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10K & 5K Running, Training & Racing: The Running Pyramid  

David Holt / Paperback / Published 1998

 

A five step program for successful racing at 10 and 5 kilometers...the two most popular race distances. Run up the training pyramid with these five steps. One. Build mileage and aerobic base while maintaining legspeed with fartlek running. Two. Run hills and other resistance training and use strength training to build your running muscles. Three. Turn this strength into speed endurance with anaerobic threshold running at 15K race pace. Four. Further improve running efficiency and your VO2 max by running intervals at 2 mile to 5K race pace. Five. Race Peaking. Resting and special speed sessions to reach the peak of your pyramid. 60 pages of training schedules for 20 to 100 miles per week; for the less intense to the serious racers.

 

• Bill Rodgers' Lifetime Running Plan : Definitive Programs for Runners of All Ages and Levels; Bill Rodgers

  Alberto Salazar  says "Bill Rodgers' four wins in New York and in Boston inspired my own running and training in the 80s. Now Bill Rodgers' Lifetime Running Plan is an inspiration to me in the 90s. This book is full of words to live by--right on into the 21st century."

   

• Running Dialogue; David Holt
• Road Racing for Serious Runners; Pete Pfitzinger 

 

 

The Competitive Runner's Handbook : The Bestselling Guide to Running 5Ks Through Marathons; Bob Glover, Shelly-Lynn Florence GloverCompetitive running gives your running life a focus. Competition measures progress. You set a goal and accomplish it." Bob Glover and Shelly-lynn Florence Glover, authors of The Competitive Runner's Handbook, know what they're talking about. Bob has run competitively for nearly 40 years, coached for 30 years, and completed more than 30 marathons, while Shelly-lynn has raced for more than 20 years and is an exercise physiologist with a master's degree from Columbia University. They've coauthored several books on running. Clocking in at over 600 pages, The Handbook covers basic training techniques, gives tips on speed training, and outlines regimens for specific races: short, 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. There are also sections on motivation and the mental aspects of competitive running, proper running form, nutrition, dealing with illness and injury, and more. In addition, the book includes many helpful charts. Straightforward and authoritative, this is a comprehensive reference guide that's suited to runners of all levels. --Andy Boynton

• Running Injury-Free : How to Prevent, Treat and Recover from Dozens of Painful Problems; Joe Ellis, Joe Henderson
• The Runner's Handbook : The Best-Selling Classic Fitness Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Runners; Bob Glover, et al 

 

 

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Mergers Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring 

Patrick A. Gaughan(Preface) / Hardcover / Published 1999  -- trailblazing book re-examines the value restructurings offer in building a new generation of companies with the power and resources to compete on a global basis. Pragmatic and comprehensive, it focuses on all the types of corporate restructurings available today such as M&As, divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations. The author uses the latest research and case studies in the field to analyze and explain not only the financial aspects of these transactions but the economic, legal, tax, and regulatory considerations as well.  Related titles:

 

• Mergers & Acquisitions : A Valuation Handbook; Joseph H. Marren
• The Art of M&A : A Merger/Acquisition/Buyout Guide; Stanley Foster Reed, Alexandra Reed Lajoux
• Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy : A Complete Guide to Predicting & Avoiding Distress and Profiting from Bankruptcy (Wiley Finance Edition); Edward I. Altman

   

 

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Breaking Through : A Narrative of the Great Work

Andre Vandenbroeck, Colin Wilson (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1996
In Breaking Through, Tallini, an Italian filmmaker searching for his next subject, becomes obsessed with the Paleolithic culture of southern Spain. The novel is an allegory on the conflict between science and spirituality.  For the avant-garde.

The Cave Beneath the Sea : Paleolithic Images at Cosquer

Jean Clottes, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996  --- In 1991, a professional diver named Henri Cosquer discovered a wealth of prehistoric art in a cave near Marseilles, France. The opening to the cave, once several miles inland from the Mediterranean, became submerged when the sea began to rise at the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. Since that time, no human had entered this deep cavern or seen the paintings and engravings of animals, human hands, and signs that cover the walls and ceilings until Cosquer swam cautiously up the flooded entrance passage. News of Cosquer's extraordinary find flashed around the world. The French Ministry of Culture immediately sent two eminent archaeologists, Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin, to study the cave. Assisted by teams of specialists, they carried out two diving missions to the site, in 1991 and 1992. This book describes what they found and provides the first complete photographic documentation of this incredible site, one of the major decorated caves of Europe. Because charcoal and charcoal pigment were found in such abundance at the site, and because the archaeological context was undisturbed, Cosquer is now one of the most thoroughly and firmly dated Paleolithic caves in the world. Thanks to a series of twelve radiocarbon dates, we know that the images at Cosquer were made during two different eras. The stenciled hands are extremely ancient, created about 27,000 years ago. The land animals - cold-loving plains horses, ibex, chamois, aurochs, and the huge ice-age deer called megaloceros - are some 18,500 years old
 

Journey Through the Ice Age

Paul G. Bahn, Jean Vertut (Photographer) / Hardcover / Published 1997  -- Some of the oldest art in the world is the subject of this riveting and beautiful book. Bahn and Vertut explore carved objects and wall art discoveries from the Ice Age, covering the period from 300,000 B.C. to 40,000 B.C., and their collaboration marks a signal event for archaeologists and lay readers alike. 150 full-color illustrations, 50 b&w illustrations. 

The Neanderthal Legacy : An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe

Paul Mellars / Hardcover / Published 1996 -- The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the behavior of Neanderthals. His comprehensive overview ranges from the evidence of tool manufacture and related patterns of lithic technology, through the issues of subsistence and settlement patterns, to the more controversial evidence for social organization, cognition, and intelligence. Mellars argues that previous attempts to characterize Neanderthal behavior as either "modern" or "ape-like" are both overstatements. We can better comprehend the replacement of Neanderthals, he maintains, by concentrating on the social and demographic structure of Neanderthal populations and on their specific adaptations to the harsh ecological conditions of the last glaciation. Mellars's approach to these issues is grounded firmly in his archaeological evidence. He illustrates the implications of these findings by drawing from the methods of comparative socioecology, primate studies, and Pleistocene paleoecology. The book provides a detailed review of the climatic and environmental background to Neanderthal occupation in Europe, and of the currently topical issues of the behavioral and biological transition from Neanderthal to fully "modern" populations.
 

A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape : Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

Michael A. Jochim / Hardcover / Published 1998This superb survey of hunter-gatherer societies in Southwest Germany presents an overview of the archaeological record for three periods-- the Late Paleolithic, the Early Mesolithic, and the Late Mesolithic. Michael A. Jochim employs his rigorously materialist orientation to suggest certain possibilities about the general organization of settlements, subsistence, and social relations of the cultures in question. He also discusses the data within the context of human events in western Europe during the same periods. The text is accompanied by 115 illustrations