Nel 1970 il golfista medio giocava con driver e legni da fairway di piccole dimensioni, pesanti shaft in acciaio, teste dei ferri piccole. Eppure otteneva lo stesso punteggio del golfista medio di oggi, che ha a disposizione teste di driver in titanio sovradimensionate, shaft in grafite ultraleggeri, teste dei ferri molto tolleranti, bastoni ibridi - per tacere del telemetro e delle palline da golf nettamente superiori!  Ma se cambiare attrezzatura non serve quanto la pubblicità delle grandi aziende vorrebbe farci credere, in che modo può il golfista medio migliorare il proprio gioco? È quello che Phil Moore ci spiega in questo libro, in cui si e ci pone ben 58 domande sul gioco a cui offre risposte spesso di sorprendente semplicità. Perché per migliorare a golf non servono bastoni fantascientifici (che peraltro non esistono): serve capire il gioco. E serve adattarlo alle nostre caratteristiche individuali.

The Welding Engineer’s Guide to Fracture and Fatigue provides an essential introduction to fracture and fatigue and the assessment of these failure modes, through to the level of knowledge that would be expected of a qualified welding engineer.

Part one covers the basic principles of weld fracture and fatigue. It begins with a review of the design of engineered structures, provides descriptions of typical welding defects and how these defects behave in structures undergoing static and cyclical loading, and explains the range of failure modes. Part two then explains how to detect and assess defects using fitness for service assessment procedures. Throughout, the book assumes no prior knowledge and explains concepts from first principles.

• Covers the basic principles of weld fracture and fatigue.
• Reviews the design of engineered structures, provides descriptions of typical welding defects and how these defects behave in structures undergoing static and cyclical loading, and explains the range of failure modes.
• Explains how to detect and assess defects using fitness for service assessment procedures.

Austin Osman Spare is the definitive biography of the controversial occultist and artist, an enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world whose work was both hailed as genius and decried as immoral decadence. As George Bernard Shaw reportedly said, 'Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man.'

Trained as a draughtsman, Spare enjoyed early acclaim when, at the age of seventeen, his work was shown at the Royal Academy in London. But his star soon declined; Spare went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity. After a brief association with Aleister Crowley, he became absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, while developing his own magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. All the while, Spare continued to produce extraordinary art, and held his exhibitions outside of the conventional art world, in London pubs.

Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologised since his death; the world's largest Spare collection is held by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Biographer Phil Baker separates fact from myth, providing wide-ranging insights into Spare's art and mind, reconnecting him with the art community that ignored him and exploring the rich tapestry of the culture that surrounded him, interweaving the birth of psychoanalysis, the historiography of the occult, and the British class system. This richly readable and illuminating biography, containing 50 black and white and 8 color photographs of Spare's art, takes us deep into the strange inner world of this enigmatic artist.