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A Macroeconomic Analysis of Profit

By: Andrea Carrera

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A Macroeconomic Analysis of Profit

By: Andrea Carrera

Based on the observation of economic reality, this book provides for the foundations of a new structure of national payment systems. Specifically, to this end, a rigorous accounting for money transactions, savings, and invested profit is suggested, with a major aim to settle sustainable lending levels. Profit lies at the heart of economic activities. Indeed, companies, from small to large, seek net gains to remunerate shareholders and to increase their assets. Yet, economists are far from sharing a common theory of profit. Using mathematical tools and a discursive approach, this book contributes to the debates in such regard, in the attempt to provide new answers to old economic issues. What is macroeconomic profit? Is there any relationship between wages, lending, and profit? This book is an accesible resource for economists and financial experts as well as global economics students, researchers, academics and historians alike. It will challenge policy-makers and professionals and lead them on a thought-provoking journey through the realm of macroeconomics.

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Routledge

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1351213342

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9781351213349

Hobart

By: Sergio Carrera Mendoza

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Hobart

By: Sergio Carrera Mendoza

Hobart has been a flourishing community since 1847, when founder George Earle named the settlement after his brother, Frederick Hobart Earle. Mendoza chronicles 160 years of this hard-working community with images that reflect events and developments that helped make Hobart the thriving city it is today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467110647

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9781467110648

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico

By: Magali M. Carrera

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Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico

By: Magali M. Carrera

How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.

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Duke University Press

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0822349914

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9780822349914

Conditioning Young Athletes

By: Bompa, Tudor,Carrera, Michael

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Conditioning Young Athletes

By: Bompa, Tudor,Carrera, Michael

Renowned exercise scientist Tudor Bompa provides the latest research, proven programs, and expert advice to improve the athletic performance of young athletes ages 6 to 18. Conditioning Young Athletes offers 182 exercises and 17 programs spanning 14 popular sports, along with coverage of the impact early specialization has on a young athlete’s development.

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Human Kinetics

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1492503096

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9781492503095

Growing the Productivity of Government Services

By: Patrick Dunleavy,Leandro Carrera

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Growing the Productivity of Government Services

By: Patrick Dunleavy,Leandro Carrera

Carrera and Dunleavy provide a crystal clear and comprehensive account of the complex issues involved in how best to improve the productivity of government services. They offer a nuanced but powerful explanation of productivity puzzles, conundrums and dilemmas in the public sector. But they also offer solutions to many of these problems. Finally, I have found a text on public economics that makes sense, gives genuine management insights and offers real suggestions to practitioners as to what to do next.' – Barry Quirk, Chief Executive, London Borough of Lewisham, UK 'This book presents a welcome and sobering analysis of productivity performance in UK central government – a subject that has received remarkably little serious academic attention up to now, in spite of decades of general commentary on managerialism.' – Christopher Hood, All Souls College, UK 'Leandro Carrera and Patrick Dunleavy have performed an amazing feat in this book through their rigorous examination of a thorny topic that has dogged pundits and academics alike. Just how efficient is government and how well does it do its job? As a result of an impressive – but accessible – set of data analyses, the authors make an authoritative attack on the proponents of the New Public Management, and offer some clear recommendations for reform based on better use of new technology.' – Peter John, University College London, UK Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization's outputs divided by its inputs. For many years it was treated as always being static in government agencies. In fact productivity in government services should be rising rapidly as a result of digital changes and new management approaches, and it has done so in some agencies. However, Dunleavy and Carrera show for the first time how complex are the factors affecting productivity growth in government organizations – especially management practices, use of IT, organizational culture, strategic mis-decisions and political and policy churn. With government budgets under stress in many countries, this pioneering book shows academics, analysts and officials how to measure outputs and productivity in detail; how to cope with problems of quality variations; and how to achieve year-on-year, sustainable improvements in the efficiency of government services.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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0857934996

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9780857934994

Success in Circuit Lies

Diderot’s Communicational Practice

By: Rosalina de la Carrera

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Success in Circuit Lies

Diderot’s Communicational Practice

By: Rosalina de la Carrera

As contemporary thinkers continue to explore the intellectual affinities that bind the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, their attention has turned with increasing frequency to Diderot. Focusing on models of communication, this book draws on an interdisciplinary configuration – a conjunction of communication theory, philosophy of science, and literary theory – to analyze texts from Diderot's own interdisciplinary corpus. Of particular pertinence to the author's argument is Michel Serres's model of dialogue. Rejecting the traditional notion of dialogue as a binary exchange, Serres defines it instead as the product of the association of two interlocutors, who join forces against a third term – another interlocutor or background noise – that threatens to disrupt the exchange. Serres thus substitutes a ternary model of dialogue for the conventional binary one. Using Serres's model as a point of departure, the author not only identifies specific instances of Diderot's use of a ternary communicational model but, more important, also demonstrates how Diderot's writings themselves generate a ternary model of communication that is uniquely his. She does this by tracing the model through texts drawn from domains as diverse as fiction, history, and natural philosophy. The repeated recurrence of Diderot's ternary model in these different contexts brings into focus an unexpected unity in what at first looks like a disparate corpus. As the analysis proceeds, furthermore, it also becomes clear that Diderot's materialist philosophy dictates a rhetoric aiming at the sensitive body just as much as the reasoning mind. Though the astounding diversity of Diderot's writings – as encyclopedist, novelist, playwright, philosopher, scientific theorist, and art critic – has most often led critics to avoid the question of what coherences there might be within that diversity, in this book the author asks just that question - and goes far toward providing a convincing, satisfying, and stimulating answer. The book includes a new translation of the Préface-annexe of La Religieuse, the integral part of Diderot's novel missing from most readily available English-language editions.

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Stanford University Press

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0804766207

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9780804766203

Imagining Identity in New Spain

Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings

By: Magali M. Carrera

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Imagining Identity in New Spain

Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings

By: Magali M. Carrera

Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. Winner, Book Award, Association of Latin American Art, 2004 Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited. The discourse of calidad (status) and raza (lineage) on which the regulations were based also found expression in the visual culture of New Spain, particularly in the unique genre of casta paintings, which purported to portray discrete categories of mixed-blood plebeians. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. She explains how these visual practices emphasized a seeming realism that constructed colonial bodies—elite and non-elite—as knowable and visible. At the same time, however, she argues that the chaotic specificity of the lives and lived conditions in eighteenth-century New Spain belied the illusion of social orderliness and totality narrated in its visual art. Ultimately, she concludes, the inherent ambiguity of the colonial body and its spaces brought chaos to all dreams of order.

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University of Texas Press

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0292782756

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9780292782754

Emotions and Health, 1200-1700

By: Elena Carrera

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Emotions and Health, 1200-1700

By: Elena Carrera

Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines the Aristotelian and Galenic understandings of the ‘passions’ or ‘accidents of the soul’ as alterations of both mind and body across a wide range of medieval and early modern cultural discourses: Aquinas’s Summa, canonization inquests, medical and natural philosophical texts, drama, and the London Bills of Mortality. The essays in this collection focus on notions such as death from sorrow, physiological explanations of fear, physicians’ advice on the harmful and beneficial effects of anger and of sex, medical and philosophical constructions of the melancholic subject, and theological and medical discussions on the impact of music in moderating the passions and maintaining health. Contributors include: Nicole Archambeau, Elena Carrera, Penelope Gouk, Angus Gowland, Nicholas E. Lombardo, William F. MacLehose, Michael R. Solomon and Erin Sullivan.

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BRILL

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9004252932

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9789004252936

Teresa of Avila's Autobiography

Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-sixteenth Century Spain

By: Elena Carrera

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Teresa of Avila's Autobiography

Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-sixteenth Century Spain

By: Elena Carrera

The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, yet none to date has examined the impact of textual models on Teresa's self-construction. In looking at the issue of the self, Carrera draws on revisions

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Routledge

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1351197053

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9781351197052

General History of the Caribbean

New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century

By: Carrera Damas, Germán,Emmer, Pieter C.,UNESCO

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General History of the Caribbean

New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century

By: Carrera Damas, Germán,Emmer, Pieter C.,UNESCO

This volume studies the initial linkage with America, the establishment of primary centres and plantations, the beginnings of colonial settlement and the forced African population component. Attention is also given to the historical course of autochtonous societies, houses, cities, fortresses and civil works, and to the intellectual, artistic and ideological culture. The volume includes maps and an extensive list of sources.

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UNESCO Publishing

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9231033573

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9789231033575

Pictorial Webster's Pocket Dictionary

By: John M. Carrera

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Pictorial Webster's Pocket Dictionary

By: John M. Carrera

Since its publication in 2009, Pictorial Webster's has captivated legions of readers with its vintage charm. Now a selection of over 200 gorgeous engravings that once graced the pages of 19th-century Webster's dictionaries are gathered in this tiny treasure trove of visual wonders. This compact, portable reference is perfect for stuffing in the stockings of scholars, designers, and anyone with a taste for the antique. Ranging from the mysterious to the iconic, the visual curiosities in this pocket-sized volume offer a wellspring of creative inspiration. With a tactile package that reproduces the old-world allure of the original, Pictorial Webster's Pocket Dictionary is a little gem of a book.

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Chronicle Books

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1452101647

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9781452101644

Histories of Infamy

By: Cristián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera,Scott Sessions

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Histories of Infamy

By: Cristián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera,Scott Sessions

In Histories of Infamy, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera explores Francisco López de Gómara's (1511-ca.1559) attempt to ethically reconcile Spain's civilizing mission with the conquistadors' abuse and exploitation of Native peoples. The most widely read account of the conquest in its time, Gómara's Historia general de las Indias y Conquista de México rationalized the conquistadors' crimes as unavoidable evils in the task of bringing "civilization" to the New World. Through an elaborate defense of Spanish imperialism, Gómara aimed to convince his readers of the merits of the conquest, regardless of the devastation it had wrought upon Spain's new subjects. Despite his efforts, Gómara's apologist text quickly fell into disrepute and became ammunition for Spain's critics. Evaluating the effectiveness of ideologies of colonization, Roa-de-la-Carrera's analysis will appeal to scholars in colonial studies and readers interested in the history of the Americas.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457109662

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9781457109669

Fellini’s Eternal Rome

Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini

By: Alessandro Carrera

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Fellini’s Eternal Rome

Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini

By: Alessandro Carrera

*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies *** In Fellini's Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory, Carrera introduces the reader to a new appreciation of Fellini's work. Life-affirming Franciscanism and repressive Counter-Reformation dogmatism live side by side in Fellini's films, although he clearly tends toward the former and resents the latter. The fascination with pre-Christian Rome shines through La Dolce Vita and finds its culmination in Fellini-Satyricon, the most audacious attempt to imagine what the West would be if Christianity had never replaced classical Rome. Minimal clues point toward a careful, extremely subtle use of classical texts and motifs. Fellini's interest in the classics culminates in Olympus, a treatment of Hesiod's Theogony for a never-realized TV miniseries on Greek mythology, here introduced for the first time to an English-speaking readership. Fellini's recurrent dream of the Mediterranean Goddess is shaped by the phantasmatic projection of paganism that Christianity created as its convenient Other. His characters long for a “maternal space” where they will be protected from mortality and left free to roam. Yet Fellini shows how such maternal space constantly fails, not because the Church has erased it, but because the utopia of unlimited enjoyment is a self-defeating fantasy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474297625

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9781474297622

Boredom

By: Elena Carrera

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Boredom

By: Elena Carrera

This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyzes visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions that have been considered tedious or boring in the past five centuries. Examining the multidirectional ways in which words like ennuyeux, 'tedious', langweilig, aburrido and 'boring' have been transferred between different cultural contexts (to denote a range of interrelated feelings that include displeasure, unease and annoyance), it demonstrates how the terms, concepts and categories through which individuals have experienced their states of mind are not simply culture-bound. They have also travelled across geographical and linguistic barriers, through translation, imitation and adaptation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009412353

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9781009412353

Pictorial Webster's

A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

By: John M. Carrera

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Pictorial Webster's

A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

By: John M. Carrera

Featuring over 1,500 engravings that originally graced the pages of Webster's dictionaries in the 19th century, this volume is an irresistible treasure trove for art lovers, designers, and anyone with an interest in visual history. Meticulously cleaned and restored by fine-press bookmaker Johnny Carrera, the engravings in Pictorial Webster's have been compiled into an alluring and unusual visual reference guide for the modern day. Images range from the entirely mysterious to the classically iconic. From Acorns to Zebras, Bell Jars to Velocipedes, these alphabetically arranged archetypes and curiosities create enigmatic juxtapositions and illustrate the items deemed important to the Victorian mind. Sure to inspire and delight, Pictorial Webster's is at once a fascinating historical record and a stunning jewel of a book.

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Chronicle Books

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1452100837

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9781452100838

A Journey of My Choosing

Traveling the Creative Path of Life

By: Phyllis Carrera

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A Journey of My Choosing

Traveling the Creative Path of Life

By: Phyllis Carrera

In a womans evocative solo journey around the world, readers are guided along a path of creative life-change and gifted with souvenirs of self-discovery --mementos of personal growth that awaken their passion and free them from habitual, unfulfilling lives. Weaving together an exquisite tapestry of dramatic foreign landscapes, mysterious coincidences, romantic interludes, and formidable undertakings, readers are encouraged to risk the unknown, break free from confinement, and stop settling for less than they truly deserve.

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Humanarts

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096757711X

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9780967577111

Michael Cimino

By: Pilar Carrera

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Michael Cimino

By: Pilar Carrera

Michael Cimino es un cineasta de genio, uno de los más brillantes y radicales directores de la historia del cine. También uno de los más incomprendidos y vilipendiados por la crítica institucional. Su mundo es delicado y duro al mismo tiempo, inocente y bárbaro, tierno y brutal, y de ese desequilibrio no desiste. Basta con ver a sus personajes y la puesta en escena para percatarse del omnipresente "tour de force" que atraviesa su filmografía: lo que Bataille denominaba "violencia". El polvo que fulgura y nubla la vista (la visión del espectador) en sus películas es una de las formas de la materia más queridas por el director, y el fracaso, más que un avatar biográfico, es el principio formal que mantiene su cine siempre en tensión y lo que hará que perdure.

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Ediciones Cátedra

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8437638879

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9788437638874

Conditioning Young Athletes

By: Tudor O. Bompa,Michael Carrera

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Conditioning Young Athletes

By: Tudor O. Bompa,Michael Carrera

Conditioning for Young Athletes provides coaches, instructors, teachers, and parents of future sport stars the best training advice, exercises, and programs for establishing an overall fitness base and maximizing athletic development for youth. This authoritative guide includes numerous exercises that safely increase young athletes’ coordination, flexibility, speed, strength, and endurance. It contains a proven regimen geared to three developmental phases, long- and short-term training plans, and specific programs for sports such as baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, soccer, swimming, and track and field. Tudor Bompa brings you the expertise that has helped train everyone from youth athletes to Olympic champions. Together with Michael Carrera, he provides parents, teachers, and coaches with more than 182 exercises appropriate for children ages 6 to 18. These exercises take into consideration critical factors such as a child’s developmental stage, motor functioning, and sex-specific considerations to ensure that the workouts do not hinder development and growth. Regardless of the sport, Conditioning Young Athletes has you covered with ready-to-use programs for both short-term and long-term development.

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Human Kinetics

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1492585483

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9781492585480

The Language of Sex

An A to Z Guide

By: Michael Carrera

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The Language of Sex

An A to Z Guide

By: Michael Carrera

Includes definitions for terminology related to such issues as sexually transmitted diseases, surgical procedures, sexual practices, drugs, and anatomy

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0816023972

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9780816023974

Periodization Training for Sports

By: Tudor O. Bompa,Michael Carrera

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Periodization Training for Sports

By: Tudor O. Bompa,Michael Carrera

Periodization Training for Sports" portrays a comprehensive view of training for peak performance. This is a must-read for sport and performance coaches at all levels.

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Elsevier

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0736055592

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9780736055598

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