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What is being on form? How does it relate to feeling 'in the zone'? Are these states in the lap of the gods, a matter of which side of the bed we got out of that morning? Or can we do something to make its arrival more likely? Mike Brearley describes some of the elements of being on form in many fields, not only in cricket and psychoanalysis, but also in drama, music, teaching and business. It includes a range of states of mind, conjoined with...

This volume is meant for undergraduate students studying Electronic Engineering, either as a major or service course. It is written from experience acquired from teaching electronic engineering to University undergraduates for several years. It is believed that students would have taken the course "Introduction to Electrical/Electronic Engineering, " a first or second year engineering course, before attempting to read this book. The B.Sc. syll...

Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innovative contributions. Published soon after the fiftieth anniversary of Fama's appointment to the University of Chicago and his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Economics, The Fama Portfolio offers an a...

In Food Law in the United States, Michael T. Roberts addresses the modern food system in a comprehensive, systematic manner that lays out the national legal framework for the regulation of food and the legal tools that fill gaps in this framework.

The fifth volume in this bestselling series which inspired the hugely popular "A Game Of Throne" series, it is a beautifully presented slipcased edition.

Klassik Komix rockets back to the Silver Age with two of the most phantasmagorical comic tales ever! First, there is America's original giant robot superhero, Neutro, (Yup, that Neutro!) and the marvel behind the creation of this alien mecha. Next, is the origin story of The Fab Four, a quartet of teenagers gain the ability to download their personalities into four androids with superpowers. Now, El, Polymer Polly, Hy, and Crispy must use thei...

The Paradox of Risk contends that central banks¿ fear of inflation and risk taking has hampered their efforts to revive global prosperity. Ángel Ubide mobilizes a wealth of research on the experience from the last decade, urging policymakers to leave their "comfort zone, " embrace risk taking, and take bolder action to brighten economic prospects.

In this study we have addressed the problems that have to do with the running of the power system and the optimization of generation. We have treated the control of active and reactive power in order to keep the system stable condition. The objective of the control strategy is to generate and transmit power to a system composed of interconnection lines, in the most economical and safe methodology possible, keeping the voltage and frequency wit...

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Loung Ung's debut memoir, First They Killed My Father, was an international bestseller. It is now being made into a film which will be co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt. Loung Ung is also the author of After They Killed Our Father: A refugee from the killing fields reunites with the sister she left behind. As an author, lecturer, and activist, she has dedicated twenty years to promoting equality, human rights, and justice in her n...

Vlad the vampire is sent to a human school by his parents, in order to teach him how superior vampires are. But their plans backfire! Mixing vampire details with everyday school experiences, this illustrated fiction series has lots of appeal. Ages: 7+

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This accessible history of Confucianism, or the 'Way of the Ru', emphasizes the religious dimensions of the tradition. It clearly explains the tradition's unique and subtle philosophical ideals as well as the 'arts of the Ru' whereby seemingly simple acts such as reading, sitting quietly, good manners, and attending to family and state responsibilities, became ways of ultimate transformation.This book explains the origins of the Ru and documen...

Haythornthwaite brings his reputation as a leading Napoleonic historian to bear on the examination of all parts of the French army: the cavalry, infantry, artillery, Imperial Guard, staff and supporting services. Napoleon's innovations and tactics are described, from Austerlitz to Waterloo, demonstrating the reasons for his success and decline.

Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling and memorable communication that stands out among the thousands of messages we confront each day? Today's work in visual communication design shifts e...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Can the veil be an instrument of feminist empowerment? Does veiled anonymity confer a degree of power to women? Starting from her own marriage ceremony at which she first wore a full veil, Rafia Zakaria explores how the physical reality of the veil as an object is catalyzed by the context of the wearer to produce new and unexpected meanin...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What's an eye chart and how does it work? Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars, but we've created more anxiety-provoking ways to test the strength of our eyes. Encompassing a Spanish cleric's Renaissance guide to testing vision, a Dutch ophthalmologist's innovation in optical tech, and the witty subversion o...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From a young age, Matthew Newton understood that the shopping mall offered visitors far more than a collection of stores, it was a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy. The mall near Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--the state's first enclosed shopping mall, and the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero's zombie opu...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tumor takes readers on an intellectual adventure around cultural concepts and attitudes that shape ways humans research scientifically, treat medically, and talk socially about these things, tumors. With the likelihood that one in two men and one in three women will develop invasive cancer, tumors have the power to redefine our identities...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. Yet, as Christopher J. Lee examines, it has much more to tell us about time, technology, and the human body. Take...