As an athlete or sportsperson, you understand the frustration of being at the top of your game only to falter in the heat of competition. The Athlete's Ascent shows how you can harness the wisdom of martial and Zen arts to develop the profound connection between mind, body and breathing that leads to the coveted flow state. Drawing ......
In the age of AI, you can't run companies on Victorian principles. The current tech transformation - more dramatic than the Industrial Revolution - combined with changing expectations of work, and continual disruption and uncertainty, will force senior leaders to adopt new approaches to stay relevant in the 21st century. This book argues ......
Prince Albert was the first Chairman of the first Royal Fine Art Commission, appointed by Queen Victoria to commission art for the new Houses of Parliament. At the age of just twenty-two, he deftly navigated the complex project, leaving a remarkable artistic legacy and honing the skills that made him one of the Renaissance Men of the nineteenth ......
Microscopic Examinations of Blood, Serum, and Cerebrospinal Fluid:Healthy - Vaccinated - Recovered
This book was occasioned by the many patients who sought medical treatment for
Covid or after receiving a Covid "vaccine." The blood of these patients was studied
using the method of drop-image microscopy.
Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981
Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goals. Marisela R. Chavez uses a wealth of untapped oral histories to reveal the diverse ways activist Mexican American women in Los Angeles claimed their own voices and space while seeking to leverage ......
Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising
The revolution in military recruitment advertising to people of color and women played an essential role in making the US military one of the most diverse institutions in the United States. Starting at the dawn of the all-volunteer era, Jeremiah Favara illuminates the challenges at the heart of military inclusion by analyzing recruitment ads ......
Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s
From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of ......
Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the world. Sharing a focus on reparations as an issue of ......
William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics
Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause's biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing ......
