign Poetizing the Holy's Opening for Dwelling Poetic Passage: Return to Origin * Turning toward the Overcoming of Homelessness Language and Thinking: Entering the Overcoming of Metaphysics The Mutual Turning of Being and Human Being * Originary Homecoming: The Moment of Arrival A) Arriving at the Early Greek Beginning: a Not-yet-metaphysical-Abode B) Leaping from Metaphysical Representation to Originary Thinking C) Moment of Arrival into His Own: the No-longer-metaphysical * Learning to Become at Home in Saying Poetic Remaining in Apartness and Beginning to Learn to Abide Saying Gives a Place: The Taking Place of Dif-ference Learning to Experience Dialect and Poetized World A Parting of Ways * Staying Near the Source Focus on Things, Places-Regions, and Dwelling The Homey Works Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA practical companion to the much-acclaimed Transforming Conflict through Insight, Practising Insight Mediation is a book about how insight mediators do their work and why they do it that way. In the book, Cheryl A. Picard, co-founder of insight mediation, explains how the theory of cognition presented in Bernard Lonergan’s Insight can be used as the basis for a learning-centred approach to conflict resolution in which the parties involved improve their self-understandings and discover new and less threating patterns of interaction with each other through efforts to better their conflict relations.Practising Insight Mediation features a wide range of valuable resources for any conflict practitioner, including in-depth descriptions of insight communication skills and strategies, a transcribed example mediation, sample documents, and a mediator’s self-assessment tool. The essential handbook for those interested in learning about aTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1: The Practice of Insight Mediation: An Introduction CHAPTER 2: Insight Mediation: Helping Parties in Conflict Learn about Themselves in Relation to Others CHAPTER 3: Interaction and Insight: The Learning Theory Underlying Insight Mediation Practice CHAPTER 4: Facilitating Change Through Learning: Conducting the Mediation Session CHAPTER 5: Ensuring Appropriate Participation and Follow-Up: Before and After Insight Mediation CHAPTER 6: Facilitating the Dialogue: Insight Mediation Skills and Strategies CHAPTER 7: The Insight Approach to Conflict: Recent Achievements & Future Hopes

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Book SynopsisThis highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry.Table of ContentsList of Thinking Points Acknowledgements Preface: Users' Guide for Students and Instructors 1. An Interesting Idea, In Theory 2. Theory Matters 3. But How Do You Know? 4. You Are Here: Mapping Social Relations 5. The Real World: Making Sense of Perceptions 6. Nature and Culture: The Social Construction of Distinctions 7. Making Time: Clocking Social Relations 8. Conclusion: The Politics of Social Theory Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Sensational Soutache Jewelry Making, you'll learn the basic techniques of soutache embroidery, and then get creative with 15 easy-to-follow projects for bracelets, earrings, brooches, rings and necklaces. Get inspired by author Csilla Papp's ideas, then use your imagination to put your own twists on projects.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhat a joy! Shen's Geometry in Problems is a gift to the school teaching world. Beautifully organized by content topic, Shen has collated a vast collection of fresh, innovative, and highly classroom-relevant questions, problems, and challenges sure to enliven the minds and clever thinking of all those studying Euclidean geometry for the first time. This book is a spectacular resource for educators and students alike. Users will not only sharpen their mathematical understanding of specific topics but will also sharpen their problem-solving wits and come to truly own the mathematics explored. Also, Math Circle leaders can draw much inspiration for session ideas from the material presented in this book." - James Tanton, Mathematician-at-Large, Mathematical Association of America."We learn mathematics best by doing mathematics. The author of this book recognizes this principle. He invites the reader to participate in learning plane geometry through carefully chosen problems, with brief explanations leading to much activity. The problems in the book are sometimes deep and subtle: almost everyone can do some of them, and almost no one can do all. The reader comes away with a view of geometry refreshed by experience." - Mark Saul, Director of Competitions, Mathematical Association of AmericaTable of Contents Measuring line segments Measuring angles The triangle inequality Congruent figures Triangle congruence tests Isosceles triangles Circle Straightedge and compass constructions Parallel lines Right triangles Parallelograms Rectangle, rhombus, square Graph paper Equilateral triangles Midsegment of a triangle Intercept theorem Trapezoid Simple inequalities Reflection symmetry Central symmetry Angles in a circle Tangents Two circles Circumscribed circle and perpendicular bisectors Inscribed circle (incircle) Bisectors Inscribed and circumscribed quadrilaterals Area The Pythagorean Theorem Similarity Coordinates on a line Coordinates on a plane Common measure Trigonometry Afterword

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Book SynopsisWidely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation. The Art of Witnessing provides a new account of Goya’s print series by taking readers through the forty-seven prints he dedicated to the violence of war. Drawing on facets of Goya’s artistry rarely considered together before, the book challenges the notion that documentary realism and historical testimony were his primary aims. Michael Iarocci argues that while the depiction of war’s atrocities was central to Goya’s project, the lasting power of the print series stems from the artist’s complex moral and aesthetic meditations on the subject. Making novel contributions to longstanding debates about historical memory, testimony, and the represeTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer 2. Con razón o sin ella 3. Lo mismo 4. Las mujeres dan valor 5. Y son fieras 6. Bien te se está 7. Qué valor! 8. Siempre sucede 9. No quieren 10. Tampoco 11. Ni por ésas 12. Para eso habéis nacido 13. Amarga presencia 14. Duro es el paso! 15. Y no hay remedio 16. Se aprovechan 17. No se convienen 18. Enterrar y callar 19. Ya no hay tiempo 20. Curarlos y a otra 21. Será lo mismo 22. Tanto y más 23. Lo mismo en todas partes 24. Aún podrán servir 25. También éstos 26. No se puede mirar 27. Caridad 28. Populacho 29. Lo merrecía 30. Estragos de la guerra 31. Fuerte cosa es 32. Por qué? 33. Qué hay que hacer más? 34. Por una navaja 35. No se puede saber por qué 36. Tampoco 37. Esto es peor 38. Bárbaros! 39. Grande hazaña! Con muertos! 40. Algún partido saca 41. Escapan entre llamas 42. Todo va revuelto 43. Tambien esto 44. Yo lo vi 45. Y esto también 46. Esto es malo 47. Así sucedió Afterword Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMinimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories - but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in buzzing tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes.Trade Review“The Names of Minimalism contributes to the effort of producing the historiography of minimal music while introducing and exploring the specific (and crucial) topic of authorship in the field. Nickleson addresses these important questions methodically and with care.” —Christophe Levaux, author of We Have Always Been Minimalist: The Construction and Triumph of a Musical Style“This book presents a total reimagining of minimalism’s early history. Rather than narrating this history through musical style or composer biography, Nickleson examines minimalism's history through its politics of authorship, pedagogy, propriety, and egalitarianism. This book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on minimalism and, more broadly, has the potential to reorient any scholarly mind doing historical work.” —Kerry O’Brien, co-editor of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement“Patrick Nickleson’s The Names of Minimalism offers a potent critique of the means and methods by which minimalism has been canonized in conventional music histories. Drawing on the writings of Jacques RanciÈre and Kristin Ross, Nickleson deftly and trenchantly interrogates the lineage that runs—whether via collaboration or contention—from La Monte Young and Tony Conrad to Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca in order to recover the aesthetic and political challenges that early minimalism proffered at its most radical junctures.” —Branden W. Joseph, Columbia UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. “La Monte Young Does Not Understand ‘His’ Work.” Chapter 1. Policing Process Chapter 2. Writing Minimalism: The Theatre of Eternal Music and the Historiography of Drones Chapter 3. The Lessons of Minimalism: The Big Four and the Pedagogic Myth Chapter 4. Indistinct Minimalisms: Punk, No Wave, and the Death of Minimalism Conclusion. The Names of Minimalism Works Cited

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Book SynopsisA powerful resource for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice. The authors argue that most educational research either omits critical understandings of youth or, even worse, presents inaccuracies due to faulty techniques.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Susan Groundwater-Smith  vii Introduction: Student Voice: Reframing School Change by Repositioning Educational Research  1 Marc Brasof and Joseph Levitan PART I: The Student Voice Research Framework and Philosophical Underpinnings 1.  The Student Voice Research Framework  13 Marc Brasof and Joseph Levitan 2.  Epistemological Issues in Student Voice Research  38 Joseph Levitan and Marc Brasof PART II: Preparing for Student Voice Work 3.  The Ethics of Student Voice Research  57 William C. Frick 4.  Considering Space and Time: Power Dynamics and Relationships Between Children and Adults  68 Kate Wall, Claire Cassidy, Carol Robinson, Mhairi C. Beaton, Lorna Arnott, and Elaine Hall 5.  Student Voice: Assessing Research in the Field  84 Lindsay Lyons, Ellen MacCannell, and Vanessa Gold 6.  Reflection and Reflexion on Student Participation and System Change  100 Pat Thomson PART III: Student Voice Methods in Action 7.  Making Meaning and Planning Change with Students Using Photo-Cued Interviewing  117 Kayla M. Johnson 8.  Participatory Visual Data Analysis: Tools for Empowering Students Toward Social Change  138 Lisa J. Starr 9.  Listening to Relations of Power and Potential with Material Methods  153 Eve Mayes 10.  Balancing Breadth and Depth: Using Mixed Methods in Scale Development Research  168 Lindsay Lyons 11.  Intersecting Voices: An Integrative Approach to Applying the Student Voice Research Framework in Teacher Education  183 Alison Cook-Sather, Heather Curl, and Chanelle Wilson Conclusion: The Past, Present, and Future of Student Voice Research  201 Joseph Levitan and Marc Brasof References  207 About the Editors and Contributors  231 Index  235

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Book SynopsisIncluding material from personal interviews with Rieff that enabled Zondervan to clarify important aspects of his work, Sociology and the Sacred is an essential contribution to the understanding of contemporary culture's maintenance of its ties to religion.Trade Review'Zondervan's Sociology of the Sacred is a valuable companion to Reiff's works. He provides a comprehensive interpretation ... and he skillfully draws connections among theories about modernity across disciplines.' -- Pamela Leong Sociology of Religion 'Zondervan's summary and analysis of Rieff's career is ably carried out, and he concludes with several sharp observations regarding the continuing utility of Rieff's ideas about culture.' -- Alan Sica Canadian Journal of Sociology OnlineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 A Bird's-Eye View on Rieff's Life and Work 2 Rieff's Reading of Freudian Metapsychology 3 The Emergence of Psychological Man in Western Culture 4 Blueprint for a Theory of Culture 5 The Limits of Modernity 6 Late Modernity as Second Culture Camp 7 Rieff: Prophet of a Post-secular Culture Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHomeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that like cures like, counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar’s engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continueTrade Review‘Excellent history… This text provides interesting insight into the history of homeopathy and how this history affects the way homeopathy is viewed today.’ -- J. Saxton * Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017 *"The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism is an important study that increases our understanding of both Romantic Naturphilosophie and homeopathy in a very significant way. " -- Asko Nivala * European Romantic Review 29:5 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The Law of Similars Chapter Two: The Law of the Single Dose Chapter Three: The Law of Minimum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIndigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations. Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education is an exploration into some of the shared cross-cultural themes that inform and shape Indigenous thought and Indigenous educational philosophy. These philosophies generate tensions, challenges, and contradictions that can become very tangled and messy when considered within the context of current educational systems that reinforce colonial power relations. Sandra D. Styres shows how Indigenous thought can inform decolonizing approaches in education as well as the possibilities for truly transformative teaching practices. This book offers new pathways for remembering, conceptualizing and understanding these ancient knowledges and philosoTable of ContentsList of Figures Dedication and Acknowledgement Foreword (Dawn Zinga) SECTION 1: VISION - (RE)CENTERING Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Iethi'nihst nha Ohwentsia'k kha: Land, Circularity, and Storying SECTION 2: RELATIONSHIPS - (RE)MEMBERING Chapter 2: Iethi'nihst nha Ohwentsia'k kha: Space, Place and Land Chapter 3: Self-in-Relationship Chapter 4: "You're not the Indian I had in mind" SECTION 3: KNOWLEDGE - (RE)COGNIZING Chapter 5: Sacred Fires: Contemporary (Re)memberings of Ancient Knowledges and Very Old Pedagogies Chapter 6: Relations of Privilege-Relations of Power Chapter 7: Land and Circularity: An Indigenous Philosophical Approach to Thought SECTION 4: ACTION - (RE)GENERATING Chapter 8: Indigenous and Dominant Western Philosophies: A Bridge Too Far? Chapter 9: Indigenous Languages and Thought: A Verb-Oriented Reality SECTION 5: IETHI'NIHST NHA OHWENTSIA'K KHA - (RE)ACTUALIZING Chapter 10: Tensions, Challenges and Contradictions Chapter 11: Coyote as Trickster Chapter 12: Conclusions and Implications: Iethi'nihst nha Ohwentsia'k kha - Beyond Responsiveness and Place-based Education Notes References

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Book Synopsis Young athletes are always on the go. School, family, and sports eat up a lot of time. For parents and coaches, it can be a challenge to make sure kids are eating healthfully enough to perform at their best on and off the field. Fueling Young Athletes provides the help you need. In this practical guide, Heather Mangieria sport dietitian and mother of three active kidsbreaks down the nutrition needs of young athletes and explains what the latest research suggests. You'll analyze current eating habits and preferences and how and where these can be improved. You'll learn how healthier meals and snacks can equate to improved performance while still being convenient and appetizing. Fueling Young Athletes addresses the issues that families and athletes most often face, such as late-night practices, inconvenient school lunchtimes, demanding tournament schedules and travel leagues, and lack of sleep. Best of all, you'll find a collection of easy recipes forTrade Review "Fueling young athletes is certainly a topic that deserves more attention from parents and coaches alike. Too many kids endure needless fatigue. Don't let your child be one of them!" Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD-- Author of best-selling Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Fifth Edition “Heather Mangieri excels at helping athletes, parents, and coaches understand the healthy habits that allow young athletes to succeed and perform at their best.” Donald Hooton Sr. -- Founder and President, Taylor Hooton Foundation “Heather Mangieri is not only a sport nutrition expert, but she’s also a parent of active kids. She knows how challenging it can be to eat right when managing crazy schedules, multiple practices, and travel. She shares her extensive experience here through practical, realistic nutrition guidance that every athlete and parent can use.” Dawn Jackson Blatner, RDN, CSSD-- Author of The Flexitarian Diet (McGraw Hill), Winner of ABC hit TV show My Diet Is Better Than Yours Table of ContentsPart I Sports Nutrition for Today’s Athlete Chapter 1 Building a Champion Chapter 2 Day-to-Day Nutrition for Healthy Growth Part II Nutrition Needs for Sports and Individual Goals Chapter 3 Fueling and Hydrating for Your Sport Chapter 4 Adjusting Body Composition to Reach Your Goals Chapter 5 Fueling Your Game Day Performance Chapter 6 Understanding Supplements Chapter 7 Identifying and Dealing with Disordered Eating Part III Customize Your Sports Nutrition Plan Chapter 8 Creating Your Personal Plan Chapter 9 Breaking Down Healthy Eating Barriers Part IV Recipes Chapter 10 Liquid Fuel Recipes Chapter 11 Solid Fuel Recipes

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Book Synopsis From the gridiron to the hard court, today's top athletes know the benefits of yoga. It's why so many have made it an essential component in their training and conditioning programs. Now you can too with Yoga for Athletes. Author and instructor Ryanne Cunningham has worked with some of the top names in sports. She's helped keep some of the toughest NFL players on the field, and top endurance athletes run longer and stronger. Her step-by-step instruction, expert advice, and pose variations focus on active muscles and movements across sports such as these: Football Soccer Running Swimming Cycling Tennis Golf Baseball and Softball Basketball Yoga for Athletes is designed for every athlete, from weekend enthusiast to professional. Using demonstrations of the physical poses, breathing, and guided visualization, you'll improve performance, reduce the risk of injury, and maxiTrade Review "Ryanne’s approach to yoga has made a dramatic difference in how I move on and off the field. My muscles are looser, I recover more quickly, and I’m primed for game day." Randall Cobb Wide Receiver, Green Bay Packers "Since I’ve started working with Ryanne, my improved flexibility, balance, and core strength have benefitted my on-field performance and helped me avoid injury. Yoga for Athletes offers you the same benefits!" Michael J. Neal II-- Linebacker, Green Bay Packers "Practicing yoga with Ryanne has help me enhance my athleticism, recovery, and focus so I can perform at a higher level during games. Through the practice of yoga I've found a part of the recipe for longevity in my profession." Tramon Williams-- Cornerback, Cleveland Browns “I was intimidated by yoga because I felt that I wasn't flexible enough after a major ankle injury. Ryanne taught me about the connections between the mind and body, and her visualization and meditation techniques helped me boost my performance on and off the court. I will continue to practice and use those elements long after my athletic career ends.” Keifer Sykes - Austin Spurs, NBA Development League “This book is well-rounded, conveying what works and why it works in a way that’s applicable to all kinds of people. Cunningham has deep knowledge of yoga and impressive experience training athletes (including Green Bay Packers players), but her wisdom is also broad, covering massage, physiology, and more. Clear photos make the positions easy to emulate, and they portray a range of body types, many of them men’s. More medical diagrams, such as those of muscle groups, offer deeper understanding to promote safety along with good results.” Foreword Reviews Table of ContentsPart I: What Yoga Can Do for Athletes Chapter 1. Yoga to Improve Your Performance Chapter 2. Yoga Basics to Get Started Chapter 3. Warm-Up Poses Part II: Poses for Athletes Chapter 4. Finding Your Base: Hips Chapter 5. Staying Loose in the Legs: Hamstrings and Quads Chapter 6. Strong From Your Center: Spine and Core Chapter 7. Power at the Top: Shoulders, Arms, and Neck Chapter 8. Wake Up Those Critical Small Muscles: Balance Poses Part III: Sequences for Specific Sports and Activities Chapter 9. Football: Different Stretches for Different Positions Chapter 10. Runners: Not Just Legs Chapter 11. Soccer Players: Bringing Balance to the Workout Chapter 12. Bicyclists: Freeing Tight Hips and a Stressed Upper Body Chapter 13. Baseball and Softball: Guard Those Joints Chapter 14. Swimmers: Stretch Those Shoulders and Back Chapter 15. Tennis: Quick Bursts of Motion Chapter 16. Basketball: Explosive Movement Chapter 17. Golf: Lengthen and Rotate the Spine Chapter 18. Bringing Yoga to Power Workouts: Enhance Your Strength Building Part IV: Putting It All Together: Breathe, Balance, and Stay in the Zone Chapter 19. Cool-Down and Meditation for Success: Get in the Zone! Chapter 20. Visualize and Achieve

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Book SynopsisWritten in the Flesh is a history of what people like to do in bed and how that has changed. The change is relentless: human sexuality continually seeks new means of liberation in its expression of pleasure.Trade Review'A good argument is one of the joys of life, especially if it includes wine or dessert. Edward Shorter is the sort of intelligent, entertaining writer with whom it is pleasure to argue.' -- Wendy McElroy Globe and MailTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Sex, a Baseline 3 A Baseline for Gays and Lesbians 4 Hindrances 5 Why Not the Romantics? 6 The Great Breakout 7 The Great Breakout for Gays and Lesbians 8 Towards Total Body Sex 9 SM and Fetish 10 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisGilles Deleuze, a major figure in the intellectual history of the late-20th century, inaugurated the radical non-Hegelianism that has marked French intellectual life during the past three decades. This book offers an understanding of Deleuze's complete body of work.Table of ContentsBergsonian ontology: the positive movement of being; Nietzschean ethics: from efficient power to an ethics of affirmation; Spinozian practice: affirmation and joy; Conclusion: an apprenticeship in philosophy.

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Book SynopsisJohn Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. This title covers the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and 'robbed of the just rewards he had earned.'Trade Review"Because John Colter was the first white man to see the wonders which thousands nowadays visit each year in the Yellowstone, his story has historical importance of the first order."—San Francisco Chronicle"The first full-blown account by one who is thoroughly familiar with the intricate geography of the country [that Colter] explored and who is capable of distinguishing between facts and guesswork. . . . [A] solid contribution which is not likely to be superseded in our time."—Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisToday, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But back in the 1980s, this democratic socialistthough some folks would prefer the term social democratwas mayor of Burlington, Vermont, where his administration attempted radical reforms. Some efforts were successful, but when a waterfront deal failed, it was not due to Sanders' efforts; he would rather compromise and have a net gain than be an ideological purist. In his preface to thisreissueofthe 1990book, Challenging the Boundaries of Reform, W. J. Conroy reflects on the recent legacy of Sanders, his Agenda for America, and his appeal to young voters. His book then looks back to identify Sanders' experience in Burlington by examining several case studies that unfolded amidst a conservative trend nationally, an unsympathetic state government, and a hostile city council. Ultimately, Conroy asks what lessons can be drawn from the case o

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Book SynopsisDuring the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. In Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 19451950, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people''s lives in the development of the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course.Kim's innovative use of documents seized by U.S. military forces during the Korean War and now stored in the National Archivespersonnel files, autobiographies, minutes of organizational meetings, educational materials, women's magazines, and court documentstogether with oral histories allows her to present the first social history of North Korea during its formative years. In an account that makes clear the leading role of women in these efforts, Kim examines how villagers experienced, understood, and later remembered such events as the first land reform and modern elections in Korea's history, as well as practices in literacy schools, communal halls, mass organizations, and study sessions that transformed daily routine.Trade Review[On] the whole Kim's argument that the revolution was largely home-grown remains convincing. Especially fascinating are her chapters on the role of women in the revolution, and her exploration of the autobiographies that all adult North Koreans had to draft to show how their individual life stories fitted within the larger framework of Korea’s recent history and the revolution. -- Michael Rochlitz * Europe-Asia Studies *Kim's work stays focused on various 'everyday' people as examples of how the North Korean revolution enabled regular peasants to build a new socialist modernity uniquely theirs. The author relies on oral histories and archival sources to bring these marginalized histories to light. Kim is well read across Korean, Russian, and Chinese sources as well as scholarship on North Korea. Her innovative approach is... a step forward from the typical Cold War approach.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Kim's book is a pioneering contribution to the articulation of a new paradigm. Putting it even more directly, she provides fresh, and often compelling, answers to a most fundamental question: How should the history of North Korea be written, especially in the aftermath of the Cold War? Suzy Kim has written an important book that deserves to be read widely by historians of North Korea, as well as by those of comparative communism and revolutionary processes. * Journal of Korean Studies *Concisely establishing the various lacunae and epistemological ossifications that hamstring studies of North Korea, this book makes a persuasive case for the significance of its subject. Kim argues that the everyday, especially in the formative years of the nation-state (1945–1950), posited a space for contestation, contingency, and construction by both state and society, which led to the formation of what she calls 'socialist modernity.'... Kim deftly mobilizes a range of materials, including statistics, photos, interviews, and official reports.... This is in many ways a pioneering work, the first analysis of North Korean social history in its formative years. Argued with finesse and supported by rich empirical research, it is undoubtedly an invaluable resource for all who are interested in the history of North Korea, everyday forms of socialism, and social history. -- Hyung-Gu Lynn * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Revolutions in the Everyday2. Legacies: Fomenting the Revolution3. Three Reforms: Initiating the Revolution4. The Collective: Enacting the Revolution5. Autobiographies: Narrating the Revolution6. Revolutionary Motherhood: Gendering the Revolution7. "Liberated Space": Remembering the RevolutionConclusionAppendix: Sample CurriculaNotes Index

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Book SynopsisA concise, sensible grammar handbook explaining lucidly how to remember correct word forms and sentence structures. Useful as a reference tool for high school and beyond, it packs an entire grammar encyclopedia into just over a hundred pages.

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Book SynopsisDavid Mulroy’s brilliant verse translation of Oedipus Rex recaptures the aesthetic power of Sophocles’ masterpiece while also achieving a highly accurate translation in clear, contemporary English.Trade Review“A great work of world literature has at last become a great poem in English. Mulroy’s translation is far superior to other available English verse translations.”- Robert J. Rabel, editor of Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern;“Introductory notes on such matters as the historical background, fate vs. free will, and (inevitably) the Oedipus Complex are clear and useful.”- Peter Green, The New York Review of Books

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Book SynopsisFather and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley.Trade Review"Analysed with intellectual boldness and the rigour that typifies all of Oakley's work." British Journal of Social Work"[A] riveting book...Oakley has put together a collection of short essays and biographical fragments that explore not just her own unusual family life but key moments and personalities in the history of 20th-century social research." The Guardian"A very important contribution to historical and sociological scholarship. It is an original and carefully researched corrective to the existing 'business as usual' institutional and intellectual history of conflicts and tensions in the development of sociology, social administration, social policy and the professionalisation of social work." Times Higher Education"Ann Oakley is a highly original writer. The personal becomes political as she revisits her own history and that of her father. The web of social connections that made up the LSE's Department of Social Administration makes particularly fascinating reading." Jane Lewis, London School of Economics and Political Science"Ann Oakley’s story of how she is still taking stock of her relationship with Richard Titmuss is one of family dynamics and secrets, of politics at the grand and small scale, and of the ongoing process of making sense of who we are." Professor Graham Crow, Southampton University"Powerful and unique." LSE Review of Books blog"A fascinating study of an eminent father by his eminent daughter. This respected sociologist, feminist and novelist offers a true 'insider's view' of their relationship." Cherie Booth, QC"Father and Daughter is particularly powerful...the writing moves between scholarly exactness, dreamy reverie and pained resentment." London Review of Books"I have been gripped by "Father and Daughter" and I would like to say thanks for the best read in years!" A customer"In Father and Daughter, Ann Oakley revisits her childhood years and explores the causal links between her family's fraught domestic relationships and her father's idiosyncratic 'socialist view of inequality' that excluded gender issues from its policy concerns. This superbly researched memoir will become a classic of its kind - albeit a highly controversial one." Robert Pinker, Emeritus Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science"A tribute to the achievements, but many weaknesses, of her famous, revered father, Ann Oakley's own memoire of a childhood dominated by 'the Professor' makes often poignant but always fascinating reading." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town"I love Ann Oakley's writing. She interrogates quite beautifully ' the shadowy spaces' in which public and private lives overlap and the effect this has, particularly on women." Melissa Benn,writer"An honest, intriguing and readable book about the author and her eminent father, her conflicts with him and his conflicts with his female colleagues. I could not put it down!" Baroness Blackstone of Stoke NewingtonTable of ContentsDaughter of a Blue Plaque Man; Falling into the Bog of History; Memory and Identity; Family and Kinship in London and Other Places; Mrs Titmuss’s Diaries; Love and Solitude; The Story of the Titmice: an alternative version; Meeting Win; Harem in Houghton Street; Difficult Women; Post-Mortem; The Troubles; Dusting his Bookshelves; Vera's Rose; This Procession of Educated Men; Telling stories.

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Book SynopsisProvides a quick, but very readable introduction to stochastic differential equations—that is, to differential equations subject to additive “white noise" and related random disturbances. The exposition is strongly focused upon the interplay between probabilistic intuition and mathematical rigour.Trade Review... [A]n interesting and unusual introduction to stochastic differential equations...topical and appealing to a wide audience. ... This is interesting stuff and, because of Evans' always clear explanations, it is fun too." - MAA ReviewsTable of Contents Preface Introduction A crash course in probability theory Brownian motion and “white noise” Stochastical integrals Stochastic differential equations Applications Appendix Exercises Notes and suggested reading Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough Thomas Aquinas's influence over philosophy endures to this day, the medieval genius did not consider himself a philosopher, but a Scripture scholar. For the first time in history the Aquinas Institute is making Aquinas's commentaries on the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Matthew available in hardcover Latin-English editions. The bilingual format, which also features excerpts from the Gospel in Greek, Latin, and English, makes the work of this intellectual giant accessible to a wider audience than ever before. Aquinas's commentaries on the Gospels are a great gift for pastors, seminarians, and anyone who seeks a deeper intellectual reflection on the Gospels.

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Book SynopsisKnocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masks - some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels. Backflash followed soon after, and it found Parker checking out the scene on a Hudson River gambling boat. Parker's no fan of either relaxation or risk.Trade Review"Parker has not lost his touch - or his nerve." (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times) "Parker at his best.... If you haven't read Stark, Backflash is the place to start your PhD in crime." (Stephen King) "Whatever Stark writes, I read." (Elmore Leonard)"

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Book SynopsisThe volume The Many Faces of Beauty joins the rich debate on beauty and aesthetic theory by presenting an ambitious, interdisciplinary examination of various facets of beauty in nature and human society. The contributors ask such questions as, Is there beauty in mathematical theories? What is the function of arts in the economy of cultures? What are the main steps in the historical evolution of aesthetic theories from ancient civilizations to the present? What is the function of the ugly in enhancing the expressivity of art? and What constitutes beauty in film? The sixteen essays, by eminent scientists, critics, scholars, and artists, are divided into five parts. In the first, a mathematician, physicist, and two philosophers address beauty in mathematics and nature. In the second, an anthropologist, psychologist, historian of law, and economist address the place of beauty in the human mind and in society. Explicit philosophical reflections on notoriously vexing issues,Trade Review“In 2012, the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) sponsored “The Many Faces of Beauty” conference, which offered a deep dive into the debate on beauty and aesthetic theory. This collection of 16 essays from prominent artists, scientists, mathematicians and critics features three Notre Dame scholars: The Huisking Professor of Theology Cyril O’Regan, the Rev. Joyce Professor of German Language and Literature Mark Roche, and J. Dudley Andrew ’67.” —Notre Dame Magazine

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Book SynopsisA thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Print delivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monographrather, it is a multigraph, the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of key concepts for the study of print culture, from Anthologies and Binding to Publicity and Taste. Each entry builds on its term in order to resituate print and book history within a broader media ecology throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The central theme is interactivity, in three senses: people interacting with print; print interacting with the non-print media that it has long been thought, erroneously, to have displaced; and people interacting with each other through print. The resulting book will introduce new energy to the field of print studies and lead to considerable new avenues of investigation.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian.Trade Review"To say that this is the best available introduction to the international history of Eastern Europe may sound to the author a left-handed compliment....Perhaps McNeill himself will oblige us with a sequel." (Historical Journal)"

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Book SynopsisExamining a variety of works, from revenge plays to Shakespeare's first history tetralogy and beyond, the author explores how this title not only exposed the faultlines of society on stage but also provoked playgoers in the audience to acknowledge all the differences they shared with one another.Trade Review"The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare is a powerful and provocative meditation on the innovative cultural forms and emotional processes that emerged from the violent affective dislocations of memory, identity, and community of the English Reformation. Mullaney addresses issues of wide interest among scholars of early modern literature and culture through evocative readings of both familiar and unfamiliar plays that are consistently surprising, insightful, and original." (William N. West, Northwestern University)

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