The top gym in the nation leads the way in fitness programs for every need and physique Written especially for those with little or no gym experience, The Gold's Gym Beginner's Guide to Fitness is a cutting-edge, balanced, and straightforward guide to total fitness for the novice exerciser. Readers learn about various training methods, the latest fitness technology, and the most modern exercises for developing target muscle groups such as the upper back, lower back, chest, shoulders, arms, abs, legs, and buttocks. And they get: <ul>
<li>Expert advice on cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, aerobics, and nutrition </li>
<li>Alternative workouts for when they can't get to a gym </li>
<li>175 inspiring and instructive photographs, shot on location at Gold's facilities </li>
</ul>

The Gold's Gym Beginner's Guide to Fitness

Porter,David

Sports & Outdoors

McGraw=Hill

This workbook features a range of activities to help students learn and revise vocabulary for academic English. It uses exercises, gap-fills and puzzles to test grammar, comprehension and spelling.

CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY for Academic Eng

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Macmillan ELT

Poems spanning four decades from Portland, Oregon poet and writer, David Porter. David began writing verse in high school, published his first poem "Hitchhiking In Winter" in the late 60s. He continued to write through years of raising four children and working on community projects as a way to earn a living. The poem "Thoughts While Crossing The Steel Bridge" was a runner-up in Oregon's Ben Hur Lampman poetry contest in the 1980s. With that and few other exceptions, this is his first offering from that body of work.

Clearing the Sky of Thickets

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

lulu.com

With so much artificial intelligence (AI) in the headlines, it is no surprise that businesses are scrambling to exploit this exciting and transformative technology. Clearly, those who are the first to deliver business-relevant AI will gain significant advantage. 
However, there is a problem! Our perception of AI success in society is primarily based on our experiences with consumer applications from the big web companies. The adoption of AI in the enterprise has been slow due to various challenges. Business applications address far more complex problems and the data needed to address them is less plentiful. There is also the critical need for alignment of AI with relevant business processes. In addition, the use of AI requires new engineering practices for application maintenance and trust. 
So, how do you deliver working AI applications in the enterprise? 
Beyond Algorithms: Delivering AI for Business answers this question. Written by three engineers with decades of experience in AI (and all the scars that come with that), this book explains what it takes to define, manage, engineer, and deliver end-to-end AI applications that work. This book presents: Core conceptual differences between AI and traditional business applications A new methodology that helps to prioritise AI projects and manage risks Practical case studies and examples with a focus on business impact and solution delivery Technical Deep Dives and Thought Experiments designed to challenge your brain and destroy your weekends

Beyond Algorithms

Business & Money

Luke, James

Santhanam, Padmanabhan

Economics

Chapman and Hall/CRC

<ul> <li>Focuses on the definition, engineering, and delivery of AI solutions as opposed to AI itself</li> <li>Reader will still gain a strong understanding of AI, but through the perspective of delivering real solutions</li> <li>Explores the core AI issues that impact the success of an overall solution including i. realities of dealing with data, ii. impact of AI accuracy on the ability of the solution to meet business objectives, iii. challenges in managing the quality of machine learning models</li> <li>Includes real world examples of enterprise scale solutions</li> <li>Provides a series of (optional) technical deep dives and thought experiments.</li> </ul>

Beyond Algorithms: Delivering AI for Business

Between Men and Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

Between Men and Feminism had its origins in a lively colloquium at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1990. It discusses how two decades of feminism have affected the ways men define their own masculinities, and how they have responded in their own social, sexual and political lives to the challenges posed by the evolving feminist critiques of patriarchy and maleness itself. The collection contains a great diversity of approaches from Britain and North America. It includes viewpoints from academics, a poet, an educational researcher and the members of an active men’s group. Gay issues feature prominently, as do psychoanalytical views, and a number of the pieces provide a refreshingly personal and practical outlook. Between Men and Feminism shows men finding their own way within the spaces feminism has opened to them, rediscovering their own gendered voices and participating in the transformation of controllong ideologies in their daily lives. These very readable accounts will appeal not only to students in the social sciences and gender studies, but to all men who find themselves responding to the feminist challenge.

Between Men and Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory): Colloquium: Papers

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

This text on phase transformations is for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of metallurgy, materials science or engineering materials. It should also be useful for researchers working in industrial materials laboratories. The book is effectively in two parts: chapters 1-3 contain the background material necessary for understanding phase transformations: thermodynamics, kinetics, diffusion theory and the structure and properties of interfaces. Chapters 4-6 deal with specific transformations: solidification, diffusional transformations in solids and diffusionless transformations. Case studies of engineering alloys are included to provide a link between theory and practical reality.

Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys

Science & Math

Physics

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

St. Andrews Hospital, London, U.K. Text providing a concise, clinically based handbook for the health care professional whose clients have special seating needs. Addresses the needs of all age groups. Halftone illustrations and photographs.

Wheelchair Users and Postural Seating: A Clinical Approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ham, Rosalind

Aldersea, Patsy

Exercise & Fitness

Churchill/Livingstone

The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalized world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they were also often troubled by the alien aesthetic sensibility these goods embodied. This ambivalence figures centrally in the period's experience of China and of contact with foreign countries and cultures more generally. David Porter analyzes the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Through case studies of individual figures, including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings develop new interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury, consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Cambridge University Press

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