Going beyond the standard workout for boxers, this innovative manual introduces a diverse set of training methods, integrating them into drill sets that build the athletic attributes for which past and present fighters are known. From Leroy Jones sparring
YOUR MIND IS HIS PLAYGROUND. A gruesome triple homicide. There's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes . . . and he can't remember what happened. The police are desperate for information. Detective Joon
Motivate your growing reader with these super-engaging, 16-page storybooks correlated with guided reading levels E & F Inside this little box, you'll find 16 original titles plus a tip-filled parent guide. Each book features simple text, decodable words,
Discover the extraordinary journey of British design through eight decades of innovation, influence and impact, as the Design Council's legacy unfolds from postwar recovery to shaping a sustainable future.Eight Decades of British Design: Design Council, 1944 to Today celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Design Council, the UK's national strategic advisor for design. This lavishly illustrated book traces the evolution of British design from postwar recovery to global phenomenon, showcasing the pivotal role of publicly funded institutions in shaping the country's design legacy. Established in 1944, the Design Council's initial mission was to improve design in British industry. Over eight decades, it has fulfilled this mission and more, connecting designers with communities, influencing government policies and promoting sustainability through initiatives like 'Design for Planet'. The book explores how organisations like the Design Council, Victoria & Albert Museum and leading design universities have fostered worldclass design education and training. It features iconic designs from the Routemaster bus to Alexander McQueen's fashion collections, as well as emerging 'classics of the future' making an impact in the fight against climate change. Divided into nine chapters, one for each decade from the 1940s to today, the book includes contributions from renowned design historians and firsthand accounts from design luminaries such as Paul Smith and Thomas Heatherwick. It also showcases previously unseen images from the Council's rich 80-year archive. Eight Decades of British Design not only celebrates the past but also looks to the future, examining how British design can continue to address the challenges of our time.
Entering a territory marred by past tragedies (including attacks by Zen the Undead King), Satou faces new challenges. He'll have to charge on through, but the obstacles are many-including monsters, brigands, and even a fortress under attack by a fierce hyd
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 32, Publishers: Penguin Young Readers Group, Author: Bob Shea, ISBN-13: 9780593699997, Date of issue: 2025
The new third edition of A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology is the only textbook in the field that provides a detailed overview of key theories, concepts and findings within the discipline of sport psychology, as well as a cri
Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco. Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman) married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the imperious Jesús. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world, stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms, he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to put his obsession into context. In the tradition of Laurie Lee's classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a young man's emotional coming of age and offers real insight into the passionate essence of flamenco. Autorid: Jason Webster
Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from species around the world, How To Read a Bird presents engaging vignettes about the private lives of birds, all explained in an evolutionary context. Richly illustrated, this book explores the increasing focus on how individual birds differ in personality and how big data and citizen scientists are helping to add to what we know about them. Autorid: Wenfei Tong, Ben Sheldon
Through the first year of the First World War, Allied strategy had relied upon a series of small-scale assaults, which in reality achieved little or no ground gained. The Battle of Loos was to be different. Kitcheners Army was deployed in strength for the first time and an ambitious plan aimed to take ground over a 20-mile front.However, the battlefield was not the Allies ideal site and the battle plans did not account for the lack of ammunition and artillery. It was the attempt to overcome some of these shortcomings that would put this battle firmly in the history books, as the British deployed poison gas for the first time, hoping to confuse and overwhelm the German positions.With facts and stats that explore both sides of the conflict, as well as the innovations brought to this battle, The Battle of Loos, 1915 analyses the key strategies at play, studies the lasting legacy of this battle on the rest of the war and explores the myth of the Footballer of Loos an iconic image of the First World War to this day. The Battle of Loos saw a change in Allied strategy, which up until then had been a series of small-scale assaults that achieved little or no ground gained. Autorid: Peter Doyle
A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window' that inspired Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K. Benedict, USA Today-bestseller Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale and many more. An anthology of exclusive new short stories in tribute to the master of pulp era crime writing, Cornell Woolrich. Woolrich, also published as William Irish and George Hopley, stands with Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Dashiell Hammett as a legend in the genre. He is a hugely influential figure for crime writers, and is also remembered through the 50+ films made from his novels and stories, including Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, I Married a Dead Man, Phantom Lady, Truffaut's La Sirene du Mississippi, and Black Alibi. Collected and edited by one of the most experienced editors in the field, Maxim Jakubowski, features original work from: Neil Gaiman Joel Lane Joe R. Lansdale Vaseem Khan Brandon Barrows Tara Moss Kim Newman Nick Mamatas Mason Cross Martin Edwards Donna Moore James Grady Lavie Tidhar Barry N. Malzberg James Sallis A.K. Benedict Warren Moore Max Decharne Paul Di Filippo M.W. Craven Charles Ardai Susi Holliday Bill Pronzini Kristine Kathryn Rusch Maxim Jakubowski Joseph S. Walker Samantha Lee Howe O'Neil De Noux David Quantick Ana Teresa Pereira William Boyle Autorid: Maxim Jakubowski, Neil Gaiman, A.K. Benedict, Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale
Josya Sijmonsma ist eine niederländische Physiotherapeutin, die sich seit den Anfängen des Medical Tapings in Europa mit dieser Technik intensiv beschäftigt. Das vorliegende Buch widerspiegelt den enormen Erfahrungsschatz von Josya Sijmonsma.Neben den außerordentlich instruktiven Abbildungen zu einem breitgefächerten Indikationsbereich, werden auch die wichtigen theoretischen Hintergründe in knapper, gutverständlicher Form dargestellt.Die vielen Fallschilderungen machen dieses Buch zum unentbehrlichen Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis.
'Anyone who embarks upon the study of anthroposophy will soon recognise that the mystery of the human ego lies at its very heart. This mystery is one of the central questions of anthroposophical Christology and at the same time forms one of the most difficult cognitive challenges presented by anthroposophy.' - Sergei O. Prokofieff. The question of the true nature of the human 'I' or individuality is one of the key issues of our time, but it is also one of the most complex riddles of existence. This booklet doesn't give simple answers but adds perspectives that deepen the theme, offering a picture of its manifold mysteries. In three great panoramas, the author develops central aspects of the topic, beginning with the threefold nature of human individuality, followed by an illumination of the cosmic dimension of the ego, and finally an encapsulation of the significance of the earthly ego. With his usual thoroughness and clarity, Sergei O. Prokofieff throws light on one of the fundamental questions of our time. Autorid: Sergei O. Prokofieff, Simon Blaxland-de Lange
Marine meiofauna, the community of smallest animals in marine sediments, is a fascinating and important part of the marine ecosystem. In this book, 53 authors introduce the 32 animal groups that occur in the meiofauna. Chapters contain information on where and how to sample meiofaunal animals as well as how to identify them. Keys help in the identification. This book complements existing literature on meiofauna and may serve as a fascinating introduction into meiofaunal taxa as well as a practical guide to work with meiofauna in the field or in the laboratory. The rich illustration of the book and the expertise of specialists make this book suitable for beginners as well as experienced researchers on meiofauna.
by Ronald G. Corwin What do the following have in common: regulatory agencies, magnet schools, a declining empire, puritan asceticism, plea bargaining, the recent tax revolt in California, the Boston Tea Party, the Vietnam War, public drinking halls during Prohibi tion, police entrapment, and Yosemite National Park on Labor Day weekend? If the answer is not readily apparent, read this engaging book. Dr. Sam Sieber makes a convincing case that harbored in a potpourri of such events are countless instances of how well-intentioned social interventions often produce harmful effects. Searching for a general framework that will force us to think of heretofore discrete events in new ways, he has chosen to use the term "intervention" in its broadest sense. His approach is a superb example of how serious schol arship can produce a new creative synthesis from familiar knowledge when the scholar is guided by a lively curiosity. The wide-ranging subject matter of this book provides a re freshing vision of social reform movements and programs. I think that Sieber has succeeded in doing what he set out to do: namely, to develop a general and inclusive typology for cl- ix x RONALD G. CORWIN sifying and interpreting the perverse effects of all kinds of social interventions. This is not merely another treatise on the "unintended effects" of purposeful action, however. As Dr.
Consider manufactured parts, such as screws, car doors, lenses, or mirrors for lasers, for example. All these manufactured parts have to go through quality inspections checking if there are unwanted bumps or scratches that should not be there. There are different methods to measure the manufactured parts. The goal is to describe the measured object exactly by the data. This is one example for a so-called inverse problem. The application that we consider in the first part of this thesis is a data fusion process. The given dataset is a result of a deflectometric measurement process. These processes deal with object measurements of specular objects, such as lenses or mirrors. The aim is to calculate a dataset that describes the measured object exactly. The output data consists of two sets of separately measured types of data which suffer from different accuracy due to different sensitivity to noise. We resolve this issue with a data fusion process by solving a minimization problem which uses the more accurat data as a reference value and by duing so increases the other. Taking the gained insights we are able to develop new theories for image denoising. We formulate certain minimization problems in which use suitable reference values. In image denoising the reference value we want to use is an approximation of the image gradient vectors. Consequently, our approaches calculate such an approximation and use it as a reference value. Hence, our approaches are two-stage methods. Another approach to prevent the staircasing effect is to go to higher orders of differentiation within the regularization term. One approach was proposed in 2010 namely the total generalized variation (TGV) functional. We propose different kinds of combinations of these functionals. In this way we are able to formulate different minimization problems that are in some sense equivalent to the TGV problem. One advantage of some of these problems lies in the easy parameter choice rules that perform equally well as the TGV problem. Additionally, the duality gaps of these new problems are finite instead of infinite as it is usually the case in the primal-dual gap for the TGV problem. Hence, these can be used to create a reasonable stopping criterion for the optimization process. An additional advantage is the decreased runtime of the two-stage methods, since the problem is divided into two smaller problems.
Aphra Behn (16401689), prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, translator, has a fascinating and extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history. Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion offers what no book has done to date, an analysis of all Behns literary output. It examines the authors use of words in terms of frequencies and distributions and stacks the words in context to read Behns word usage synchronically. Using this experimental method, the book brings digital humanities into literary criticism, to enhance our understanding and appreciation of literature beyond what is possible in diachronic reading and scholarship less supported by digital means. The empirical approach works in collaboration with existing scholarship to understand Behns distinct language of love and extreme passions across her genres. Autorid: Laura L. Runge
Central to any interpretation of Wittgensteins later philosophy is an understanding of his philosophical method and the nature of the turn which characterises the evolution from his early to his later work. In the essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism, Marie McGinn argues that this methodological shift has at its heart a highly distinctive form of naturalism, which has its roots in the works of Goethe. This form of naturalism emphasises achieving a clarified view of complex, natural phenomena in their natural setting, with a view to describing patterns and connections that are in plain view. Wittgenstein is seen as applying these methods to the task of conceptual clarification, whose aim is to dissolve philosophical problems and paradoxes. The essays cover the following topics: scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; psychological states and the distinctive first-person use of psychological concepts; the relation between the early and the later philosophy; and the nature of Wittgensteins naturalism. Autorid: Marie McGinn
