The go-to guide for beginner, experienced, and established long-distance runners since its publication in 1980, this vintage gem offers step-by-step instructions to help prepare you to run your perfect marathon.

Training to Run the Perfect Marathon

Sports & Outdoors

Schreiber, Michael

Individual Sports

John Muir Publications

A comprehensive guide to training for marathon running includes discussions of stretching exercises, proper diet, running in cold weather, and tactics for competitions

The Art of Running

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.

This American House: Frank Lloyd Wright's Meier House and the American System-Built Homes

Arts & Photography

Loper, Jason

History & Criticism

Pomegranate

In this biography, history sleuth Michael Schreiber digs into old letters, newspapers, and documents to tell the story of Thomas Cave, an “ordinary man” who had many extraordinary adventures in early America. Along the way, Schreiber provides insight into the revolutionary society of the late 18th and early 19th centuries—its politics, theatre, architecture, technical inventions, and daily life. We follow Cave from his childhood in Ireland to his labors as an indentured millhand in Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley. At the advent of the American Revolution, Cave enlists in the Continental Navy and is soon captured in battle. After two grim years in an English prison, he ships out again, fighting in the fleet led by John Paul Jones. Following the Revolution, Cave marries and settles in Philadelphia, the capital of the new republic, where he participates in the rancorous political feuds of the day. As a businessman, Cave sees his fortunes grow considerably, but swiftly loses it all and lands in prison for debt. Personal tragedies abound, as his wife dies in childbirth. “Unsinkable Patriot” offers a rare documented look at the role of the “middling” sort of people—craftsmen, farmers, and small shopkeepers—in revolutionary America.

Unsinkable Patriot: The Life and Times of Thomas Cave in Revolutionary America

History

Americas

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An overview of the latest computational materials science methods on an atomic scale. The authors present the physical and mathematical background in sufficient detail for this highly current and important topic, but without unnecessary complications. They focus on approaches with industrial relevance, covering real-life applications taken from concrete projects that range from tribology modeling to performance optimization of integrated circuits. Following an introduction to the fundamentals, the book describes the most relevant approaches, covering such classical simulation methods as simple and reactive force field methods, as well as highly accurate quantum-mechanical methods ranging from density-functional theory to Hartree-Fock and beyond. A review of the increasingly important multiscale approaches rounds off this section. The last section demonstrates and illustrates the capabilities of the methods previously described using recent real-life examples of industrial applications. As a result, readers gain a heightened user awareness, since the authors clearly state the conditions of applicability for the respective modeling methods so as to avoid fatal mistakes.

In-vitro Materials Design: Modern Atomistic Simulation Methods for Engineers

Engineering & Transportation

Leitsmann, Roman

Plänitz, Philipp

Engineering

Wiley-VCH

Topics covered in this volume include the growth of polymer chains, calculations of band-structure, fractal properties of electronic states, transport electrons and quasicrystals. The enclosed CD-ROM includes a Fortran 77 compiler and source code which can be used to carry out the computations.

Computational Condensed Matter Physics: A Course for Self-Study and the Computer Laboratory (Advanced Texts in Physics)

Science & Math

Vojta, Thomas

Physics

Springer

A 2017 STONEWALL HONOR BOOK (THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION)AND LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Bernard Perlin (1918-2014) was an extraordinary figure in twentieth century American art and gay cultural history, an acclaimed artist and sexual renegade who reveled in pushing social, political, and artistic boundaries. His work regularly appeared in popular magazines of the 1940s, fifties, and sixties; was collected by Rockefellers, Whitneys, and Astors; and was acquired by major museums, including the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern. His portrait clients included well-known literary, artistic, theatrical, political, and high society figures. As a government propaganda artist and war artist-correspondent, he produced many now-iconic images of World War II. From the 1930s on, he also daringly committed to canvas and paper scenes of underground gay bars and nude studies of street hustlers, among other aspects of his active and dedicated gay life. Socially, he moved in the upper echelons of New York gay society, a glittering "cufflink crowd" that included George Platt Lynes, Lincoln Kirstein, Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker, Pavel Tchelitchew, Truman Capote, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins. He also counted among his most intimate companions such luminaries in the arts as Vincent Price, Clifton Webb, Ben Shahn, Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Aaron Copland, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Martha Gellhorn, Betsy Drake, Muriel Rukeyser, Carson McCullers, Philip Johnson, and E.M. Forster. Yet he was equally at home in the gay underworlds of New York and Rome, where his unbridled sexual escapades put him in competition with the likes of Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams. In One-Man Show, Michael Schreiber chronicles the storied life, illustrious friends and lovers, and astounding adventures of Bernard Perlin through no-holds-barred interviews with the artist, candid excerpts from Perlin's unpublished memoirs, never-before-seen photos, and an extensive selection of Bernard Perlin's incredible public and private art.

One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin

Humor & Entertainment

Bruno Gmuender

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