For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional shush, vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeneys contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who ...
"Marathoning" has all the information you need to train smarter, remain injury free, and arrive on the start line ready to run the marathon of your life. Including marathon-pace runs and tempo runs, "Advanced Marathoning" provides only the most effective methods of training. You'll learn how to complement your running workouts with strength, core, ...
If the build-up of nuclear weapons was a significant factor in maintaining the "long peace" between the United States and the Soviet Union, will the spread of nuclear weapons beyond these two superpowers stabilize or disrupt international relations. In this book, two scholars of international politics debate the issue. Kenneth Waltz argues that ...
This text provides complete instruction on developing ideal running techniques for personal fitness and serious competition. Through easy-to-follow steps designed to gradually build their abilities, readers learn how to choose reliable shoes and running gear and create an effective training and running programme. Also, the authors share tips on ...
More than a hundred years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, its secrets continue to unfold. In this book, Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor blend historic sources, archeological evidence, and physical data to present new revelations about the men who rode and died with Custer. Although dead men tell no tales, their skeletons ...
This text takes a comprehensive look at training for competitive long-distance racing, containing charts, schedules and checklists to guide the runner in organizing his or her training. Runners select a goal racing distance, then learn how to prepare for success at this chosen distance by using a mix of five workouts: long runs, tempo runs, VO2 ...
Revised for 2009 and beyond, "The Black Book of Outsourcing" is a comprehensive guide and directory for the evolving field of outsourcing, including expert advice on how to operate an outsourcing program. Valuable governance checklists, offshoring insights, best practices and one-of-kind resources are featured in this bible of the outsourcing ...
You're no idiot, of course. You follow all the latest energy-food trends, know the metric equivalent of a mile, and can even recite last year's New York City marathon winners. But when it comes to scheduling a running program, you feel like you have two left feet. Don't trash your track shoes just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jogging and ...
The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its location is more than academic; it is intensely ...
This volume is part of a series which explains the Bible's message by placing it in a modern context. This edition focuses on 2 Corinthians, giving insight into both the author of the letter, Paul, and most strikingly, what it says about God.
Focusing as much on Marx's private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks into detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes generous quotations from a wide range of correspondence in addition to virtually every photograph in existence of Marx and his closest associates. ...
Rodgers offers advice to runners of all ages and abilities in this long-range view of running. He covers getting started, the effects of aging, diet, clothing and shoes, training, racing strategies, running clubs, injury treatment and prevention, record keeping, and fitting running into a busy schedule. A special section with Joan Benoit Samuelson ...
For courses in Introduction to Engineering. The Infinity Project brings engineering to the classroom, giving students a first-hand look at the marvels of technology. The text, Engineering Our Digital Future, plus a broad spectrum of supplemental materials, classroom technology, and a comprehensive teacher training program--work in concert to ...
This standard text on medical interviewing retains its core of open-ended and more directed interviewing techniques, but the fourth edition is more firmly anchored in the everyday practice of medicine. It contains much new material on the components of the medical history, interviewing cognitively impaired patients, interviewing children and their ...
The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world - how they perceive, categorize and reason about living things. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the work of researchers in anthropology, psychology, biology and philosophy of science. The issues covered include: are folk ...
During his Supreme Court tenure, Clarence Thomas has been dismissed by many Americans as an opportunistic puppet of white conservatism. The assessment in this text is based not on a caricatured reputation, but on Thomas's judicial opinions and votes, his scholarly writings, and his public speeches.
An explosive novel by a former law clerk to a federal judge, "The Law Clerk" combines the insider feel of today's most exciting fiction with insights into one of the most pressing social issues of the day: the impact of pornography. Sam Grimes is heartbroken by a law school romance gone bad. Searching for new horizons, he accepts a prestigious ...
This compact, new text provides a comprehensive overview of gastrointestinal disorders, including anatomy and physiology, disease processes, and clinical aspects of diagnosis and therapy - all in a single volume!
A guide to finding the unconditional acceptance everyone desires. Through the principles outlined, you can learn how to build acceptance that frees you to live up to your fullest potential.
This text presents an overview of current work and an outline of important unsolved problems in the field of palaeobiology, revealing interactions between the study of fossils and findings in biogeochemistry, genetics, developmental and functional biology, ecology, evolution, systematics and geology. Within the diversity of this research lie the ...
This student-friendly casebook takes a practical approach to the subject: - uses a lively mix of problems, text, and cases - comprehensive coverage provides a solid introduction to the Bankruptcy Code, statutory rules, and issues of bankruptcy law - popular problems approach allows students to focus on the "nuts and bolts" of the law as it is ...
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