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 ...

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...

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...

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-...

“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

Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum.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 ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of...

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.Robin Swift, orphaned b...

From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island, a series of events unfold that will transform the country politically, psychologically--and musically. As Bidini explores the remarkable week leading up to Mariposa, he also explores the life and...

In the first ten years of their career, the Kinks underwent a creative explosion that was almost unparalleled in popular music.Starting with simple but potent garage rock tracks like You Really Got Me, the band, and lead singer/songwriter Ray Davies, quickly became one of the most idiosyncratic bands of the 60s, recording classic singles like "Days" and "Waterloo Sunset", and albums like The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, widely regarded as one of the be...

The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music.Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found a third way. Going behind the scenes of one of the most remarkable eras in American music history, Big Day Coming traces the patient rise of husband-and-wife team Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, wh...

Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s digs back through the catalogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock & roll and doo-wop. The Doctor of Doo-Wop, J.C. De Ladurantey, brings his expertise, honed by hosting a weekly radio show, “Making Your Memories,” to his revelation of the backstories of these trendsetting artists.Until...