Book Review Supplement

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780593234617

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The New York Times Book Review by The New York Times Pdf

A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated the Book Review’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage and photography, this beautiful book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway, along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more. With scores of stunning vintage photographs, many of them sourced from the Times’s own archive, readers will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read today.

Author : Kristen Willeumier
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780062994349

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Biohack Your Brain by Kristen Willeumier Pdf

A neuroscientist’s groundbreaking, science-driven plan for revitalizing, nourishing and rejuvenating your most essential asset—your brain. Your brain is the most essential organ in your body. The brain and spinal cord are intimately connected to every bodily system and organ, so when it is balanced everything in your body and mind will function more efficiently. It’s vitally important to take proactive steps now, or you risk losing everything, including your ability to think clearly, be creative, remember details, solve problems and retain your memory. In Biohack Your Brain, leading neuroscientist Dr. Kristen Willeumier reveals how you can change your brain by making simple and easy modifications to your lifestyle. Combining clinical experience with revolutionary science, she details how biohacking your brain can boost your cognitive performance and so much more. Dr. Willeumier’s essential guidebook shows you the most effective techniques to prevent memory loss and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease—and even how to overcome negative thoughts and stress. Through research and case studies, you’ll learn how to upgrade your nutritional choices along with the effective use of supplements, brain games, and physical activity to overcome cognitive damage, whether it’s from previous injuries, such as a concussion or a bad fall or from the effects of living in modern day times. Dr. Willeumier shares her own story alongside those from the NFL players and other clients she has worked with to help you leverage the latest research to find personal solutions. Biohack Your Brain teaches you how to take better care of your brain, and also how to enhance your memory, lose excess weight, increase your energy and vitality in order to create the best health and life possible.

Author : Thor Magnus Tangerås
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785272950

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Literature and Transformation by Thor Magnus Tangerås Pdf

It has long remained a tacit assumption in hermeneutics and literary theory that works of imaginative literature have the potential to change the reader’s self. Literature and Transformation develops a method called Intimate Reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative affective patterns that may form the basis of an affective literary theory.

Author : Bill Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Exercise
ISBN : OCLC:429625837

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Sports Supplement Review by Bill Phillips Pdf

Author : Susanna Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635575644

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

Author : John Seabrook
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780375704512

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Nobrow by John Seabrook Pdf

From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where “good” means popular, where artists show their work at K-Mart, Titantic becomes a bestselling classical album, and Roseanne Barr guest edits The New Yorker: in short, a culture of Nobrow. Combining social commentary, memoir, and profiles of the potentates and purveyors of pop culture–entertainment mogul David Geffen, MTV President Judy McGrath, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nobrow high-priest George Lucas, and others–Seabrook offers an enthralling look at our breakneck society where culture is ruled by the unpredictable Buzz and where even aesthetic worth is measured by units shipped.

Author : Gloria Askew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8188452955

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Secrets Of Supplements by Gloria Askew Pdf

Author : Gabriel Krauze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635577679

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Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze Pdf

Longlisted for the Booker Prize Named a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and CrimeReads Named a Best Book of 2021 by Time An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare. The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he's Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the classroom, he's Snoopz, a hard living member of London's gangs, well-acquainted with drugs, guns, stabbings, and robbery. Navigating these sides of himself, dealing with loving parents at the same time as treacherous, endangering friends and the looming threat of prison, he is forced to come to terms with who he really is and the life he's chosen for himself. In a distinct, lyrical urban slang all his own, author Gabriel Krauze brings to vivid life the underworld of his city and the destructive impact of toxic masculinity. Who They Was is a disturbing yet tender and perspective-altering account of the thrill of violence and the trauma it leaves behind. It is the story of inner cities everywhere, and of the lost boys who must find themselves in their tower blocks.

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781541675063

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A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders Pdf

From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020

Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984898807

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Harrow by Joy Williams Pdf

In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.” In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature’s beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this “gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth”? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams’s searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons—against all reasonableness—to try and recover something of it.

Author : Kat Jungnickel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781912685431

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Bikes and Bloomers by Kat Jungnickel Pdf

An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing “rational” cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women's rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the “Hyde Park Safety Skirt,” which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling's past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.

Author : Rodney Habib,Karen Shaw Becker
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781443461696

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The Forever Dog by Rodney Habib,Karen Shaw Becker Pdf

THE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In this path-breaking guide, two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet-care advocates reveal how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans—cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration and autoimmune disorders—also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions struggle with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives. Because dogs can’t make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it’s up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices on their behalf. Rodney Habib and Karen Becker, DVM, travelled the world collecting wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists and longevity researchers. They also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their twenties and even thirties. The result is this unprecedented and comprehensive guide, filled with surprising information, invaluable advice and inspiring stories about dogs and the people who love them. The Forever Dog prescriptive plan can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes. The authors discuss various types of food—including details commercial manufacturers don’t want us to know—and offer recipes, tips and easy solutions for ensuring our dogs obtain the nutrients they need. They also explore how external factors that we often overlook can greatly affect a dog’s overall health and well-being—including the role our own lifestyles and our vets’ choices play. Indeed, the health equation works both ways and can travel “up the leash.” This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to make wise choices and keep our dogs healthy and happy for years to come.

Author : Daniel Gastelu
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dietary supplements
ISBN : WISC:89065118812

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The Complete Nutritional Supplements Buyer's Guide by Daniel Gastelu Pdf

Nutrition expert Daniel Gastelu has written the ultimate guidebook for anyone who wants to know what they're putting in their bodies before they "pop the cap" on any of today's dietary supplements. For the first time, readers interested in improving their health can finally make sense of the booming -- and confusing -- world of vitamins, minerals, herbs, metabolites, and other supplements. This extraordinary book gives an industry insider's view on what dietary supplements are, how they are made and regulated, why certain formulations are more effective than others, and what scientific research tells us is safe and effective, entry by entry. The Complete Nutritional Supplements Buyer's Guide tells you how to choose the best products in the right doses for cardiovascular wellness, weight loss, sound sleep, joint and bone health, cholesterol reduction, stress management, memory skills, and much more. It lists the best supplements for beating fatigue, headaches, and depression; for boosting energy levels; and improving digestion. And its comprehensive alphabetical guide analyzes every ingredient found in any supplement, from acidophilus to zinc.Everything you need to know about vitamins, minerals, herbal products, amino acids, botanicals, and more The best formulas for health and longevity The top nutrients for stamina, weight loss, sleep, joint health, and memory The most effective supplements for fatigue, headaches, depression, and women's health Ingredients you should avoid And much, much more

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Life Sciences,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of the Dietary Supplements
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309091107

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Dietary Supplements by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Life Sciences,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of the Dietary Supplements Pdf

The growing consumer interest in health and fitness has expanded the market for a wide range of products, from yoga mats to the multiple dietary supplements now on the market. Supplements are popular, but are they safe? Many dietary supplements are probably safe when used as recommended. However, since 1994 when Congress decided that they should be regulated as if they were foods, they are assumed to be safe unless the Food and Drug Administration can demonstrate that they pose a significant risk to the consumer. But there are many types of products that qualify as dietary supplements, and the distinctions can become muddled and vague. Manufacturers are not legally required to provide specific information about safety before marketing their products. And the sales of supplements have been steadily increasingâ€"all together, the various types now bring in almost $16 billion per year. Given these confounding factors, what kind of information can the Food and Drug Administration use to effectively regulate dietary supplements? This book provides a framework for evaluating dietary supplement safety and protecting the health of consumers.

Author : Mario Levrero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Authors and publishers
ISBN : 1913505022

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The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero Pdf