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Static Contraction Training from McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Price: $12.57 Customer Review:  I have trained using their (Sisco & Little's) Power Factor Training and Static Training. Admittedly, the Power factor training DID yeild some decent gains in strength which did transfer to my full range strength for the bench press. (My full range bench jumped from 300 to 320 in about 12 weeks... |
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High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way from McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Price: $13.27 Customer Review:  After training using conventional "wisdom", in frustration I decided to try Mentzer's HIT system. I couldn't believe the results (neither can my training partners) I gain muscle, lost fat, increased strength but most impressively, substantially improved my muscle shape (especially pecs which were... |
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The Lessons of History from Audio Partners Price: $19.01 Customer Review: After finishing the ten volumes of "The History of Civilization", Will and Ariel Durant went back revising and taking notes from their monumental work and produced this insightful essay. The goal was not to summarize 3,421 years of recorded history in a hundred pages. That would have been silly.... |
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Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms: An Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) from Springer-Verlag Price: $51.56 Customer Review: This book explains and illustrates the algorithms used by symbolic math packages such as Mathematica, Maple, CoCoA, MatLab, MuPAD,... to solve problems involving polynomials in many variables, and along the way teaches the elements of real algebraic geometry-- most mathematics texts concentrate on... |
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Power Factor Training : A Scientific Approach to Building Lean Muscle Mass from McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Price: $11.17 Customer Review:  I give the book 3 stars only because the authors advocate using a feedback loop of progress. After having trained 5 months on the system these are the flaws that I have discovered. Please read carefully. Power Factor training over simplifies certain biomechanical factors both in the definition of... |
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Survey Nonresponse (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology) from Wiley-Interscience Price: $90.95 |
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The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee from McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Price: $10.47 Customer Review: I bought this book about 3 years ago. I couldn't help but notice a major contradiction in how John Little over emphasizes the value of analysis in western philosophy, yet he praises non dogmatic thought. Analysis is non dogmatic and that is why western philosophy utilizes it. This book is based on a... |
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The Valdemar Companion: A Guide to Mercedes Lackey's World of Valdemar (Daw Book Collectors, No. 1205) from Daw Books Price: $24.95 Customer Review: A definite 'must have' for anyone who has enjoyed the Valdemar series. It gives wonderful behind-the-scene tidbits, ties all the stories together, and whets your appetite for more. The maps could be more numerous, but the astonishing detail of those provided almost makes up for it. The 'travelers... |
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Max Contraction Training : The Scientifically Proven Program for Building Muscle Mass in Minimum Time from McGraw-Hill Price: $13.27 Customer Review: Although the principles of high intensity training are valid, and static contraction training can be highly effective, there are some errors in John Little's arguments in support of his max contraction training, most notably the incorrect assumption that the intensity with which a muscle can be... |
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The Lost Hall of Records : Edgar Cayce's Forgotten Record of Human History in the Ancient Yucatan from Eagle Wing Books Price: $16.95 Customer Review: I have been to workshops with John Van Auken and he has a tremendous capacity and knowledge of ancient wisdom...that seems to supercede what one can learn from distilling normal history books, on site investigations, and even reading the Edgar Cayce material...its as if he "lived there,... |
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The Art of Expressing the Human Body, Volume 4 (Bruce Lee Library) from Tuttle Publishing Price: $13.27 Customer Review: Excellent book showing how Bruce Lee developed his awesome body and how he built-up the power behind it. The author has great sources that he got the material from, since some of the pictures are of actual notes that Lee himself wrote. Lee worked extremely hard to get his body in the near-perfect... |
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Ultimate Guide To Paintball from McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Price: $13.97 Customer Review:  "A Complete History of Paintball" would be a better title. |
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Using Algebraic Geometry from Springer-Verlag Price: $34.36 Customer Review:  Once thought to be high-brow estoeric mathematics, algebraic geometry is now finding applications in a myriad of different areas, such as cryptography, coding algorithms, and computer graphics. This book gives an overview of some of the techniques involved when applying algebraic geometry. The... |
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The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Arts (Bruce Lee Library, Vol 2) from Tuttle Publishing Price: $13.27 Customer Review: Fame brings out jaleousy in some people. Bruce Lee was one of the greatest martial art authority and expert known to the world. Anyone with at least some basic spiritual understanding of chinese Kung Fu could just not write with total disrespect about Lee no matter what he/she has to say. In fact... |
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The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent from University of California Press Price: $20.96 Customer Review: Sargent's inspirations were Velasquez, Hals, Rubens. These were painters who understood the play of light. And they had a worthy apprentice in JSS.He understands that it is light that is the unifier of all his paintings, regardless of theme. JSS painted in watercolour for his own pleasure. (His... |
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Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way (The Brue Lee Library, Vol 3) from Tuttle Publishing Price: $12.57 Customer Review: This is about the late Bruce Lee's art, Jeet Kune Do (Way of the Intercepting Fist). To many martial artists who want to take up Jeet Kune Do or just want to study the martial way, this is great book. Many first time martial artists might be bored with the many philosophical parts but when read... |
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (Audio Editions) from Audio Partners Price: $16.97 Customer Review: After having read Durant's 'The story of Philosophy' I was hooked. This author had made the main ideas that had troubled philosophers accessible to the non-Philosopher; to the average Joe that wanted to know what Philosophy was all about. So when I found out he had written a book about "The greatest... |
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Ultimate Guide To Tai Chi : The Best of Inside Kung-Fu from McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Price: $13.27 Customer Review: This is a great book for anyone seriously studying Taiji as a martial art. It's a collection of articles on the history, various styles, principles and weapons of Taijiquan. There is information on some lesser known facets as well, such as the 2-man fighting set, free fighting, and Taiji whip, and... |
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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living from Tuttle Publishing Price: $16.97 Customer Review: I am enlightened and motivated by Bruce Lee's insight into the human condition. I am a student of Jeet Kune Do; his words hit harder than his punches ever will! Our foremost perceptions of Bruce Lee's life are bound to images of a martial arts master; however, in this book we see a very different... |
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Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten Record of Ancient America from Eagle Wing Books Price: $16.95 Customer Review: I actually rather enjoyed reading this book. Unlike previous popularizations of this subject such as Silverberg's much-overrated Mound Builders, it does not blindly adopt any particular scientific dogma. Unfortunately, the authors, despite their assertions to the contrary, seem determined... |
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Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon from Tuttle Publishing Price: $16.97 Customer Review: There are no limitations , save those that we create for ourselves... Bruce Lee This is a great book if you are looking for a compilation of rare photos and facts.. Unlike most books out there that beat around the bush , This book showcases the man as he wanted to project himself to the world... |
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An Invitation to Philosophy: Essays and Talks on the Love of Wisdom from Promethean Press Price: $14.99 |
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The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time from Carroll & Graf Publishers Price: $17.68 Customer Review: Thoroughly detailed, if not downright exhaustive bio of Shelley and Byron. While I would have preferred less attention to descriptions of seemingly every single sexual encounter both men had, the literary journeys and what experiences shaped their adult philosophies is fascinating. There is an... |
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Ultimate Guide to Tae Kwon Do from McGraw-Hill Price: $14.59 Customer Review: This book presents Taekwondo in a unique manner. It take ideas and techniques from various Taekwondo Masters and puts them all in one book. Whereas most books on Martial Arts only share the ideas and opnions of one individual or one organization, this book combines the thoughts of many. Thereby,... |
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Jackie Chan (Best of Inside Kung-Fu) from McGraw-Hill Price: $10.36 Customer Review: This book is a fabulous read. I couldn't put it down until I finished it. It is not a narrative, but rather a compiled series of interviews between the author(s) and Jackie Chan that have taken place over the past ten years or so. The chapters are split up into sections on his childhood, martial... |
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