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Elite endurance athletes - including runners, cyclists, and
swimmers - know that success hinges as much on how they use their
minds as on how well they've trained their bodies. Long before race
day, they've developed a rich arsenal of cognitive strategies that
they incorporate into their long-term training regimens to unlock
peak performance, from effective goal-setting and ingenious habit
forming techniques to developing resilience and increasing
self-belief. And now a growing body of evidence is showing that
these strategies can help the rest of us achieve whatever we set
our minds to in sport and life. Combining cutting-edge science,
illustrative stories from the world's top endurance athletes and
practical instruction, The Genius of Athletes arms us with proven
tools for reaching high and meeting our goals - whether it's
running a marathon or any other personal or professional challenge.
Good racing doesn’t just happen. It’s a skill that must be
honed with training and hard work. In Personal Best Running, Coach
Mark Coogan shares his successful formula for running fast—while
staying healthy and happy—without running taking over your life.
Coach Coogan has excelled in running as both an athlete and coach,
producing numerous Olympic and champion runners. His success is
founded in his belief that long-term running success is impossible
if you’re not training and racing in the right environment and
that running should never come at the expense of your overall
physical or mental health. In addition to training strategies that
will shave minutes off your time, Coach Coogan will also show you
how to sleep and eat properly, surround yourself with supportive
people, psychologically navigate setbacks and challenges, lower
your injury risk, and have a life outside of running. Get the
physical and psychological strategies needed to build an aerobic
base, balance hard work and recovery, achieve good running form,
and turn adversity into an advantage. Learn the importance of
strengthening and warm-up exercises, and master running drills that
will make you a stronger runner. Plus, access the 30 online video
clips that showcase the exercises and drills in action. Coogan
provides numerous training schedules for the mile, 5K, 10K, half
marathon, and marathon as well as schedules for running multiple
races in a short period of time. For each distance, choose the
length of training (from 6 weeks to 16 weeks) and weekly mileage
range. The plans are supplemented with training and racing tips to
help you better understand how to apply the concepts to your own
running strategy. You’ll also get a personal look at what
successful runners do as Coach Coogan shares some of his own
experiences as a runner and coach. And you’ll draw plenty of
motivation and inspiration from the athlete profiles of eight of
his accomplished runners, including Drew Piazza, Alexi Pappas, and
Elle St. Pierre. If you want to run better and race faster, now is
your chance to train with Coach Coogan and Personal Best Running.
Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education
exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased
separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and
exam. Note: A code for accessing online videos is included with all
print books.
Q: Skills for Success is renowned for helping students to achieve
academic success in English. The Third Edition helps students to
develop the techniques and critical thinking skills they need for
academic study with new Critical Thinking Strategies, updated texts
and topics and 100% new assessment.
Clarence Thomas is one of the most vilified public figures of
our day. To date, however, his legal philosophy has received only
cursory treatment. First Principles provides a portrait of Thomas
based not on the justice's caricatured reputation, but on his
judicial opinions and votes, his scholarly writings, and his public
speeches.
The paperback edition includes a provocative new Afterword by
the author bringing the book up to date by assessing Justice
Thomas's performance, and the reaction to his decisions, during the
last five years.
Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief
Justice John Marshall. Indeed, Marshall is almost universally
regarded as the "father of the Supreme Court" and "the jurist who
started it all."
Yet even while acknowledging the indelible stamp Marshall put on
the Supreme Court, it is possible--in fact necessary--to examine
the pre-Marshall Court, and its justices, to gain a true
understanding of the origins of American constitutionalism. The ten
essays in this tightly edited volume were especially commissioned
for the book, each by the leading authority on his or her
particular subject. They examine such influential justices as John
Jay, John Rutledge, William Cushing, James Wilson, John Blair,
James Iredell, William Paterson, Samuel Chase, Oliver Ellsworth,
and Bushrod Washington. The result is a fascinating window onto the
origins of the most powerful court in the world, and on American
constitutionalism itself.
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The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent
deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late
seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and
cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and
their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered
to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its
influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy.
Over the past fifteen years, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons has been
a staple in International Relations courses because of its brevity
and crystal-clear explanations. The new edition, An Enduring
Debate, continues the important discussion of nuclear proliferation
and the dangers of a nuclear-armed world. With new chapters on the
questions surrounding a nuclear North Korea, Iran, and Iraq and the
potential for a world free of nuclear weapons, this Third Edition
will continue to generate a lively classroom experience.
To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often
contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott
Douglas Gerber here argues that the Constitution of the United
States should be interpreted in light of the natural rights
political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that
the Supreme Court is the institution of American government that
should be primarily responsible for identifying and applying that
philosophy in American life. Importantly, the theory advanced in
this book--what Gerber calls liberal originalism--is neither
consistently liberal nor consistently conservative in the modern
conception of those terms. Rather, the theory is liberal in the
classic sense of viewing the basic purpose of government to be
safeguarding the natural rights of individuals. As Thomas Jefferson
wrote in the Declaration of Independence, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men. In essence, Gerber maintains
that the Declaration articulates the philosophical ends of our
nation and that the Constitution embodies the means to effectuate
those ends. Gerber's analysis reveals that the Constitution cannot
be properly understood without recourse to history, political
philosophy, and law.
In what Stanley Hoffmann, writing in "The New York Review of
Books," has called a "fine analysis and critique of American
targeting policies," Sagan looks more at the operational side of
nuclear strategy than previous analysts have done, seeking to
bridge the gap between theory and practice.
The life story of a sharecropper's son who became an industrial
worker, a Communist, and part of the union and civil rights
struggles. Hudson was honored with presentation of the key to the
city of Birmingham, AL by then Mayor Richard Arrington in 1980.
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