Endurance: The Essential Guide to Functional Fitness. Learn the Components of Functional Fitness and How it Can Easily Help Your Endurance and Weight LossEveryone wants to be in better health and shape these days. The first and easiest thing you can do to better your health is to eat properly and work out routinely. Eating properly can be dieting and monitoring what comes into your kitchen. Working out, on the other hand, can be somewhat trickier. An easier and more reasonable way ...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily”“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.”—Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyFINALIST FOR THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE...

“This daughter of Mary Shelley delights and excites the border between story and science.”―Samantha Hunt“A novel about what we want and also what we can’t escape.”―Allegra Hyde“A haunting chord of a novel that will hang in the air long after you turn the final page.”―Tiffany Tsao“Reads like a documentary retold as a dream retold as a mystery novel. What a wise, good-hearted debut!”―Kate Bernheimer

Athletic and Endurance Training Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Endurance and Training for the Uphill AthleteDo you really want to be a top athlete in your field? Do you ever wonder how the very best athletes you know came to be in their level of success? Being a top athlete is not just about talent, techniques and training. Being a top athlete is about an entire lifestyle wherein you do everything in your life in congruence with your goal of being a top athlete. This bundle can help you achieve th...

A practitioner guide for national, state, and local government managers who are looking for help in understand how they can adopt AI to generate public benefits while minimizing risks.AI is constantly in the news. How can it help your agency deliver more public value? With the current focus on efficiency in government, AI is ever more important. This book provides the foundational knowledge to be comfortable discussing AI, and then explains a step-...

Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life. With such titles as "The Aldridge-Grainger-Strom Saga," "Thunks," "Ere-I-Forget," "The Love-Life of Helen and Paris," and "Anecdotes," these manuscripts were intended as precursors to Grainger's autobiography, My ...

It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" - and everything spins outward from that one moment.Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetit...

Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music.Here he provides a history of The Smiths, the definitive British indie band of the 1980s.This look at the band -- "Those Charming Men" -- is adapted from the audiobook of the same name.

**In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists."These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate...the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.” —Frank Kermode, London Review of Books**Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as B...

The chronicle of the legendary Alabama studio brings to life decades of rock, blues, and R&B history from The Rolling Stones to The Black Keys.An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the session musicians known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section—also dubbed "the Swampers." Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid tracks in the original, iconic conc...

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proof of concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as musical instrument," and a signpost for a bold new way of thinking about music.In this...

The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legendsJonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a record...