For decades, the conventional measure of an individual's strength was the amount of weight he could bench press. Now, that measure is being challenged by expert trainers like Robert dos Remedios who argue that the variety of movement patterns used in functional training is the real key to getting bigger, stronger, and more powerful. In "Men's ...
There is no more exhilarating decade in the history of modern letters than the twenties in Paris. They were all there: Pound, Hemingway, Stein, Joyce, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, MacLeish, Harry Crosby, H.D., Sinclair Lewis, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Ford Madox Ford, Mary Butts, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Beach, Katherine Mansfield, ...
Two leading experts in the field of environmental science show how industry can become an active partner with government in solving the global environmental crisis. Oppenheimer and Doyle demonstrate how we can make the transition to the next industrial era without sacrificing prosperity. "A clear look at the issues and what can happen if we ignore ...
From runner's knee to tennis elbow, sports injuries are laid out in simple, non-clinical terms with information on treatments and a detailed program to quicken rehabilitation. Illustrations.
Proclaimed as the easiest way to fly-fish-the wind carries the fly to the fish-dapping is all but unknown in North America, yet it is a traditional fly-fishing practice. Its roots are traced to Europe, where dappers fished as many as 3,000 years ago, and its popularity continues today, particularly in lreland and Scotland. Today's fly fishers can ...
The first major collection of Boyle's writings to be published since Thomas Birch's eighteenth-century edition of his works presents material hitherto available only in the archives of the Royal Society. This edition of Boyle's "Aretology "(the study of moral virtue) and other moral essays from the late 1640s offers the intellectual and religious ...
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an infinite, ...
The "Workshop Physics Activity Guide" is a set of student workbooks designed to serve as the foundation for a two semester calculus based introductory physics course. It consists of 28 units that interweave text materials with activities that include prediction, qualitative observation, explanation, equation derivation, mathematical modeling, ...
Not a study of Joyce's thought or atti-tude but, rather, an attempt to pene-trate Joyce's imagination, this extraor-dinary work complements previous studies of Joyce's Catholicism. This is the most thorough and convincing demonstration yet of the ways Joyce absorbed Catholic thought and re-worked it, and it should go far to show that at least some ...
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an infinite, ...
The environmental movement today is at a critical crossroads. "Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future" is an in-depth assessment of the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders and activists, including Barry Commoner, ...
Ray Scott is the entrepreneur who turned a chilly afternoon when the fish weren't biting into an idea for a new industry: tournament bass fishing. In this authorized biography of both the man and the empire he created, writer Robert Boyle gives us an affectionate look at an original American character. Scott's 1967 brainchild, B.A.S.S., the Bass ...
This 1661 classic defines the term "element" and asserts that all natural phenomena can be explained by the motion and organization of primary particles. 1911 edition.
Robert Boyle (1627-91) was an influential scientist and philosopher of the 17th century. The founder of modern chemistry, he headed the movement that turned it from an occult science into a subject grounded in experiment, methodology, and observation. His experiments on the properties of gases and his mechanistic theory of matter are the ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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