Questa guida pratica, frutto del lavoro di uno dei maggiori esperti del settore, vi condurrà passo dopo passo nel processo di settaggio della bici e di posizionamento del corpo in sella, al fine di massimizzare il vostro potenziale nel ciclismo. Dopo un weekend passato in sella alla bici cadete preda di dolori alla zona lombare? Le scarpette vi si consumano di più su un lato che sull'altro? Soffrite di intorpidimento delle mani o di dolore alle ginocchia? Phil Burt, capo fisioterapista del British Cycling e consulente del Team Sky, ha lavorato con centinaia di ciclisti per aiutarli a risolvere questi e molti altri problemi. In questo libro, svela i suoi metodi per analizzare la posizione del corpo e ottenere il meglio dalla bici. Il corretto settaggio, infatti, può fare la differenza tra il successo e l'insuccesso di una corsa, ma può arrivare a costare più della bicicletta stessa se lo si affida a dei professionisti. Qui trovate, invece, tutte le informazioni che vi servono per farlo da soli con la giusta preparazione e consapevolezza. Allora cosa aspettate? Lasciatevi guidare da Phil Burt in questo percorso portando la bici e il vostro corpo a lavorare in perfetta armonia fra loro. Arricchito di utili diagrammi, test diagnostici e casi studio, questo volume è un must per tutti i ciclisti determinati a ottenere il massimo delle prestazioni.

(Piano Solo Composer Collection). 15 modern classics from the iconic pop songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, expertly arranged for piano solo. Includes: Alfie * Do You Know the Way to San Jose * A House Is Not a Home * I Say a Little Prayer * The Look of Love * Magic Moments * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * This Guy's in Love with You * What the World Needs Now Is Love * and more.

Steam Odyssey: The Railroad Photographs of Victor Hand is the latest in our celebrated publications on railroad photography. Unlike previous volumes, this book has an international bent: Hand has taken photographs in more than fifty countries over the past fifty-five years. These 162 black-and-white photographs present a sampling of his best work from around the world and show how the railway is a compelling subject no matter the locale. An introduction by well-known transportation reporter and railroad columnist Don Phillips explains how Hand got interested in railways and how his approach to the subject developed; extended captions provide historical context. The book includes an afterword by rail and photography historian Jeff Brouws.

The work of seminal contemporary artist Chris Burden, insightfully contextualized around major themes, illuminates a practice that is as unique as it is influential. For four decades, Chris Burden’s work has redefined the boundaries of the sculptural field. Whether subjecting himself to extremes of physical suffering or reconfiguring forgotten urban objects and toy models to create potent signifiers of a time and place, the brute force of Burden’s work in the physical realm reverberates through the psychic one. On the occasion of the New Museum’s focused survey of Burden’s work, this book provides new perspectives on his art. Organized around themes like the Myth of the American West, the Institution, Gender Roles, and Model Making, the book reexamines preoccupations that span the artist’s long career.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of smallphoto-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires,Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities,and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, withidiosyncratically deadpan titles, these 'small books' were sought after, collected, andloved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other smallbooks that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This bookcollects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along witha description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listingall known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha inform, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, FortyYears Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies(which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk),Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some saysomething different: None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. Some reach for aconnection with Ruscha himself: 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along Pacific CoastHighway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's. With his books, Ruscha expanded the artist'sfield of permissible subjects, approaches, and methods. With VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS,various artists pay tribute to Ed Ruscha and extend the legacy of his books.

Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language has become firmly established as the leading reference guide to modern Greek grammar. With its detailed treatment of all grammatical structures, its analysis of the complexities of the language and its particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty, it is the first truly comprehensive grammar of the language to be produced. It provides a study of the real patterns of use in contemporary Greek

This second edition continues to focus on the Greek spoken and written by native speakers today. Taking account of recent changes to the Greek language, this new edition features:

• Significantly expanded material on many areas, including syntax and phonology
• A new chapter on derivational morphology and other word formation processes including compounding and acronym formation
• Examples drawn from everyday spoken usage as well as official, journalistic and online discourse, such as newspapers, blogs and discussion groups
• A significantly expanded index of English terms and Greek words and a revised glossary of terms

The Grammar will be an essential reference source for the adult learner and user of Greek. It is ideal for independent study and for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes, up to an advanced level.

Edited by Bice Curiger.

Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine of Aragon has been fated her whole life to marry Prince Arthur of England. The match becomes as passionate as it is politically expedient. But tragically, Arthur falls ill and extracts from his young bride a death bed promise to marry his brother Henry, become Queen, and fulfill their dreams and her destiny. Widowed and alone in the avaricious world of the Tudor court, Katherine has to sidestep her father-in-law's desire for her and convince him, and an incredulous Europe, that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, that there is no obstacle to marriage with Henry. For seven years she endures the treachery of spies, the humiliation of poverty, and intense loneliness and despair while she waits for the inevitable moment when she will step into the role she has prepared for all her life.

Late in 1787, George Washington wrote a rare autobiographical account of his service in the French and Indian War. He related his experiences in a compelling eleven-page narrative that includes a vivid account of Braddock's defeat in 1755 and a description of a friendly-fire incident in 1758 that 'involved the life of GW in as much jeopardy as it had ever been before or since.'
George Washington Remembers makes this very personal and little-known document available for the first time and offers a glimpse of Washington in a self-reflective mood - a side of the man seldom seen in his other writings. The facsimile reproduction of Washington's 'Remarks' is accompanied by an annotated transcript and original essays that place the work in the context of the French and Indian War and Washington's life.
Lavishly illustrated, this remarkable book is essential for all interested in George Washington and our nation's founding period.

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Augustine's fourth-century spiritual autobiography not only is a major document in the history of Christianity, a classic of Roman Africa, and the unchallenged model through the ages for the autobiographical record of the journey to self-knowledge, it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine explains how, when, and why he became the man he is, he probes the great themes that others were to explore after himCfaith, time, truth, identity, and self-understanding--with a richness of detail unmatched in ancient literature. Dense with vivid portrayals of friends, family, colleagues, and enemies, The Confessions chronicles the passage from a life of sensuality and superstition to a genuine spiritual awakening--in a powerful narrative of one man's inner education that continues to shape the way we think and act today.