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As he was carried off on a stretcher at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Welsh swimmer David Davies was celebrating his success. His exhausting performance in the first ever 10 km open water race earned

The poems of Rebecca Hazelton’s contemporary American fantasyland revel in the constructed realities of movie sets and marriage. Poems reveal the negotiations of power and performance behind closed do

A virtuoso performance by the bestselling author of Still Alice, Lisa Genova delivers a stunning novel of finding harmony amidst the most tragic of situations. An accomplished concert pianist, Richard

Nathan R. Byrd was inspired to write No Apology Needed: Learning to Forgive as God Forgives during Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and forgiveness, in 2012. As he began to research the Je

A top performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down.There’s only one person in the way of you untapping

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State

Porsha O’s debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These poems dip their hands deep into the fabric of black womanhood, pulling out all of its threads. This book

A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber’s predictions of human behavior—a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Thomas Per

How to reach your fitness goals, prevent pain and injury, and achieve optimal performance in work, sports, and life.Pain is a byproduct of our busy, active lives, but it doesn’t have to be a constant

本書為中央戲劇學院戲劇文學系在2012―2017年開設的結構主義編劇法課程的作業選編，包括了戲文系本科生和各系研究生的課堂作業。 編者將自己在2017年為全院共修課撰寫的“結構主義編劇法”講稿作為本書的“前言”，概括性地介紹了結構主義編劇法的理論內容和該理論探索的進展情況。 本書作為課堂教學的記錄，呈現了教學的基本面貌：教學內容、教學方法和教學成果。通過對近百部影片創作方法的分析，體現了結構主

A Wall Street Journal bestselling guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships—from the performance improve

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize thei

This book is a text version of Vanessa Place's live performance I've got this really great joke about rape, in which the artist recites rape jokes for 45 minutes to a seated audience in a gallery or f

A chilling true crime story of poisonous family secrets, love gone wrong, and a cold case that refused to stay buried…In late summer of 2012, millionaire landowner Göran Lundblad went missi

Matt did it! His performance at the T Factor has given him the fame he dreamed of. Kitty is getting more gigs booked in with a whole new stable of comedic acts. Unfortunately, Matt hasn't had time to

The keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story. In the spirit of a young Ba

A short illustrated play set in World War Two, perfect for class reading as well as performance, written by Julia Donaldson, author of the modern classic The Gruffalo. Perfect for the 75th Anniversary

程序員級考試是全國計算機技術與軟件專業技術資格（水平）考試的初級職稱考試，是歷年各級考試報名中最大的熱點之一。本書彙集了2012上半年到2017下半年的所有試題和權威的解析，參加考試的考生，認真讀懂本書的內容後，將會更加瞭解考題的思路，對提升自己考試通過率的信心會有極大的幫助。

'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact a

The deconstruction of the traditional workplace hierarchy, the abandonment of performance appraisal, the impact of millennials/generations Y and Z, all point to a substantial revival of teams and team

Even concert pianists do warm-up exercises to limber up the fingers and clear the mind for the performance ahead. Designers are, or should be, no different. This delightful and colorful card deck pres

In 2012 geneticists discovered how to writeinformation on DNA, record data like on a computer hard drive. What if what weused to call junk DNA had information left their from millions of years ago? Ap

Two-time Olympian Kara Goucher shares her secrets to conquering self-doubt and improving her running performance using a tool recommended by her sports psychologist. Along with Kara’s authentic storie

Tests can cause a lot of stress and anxiety, but no more! Performance coach Ben Bernstein delivers a comprehensive training guide on how to improve test scores. These lessons avoid memorization and an

A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing.

Research shows that self-awareness is the meta-skill of the 21st century – the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. Unfortunately, we are remarkably poor judges o

In this paperback reboot of the popular 2012 title, readers will find a collection of the most up-to-date and thrilling DIY tech projects around—straight from the experts at Popular Science

In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. The ultimate DC outsider

Drama. Poetry. Music. Dance. Performance Studies. Environmental Studies. Emerging from a densely layered collaboration between performers, audience, visual environment, and sound, IN WHICH _______ AND

Little Wild explores the performance of masculinity in contemporary Canada, with a focus on how toxic masculinity relates to mental health, aggression, substance abuse and crises of identity. Through

Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. When he moves there with his wife Mim, the house - which Le Corbusier designed as '

For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades. Investigating the latest critical frames through which the play has been interpreted, the updated introduction also focuses on recent international performances on stage and screen (including Al Pacino's performances on film and in Daniel Sullivan's production in New York, the Habima National Theatre's production for the Globe to Globe Festival, Jonathan Munby's touring production for the Globe performed in London, New York and Venice, and Rupert Goold's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company). Finally, new forms of adaptation are considered: a performance transposed to the different generic mode of a New York auction room, and the remaking of the play in Howard Jacobson's 2016 novel, Shylock Is my Name.

Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/ companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas

A risqué autobiographical novel that fictionalizes the sexual adventures of the author’s younger daysIn 2012, acclaimed writer George Bowering published Pinboy, a fictional memoir of

Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been killed, but some have chosen to return to their countr

The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Otis Redding remains an immor

Maximise your athletic performance, reduce your post-workout aches, and help prevent injuries with yoga. Professional athletes are making yoga a regular part of their fitness routines; and GQ, HuffPos

《屋面工程技術手冊》一書以《屋面工程技術規范》（ＧＢ５０３４５—２０１２）、《屋面工程質量驗收規范》（ＧＢ５０２０７—２０１２）等一系列有關屋面工程技術的國家和行業標準為依據，在詳細介紹屋面工程材料、屋面防排水、屋面保溫隔熱等工程的設計和施工的基礎上，圍繞建筑防水屋面、保溫屋面、種植屋面、坡屋面、金屬屋面和采光頂等各種類型屋面的不同設計施工要求，分別就材料選擇、設計原則、施工方法以及屋面滲漏治理等

A brother returns from exile to stir up the past. A macabre performance in the bowels of a Parisian museum must be seen to be believed. Lovers torn apart by heroin confront their loss in wildly diverg