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Scattered Voices

A Collection of Poems Shared by Strangers on the Internet.

By: Darryl Mouzone, Fergus Martin,Giovanni Russano,Marco G. Casteleijn,Doug Metz,Nicole H.,Sonny Black,Nicholas Alan Baar,Jen R.,Lenora Vance

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Scattered Voices

A Collection of Poems Shared by Strangers on the Internet.

By: Darryl Mouzone, Fergus Martin,Giovanni Russano,Marco G. Casteleijn,Doug Metz,Nicole H.,Sonny Black,Nicholas Alan Baar,Jen R.,Lenora Vance

One internet post. Ten Poets. Less than thirty days. Read an unlikely collection of poems submitted by users of a certain social networking site. A diversity of voices communicating on a range of topics through the art of verse. Brought to you by an even more unlikely source, Rotting Horse Publishing. A house of horror delivers its most unexpected work yet. No blood or boogeymen needed to tell this story. The story of us.

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1500142840

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9781500142841

More Noble Than War

A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine

By: Nicholas Blincoe

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More Noble Than War

A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine

By: Nicholas Blincoe

By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport Soccer has never been apolitical. This is especially true for Israel and Palestine. The game played a direct role in shaping the politics of both countries, and the view from the stands or the pitch shines a light on key moments in the region's volatile history. In More Noble Than War, Nicholas Blincoe weaves a dramatic narrative filled with driven players and coaches who are inspired as much by nationalism as a love of the game. Blincoe traces the history from the sport's introduction through church leagues, he rising tensions after the creation of Israel, and the decades of violence, war, and hunger strikes that have decimated teams. More Noble Than War is a must-read for soccer fans and anyone seeking a new understanding of the world's most intractable conflict.

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242

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Bold Type Books

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1568588879

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9781568588872

Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed Tradition

By: Nicholas A. Cumming

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Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed Tradition

By: Nicholas A. Cumming

In Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed Tradition, Nicholas A. Cumming provides a biography of Turretin and an intellectual history of Turretin’s major works. Cumming details, in particular, Turretin’s influence among the Reformed in the early modern and modern periods.

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236

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BRILL

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9004348018

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9789004348011

The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science

Confronting Myths of the Health and Fitness Industry

By: Nicholas Tiller

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The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science

Confronting Myths of the Health and Fitness Industry

By: Nicholas Tiller

The global health and fitness industry is worth an estimated $4 trillion. We spend $90 billion each year on health club memberships and $100 billion each year on dietary supplements. In such an industrial climate, lax regulations on the products we are sold (supplements, fad-diets, training programs, gadgets, and garments) result in marketing campaigns underpinned by strong claims and weak evidence. Moreover, our critical faculties are ill-suited to a culture characterized by fake news, social media, misinformation, and bad science. We have become walking, talking prey to 21st-Century Snake Oil salesmen. In The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science, Nicholas B. Tiller confronts the claims behind the products and the evidence behind the claims. The author discusses what might be wrong with the sales pitch, the glossy magazine advert, and the celebrity endorsements that our heuristically-wired brains find so innately attractive. Tiller also explores the appeal of the one quick fix, the fallacious arguments that are a mainstay of product advertising, and the critical steps we must take in retraining our minds to navigate the pitfalls of the modern consumerist culture. This informative and accessible volume pulls no punches in scrutinizing the plausibility of, and evidence for, the most popular sports products and practices on the market. Readers are encouraged to confront their conceptualizations of the industry and, by the book’s end, they will have acquired the skills necessary to independently judge the effectiveness of sports-related products. This treatise on the commercialization of science in sport and exercise is a must-read for exercisers, athletes, students, and practitioners who hope to retain their intellectual integrity in a lucrative health and fitness industry that is spiraling out-of-control.

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362

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Routledge

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0429820879

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9780429820878

Sport Psychology

Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams

By: Nicholas T. Gallucci

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Sport Psychology

Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams

By: Nicholas T. Gallucci

Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance. After exploring the history of sport psychology, human motivation, and the role of exercise, there are three main sections to the text: Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, and Individuals and Teams. The first of these sections covers topics such as anxiety, routines, mental imagery, self-talk, enhancing concentration, relaxation, goals, and self-confidence. The section on Performance Inhibition includes chapters on choking under pressure, self-handicapping, procrastination, perfectionism, helplessness, substance abuse, and disruptive personality factors. While much of the information presented is universally applicable, individual differences based on gender, ethnicity, age, and motivation are emphasized in the concluding section on Individuals and Teams. Throughout, there are case studies of well-known athletes from a variety of sports to illustrate topics that are being explored.

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688

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Psychology Press

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1134641648

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9781134641642

Mondrian

His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

By: Nicholas Fox Weber

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Mondrian

His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

By: Nicholas Fox Weber

The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most recognizable abstract paintings of the 20th century. With rectangles of primary colors against a dazzling white background, this was geometric abstraction in its purest form. These revolutionary compositions exhilarated, intoxicated, confused, and enraged the international public—and changed the course of modern art forever. Now, for the first time, Mondrian emerges alongside his thrilling art. Here is the life of an elusive modern master: from his youth in a religious household in the Netherlands where he first began painting Dutch farmhouses and sand dunes, to his move to Paris where he embraced the work of Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat, and Cézanne, to the 1920s and onward where, surviving the turmoil of two world wars and embracing a rapidly shifting culture, Mondrian challenged the concept of art and invented a new world of undiluted colors and rhythmic straight lines. His work would go on to affect painting, architecture, fashion, and design in decades to come. Here is also an intimate portrait of a complex artist, his solitude and avoidance of intimacy, his eccentricities and his philosophy, his passion for ballroom dancing, and his unwavering belief in art as a vehicle to reveal universal truths.

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665

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Knopf

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0307961591

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9780307961594

The Eternal Nazi

From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim

By: Nicholas Kulish,Souad Mekhennet

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The Eternal Nazi

From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim

By: Nicholas Kulish,Souad Mekhennet

The tall foreigner living on Port Said Street in a Cairo hotel lived a simple life, reading books and writing letters, known as Uncle Tarek to neighborhood children. They did not know that he was actually Aribert Heim—the concentration camp doctor and fugitive from justice who became the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world. Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a horrifying mark on the memories of survivors. In the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark past. But certain rare individuals in Germany were unwilling to let Nazi war criminals go unpunished. Among them was a police investigator named Alfred Aedtner, whose quest took him across Europe and across decades, and into a close alliance with legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. This is the incredible story of how Aribert Heim evaded capture, living in a working-class neighborhood of the Egyptian capital, praying in Arabic, beloved by an adopted Muslim family, while inspiring a manhunt that outlived him by many years. He became the “Eternal Nazi,” a symbol of Germany’s evolving attitude toward the sins of its past, which finally crested in a desire to see justice done at almost any cost.

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Vintage

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0307475212

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9780307475213

Ocean Circulation and Climate

Chapter 30. The Marine Carbon Cycle and Ocean Carbon Inventories

By: Toste Tanhua,Nicholas R. Bates,Arne Körtzinger

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Ocean Circulation and Climate

Chapter 30. The Marine Carbon Cycle and Ocean Carbon Inventories

By: Toste Tanhua,Nicholas R. Bates,Arne Körtzinger

Carbon is a fundamental component of all life and its gaseous form, carbon dioxide (CO2), is an important atmospheric regulator of Earth’s climate. Over societally relevant timescales, diverse physical, biological, and chemical processes in the global ocean have a very important role in controlling the exchanges of CO2 with the atmosphere and climate, given that the ocean contains roughly 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere. The complex and dynamic marine carbon cycle is thus a fundamental part and regulator of life on Earth, requiring monitoring of its variability and understanding of the feedbacks to the climate system. This is particularly relevant given that emissions of human produced (anthropogenic) CO2 through fossil fuel and land use changes have led to significant perturbations in the global carbon cycle. A large fraction of emitted anthropogenic carbon (Cant) has been and will be absorbed by the oceans with implications for seawater chemistry, ocean pH levels, and the biological communities contained within. During the last few decades, quantification of the ocean sink of CO2 and its temporal evolution of the marine carbon cycle has been an important driver of marine biogeochemical research. Scientific expeditions such as the World Ocean Circulation Experiment/Joint Global Ocean Flux Study global surveys conducted during the 1990s provided the data for the first global estimates of the uptake and oceanic sink of Cant. More recently, completion of a second global survey of the marine carbon cycle (from 2000 to 2013) provided sufficient data to assess the rate of uptake and storage of Cant within the interior of the global ocean. From this effort, it has become clear that there is substantial regional and temporal variability of the storage rate of Cant and those physico-biogeochemical processes that influence the marine carbon cycle. Here we review seawater carbonate chemistry, the sampling strategies, and networks required to observe variability in the global ocean carbon cycle and the flux of carbon between the ocean and the atmosphere but with a central focus, synthesizing and summarizing available estimates of the ocean uptake and inventories of Cant. This chapter is aimed at a wider audience within the oceanographic community and points to the rich literature on marine carbon cycle research.

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012805879X

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9780128058794

ACSM's Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioning

By: Nicholas Ratamess

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ACSM's Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioning

By: Nicholas Ratamess

Developed by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), ACSM’s Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioningoffers a comprehensive introduction to the basics of strength training and conditioning. This updated 2nd edition focuses on practical applications, empowering students and practitioners to develop, implement, and assess the results of training programs that are designed to optimize strength, power, and athletic performance. Clear, straightforward writing helps students master new concepts with ease, and engaging learning features throughout the text provide the understanding and confidence to apply lessons to clinical practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975149920

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9781975149925

Scattered Voices

A Collection of Poems Shared by Strangers on the Internet.

By: Darryl Mouzone, Fergus Martin,Giovanni Russano,Marco G. Casteleijn,Doug Metz,Nicole H.,Sonny Black,Nicholas Alan Baar,Jen R.,Lenora Vance

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Scattered Voices

A Collection of Poems Shared by Strangers on the Internet.

By: Darryl Mouzone, Fergus Martin,Giovanni Russano,Marco G. Casteleijn,Doug Metz,Nicole H.,Sonny Black,Nicholas Alan Baar,Jen R.,Lenora Vance

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Scattered Voices

Scattered Voices

More Noble Than War

More Noble Than War

Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed Tradition

Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed Tradition

The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science

The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science

Sport Psychology

Sport Psychology

Mondrian

Mondrian

The Eternal Nazi

The Eternal Nazi

Ocean Circulation and Climate

Ocean Circulation and Climate

ACSM's Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioning

ACSM's Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioning

Scattered Voices

Scattered Voices

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