The No-Drop Zone contains all the information necessary for new cyclists to gain the knowledge and skills to take them from buying their first bicycle to starting their first race. Cyclists learn how to handle the bike, perform minor maintenance, select clothing and accessories, join clubs, and find events. The book also covers every aspect of riding in a group, emphasizing such specific skills as how to avoid bumping into other riders when riding in close quarters and fixing a flat quickly enough to rejoin the group. Author Patrick Brady explores the particular pleasures that come from group riding, a unique experience at once social (talking with friends while riding), exciting (descending in a group), and exhilarating (finishing a long hill). Brady also details the enormous fitness benefits of riding in a group. The No-Drop Zone has all the knowledge a cyclist needs to move to that next level of skill.

The No-Drop Zone: Everything You Need to Know about the Peloton, Your Gear, and Riding Strong

Sports & Outdoors

Brady, Patrick

Individual Sports

Menasha Ridge Press

The geography of Southern California is as infinitely varied as its population. From the serenity of coastal beaches to the majestic San Gabriel Mountains and the tight canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles is a cyclist’s paradise. The vistas are spectacular, the terrain fun to ride and the sights include some of Hollywood’s best-known landmarks. Bicycling Los Angeles County takes riders on 40 different rides throughout Southern California’s most popular destination. Also detailed for avid roadies are some of Los Angeles’ most popular group rides - for those who want a more challenging and social outing.

Bicycling Los Angeles County: A Guide to Great Road Bike Rides

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Why We Ride

Red Kite Publishing

Guruwari: A dreaming of the Australian outback

New Paradigm Press

The Beauty of the Lord: His Church in the Last Days

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

WestBow Press

A cry to the church to return to the Lord with all our hearts that we may be used mightily by the Lord in these times of increasing difficulties.

This volume, essentially methodological in orientation, presents a spectrum of French, Russian, and American modes of structuralism. Each approach is extrapolated from a structuralist mode of language theory (Derrida), period style theory (Jakobson, Foucault), information theory (Lotman), linguistics and narratology (Christensen, Ohmann; Barthes, Chatman; Heller and Macris), social anthropology (Lévi-Strauss), psychoanalysis (Lacan), sociology (Goldmann), or archetypology (Durand). Each is situated in relation to earlier work in each of these fields and then demonstrated and tested by means of concrete application to the analysis of two paradigmatic but profoundly different narrative texts of the rococo period: Prévost's Manon Lescaut (1731) and Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne (1731-41). While the main concern is thus a critical examination of the most controversial modern critical perspectives, the study also proposes the first elements of a comprehensive new theory of the rococo.

Structuralist Perspectives in Criticism of Fiction: Essays on "Manon Lescaut" and "La Vie de Marianne" (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European ... / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

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