Beyond Strength includes these unique features: * Practical easy-to-follow explanations. * Specific examples from individuals who use mental practice, imagery and visualization strategies. * Characteristics of elite competitors. * Up-to-date research findings on dreaming, mood profiles, injury preve..
This handsome book focuses on Georges Braque`s mature works, created between the end of World War II and the artist`s death in 1963. A major figure in twentieth-century French art, Braque remained truthful to the principles of his early cubist paintings yet demonstrated an increased freedom and poet..
This book presents a concise, balanced overview of China’s oldest and most revered philosophy. In clear, straightforward language, Paul R. Goldin explores how Confucianism was conceived and molded by its earliest masters, discusses its main tenets, and considers its history and relevance for the mod..
From Outlaw to Classic presents a sweeping history of the forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American poetry canon. Students, scholars, critics, and poets will welcome this enlightening and impressively documented book.Recent writings by critics and theorists on literary canons have..
Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood. This book explores the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes-trade, finance, aid, migratio..
Many nonverbal behaviors smiling, blushing, shrugging reveal our emotions. One nonverbal behavior, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so.Susan Goldin-Meadow begins with an intriguing discovery: when explaining their an..
Nonprofit activities are the next - and possibly the most interesting - focus of the Baby Boomer Era. The United States has an estimated two million charitable organizations and this handbook is for current and future board members or trustees. Easy to read, written with a brief, sharp directness, a..
For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the meaning of the book..
You never know where or how Elijah will appear. He arrives in the cornfields of Argentina, on doorsteps in China, amid ancient Persian ruins. He is a friend, a teacher, an angel. He has touched the lives of people from religious traditions all over the world as a universal symbol of hope and goodnes..
It's not the size that matters, Austin Powers tells his son as they look over the MINI, "but how you use it." And the diminutive MINI has made it big -- from the beginning. This book tells the full story of the iconic car from its initial launch in the late 1950s through its current super-hip BMW-bu..
Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the definitive reference to Adobe's industry-standard vector graphics software and is now in 4-color. With an easy, engaging style, author and past Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding takes readers through all of the features of the program, explaining not o..
Jin Mun cannot wait for the Chinese New Year and hopes that he will find good fortune in the future, until he meets Wai Hing, a poor slave girl, and must come up with a way to set her free. Reprint. Author: Goldin, Barbara Diamond Publisher: Puffin Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 01403..
“Col felt a stab of fear in his stomach. The Sirens were now close enough for him to see their crimson mouths open in a scream, pale faces blazing with white-hot anger, their bird claws tearing at the air.”When eleven-year-old Connie is sent to live with her eccentric aunt by the sea, she’s not expe..
Book by Golding, William Author: Golding, William Publisher: Faber & Faber Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0571090737 ISBN-13: 9780571090730..
In this classic collection, once again available in a paperbound edition, leading modern scholars examine and interpret 3,000 years of Jewish literature and history. The essays study the actions and institutions of the Jewish people as well as their literary tradition. These forms of expression have..
The d'Alemberts, a family of spies, thieves, and revolutionaries working for Empress Stanley Nine of the Empire of the Earth, learn that their planet Omicron has been conquered by aliens and they team up with treacherous Lady A to stop them Author: Stephen Goldin Publisher: Berkley Binding: mass_mar..
How has the United States government grown What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the politic..
Three short novels show Golding at his subtle, ironic, mysterious best. The Scorpion God depicts a challenge to primal authority as the god-ruler of an ancient civilization lingers near death. Clonk Clonk is a graphic account of a crippled youth's triumph over his tormentors in a primitive matriarch..
The Song at the sea;: Being a commentary on a commentary in two parts Author: Goldin, Judah Publisher: Yale University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0300014090 ISBN-13: 9780300014099..
About the AuthorWilliam Golding (1911-93) was born in Cornwall, England. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and became an international bestseller. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Product DescriptionTo the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea tr..
Women have entered the labor market in unprecedented numbers, yet these critically needed workers still earn less than men and have fewer opportunities for advancement. This study traces the evolution of the female labor force in America, addressing the issue of gender distinction in the workplace a..