Most people train their bodies but overlook the real driver of strength and skill-the brain. This groundbreaking guide reveals how the mind-muscle connection reshapes performance by focusing on what happens inside your nervous system, not just inside the gym. True progress doesn't come from grinding out more reps-it comes from learning to train smarter, using the science of the brain to unlock power, focus, and resilience you didn't know you had.Blending cutting-edge research with ...

A bold, profound, kaleidoscopic novel about a crime family’s struggle for power in a rapacious new American era1867: Wash Loomis returns from the blazing West to the winter slush of Utica, New York, epicenter of his infamous family’s sprawling web of swindlers and counterfeiters. Here everyone—snake oil salesman or sex worker, journalist or preacher—has a hustle, but these days even the most audacious scam is dwarfed by the unchecked venality of the railroads and b...

What if the single most powerful tool to improve your strength, endurance, and focus was already within you-hidden in plain sight? Most people push harder in the gym, on the track, or at work without realizing that their breathing, not their muscles, is the first system to fail. This book reveals how to train breath as deliberately as strength or speed-and how doing so can unlock performance gains that no workout program alone can deliver.Grounded in cutting-edge science yet writte...

Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that took slow shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between ...

From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream and nightmare images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial...

A bold, profound, kaleidoscopic novel about a crime family’s struggle for power in a rapacious new American era1867: Wash Loomis returns from the blazing West to the winter slush of Utica, New York, epicenter of his infamous family’s sprawling web of swindlers and counterfeiters. Here everyone—snake oil salesman or sex worker, journalist or preacher—has a hustle, but these days even the most audacious scam is dwarfed by the unchecked venality of the railroads and b...

"Like being thrown the keys to the TARDIS with a temporal map to visit all those not-to-be-missed adventures in time and space" (Phil Ford, Doctor Who writer).Ever since its premiere on November 23, 1963, Doctor Who has been a television phenomenon. This companion guide presents the top fifty stories from the show's first fifty years—examining every corner of the imaginative, humorous, and sometimes scary universe that has made Doctor Who...

**Now an acclaimed documentary from Screen Media, the New York Times bestselling account of the story behind one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of television: Sesame Street.“Davis tracks down every Sesame anecdote and every Sesame personality in his book . . . Finally, we get to touch Big Bird's feathers.” —The New York Times Book Review**Sesame Street is the longest-running-and arguab...

Learn to search for the truth that's out there in essays about what "may be the most philosophically challenging series in the history of television" (Paul A. Cantor, author of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization).In The Philosophy of The X-Files, Dean A. Kowalski has gathered a remarkable cast of contributors to shed light on the philosophical mysteries of the television show The X-Files. With sections devoted to th...

In the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, Only Fools and Horses has won countless awards and is still Britain's most-watched and best-loved sitcom. Del Boy's overwhelming popularity has even inspired the Oxford English Dictionary to include a selection of his most famous words and phrases, such as 'lovely jubbly' and 'twonk'.In this fascinating, entertaining and meticulously researched book, acclaimed biographer Graham McCann goes behind the sce...

The raucous and sardonic New York Times –bestselling memoir from the fan favorite actor—updated with even more confessions.It's been fifteen years since his first memoir If Chins Could Kill but Bruce Campbell is still living the dream as a "B" movie king in an "A" movie world.His roles have been as varied as they are numerous—from the Spider-Man movies...

Time of the Doctor is the comprehensive guide to Series Seven of Doctor Who - the last to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor, with his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) and Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) – together with the fiftieth Anniversary specials.